Rick Springfield - Automatic

[CureTheSane]

On 8/7/2023 at 4:39 AM, PeterS said:

Having given it another 4 or 5 goes I really like this. It's way more pop than rock, which I know disappoints some, but they're catchy tunes. 

disappoints me, but if the songs are good, they are good.

(speaking as a fan of Gun's phone number album :) )

[Geoff]

I thought the album was absolutely dreadful. Can't express how disappointed I was. Well, I can because it was a sensible amount. But I expected something good here - instead this is by far the worst shit I've heard from RS yet. So disappointing. Not even a song I half-liked. Hate them all.

 

[EnJayKay]

This is one of the most head-scratching pieces of shit I've ever endured.

The guy's almost 80 and decides he wants to be an auto-tuned pop star/EDM artist.

I suppose all of the plastic surgery recently was a sign of thing's to come, he just desperately wants to defy his age.

But this album was painful.  He's spent the last 10 years genre hopping from one album to the next, so I guess it was inevitable that the wheel's would come off eventually.

Rap album in 2025?

[Mr.AOR]

I had such high hopes for this when i read Andrews initial description of the sound but i have to say this is the worst material Rick has ever recorded, an utter pile of steaming shit.

[melodicrock]

I really like more than half the record. Love a third, don't dig one third...its a mixed bag, but some supremely catchy songs still.