JOHN HIATT : TWO BIT MONSTERS

1. Back To Normal
2. Down In Front
3. I Spy (For The FBI)
4. Pink Bedroom
5. Good Girl, Bad World
6. Face The Nation
7. Cop Party
8. Back To The War
9. It Hasn't Happened Yet
10. String Pull Job
11. New Numbers

Label : MCA Records

Release Date : 1980

Length : 34:43

Review (AllMusic) : At the time of its release, Two Bit Monsters was perceived by critics who had caught up with John Hiatt on Slug Line as a less impressive follow-up to that record. In retrospect, it may be the better of the two albums, boasting an even more simplified musical approach and such notable songs (and future Rosanne Cash covers) as "Pink Bedroom" and "It Hasn't Happened Yet." Hiatt here was starting to emerge from the "new Elvis Costello" tag that had been affixed to him with Slug Line, but his reviewers, however well-meaning, seemed determined to keep him in that category. (In any case, record buyers were paying little attention - Slug Line was Hiatt's fourth straight album to miss the charts, and MCA dropped him as Epic had before.)

Review (Wikipedia) : Two Bit Monsters was singer-songwriter John Hiatt's fourth album, released in 1980. It was his second of two albums with MCA Records. It failed to chart, and MCA dropped Hiatt. "It Hasn't Happened Yet" would later be a minor country hit for Rosanne Cash off her album Somewhere in the Stars. Cash also covered "Pink Bedroom" on her next release, Rhythm & Romance.