If you doubt the merits of this psycho- social approach to music criticism we would suggest you buy Baby a Little Rain Must Fall and see if you, with your manicured nails and flat stomach, are able to come up with anything more enlightening than what follows. Let us begin then, by saying that the members of the Rock 'A' Teens are all shameless geeks. The latter are described as the kind of brainiac whose adolescent acne- cream sufferings are compensated later on in life with big dollops cash and social status, as the world realizes the value of their creamy brains.
Some geeks turn to rock to vent their frustrations at the world.
Ladies and gentlemen, the members of the Rock 'A' Teens are those geeks. The album is chock full of reverb- drenched fifties anthems that demand nothing less than the silliest dance possible. The singer barks out incomprehensible lines that you can't make out over the raucous din in a tone of voice that's both embarrassing and worthy of your admiration. Virtually every song bursts with reckless sing- along abandon, sailing on the virtue of the bombast and cutting all the silk strings of restraint. Baby, a Little Rain Must Fall is trapped in a world where teens everywhere are raging against adulthood, where the cities are in need of adolescent conquest, and where sugar is a substance worth abusing.