Former Go-Go singer Belinda Carlisle began her solo career with Heaven on Earth<\/i>, a disc full of light 80s pop that fits comfortably next to Madonna and Debbie Gibson on the dentist’s office Muzak player.<\/p>\n
Carlisle has a thin and pleasant voice, and the music is harmless and lacks bass, like most pop of the decade. A couple of minor hits came off this one; “I Get Weak” and “Heaven is a Place on Earth” are fine, nothing more, nothing less.\u00a0<\/p>\n
However, two songs are here that make this worth checking out (or at least previewing on iTunes), regardless of how you feel about this sort of music. The first is a winning cover of Cream’s “I Feel Free;” probably the best cover of this song ever done, the song is slowed down, given a lot of echo and background vocals, and fleshed out with an extended outro.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Even better is “Circle in the Sand,” a lost song that deserves to be rescued from the bargain bin. The haunting acoustic guitars and synthesizers buffet Carlisle’s plaintive, simple declaration of love; with swashes of echo filling in the spaces, it’s a song of its decade, but it has none of the cheesiness associated with a lot of 80s music. Definitely worth hearing.<\/p>\n
The rest of the music is pleasant, appealing to fans of this sort of female-led 80s pop but offering few rewards for anyone else. Still, do your best to find those two songs.\u00a0 <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":45,"featured_media":26885,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"tags":[],"artist":[7088],"rating":[5612],"class_list":["post-38184","review","type-review","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","artist-belinda-carlisle","rating-rating-b-minus"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/review\/38184","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/review"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/review"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/45"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38184"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/review\/38184\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26885"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38184"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38184"},{"taxonomy":"artist","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/artist?post=38184"},{"taxonomy":"rating","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rating?post=38184"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}