Manfred Mann's Earth Band - Chance [Warner Bros Records BSK 3498] (12 January 1981)

Dynamic Range Released: 12 January 1981
Country: US
Label: Warner Bros Records
Catalog: BSK 3498
Genre: Rock, Pop Rock

Item# SR-WABSK3498
Ratings: C=VG+; LP=VG+

Pressing: Capitol Records Pressing Plant, Los Angeles


T R A C K L I S T:
01 Lies (Through The 80's)
02 On The Run
03 For You
04 Adolescent Dream
05 Fritz The Blank
06 Stranded
07 Hello, I Am Your Heart
08 No Guarantee
09 Heart On The Street




Chance
Manfred Mann's Earth Band


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Album Review

Bruce Eder [allmusic.com]

Manfred Mann's 1980 album is a strange mix of topical songwriting, progressive rock, and power pop -- from its opening seconds, the Earth Band is pressing serious messages and social commentary on their listenership amid swirling prog rock keyboards and catchy guitar hooks and choruses. The whole package is challenging in ways that should have put them on the cutting edge of rock music at the outset of that decade, but one suspects that Mann and company were too musically adept and sophisticated for their own good -- a little dumbing down and maybe a little less musicianship on display would have made them more accessible to the coming MTV generation. As it is, the album has held up remarkably well across a quarter century, however, even if it now seems an uncomfortably accurate warning of the way the world would go, in terms of politics and society, in the decades to come. It would also be three years before another Earth Band album was forthcoming, and that one would be steeped in world music sounds.