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1990 Non-Soundtrack Music P Pseudo Echo

Pseudo Echo – Long Plays ’83-’87

Pseudo Echo - Long Plays '83-'87Ah, the heady days of junior high. That’s when I first encountered Australian pop group Pseudo Echo, as they carved an unlikely swath through the U.S. charts with their Euro-synth-ified remake of Lipps Inc.’s “Funkytown”. These days I file Pseudo Echo – and Love An Adventure, the album which spunoff the aforementioned single – under the heading of “guilty pleasures that, if I’m to be honest, I still like quite a lot.” And I do.

Which brings us to this album of remixes. The late 80s were a haven for extended mixes, some of them beautiful examples of the art of editing, others more like the result of sticking fifteen chimpanzees in a room with two tape decks and a big friendly pause button. One of my favorite such mixes, however, was the extended version of “Funkytown”, with its phasing drum solos and a kind of logical pacing that didn’t completely destroy the progression of the song. I had the 12″ inch single of that mix, back when buying vinyl was still an option in most cases, but wound up giving it away to someone later, so it’s good to have it back.

The real prize for me here, however, is the extended remix of “Destination Unknown”, another tune from Love An Adventure, that just about blew my mind. The original had such a cool backing track that I’d always wished I could hear it without vocals – I thought it’d make someone, somewhere, a dandy TV theme song. That teenage wish has finally been fulfilled by a mix that runs through one full verse and one full chorus with no vocals at all, and so help me, it’s still a cool song.

3 out of 4The rest of the tracks here – reworking tracks from both Love An Adventure and its follow-up Race – run the gamut from unremarkable dance floor fodder to remixes which actually reveal some depth to the original songs, which I’ve always felt was the best thing a remix can really hope to do. As few and far between as Pseudo Echo fans may be outside of Australia, I can at least recommend this to them. It’s a decent new take on some old favorites.

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  1. Listening (5:35)
  2. A Beat For You (7:26)
  3. Stranger In Me (6:04)
  4. Don’t Go (6:40)
  5. Love An Adventure (6:21)
  6. Living In A Dream (5:39)
  7. Destination Unknown (5:48)
  8. Funky Town (6:35)

Released by: EMI Australia
Release date: 1990
Total running time: 49:54

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2002 A B C ELO F H J Jason Falkner K L Non-Soundtrack Music P R S V

Lynne Me Your Ears: Tribute To The Music Of Jeff Lynne

Lynne Me Your EarsThe premise of this double-disc compilation is simple: various modern pop artists, most of them enjoying cult indie label status (and a few of them refugees from major labels too), revisit the songs of one of their musical heroes, ELO’s Jeff Lynne. Colorado’s own Not Lame Records has been teasing the heck out of this release for months, only to watch it be bogged down by politics (the father/son duo of Randy and Tal Bachman, each of whom were originally slated to contribute a song, pulled out) and delays (a printing error in the first run of liner notes booklets which caused the collection to slip well past its original pre-Christmas 2001 release date). And now that it’s here, was it worth the lengthy wait?

The answer is, in most cases, absolutely. The covers (which don’t limit themselves to ELO material but also cover Lynne’s contributions to the Traveling Wilburys, a 1960s U.K. group known as the Idle Race, and his solitary solo album) vary wildly, ranging from faithful homages to reinterpretations in a completely new style.

Some of the better “near-beer” covers include former R.E.M. producer Mitch Easter’s collaboration with Bobby Sutliff on the first ELO single, “10538 Overture”; Michael Carpenter’s near-carbon-copy of Lynne’s solo single “Every Little Thing”; Jason Falkner’s raw cover of “Do Ya”, a stripped-down, Buddy Holly-ized cover of “Rock ‘N’ Roll Is King” by Walter Clevenger and the Dairy Kings, and an accurate-down-to-the-overmodulation-distortion copy of the Idle Race’s “Morning Sunshine” by Jeremy.

The real triumphs of Lynne Me Your Ears, however, are those artists who took extensive liberties and created something completely new – Ross Rice’s hip-hop-ified cover of “Evil Woman” is both funky and up-to-date, and Tony Visconti (former Move and Moody Blues producer) turns in a tasty new take on “Mr. Blue Sky”, starting out as a rap and then tumbling through every style in the book by the end of the song’s lengthy instrumental coda. Prairie Sons and Daughters transform the eloquence of “One Summer Dream” into a spiky, guitar-drenched masterpiece that also takes a detour into “In Old England Town” from ELO’s second album. That multiple-song-tributes-in-a-single-track trick is repeated masterfully by Rick Altizer, who leaps from the soulful opening guitar solo of “Laredo Tornado” into a thundering modernized version of “Boy Blue”. Former Move vocalist Carl Wayne, ironically, takes the stage-musical feel of “Steppin’ Out” to its logical, grandiose conclusion (it was Wayne who stepped out of the Move in 1970, a departure that made way for Jeff Lynne to join the group). The Shazam squeezes the synths out of “Twilight” and turns it into a wonderful wash of electric guitar work (but keeps the harmonies intact), and “Turn To Stone” gets a similar treatment from Roger Klug. Sparkle*Jets UK turn the dreamy “Above The Clouds” into a cheerful, rockin’ power pop number.

Perhaps the most shocking transformation bestowed upon any of the songs here is “On The Run”, a rapid-fire techno-before-there-was-techno tune from 1979’s Discovery which is rendered here by Sixpence None The Richer as a relaxing acoustic piece with a slow, majestic gait and Leigh Nash’s always pleasant voice. It has to be heard to be believed – this may be the best example on Lynne Me Your Ears of a band taking one of the old ELO chestnuts and making it their own.

There are a small number of misses for all of those hits, however; Peter Holsapple’s cover of the Move’s “No Time” has yet to click with me – the harmonies seem to be a misfire in some places. The Heavy Blinkers’ cover of “You Took My Breath Away”, itself a Roy Orbison tribute penned by Lynne for the second Traveling Wilburys album, lacks the melancholy of the original and comes out sounding a little too sunny. And the “Sweet Is The Night” cover heard here seems to have lost a lot of what made the original so appealing.

4 out of 4Overall, however, a nice treat for ELO/Lynne fans, and hey, your mileage may even vary on which songs worked and which ones didn’t. Highly recommended – and, in the face of Sony’s recent reticence to continue the promised remastering of the entire ELO catalogue, it may be the last ELO related treat we fans get for quite a while. Soak it up slowly and enjoy.

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    Disc one
  1. 10538 Overture – Bobby Sutliff & Mitch Easter (4:35)
  2. Ma Ma Ma Belle – Earl Slick (4:05)
  3. Telephone Line – Jeffrey Foskett (4:49)
  4. Do Ya – Jason Falkner (3:58)
  5. Sweet Is The Night – Ben Lee (3:28)
  6. Rockaria! – Pat Buchanan (3:49)
  7. Every Little Thing – Michael Carpenter (3:52)
  8. No Time – Peter Holsapple (3:59)
  9. Showdown – Richard Barone (4:26)
  10. Handle With Care – Jamie Hoover (3:25)
  11. Strange Magic – Mark Helm (3:54)
  12. Evil Woman – Ross Rice (4:51)
  13. Steppin’ Out – Carl Wayne (4:27)
  14. Don’t Bring Me Down – SWAG (3:13)
  15. One Summer Dream – Prairie Sons & Daughters (7:16)
  16. Can’t Get It Out Of My Head – Doug Powell (4:57)
    Disc two
  1. Twilight – The Shazam (3:11)
  2. Mr. Blue Sky – Tony Visconti (5:02)
  3. You Took My Breath Away – The Heavy Blinkers (3:07)
  4. Message From The Country – The Balls of France (4:28)
  5. The Minister – Ferenzik (4:43)
  6. Xanadu – Neilson Hubbard and Venus Hum (3:31)
  7. When Time Stood Still – Bill Lloyd (3:27)
  8. Above The Clouds – Sparkle*Jets UK (4:00)
  9. Rock And Roll Is King – Walter Clevenger and the Dairy Kings (3:14)
  10. Morning Sunshine – Jeremy (2:19)
  11. Boy Blue – Rick Altizer (3:45)
  12. Livin’ Thing – Pray For Rain (3:57)
  13. On The Run – Sixpence None The Richer (2:37)
  14. Bluebird Is Dead – Todd Rundgren (5:06)
  15. Turn To Stone – Ruger Klug (5:11)
  16. Eldorado – Fleming and John (6:41)

Released by: Not Lame Records
Release date: 2002
Disc one total running time: 69:04
Disc two total running time: 64:19

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1983 Non-Soundtrack Music P Police

Police – Synchronicity

Police - SynchronicityI’ve long had a love-hate relationship with the final Police album, but upon a recent listening I finally decided I love it more than I hate it.

So what’s not to like? Quite simply one of the most overexposed songs of the 1980s, “Every Breath You Take”. And hey, I even like the song, but it was played so often that I can really only bear to hear it once a year or so. (That said, I’ll take “Every Breath” over anything the current crop of producer-packaged teenybopper acts can cough up, so my boredom with the song is a relative thing.)

What is there to like about Synchronicity? Possibly Sting’s best work ever, with some crisply literate lyrics and some excellent music to go behind them. Mixing mythological metaphors with literary references and interesting concepts, the songs are both memorable and thought-provoking. So much so, in fact, that I think it points out why I skip “Every Breath” most of the time – its somewhat repetitive and predictable lyrics are sharply out of place on Synchronocity.

4 out of 4Some of the better songs, including “King Of Pain” and “Wrapped Around Your Finger”, made a somewhat smaller splash as singles, while others – including the mesmerising “Tea In The Sahara” – can only be found on the album. Overall, even with the clichè-ridden “Every Breath”, Synchronicity is an outstanding album, engaging both musically and intellectually.

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  1. Synchronicity I (3:23)
  2. Walking In Your Footsteps (3:35)
  3. O My God (4:00)
  4. Mother (3:03)
  5. Miss Gradenko (2:00)
  6. Synchronicity II (5:04)
  7. Every Breath You Take (4:13)
  8. King Of Pain (4:59)
  9. Wrapped Around Your Finger (5:12)
  10. Tea In The Sahara (4:11)
  11. Murder By Numbers (4:31)

Released by: A&M
Release date: 1983
Total running time: 44:30

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1996 B C D G J L M Non-Soundtrack Music P S W

Schoolhouse Rock Rocks!

Schoolhouse Rock Rocks!This is a rockin’ selection of hysterically funny covers of the immortal tunes from those educational animated shorts that used to give ABC’s Saturday morning cartoons such a distinct identity. ABC tries to brand itself with an incredibly annoying series of banana-yellow graphics these days, but that will never even approach the popularity or instant recognition factor that ABC had with the Schoolhouse Rocks cartoons. Schoolhouse Rocks officially ascends to the status of cultural icon with this cover album, featuring a series of often faithful (and occasionally way-the-hell-out-there) covers performed by alt-rock and rap artists. The original Schoolhouse Rocks theme opens the proceedings, and Deluxx Folk Implosion promptly crashes the party with a very good copy of “I’m Just A Bill”, adding the modern touch of vocals dripping with thick, syrupy sarcasm. It’s hard to bang one’s head and laugh out loud at the same time, but this is a good song with which to try. Other standouts include a very good homage to “Electricity, Electricity” by all-girl band Goodness, and Ween’s very accurate rendition of “The Shot Heard ‘Round The World”. The more rap-oriented 4 out of 4covers, Biz Markie’s “Energy Blues” cover and Skee-Lo’s version of “The Tale of Mr. Morton”, weren’t really to my tastes, but I could actually see the wisdom of trying to introduce them to a new generation with a new idiom. And really, Biz Markie did pretty good with his tribute. I highly recommend this easy-to-find album for those in the mood for a nostalgic belly laugh!

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  1. Schoolhouse Rocky – Bob Dorough and friends (0:14)
  2. I’m Just A Bill – Deluxx Folk Implosion (3:26)
  3. Three Is A Magic Number – Blind Melon (3:14)
  4. Conjunction Junction – Better Than Ezra (3:44)
  5. Electricity, Electricity – Goodness (3:22)
  6. No More Kings – Pavement (4:23)
  7. The Shot Heard ‘Round The World – Ween (3:09)
  8. My Hero, Zero – Lemonheads (3:05)
  9. The Energy Blues – Biz Markie (3:10)
  10. Little Twelvetoes – Chavez (3:51)
  11. Verb: That’s What’s Happening – Moby (4:29)
  12. Interplanet Janet – Man Or Astro-Man? (2:47)
  13. Lolly, Lolly, Lolly, Get Your Adverbs Here – Buffalo Tom (2:14)
  14. Unpack Your Adjectives – Daniel Johnston (3:06)
  15. The Tale of Mr. Morton – Skee-Lo (4:05)

Released by: Atlantic
Release date: 1996
Total running time: 48:29

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1996 Alan Parsons Non-Soundtrack Music P

Alan Parsons – On Air

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Order this CD in the StoreThere’s nothing quite like an Alan Parsons project, whether it’s called that or not. After the sometimes morbid theme of 1993’s Try Anything Once, this album’s focus on flight is a welcome change of pace. The theme is stretched in all directions, from the legend of Icarus to skydiving to altophobia to an instrumental, reminiscent of the Project’s sound circa 1985, constructed around John F. Kennedy’s 1961 speech that initiated the Apollo program. There’s also a song sung by Christopher Cross which could be interpreted as a tribute to astronauts, both fallen and otherwise, everywhere. For many years, I’ve heard numerous critics accuse Parsons of imitating the sound of Pink Floyd (a sound Parsons himself helped establish when he produced and engineered Pink Floyd’s Dark Side Of The Moon, which doesn’t lend the PF imitation criticism much credibility), but for once I have to admit that Parsons has turned out an album which is exceedingly Floydian – or, more accurately, very much like the sound Parsons bestowed upon PF all those years ago. The sound of On Air is driven by guitars, well-harmonized vocals and dreamy sound effects, and not quite so many of the symphonic textures of Parsons projects past. Suffice it to say you should enjoy On Air if you’re a Pink Floyd fan. Featured vocalists include the aforementioned Christopher Cross (yes, the same Mr. Cross of “Sailing” fame), 10cc’s Eric Stewart, Neil Lockwood (late of ELO Part II – aha! There is at last a tenuous connection between Parsons and ELO!), and Graham Dye. The album art is similar to that of Try Anything Once, but features hot air balloons instead of people hanging upside-down from ropes!

One truly unique feature of On Air is the second CD in the package – a CD-ROM with all sorts of interesting information on the band and on the history of aviation. Aggravatingly, the CD-ROM is formatted in such a way that you can barely tell what you’re doing – after a title screen and some psychedelic sound, a fleet of colorful balloons wafts lazily across the screen. Clicking on larger balloons will take you to sundry bits of information, but you can hardly tell where you’re headed – the balloons seem to sorta-kinda-vaguely follow the order of the song titles. For example, the “Brother Up In Heaven” section of the CD-ROM contains some sombering statistics on air-related deaths in peacetime and in war; “Fall Free” leads to a tribute to a deceased world champion skysurfer; “Cloudbreak” includes an interesting selection of historical aircraft with photos and diagrams; “Blue Blue Sky” part one contains literary, mythological and other references to flying (including Freud’s take on flying dreams); and part two of the same piece will show you very interesting bios and photos of the band, an Alan Parsons Project trivia game (I only got a little over half of them right, it’s tough!), and more. That last section also contains a stripped-down, looped instrumental of “Blue Blue Sky”, which would be worth the price of the second disc alone. But I’m happy to report that both disks will only cost you as much as a single CD. The CD-ROM’s format and user interface, however, are irritating and seem to offer no hints on how to get around. Where you wind up is almost a random selection, and several smaller balloons will simply explode and lead you to a silly message on a screen with a big pink fish (red herring, get it?). The people who put the CD-ROM togther must have been tripping at least some of the time they worked on it! There are also relatively silly and useless sections of the CD-ROM – “So Far Away” plays a few seconds of the song and displays an endless, monotonous loop of an ersatz NASA-like space mission patch. “Apollo”, a selection which could 4 out of 4have linked to a wealth of spaceflight information, is instead a long series of psychedelic graphics and other odd bits. “Too Close To The Sun” plays a snippet of that song and then invites you to design your own wings (!?). I haven’t even found a section for “Can’t Look Down”, I keep encountering the dreaded fish! Overall, both discs are enjoyable, and it’s still good to hear new music from Parsons and friends.

  1. Blue Blue Sky (0:46)
  2. Too Close To The Sun (5:12)
  3. Blown By The Wind (5:22)
  4. Cloudbreak (4:41)
  5. Can’t Look Down (4:32)
  6. Brother Up In Heaven (3:57)
  7. Fall Free (4:20)
  8. Apollo (6:05)
  9. So Far Away (4:05)
  10. One Day To Fly (6:13)
  11. Blue Blue Sky (4:23)

Released by: River North
Release date: 1996
Total running time: 50:50

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1981 Non-Soundtrack Music P Police

Police – Ghost In The Machine

Police - Ghost In The MachineWow. Now this is more like it. My all-time favorite Police album, Ghost in the Machine may be best remembered as the album from which “Spirits In The Material World” (which will always be, in my mind, the definitive statement of the Police sound) and “Every Little Thing She Does Is Magic” came, but also contains other personal favorites as “Too Much Information”, “Secret Journey” and “Hungry For You”, which is sung entirely in French until the last verse. I’m not sure what else I can say about this album aside 4 out of 4from noting that it’s the Police in their finest form, and it was really the last time their music visited the edge of being new wave. The cover design is also very cool, using simple LED-type symbols for the three band members.

  1. Spirits in the Material World (2:59)
  2. Every Little Thing She Does Is Magic (4:21)
  3. Invisible Sun (3:43)
  4. Order this CD Hungry For You (j’aurais toujours faim de toi) (2:53)
  5. Demolition Man (5:55)
  6. Too Much Information (3:42)
  7. Rehumanize Yourself (3:11)
  8. One World (Not Three) (4:46)
  9. Omegaman (2:48)
  10. Secret Journey (3:34)
  11. Darkness (3:13)

Released by: A&M
Release date: 1981
Total running time: 41:05

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1995 Alan Parsons Non-Soundtrack Music P

Alan Parsons – The Very Best Live

Alan Parsons - The Very Best LiveFor years, it was a well-known fact that the Alan Parsons Project’s music has always been custom-constructed for the studio, and that the Project was strictly a studio entity. But the Alan Parsons Project just isn’t what it used to be. In some ways, this is good; in others, not quite so good. On the good side, returning for another round is Manfred Mann’s Chris Thompson, who did vocals on two of Try Anything‘s better tracks – the single “Turn It Up” and the much harder-edged “Back Against The Wall”. Not only does he do the singing duties on many of the past Project hits originally voiced by gravelly Lenny Zakatek, but he does a bloody good job of ’em. He sounds like he was born to sing “Psychobabble”. One of the album’s nice bonuses – originally the only reason I sprang for it but now one of many reasons – are three previously unreleased studio tracks, including the outstanding “You’re the Voice”, with Thompson again providing vocals; this song continues breaking new ground with unpredictable rythmic patterns, not unlike “Turn It Up” (though better). Possibly the greatest find on the album is the amazing medley of the instrumentals “Lucifer” (from the Eve album, my favorite Project of the 1970s) and “Mammagamma” (that vastly-overplayed, echoplexed, one-step-removed-from-disco instrumental you all remember from 1981’s Eye In The Sky). I never dreamed I’d hear a fresh twist on “Mammagamma” until I heard the band suddenly segue into that song’s string interlude via keyboard, whilst still retaining the light military beat of “Lucifer”. Wow! A must-hear for those who appreciate Parsons/Woolfson instrumentals. Still, there are drawbacks. No one can replace the voice on those songs which were originally sung by Eric Woolfson. Oh, they give it a game try, but it seems somehow wrong that another voice could sing those songs. It’s like trying to get past k.d. lang singing Orbison’s “Crying”, or for that matter, Bonnie Raitt trying her hand at “You Got It”. Other than that detail, though, this is one hell of an album. I highly recommend it for any Projectiles out there. The choice of songs is surprising in many places, and refreshing since it doesn’t always represent those tunes that oversaturated the radio airwaves in the late 70s and early 80s. Also surprising is that nearly every Project album is represented 4 out of 4by at least one song, with only a couple of exceptions. Even a selection from the lovely 1976 Edgar Allan Poe album makes it onto stage (“The Raven”, complete with mesmerizing Vocoder-fritzed vocals). I also appreciate the audience, who seemed appropriately respectful and didn’t ruin things by clapping along (with the exception of the gleefully playful beat of “Lucifer”) or trying to sing along, two things that irritate me to no end on most live albums.

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  1. Sirius (2:25)
  2. Eye in the Sky (4:55)
  3. Psychobabble (5:22)
  4. The Raven (5:39)
  5. Time (5:08)
  6. Luciferama medley of Lucifer & Mammagamma (4:56)
  7. Old and Wise (4:49)
  8. You’re Gonna Get Your Fingers Burned (4:18)
  9. Prime Time (5:15)
  10. Limelight (4:40)
  11. Don’t Answer Me (4:13)
  12. Standing on Higher Ground (5:30)

    New studio tracks:

  13. When (4:13)
  14. Take the Money and Run (6:18)
  15. You’re The Voice (5:07)

Released by: BMG / RCA Victor
Release date: 1995
Total running time: 74:27

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1989 Non-Soundtrack Music P Tom Petty

Tom Petty – Full Moon Fever

Tom Petty - Full Moon FeverNaturally, the thing that drew me to this album was the post-Traveling Wilbury association of Petty with ELO’s Jeff Lynne, and this album is proof that this combination may have been more interesting than the combination of Lynne and George Harrison. The songs “Free Fallin'” and “A Face In The Crowd” are just a couple of the examples of the unique synergy, with Lynne contributing music and lyrics as well as his skills in the production booth. More typical Petty tunes include “Running Down A Dream”, “A Mind With A 3 out of 4Heart Of Its Own”, and “Yer So Bad”, but even those songs sport Lynne’s trademark production.

  1. Free Fallin’ (4:14)
  2. I Won’t Back Down (2:56)
  3. Love is a Long Road (4:06)
  4. A Face in the Crowd (3:50)
  5. Runnin’ Down a Dream (4:23)
  6. Feel a Whole Lot Better (2:47)
  7. Order this CD Yer So Bad (3:05)
  8. Depending On You (2:47)
  9. The Apartment Song (2:31)
  10. Alright For Now (2:00)
  11. A Mind With A Heart Of Its Own (3:29)
  12. Zombie Zoo (2:56)

Released by: MCA
Release date: 1989
Total running time: 39:04

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1993 Alan Parsons Non-Soundtrack Music P

Alan Parsons – Try Anything Once

Alan Parsons - Try Anything OnceA dandy bit of conceptual rock opera from the same people who brought you the Alan Parsons Project, sans Eric Woolfson who departed after a divergence of music careers following the Freudiana album. As with the Project, Parsons only produces though the music seems to be attributed to him. This is an uneven collection, though it does kick off with the darkly humorous “The Three of Me”, an ode to schizophrenia with a speaker-blowing orchestral intro reminiscent of the Project’s best 1970s work. The sole single from this album, rock anthem “Turn It Up”, as well as the superior “Back Against the Wall”, feature lead vocals from Manfred Mann’s Chris Thompson. Three other songs deserve special notice – “Siren Song”, “Wine From the Water” (whose keyboards sound like they’ve time-warped into the song straight from the mid 70s), and “I’m 3 out of 4Talking To You”, another heraldic rocker written by longtime Project guitarist Ian Bairnson. It’s a good album that thankfully doesn’t try to make any concessions to modernizing its style to keep up with the times – and that alone is a good reason to celebrate Alan Parsons’ return.

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  1. The Three of Me (5:32)
  2. Turn It Up (6:13)
  3. Wine from the Water (5:43)
  4. Breakaway (4:07)
  5. Mr Time (8:17)
  6. Jigue (3:24)
  7. I’m Talkin’ To You (4:38)
  8. Siren Song (5:01)
  9. Dreamscape (3:01)
  10. Back Against the Wall (4:38)
  11. Re-Jigue (2:28)
  12. Oh Life…(There Must Be More) (6:34)

Released by: Arista
Release date: 1993
Total running time: 59:36

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1980 Non-Soundtrack Music P Police

Police – Zenyatta Mondatta

Police - Zenyatta MondattaThis album may be a little more mainstream to some, as it sports such relative hits as “Don’t Stand So Close To Me” and the catchy “De Do Do Do, De Da Da Da”, but the non-singles are more examples of the genius of the group in their earlier days. “Man In A Suitcase” is one of my all-time favorite Police tunes for some reason I’ve never quite been able to put a finger on. I have to rate Regatta de Blanc higher than this album, but because of the more familiar material, it may be a more ideal 3 out of 4introduction to pre-Synchronicity Police for any curious listeners out there.

  1. Don’t Stand So Close To Me (4:02)
  2. Driven To Tears (3:21)
  3. When The World Is Running Down, You Make The Best Of What’s Still Around (3:38)
  4. Canary in a Coalmine (2:27)
  5. Voices Inside My Head (3:54)
  6. Bombs Away (3:06)
  7. Order this CD De Do Do Do, De Da Da Da (4:10)
  8. Behind My Camel (2:55)
  9. Man in a Suitcase (2:20)
  10. Shadows in the Rain (5:04)
  11. The Other Way of Stopping (3:22)

Released by: A&M
Release date: 1980
Total running time: 38:19

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