American Pride

ALABAMA American Pride (RCA) On the thinnest album of its career, the group Alabama delivers a blue-collar ode to escapist lust (''Take a Little Trip''), a cliched clip of backwoods Southern rock (''You Can't Take the Country Out of Me''), a son's maudlin love song to his deceased parents (''Between the Two of Them''), and a hoedownish piece of jingoism (''American Pride'') that sounds like background music for a union convention. Without Randy Owen's soulful vocals ; and the gritty ballad ''Once Upon a Lifetime,'' which thoughtfully examines what ought to matter in life, this collection would qualify as the biggest waste of recording tape since Linda McCartney deemed to put down her camera. D+ -AN