today's BGM in our office Pt.2 :

STREETS :
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Crimes In Mind

I believe that mid 80s albums by famous 70s Prog-Rock musicians are too underrated now.
Not like Genesis albums and 90125, most of those albums seems NOT so important for music fans now, but they have very attractive melodies, fine POPS sounds and sense of rock.
The Moody Blues, Caravan, Camel, Gentle Giant, and many UK prog groups released fine "80s Rock/Pops albums" with their own sounds.
Same as those UK groups, PFM, New Trolls and other Italian Groups, Triumvirat, Grobschnitt, Nektar (although they were from UK) and other German groups, Ange and some other French groups also released fine POPS albums in the 80s, but they seems NOT so accepted with good reputations in music-history, I think.
Prog-Rock fans faced away, and POPS fans didn't turn their head toward to them although their music were really superb.

It might be a matter of "genre". I think "genre" is needed only for "impulse buyings" but it is never needed to find good, unknown music.
STREETS might have been in a same situation.
Sounds are brilliant. Many Rock fans should know that Neil Kernon (1st) and Beau Hill (2nd) are ones of the most excellent ROCK producers.
Voices are superb. Everybody must know how Steve Walsh sings.
Guitars are excellent. Much more than CITY BOY era, Mike Slamer's guitar sings and dances well. Sometimes it's very technical like Steve Morse.
And, now many KANSAS and MELODIC HARD ROCK fans knows that this was the major debut of fine bassist/vocalist, Billy Greer of KANSAS/SEVENTH KEY/THE SIGN.

If Kansas fans expect music like Kansas, and if Melodic Rock fans expect 90s sounds, these albums may NOT so good to them.
But, if somebody who love music and who don't know well about this group, these albums will show them one of the top Melodic Rock in the mid 80s.

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