Producers, The - Run For Your Life

The Producers released their first album in 1981,  when it reached #61 in the Billboard charts, and toured with the likes of Cheap Trick, but after just one more album they were dropped by their label. So, in 1985 they released their third album on a small local label and it is only now that it has been made available on CD. To be honest, this is generic 80’s AOR with an annoying drum sound, which does nothing but keep the beat, and while there is nothing really bad about it, there is certainly nothing any good about it either. But, some will find that this is an album that they will have to have as it contains the original of “Can’t Cry Anymore” which appeared on Kansas’s ‘Power’ the following year. It is really interesting to play them back to back, as although the Kansas version is a full minute shorter it contains far more drama and passion than the original. In many ways this shows the vast gap between the two bands, and while I have played ‘Power’ quite a lot (although it is one of my least favourite Kansas albums) I can’t ever see me returning to this one.