Artist: Sniff ´N´ The Tears
Title: The Game´s Up
Release: 1980
Format: LP
Label: Chiswick Records
Catalog# CWK-3014
Paul Roberts (the singer and main writer for Sniff ‘n’ the Tears) writes some songs with nice solid stories to them, and then him and the band put some very good instrumental work around those lyrics. The music is kinda laid back, which fits the material. Paul’s voice comes through clearly, but music is not some simple guitar strumming in the background.
The first song on the album is (IMO) the weakest. It’s also probably the only song that has any connection at all to the cover art (the cover art is actually a painting that Paul had done, and the record company in Germany thought it was a really cool painting so they wanted it for the cover.
The album has several excellent songs, with “What Can Daddy Do” (about a rich father and the life of a daughter that he spoils a bit too much), “If I Knew Then”, “5 & Zero” (a gambler in action, gambling at love while gambling for money), “Poison Pen Mail” (a relationship which has gone painfully sour), and “Rodeo Drive” (lifestyles of the rich and conspicuous, as well as those who fall by the wayside).
The music has something of a country-rock feel to it, with a bit more emphasis on having a rock-edge to the music than country story-telling.
Side one
1. The Game’s Up (3:56)
2. Moment of Weakness (3:17)
3. What Can Daddy Do (3:19)
4. Night Life (4:02)
5. If I Knew Then (4:57)
Side two
1. One Love (3:28)
2. 5 and Zero (4:42)
3. Poison Pen Mail (4:45)
4. Rodeo Drive (6:11)
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