Spittin' Image - s/t

Name: Spittin' Image
Album: s/t
Year: 1982
Style: New Wave, Power Pop
Similar Bands: Pat Benatar, Scandal, Blondie, Robin Lane, Threshold, 10 Wheel Drive
"One-Word" Review: Rough and Tumble Alley Rock
Based Out Of: Columbus, Ohio
Label: MCA Records

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Record, Back

Spittin' Image (1982)

1. Hold Everything 3:40 (single)
2. Rock and Roll Boy 3:23
3. Let Me Stay 4:30
4. Life and Change 3:17
5. You're Gone 2:47 /
6. Grandview Girls 3:49
7. Boy's A Dancer 3:13 (single)
8. Gettaway 3:05
9. You'll Never Change 3:44
10. I'm Comin' Home 5:15

Album Rating (1-10): 8.0

Members & Other Bands:

• Robin Jenney - Producer
• Sterling Smith - Associate Producer, Keys, Additional Arrangement (the Load, Randy Meisner, Conveniens, JD Blackfoot, Terry Reid, Beach Boys, Arthur Brown, Baron Stewart, Barry Manilow, Steve Perry, julie Brown, Bonnie Tyler, George Benson, Whitney Houston, Four Tops, Heart, Dennis Wilson, Kids of Widney High)
• Marty Pinchinson - Exec. Producer
• Morrie Herzog - Exec Producer
• Blair Forward - Bass (Kevin Costner & Modern West, Roving Boy, Man Alive, John Coinman)
• Edd Key - Rhythm Guitar, Backing Vox, Percussion, Keys (Shannon Stephens)
• Jim Lynch - Lead Guitar (The Squires)
• Mimi Rousseau - Lead Vox, Keys (Steady Fready)
• Chip Vivian - Drums, Backing Vox
• Frank Pierce - Drums, Backing Vox (Sally Fingerett, Charlie Bleak)
• Dangerous Dave Hessler - Bass (The Load, Esquires, Osiris, Danger Brothers, Beach Boys, Dennis Wilson, Brian Wilson)
• Charlie Bleak - Backing Vox (Hoi Polloi, Joe Waters, AOR)
• Craig Hull - Guitar (The Hate Boys, Wendy Waldman, Kim Carnes, Pam Tillis, Randy Meisner, Peter Cetera, Motels, Billy Thermal, Josh Leo, Bill Lamb, Joan Armatrading, Steve Perry, Julie Brown, Dwight Twilley, Dolly Parton, Willie Nelson, Kris Kristofferson, Barbara Streisand, Santana, Karla DeVito, Olivia Newton-John)
• Alligator Horn Section - Brass
• Frank Pierce - Additional Arrangement
• Dave Lyons - Horn Arrangement
• Kathe Schreyer - Art Direction & Design
• Chris Callis - Photography
• Margery Melton - Logo Design
• Rene Johnston - Mimi's Clothes
• Jeff Shoewalter - Road Crew Sound
• Bill Philput - Road Crew Stage Manager

Unknown-ness: Never heard of this band. But based on the clothes, I imagine them to be a power pop gritty bar band trying to latch a little on the New Wave sound.

Album Review: This is the second of two records from the Columbus OH band that started playing in pubs and hoped for a career that never expanded beyond opening for bigger bands in the area. Singer Mimi was the main focus of the band, with strong vocals and a wardrobe popular of the time. Her vocals are reminiscent of popular 70's groups like Genya Ravan's of 10 Wheel Drive, and ranges from powerful to delicate for ballads. The music incorporated the rough and tumble back alley power pop, adding in keyboards to fit into the new wave movement with vocals that sound like Blondie on "Life & Change". And Gettaway sounds like it could be a Fleetwood Mac song.

Stand Out Track: Hold Everything, Life & Change

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