Get Lucky
After making a promising start with their self-titled debut, Loverboy hit the big time in 1981 with Get Lucky This canny combination of AOR hooks and new wave production gloss boasts some memorable radio-ready tunes but isn't as solid an album as its success might lead one to believe. The best tunes on Get Lucky were the songs that became its hit singles: "Working for the Weekend" is a party anthem that blends some gutsy hard rock guitar riffs with a synthesizer-drenched new wave rhythm arrangement to become a huge hit, while "The Lucky Ones" layers clever lyrics about the jealousy that success inspires in others over a song that mixes pomp rock grandeur with a punchy AOR arrangement full of gutsy yet slick guitar riffs. Loverboy got additional airplay with "When It's Over," a moody power ballad that boasts a show-stoppingly emotional vocal performance from Mike Reno and "Take Me to the Top," a sleek midtempo piece built on a hypnotic synthesizer arrangement. The rest of Get Lucky isn't as impressive as these hits because it relies on filler to pad the album out: "Gangs in the Street" is an overwrought song about street tensions whose lyrics are melodramatic to the point of being unintentionally funny, and "Emotional" is a sloppy bar band jam with annoyingly sexist lyrics and an awful vocal from Paul Dean Due to this overabundance of less than stellar tracks, Get Lucky fails to be as consistent a listen as Loverboy or Keep It Up but offers enough solid tracks to please the group's fans and AOR fanatics. Other listeners may want to check out the album's highlights on a compilation before picking it up. [This 25th Anniversary Edition has been remastered and features four previously unreleased demos.] ~ Donald A. Guarisco, All Music Guide
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Steven Berkowitz - A&R
Bruce Fairbairn - Original Album Producer
George Marino - Original Mastering
Joseph M. Palmaccio - Reissue Mastering
Mike Reno - Group Member
John Berg - Cover Design
Howard Fritzson - Reissue Art Director
Jeremy Holiday - A&R
Jim Parham - Project Director
Bob Rock - Original Mix
Andrew McNeice - Liner Notes
Scott Philip Smith - Group Member
Jeff Magid - Reissue Producer
Bob Porter - Assistant
Paul Dean - Group Member
Paul Dean - Original Album Producer
Paul Dean - Reissue Producer
Lynn Goldsmith - Reissue Photography
Tim Morse - Reissue Design
Matthew Frenette - Group Member
Mike Fraser - Assistant
David Kennedy - Reissue Photography
Keith Stein - Original Engineering
David Kennedy - Photography
Doug Johnson - Group Member
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