Word: albums
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...DYLAN: OH MERCY (Columbia). He started the decade with a great album (1981's Shot of Love), and closes it with another. The record is structured like an intimate revival meeting between Dylan and listener: there are messages of devotion and political sermons; parables of the spirit and love songs; and, in Shooting Star, a luminous benediction. Dylan continues to make heavy demands -- these ten songs are the most intensely introspective work anyone has done in rock this year -- but asks only what he brings from himself: some reckless imagination, a sense of playful mystery and a full measure...
...makes it tougher," he says. "It helped that we are a good band. But we had to be real good ; -- better than a white band has to be -- to convince radio and record companies to take the risk." There was a significant, and surprising, payoff. Living Colour's first album is still on the pop charts after a year, and after selling 1.5 million copies...
...through onto the upper regions of the pop charts. Not all the young action is rap, though. Ziggy Marley, one of Bob's band of children, has got the gift and, to go with it, a light way with carrying a heavy torch. On One Bright Day, the new album he made with the Melody Makers (his younger brother Stephen and two of his sisters, Sharon and Cedella), there is a lot of tradition and a little trailblazing. "This album to me sound a little stronger," says Ziggy, 20, with deft Rasta inflections. "A little stronger in the beat...
...cool") but swears allegiance to reggae. Rap has proved to be a fertile source of inspiration for the ravishing Nenah Cherry, whose hit single Buffalo Stance dressed street sound up in supper-club clothes without sacrificing funk. Bobby Brown, the soul flash of the moment, made an album that sold more than 4 million copies and spawned three hit singles, marrying the sensuality of Marvin Gaye to the unearthly musical surprises of Prince...
...there is one more route into the '90s, it leads inward. That's the Call's unswerving direction. After a single play of their new album Let the Day Begin, you understand immediately and intimately why Peter Gabriel called them "the future of American music." The Call's music is not retrograde or nostalgic, but it does hearken heavily to the indwelling mysteries that Dylan and the Band and Van Morrison also heard. "The Call is a band for people who feel things extremely," says Michael Been, the group's songwriter. "We're not for people who are extremely cool...