THE REAL KIDS
Senseless - Live At Cantone's 1982 (Norton)
Reviewed by DJ Johnson

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My only complaint about The Real Kids has been that the energy I heard on a live bootleg tape someone showed me several years ago never completely translated to what I heard on studio releases. Oh, they had energy, but there are live acts with energy and there are acts with LIVE energy, and The Real Kids were in the latter camp. Senseless - Live at Cantone's 1982 shows the band screwing up notes right and left (B and F are natural enemies), and it doesn't make a damned bit of difference because they had "it." You sit in your empty living room listening to this show that happened almost 20 years ago -- you're probably wondering if the place is even still standing -- and you wish you'd been there. Or were there right now. This is a great live CD. It's also a great historical document of a band that never really gave a rat's ass about anything but rocking the house down. No, they didn't "Do The Boob" on this night, but they had fun. They even made us see what a smokin' rocker The Everly Brothers' "Problems, Problems" is. Beat that, if you can.

© 2001 - DJ Johnson