What Are You Listening To?

[Music Head]

from my library (vinyl)



The first effort as a group after Pauls two solo albums. Including wife Linda as part of the band, Denny Laine of the Moody Blues and Denny Seiwell who Paul had worked with on Ram, on drums. After a rocky start on the first two tracks, it picks up ok. Just the titles on those first two, pretty much describe them for me. Only the title track meets my expectations. The bands formation was announced in November and the album was released in December. A lukewarm reception on its release and a subpar album for sure, considering the source. The album did eventually go gold here with a #10 placing on the charts. The homeland was about the same at #11 and a #3 down under. The album was re-released in 1993 with additional tracks that may have improved it's grade for me, but those are not on this original.

I LIKE THIS ALBUM

Worst Track - Mumbo

Best Track - Wild Life

The world "wild" applies to the words "you" and "me".

While take a walk thru an African park one day,
I saw a sign say, "The animals have the right of way".

Wild life, whatever happened to,
Wild life, the animals in the zoo?

We're breathing a lot,
a lot of political nonsense in the air.

You're making it hard for the people who live in there.
You're moving so fast, but, baby, you know not where.
Wild life, (wild life), what's gonna happen to
Wild life, (wild life), the animals in the zoo?

You'd better stop, there's animals ev'rywhere,
And man is the top, an animal too,
And, man, you just got to care.

Wild life, what's gonna happen to,
Wild life, the animals in the zoo?

You're breathing a lot of polical nonsense in the air.

Wild life, (wild life), what's gonna happen to
(what's gonna happen to) (what's gonna happen to)
Wild life, (wild life), the animals in the zoo?
(what's gonna happen to) (what's gonna happen to)
Wild life, what ever happened to?
What ever happened to?

1) Mumbo - *
audio - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=caUwVC4MPFM
2) Bip Bop - *
audio - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Iq4yXpxvQto
3) Love Is Strange - **
audio - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w-M93z1777o
4) Wild Life - ***
audio - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PVBmogGl5xc
5) Some People Never Know - **
audio - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VZHhly8Aziw
6) I Am Your Singer - **
audio - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WCUGdeGn5AE
7) Tomorrow - **
audio - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mFFAD04-v3Y
8) Dear Friend - **
audio - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RyHTaFPrY8k

3's - 1
2's - 5
1's - 2

Grade - 1.9