| Like This | |
| Type: | studio |
| Artist: | The dB's |
| Cover: | DBs-LikeThis.jpg |
| Released: | September 12, 1984 |
| Studio: | Bearsville Studios, Bearsville, New York |
| Genre: | Power pop, alternative rock |
| Length: | 34:36 |
| Label: | Bearsville |
| Producer: | Chris Butler, The dB's |
| Prev Title: | Repercussion |
| Prev Year: | 1981 |
| Next Title: | The Sound of Music |
| Next Year: | 1987 |
Like This is the third studio album by the American power pop band the dB's, released in 1984 via Bearsville Records.[1] The band recorded as a trio following the departure of Chris Stamey. The album includes a re-mixed version of "Amplifier", the lead single from their previous album, Repercussion.
The album's cover is a collection of stills from the music video for their 1982 single "Neverland", which went unreleased until 2008.[2] Stamey, who was present for the video shoot, was edited out of the stills adorning the cover.
Trouser Press called the album "an instantly lovable gem," writing that "although the reliance on [Peter] Holsapple’s songwriting cut down on the band’s eccentricities, unpretentious intelligence, wit and ineffable pop smarts make it a wonderful album with no weak spots or inadequate songs."[3] The Chicago Tribune deemed it a "minor pop masterpiece."[4] The New York Times wrote that the Stamey-less songs "are less crammed with melodic and verbal ideas than earlier dB's material. They also sound more integrated and less like strings of pop quotations."[5] The Sun Sentinel thought that "the weakness here (and probably what sank it on radio) is the strained vocals."[6]
All tracks composed by Peter Holsapple
CD bonus tracks