Sailor - Trouble (1975 , reissue 2001)
1975(reissue 2001) | PopRock,EuroPop | EAC-APE | 190mb | MP3(225) | 48mb | COVERS,CUE&LOG included
Review by the "Rolling Stone":
The latest word in European eclecticism, SAILOR generally succeeds in its attempts to combine various good-time musical styles with effete flash. "A Glass Of Champagne," the English hit included here, is a sort of carbonated version of Roxy Music's "Love Is The Drug," and the group's general stance is located precisely between Bryan Ferry and early Nilsson. They move from a tailor-made American pop concoction, "Girls, Girls, Girls," to an exotic adventure-film parody, "Trouble In Hong Kong," to a ballad, "People In Love," whose vocal passion is increased by the pleasant banality of its lyrics.
But without a distinctive vocalist to provide cohesion, SAILOR's displays of dexterity are sometimes exhausting or boring. Georg Kajanus is a decidedly average singer; when he attempts Ferry-style crooning, he strains. In general he fares better with fast songs that don't give him time to get his attitude down.
But he's a first-rate songwriter, penning all of the diverse songs on Trouble. The band provides lush and only occasionally ("The Old Nickelodeon Sound") overdone mood music for Kajanus's sundry reveries. He's very old fashioned, and when not mooning over women (always "girls" in his vocabulary, although Georg doesn't look like any, uh, spring chicken), he is evoking foreign scenes of mild danger and sharp melancholy. It's difficult to imagine how SAILOR can make a career of it, however. (RS 212)
Kenneth Tucker