Like This (album)
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| Released | September 12, 1984 | |||
| Studio | Bearsville Studios, Bearsville, New York | |||
| Genre | Power pop, alternative rock | |||
| Length | 34:36 | |||
| Label | Bearsville | |||
| Producer | Chris Butler, The dB's[1] | |||
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| Singles from Like This | ||||
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Like This is the third studio album by the American power pop band the dB's, released in 1984 via Bearsville Records.[2] The band recorded as a trio following the departure of Chris Stamey.[3] 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.[4] Stamey, who was present for the video shoot, was edited out of the stills adorning the cover.
| Review scores | |
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| Source | Rating |
| AllMusic |    [5] |
| Robert Christgau | A− [6] |
| The Encyclopedia of Popular Music | [7] |
| MusicHound Rock: The Essential Album Guide | [1] |
| The Philadelphia Inquirer | [8] |
| The Rolling Stone Album Guide | [9] |
| Spin Alternative Record Guide | 7/10[10] |
Trouser Press called the album "an instantly lovable gem," writing that "although the reliance on [Peter] 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."[3] The Chicago Tribune deemed it a "minor pop masterpiece."[11] 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."[12] The Sun Sentinel thought that "the weakness here (and probably what sank it on radio) is the strained vocals."[13]
