Jackson Browne-Hold Out (1980)

 


Artist: Jackson Browne

Title: Hold Out

Label: Asylum

Format: 8-Track

Catalog Number: 5T 8511

Year of Release: 1980

Country and Year of Edition: US 1980

Sell Price: $2.57

Sell Date: 6/21/26

Condition: VG/VG tested 

Discogs Last Sold: 1/17/25 VG+/generic 

Low: $2.57

Median: $2.64

Average: $2.64

High: $2.71

Current low price: $2.00 VG+/no cover

Current Number on Sale at Discogs: 5

Have/Want: 26/10

Where Sold: Fort Worth, TX

Time It Took To Sell:  3 years

Where and When Bought Ebay 8 track lot

Gwiz-gau Letter Grade: B

Sad To See It Go: No 

Jackson Browne's Hold Out was the first album by him that I bought independently of my mother getting it.  The was solely due to having a number one album collection in 1980 and Hold Out made that apex for a week in September of that year.  I remember my mother was working at a Rite Aid when I bought the record at our local 24 hour store that sold new records.  I excitedly called to tell her since she liked him throught the 70's, but she was annoyed that I called her at work.  She must've had a rush of customers.  She ended up getting held up at knifepoint at that job and left it soon after.  

So anyway, I don't think Hold Out got heavy play in my household the way The Pretender and Late For The Sky did.  I'm going to say the opener "Disco Apocolypse" is kind of weak.  The two radio hits, particularly "That Girl Could Sing" were very likely to be heard over the drug store PA.  "Boulevard" where they take it hard was more the Rock radio hit, but that was Top 40 as well.  There are only 7 tracks on the album and two go with the title "Hold Out" and "Hold On Hold Out."  The later was more memorable to me but wasn't spared the 8-track fade.  The actually title track has a bit of a "Jungleland" melody.  The rest of side two namely "Of Missing Persons" and "Call It A Loan" I didn't think much of then and still think they have a background quality.  I downgraded this one a little bit  from a B+ to a  B.

The 8-track resequencing didn't help listenability here.

FOR FURTHER REVIEW:

Jackson Browne (1972)

The Pretender (1976)

Running On Empty (1977)



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