Updated July 21, 2008

The following is a listing and summary of one of my Music Library (ML) entries recorded since 1982. They are picked totally at random. Track number in bold and 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.

#143 recorded October 23, 1992

Trk #	Artist	Title	Album / CD	"500"
1	In The Nursery	Duality	Duality	--
2	Eden	Shallow Mists	Gateway To The Mysteries	--
3	Peter Gabriel	Blood Of Eden	Us	--
4	Mike Oldfield	Sentinel	Tubular Bells 2	--
5	Shriekback	Psycho Drift	Sacred City	--
6	Erasure	SOS	Abba-esque	--
7	Brian Eno	Ali Click	Nerve Net	--
8	Peter Gabriel	Secret World	Us	--
9	Maire Brennan	Beating Heart	Maire	--
10	Shriekback	Beatles Zebra Crossing	Sacred Ciy	--
11	Suzanne Vega	In Liverpool	99.9F	--
12	Erasure	Lay All Your Love On Me	Abba-esque	--
13	The House Of Love	High On Your Face	Babe Rainbow	--
14	Bill Nelson	Fires In The Sky	Blue Moons & Laughing Guitars	--
15	Maire Brennan	Against The Wind	Maire	--
16	Shriekback	Exquisite Corpse	Sacred City	--
17	Peter Gabriel	Love To Be Loved	Us	--
18	In The Nursery	Pulse	Duality	--
19	Swallow	Head In A Cave	Blow	--

#143 highlights

Tracks 3, 8, 17 "Blood Of Eden" .."Secret World" .. "Love To Be Loved" -- Peter Gabriel "Blood Of Eden" was the third single from Peter Gabriel's 1992 album, "Us." It featured Sinead O'Connor on backing vocals and the video. The song is about trying to work through a failing relationship by making love. In the video, Gabriel used the image of the Garden of Eden because it was a time when man and woman were in one body, a state they have been trying to get back to ever since. An earlier version of the song "Blood Of Eden" appears in the Wim Wenders film "Until the End of the World" before Peter Gabriel's album "Us" was released. However that version was never released on the soundtrack for the film or in any other form until the "Blood Of Eden" single where it appears as a b-side. The final track on the album, "Secret World" is also the name of his live album released in 1994 ("Secret World Live"). When Gabriel wrote "Secret World," he had divorced his wife Jill, and ended a turbulent relationship with actress Rosanna Arquette. "Love To Be Loved" features Caroline Lavelle, William Orbit and Brian Eno...     Tracks 6, 12 "SOS" .."Lay All Your Love On Me" -- Erasure Erasure is an English synth pop duo formed by songwriter and keyboardist Vince Clarke and singer Andy Bell in 1985. It was the third successful pop group co-formed by Clarke (Depeche Mode and Yazoo being the first two). They scored their first number-one on the UK singles chart with the release of the "Abba-esque" EP in 1992. Always big fans of the Swedish quartet ABBA, performing various songs in concert for years, Erasure released this four-song covers EP, which was originally intended as a full album. Many credit this EP release as a major catalyst for a revival of ABBA's music in the 1990s, which was further perpetuated with heavy emphasis on ABBA music in the motion pictures Muriel's Wedding and The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert, as well as the stage show, and now movie Mamma Mia! "SOS" was originally released by ABBA in 1975, with "Lay All Your Love On Me" six year later.     Track 11 "In Liverpool" -- Suzanne Vega "99.9F°" is an album by Suzanne Vega, released in 1992. It marked a significant departure for Vega, as she embraced a more electronic-influenced sound. It peaked at #86 on Billboard Magazine album charts, as well as two songs to their Modern Rock charts. It was the first Vega album produced by Mitchell Froom, whom she later married. As of March 2008, it is out of print in the United States. "In Liverpool" was the third single release from the album, and it peaked at No. 52 on the UK charts... In Liverpool On Sunday No traffic On the avenue The light is pale and thin Like you No sound, down In this part of town Except for the boy in the belfry He's crazy, he's throwing himself Down from the top of the tower Like a hunchback in heaven He's ringing the bells in the church For the last half an hour He sounds like he's missing something Or someone that he knows he can't Have now and if he isn't I certainly am Homesick for a clock That told the same time sometimes you made no sense to me if you lie on the ground in somebody's arms you'll probably swallow some of their history And the boy in the belfry He's crazy, he's throwing himself Down from the top of the tower Like a hunchback in heaven He's ringing the bells in the church For the last half an hour He sounds like he's missing something Or someone that he knows he can't Have now and if he isn't I certainly am I'll be the girl who sings for my supper You'll be the monk whose forehead is high He'll be the man who's already working Spreading a memory all through the sky In Liverpool On Sunday No reason to even remember you now Except for the boy in the belfry He's crazy, he's throwing himself Down from the top of the tower Like a hunchback in heaven He's ringing the bells in the church For the last half an hour He sounds like he's missing something Or someone that he knows he can't Have now and if he isn't I certainly am In Liverpool In Liverpool

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