Daryl Hall (Hall & Oates) & Robert Fripp (King Crimson) - Sacred Songs (1980)

Year: March 1980, Recorded: August 1977 (CD May 18, 1999)
Label: Buddha Records (US), 7446599604-2
Style: Rock, Progressive Rock, Pop Rock
Country: U.S. (October 11, 1946) / England (16 May 1946)
Time: 52:31
Format: Flac Tracks 16/44,1 kHz
Size: 356 Mb

Sacred Songs is the first solo album by American singer/songwriter Daryl Hall. It was produced by guitarist Robert Fripp, who also played on the album. Its chart debut was March 29, 1980.
The album was recorded in 1977, but RCA Records did not release it for three years. According to Nick Tosches, who wrote Dangerous Dances, the authorized biography of Hall & Oates, "RCA refused to release Sacred Songs on the grounds that it wasn't commercial" (p 85). When finally issued, the album sold well, but ultimately did not yield a hit single.
In the early 1970s, Hall had formed Hall & Oates, a partnership with guitarist/songwriter John Oates. They had produced several hit pop singles, but Hall had grown to feel artistically limited and in 1977 was much more concerned with expressing his own outlook on life and music than with making more hit songs.
Fripp had dissolved his group King Crimson in 1974, and after a sabbatical, returned to music with session work and other guest appearances.
According to the notes for the 1999 CD reissue of Sacred Songs, and to Eric Tamm's book-length study of Fripp's music, Hall and Fripp first met in 1974. Already familiar with one another's work, the duo felt an instant rapport, and planned to work together.
In 1977, Hall and Fripp reconnected while Hall was writing songs for his solo debut; Hall drafted Fripp as producer and guitarist. Hall wrote all the songs, except "Urban Landscape", (a 'Frippertronics' solo), and "NYCNY" for which Fripp wrote the music and Hall the lyrics, and which appeared also on Fripp's Exposure (1979) only with different lyrics as "I May Not Have Had Enough of Me but I've Had Enough of You".
Sacred Songs was recorded in a span of three weeks, with most of the songs initially recorded with Hall singing and playing piano alongside Fripp's guitar work, followed by overdubs by Hall & Oates' regular touring band. Hall insisted on working with his own band rather than with the Los Angeles session musicians who had played on Bigger Than Both of Us (1976), the previous fifth Hall & Oates album. Although the session players were uniformly excellent musicians, Hall felt their performances were hampered by a disconnectedness from the songs. The album was originally intended to be part of a loose trilogy of sorts with Peter Gabriel's 1978 second album and Fripp's Exposure (1979), all of which Fripp produced.
Besides Hall and Fripp, the backing band for the album consisted of bassist Kenny Passarelli, drummer Roger Pope, and guitarist Caleb Quaye, all of whom were then part of the second iteration of the Elton John Band, which had started recording and touring with John beginning in 1975.
(en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sacred_Songs)

01. Sacred Songs (03:18)
02. Something In 4/4 Time (04:26)
03. Babs and Babs (07:50)
04. Urban Landscape (02:23)
05. Nycny (04:35)
06. The Parther Away I Am (02:53)
07. Why Was It So Easy (05:31)
08. Don't Leave Me Alone With Her (06:25)
09. Survive (06:41)
10. Without Tears (02:54)
11. You Burn Me Up I'm A Cigarette (bonus track) (02:20)
12. North Star (bonus track) (03:10)

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The Joe Perry Project (Aerosmith) - Let The Music Do The Talking (1980)

Year: March 1980 (CD 1980 ????)
Label: CBS Records (US), CK 36388
Style: Hard Rock
Country: Lawrence, Massachusetts, U.S. (September 10, 1950)
Time: 38:04
Format: Flac Tracks 16/44,1 kHz
Size: 263 Mb

Let the Music Do the Talking is the first of three studio albums by The Joe Perry Project, released in 1980. It was the band's most successful, selling approximately 250,000 copies in the United States. The title track was later re-recorded in by Aerosmith on their 1985 reunion album Done With Mirrors, albeit with a slightly different melody and Steven Tyler-penned lyrics.
Fed up with the slow pace of the recording of Night in the Ruts and frustrated with the band's precarious financial situation, Perry left Aerosmith in the spring of 1979. He recruited Aerosmith's former producer Jack Douglas and chose Ralph Morman for lead singer, who Perry had previously heard performing in a band called Daddy Warbux. The group was rounded out by bassist David Hull and drummer Ronnie Stewart. "The contrast between the tortuous ordeal of recording Aerosmith and the seamless groove that characterized the Project was remarkable," Perry later recalled.
Considering Aerosmith's struggles, Columbia Records was initially hesitant to give Perry a solo deal, but he assured them he could turn in an album in "five or six weeks." In his 2014 autobiography Rocks, the guitarist states that the songs were largely autobiographical:
"Let the Music Do the Talking" – the title track – spoke for itself. It was just how I was feeling. I didn’t need to talk. Didn’t need to explain how much I wanted to be on my own timetable, free to work at my own speed, which was pretty fast. "Conflict of Interest" was inspired by my feelings about the shady side of the record business. I was going straight back to my roots, as demonstrated by the R&B-heavy "Rockin’ Train." Songs like "Life at a Glance" and "Ready on the Firing Line" were constructed around riffs that had been bouncing around my brain for months.
(en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Let_the_Music_Do_the_Talking)

Album recorded and mixed in the analog domain - AAD. That is, a minimum of digital processing.
A=Analog. D=digital. The first letter stands for how the music was recorded. The second letter for how it was mixed. The third letter stands for the format (all CD's will have D as the last letter).

01. Let The Music Do The Talking (04:42)
02. Conflict Of Interest (04:43)
03. Discount Dogs (03:42)
04. Shooting Star (03:39)
05. Break Song (02:06)
06. Rockin' Train (06:02)
07. The Mist Is Rising (06:30)
08. Ready On The Firing Line (03:54)
09. Life At A Glance (02:41)

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Rockpile (Dave Edmunds) - Seconds Of Pleasure [7 bonus tracks] (1980)

Year: October 1980 (CD April 27, 2004)
Label: Columbia Records, Legacy Recordings (US), CK 63983
Style: Power Pop, Rockabilly, Pub Rock
Country: Cardiff, Wales (15 April 1944)
Time: 54:17
Format: Flac Tracks 16/44,1 kHz
Size: 384 Mb

Seconds of Pleasure is a 1980 album by Rockpile, a band consisting of guitarists/vocalists Dave Edmunds and Billy Bremner, bassist/vocalist Nick Lowe, and drummer Terry Williams. The band had played together on various solo albums by Edmunds and Lowe in previous years, but Seconds of Pleasure would be the first (and only) album released under the Rockpile name.
The album's opening track, "Teacher, Teacher", became a minor hit on the Billboard Hot 100. The song was written by Kenny Pickett and Eddie Phillips, both of whom were former members of the 1960s British rock band The Creation. The song appears in the opening credits of the 2011 film, Bad Teacher.
"(Wrong Again) Let’s Face It” is a cover of the Squeeze song that was given away as a flexi-disc on the cover of the 4 October 1979 edition of Smash Hits.
A four-song EP, Nick Lowe & Dave Edmunds Sing the Everly Brothers, was included in the first pressings of the LP; the songs were later included on the album's various CD versions.
The front cover is a painting by the designer Barney Bubbles, who used pseudonyms and rarely signed his work. This is signed "Dag".
(en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seconds_of_Pleasure)

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Joni Mitchell - Shadows And Light [Live] (1980)

Year: September 1980 (CD 1990)
Label: Asylum Records (US), 704-2
Style: Soft Rock, Folk Rock, Jazz Fusion
Country: Fort Macleod, Alberta, Canada (November 7, 1943)
Time: 72:24
Format: Flac Tracks 16/44,1 kHz
Size: 343 Mb

Singer-songwriter Joni Mitchell, responsible for hit songs such as “Both Sides, Now” and “Big Yellow Taxi,” is widely considered 1960s and ’70s folk royalty.
Joni Mitchell Today: Folk Singer Performs at the 2024 Grammy Awards at Age 80. Prior to the 2024 Grammys, singer-songwriter Joni Mitchell was already a nine-time trophy winner. On February 4, the 80-year-old graced the Grammy stage to collect the award for Best Folk Album, then again in a career first: as a performer during the ceremony. Alongside musician Brandi Carlile, Mitchell sang her hit song “Both Sides, Now.” Mitchell has rarely performed in recent years. A 2015 brain aneurysm left her hospitalized for weeks, and she’s had to relearn to play guitar in addition to other basic motor functions, like walking. In a major feat along her recovery journey, Mitchell performed her first full-length concert in more than 20 years at the 2022 Newport Folk Festival. Her surprise set resulted in the live album At Newport, which won this year’s folk album category.
She recorded her first album in 1968 before finding commercial and critical success with Ladies of the Canyon, Blue, and Court and Spark, three albums from the early 1970s. Mitchell’s songs have been covered by the likes of Judy Collins and Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young, with her emotionally vulnerable lyrics influencing scores of musicians. Her impact on music has earned her induction into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame, Songwriters Hall of Fame, and the Gershwin Prize.
Singer-songwriter Joni Mitchell was born Roberta Joan Anderson on November 7, 1943, in Fort Macleod, Canada. Her famous last name mirrors that of her first husband, Chuck Mitchell.
At age 9, Joni contracted polio, and it was during her recovery in the hospital that she began performing and singing to patients. After teaching herself how to play the guitar, she went off to art college and quickly emerged as one of the leading folk performers of the late 1960s and ’70s.
(full version: biography.com/musicians/joni-mitchell)

01. Introduction (01:51)
02. In France They Kiss On Main Street (04:14)
03. Edith And The Kingpin (04:09)
04. Coyote (04:56)
05. Goodbye Pork Pie Hat (06:04)
06. The Dry Cleaner From Des Moines (04:33)
07. Amelia (06:39)
08. Pat's Solo (03:10)
09. Hejira (07:45)
10. Dreamland (04:38)
11. Band Introduction (00:50)
12. Furry Sings The Blues (05:04)
13. Why Do Fools Fall In Love (02:48)
14. Shadows And Light (05:24)
15. God Must Be A Boogie Man (05:03)
16. Woodstock (05:08)

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Black Sabbath - Live At Last [Live] (1973)

Year: Recorded 11-16 March 1973 (CD October 21, 1996)
Label: Teichiku Records (Japan), TECW-25319
Style: Hard Rock, Heavy Metal
Country: Birmingham, England
Time: 57:33
Format: Flac Tracks 16/44,1 kHz
Size: 392 Mb

Live at Last is a 1980 live album by English heavy metal band Black Sabbath. Despite its wide distribution and success (it peaked at No. 5 on the UK Albums Chart), the album was released without the permission or knowledge of the band, and is equivalent to an unofficial bootleg live album. The album was, however, released legally by the band's former manager Patrick Meehan who owned the rights to the recording. The nature of the album's initial release as being without the band's approval is demonstrated by a notoriously embarrassing goof in the original version, which falsely credited the singer as "Ossie Osbourne".
The release of Live at Last, combined with the 1982 release of Ozzy Osbourne's Speak of the Devil live album consisting entirely of Black Sabbath songs, prompted Black Sabbath to release their first official live album, 1982's Live Evil.
During the band's Volume 4 tour, the concerts held on 11 March 1973 at the Hardrock Concert Theatre in Manchester, and 16 March 1973 at the Rainbow Theatre in London, were recorded for use in a planned live album release, but the project was ultimately scrapped despite its plans being already promoted in UK newspaper articles. Despite the liner notes of a 1996 reissue of Live at Last stating the Manchester concert was held at the Free Trade Hall, this is easily proven incorrect when referencing historical documentation such as tour listings and ticket stubs.
The album has received a mixed to negative review from AllMusic, with critic Alex Henderson stating that he found the band "in decent form" but criticizing the shortness of the release and the absence of some of Black Sabbath's best known material such as "Iron Man" and their title track "Black Sabbath".
(en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Live_at_Last_(Black_Sabbath_album))

Year: Recorded 11-16 March 1973 (CD October 21, 1996)
Label: Teichiku Records (Japan), TECW-25319
Style: Hard Rock, Heavy Metal
Country: Birmingham, England
Time: 57:33
Format: Flac Tracks 16/44,1 kHz
Size: 392 Mb

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Jon (Yes) and Vangelis (Aphrodite's Child) - Short Stories (1980)

Year: January 1980 (CD 1983)
Label: PolyGram Records (Germany), 800 027-2
Style: Electronic, Art Rock
Country: Greece / United Kingdom
Time: 45:14
Format: Flac Tracks 16/44,1 kHz
Size: 211 Mb

Charts: UK #4, AUS #65, AUT #18, GER #30, NL #1, US #125, FRA #13, NOR #31. Netherlands: Gold, United Kingdom: Gold.
Review Summary: This is a very beautiful and magical album that came just in the right time. It shows the musical world of both musicians almost in a perfect way.
Jon & Vangelis was a musical project formed by the lead singer of Yes Jon Anderson and the famous Greek electronic pioneer musician Vangelis, in the 80’s. This wasn’t the first time the two had worked together. The first meeting between them took place in London, in the 70’s. Vangelis was to be the natural replacement for Rick Wakeman on the keyboards, in Yes, when he left the band after the release of their sixth studio album “Tales From Topographic Oceans”. It would never happen especially due to personal reasons of Vangelis. Meanwhile, the role went to the second choice, the Swiss keyboardist Patrick Moraz. Still, Jon Anderson has participated already, in the role of vocalist, on albums of Vangelis like “Heaven And Hell”, “See You Latter”, and played harp on the album “Opera Sauvage”, too.
So, “Short Stories” is the debut studio album of Jon Anderson and Vangelis Papathanassiou and was released in 1980. Jon Anderson was the author of the lyrics and performed all the vocals and the music was all composed by Vangelis Papathanassiou which also performed all the instruments, keyboards, synthesizers, piano and electronics. Beyond them, the album had also the participation of Raphael Preston on acoustic guitars, with some small contributions.
(Full version: sputnikmusic.com/review/78687/Jon-and-Vangelis-Short-Stories/)

01. Curious Electric (06:42)
02. Each And Everyday + Bird Son (05:08)
03. I Hear You Now (05:13)
04. The Road (04:31)
05. Far Away In Baagad (08:03)
06. Love Is + One More Time (06:18)
07. Thunder (02:14)
08. A Play Within A Play (07:02)

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