while we’re talking about the 80s…it doesn’t get much better than this
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Synchronicity would be just about the perfect album had Andy Summers been excluded from contributing the bloody awful racket that is Mother… though I’m convinced by that point Sting was just humouring his bandmates by allowing them a bare song per album and demonstrating how inferior they were as songwriters… I mean, Miss Gradenko is fairly disposable too, but it at least has a decent tune, says what it has to say in just over 2 minutes and buggers off…
As I have said in other music conversations on Blitz, Synchronicity is the best final album of all time.
Slipper imp and shakaerator is a great album
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And been listening to the new Gorillaz
Good mix of a soul disco song
Drifting on a cloud now
Probably a @Doggatron jam.
I love that album. Tora Tora Tora and Photographic have aged really well and the other songs are so catchy. I’ve never brought myself around to deep diving their 80s albums, which is odd. I’ll give Black Celebration a good go soon based on it being your fave.
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I can help but think of I Hear Motion whenever I hear this, or vice versa. They give me that same vibe of industrial meets pop sweet spot.
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There are definitely stronger individual tracks on other albums, but I find Black Celebration a really cohesive album from start to finish. Maybe because they were doing what they wanted and weren’t being pressured to chase hits.
Violator still stands up well… though that version of Personal Jesus annoys me with that really abrupt and lazy edit into the dubby outro. The single version was much better.
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I am way more into the remixes. If it wasn’t for the remixes/alternate versions I don’t get it. Lyrics are really good but I don’t think they nailed arrangements.
Sometimes another version hits.
I’m drunk
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Jeff Beck live at Ronnie Scott’s. Only wanted to listen to one track (Cause we’ve ended…) but you can’t do that
Cold Chisel/Don Walker brought me here.
I’m not a Christian and neither is she. But she put out a Christian album and I Like it.
How can you not like good Christian music? Some of the best music historically ever written was…anyway…
She played near Karratha. Smaller than Karratha.
Because I don’t know why.
She hugged me and she was worryingly thin, but she was so lovely.
I Don’t Wanna Be
The Day You Went Away
Backing on Heart of Stone and Cafe de Wheels.
Just an awesome and under-rated talent.
Going to see them tomorrow…I mean…tonight…
Goddamn they’re good live, which is why I always see them.
And they support. Like The Angels with putting up and coming bands on their b-sides of Dogs Are Talking (like Baby Animals and Shihad) they give others their stage.
They won’t be playing this. They have finally dropped my favourite track from their set. Which I get. It’s an album track. It should never have lasted as long as it did.
But maaaaaan, I’m glad I went to their orchestra tour.
Seriously, if you haven’t…just go.
