One of the most underappreciated pop masterpieces of the 80s. Another
case of wrong place-wrong time phenomenon so closley releated to
Rundgren's career. If this record had been the debut of some new band
and adequately marketed it may have sold 5 million copies. No shit.
But it was, after all, yet another release by that wacky Utopia and
for the most part ignored. Of course, poor selection of lead-off
single and a little too goofy a video saw to alot of that. Perhaps
this was Utopia's S/A with tongue planted way firmly in the ol
cheekaroo. Got a wonderful review in Rolling Stone (which usually
does TR good -- sadly, NO reviews of NWO or the Ind ever were
published in RS). Contains two of TRs most beautiful dagger-thru-the-
heart songs: Bad Little Actress & There Goes My Inspiration. I recall
that listening to this record really really put me on a high... every
song was so damn good. The first 2 sides were so extraordinarily good
that the bonus side 3 was truly pure cream. Funny, but for some
reason I always thought that Glenn Tilbrook of Squeeze probably
really dug this record.
Oh, I'd say this is about my fifth favorite Utopia record :).... T
