Beat Rodeo — 657

ALBUM: Home in the Heart of the Beat (1986)

MVC Rating: 3.0/$$

Well, I don’t even know what genre this is. Easy listening power pop with fresh commercial country thrown in?

It’s on IRS records with Scott Litt (REM) producing.  I had some high hopes going into revisiting this 1980’s album.

It’s not bad, it’s just kind of, well, (whisper) boring.

Probably not a good thing to say about a rock band.

I think ‘It Could Happen here’ and ‘Song for an Angry Young Man’ are solid and nearly excellent songs. But there’s a lot of filler here.

I actually enjoyed this video more than the album.

Counting my 678  vinyl records down before I die of  brain disease.