Lucky plays almost like a reaction to the scattershot nature of Balin, streamlining its sampler nature in favor of a sleek hard rock sound, one that is so big it often echoes. Strangely, given the hit "Hearts," there isn't much of an attempt to mimic it on Lucky. Instead, the album opens with the rampaging "Born to Be a Winner," whose keyboards suggest a West Coast Springsteen, a sound Balin returns to occasionally elsewhere on the LP ("Just Like That," with its punchy horns, also has a Boss beat), and there are reprisals ...
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Lucky plays almost like a reaction to the scattershot nature of Balin, streamlining its sampler nature in favor of a sleek hard rock sound, one that is so big it often echoes. Strangely, given the hit "Hearts," there isn't much of an attempt to mimic it on Lucky. Instead, the album opens with the rampaging "Born to Be a Winner," whose keyboards suggest a West Coast Springsteen, a sound Balin returns to occasionally elsewhere on the LP ("Just Like That," with its punchy horns, also has a Boss beat), and there are reprisals of the Doobie Brothers and new wave flirtations (the breezy, beachy "Will You Forever" and "What Do People Like," respectively), but very little of the soft satin croon of either "Hearts" or "Atlanta Lady." This deficit is reflected in Lucky's position on the charts: it didn't crack the Top 100 and didn't have a major hit, with one of its lone ballads, "Do It for Love," wandering onto the adult contemporary charts and one of its arena rockers, "What Love Is," going no further than 63 on the charts. The problem is, despite appealing AOR sounds scattered throughout Lucky, there just aren't many memorable tunes, something that hurt the record in 1983 and something that is all the more apparent years later, after all these styles have faded into the history books. ~ Stephen Thomas Erlewine, Rovi
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