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The following is a listing and summary of one of my Music Library entries recorded since 1982. They are picked totally at random. Track number in dark blue highlight indicates that the track appears on one of my "special" series ("Best Of".."Decade".."Year End" and/or "500")...If a track appears on my "500"..its ranking is shown on the far right column. |
Tangerine Dream Song Of The Whale (Part One: From
Dawn) Underwater
Sunlight Peter Gabriel Red Rain So De Film Turkish
Delight De Film The Moody Blues The Best Way To Travel In Search Of The Lost Chord a-ha Hunting High And
Low Hunting High And
Low Tangerine Dream Ride On The
Ray Underwater
Sunlight Genesis The Brazilian Invisible
Touch Thomas Dolby Cloudburst At Shingle
Street The Golden Age Of
Wireless The Smiths The Boy With The Thorn In His
Side The Queen Is Dead Tangerine Dream Song Of The Whale (Part Two: To
Dusk) Underwater Sunlight Peter Gabriel Mercy Street So Steve Winwood Higher Love Back In The High Life Roxy Music The Main Thing Avalon De Film Bitter Surprise De Film Pet Shop Boys Suburbia (video) Please Scritti Politti Hypnotize Cupid & Psyche 85 Peter Gabriel We Do What We're Told (Milgram's
37) So Tangerine Dream Scuba Scuba Underwater Sunlight
created June 29, 1986
Tracks 2, 11, 17 Above three tracks culled from So, the fifth studio album
(and seventh album overall) by British rock musician Peter
Gabriel, released in 1986. "Red Rain" was the first track on
the album. In the USA, it reached #3 on Billboard magazine's
Mainstream Rock Tracks chart. Stewart Copeland from The
Police played the hi-hat for the rain-like background sound;
the rest of the drumming was handled by Jerry Marotta. The
song is a combination of several inspirations. The lyrics
directly reference a recurring dream Gabriel was having
where he swam in his pool drinking cold red wine. Another
version of the dream had bottles falling from a cliff, and
the bottles were in the shape of people. When they were
smashed on the ground, the people-shaped bottles had red
liquid coming out, and then it began to rain the same red
liquid. According to the sleeve notes from the remastered
version of So, it is also a reference to acid rain. Based on
one interpretation of some of the lyrics it is also thought
to refer to nuclear fallout. "Mercy Street" is dedicated to poet Anne Sexton and takes
its title from her 1969 play, Mercy Street (Sexton also
posthumously released a book of poetry, 45 Mercy Street).
The title, "We Do What We're Told (Milgram's 37), refers to
the 37 out of 40 compliant subjects of Milgram Experiment
18. All of the above tracks were featured in episodes of the
TV series Miami Vice. So was Gabriel's first studio album to
bear an official title from its inception. Gabriel said in a
interview with Smash Hits in 1986 the title "doesn't mean
anything. We just liked the form of the word and the two
letters. That's all." ... Track 5 "Hunting High and Low" is a song by Norwegian new wave
band a-ha. It was released as the fourth international and
final single from the band's debut album, Hunting High and
Low. The song was released in the summer of 1986 and became
the third most successful single from Hunting High and Low
on the rock charts and one of the band's most recognizable
and popular songs. The song didn't chart on the Billboard
Hot 100, but charted in Britain where its peak was #5 and in
Ireland where it peaked at #4. The album version was
produced by Tony Mansfield and is played with synthesizers,
the single remix produced by Alan Tarney features an
orchestra. Coldplay has been known to perform this song in
concert, with a special nod to the band of their initial
inspiration. This was the last video from the band's debut
album which was directed by Steve Barron. The basic idea
behind the video is that love brings a man back in various
forms to be near the woman he loves... Track 12 "Higher Love" is a 1986 number-one hit song by Steve
Winwood. It was the first single released from his fourth
solo LP, Back in the High Life. It was written by Winwood
and Will Jennings, and produced by Russ Titelman and
Winwood. The female vocals on the song were performed by
Chaka Khan, who also appeared in the promotional music
video. "Higher Love" was Winwood's first Billboard Hot 100
number-one hit, topping the chart for one week. It was
preceded by Madonna's "Papa Don't Preach" and followed by
"Venus" by Bananarama. The song also spent four weeks atop
the US Billboard Album Rock Tracks chart. It peaked at
number 13 in the United Kingdom, his highest charting solo
hit there. It also earned two Grammy Awards for Record of
the Year and Best Male Pop Vocal Performance. The music
video was shot in June 1986 by directors Peter Kagan and
Paula Greif. The same duo shot an almost identical video for
Duran Duran's "Notorious" in November of that year;
coincidentally, both videos were nominated for several
awards at the 1987 MTV Video Music Awards. Neither
won...
highlights
"Red Rain" .. "Mercy
Street" .. "We Do What You're Told (Milgram's 37)"-- Peter
Gabriel
"Hunting High And Low" -- a-ha
"Higher Love" -- Steve Winwood
