Everyone is familiar with the housewives’ favourite Jesse’s Girl, that made Mr Springfield a star. This album is quite removed from that sound, a very eighties album that embraces the technology of the day to create imho a pop/rock masterpiece.
The first two tracks Dance This World Away and Celebrate Youth are great opening tracks, with a very high tempo groove and beat with very catchy hooks and melodies. The lead off single however is a return to the tried and trusted ballad format with State Of The Heart. There is no doubt that the guy can write a hit song. He wrote everything apart from the opening track by himself, and if you get some killer musicians to play the tunes you write then it’s winner winner chicken dinner. I’m sure your familiar by now that ballads aren’t my go-to format, so it’s the rockin’ tunes that appeal the most so, Dance This World Away and Stranger In The House are my favourites on the album.
Rick is still making music and I think he is on to album # 5000 or something. Very prolific.
8.5/10 from The Grooveman.
