Not sure if you need both parts to unzip, but I imagine Starting Over is on part 2. 2 collection which compiles Starting Over with the previous album Side 3. Only link I could find is from the Goldenbrown77 blog, and it's the Power Pop Vol. It didn't make Borack's #1 spot in the Top 200 Power Pop Albums list for nothing. Even when Eric Carmen's innate schmaltz starts to make an appearance on the string-laden title track, he undercuts it with a well placed "fuck". They still owe a lot to their sources ("Don't Know What I Want" is the Who, "Cruisin' Music" is the Beach Boys), but it all seems to work within the context of a larger whole. They ditched the matching leisure suits, brought in Lennon-soundalike Scott McCarl and crazed drummer Michael McBride, and proceeded to define the term "power pop". Known primarily for a string of early '70s hits that coupled Beatlesesque hooks with Who-like power chords ("Go All The Way" and "Tonight"), in '74 the Raspberries wanted to be taken more seriously.
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