Consumer Guide Album

David Lasley: Raindance [EMI America, 1984]
The artiest love man since Eugene Record wasn't the next Dylan, Lasley adds a wonderful rap for "queers" and a terrible street-talk verité playlet called "Euripides Meets the Shangri-Las" to his straightforward sha-la-la lyrics and Brill Building grooves, with fellow Detroiter Don Was throwing in Linn drums and such. His falsetto has gained color and heft, too. B+