Label: Universal Music (Japan), UICY-75572
Style: Pop Rock, Rock
Country: Los Angeles, California, U.S.
Time: 35:52
Format: Flac Tracks 16/44,1 kHz
Size: 226 Mb
Three
Dog Night garnered three hits off of their 1974 release, Hard Labor,
with material from John Hiatt, Allen Toussaint, and David Courtney/Leo
Sayer. This time around they obtain their 21st and final Top 40 entry
with a Dave Loggins song, "'Till the World Ends," and it is no "Pieces
of April," the lovely composition from the same songwriter which landed
in the Top 20 for the group two-and-a-half-years earlier. The problem
with the song is the same dilemma faced by the album, Coming Down Your
Way, the band seeking another genre to conquer while keeping their eye
off of the precise and major Top 40 activity which was their bread and
butter. Keyboard player for the Blues Image, Frank "Skip" Konte, joins
Jimmy Greenspoon on the ivories with the Monkees/Barry Manilow bassist
Dennis Belfield onboard as well. Their addition makes for a very musical
album with Danny Hutton, Cory Wells and Chuck Negron emulating the Band
and some kind of pseudo-slickGrateful Dead rather than sticking with
the formula which made them so very successful. Jimmy Ienner's
production doesn't have the sparkle it did four months earlier on Grand
Funk Railroad's "Bad Time," a heavy metal band sounding more like Three
Dog Night than Three Dog Night. Tracked at Colorado's famed Caribou
Ranch, the disc also fails to come up with something as extraordinary as
Elton John's "Island Girl," a song manufactured in the same recording
facility and hitting number one two months after " 'Till the World Ends"
brought the group's six-and-a-half-year chart run to a close. Jack
Lynton's "Coming Down Your Way" is a reflection of Leo Sayer's "The Show
Must Go On" and the closest thing to familiar Dog Night as this disc
gets. Jeff Barry's "When It's Over" puts it all into perspective, Negron
phrasing the lament which states the obvious for the once magnificent
radio-friendly pop production machine. A frustrating outing because all
involved were certainly proficient enough to come up with something more
substantial than these ten performances which play like unfinished
outtakes. Associate Producer on this effort, Bob Monaco, would take the
remnants of the group down a disco path with the 1976 release, American
Pastime, effectively closing the door and pointing the band toward their
next phase -- that of an oldies act.
(allmusic.com/album/coming-down-your-way-mw0000854393)
01. 'Til The World Ends (03:31)
02. You Can Leave Your Hat On (04:14)
03. Good Old Feeling (03:10)
04. Mind Over Matter (02:56)
05. Midnight Flyer ('Eli Wheeler') (04:33)
06. Kite Man (03:39)
07. Coming Down Your Way (03:11)
08. When It's Over (03:38)
09. Lean Back, Hold Steady (03:46)
10. Yo Te Quiero Hablar (Take You Down) (03:11)
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