What Are You Listening To?

[Jerome]

I'm here sweetie pie - try the album 'The High Road' - magnificent stuff. As for BF's solo stuff - The Bride Stripped Bare is pretty good.

[Jerome]

And 'Avalon' is a masterclass in using reverb creatively in the studio without screwing it up.

[CRAZY-HORSE]

I just found my post for Avalon, seems I do like it afterall...
but I either love of dislike the tracks on it overall...
INXS are another band whose album tracks I either love or loathe...
heres my rating of Avalon:

worst track: tara
best track: to turn you on

tracks:

1. more than this ***
2. the space between *
3. avalon ***
4. india *
5. while my heart is still beating ***
6. the main thing **
7. take a chance with me ***
8. to turn you on ***
9. true to life *
10.tara *

3s=5
2s=1
1s=4

rating: 2.1

[Music Head]

her 6th and most recent effort
went to #1 here but still the weakest selling of her career
the only one of hers I have and I should have more
but I never cared for that Smooth Operator thing

title track from this one and a nice video too

[video=youtube;IR5_rTCi-Bo]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IR5_rTCi-Bo[/video]

[CRAZY-HORSE]

I never cared for Sade...
Her Smooth Operator song and the album Diamond Life from 1984 was over killed that year and I still haven't got over it

[Music Head]

B-52's front man
and that's pretty much how this sounds
this is his only solo album
never charted here

the only cover on the album
punk version of Nilsson's Coconut

[video=youtube;U5HPnR9b_nU]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U5HPnR9b_nU[/video]

[CRAZY-HORSE]

I was never a fan of B52s...
I like Roam & Love Shack though...
The Fred album never charted here neither...

That said John & Yoke loved them, thought they were the best thing they'd heard in years.

[CRAZY-HORSE]

BRANDON FLOWERS "flamingo" cd, 2010

solo career stats:
studio albums............2
singles......................7

this album.........................#8 US...#1 UK.....#5 AU....#9 CAN
singles:
"crossfire".....................................#8 UK...#46 AU...#70 CAN
"only the young".........................#143 UK
"jilted lovers and broken hearts"....no chart action

first solo album from The Killers' frontman....
not a bad album....
nowhere near ar rock orientated as the music of his band...
still its uptempo, but more pop than rock/alt-rock....
nothing on here I love and nothing I dislike, just a steady album of okay material

I LIKE THIS ALBUM

worst track: playing with fire
best track: welcome to fabulous las vegas

[video=youtube;1HWoQdXe2O8]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1HWoQdXe2O8[/video]

tracks:

1...welcome to fabulous las vegas **
2...only the young **
3...hard enough **
4...kilted lovers and broken hearts **
5...playing with fire **
6...was it something I said **
7...Magdalena **
8...crossfire **
9...on the floor **
10.swallow it **

3s=0
2s=11
1s=0

rating: 2.0

[CRAZY-HORSE]

ALEX LLOYD "distant light" cd, 2003

career stats:
studio albums...........6
singles....................26

this album....................#9 AU
singles:
"coming home"............#24 AU
"1000 miles"...............#32 AU
"beautiful"..................#30 AU
"hello,the end"........................#146 UK

Alex's third album as a solo artist....
musically its in the same vein as "watching angels mend"....
light pop tunes,catchy melody's,but not as many as the angels album...
still, a good album....

I LIKE THIS ALBUM

worst track: this is a call
best track: coming home

[video=youtube;CAFpjl_0BPk]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CAFpjl_0BPk[/video]

tracks:

1...hello, the end **
2...distant light **
3...coming home ***
4...far away **
5...1000 miles ***
6...save my soul **
7...ordinary boy **
8...beautiful ***
9...this is a call *
10.chasing the sun **
11.light is on **
12.what's wrong? **
13.america **

3s=3
2s=9
1s=1

rating: 2.1

[Music Head]

catchy album title
this is their third album making it all the more mysterious
Irish band that topped the chart in the homeland, #2 UK and a #13 here
this was the lead single

[video=youtube;mk48xRzuNvA]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mk48xRzuNvA[/video]