Street Party 1974 Album

Black Oak Arkansas

On the average, a bit too squeaky clean for BOA – and this is even factoring in sleaze-rock fests like “Sting Me” and “Jail Bait” – the latter which goes out of its’ way to celebrate underage relations. It is hard not to notice that the corporate machine is really setting their hooks into the group by now, and furthermore, they seem intent to half bake a weak conceptual story line about the “Brink of Creation” into the record. Elsewhere, the other weird development is a cover of “Dancing in the Street”, quite a few years before Van Halen, Mick Jagger, David Bowie came out with their versions, but BOA’s is strangely lacking crunch. Overall, this one is middling at best.