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Bobby & The MidnitesWhere the Beat Meets the Street Release Date: 1984 08 zz Label: Razor & Tie Music Rating: ![]() |
If Bobby & The Midnites' debut album represented a half-hearted attempt to go pop on the part of Grateful Dead guitarist/singer Bob Weir, Where The Beat Meets The Street, The Midnites' second and final album, saw the group going for mid-'80s radio acceptance with a vengeance. As he had in his '70s group, Kingfish, Weir began to take a backseat in his own band, leaving most of the singing up to Bobby Cochran and bringing in a host of outside songwriters. Jeff Baxter provided a sharp production sound keyed to Billy Cobham's driving drums, and what you got was, as one song put it, "Rock In The '80s," a set of frisky toe-tappers that concerned themselves mostly with the magical world of rock & roll. What can Deadheads have made of this, especially at a time when the mother group seemed to have given up making its own records? Actually, probably only a few of them (or anyone else, for that matter) got to hear this album, which sank without a trace after four weeks at the bottom of the charts, followed by the demise of the group itself. William Ruhlmann, All Music Guide
Tracks:
| Title | Composer | Time | |
| 1 | (I Want to Live in) America | Barlow, Grahan, Weir, Cochran | 3:23 |
| 2 | Where the Beat Meets the Street | Chin, Glen | 3:35 |
| 3 | She's Gonna Win Your Heart | Burnette, Williams | 3:58 |
| 4 | Ain't That Peculiar | Robinson, Rogers, Tarplin, Moore | 3:50 |
| 5 | Lifeguard | Beckett, Lambert | 3:54 |
| 6 | Rock in the '80s | Cochran | 3:12 |
| 7 | Lifetime | Haselden, Roddy, Frederiksen, Medica | 4:25 |
| 8 | Falling | Barlow, Weir, Gradney, Baxter | 4:23 |
| 9 | Thunder & Lightning | Weir, Cochran | 3:38 |
| 10 | Gloria Monday | Baxter, Barlow, Weir | 4:08 |
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