This came out in 2000 — or at least that’s when I got it. Here’s what I said about it back then (with some minor editing):
Time Machine? Couldn’t Nick Gilder have chosen something a little less mockable — like, maybe, The Whatever-Happened-Tos?
Ill-conceived as his new band’s name is, however, it’s dead-on accurate. This lifeless comeback disc from the ex-Sweeney Todd vocalist is a shameless, undiluted blast from the past, with Gilder rocking and rasping his way through 11 slices of ’80s-vintage arena-pop that sound like Bryan Adams and Corey Hart castoffs. Including — are you ready? — new and remarkably unimproved human-jukebox versions of his two hits, Roxy Roller and Hot Child In The City. Hey, maybe he should have called it Nick Gilder & Karaoke Machine.
