The Price of Progression (The Toll album) explained

The Price of Progression
Type:studio
Artist:the Toll
Cover:TollPoP.jpg
Released:1988
Recorded:Bearsville Studios, Bearsville, NY
Genre:Rock
Length:58:16
Label:Geffen
Producer:Steve Thompson, Michael Barbiero
Year:1988
Next Title:Sticks and Stones and Broken Bones
Next Year:1991

The Price of Progression is an album by the Columbus, Ohio, rock band the Toll, released in 1988.[1] [2] The first single was "Jonathan Toledo".[3] It was produced by Steve Thompson and Michael Barbiero.[4]

Critical reception

The Philadelphia Inquirer wrote: "So unremittingly annoying, so ostentatiously pretentious, so utterly lacking in anything approaching a sense of humor, this album exerts a certain fascination." The Washington Post called the album "heavy-handed, uneven, feverishly melodramatic and occasionally overwrought."[5]

Track listing

  1. "Jazz Clone Clown" – 4:00
  2. "Jonathan Toledo" – 10:00
  3. "Smoke Another Cigarette" – 4:19
  4. "Soldier's Room" – 3:34
  5. "Word of Honor" – 4:11
  6. "Anna-41-Box" – 10:33
  7. "Tamara Told Me" – 4:32
  8. "Living in the Valley of Pain" – 11:19
  9. "Stand in Winter" – 5:32

All songs written by Brad Circone/Rick Silk/Brett Mayo/Greg Bartram

Personnel

Notes and References

  1. News: Potter . Mitch . Pop narratives take their Toll . Toronto Star . 10 Feb 1989 . E13.
  2. News: Silverman . David . The Toll, Saturday at the Cabaret Metro . Chicago Tribune . 17 Feb 1989 . Friday . 6.
  3. News: Strauss . Duncan . Going Over the Top with the Toll at Bogart's . Los Angeles Times . 7 Mar 1989 . Calendar . 5.
  4. News: Surkamp . David . Record Review . St. Louis Post-Dispatch . 6 Jan 1989 . F4.
  5. News: Zibart . Eve . For Whom the Toll? If You Have to Ask... . The Washington Post . 27 Jan 1989 . N19.