IAN GOMM : GOMM WITH THE WIND

1. Hold On
2. Hooked On Love
3. Sad Affair
4. Black And White
5. Come On
6. Airplane
7. 24 Hour Service
8. That's The Way I Rock 'N' Roll
9. Dirty Lies
10. You Can't Do That
11. Chicken Run
12. Another Year

Label : Albion Records

Length : 30:02

Release Date : 1979

Review (AllMusic) : One of that slew of fabulous albums cut by former members of Brinsley Schwarz at the end of the 1970s, Gomm With the Wind finds our hero stepping firmly in the footsteps left by bandmate Nick Lowe, but doing so with such deft aplomb that one really did wonder precisely who was leading whom. Any one of half a dozen tracks here would have dignified either of Lowe's own albums-so-far, with the pure pop "Hooked on Love" and "Airplane," in particular, aiming straight at the jugular of the Jesus of Cool. Only two songs did not slip from the prolific Gomm pen, a cover of the Beatles' "You Can't Do That," and an absolutely brilliant reinvention of Chuck Berry's "Come On," slowed down to half its usual pace and delivered more as a lament than the exhortation it once was. Elsewhere, from the reggae-tinged "Sad Affair" to the pure pop "Hooked on Love"; from the wistful (and distinctly Paul Simon-ish) "Another Year," to the big ballad "Hold On"; from start to finish, Gomm With the Wind might have had a ghastly pun for a title, but it turned out spotless, all the same.