Peter Wolf Turns On The Radio Of Love

noah | August 28, 2008 3:30 am
The Allmusic Blog made my day by posting about Peter Wolf’s Lights Out, the 1983 solo debut by the former lead singer of the J. Geils band that is now out of print. I never bought the album back in the day–times were tight, thanks to my $5-a-week allowance–but Tim Sendra’s description of it as “soul music for a soulless time” and comparisons between Wolf’s attempts to rap and Debbie Harry’s run at MCing on “Rapture” are more than a little intriguing. Plus, the dorkily muscular title track soundtracked one of my favorite videos on after-school MTV, probably in part because Wolf’s dancing was just as spaztastic as my own attempts. [YouTube / Allmusic]