Monday, September 30, 2013
B.E. Taylor Group - Innermission (1982)
Artist : B.E. Taylor Group
Country : USA
Release : Life Goes On/Innermission
Year : 1984/1982
Genre : Hard Rock
File Type : mp3 320
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Things get off to a great start with the superb 'Never Hold Back', the chorus and synth layers the highlights. Tim Feehan fans will enjoy 'Stand Up For Love', the west-coast sounding arrangement a deadringer for any of his successive work. 'I Like The Way I Feel' gallops along in typical 1982 fashion, while the ballad 'Not Enough Love' hauls in the reins, but not for too long as the track 'On And On' perhaps demonstrates the direction Taylor and his cohorts would take on future albums. A couple of tracks don't quite hit the mark for me. 'Be My Baby' the sixties cover originally sung by The Ronettes is full of eighties synth and fluid guitar runs. Strange to hear it in this context. 'Just Like In The Movies' is quirky, but the reggae synth work does its best to annoy. 'Under The Rug' rumbles along with a disjointed percussive back-beat as its metronome. Usually I enjoy tempo changes but this track is all over the place musically. The album didn't do a lot success wise, and was quite hard to to obtain at the time of its release. As expected, 'Innermission' is still stuck in the land of the vinyl, and does not appear on any re-release schedule.
