Violator for me! I can still remember queuing outside tower records in NYC to get my copy 
Wow, over 30 years ago.
Black Celebration gives it a good run though … both shall be played forthwith.
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Joe Sample The Hunter / 1986 MCA / Japan CD No OBI / 32XD410
Joe Sample Keyboards
Abraham Laboriel, Marcus Miller Bass
Bob Wilson, Steve Gadd Drums
David Spinozza, Dean Parks, Phil Upchurch Guitar
Paulinho Da Costa Percussion
Bill Reichenbach, Chuck Findley, D!ck Hyde, Ernie Watts, Jerry Hey, Larry Williams Horns
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Esbjörn Svensson Trio - Good Morning Susie Soho
Sunlight flittering in as branches blow in the wind outside. Coffee.
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Patti Austin. Every Home Should Have One. 1981 CD.
This is a full on Quincy Jones production. Half the songs written by Rod Temperton and most of the session guys are the usual suspects. It mostly sounds like a Michael Jackson album sung by Austin, and the songs are good and contains the US number one hit she did with James Ingram. Makes you realise how much of the Michael Jackson sound was Quincy.
- Patti Austin – lead and backing vocals (all tracks), vocal arrangements (4, 7-9), BGV arrangements (5)
- James Ingram – backing vocals (1, 5), lead vocals (5), BGV arrangements (5)
- Greg Phillinganes – keyboards (1-3, 5, 6, 9), synthesizers (1-7, 10), synthesizer solo (2, 6)
- Michael Boddicker – synthesizers (1, 2, 5-10), rhythm and synthesizer arrangements (9)
- David Foster – synthesizers (1, 5, 6)
- Rod Temperton – rhythm arrangements (1, 2, 5-7), synthesizer arrangements (1, 2, 5, 6), vocal arrangements (1-6, 8), synthesizers (2, 5, 10)
- Richard Tee – acoustic piano (3), keyboards (4), Fender Rhodes (7, 8, 10)
- Bob James – synthesizers (3, 4, 8, 10), acoustic piano (10)
- Steve Lukather – guitar (1, 3-6, 9), acoustic guitar (2), electric guitar (2)
- Eric Gale – guitar (4, 7, 8, 10)
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Tommy McCook on Alpha Boys School Radio, Kingston JA. A nice find on the Muso QB.
Yellowman now…Nobody Move Nobody Gets Hurt
You have to imagine the riddim, obviously!
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Grace Jones - Inside Story. One of the first batch of CDs I bought when I returned to the UK. The highlight back then was that it was a fully digital album (DDD). I played it a lot back then but after many years - decades? - of having set it aside, I’ve been playing this a few times this last couple of weeks.
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More Quincy. Vinyl 1981. The variety within my Music Collection baffles even me sometimes. It’s good Pop/Soul/R&B whatever it is. Quincy with some famous mates.
Edited list below.
- Quincy Jones – Producer (all tracks), Vocal Arrangements (1-4, 7), Rhythm Arrangements (1, 3, 4, 8), Synth Arrangements (1, 4, 6), Backing Vocals (2)
- Patti Austin – Lead Vocals (4-6, 9), Backing Vocals (1-6, 9), Vocal Arrangements (1)
- Michael Boddicker – Voice Synthesizer (2)
- Chuck Findley – Trumpet (1, 3, 5-7, 9)
- David Foster – Electric & Acoustic Piano (3)
- Jim Gilstrap – Backing Vocals (1, 2, 5)
- Herbie Hancock – Electric Piano (1, 5, 6, 9)
- James Ingram – Lead Vocals (2, 3, 7), Backing Vocals (2)
- Michael Jackson – Backing Vocals (2)
- Steve Lukather – Guitar (1, 3-7, 9), Guitar Solo (1, 6)
- Greg Phillinganes – Synthesizer (1, 3-6, 8, 9), Electric Piano (2-4, 7-9), Handclaps (1, 4), Synthesizer Solo (7)
- Rod Temperton – Rhythm & Vocal Arrangements (2, 5, 6, 9), Synth Arrangements
- Stevie Wonder – Synthesizer (2, 4), Rhythm Arrangements (4)
- Syreeta Wright – Backing Vocals (2)
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Yes Andy. Must dig that out again and my favourite Reflections in a mud puddle.
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A bit of immense heavy. Good album, must get a vinyl copy one of these days.
I like playing this coupled with Isis’ wonderful Oceanic
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Is it really that long ago - now I feel old!
Must say though and please don’t take offence but Black Celebration isn’t my favourite - in fact I’d say that BC and Speak & Spell are my least favourite of all Depeche Mode albums - plus their latest stuff! I also only got to see them live fairly recently and I’ve got to say I was rather underwhelmed! Seen their older live DVD’s and was expecting more!
Ah well…
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Lucy Ward - Single Flame, on CD. Lucy’s often ethereal voice carries all before it. While classified as folk, this is simply great songwriting & music IMHO. It’s far from the tappy, tappy tambourine stuff.
If you like female vocal as a genre and want to expand your horizons, I’d suggest listening to this/other Lucy content.
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