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| 1. Good Times Roll |
| 2. My Best Friend's Girl |
| 3. Just What I Needed |
| 4. I'm in Touch With Your World |
| 5. Don't Cha Stop |
| 6. You're All I've Got Tonight |
| 7. Bye Bye Love |
| 8. Moving in Stereo |
| 9. All Mixed Up |
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13 of 13 people found the following review helpful
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I remember several friends buying the single "Best Friend's Girl" as much because it was a picture disc retailing at normal price as for the quality of the record. I was hooked more by the follow-up, "Just What I Needed", a record topped off by a memorable guitar solo. But I waited for the album instead.
Hearing the singles on the radio never conveys how good the production on this album is. When the keyboards flood the opening track they reveal a Spectorish wall of sound, an influence most pointed during the album's final track. This record was made a few years before digital techniques strangled the live elements of recorded music. Compare the sound on this to the dead notes that make up the band's hugely successful "Heartbeat City" album. This is an album you live through, a drive through a twinkling, night-time city, as opposed to the barren landscape of the later album. It helps that the songs are good of course but the material on "Heartbeat City" is pretty decent too.
The final masterstroke here is the climax to the album with the creepy "Moving In Stereo" segueing into "All Mixed Up". This is one of the classiest pop albums of the 1970s, better than anything else this band ever did.
Hearing the singles on the radio never conveys how good the production on this album is. When the keyboards flood the opening track they reveal a Spectorish wall of sound, an influence most pointed during the album's final track. This record was made a few years before digital techniques strangled the live elements of recorded music. Compare the sound on this to the dead notes that make up the band's hugely successful "Heartbeat City" album. This is an album you live through, a drive through a twinkling, night-time city, as opposed to the barren landscape of the later album. It helps that the songs are good of course but the material on "Heartbeat City" is pretty decent too.
The final masterstroke here is the climax to the album with the creepy "Moving In Stereo" segueing into "All Mixed Up". This is one of the classiest pop albums of the 1970s, better than anything else this band ever did.
10 of 11 people found the following review helpful
By A. D. Gelder
Format:Audio CD
Where do I start with this fantastic body of work? I remember many moons ago, my dad playing this album and the opening bars of "Good Times Roll" stuck in my head and it wasn't all that long ago when those bars came back to me but I couldn't remember which album it was. So I went through all those vinyl albums he had and finally found it and straight away bought it on CD. Now about the album itself. "Good Times Roll" is my favourite track has it holds the most memories for me. "My Best Friends Girl" is a track that I can't imagine anyone not liking, a classic single. "Just What I Needed" is also one of my favourites off this album and was also a single. "I'm In Touch With Your World" is yet again one of my favourites and it's a real shame that it doesn't get the exposure that some of the more well-known tracks get. "Don't Cha Stop" and "You're All I've Got Tonight" are both great tracks (love that drum sound on the intro of the latter). "Bye Bye Love" is another solid track which leads into another one of the albums best. "Moving In Stereo" does exactly what it says on the tin with the vocals shifting from one speaker to the other back and forth. For 1978 I consider this track ahead of it's time. And finally "All Mixed Up" is a great closer to a damn fine album with some nice sax playing by the brilliant Greg Hawkes. I highly recommend this album so do yourself a favour and buy it you won't be disappointed. Sadly in 2000 bassist Benjamin Orr died of cancer so I would like to say thank you Ben for the great music you have left us R.I.P. you are sadly missed.
8 of 9 people found the following review helpful
By J. Moxley
Format:Audio CD
I've been listening to this album since I was ten years old and there isn't another record I can say I still love with as much justification. For a debut, it's frighteningly well produced and musically informed but its slickness doesn't detract from the immediacy and rock n' roll simplicity of songs like "Best Friends Girlfriend" and "Just What I Needed". The guitar virtuosity and proggy keyboard interludes conjure a pre-punk west coast pop thing but with the sorta-ironic enthusiasm you'd expect of skinny-jeaned, high-topped new wavers. If Elastica had just ripped off Wire they'd have got nowhere. The smart move was ripping off this lot. Helpfully, the final track, "All Mixed Up", demonstrates how awful the whole thing ought to be. As a final encouragement I can promise that every time someone buys this record, "Drive" fades further from the collective memory.
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