Listening to his nasal tone and sad sack delivery, even when someone is not being lowered six feet into the ground, you’d never peg Little Caesar as a singing star.
That causes solid records like this which feature more conventional singing and a storyline that doesn’t require you to dress in black to hear to be overlooked and underappreciated. Well, here’s the flip side of that, literally as in the flip of the single, but also the flip-side of that particular dilemma, which is when you DO come up with something more traditional in nature it is likely to fall upon deaf ears because people want and expect something more unusual out of you. We started the review of the hit side of this single by saying “The problem with breaking out early in your career with a record that is utterly original and unique for the style is that you are not going to be allowed to follow a traditional career path after that.”
