*(At least Mardones had the virtue of enlisting the criminally-underappreciated D.L. Byron as his songwriter for a spell. Speaking of great lost power pop albums, Byron's *This Day and Age* has to be in the first rank. I sure wish that Arista or someone else had later released it on CD, especially since my vinyl copy disappeared at some point over the past thirty years.)* I have a CD copy of This Day & Age dated 2009 on AmericanMeat Records/Sony Music, it's available an amazon. I bought it right after a very passionate review posted on this mail group last winter. * * On Thu, Mar 25, 2010 at 2:52 PM, Gregory Sager wrote: > > Date: Wed, 24 Mar 2010 15:53:31 -0400 > > From: "Holmes Online" > > To: > > Subject: Re: I dropped everything to buy album XXX > > Message-ID: > > > > I'm surprised that Greg and Carl remember anything from > > Syracuse radio from > > that time that didn't involve Benny Mardones being shoved > > down their > > throats. > > > Yeah, Syracuse radio really pushed Benny Mardones back around that time. I > think that central New York and his home turf in New Jersey were about the > only places in the country where he got airplay around the time of his first > album, *Never Run, Never Hide*, although "Into the Night" certainly made him > a coast-to-coast cult artist in the next decade. > > I didn't mind 95X's Mardones-mania too much, since *Never Run, Never Hide* > wasn't that bad an album. It was certainly a lot rockier than his later > stuff, particularly the song that got the most airplay, "Might've Been > Love". Later on, thanks to "Into the Night", he turned into a bathetic > minor-league Michael Bolton. And, IMO, the only thing worse than Michael > Bolton is a minor-league Michael Bolton. > > (At least Mardones had the virtue of enlisting the > criminally-underappreciated D.L. Byron as his songwriter for a spell. > Speaking of great lost power pop albums, Byron's *This Day and Age* has to > be in the first rank. I sure wish that Arista or someone else had later > released it on CD, especially since my vinyl copy disappeared at some point > over the past thirty years.) > > > Gregory Sager > > > > -- Memory believes before knowing remembers. - Wm Faulkner