Slave To The Rhythm is a concept piece, interspersed with spoken-word interludes, but that title track is a sleek, immaculate Ferrari of a song. 22 aha Hunting High And Low.Even if those artists haircuts havent 1 Kate Bush Hounds Of Love.Oh, and Anywhere I Lay My Head ended up providing an LP title for Scarlett Johansson.This Is The Sea recast the kind of celtic soul that made Van Morrison everyones favourite curmudgeonly bluesman as thunderous raggle-taggle hellfire and The Whole Of The Moon was its skyscraping pearler.
The single later enjoyed a renaissance when it was relaunched it as a rave anthem for the E generation. Theyd not had a sniff of one, over here at least, since 1981s career-high Once In A Lifetime, but the resolutely pop Little Creatures was brimming with the things. Road To Nowhere took them into the top 10 for the first time, while And She Was turned out to be the sweetest theyd ever sounded. Madness Mad Not Mad. It effectively destroyed their incredible chart career, but theres still excellent value here. The gorgeously reflective Yesterdays Men is a jazz-tinged jewel, Uncle Sam bares its teeth under heavy disguise and Scritti Politti cover Sweetest Girl is intriguing at least. Prefab Sprout Steve McQueen. Their second LP is crowned by When Love Breaks Down never quite the hit it shouldve been despite incessant re-releases but its almost matched by Goodbye Lucille 1, Bonny and the mesmerising Appetite. Lloyd Cole The Commotions Easy Pieces. While not eulogised quite as warmly as Rattlesnakes, Easy Pieces dished up Commotions faves in Brand New Friend, Lost Weekend and Cut Me Down. For all its brilliance, theres not much sign of all that on the heavily Byrds influenced Fables Of The Reconstruction, but there are traces of muscle in Cant Get There From Here hints of greater triumphs to come. Microdisney The Clock Comes Down The Stairs. The Clock Comes Down The Stairs featured alterno-universe smashes Birthday Girl and Horse Overboard and set them on the path to a megabucks Virgin deal. The Jesus Mary Chain Psychocandy. Album highpoints are Just Like Honey and Never Understand but its almost churlish to pick apart the LP of the year. Felt Ignite The Seven Cannons. The hazy, fuzzy jangle all over tracks like My Darkest Light Will Shine surely inspired Real Estate, Ringo Deathstarr and like minds. Around The World In A Day was a comparatively soft-edged, quirky slice of psychedelia, conjuring rainbows and butterflies on Raspberry Beret and naming Princes own studio complex on Paisley Park. Sisters Of Mercy First And Last And Always. Their debut album has a surprising amount of bite to it, Eldritch growling fruitily over jagged guitars and sharp grooves, most spectacularly on the stalking Black Planet. Dire Straits Brothers In Arms. Dire Straits fifth album hauled in the GDP of most countries of the western world and became synonymous with a certain breed of Sierra-driving yuppie, but its not without merit. Tears For Fears Songs From The Big Chair. Mammoth hits included Shout and Everybody Wants To Rule The World, and the LP sailed to No.1 in the States. Success was so unwieldy that it almost split the band, who took four years over follow-up The Seeds Of Love. Killing Joke Night Time. It was all a long way from their punk-metal roots, but Night Time doesnt compromise entirely. Eighties still packs a punch. Loose Ends So Where Are You. Their biggest hit, Hangin On A String (Contemplating), a pin-sharp prod of electro-soul, is included here along with a cracking cover of David Bowies Golden Years. ![]() They were a short-lived outfit but managed one gorgeous hit with Thinking Of You, the opening track here. Simple Minds Once Upon A Time. Loose Ends 1985 Rar Cracked That ToughThe Scots had cracked that tough nut America, with the help of Dont You (Forget About Me)s slot in The Breakfast Club soundtrack, and they followed it with this beast, featuring Sanctify Yourself, Alive And Kicking and all huge rock bluster. Grace Jones Slave To The Rhythm. Slave To The Rhythm is a concept piece, interspersed with spoken-word interludes, but that title track is a sleek, immaculate Ferrari of a song. Hunting High And Low.
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