Meh, nothing but a bunch of meh-ness from this Kansas City band on their major label debut. And, it's kind of hard to figure out all the MOR numbers on this album. Was it the labels fault? The band? What was the reason for virtually no excitement on this record.
The first album was decent bar-band stuff. This however, it's still bar-band stuff, but it's a bit more polished and lost some of the appeal in the process. Some of the numbers have flashes of something that would at least got people off their ass, but the band keeps it at a medium pace; they aren't about to rock you despite that their tunes could have. I'm just confused, did they walk into the studio and say, "Hey, we got some rockin' tracks for Polydor." To which Polydor replied, "That's great, sure they rock, but do the tracks sound like the Eagles?"
To me, the album sounds like a dirty bar band trying to sound like the Eagles. There's a smoothness to this entire record that would have been better served without. Either way, this album marked the end of the band, Missouri. The album features a re-recorded version of the band's surprise hit, "Movin' On," it's not any better and it's really not worse, although, people seem to cite the first version as superior. It's just meh, the entire album is bland. devoid of color, and boring (however, second to last song, "Love on the Run", cool drum intro and synths begging to be sampled, but still, meh).
A collection of tunes
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