What do you listen to at this moment?

[jawaka]

Reminds me of later day Paul Simon.
Phil Collins - Wear My Hat http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uM9V2CXu5-4

[javierda]

Ufo "No Heavy Petting"

[javierda]

The Sygnet "Children Of The Future"

[javierda]

Royal Hunt "Eyewitness"

[arco35]

David Bowie Let's Dance [1983] (VIRGIN, SACD, 2003)



It’s hard to imagine now how people felt when, in 1983, Let’s Dance emerged as if from nowhere. The general pop-buying public, at least, loved it – there are very few records shinier than this one, which glints like David Bowie’s new teeth and is full of treble and echoes like a robber’s cave.

Bowie’s choice of Nile Rodgers for producer was canny; Rodgers had moved away from the sophisticated disco of Chic and was becoming the person cool rock acts from Debbie Harry to Duran Duran would hire to give them a sheen of funk, rock and pop. Certainly nobody but Rodgers could have taken a song like China Girl (written by Bowie and Iggy Pop and originally recorded by the latter), with its paranoid references to "visions of swastikas", and turned it into a sweet, romantic hit single. And the combination of Bowie and Rodgers on the title track was perfect – Bowie’s epic lyric about dancing under "serious moonlight" (the name of his subsequent monster tour, which lasted until December and took in 96 shows) and the brilliant filching of the crescendo "ahh!"s from The Beatles’ version of The Isley Brothers’ Twist and Shout were masterstrokes, each welded to a loud, stadium-ised drum and bass sound.

But older Bowie fans were less impressed. The last three years had seen Bowie mooch between soundtracks (his theme for Cat People is reprised here), one-offs and a jumble of often-great records that had little or nothing do with his excellent 1980 album, Scary Monsters (and Super Creeps). Let’s Dance may have had a ground-breaking sound and a popularity that Bowie clearly ached for, but it’s often a mundane album, as songs like Ricochet and Shake It mark time until a single turns up. (It’s possibly significant that one of the best songs here is Criminal World, a cover of a song by obscure Bowie clones Metro).

But when Bowie growled, on another of the album’s excellent singles Modern Love, "I know when to go out / And when to stay in / And get things done," he wasn’t kidding. Let’s Dance was literally the template for 80s Bowie – blonde, suited and smiling. It would, however, be a long time before he made another single as striking as Let’s Dance. (BBC)


Full Album

[Ninjaturtle]

Bananarama - Robert De Niro's Waiting

[arco35]

John Cale Paris 1919 [1973] (4 Men with beards, LP, 2007)



One of John Cale's very finest solo efforts, Paris 1919 is also among his most accessible records, one which grows in depth and resonance with each successive listen. A consciously literary work -- the songs even bear titles like "Child's Christmas in Wales," "Macbeth," and "Graham Greene" -- Paris 1919 is close in spirit to a collection of short stories; the songs are richly poetic, enigmatic period pieces strongly evocative of their time and place. Chris Thomas' production is appropriately lush and sweeping, with many tracks set to orchestral accompaniment; indeed, there's little here to suggest either Cale's noisy, abrasive past or the chaos about to resurface in his subsequent work -- for better or worse, his music never achieved a similar beauty again. (AllMusic)


Full Album

[taffy2]

Portishead - Dummy, 1994, Go! Records, Trip Hop



http://youtu.be/yF-GvT8Clnk Glory Box

http://youtu.be/niIcxMuORco Sour Times

http://youtu.be/M6rJn_TEu5Y Numb

[Jason-X]

Emerson, Lake & Palmer ~ Trilogy (1972 Atlantic Records) (Prog Rock)

Cheers!
Jason

[kelio]

Don Cherry & Latif Khan

Airmail