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Kevin Ayers - That's What You Get Babe (1980)
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1980's That's What You Get Babe saw Kevin Ayers come as close to commercial pop as he would ever get, trading in his incongruous personality and peculiar musical style for some rather straight-laced rock & roll.
Those who have grown accustomed to Ayers' eccentric whimsy and colorful unconventionality will most definitely be disappointed here, and what he loses in flamboyancy he tries to make up for in melody and hooks but an array of keyboards and other instrumental fluff seem to get in his way, eventually overriding his singing and weighing down the album.
Tracks such as "That's What You Get," "Super Salesman," "You Never Outrun Your Heart," and "Given and Taken" are well-sung pop efforts, and there's enough of Ayers' vocal zing to keep them from being total washouts, but they just can't compete with Ayers' flavorful history. "Money, Money, Money," "Miss Hanaga," and "Idiots" rekindle a little bit of the old Kevin Ayers but fail to harbor the same type of flair and extravagance of past endeavors.
It's obvious that Ayers gambled, thinking that his elaborate musical showmanship would be deemed unfit and passé for the '80s, but after this release it was evident that fans wanted the same old Ayers and this his offbeat charisma could never really be traded in. That's What You Get Babe sold poorly and ultimately ended his relationship with Harvest. A couple of the albums that followed, Diamond Jack and the Queen of Pain and Deja Vu were also lackluster mainstream affairs which suffered the same ill fate for their associated labels.
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01 - That's What You Get
02 - Where Do I Go From Here
03 - You Never Outrun Your Heart
04 - Given And Taken
05 - Idiots
06 - Super Salesman
07 - Money, Money, Money
08 - Miss Hanaga
09 - I'm So Tired
10 - Where Do The Stars End
11 - Don't Let It Get You Down (Live) (bonus track)
12 - We Did It Again (Live) (bonus track)
13 - Why Are We Sleeping (Live) (bonus track)
14 - After The Show (Live) (bonus track)
*2014 Parlophone / Warner Music Japan | WPCR-15531 {2014 Remaster Japan Mini LP SHM-CD Edition}