20/20 (20/20 album)

20/20
Studio album by 20/20
Released	1979 (1979)
Genre	Power pop
Label	Portrait
Producer	Earle Mankey
20/20 chronology
20/20 (1979) Look Out! (1981)

20/20 is the debut studio album by American power pop band 20/20, released in 1979 by Portrait Records, a subsidiary of CBS.

Critical reception

Professional ratings

Review scores
Source	Rating
AllMusic	[1]
Christgau's Record Guide	B+[2]

Trouser Press wrote that 20/20 "stands proudly" as one of the best power pop albums to date.^[3] Reviewing in Christgau's Record Guide: Rock Albums of the Seventies (1981), Robert Christgau said: "Just about all of these dense, cleverly constructed tunes would sound great on the radio. If they have some other reason for being, though, neither lyrics nor vocals—which seem to avoid both banality and its opposite as a simple matter of power pop taste—let on what it is. When CBS breaks a few hits off this we'll remember it as a classic. But CBS won't."^[2]

Track listing

1. "The Sky Is Falling 7/79" (Chris Silagyi) – 1:13
2. "Yellow Pills" (Steve Allen) – 4:15
3. "Cheri" (Ron Flynt) – 3:18
4. "Out of This Time" (Allen) – 3:13
5. "Tell Me Why (Can't Understand You)" (Allen, Mike Gallo) – 4:22
6. "Tonight We Fly" (Flynt, Allen) – 2:42
7. "Remember the Lightning" (Flynt) – 2:48
8. "She's an Obsession" (Allen) – 2:59
9. "Leaving Your World Behind" (Flynt) – 4:25
10. "Backyard Guys" (Allen) – 2:50
11. "Jet Lag" (Gallo) – 4:02
12. "Action Now" (Allen) – 3:01

References

Further reading

• Haag, Stephen (January 21, 2013). "20/20: 20/20 & Look Out!". PopMatters. Retrieved May 18, 2016.

External links

• 20/20 at Discogs (list of releases)

This page was last edited on 9 January 2021, at 03:21