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Jason Maloney reviews
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Sting: The Dream of the Blue Turtles (A&M)In which The Police's mainman, freed from the attendant creative shackles of a globe-conquering rock band, sought to express himself through a set of songs covering everything from the Cold War (Russians), the Miner's Strike (We Work The Black Seam), the 11th Century Crusades (The Children's Crusade), vampires (Moon Over Bourbon Street) and, er, jazz-flavoured instrumentals about blue turtles. Plenty of pretentious-sounding guff accompanied the album's sleevenotes; on all of his first three solo outings Sting felt the need to painstakingly reveal the inspiration behind each track and the genesis of the albums themselves. Despite some critical flak, The Dream Of The Blue Turtles proved a unqualified success - Top 3 in the UK, Top 10 in the US - and spawned a large handful of modest hit singles, including the expert pop of If You Love Somebody (Set Them Free) and the joyous calypso of Love Is The Seventh Wave. He even found it in himself to poke fun at his Police days with the latter's coda of "Every Leg You Break, Every Cake You Bake". A brief and rather disastrous attempt to patch things up with messrs Copeland and Summers in 1986 aside, Sting the Solo Artist was born. |
Marillion: Misplaced Childhood (EMI)With their third album, ridiculed neo-progsters Marillion reached new commercial heights courtesy of romantic ballds Kayleigh and Lavender. The former defied the band's previous chart form by reaching #2 on the UK Singles Top 40, paving the way for Misplaced Childhood to debut at #1 on a competitive week. While both 1983's Script For A Jester's Tear and 1984's Fugazi had gone top 10, neither produced a genuine hit single. Lavender's subsequent Top 5 success in August helped to keep its parent album in the higher regions for the rest of 1985. |
Talking Heads: Little Creatures (EMI)The Heads' debut studio set for EMI eventually became the biggest of their career, but it got off to a sluggish start. Little Creatures' #10 peak only came after The Road To Nowhere became a smash hit at the end of the year, followed by And She Was in early 1986. Although the band's reputation was at a high after Jonathan Demme's groundbreaking Stop Making Sense concert film in 1984, the new album's introductory single The Lady Don't Mind flopped badly and Little Creatures originally debuted at #21. Twelve months later, however, it was still on the UK album chart and on course for a 65-week residency in total. |
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark: Crush (Virgin)OMD's sixth record enjoyed contrasting fortunes on each side of the Atlantic, becoming the band's breakthrough album in America as well as the first to fall short of the UK Top 10 since Andy McCluskey and Paul Humphreys' debut reached #27 in March 1980. Housed in a sleeve that paid homage to the work of iconic American artist Edward Hopper, Crush had a slicker sound than previous OMD albums - first single So In Love cracked the Billboard Top 40 and paved the way for Bratpack film-maker John Hughes' invitation to write the main song for his next movie Pretty In Pink. In Britain, the album charted at #13 and the trio of singles lifted from Crush met with indifference; So In Love's peak of #27 bettering those of Secret (#34) and La Femme Accident (#42). (DVDfever Dom adds: This CD is now discontinued, so the cover link points to their excellent 'Best Of' from the early 90s.) |
R.E.M.: Fables of the Reconstruction (IRS)Between 1983 and 1988, R.E.M. would release an album every year; their 1985 effort saw them still hovering on the fringes, the universal acclaim afforded them by the UK music press and US College Radio alike not yet transferring itself into significant sales. Fables Of The Reconstruction came after 1984's Reckoning had put them on the rock map, and would be followed by another near-miss in Life's Rich Pageant a year later before the big-time came calling with Document in 1987. |
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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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