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A good followup to the beat

R. Smith | Viola, Iowa USA | 02/05/2004

(4 out of 5 stars)

"A much tougher sound than the self titled album, The Kids Are The Same is good follow up. With should have been hits such as That's What Life's All about or I will Say No, this album is one of the great lost classics of the 80s.



However, CBS did release On The Highway and it didn't chart. Had they decided to make That's What Life's All About a single, perhaps things would have been better for Paul Collins and company. Nevertheless, CBS then sat on the rest of the album, and then bounced The Beat off the roster. In the early 90s, Paul Collins managed to reissue his first two albums on CD via his Wagon Wheel label to which now they have fallen out of print again. Fan demand are high for both Paul Collins' Beat albums. How bout it Wounded Bird?



And Wounded Bird Records comes through once again. Now you can get The Beat AND The Kids Are The Same as a two on one CD, so you don't have to pay a hundred bucks for just one of them. It will be released sometime in May, so be on the lookout for it."