Word: lps
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Nine Symphonies (EMI, 8 LPs). The 1981 winner of the Beethoven sweepstakes, with London's Philharmonia Orchestra conducted by Kurt Sanderling...
...Moves, to celebrate rock creativity, and evoke a moment, a decade, with poignant immediacy. But neither lasts more than 30 seconds, and sitting through the rest of American Pop is like watching an anthology of melodramatic scenes from late-night movies, with commercials every ten minutes for Greatest Hits LPs. -By Richard Corliss
...loyalists right now are making their boy's latest efforts two of the year's hottest records. Love on the Rocks, a typically canny Diamond ballad, is currently No. 2 on the charts, while the album it comes from, The Jazz Singer, is fifth among the top LPs. Gratifying as this may be, at least one question remains: How come all the people who are buying The Jazz Singer are going in only modest numbers to see the movie...
...Reed: Rock and Roll Diary, 1967-1980 (Arista, 2 LPs). The full span and impact of a seminal career. Not quite a diary; more like rock notes from underground...
Bruce Springsteen: The River (Columbia, 2 LPs). "Is a dream a lie if it don't come true/ Or is it something worse?" No lie: rock as good as it gets...