Boomtown (Full Album)

1986 was a good year for rock albums. Boston released "Third Stage", Bon Jovi released "Slippery When Wet", Peter Gabriel released "So", Bruce Hornsby released "The Way It Is", Crowded House released their self-titled debut album, David Lee Roth released "Eat 'em And Smile", The Bangles released "Different Light", and had everyone "walking like an Egyptian", Europe released "The Final Countdown", Genesis released "Invisible Touch", Georgia Satellites released their self-titled debut album. GTR, The Honeydrippers, Howard Jones, Huey Lewis & The News, Metallica, Moody Blues, Nazareth, Poison, Richard Marx, Robert Cray, Run-DMC, Steve Winwood, Talking Heads, Tesla, Tone-Lōc, Van Halen, and Wang Chung all had good albums that year. In the middle of all that was David & David with their only album, "Boomtown".

Boomtown is the Los Angeles themed debut studio album by the American rock duo David & David, released on July 7, 1986, through A&M Records.

Michael Ofjord of AllMusic called Boomtown an "artful record, full of poetry and convincing stories of the hard times that many silently endured." He gave the record four and a half out of five stars, concluding that "one may not want to listen to this record to lift the spirit, but it is a strong reminder of difficult situations faced during what can be perceived by many as the best of times."

At the time of its release, Boomtown had some commercial success, peaking at number 39 on the chart in December. Its singles, "Welcome to the Boomtown", "Swallowed by the Cracks" and "Ain't So Easy", all received airplay, especially on rock-formatted radio stations, and most of them charted on the Billboard Hot 100. In 1995, the album was certified gold in the U.S.

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