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Post by jk on Sept 19, 2021 19:41:33 GMT
How could I forget, that the greatest movie soundtrack ever was released this year! The Soundtrack to “ A Clockwork Orange”. Beethoven as you have never heard it before! Had it on cassette tape. One that eventually broke, I played it so much! Agreed. That opening music is so right! Wendy Carlos's Moog-heavy take on Purcell's Funeral Music (not the remake in your video) seems to sum up the entire film, including the tragedy of it all, something the brief quote from the Dies Irae makes quite clear. In some ways, the film is all downhill after that... The original opening theme is notoriously difficult to find on YouTube. This may be the only example:
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Post by carllove on Sept 20, 2021 2:53:24 GMT
How could I forget, that the greatest movie soundtrack ever was released this year! The Soundtrack to “ A Clockwork Orange”. Beethoven as you have never heard it before! Had it on cassette tape. One that eventually broke, I played it so much! Agreed. That opening music is so right! Wendy Carlos's Moog-heavy take on Purcell's Funeral Music (not the remake in your video) seems to sum up the entire film, including the tragedy of it all, something the brief quote from the Dies Irae makes quite clear. In some ways, the film is all downhill after that... The original opening theme is notoriously difficult to find on YouTube. This may be the only example: That is just so wonderful! Thanks for finding this! I really appreciate it!
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Post by kds on Sept 20, 2021 13:48:29 GMT
In addition to the albums already mentioned, you had probably Deep Purple's most iconic album in Machine Head. The Alice Cooper Group released School's Out. Not their best album as a whole, but the title track is pretty legendary. Black Sabbath released what I think might be the best album from the original lineup in Vol. 4. Uriah Heep's Magician's Birthday is really good. Genesis put out Foxtrot, which includes the epic Supper's Ready.
And, I've brought this up in the Pink Floyd thread, but Pink Floyd released a soundtrack album called Obscured by Clouds. The album often gets overlooked just because they released so many great albums in the 1970s. Plus, they never really properly toured on the album, as in 1972, they debuted a new piece called Eclipse.
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Post by jk on Sept 20, 2021 17:24:36 GMT
In addition to the albums already mentioned, you had probably Deep Purple's most iconic album in Machine Head. The Alice Cooper Group released School's Out. Not their best album as a whole, but the title track is pretty legendary. Black Sabbath released what I think might be the best album from the original lineup in Vol. 4. Uriah Heep's Magician's Birthday is really good. Genesis put out Foxtrot, which includes the epic Supper's Ready. And, I've brought this up in the Pink Floyd thread, but Pink Floyd released a soundtrack album called Obscured by Clouds. The album often gets overlooked just because they released so many great albums in the 1970s. Plus, they never really properly toured on the album, as in 1972, they debuted a new piece called Eclipse. I have that album. In many ways, I prefer it and the More OST album to the rest, since here they were working to a plan drafted by others. It kept at bay the negative element that crept into many of their "own" albums of that decade. All a question of preference, of course...
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Post by kds on Sept 20, 2021 17:28:18 GMT
In addition to the albums already mentioned, you had probably Deep Purple's most iconic album in Machine Head. The Alice Cooper Group released School's Out. Not their best album as a whole, but the title track is pretty legendary. Black Sabbath released what I think might be the best album from the original lineup in Vol. 4. Uriah Heep's Magician's Birthday is really good. Genesis put out Foxtrot, which includes the epic Supper's Ready. And, I've brought this up in the Pink Floyd thread, but Pink Floyd released a soundtrack album called Obscured by Clouds. The album often gets overlooked just because they released so many great albums in the 1970s. Plus, they never really properly toured on the album, as in 1972, they debuted a new piece called Eclipse. I have that album. In many ways, I prefer it and the More OST album to the rest, since here they were working to a plan drafted by others. It kept at bay the negative element that crept into many of their "own" albums of that decade. All a question of preference, of course... I think I get what you're saying. Although, as much as I really like Obscured by Clouds, More is one of my least favorite Floyd albums. It does have a few good songs, but I think they were still trying to figure out what kind of band they were going to be post Syd Barrett, so it's a really disjointed affair. By Obscured by Clouds, Floyd had more or less found their footing, and the album feels far more cohesive.
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Post by jk on Sept 21, 2021 11:43:28 GMT
Well, 1972 was the year I moved out of my parents' place for good. Songs that remind me of that time that haven't been mentioned yet (?) include Holly Sherwood's "Day By Day" and The Chi-Lites' BB-esque "Have You Seen Her?" The song that best represents my slightly later move to London's Portobello Road area is "Silver Machine" by Hawkwind, whose bassist (and in this case singer) Lemmy frequented one of the pubs in that street. Other fave 45's? Slade's finest outing ("Mama Weer All Crazee Now"), Alice Cooper's "Elected" (I'd have voted for him) and a mellow single, "Sarah", by Thin Lizzy, one of the few acts I've seen twice. Albums not mentioned so far (?) that I love include Beefheart's The Spotlight Kid, the self-titled album by Manassas, ELP's Trilogy, Yes's Close To The Edge and Santana's magnificent Caravanserai (particularly side one).And here's the stunning closing track on side one, "All The Love Of The Universe", with at 1:38 the most blatant splice in the whole history of the splice. But there's also the insane moment at 4:58 when Carlos S (or is it Neal S?) hands over to Gregg R. But most of all, it's about the sensational bass lines of * Doug Rauch*, which at the time made you wonder if your ears were playing tricks on you: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caravanserai_(album)
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Post by Kapitan on Sept 23, 2021 12:57:02 GMT
As selected by sockit, we move to...
1983 (a merman I should turn to be).
No. Title Artist(s) 1 "Every Breath You Take" The Police 2 "Billie Jean" Michael Jackson 3 "Flashdance... What a Feeling" Irene Cara 4 "Down Under" Men at Work 5 "Beat It" Michael Jackson 6 "Total Eclipse of the Heart" Bonnie Tyler 7 "Maneater" Hall & Oates 8 "Baby, Come to Me" Patti Austin and James Ingram 9 "Maniac" Michael Sembello 10 "Sweet Dreams (Are Made of This)" Eurythmics 11 "Do You Really Want to Hurt Me" Culture Club 12 "You and I" Eddie Rabbitt and Crystal Gayle 13 "Come On Eileen" Dexys Midnight Runners 14 "Shame on the Moon" Bob Seger & The Silver Bullet Band 15 "She Works Hard for the Money" Donna Summer 16 "Never Gonna Let You Go" Sérgio Mendes 17 "Hungry Like the Wolf" Duran Duran 18 "Let's Dance" David Bowie 19 "Twilight Zone" Golden Earring 20 "I Know There's Something Going On" Frida 21 "Jeopardy" The Greg Kihn Band 22 "Electric Avenue" Eddy Grant 23 "She Blinded Me with Science" Thomas Dolby 24 "Africa" Toto 25 "Little Red Corvette" Prince
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Post by Kapitan on Sept 23, 2021 13:20:16 GMT
Holding the #1 spot in the albums charts were a few albums, but most of the year was dominated by a certain former child star...
Michael Jackson's Thriller was atop the charts for 22 weeks in 1983 (and the first 15 weeks of 1984).
Other albums that topped the charts that year:
The Police, Synchronicity (17 weeks)
Men At Work, Business As Usual (8 weeks) Lionel Ritchie, Can't Slow Down (3 weeks) Various Artists, Flashdance (soundtrack) (2 weeks) Quiet Riot, Metal Health (1 week)
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Post by jk on Sept 23, 2021 19:00:46 GMT
As selected by sockit, we move to...
1983 (a merman I should turn to be).
No. Title Artist(s) 1 "Every Breath You Take" The Police 2 "Billie Jean" Michael Jackson 3 "Flashdance... What a Feeling" Irene Cara 4 "Down Under" Men at Work 5 "Beat It" Michael Jackson 6 "Total Eclipse of the Heart" Bonnie Tyler 7 "Maneater" Hall & Oates 8 "Baby, Come to Me" Patti Austin and James Ingram 9 "Maniac" Michael Sembello 10 "Sweet Dreams (Are Made of This)" Eurythmics 11 "Do You Really Want to Hurt Me" Culture Club 12 "You and I" Eddie Rabbitt and Crystal Gayle 13 "Come On Eileen" Dexys Midnight Runners 14 "Shame on the Moon" Bob Seger & The Silver Bullet Band 15 "She Works Hard for the Money" Donna Summer 16 "Never Gonna Let You Go" Sérgio Mendes 17 "Hungry Like the Wolf" Duran Duran 18 "Let's Dance" David Bowie 19 "Twilight Zone" Golden Earring 20 "I Know There's Something Going On" Frida 21 "Jeopardy" The Greg Kihn Band 22 "Electric Avenue" Eddy Grant 23 "She Blinded Me with Science" Thomas Dolby 24 "Africa" Toto 25 "Little Red Corvette" Prince
Good call, sockit. Sixteen great songs there. (And "1999", if it dates from 1983.) I bought or otherwise acquired these 1983 albums at the time... Synchronicity ~ The Police Let's Dance ~ David Bowie The Crossing ~ Big Country ...bought these later... War ~ U2 Warriors ~ Gary Numan Power, Corruption and Lies ~ New Order ...and know and love this one from YouTube: Colour by Numbers ~ Culture Club Not to forget this beauty, David's "Am I Normal?", a question I often ask myself with no satisfactory answer as yet: meaninglessinsights.blogspot.com/2014/03/lost-80s-gems-1-am-i-normal-david.html
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Post by kds on Sept 23, 2021 19:07:11 GMT
I'll post more 1983 thoughts later, but JK's post above mentioned one album I wanted to mention.
U2 - War
In my humble opinion, this is the absolute peak of U2. I still don't really think it's a perfect album, but it's got a lot of great songs, and I think it's their best effort (and they had some very good ones in the 1980s)
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Post by Kapitan on Sept 23, 2021 19:09:27 GMT
Sixteen great songs there. (And "1999", if it dates from 1983.) The original release of the single was September 1982 (before the album), when it peaked at #44, but it was rereleased (apparently in Dec. '82) and peaked at #12 in 1983.
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Post by Kapitan on Sept 23, 2021 19:50:24 GMT
As for my memories of music from 1983, I can't really say for sure. I heard what I heard, which was my parents' music, my older siblings' music, and (as mentioned in the Prince thread) occasionally, my cousin's music, which I loved best of all. But in 1983 I was 6-7, and so I wasn't exactly conscious of the details. I could not tell you what I remember exactly from that year, and I certainly didn't buy anything. (My first real purchase with my own money was about four years off, from 1987, of two cassettes that I remember quite well. But that's for another year's discussion.)
Looking at the singles and albums that topped the Billboard charts, I am impressed by how strong a year it was. It's funny because during the '80s and '90s, I remember a lot of general hate for the '80s in the air. But so many of those songs would be hits again if they were released today. If anything, they are probably more relevant now than they were in, say, 1995.
I'll have to peruse my collection to really think about which albums, songs, and artists I want to call out in particular.
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Post by Sheriff John Stone on Sept 23, 2021 22:18:43 GMT
My only thoughts of 1983 are MTV, Michael Jackson, MTV, Michael Jackson, MTV, Michael Jackson - and a few news/TV clips of The Beach Boys with a significantly slimmer Brian Wilson.
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Post by sockit on Sept 23, 2021 22:59:47 GMT
Thanks for setting this up, Kapitan. You did the homework and everything, with the top singles and albums!
1983 was the year I graduated. My senior year had been a blast, and life just got better as I "took the summer off" and did a little minor travelling here and there. I was in no way college bound, so as summer wound up, I landed my first real job as a counter clerk in an auto parts store. Being a car nut at the time, this was an 18 year old's dream job. The memories of that entire year--along with the music--are still very vivid for me.
MTV was at its prime in '83. Any time I was home and not listening to my radio (with my cassette player, ready to hit RECORD when a good song came on) I had MTV blasting with all the cool videos. I got into all kinds of current music, including Europop and some of the New Wave stuff. Some of the artists I remember seeing/hearing regularly on MTV around that time were Billy Idol, Hall and Oates, U2 (their New Years Day video was my introduction to U2), The Police, and on and on the list goes.
Particular videos that stuck with me were ones like "Why Me"--Planet P Project, "The Politics of Dancing"--Re-Flex, "Major Tom Coming Home"--Peter Schilling, and "She's a Beauty"--The Tubes.
My radio listening consisted of pretty much the same music, although I would regularly bounce between a local pop station and a hard rock/metal station. On the harder end of things there were songs like "Street of Dreams"--Rainbow, "World of Fantasy"--Triumph, and just about anything from Def Leppard's Pyromania.
Which brings me to albums. Up until '83, I was still buying 45s (when I wasn't taping off the radio), but that changed when I "babysat" my older sister's album collection when she left home. One of the most current Lps she had was Pyromania, which I taped and played often, especially in my car. A friend loaned me The Police's Synchronicity which I also taped. I had been slow to warm up to The Police, having been completely turned off by "Da Doo Doo Doo" a few years before. But Synchronicity made me a fan to the point that the first actual rock Lp I ever bought was their previous Ghost in the Machine.
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Post by Kapitan on Sept 23, 2021 23:04:48 GMT
Thanks for setting this up, Kapitan. You did the homework and everything, with the top singles and albums! I've got to come clean, I just checked the wiki pages... But I do like doing that to help sort of set the stage.
By the way, your mentions of taping songs off the radio (or other people's albums) really hits home. I used to record songs off the radio all the time in the mid-late '80s. I'm sure it's funny to younger members, but on-demand streaming did not exist! If you wanted to hear a song, your options were a) buy it; b) wait by the radio for it to be played; c) hope your friends had it, I guess. Taping things off the radio was imperfect, but it was more or less all we could do short of buying everything.
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