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juli 21, 2025

P. Lion - Springtime (1984) (vinyl Lp) - €10,00

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P. Lion (Pietro Paolo Pelandi, born on 29/06/1959 in Alzano Lombardo - Italy) is a composer and author launched in dance music market during the Eighties.
P. Lion's achieved international fame with his two hits "Happy Children" (1983, produced by Davide Zambelli of the band Scotch). 
P. Lion's first album Springtime was released in 1984. He contributed significantly to its realization, writing music and lyrics for all the songs, working on the arrangements with Zambelli and Walter Verdi, co-producing and playing keyboards.

Although he made just one album in the 80's, P. Lion (P. Pelandi) is an iconic symbol of the italo disco scene, especially for his wonderful "Happy Children" song. 
This new deluxe edition comes with the 8 original tracks, plus the single versions of Happy Children and Dream and three remixes. 
Although "Happy Children" and "Dream" are excellent songs and stand the test of time, the rest of the album seems like it was made in a rush. 
Of course the other songs included here are nice and enjoyable (especially Springtime and Kings Of The Night) but there's nothing quite brilliant like Happy Children. Still, i do believe that every dedicated italo disco fan must own P. Lion's Dreamtime as a souvenir from the golden age of this much beloved music. 


Side one
1.  Dream - 6:03  
2.  Springtime - 5:38  
3.  Sweet Children - 1:54  
4.  Happy Children - 5:40  

Side two
1.  Reggae Radio - 4:47  
2.  Kings Of The Night - 5:22  
3.  A Song For You - 5:03  
4.  Rubber Game - 3:46


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Release:  1984
Format:  LP, Vinyl
Genre:   Italo-disco
Label:  Carrere
Catalog#  66164

Vinyl:  Goed (VG)
Cover:  Goed (VG)

Prijs: €10,00

Quarterflash - Back Into Blue (1985) (vinyl Lp) - €10,00

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Back into Blue is the third studio album by American pop rock band Quarterflash, released in 1985. 
It peaked at No. 150 on the U.S. charts. Two commercial singles were released from the album, "Talk to Me" and "Walking on Ice".

Back into Blue has Quarterflash sounding less like a rock band and more like a synth-driven dance club quartet, which makes only a couple of the tracks hook-worthy before the rest of the album comes off as predictable and tiresome. 
"Walking on Ice" is a charged little number with a hard thrust, making smart use of the keyboards, while "Back into Blue" is a friendly sounding love song that highlights Rindy Ross' seductive vocals. 
Even "Caught in the Rain" displays an attempt at tightening up the songwriting after the unsuccessful release of 1983's Take Another Picture. 
But after these three tracks, the album ceases to rise out of the conventional pop doldrums, with Ross and her husband sounding like they want to stay young forever. 
Thinly played out efforts like "Talk to Me," "Love Without a Net," and "Welcome to the City" center the band in pop limbo, without any of the riffs or spirited saxophone rides that made their first release a success. 
Not knowing whether to take the '80s pop route or the more mature-sounding adult contemporary path, Back into Blue ends up foreshadowing the fact that this would be their last album and that a breakup was pending. 


Side one
1.  Walking On Ice - 3:46
2.  Caught In The Rain - 4:54
3.  Back Into Blue - 4:26
4.  Talk To Me - 4:58
5.  I Want To Believe It’s You - 3:49

Side two
1.  Love Without A Net (You Keep Falling) - 4:07
2.  Come To Me - 3:21
3.  Grace Under Fire - 5:28
4.  Just For You - 4:57
5.  Welcome To The City - 4:12


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Notes
Release:  1985
Format:  LP, Vinyl
Genre:  Pop Rock
Label:  Geffen Records ‎
Catalog#  GEF 26650

Vinyl:  Goed (VG)
Cover:  Goed (VG)

Prijs: €10,00

juli 19, 2025

Kenny Rogers - Share Your Love (1981) (vinyl Lp) - €10,00

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Share Your Love is a studio album by country singer Kenny Rogers, released in 1981. 
Produced by Lionel Richie, it is also Rogers' first with Liberty Records besides his Greatest Hits album. The album has sold nine million copies worldwide.
Rogers recorded portions of the album at Concorde Recording Center, where he had recorded his single "Lady", and purchased the recording studio in May 1981, before the album was completed. 
He later re-named the studio Lion Share Studios.

Country meets R&B by the way of Pop. Country and Soul music share a long and often interacting history, but by the early 80s, both niche genres were watered down so much that their biggest crossover stars were not too far apart in sound. 
This is why this album makes sense as Lionel Richie produced all of it after Kenny just hit big with Lionel's "Lady". 
It also makes sense that Kenny scored bigger on the Adult Contemporary than on the Country charts at this time. He finally said goodbye to his old production and recording team and recorded this album in Lionel's comfort zone in L.A., far from Nashville. 
The result is not only one of Kenny's best solo albums, but one of the best crossover attempts that ended both commercially and artistically satisfying. Four out of these ten songs were huge crossover hits.

From the cheery uptempo opener of "Blaze of Glory" or the catchy "So in Love With" (which could have been another hit) to the ballads, this is an album of mostly love songs rather than story songs which made The Gambler such a classic. 
However next to being a first class storyteller, Kenny is fortunately also one of the greatest crooners in Pop music and a master of easy seduction music. 
The distinct growl (probably inspired by Conway Twitty) and 'man next door'-persona from his story-songs give ballads like "I Don't Need You" (might be my favorite Kenny song) or "Through the Years" that special extra. 
The centerpiece might be the title track, something of a Country-Soul standard which both cross-genre pioneers Charlie Rich and Bobby Bland recorded before - so it makes sense that it would finally become a hit now that the times are ready for it. 
Those who think Kenny is giving in to mediocrity and abandons the Country traditions clearly haven't heard the version of the drinking lament "Makes Me Wonder If I Ever Said Goodbye" written by his friend Mickey Newbury or the desperado road-song "Goin' Back to Alabama" (where he is supported by Michael Jackson and Gladys Knight on background vocals) - he can still tell a good story! 
The lighthearted closer "Grey Beard" was written by Kenny himself, a narrative set in the old west reminiscent of "The Devil Went Down to Georgia".

At the time of this writing, Lionel just released the "Country" album Tuskegee, which is basically a 'Greatest Hits' re-recorded with contemporary Country stars. 
In the promotion process he often claimed how he always has been Country and how his songs are basically Country songs. 
That this is not a farce he showed with songs like "Three Times a Lady" (a Country hit for Conway Twitty) or "Easy", but his understanding for the genre and how its appeal can be extended to audiences outside of the limits, he showed with his tremendous production effort. 
Instead of watering Kenny down, he captured his strength at his most appealing. 
Although it is almost more a Pop album, today it sounds more Country than current Country radio hits or Lionel's new album which has that new Country sound. 
Country music is not necessarily the instrumentation or the twang, but mostly its magic lies in the value of a simple and powerful song of which there are ten pieces included here.

Four singles were released from this Share Your Love. "I Don't Need You", the title cut "Share Your Love With Me". 
Rogers then took a break to release a single from his first Christmas album. "Blaze of Glory", which featured Kin Vassy on backing vocals, was also released as a single. 
 Although it was a lesser hit than the first two singles, it still made the top ten. The final single, "Through The Years", returned Rogers to the very top by putting him at No. 1 the Adult Contemporary charts once again.


Side one
1.  Blaze Of Glory - 2:37  
2.  I Don’t Need You - 3:27  
3.  The Good Life - 2:47  
4.  Makes Me Wonder If I Ever Said Goodbye - 2:29  
5.  Through The Years - 4:48  

Side two
1.  Share Your Love With Me - 3:19  
2.  So In Love With You - 4:17  
3.  Goin’ Back To Alabama - 4:30  
4.  Without You In My Live - 5:04  
5.  Grey Beard - 2:36 


Musicians


Backing vocalists
  • Track 1: Kin Vassy, Terry Williams, Gene Marford
  • Track 2: Terry Williams, Kin Vassy, Cindy Fee, Juanice Charmain
  • Track 3: Deborah Thomas, Kin Vassy, Terry Williams, Cindy Fee
  • Track 4: Kin Vassy, Terry Williams, Cindy Fee
  • Track 5: none
  • Track 6: Gladys Knight & the Pips (Gladys Knight, William Guest, Merald "Bubba" Knight, Edward Patten), Lionel Richie
  • Track 7: Lionel Richie, Terry Williams, Cindy Fee
  • Track 8: Lionel Richie, Michael Jackson
  • Track 9: Kin Vassy, Terry Williams, Deborah Thomas, Brooks Hunnicut
  • Track 10: Lionel Richie, Terry Williams, Dorothy Sugarloaf

Technical
  • Reginald Dozier – recording and mixing engineer
  • Larry Ferguson – second engineer
  • Bernie Grundman – mastering at Capitol Studios (Hollywood, CA).
  • Michael Mancini – second engineer
  • Brenda Harvey-Richie – assistant production
  • Lionel Richie – producer
  • Kenny Rogers – mixing engineer

Additional credits
  • Bill Burks – art direction, design
  • Roy R. Guzman – design
  • Ken Kragen – management
  • Gary Register – photography

Notes
Release: 1981
Format:  LP, Vinyl
Genre:  Country, Soul
Label:  Liberty
Catalog#  1A 062-400020

Vinyl:  Goed (VG)
Cover:  Goed (VG)

Prijs: €10,00

Superjones - Superjones (1980) (vinyl Lp) - €10,00

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Superjones is een rockgroep uit Utrecht die wordt opgericht in 1978. 
Een jaar later verschijnt een eerste single, "Neon light". 
Inderdaad een soort van powerpop/poprock zoals dat in die jaren zoveel gemaakt werd.
Met uitwaaierende gitaarakkoordjes, soms een fretloze bas,dikwijls een wat Eagles-achtige samenzang en veelal uptempo. En geen toetsen.

Over het algemeen lekker in het gehoor liggende nummers en nergens moeilijkdoenerij.
Van die wielen die iedere keer weer opnieuw worden uitgevonden. 
Heeft ook wel wat weg van Vitesse.
De single "Neon Lights" haalde in februari 1980 de tipparade en hoort tot de beste nummers net als "Time" en "Roadie" en "I Gotta Go" (waar ietwat funk en soul in is te horen). Mooiste nummer is het enige rustige nummer en dat is "The Night".
"C.D.S." staat voor Computer Dating Service (was er toen blijkbaar ook al).

Het vertrek in 1981 van Hans Boosman naar Het Goede Doel en Steven Wienjus, eerst naar de Ferdy Lancee Band en later ook naar Het Goede Doel, betekent het einde van de rockgroep Superjones.
Geert Jan Westenbrink vertrekt naar Ratata, de begeleidingsband van Jan_Rot. 


Side A
1.  Welcome - 3:18
2.  Neon Light - 3:49
3  C.D.S. - 3:20
4.  Time - 4:38
5.  Trouble Shooter - 4:24

Side B
1.  What's Coming - 3:19
2.  Roadie - 3:49
3.  Hold Me - 3:20
4.  The Night - 4:05
5.  I Gotta Go - 3:24


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Notes
Release:  1980
Format:  LP, Vinyl
Genre:  Pop
Label:  Harvest Records
Catalog#  1A 062 26452

Vinyl:  Goed (VG)
Cover:  Goed (VG)

Prijs: 10,00

december 20, 2024

Eric Carmen - Eric Carmen (1984) (vinyl Lp) - €7,00

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Eric Carmen is the fifth album by rock and roll musician Eric Carmen. It was also his second self-titled LP after the 1975 album of the same name.
The album spent ten weeks on the U.S. Billboard album charts and reached its peak position of #128 in early March 1985. 
It contained one Top 40 hit single, "I Wanna Hear It from Your Lips," which peaked at #35 on the Billboard Hot 100 in the same month. 
The song was also a medium adult contemporary hit in both the United States (#10) and Canada (#17). 
 "Spotlight" was featured as the B side of the 45 RPM."I'm Through With Love" was a minor follow-up hit in the U.S., reaching #87 on Billboard.

Eric Carmen's second self-titled album (his first came in 1975 ) sinks deep into the love-song quagmire without any attempts at freeing itself. 
Scoring a Top 40 hit with the sultry, bedroom essence of "I Wanna Hear It From Your Lips," Carmen took his lush romanticism to extremes, combing each track with gentle, tender lyrics that equal that of what Air Supply or Bread hold in their repertoire. 
Songs like "She Remembered" and "Come Back to My Love" are average relationship-gone-awry type of ballads best saved for a rainy night, while "American as Apple Pie" resuscitates the album for a brief moment with its sweetened rock charm. 
Although it was his first album after signing with Geffen, it only went as high as number 128 on the charts, with the second single, "I'm Through With Love," peaking at number 87. 
Three years after Eric Carmen was released, he showed that could bustle things up a bit with "Hungry Eyes" from the Dirty Dancing soundtrack, the song that gave him his first Top Ten single of the decade.


Side A
1. I Wanna Hear It From Your Lips - 3:12  
2. I'm Through With Love - 4:00  
3. American As Apple Pie - 3:46  
4. Living Without Your Love - 4:02  
5. Come Back To My Love - 3:36  

Side B
1. She Remembered - 4:28  
2. You Took Me All The Way - 3:34  
3. Maybe My Baby - 3:38  
4. Spotlight - 4:10  
5. The Way We Used To Be - 3:16  


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Credits

Notes
Release:  1984
Format:  LP
Genre:  Soft Rock
Label:  Geffen Records
Catalog#  GEF 26056
Prijs:  €5,99

Vinyl:  Goed (G)
Cover:  Goed (G)

Prijs: €6,00

september 29, 2024

Bob Dylan - Slow Train Coming (1979) (LP) - €10,00

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Slow Train Coming is the nineteenth studio album by American singer-songwriter Bob Dylan, released on August 20, 1979, by Columbia Records. 
 It was Dylan's first album following his conversion to Christianity, and the songs either express personal faith, or stress the importance of Christian teachings and philosophy. 
The evangelical nature of the record alienated many of Dylan's existing fans; at the same time, many Christians were drawn into his fan base. Slow Train Coming was listed at No. 16 in the 2001 book CCM Presents: The 100 Greatest Albums in Christian Music.
The album was generally well-reviewed by music critics, and the single "Gotta Serve Somebody" became his first hit in three years, winning Dylan the inaugural Grammy Award for Best Male Rock Vocal Performance in 1980. The album peaked at No. 2 on the charts in the UK and went platinum in the US, where it reached No. 3. 
Dylan first heard Mark Knopfler when assistant and engineer Arthur Rosato played him the Dire Straits single "Sultans of Swing". Later, on March 29, 1979, Dylan caught the final show of a Dire Straits' residency at the Roxy in Los Angeles, California. 

Dylan approached Knopfler after the show, asking the guitarist to participate on his next album. Knopfler agreed, unaware of the religious nature of the material that awaited him.
Dylan also approached Jerry Wexler to produce the upcoming sessions. "What he wanted", Wexler told interviewer Ted Fox, "was more of a tailored, big funk sound, which he didn't have on his records. He wanted a little more precision, a little more musical input. 
It was something he felt was time." According to Wexler, it was his, not Dylan's, initiative to bring in Knopfler: that was "the innovative part of it...Instead of going with the regular Muscle Shoals section, I changed it a little bit." 
Studio recording had become much more complex during the 1970s, and after his struggles recording the large ensemble performances of Street-Legal, Dylan was resolute in hiring an experienced producer he could trust. 
He was familiar with Wexler's celebrated work with Aretha Franklin, Wilson Pickett, Percy Sledge, Dusty Springfield, and other soul artists. "Synonymous with a small studio in Sheffield, Alabama, the sixties Atlantic recordings of Wexler defined the Muscle Shoals Sound," writes Clinton Heylin. Like Knopfler, when Wexler agreed to produce, he was unaware of the nature of the material that awaited him.
"Naturally, I wanted to do the album in Muscle Shoals—as Bob did—but we decided to prep it in L.A., where Bob lived," recalls Wexler. 
"That's when I learned what the songs were about: born-again Christians in the old corral ... I liked the irony of Bob coming to me, the Wandering Jew, to get the Jesus feel ... [But] I had no idea he was on this born-again Christian trip until he started to evangelize me. I said, 'Bob, you're dealing with a sixty-two-year-old confirmed Jewish atheist. I'm hopeless. Let's just make an album.'"
Knopfler voiced his concerns to his manager, Ed Bicknell, remarking that "all these songs are about God," but he was also impressed with Dylan's professionalism. "Bob and I ran down a lot of those songs beforehand," recalls Knopfler.
 "And they might be in a very different form when he's just hittin' the piano, and maybe I'd make suggestions about the tempo or whatever. Or I'd say, 'What about a twelve-string?'"

When sessions were held in Alabama, Dylan retained only two members from his 1978 touring band: Helena Springs and Carolyn Dennis, both background singers. Veteran bassist Tim Drummond was hired, as was Dire Straits' drummer Pick Withers on Knopfler's recommendation. Keyboardist Barry Beckett and the Muscle Shoals Horns, both key elements of the celebrated Muscle Shoals Sound, were also brought in.”

The first session was held on April 30; it proved to be very difficult. Much of the day was dedicated to recording "Trouble in Mind," a song that was ultimately left off Slow Train Coming. Wexler criticized Dylan for unnecessarily vocalizing while Dylan refused to wear headphones, adamant that they pursue a more 'live' sound even though overdubs on the 24-track recordings were virtually expected.
"Bob began playing and singing along with the musicians," recalls Wexler.
 "We were in the first stages of building rhythm arrangements; it was too soon for him to sing, but he sang on every take anyway. I finally persuaded him to hold off on the vocals until later, when the arrangements were in shape and the players could place their licks around—not against—Bob."
As the sessions wore on, Wexler's techniques seemed more accommodating. 
Once arrangements were set, Dylan could focus on recording a strong vocal track while subsequent overdubs would fill in the gaps. As Heylin describes it, the basic tracks with "lead vocals intact [were] laid down before Dylan's boredom threshold was reached. 
Adding and redoing bass parts, acoustic and electric guitars, background vocals, horns, organ, electric piano, and percussion would require their own set of sessions, but by then Dylan could be an interested observer." For "Precious Angel", bass, guitar, organ, and horns would all be overdubbed a week after recording the master take. "No Man Righteous (Not No One)" (ultimately left off Slow Train Coming) was constructed in similar fashion.
As Heylin notes, Dylan also broke from his "usual practice of recording songs without running them down for the musicians." 
"Bob might run it down on piano or guitar, just singing and playing the background until we had a rough shape in our minds; then the Muscle Shoals band would start to play it," recalls Wexler. "As soon as it sounded right, Bob and the girls would start to sing." 
Unlike his previous album sessions, Slow Train Coming sessions would run smoothly and efficiently after a slow start. 
The basic tracks for the remaining ten songs were recorded in just six three-hour sessions over a period of three days. The first takes of "I Believe in You" and "Gonna Change My Way of Thinking" would become the basic tracks for the masters.
The final song recorded was "When He Returns". Its role as the album's closer was already decided, but Dylan planned on having Springs or Dennis sing the lead vocal. After recording a guide vocal, backed by Beckett on piano, he reconsidered. 
As Heylin suggested, Beckett's "strident accompaniment made him think again." Dylan practiced singing "When He Returns" overnight before laying down eight vocal takes over Beckett's original piano track. The final take, described by Heylin as "perhaps Dylan's strongest studio vocal since 'Visions of Johanna'," was selected as the master.
Wexler convinced Dylan to overdub new vocals for "Gonna Change My Way of Thinking" and "When You Gonna Wake Up?", but otherwise the overdubbing sessions held the following week focused on instrumental overdubbing. 


Side A
A1.  Gotta Serve Somebody  ( 5:22)
A2.  Precious Angel   (6:27)
A3.  I Believe in You   (5:02)
A4.  Slow Train   (5:55)

Side B
B1.  Gonna Change My Way of Thinking   (5:25)
B2.  Do Right to Me Baby (Do Unto Others)   (3:50)
B3.  When You Gonna Wake Up   (5:25)
B4.  Man Gave Names to All the Animals   (4:23)
B5.  When He Returns   (4:30)

All tracks are written by Bob Dylan


Personnel

Technical personnel
  • Barry Beckett – production
  • Harrison Calloway – arrangement
  • Gregg Hamm – engineering
  • Bobby Hatta – original mastering engineering
  • Wm. Stetz — cover concept/design
  • Jerry Wexler – production
  • Paul Wexler – original mastering supervision
  • David Yates – assistant engineering
  • Catherine Kanner – album cover artist

Notes
Release:  August 20, 1979
Recorded:  April 30 – May 11, 1979
Format:  LP, Vinyl
Genre:  Rock
Label:  CBS Records
Catalog#  86095

Vinyl:  Goed (VG)
Cover:  Goed (VG)

Prijs: €10,00

Jennifer Holliday - Say You Love Me (1985) (LP) - €10,00

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Jennifer Yvette Holliday (born October 19, 1960) is an American singer and actress. 
She started her career on Broadway in musicals such as Dreamgirls (1981–83), Your Arms Too Short to Box with God (1980–1981) and later became a successful recording artist. 
She is best known for her debut single, the Dreamgirls number and rhythm-and-blues/pop hit, "And I Am Telling You I'm Not Going", for which she won a Grammy in 1983. She also won a 1982 Tony Award for Dreamgirls. 

Back in 1985, Jennifer Holliday released her sophomore album on Geffen Records entitled "Say You, Love Me." While the album would only boast two singles, the title track "Say You, Love Me" is one of those slow smooth jam instant classics that just warrants a listen or two. 
Say You Love Me is the second studio album by American singer Jennifer Holliday released on vinyl and cassette. 
It was released by Geffen Records. In 1985, two singles were released from the album. The singles were "Hard Time for Lovers" and "No Frills Love". Michael Jackson co-wrote and produced the album's opener "You're The One." The album charted at #110 on the Billboard 200 and #34 at the Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums.



Side A
A1.  You’re The One - 4:35  
A2.  What Kind Of Love Is This - 4:25  
A3.  No Frills Love - 3:56  
A4.  Hard Times For Lovers - 5:05  
A5.  Say You Love Me - 5:53  

Side B
B1.  I Rest My Case - 3:58  
B2.  Dreams Never Die - 4:04  
B3.  Just A Matter Of Time - 4:39  
B4.  He’s A Pretender - 4:06  
B5.  Come Sunday - 5:45


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Credits

Notes
Release:  1985
Format:  LP, Vinyl
Genre:  Soul
Label:  Geffen Records
Catalog#  GEF 26564

Vinyl:  Goed (VG)
Cover:  Goed (VG)

Prijs: €10,00

september 28, 2024

10cc - Windows In The Jungle (1983) (LP) - €10,00

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Windows in the Jungle is the ninth studio album by British rock band 10cc, released in 1983.

The album became a return to the roots for 10cc as all the songs on the album were written together by Eric Stewart and Graham Gouldman, some of which were extended pieces with complex arrangements ("24 Hours", "Taxi! Taxi!", "The Secret Life of Henry"), reminiscent of the "Une Nuit a Paris" and "Feel the Benefit" from the earlier albums, and based on the unifying concept of love and life in the city.

The album also continued the formula established by the previous 10cc album Ten Out of 10 for which the band consisted of Eric Stewart and Graham Gouldman with other musicians taking part as session players, however again featuring long-time 10cc collaborators Rick Fenn and Stuart Tosh along with recent addition of Vic Emerson to the live lineup. However, the album marked the absence of Paul Burgess for the first time since 1977 Deceptive Bends.

Windows in the Jungle was recorded in Strawberry Studios North, the first time 10cc recorded the album entirely there since 1976 How Dare You! as Strawberry Studios South was occupied at the beginning of the recording by The Moody Blues for the recording of The Present.

Eric Stewart recalled that the finished album did not meet his initial expectations:

"Windows started as a concept album and I'm sorry I didn't pursue that goal, the pressure for the hit single always got in the way with 10cc albums.

I longed to be like Pink Floyd and just go for large musical statements like "One Night in Paris" and "Feel the Benefit", but we were locked onto the singles roundabout, the 'quick buck', and it was impossible to break free at the time. The album was not really very successful, 10cc wise, anywhere in the rest of the world really, but in terms of sales today it was a minor hit."

The album turned out to be the last for 10cc for nine years, as well as their final album for Mercury Records and final to be recorded in their own Strawberry Studios. It was also the final studio album to feature musicians from the lineup formed during the making of Bloody Tourists (1978) (except for the brief appearance of Rick Fenn on Mirror Mirror). 



Side A
A1.  24 Hours - 8:05  
A2.  Oomachasaooma (Feel The Love) - 5:08  
A3.  Yes I Am - 6:01  
A4.  Americana Panorama - 3:40  

Side B
B1.  City Lights - 3:35  
B2.  Food For Thought - 3:32  
B3.  Working Girls - 4:25  
B4.  Taxi Taxi - 7:42 

All songs written by Eric Stewart and Graham Gouldman. 


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Credits

Notes
Release:  1983
Recorded: October 1982 – May 1983 Studio Strawberry Studios (Stockport, England)
Format:  LP, Vinyl
Genre:  Pop, Art Rock
Label:  Phonogram Records
Catalog#  814007-1

Vinyl:  Goed (VG)
Cover:  Goed (VG)

Prijs: €10,00

september 27, 2024

The League Unlimited Orchestra - Love And Dancing (1982) - €15,00

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Love and Dancing is a remix album by English synth-pop band The Human League, released in July 1982 by Virgin Records. 
Issued under the band name "The League Unlimited Orchestra" as a nod to Barry White's disco-era Love Unlimited Orchestra, the album was principally the idea and work of producer Martin Rushent and contains dub-style, largely instrumental remixes of songs from the band's multi-platinum selling album Dare (1981), along with a version of the track "Hard Times", which had originally been the B-side of the single "Love Action (I Believe in Love)". 
Rushent was inspired by hip hop turntablist Grandmaster Flash and created Love and Dancing on a mixing board. He created vocal effects by cutting up portions of the Dare tape and manually gluing them together. In total, over 2,600 edits feature on the album.
Upon release, Love and Dancing was able to take advantage of the huge success of Dare and also work as a stopgap while the Human League worked on new material. The album received both mixed and positive reviews from music critics and was a commercial success, reached number three in the UK Albums Chart and later being certified Platinum by the BPI. 
Today, the album is regarded as among the earliest remix albums ever released and has proven influential. 

Synth-pop band The Human League's third album Dare (1981), produced by Martin Rushent, reached number one on the UK Albums Chart, and has retrospectively been considered one of the era's defining albums, ranking in critics' lists of the greatest albums of the 1980s and sometimes of all time.
Dare also found success in the United States, partly because of New York-based black radio stations airing music from the album. 
The record's synth bass and Linn Electronics drum machine beats paralleled the electro funk music that had gained popularity on New York stations like Kiss, where according to writer Simon Reynolds, "tracks were undergoing radical remixing and be montaged into seamless segues that lasted half an hour or more."Rushent was already aware of the potential of remixing, having embedded a "dub-like spaciousness" to Human League tracks in parts where the instrumentation drops out.

The producer had been listening to hip hop DJ Grandmaster Flash and played his music to front man Phil Oakey, who also enjoyed it.
After seeing the DJ in New York, Rushent felt he could recreate his scratching style with tape scrubbing. 
With this in mind, he suggested creating a dub remix of the second single from Dare, "Love Action (I Believe in Love)", by chopping the song up and adding effects. 
This would allow Virgin Records to release it on the B-side of the single, as the label was eager to rush-release singles from Dare, leaving the Human League and Rushent without time to record new B-sides.Besides the "Love Action" remix, the producer ultimately created three or four other similar dub remixes to other songs from Dare. 
Further inspired by the music he would hear in clubs across New York, he ultimately proposed to the Human League that he create an instrumental remix album of Dare, hoping that it would exemplify his production skills and "establish a new benchmark for electronic dance pop."

Nonetheless, both the band and Virgin Records originally relented against the idea of the remix album, not wanting to pay for or release it. 
Rushent had to fight their opposition in order to create the album. Oakey remained unsure about the project and left Rushent to make the release on his own. 
Neil Mason of Louder Than War wrote that "Cruel", an instrumental version of "I Don't Depend on You" (a 1979 single released by The Human League under the alternative name The Men) that was released as that single's B-side, laid the formula that would ultimately lead to Love and Dancing.

Love and Dancing is sometimes viewed as a stopgap in the Human League's discography, released to keep the band in the public profile while the band recorded new material. Band member Jo Callis has disputed this, saying: "I think that was going to happen anyway. 
Soft Cell had done something similar around that time releasing a remixed album. Martin Rushent had this concept about remixing, taking a track apart and putting it back together. 
It was a new idea and concept and it seemed a good idea to everybody to try it out. So the concept of the Love and Dancing would have happened regardless."


Side A
A1.  Hard Times - 5:40
A2.  Love Action (I Believe In You) - 5:12
A3.  Don’t You Want Me - 7:18

Side B
B1.  Things That Dreams Are Made Of - 5:10
B2.  Do Or Die - 4:36
B3.  Seconds - 2:25
B4.  Open Your Heart - 2:35
B5.  The Sound Of The Crowd - 2:55


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Credits

This album contains instrumental versions of previously released songs by The Human League


Notes
Release:  1982
Format:  LP, Vinyl
Genre:  Synth-pop, Electronic
Label:  Virgin Records
Catalog# 204696

Vinyl:  Goed (VG)
Cover:  Goed (VG)

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