Like This (album)


Like This is the third studio album by the American power pop band the dB's, released in 1984 via Bearsville Records. The band recorded as a trio following the departure of Chris Stamey. The album includes a re-mixed version of "Amplifier", the lead single from their previous album, Repercussion.
The album's cover is a collection of stills from the music video for their 1982 single "Neverland", which went unreleased until 2008. Stamey, who was present for the video shoot, was edited out of the stills adorning the cover.

Critical reception

Trouser Press called the album "an instantly lovable gem," writing that "although the reliance on Holsapple’s songwriting cut down on the band’s eccentricities, unpretentious intelligence, wit and ineffable pop smarts make it a wonderful album with no weak spots or inadequate songs." The Chicago Tribune deemed it a "minor pop masterpiece." The New York Times wrote that the Stamey-less songs "are less crammed with melodic and verbal ideas than earlier dB's material. They also sound more integrated and less like strings of pop quotations." The Sun Sentinel thought that "the weakness here is the strained vocals."

Track listing

All tracks composed by Peter Holsapple
  1. "Love Is for Lovers"
  2. "She Got Soul"
  3. "Spitting in the Wind"
  4. "Lonely Is "
  5. "Not Cool"
  6. "Amplifier"
  7. "A Spy in the House of Love"
  8. "Rendezvous"
  9. "New Gun in Town"
  10. "On the Battlefront"
  11. "White Train"
CD bonus tracks
  2. "Darby Hall"
  3. "A Spy in the House of Love"

Personnel

Additional musicians