Library Rock's Backpages

Lisa Lisa and Cult Jam: Straight To The Sky (CBS)

Push, Melody Maker, 3 June 1989

MUCH OF Straight To The Sky is thinly disguised and indiscriminately stolen property .There's the instantly recognisable keyboard climb from Yazoo's 'Don't Go', a little 'Sugar Pie, Honey Bunch', a line from Humphrey Bogart, a sprinkling of McLaren — though God knows where it came from originally — and the slowed down bass bustle from a T-Connection epic. All of which, under the right conditions, are perfectly grand joys. Sadly, here, each sounds purposelessly modest.

Total word count of piece: 240

Subscribe

Becoming a member is easy. Membership gives you access to all the thousands of articles in the library.

Click here to go to Subscribe page.

Click here for academic and other group subscriptions.