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Tears For Fears: Songs From the Big Chair (Mercury)Tears For Fears' second album became one of the biggest sellers of the decade, spent some 80 weeks on the UK charts and spawned two US #1 hits in the shape of Shout and Everybody Wants To Rule The World. The former, also a Top 5 single in Britain, arguably got the band's fortunes back on track after a difficult phase during which TFF struggled to follow the chart-topping success of March 1983's debut set The Hurting and its trio of smash hits Mad World, Change and Pale Shelter. Shout's immediate predecessor Mother's Talk (#14 in September 1984) had helped to set the scene for Songs From The Big Chair both sonically and conceptually, its video and B-side taking their cue from 70s TV Movie "Sybil" about a young woman with multiple personalities. A tougher, tighter sound characterised the album, the mixture between the intense (The Working Hour, I Believe, Broken) and the irresistibly commercial (Everybody Wants To Rule The World, Head Or Heels) close to absolute perfection. Phil Collins' No Jacket Required kept Songs From The Big Chair off the top spot in the UK, but their next album in 1989 would enter at #1. Drummer on that record's first track, Woman In Chains? Phil Collins. |
Don Henley: Building the Perfect Beast (Geffen)Released in late 1984 Stateside, Henley's second solo long-player included his finest ever song The Boys Of Summer (a #5 smash in America), another US Top 10 single (the caustic, uptempo All She Wants To Do Is Dance) and two other Billboard Top 40 hits (Not Enough Love In This World, covered by Cher in the 90s, and the magnificent Sunset Grill). Its UK success was modest by comparison but respectable enough, reaching the Top 20 and going Silver in the process. Sunset Grill was issued as the UK follow-up rather than All She Wants To Do Is Dance, Geffen's British arm clearly in the belief that the latter wasn't for the UK market. |
Killing Joke: Night Time (EG/Polydor)The apocolytpic post-Punk troopers had cracked the Top 20 Albums chart with Firedances in 1983, but until February 1985's epic Love Like Blood any meaningful Singles Top 40 action had eluded them. Night Time was issued as the single continued to climb towards its #16 peak, and very nearly made the Top 10. One of the album's songs returned to the spotlight in 1991 when Nirvana's Come As You Are appeared to bear a striking similarity to Night Time's closing track (and #46 flop single in early 1984) Eighties. |
Check the Album Archive database at: The Album Archive.com
The following is a list of Jason's Album Archives online for week ending:
Vol.21: September 12th 1988 (15/09/2005) Vol.20: June 30th 1986 (02/07/2005) Vol.19: June 25th 1984 (23/06/2005) Vol.18: June 17th 1985 (16/06/2005) Vol.17: June 04th 1979 (08/06/2005) Vol.16: May 30th 1983 (02/06/2005) Vol.15: May 22nd 1989 (26/05/2005) Vol.14: May 15th 1995 (20/05/2005) Vol.13: May 2nd 1988 (12/05/2005) Vol.12: April 26th 1982 (28/04/2005) Vol.11: April 17th 1990 (21/04/2005) Vol.10: April 13th 1987 (14/04/2005) Vol.9: April 8th 1991 (08/04/2005) Vol.8: March 31st 1986 (01/04/2005) Vol.7: March 14th 1988 (24/03/2005) Vol.6: March 5th 1984 (17/03/2005) Vol.5: February 28th 1983 (03/03/2005) Vol.4: February 25th 1985 (24/02/2005) Vol.3: February 9th 1981 (10/02/2005) Vol.2: February 2nd 1987 (03/02/2005) Vol.1: January 25th 1993 (25/01/2005)
And in chronological order:
June 04th 1979: Vol.17 (08/06/2005) February 9th 1981: Vol.3 (10/02/2005) April 26th 1982: Vol.12 (28/04/2005) February 28th 1983: Vol.5 (03/03/2005) May 30th 1983: Vol.16 (02/06/2005) March 5th 1984: Vol.6 (17/03/2005) June 25th 1984: Vol.19 (23/06/2005) February 25th 1985: Vol.4 (24/02/2005) June 17th 1985: Vol.18 (16/06/2005) March 31st 1986: Vol.8 (01/04/2005) June 30th 1986: Vol.20 (02/07/2005) February 2nd 1987: Vol.2 (03/02/2005) April 13th 1987: Vol.10 (14/04/2005) March 14th 1988: Vol.7 (24/03/2005) May 2nd 1988: Vol.13 (12/05/2005) September 12th 1988: Vol.21 (15/09/2005) May 22nd 1989: Vol.15 (26/05/2005) April 17th 1990: Vol.11 (21/04/2005) April 8th 1991: Vol.9 (08/04/2005) January 25th 1993: Vol.1 (25/01/2005) May 15th 1995: Vol.14 (20/05/2005)
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