Here it is, the worst album by Steve, the ugly mess wisely hidden for 14 years but then for some reason released in 2000 by his label, Camino Records. It wouldn't have been missed. There's no denying it, 1986 remains a terrible year for many big names from the previous decade, and it seems to be particularly catastrophic for everything that revolved or had revolved around Genesis (or almost, there was always Gabriel's "So," which is a fantastic album, but even that is his most commercial and features a couple of chart-topping pop tunes, one of which, "Big Time," is a piece of garbage). 1986 spared even Mr. Hackett, a year when he decided to play "pumped-up rock" and his miserable AOR. We had the decent (for someone who likes those sounds) album by GTR with Howe as an example, and that would have been more than enough, but in that same year Hackett recorded more pop-AOR songs with various collaborations (Bruno Mars, Bonnie Tyler, Chris Thompson) following the album with Howe (who doesn’t play here but is a co-writer on one track; I presume many songs here were intended for GTR). To be fair, a couple of songs are nice in their cheesy, over-the-top pop-AOR, like the duet sung by Tyler and Thompson, but here it's mostly pure crap, the worst kind of pop-rock-AOR, worse than what GTR offered. Ah, Steve, it's clear you weren't doing your best...
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