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Title: A slight step up
Review: B-52's albums released in the mid-80s don't exactly tickle my fancy at all, since they'd pretty much abandoned their original sound and hadn't yet come upon that overproduced late-decade Nile Rodgers dance sound which became so infectious (and so chartworthy). This isn't really an exception, though it shows the band moving away from the dull cheese-fest "Whammy!" into a collection of actual songs. I give the band credit for the gorgeous pop of "Summer Of Love" and "Ain't It A Shame," and the bizarre synth excursions of "Detour Thru Your Mind" and "Girl From Ipanema Goes To Greenland," but the rest of the album is basically a studio mess ("Housework"? Give me a break), not helped at all by the death of Ricky Wilson. Most of the bandmembers worked solo for this release, therefore drawing possible comparisons to the White Album, were the White Album about 50 million times less good than it actually is.
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