04-07-2021 FAVTRAX:MiX ~ 33 FAVOURiTE tracks 1983-1988 >>David Bowie, The Honeydrippers, Julian Cope, Tom Waits, Robert Wyatt,Miles Davis, Sonic Youth, Sinead O'Connor, The Nits, Jimmy Page, Robert Plant<<
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The mercurial music icon widely considered the original pop chameleon and figurehead for countless musical movements.David Bowie
Briefly active in the mid-'80s, vintage R&B-inspired supergroup featuring Robert Plant, Jimmy Page, and Jeff Beck.The Honeydrippers 
Enigmatic, prolific singer/songwriter and author known for his genre-defying work and contrary personality.
A neo-beatnik songwriter who grew weirder and wilder in the '80s, earning a cult following that only grew larger as the years passed.
Former Soft Machine drummer and vocalist who merged the avant-garde with English eccentricity. An enduring figure who came to prominence in the early days of the English art rock scene, Robert Wyatt has produced a significant body of work, both as the original drummer for art rockers Soft Machine and as a radical political singer/songwriter
The epitome of cool, an eternally evolving trumpeter who repeatedly changed the course of jazz between the 1950s and '90s. A monumental innovator, icon, and maverick, trumpeter Miles Davis helped define the course of jazz as well as popular culture in the 20th century, bridging the gap between bebop, modal music, funk, and fusion.
Pioneers in noise rock who continued creating sophisticated, visceral music long after they became an alt-rock institution. As they redefined what noise meant within rock & roll -- and what success meant for a band with experimental roots -- Sonic Youth became one of the most influential, and popular, acts to emerge from the American underground. Sonic Youth 
Irish alternative singer who combined her distinctive vocal range with striking post-feminist imagery to become an unlikely star. Sinéad O'Connor ranked among the most distinctive and controversial pop music stars of the alternative era, the first and in many ways, the most influential of the numerous female performers whose music dominated airwaves throughout the last decade of the 20th century.
Inventive, literate Amsterdam band who formed in the mid-'70s and traversed new wave, art pop, and whimsical indie rock across five decades.
Wildly influential British guitarist who made a splash with the Yardbirds and as a session player before founding Led Zeppelin. Unquestionably one of the all-time most influential, important, and versatile guitarists and songwriters in rock history is Jimmy Page. Just about every rock guitarist from the late '60s/early '70s to the present day has been influenced by Page's work with Led Zeppelin...
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1983-1988
Modern Love (David Bowie) 4:48
Let's Dance (David Bowie) 7:37
Cat People (Putting out Fire) (David Bowie / Giorgio Moroder) 5:09
from Let’s Dance 1983
After summing up his maverick tendencies on Scary Monsters, David Bowie aimed for the mainstream with Let's Dance. Hiring Chic guitarist Nile Rodgers as a co-producer, Bowie created a stylish, synthesized post-disco dance music that was equally informed by classic soul and the emerging new romantic subgenre of new wave, which was ironically heavily inspired by Bowie himself.
Young Boy Blues (Doc Pomus / Phil Spector) 3:32
Rockin' at Midnight 5:59
Sea of Love (George Khoury) 3:03
from The Honeydrippers, Vol. 1 1984
...Plant always harbored deep, abiding love for early rock & roll, a fact that was often obscured by his restlessness, too, a side that he indulged on his first two post-Zep solo albums -- glistening, modern albums with a heavier debt to Robert Fripp than Little Richard. Two albums in, he switched tactics for the EP detour The Honeydrippers, Vol. 1, an unabashedly retro-rock project that hauled out five golden oldies from the pre-Beatles era and served them up authentically, or at least as authentic nostalgia... Some may find this kind of pastiche a bit distancing, even campy, but there's a genuine warmth in Plant's performance, and his ad-hoc group of Honeydrippers -- including Jeff Beck and Jimmy Page in uncredited cameos -- have a great time running through these handful of oldies, particularly "Rockin' at Midnight."...
...Plant always harbored deep, abiding love for early rock & roll, a fact that was often obscured by his restlessness, too, a side that he indulged on his first two post-Zep solo albums -- glistening, modern albums with a heavier debt to Robert Fripp than Little Richard. Two albums in, he switched tactics for the EP detour The Honeydrippers, Vol. 1, an unabashedly retro-rock project that hauled out five golden oldies from the pre-Beatles era and served them up authentically, or at least as authentic nostalgia... Some may find this kind of pastiche a bit distancing, even campy, but there's a genuine warmth in Plant's performance, and his ad-hoc group of Honeydrippers -- including Jeff Beck and Jimmy Page in uncredited cameos -- have a great time running through these handful of oldies, particularly "Rockin' at Midnight."...
Reynard the Fox (Julian Cope) 6:16
O King of Chaos (Julian Cope) 2:36
from Fried 1984
In contrast to the crisp, clean sound of World, Fried often sounds rougher, a bit more shut in. Combine that with Cope's generally successful attempts to project an image of barely stable sanity, helped in large part by the notorious wearing-nothing-but-a-turtle-shell cover photos, and the idea of Fried as his album of crazed musical collapse understandably is a strong one. However, World producer Steve Lovell once again handles things here, along with playing guitar, while even more importantly, key Cope collaborator Donald Ross Skinner, a young musician from Cope's hometown, makes his debut. Kate St. John again contributes cor anglais throughout, adding a haunting atmosphere on many cuts. If anything, the album shows that Cope may be completely musical tripping out as he chooses but he knows exactly what he's doing throughout...
Singapore (Tom Waits) 2:44
Clap Hands (Tom Waits) 3:46
Cemetery Polka (Tom Waits) 1:46
Jockey Full of Bourbon (Tom Waits) 2:46
from Rain Dogs 1985
With its jarring rhythms and unusual instrumentation -- marimba, accordion, various percussion -- as well as its frequently surreal lyrics, Rain Dogs is very much a follow-up to Swordfishtrombones, which is to say that it sounds for the most part like The Threepenny Opera being sung by Howlin' Wolf. The chief musical difference is the introduction of guitarist Marc Ribot, who adds his noisy leads to the general cacophony...
Alliance (Robert Wyatt) 4:24
United States of Amnesia (Robert Wyatt) 5:50
from Old Rottenhat 1985
Robert Wyatt has been quoted as declaring that this record was "a conscious attempt to make un-misusable music," i.e., music that couldn't be appropriated by the right or broadcast on Voice of America. VOA doesn't broadcast uncommercial music such as this in any case, but Wyatt did succeed in stating some of his political concerns -- imperialism, the carnage in East Timor, the flaws of rigid political ideology -- in an understated manner. He went back to writing his own material for this album, after having focused on eclectic "covers" in the early '80s, with fair success. It's perhaps an even moodier outing than usual for Wyatt, his melancholia amplified by the foggy, spooky keyboards...
Rubberband of Life (Miles Davis / Bobbie Gentry / Attala Zane Giles / Randy Hall / Arthur Haynes / Vince Wilburn, Jr. / Anthony Loffman) 5:44
Paradise (Miles Davis / Attala Zane Giles / Randy Hall / Medina Johnson / Vince Wilburn, Jr.) 6:11
Rubberband (Miles Davis / Attala Zane Giles / Randy Hall) 6:12
from Rubberband Rec.1985-1986 (2019)
Before Miles Davis recorded Tutu as his debut offering for Warner Bros., he worked on a funky, jazz-pop-vocal project called Rubberband in North Hollywood over a three-month period in late 1985 and early 1986. While co-producers Randy Hall and Attala Zane Giles felt satisfied, Warner Jazz boss Tommy LiPuma was less enthusiastic. It was ultimately shelved and the tapes languished for 30 years... Rubberband is almost thoroughly reinvented from its original tapes with full cooperation from the Davis estate. It was guided by Davis' nephew and drummer Vince Wilburn, Jr., who played on the original sessions...
Tom Violence (Kim Gordon / Thurston Moore / Lee Ranaldo / Steve Shelley / Sonic Youth) 3:05
Shadow of a Doubt (Kim Gordon / Thurston Moore / Lee Ranaldo / Steve Shelley / Sonic Youth) 3:32
Star Power (Kim Gordon / Thurston Moore / Lee Ranaldo / Steve Shelley / Sonic Youth) 4:48
Bubblegum (Kim Gordon / Thurston Moore / Lee Ranaldo / Steve Shelley / Sonic Youth) 2:49
from EVOL 1986
By 1986, a still relatively recently formed Sonic Youth was in a time of transition. Born out of the noise of New York's thriving-in-ugliness no wave scene and ensconced in the influence of Glenn Branca's avant-garde guitar experimentalism...A product of a band finding its way between worlds, EVOL is a remarkably strong effort, and sets the stage for crystallizing ideas that would soon result in what many considered the band's finest work.
Never Get Old (Sinéad O'Connor) 4:33
Troy (Sinéad O'Connor) 6:31
I Want Your (Hands on Me) (Mike Clowes / Rob Deean / Sinéad O'Connor / Jake Reynolds) 4:38
from The Lion And The Cobra 1987
Sinéad O'Connor's debut, The Lion and the Cobra, was a sensation upon its 1987 release, and it remains a distinctive record, finding a major talent striving to achieve her own voice. Like many debuts, it's entirely possible to hear her influences, from Peter Gabriel to Prince and contemporary rap, but what's striking about the record is how she synthesizes these into her own sound -- an eerie, expansive sound heavy on atmosphere and tortured passion...
In the Dutch Mountains (Henk Hofstede / Robert Jan Stips) 3:27
An Easting House (Henk Hofstede / Robert Jan Stips) 5:53
from In the Dutch Mountains 1987
...the Nits -- once again a four-piece with the addition of bassist Joke Geraets -- opted for a return to simplicity with In the Dutch Mountains. The result was an album that probably did more to seduce listeners far beyond their homeland than any other, not least because it was the first to secure a release in the U.S. and the U.K. Yet although it was recorded live in the studio direct to two-track tape, this is no mere exercise in bash-it-out, one-take boogie. It's a warmly atmospheric set that contains some of the Nits' most fully realized work to date...
Liquid Mercury Jimmy Page)3:03
Hummingbird Lead voc. Chris Farlowe (Leon Russell) 5:22
Emerald Eyes (Jimmy Page) 3:31
from Outrider 1988
Outrider is an album by Jimmy Page, released by Geffen Records on 19 June 1988. It is his first solo studio album (and his only one as of 2021) and the first time since 1969 he has recorded with a record label other than Atlantic Records/Swan Song Records. Page recorded the music at his personal studio The Sol...
Former Led Zeppelin vocalist whose successful solo career has found him covering a wide range of styles... 1982 solo debut, Pictures at Eleven, Plant pursued a feverishly adventurous solo career, embracing synthesizers and art rock that seemed to be the antithesis of Zeppelin's majestic hard rock, but he'd also later dabble in sampling and world music, while taking detours to reunite with Zep guitarist Jimmy Page for both a rockabilly lark and a folk-based revival of their catalog. 
Tall Cool One (Phil Johnstone / Robert Plant) 4:38
Ship of Fools (Phil Johnstone / Robert Plant) 5:00
Helen of Troy (John Cale / Phil Johnstone / Robert Plant) 5:10
from Now and Zen 1988
After years of trying to separate himself from his legendary status as Led Zeppelin's frontman, Robert Plant finally reconciles with his past on Now & Zen. He borrows a few Zeppelin riffs, and even enlists Jimmy Page to play guitar on his hit "Tall Cool One." This album is also notable in that it marks his first collaboration with keyboardist Phil Johnstone, who would continue to play and write with Plant on subsequent albums.... a must-own for fans of Led Zeppelin.
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