The Lienke Brothers City Band - The Lienke Brothers City Band (1979)

Based in Oklahoma City, The Lienke Brothers City Band weren't striving for any punk/wave credentials, at least not in this phase of their tenure.

There's a couple of power-poppy stunners however, specifically "The Observer" and "Squeeze Play," both strutting a faint Rundgren-esque stride. 
Elsewhere, the bulk of this disk isn't particularly idiosyncratic, and in fact skews closer to the mid and right stratas of the dial, clinging preciously to the last vestiges of '70s pop/rock.  To their credit, the Lienke's have the acumen down pat with Top 40-ready morels "In a Plane" and "Caroline." 
And then there are the deal-breakers.  "It Started to Get Good" humps a Bee Gees groove that I'm totally not in the market for, and I was just as desperate to escape from their token swing number "Hotel Black."  Consider yourselves warned.


Track listing

01.  "The Observer"  - 2:56
02.  "Hotel Black"  - 2:22
03.  "When I Was Young"  - 4:27
04.  "Well What About It"  - 3:59
05.  "Caroline"  - 2:25
06.  "It Started to Get Good"  - 4:37
07.  "Squeeze Play"  - 3:07
08.  "Innocence"  - 3:27
09.  "Once Before"  - 2:10
10.  "In the Jungle"  - 2:59
11.  "In a Plane"  - 2:50
12.  "Nothing to Lose"  - 5:23

Notes
Genre: Funk / Soul, Pop
Length: 40:46
© 1979

Label - No Sweat Records