LP# 1329
Al Di Meola ~ Orange and Blue ~ 1994, (22 RE), Optimal Media GmbH
▪︎Paradisio
▪︎Orange and Blue
▪︎This Way Before
▪︎Casmir
▪︎Ta'alina Chant
▪︎Summer Country Song
▪︎Chilean Pipe Song
▪︎Theme of the Mother Ship 451
▪︎If We Meet Again Pt. 1 & 2
▪︎On My Own
▪︎Precious Little You
Now THAT’S hospitality.
All the comforts of home.
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LP# 1300
Kim Wilde ~ Close ~ 1988,
Pinckneyville Pressing ◈-P-◈
Love In The Natural Way
Hey Mister Heartache
You Came
European Soul
Stone
Lucky Guy
Never Trust A Stranger
You'll Be The One Who'll Lose
Love's A No
Four Letter Word
Bauhaus, Mask, 1981 on Beggars Banquet
Second studio album from Bauhaus and their first on Beggars Banquet (In The Flat Field was on 4AD), with a cover drawn by Daniel Ash, across a gatefold and on the labels.
The first five Bauhaus records are are perfect – as is the singles collection 1979-1983 and most of the bands that followed in the Bauhaus diaspora (Dali’s Car, Love and Rockets, and Tones on Tail).
My copy—via A1 Records in NYC—is the 2023 reissue pressed at GZ Media.
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The Police - Gateshead 1982
Ref. the pink vinyl, solidified the notion that you can put lipstick on a pig but it’s still a pig
Do yourself a favour and watch U2 as support instead https://youtu.be/Fr2pGoINsxo?si=96KtKlNTHbiRiZ7r
ZZ Top, Fandango!, 1975 on London Records
Fourth release from Texas blues band ZZ Top, Fandango! included an A side with live songs (from The Warehouse, in New Orleans) and a B side of new studio recordings.
A Fandango is a dance originating in Spain and Portugal – which wikipedia tells me “is used as a synonym for ‘a quarrel’, ‘a big fuss’ or ‘a foolish or pretentious act'” – not sure which one ZZ Top were after here.
I think their first eight albums (yes, I include Eliminator) are fantastic though I’d argue after that it is downhill – but the live releases that have continued to come out from earlier days are great.
My copy—via a record fair at Mill No. 5 in Lowell, MA—is a later 1979 Winchester Pressing on Warner Bros. labels.
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XTC
Oranges And Lemons
2020 UK 2xLP reissue
Last few spins before I head to Boston for a week, so I’m going for a few I haven’t heard in a while, starting with this one.
Oranges And Lemons reminds me of something I’ve wanted to ask for a while, but keep forgetting.
It is the second instalment in what might be my favorite 3-album stretch by anybody ever.
The run of Oranges And Lemons bookended by Skylarking and Nonsuch is so astonishing, that it’s quite remarkable.
For me personally, the only other run I can hold in the same regard is Radiohead’s stretch from The Bends to Kid A, The Cure’s from Kiss Me Kiss Me Kiss Me to Wish, or the first three Sabbath albums.
Maybe other than Radiohead, I’d have to put the rest under the XTC stretch.
This was the 2nd XTC album I bought with my own $, & like Nonsuch, the first 3 songs are total master classes in pop songwriting.
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