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Klaatu - Endangered Species (1979)

Track listing:
  1. I can't help it 3:37
  2. Knee Deep in Love 3:12
  3. Howl at the moon 3:17
  4. Set The World On Fire 4:14
  5. Hot Box City 3:46
  6. Sell out, sell out 4:50
  7. All good things 1:51

Notes

The bottom fell out of Klaatu by this time. Forced by Capitol into moving to Los Angeles and working with a unknown producer, the three Canadians actually wrote a song called "Sell Out, Sell Out" that summed up their experience. Even the album title is a pun on how they felt about themselves and their music. They actually came out of the closet this time, splashing their photos and names on the album insert and advertising a Klaatu fan club, but it didn't help. Most of the tunes are pretty dismal. Exceptions are "Hot Box City," a bouncy cameo of L.A. life, and the coda "All Good Things," which has a sweet, albeit derivative, melody line. The only song that fully succeeds is a Bread-influenced track called "Knee Deep in Love." Fortunately, the group resurrected themselves for their final effort, Magentalane. It's no coincidence that they left L.A. for Canada to do it.