Kick is a great album, filled with both mega hits (I watched the video for Need You Tonight incessantly) and better-than-required filler tracks like Tiny Daggers and the title track, which vies for my favourite on the album now and then. I always liked how the word "kick" found its way into Daggers and Devil Inside, too, which seemed to me a clever way of creating a concept for the album in a a subdued way. I wonder if it was the lyrics or the album title that came first?
I still have my cassette, a little faded and no longer graced by the sleeve, but hanging in there after countless listens on my yellow Sony Sports Walkman (R.I.P.).
In Canada, as noted in my post for last year/week, the Junos took the year off to juggle their scheduling of the awards, moving them from late in the year to an earlier slot. When they return the following year, they immediately make a bit of a mess of things by not handing out an album of the year for anything released in '88 but go back two years to the previously discussed album by Robbie Robertson.
So, nothing to celebrate from 1988 - although Barney Bentall and The Legendary Hearts would have something to say about that.
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