Chicago - Hot Streets
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Artist: ChicagoEdition: Music CD
Format: Extra tracks, Original recording reissued, Original recording remastered
CD Release Date: 2003-04-22
Music Label: Rhino / Wea
Soundtracks:
- Alive Again
- The Greatest Love ON Earth
- Little Miss Lovin'
- Hot Streets
- Take A Chance
- Gone Long Gone
- Ain't It Time
- Love Was New
- No Tell Lover
- Show Me The Way
- Bonus Selections: Love Was New (Alternate Vocal)
Free Music Notes for Hot Streets
Free Music Review: A step down...
Hit: 3 Stars
Given the circumstances surrounding HOT STREETS, it may be unfair to criticize it too harshly. Nonetheless, I found it a big step down from XI, which was one of my favorite Chicago albums.
It does have its good points. "Alive Again" is a good opener (why wasn't THIS the title track?). The title track, while a little corny on the vocal/lyrical front, has great atmosphere. (I first heard it, as a teenage Chicago fan, while in the back seat of a car going down a deserted road in a rainstorm at 6:30 AM. This was a great way to get introduced to it!) Dacus, while not like Kath in any way, does fine in his guitar & vocal roles; his writing contribution, the rockin' "Ain't It Time," is my favorite track on the album. (In fact I'm surprised not to find other reviewers saying the same thing.)
On the downside, I totally dislike "Greatest Love On Earth" and "Little Miss Lovin'"; these have the rare distinction of being songs I own on CD but never listen to. "No Tell Lover" is schmaltz with really dumb lyrics.
Neither good nor bad, but just weird, is the album's ending. A nice instrumental hook on "Show Me The Way" turns into a chorus sung by... German soldiers?? Kind of funny, kind of haunting, but mostly just weird. What was it supposed to mean?
The bonus track, a version of "Love Was New" with Dacus on vocals instead of Lamm, shows that they were wise to use the Lamm version. It's not that Dacus' vocal is bad; it's more that the melody seems not to have been finalized on the Dacus version. Compare the lines "basic survival" and "taken for granted" between the versions and you'll see what I mean.
BTW, the band did appear in a small picture on the cover of CHICAGO VI, but this was the first (only?) time they were depicted on a cover prominently. Funny thing is, if you fold out the cover so you can see the full picture, Pankow appears at both ends of it!
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Remastered reissue of 1978 album features a rare, never-before-available alternate vocal version of 'Love Was New' as a bonus track. Rhino. 2003.Pop Music CDs
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