Posted by KB... edited 10/24/25 on 7/2/2018 to
Reviews In Brief
It's 1969 and you got your favorite AM station blaring and you're listening to the latest hit by the Ruen Brothers, that duo filling the K-Tel compilations every year.... If it was 1969 this wouldn't be too out there except the Ruen's weren't born yet. "All My Shades of Blues" is the best AM pop rock released in 2018, maybe in the 21st century. The songs are big, poppy, dramatic, melodic, catchy and so deliciously retro. The lyrics and the arrangements are perfectly simple, and you just wait for the Roy Orbison high notes to crackle and fail- but they never do. The Ruens utilize every late 60's and early 70's summer pop hook trick without it feeling retreaded. This is a hard release not to like, if not love. Get this. Play it. Sing along.
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Favorite Songs: Walk Like a Man, All My Shades of Blue, Finer Things, Motor City, Aces
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Favorite Songs: Walk Like a Man, All My Shades of Blue, Finer Things, Motor City, Aces
