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Rick Springfield - Venus In Overdrive (2008)

Posted By: BlondStyle

Date: 3 Mar 2019 20:43:17

"Venus in Overdrive" is the 14th studio album by rock musician Rick Springfield. According to an interview that Springfield gave to the website Songfacts, the title track was written about his wife, Barbara Porter, whom he married in 1984. The album spent two weeks on Billboard's album chart.

~Wikipedia

Don't get fooled by the title of "What's Victoria's Secret?," the first song and single on Rick Springfield's Venus in Overdrive, his 14th or so studio album (depending if soundtracks to Mission Magic and Hard to Hold are counted). Despite its goofily punning title and tight, pulsating guitars that consciously recall "Jesse's Girl," the song does not herald a return to the power pop heyday of the '80s; once its giddy thrill wears away, it's clear that Venus in Overdrive is every bit the sequel to 2004's heavy-lifting Shock/Denial/Anger/Acceptance, its song cycle of the grief cycle not at all an anomaly among Springfield's post-fame albums. Ever since his father's death in the mid-'80s, Springfield has avoided the frivolous whenever he could, which has as much to do with his slow slide off the charts as it does any changing fashion. Once off the charts, Springfield had the freedom to dig deep, something he earned through a decade-long layoff in recording and since that 1999 comeback, Karma, he's tackled big issues like spirituality, life and death, and, now with Venus in Overdrive, love in its many guises, from the flesh to the soul. Heady stuff, but love is always a good subject for a pop song, and thankfully this doesn't shy away from pop hooks, dredging up his past on "What's Victoria's Secret?" and drifting toward a hazy psychedelia in "She," which recalls Lenny Kravitz as much as it does John Lennon (who surfaces again on the gorgeous "Nothing Is Ever Lost" and whose assassination is explicitly referred to in "3 Warning Shots"). Springfield has a knack for offhand allusions like this and not just references to older tunes, either; "Mr. PC" is as successful a Foo Fighters homage as possible and this helps give Venus a lightness to balance its topical heaviness, a trait not so evident on Karma or Shock and wholly welcome here as it keeps the record from feeling like a drag. Not that Springfield escapes his ponderous instincts his earnest quest for answers can result in a slab of arena rock on "One Passenger" and lead him to inadvertently borrowing a title from Rush on "Time Stand Still" but this is balanced by that gift for giant pop hooks plus a sweet generosity, crystallized in "Saint Sahara" and "Oblivious," two tributes to a young fan who has passed on. By letting all of his sides surface here, Springfield winds up with a satisfying album, as it gets to his sober nature without abandoning his fizzy gifts.

~Review by Stephen Thomas Erlewine

Release of this album/CD: 2008, July, 29 [CD Gomer Records/NewDoor Records/UMe (USA), Cat.# B0011347-02 / UPC: 602517728226]
℗© 2008 Universal Music Enterprises, a Division of UMG Recordings, Inc.
Distributed by Universal Music Distribution.
Printed/Made in the U.S.A.

Credits:

Bass, Backing Vocals – Matt Bissonette
Drums – Rodger Carter
Guitar – George Bernhardt
Guitar, Lead Vocals – Rick Springfield
Keyboards – Derek Hilland
Songwriter, Producer – Matt Bissonette, Rick Springfield

Tracklist:

01. What's Victoria's Secret? (03:15)
02. I'll Miss That Someday (03:20)
03. Venus In Overdrive (02:48)
04. One Passenger (04:29)
05. Oblivious (03:53)
06. Warning Shots (03:26)
07. Time Stand Still (04:16)
08. God Blinked (Swing It Sister) (03:32)
09. Mr. PC (02:42)
10. She (04:18)
11. Nothing Is Ever Lost (01:40)
12. Saint Sahara (03:59)

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DR6 0.00 dB -8.31 dB 3:20 02-I'll Miss That Someday
DR6 0.00 dB -8.23 dB 2:48 03-Venus In Overdrive
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Thanks to the original releaser

See also:
Rick Springfield - Original Album Classics [5CD Box Set] (2014)

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