Here’s my background. Love Bryan Adams. He did “Cuts Like a Knife”, one of the great rock tracks of eighties radio. “Straight from the Heart”, one of the great ballads of rock radio, and the windows down, summertime, turn it up loud, catch a little buzz, rock and roll of Reckless.
His eighties work is the foundation. And then he went into the nineties and worked with Mutt Lange and had a huge album. And then worked on some soundtracks, went ballad-heavy, and then lost his way.
Now I saw him live, would have been 1987. The Hooters opened. It was Joe Louis Arena. So it was the, you know, 17,000. Great show.
Saw him in Indianapolis – 2007-ish. And it was really good Bryan Adams has always been good live. He has a 2025 tour of Europe planned.
Now he has new music. And I’ve been so disappointed with Bryan Adams music over the past 30 years. Never a great lyricist – he’s not Springsteen. He’s not Petty. But the the banging eighties guitar, drums, whiskey-soaked voice played loud – that’s Bryan Adams. That is his sweet spot, and and he had lost that. Shyper-generic and not great fun – to me anyway.
But he’s come back with some new music. It’s a first listen for me. Hadn’t heard it yet.
We’re gonna hear it together. We’re gonna I’m gonna react to it, and we’ll see what we see what I think. What does it do for me? For you? A single called Roll With the Punches was released in February. That’s gonna be the name of the album due to come out sometime in 2025. And then he has released a second single in March He’s working again with Mutt Lange.
Let’s see what this sounds like. may stop it as we’re getting through part of it. What do we think? So this is the brand new single. It’s called “Make Up Your Mind”. Let’s turn it up and listen together.
And then I found a couple of added surprises. 🙂
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