Here we have one of the most underrated indie\/college rock records of the late \u201880s. The Pursuit Of Happiness, hailing from the Great White North, had a major hit with \u201cI\u2019m An Adult Now\u201d but that\u2019s just one of the landmarks to be heard on this disc. This is a newly remastered, double disc 30th anniversary collection that right from the get go immediately takes you back to a time when alternative rock was actual rock music.<\/p>\n
Opening track \u201cHard To Laugh\u201d is one of the greatest songs of the \u201880s. Lamenting a breakup, frontman\/guitarist\/lyricist Moe Berg takes the well-worn theme to task about how it still sucks when someone breaks your heart. \u201cI\u2019m An Adult Now\u201d is still the great track it always was but it\u2019s been outshone by \u201cHard To Laugh\u201d and \u201cShe\u2019s So Young.\u201d Both of these tracks benefit greatly from the supreme harmonies of guitarist Kris Abbott and background singer Leslie Stanwyck; when these two come together to sing, one can almost feel the hair standing up on their necks, it\u2019s that powerful. \u201cBeautiful White\u201d has been lamented as the album\u2019s shining moment and it is definitely powerful in that aspect. The way Berg\u2019s lyrics flow together almost peg him as a poet laureate. On \u201cShe\u2019s So Young,\u201d the way the vocals blend together is enough to melt even the Grinch\u2019s heart. <\/p>\n
Produced with a heavy crunch by Todd Rundgren, this is a lot different than the other hard rock\/alternative coming out of Canada at the time which was heavily cheesy and glossy. The second disc is full of outtakes, live stuff, and original single versions of \u201cShe\u2019s So Young\u201d and \u201cI\u2019m An Adult Now.\u201d Some of this material doesn\u2019t have enough power to really be notable, except for \u201cWake Up And Smell Cathy,\u201d which was an album castoff and has the same type of power as everything on the original disc.<\/p>\n
It\u2019s hard to believe it\u2019s been 30 years since this was initially released and it still has the same type of power and lyrical force that it did when originally released.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":91,"featured_media":33733,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"artist":[10296],"rating":[5613],"class_list":["post-45554","review","type-review","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","artist-the-pursuit-of-happiness","rating-rating-a-minus"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/review\/45554","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\/91"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=45554"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/review\/45554\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/33733"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45554"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"artist","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/artist?post=45554"},{"taxonomy":"rating","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rating?post=45554"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}