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Living In Fear
(Power Station)

I have to admit that even though John's presence could be missed on this album, for the most part, I liked this album. Bernard Edwards (may he R.I.P.) did a great job faithfully reproducing John's bass lines. A lot of this album was classic Power station.

On, "Notoriety" Andy's guitar sounds like the old Andy Taylor many of us Power-Station-loving Duranies know and love.

On "Scared," during the verses, Robert Palmer's voice has a wobbly quality to it that makes it sound like he is scared and hedging on the matter of love. Then in the bridge, you can hear the frustration in Palmer's voice as he's dealing with someone scared to death of making a commitment. Perfect!

"She Can Rock It" is the Bang A Gong for the nineties (and the anti-christ as far as Kathy Lee Gifford is concerned). Andy really lets loose on this one, and you can almost imagine that John is playing the fat, plunky bass lines in the middle of the song's musical interlude. and if you listen very closely to the beginning of the song in the 5th bar (or measure), you can hear a second guitar line that sounds suspiciously like the rhythm guitar in "Bang A Gong."

I like "Power Trippin'" for the way it sounds like a musical and lyrical cross between "Some Like It Hot" and "Murderess."

"Life Forces" and "Fancy That" are killer songs, but they sound too much like classic Robert Palmer and would be more at home on one of his albums.

If you're in the mood for some hard rock, "Living In Fear," "Shut Up," and "Dope" are for you. While a little more rock-oriented tat most of their other songs, this still falls under the venue of classic P.S. And it goes to show that Robert Palmer hasn't lost his edge. Especially on "Shut Up," the way the vocals are tweaked, Palmer sounds like the world is driving him bonkers. "Dope kept me on edge each time I listened to it because the timing of the songs always seemed a bit off to me. Then come to find out (when I was at the PS concert in Las Vegas), this song is written in 11/8 time, a very uncommon time signature in music, even today.

I was just a few songs away from giving this album a near-perfect rating....until I heard "Love Conquers All." To go from 9 great engergetic-tempo songs that seemed to be building towards a great climax to all of a sudden this. "Love" does not apparently conquer all on this one, or much of anything. I didn't really care for the song's musical style or the way R.P. delivered the harmonies. If "Dope was the high, then "Love Conquers All" must have been the withdrawal symptoms.

"Taxman," a remake of a Beatles song, sounds like classic PS. And it does go a ways in redeeming them from the previous song, but not quite all the way.

I give this album a 7-1/2 (an extra half point for "Taxman because it kept the end of the album from totally falling over the cliff).

Living In Fear (Power Station)

I like "Power Trippin'" for the way it sounds like a musical and lyrical cross between "Some Like It Hot" and "Murderess."

"Life Forces" and "Fancy That" are killer songs, but they sound too much like classic Robert Palmer and would be more at home on one of his albums.

"Taxman," a remake of a Beatles song, sounds like classic PS. And it does go a ways in redeeming them from the previous song, but not quite all the way.

I give this album a 7-1/2 (an extra half point for "Taxman because it kept the end of the album from totally falling over the cliff).

Living In Fear
(Power Station)