Plain Clothes – All Dressed Up…

Plain Clothes
All Dressed Up…
1991 (no label)
Tulsa, Oklahoma, USA

Todd Collins – Guitar, vocals
Troy McCloughan – Bass, vocals
Mat Donaldson – Drums, vocals

Side 1:

1. Way Up
2. Anything for Love
3. His Love
4. Don’t Do the Crime
5. 2Nou

Side 2:

1. Who Do You Say
2. Somebody to Love
3. Suffer the Children
4. Broken Man
5. All Dressed Up…

This tape starts off a bit heavier than you would first guess by looking at the cover. It’s a bit progressive and commercial metal mixed – kind of the way Holy Soldier spanned both styles. But Plain Clothes leans a bit more towards commercial metal, and they have somewhat deeper vocals than Holy Soldier. They also hit most of the late 80s/early 90s commercial metal trends, like a blues-based metal number. I guess it is just that their name is one of the least “metal-sounding” names I have heard in a while. They also do a cover of Jefferson Airplane’s “Somebody to Love.”