WHITNEY Z. GOMES
The trouble with introducing yourself to the public as a novelty act is that no one tends to take your follow-up recordings seriously. One of the best new wave albums I have acquired in recent years is Dangerous Dreams by the Nails; and Allmusic (specifically Whitney Z. Gomes) states the problem well in their review of the album: “Now a new wave novelty, and forever burdened with a ‘one-hit wonder’ albatross because of the monolithic ‘88 Lines About 44 Girls’, the Nails demonstrate on Dangerous Dreams that this Boulder, CO band still held some clever moves in their repertoire. . . . The grandeur of the Doors, the propulsion of Iggy Pop, and the moroseness of the Sisters of Mercy, combine with the Nails’ own talent to create the perfect vessel for riding high on a dark wave of depression.” However, with all of that praise, the album still merited only a 2½-star rating.
(March 2013)
