Candle Of Life

The Moody Blues***Candle O Life... An ingenious body of work. Music that spans time, in an eternal path forward.

The melding of minor & major chord progressions is magnetic in attraction; Later coupled with the songwriting & vocal skills of Justin Hayward & John Lodge...*

A wonderful, eclectic & melodic band...But Alas...What Do I Know Anyway...*

Robert Palmer-Live In Tokyo

You Are In My System***The example of a great song being transferred into a brilliant one, as if by magic. Not Really. Unless you're Robert Palmer.

The magnetic flair of an artist, who shines in the night time canopy of a super nova. Performed so effortlessly, like the brush of the canvas upon the audio-sonic palette...*

Adam Ant

Wonderful***Cycles go round & round. Yet some of us are Romantic quite a lot of the time. Appearances aside, I feel that this is Mr. Ant's greatest song.

Not so much the vision as the music; Talks for itself...*

Rollins Band

Fool***A powerful catharses, meets the juggernaut of music, the positive enigma, Mr. Henry Rollins.

This cut molds a hark rock overtone, with a wonderful minor chord augmentation, which haunts one with the blues. Listening to Rollins Band is sonic candy to the ear.

Each lyric diary, purveys a mood of infinite variety. The more one might try to utilize words to describe the particular mood & atmosphere of the music; The more the music will confound the critic into the endless futility of artistic description...*

In The Name Of Love

Thompson Twins***Captured live in Liverpool, I should have been there. A magic melding of melody & a unique sense of design.

Indeed a diverse body of genres that mix the old & morphs the new. Not to be confused inside the comings & goings of the first -[new wave] 0f bands that jumped back & forfth across the big pond of the pacific...*

Look Through Any Window

The Hollies***So many good songs, a treasure chest full of them. Their charting data is a wallop of sound & beauty in diversity, with a dash of Manchester thrown into the mix.

Behind mood swings in style & members, to nuance & ambiance, one is lead to the equation that their work at times [Beatles] twinged, or otherwise, was a lot to take in & a gleeming of prism like colors, in their layered vocal harmonies, which contour a mind-boggling audio-sonic shape...*

Björk Guðmundsdóttir

Army Of Me***To label, impossible. To deny, an endless glowing entity. From the Baritone growls of a Leopard, to the high morph of an angel.

Lyrically sublime yet dense. Multi-dimensional persona, within a cocoon of effervescence, doth a butterfly reveal that which cannot be explained, nor denied. An eclectic magnetizing otherworldly chanteuse of love, within eternity. But What Do I Know Anyway..*

Across The Universe

John Lennon authored***Ms. Apple crafts a noticeable cover, of a tune that hit me via the words & concept of the the creator...Mr. Lennon.

It's impossible to comprehend this song as to its soul; Yet the vocal ambiance of Ms. Apples' voice draws me into the cut deeper & further still. Very baffling indeed...*

Don't You Want Me

Human League***This was a smash at the time & still holds its potency; The time passage hasn't created a sharp wave that was.

The New Is Old...The OLd Is New..Surf the wild one...Grab A Sheer Slice...The wave is there***

Split Enz

Poor Boy***Many a live performance did I attend the brothers Finn shows in Los Angeles. Perhaps on some levels, New Zealand's answer to the Fab Four, if you use your imagination, & the audio atmospherics. [Nice laquered effect on the viny]-1980 album release.

Chemical alteration of ones mind in those times for me, was a sheer enhancement of the art-sonics of their style. Typically a stupid & regressed comment on my part. In the morning, last nights theatricks had worn off, but the performance was still fresh & clearly entertaining.

Being around the original new wave onslaught of the late seventies through about the mid eighties or so...was a grand time for music expansion of many colors & varieties.

In hindsight, it appears to me a slight creative friction between the brothers Finn. The elder Mr. Finn, more of a performance artist & vocalist of sorts. But in further mental contrasts of arrangement & such, I realized that I was a strong fan of Neil's(the younger of the two brothers)-melodic song constructions.

This realization hit hard a few years later, after hearing a song called [Don't Dream It's Over]-by Neil Finn's :Crowded House:...I was never the same after that. Tis to me, One of the best individual cuts, that I think I have ever heard. Godspeed...then to all you gentlemen...*

Can't Get Used To Losing You

Andy Williams***Gee...This is a great song. A dash of positive melancholy; Is that an oxymoron ?

He has a nice smooth voice no ? Perhaps it's just the harmonic vox arrangement. I can't say I'm a fan per say, but this little tune is a gem...*