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’83 To The Bone: November, December, Top 10
November Sad Lovers & Giants-Feeding The Flame This is a pretty great post punk record. Lots of cool, jangly, shimmering guitar lines and really strong bass riffs. It should be spoken about in the same breath as records like Ocean Rain. I think I’m going to check out some of their other records. Charly Garcia-Clics…
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’83 To The Bone: August, September, October
August Herbie Hancock-Future Shock Not really a jazz album, but also not really a hip hop album. It’s interesting as a curiosity, but it’s really bad. Even Rockit outstays its welcome. It’s astounding that the same mind behind Maiden Voyage and Sextant could be behind this. Billy Joel-An Innocent Man I get why some people…
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’83 To The Bone: May, June, July Albums
May Piper-Summer Breeze Sun on the skin, relaxing like life will last forever, drinking some pop, begging for winter to never come again. Piper’s Summer Breeze evokes these feeling perfectly in its ten breezy,funky tracks. A really consistent record, everything pieces together perfectly. Records like this makes all the digging worth it. The best city…
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’83 To The Bone: February, March, April Albums
Picking up where we left off, this next pack of albums has a lot of favorites, but also a lot of stuff I’m pretty indifferent about. February U2-War Spending a lot of my young adult life around punk scenes, I’ve always seen so much scorn for this band. On one hand I get it(How dare…
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’83 To The Bone: January Albums
As I progressed to talking about the albums I’ve heard from 1983, there was a question of how I would do it. To make it easier to sort, I’ve chosen to go in chronological order by month. Here’s some of the records I heard from January of ’83 and what I thought about them. Liquid…
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’83 To The Bone:Billboard Top 100 Part 5
And here we are. The last ten for the year. Let’s see how this all wraps up. 10.Eurythmics- Sweet Dreams(Are Made Of This) This was the break out year for The Eurythmics and they really hit the mark with this one. I never realized until now that the “violin” solo is really just another synth.…