Jethro Tull - Crest Of A Knave (1987)

Year: 11 September 1987 (CD 2005)
Label: Chrysalis Records (Europe), 7243 4 73413 2 8
Style: Blues Rock, Folk Rock, Progressive Rock
Country: Blackpool, Lancashire, England
Time: 55:35
Format: Flac Tracks 16/44,1 kHz
Size: 364 Mb

The album was recorded after a three-year hiatus caused by a throat infection of vocalist Ian Anderson, resulting in his changed singing style. Following the unsuccessful electronic rock album Under Wraps, Crest of a Knave had the band returning to a more hard rock sound. The album was their most successful since the 1970s and the band enjoyed a resurgence on radio broadcasts, appearances in MTV specials and the airing of music videos. It was also a critical success, winning the 1989 Grammy Award for Best Hard Rock/Metal Performance Vocal or Instrumental in what was widely viewed as an upset over the favorite, Metallica's ...And Justice for All.
The album relied more heavily on Martin Barre's electric guitar than the band had since the 1970s. The style of Crest has been compared to that of Dire Straits, in part because Anderson no longer had the vocal range he once possessed (the result of recent throat surgery).
Ian Anderson later stated about the musical style of the album: "'Steel Monkey' was based around a sequencer riff, and it didn't have any flute in it. So it was yet another atypical Jethro Tull song that was a radio hit. By comparison, both 'Farm On The Freeway' and 'Budapest' are very typical Tull songs. 'Budapest' is the kind of song I like to write because it embodies a lot of different nuances which I think are subtly joined together. It sort of moves from classical to slightly bluesy to folk, and it just slips between them and you don't see the stitching."
(en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crest_of_a_Knave)

01. Steel Monkey (03:37)
02. Farm On The Freeway (06:31)
03. Jump Start (04:55)
04. She Said She Was A Dancer (03:41)
05. Dogs In The Midwinter (04:29)
06. Budapest (10:05)
07. Mountain Men (06:21)
08. The Waking Edge (04:47)
09. Raising Steam (04:12)
10. Part Of The Machine (Bonus Track) (06:54)

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Supertramp - Free As A Bird (1987)

Year: 23 October 1987 (CD 1987)
Label: A&M Records (Germany), 395181-2
Style: Pop, Soft Rock
Country: London, England
Time: 44:11
Format: Flac Tracks 16/44,1 kHz
Size: 269 Mb

The album was a turn of direction of sorts, with most of the songs stepping back from their progressive rock sound, employing synthesised dance beats and rhythms. Chief songwriter Rick Davies later recalled, "Free as a Bird was an experiment to try and be modern and build it up with computers and drum machines and have people come in one by one, which makes you lose the band spirit a little bit."[4] In the liner notes to the 2005 compilation Retrospectacle, Davies said, "Each time we went in, we would try to give it something a bit different. Free as a Bird was a lot more machine-based than anything we'd done before. That was good and bad, but it had some interesting songs on it."
Free as a Bird was the first Supertramp album to feature contributions from guitarist/vocalist Mark Hart. He would later become a full-fledged member of the group, as would trumpet player Lee Thornburg.
The group disbanded after the tour in support of the album and would not reconvene until 1997. They did so without bassist Dougie Thomson.
(en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_as_a_Bird_(album))

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. It's Alright (05:00)
02. Not The Moment (04:37)
03. It Doesn't Matter (04:53)
04. Where I Stand (03:41)
05. Free As A Bird (04:22)
06. I'm Beggin' You (05:30)
07. You Never Can Tell With Friends (04:18)
08. Thing For You (03:59)
09. An Awful Thing To Waste (07:47)

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