Word: albums
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...that a true stereophile should have the latest, cleanest musical mechanisms. But, as Joan Jett once said, I love rock'n roll, not its machinery. And defects and all, I like everything about L.P.'s. Everything. Scratches, warps, pressing the repeat button and playing the same side of an album all night. Everything...
Byrne, the lead singer of the Talking Heads, said his dissatisfaction with the disco music of the 1970s led him to the investigation of "tropicalismo" that culminated in Rei Momo, his new solo album and the compilation albums Beleza Tropical and O Samba...
...Jazz Band. When he went on to Oxford for graduate work, he ^ toured briefly with several European jazz groups before putting the horn aside to complete his doctorate in European history. He did not play in public again until two years ago. Earlier this month, Sancton cut his seventh album, accompanied by pianist David Paquette and drummer Cornelis (Pam) Pameijer. It will be released next year by G.H.B. Records...
Same old story. A unique gift, a fresh voice, a knack for psychic immolation. When Rickie Lee Jones broke onto the scene with her surprising and successful 1979 debut album, she seemed to signal a fresh trail for rock. But uncertainty and self-destruction crowded close. An equivocal second album was followed by an enterprising third and diminishing commercial returns. Confusion enveloped her, and Jones seemed to lunge toward the flash point. Then she pulled back, in a two-step away from the brink, consolidating and reconsidering her work. With personal turmoil put in perspective, Jones produced a new life...
There is nothing unique about any of this, of course, except for the way Jones writes about it and sings it. In Flying Cowboys, her first album since 1984's The Magazine, she sets down a kind of mystical confessional, full of allusive autobiography and reflective nonchalance. It has the breadth of an important book and the emotional impact of great rock 'n' roll...