Concert Review: New Kids On the Block at Sprint Center

New Kids on the Block

Better Than: A Skid Row show.

By BERRY ANDERSON

No Photos, Sorry

For photos & review from the St. Louis show, go here.

A few weeks ago, when I was granted the opportunity to review New Kids on the Block in Kansas City, I thought manna had fallen into my hands, a childhood dream realized. To see Joe, Jordan, Donnie, Danny and Jon live! I was 11 years old when Hangin’ Tough was released, and while most of my friends were listening to Skid Row and Warrant, I was sold on the five boys from Boston whose faces were plastered all over the pages of Big Bopper and logos for shoelaces and water bottles.

Now, at 30, I didn’t know that I would have such a hard time finding someone to go with. Male friends chuckled, female friends had other things to do, like laundry and dinner with husbands. I hardly ever bask in nostalgia, especially when it is of the late ’80s. It’s simply painful. I gave myself a pass on this night, however, only to quickly realize that no matter how bad I wanted to make out with Danny Wood back in the day, some of my female counterparts in 2008 were still just as hardcore as they were back in the age of the Scrunchy.