Word: albums
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...show's impact been limited to the TV screen. This month MCA Records will release a Miami Vice album containing the show's theme music, several songs used in last season's shows, and three new numbers recorded for the coming season by Glenn Frey, Chaka Khan and Grandmaster Melle Mel. Meanwhile, the show's tropical-chic fashions (especially Don Johnson's typical ensemble of Italian sport coat, T shirt, white linen pants and slip-on shoes) have begun to catch on. "The show has taken Italian men's fashion and spread it to mass America," says Kal Ruttenstein...
Talking Heads is a band of high repute and wide recognition still looking for one of those bring-'em-to-their-knees commercial breakthroughs. The Heads are spoiling for it, in fact, on evidence of their sprightly and acidic new album Little Creatures, a collection of nine nifty, looney tunes that seem calculated to loft them out of their cerebral groove right onto the main highway. Time for everyone to hitch a ride...
...Heads have had their odd successes since their first album was released in 1977. Any prosperity this band enjoyed would have to be odd, since the music it makes, fractured and rhythmic and inventive, touches amusingly on endless varieties of weirdness. Starting out, the nucleus of the band formed in Providence in 1974, when Tina Weymouth and Chris Frantz, students at the Rhode Island School of Design, fell in with David Byrne, occasional student and otherworldly wit. Moving a couple of hundred miles south, and joining up with Keyboard Player Jerry Harrison, they became the premier house band...
...program of other rock videos, they looked as if Robert Wilson, en route to Einstein on the Beach, had opened the wrong studio door and stumbled onto Soul Train. It was, however, the release of a superb 1984 performance documentary movie, Stop Making Sense, and a sound-track album that marked the band's biggest breakthrough so far. Talk about psycho killers. Byrne showed up in his humongous, gleaming, wide-shouldered white suit, did a fancy two-step with a floor lamp, and the band played all its best-known tunes. Byrne may have looked, at first, like Anthony Perkins...
...record sounds like sunshine and turns out to be a tonic rebuke to solid values and positive thinking. "Well, I've seen sex and I think it's okay" goes the unsolicited but unimpassioned testimonial in Creatures of Love, one of two songs on the album that are about children. Like the visionary folk art that decorates the record sleeve, these two tunes about little ones impart a deceptively cozy air that is undercut with a keen sardonic edge. "We are . . . creatures of love/ From the sleep of reason" is the way the refrain runs, and Little Creatures becomes...