Try Too Hard
TRY TOO HARD / Today / I Never Will / Looking In / Ever Since You've Been Away /
Somebody Find a New Love / I Really Love You / It Don't Feel Good / Scared of Falling In Love / I Know
Review by Ian Cranny, of Yuma, Arizona:
"Try Too Hard!" I feel the five were at their zenith with this one. And the title track opens it
up just right: a perfect and complete commercial rock song. Don't change a thing. "I Never Will": is
a good toe-tapper and one that I would have liked to have seen them sing in concert. And "I Really Love You",
"It Don't Feel Good Now" are like the birth of hard-rock! If there's anything I could even be critical
about, it's the mere shortness of the songs. I wish they had added maybe a guitar solo, keyboard, sax, another
chorus, something just to make them last at least another 30seconds, to a minute more. But even in their brevity,
those two songs back-to-back really kick up a storm. "Somebody Help Me Find a New Love" is another good
solid piece and stands up just as try too hard does. "Today", and "Scared of Falling in Love",
are the two real slow numbers on the album, but the tempo declines only to be only revved up again by another rocker.
"Ever Since You've Been Away" glides along on the guitar: an upbeat song with an almost haunting ring
too it. And then there's the cleverly-written "Looking In." I can relate to it from personnel experiences.
The Bo-Diddly flavored "I Know" rocks it all out.
So, all in all, it is a real good example of their music at a time that they were growing with their writing
and experimenting with new sounds. I would compare it to the differance between the Beatles albums "Something
New" versus "Beatles' 65": going from the original mold into new territory. TRY TOO HARD. It's really
a piece worth listening to. Enjoy! Ian Cranny Yuma, AZ.