ALAN PRICE : LIBERTY

1. Fool's In Love
2. Everything But Love
3. Days Like These
4. Bad Dream
5. Double Love
6. Changes
7. Mania Urbania
8. Liberty
9. Say It Isn't True

Label : Ariola

Release Date : 1989

Length : 41:12

Review (Rate Your Music) : It's a tricky one. Though, Price is immensely talented, this is a very average effort on his part. It's hard to give the album a bad rating, because musically all the pieces are here. However, there's almost zero hooks, or overall meaning to the album. 'Changes' was on, O Lucky Man!, didn't need a remake and is a vestigial artifact of a time when Price had his finger squarely on the pulse, despite his quirky tropes and unconventional Pop sound. To expand on what I mean, O Lucky Man! was a scintillating collection of top notch songwriting, great lyrics and memorable tunes, with a bit of a punk flavour to the cadences of certain tracks, with folk and baroque influences tying it all together. This song placed here, is quite a harsh reminder of past glories. There's no question Alan Price is a slight genius. Shades of his brilliance appear on songs like the title track. However, this album sounds like a bunch of B-Sides put together. Almost all songs have nice arrangements, horns, trumpets; all that good stuff typical of Alan Price, but even multiple listens don't satisfy.