My Own Biggest Fan

Energy? To quote Sick Boy: “What a fucking misnomer.” I was hoping that this would be an album of disco, or funk or anything but what I got here. What do we have here? Wikipedia calls it, “an album of west coast soft rock.” And look at that cover! How energetic can you get? Nothing says excitement more than milling about a construction site looking mildly bored.

I made the mistake of thinking that since everything I knew of the Pointer Sisters was some sort of dance or electro, then I’d at least get something upbeat, funky even. To be fair, there are a couple of good tracks, buried in the second side. And of course, you can’t deny that their voices are amazing. They do a decent cover of Springsteen’s “Fire” which would be at home on an MOR Yacht Rock compilation. I’ll reserve final judgement since I’m not sure I’ve heard the original. But then they spend any capital they earned with that by managing to drain all the funk out of Sly Stone’s “Everybody is a Star” All in all, an adequate, but forgettable album.

Fire

An aside: Break Out, the album which contains the most hits by Pointer Sisters (mostly cocaine-club dance tunes) was recorded after one of the ladies had become a grandmother.