STEVIE WONDER
JUDAS PRIEST
Stevie Wonder established an incredible precedent between 1971 and 1976,
releasing a slew of genre-blurring albums that include Talking Book, Music
of My Mind, and Fulfillingness’ First Finale. Wonder not only restores faith in
love, he includes smart political commentary, personal-is-political messages,
and empowering statements on records on which he served as producer
and primary performer. Add 1980’s reggae-splashed Hotter Than July to this
batch, and you’ll understand why Wonder is an absolute genius.
You’ve got another thing comin’! Distinguished by magnesium-burn guitars,
leather-tough percussion, molten-hot melodies, and the piercing falsetto of
operatic vocalist Rob Halford, Judas Priest defines British heavy metal on
1978’s Stained Class, the follow-up Killing Machine (a.k.a. Hell Bent for Leather),
and 1980’s Screaming for Vengeance. In the same way these platinum albums
remain incalculably influential touchstones on which precision-based speed,
mainstream accessibility, and hard-edged rebelliousness meet in triangular
equilibrium, the Silver Label LPs redefine the music’s power and reach.
Talking Book
Music of My Mind
Fulfillingness’
First Finale
Hotter Than July
Screaming for
Vengeance
Killing Machine
Stained Class
MORE FROM
The Seeds of Love
Songs from the Big Chair
Into the Labyrinth
Spiritchaser
TEARS FOR FEARS
DEAD CAN DANCE
Named after primal-scream theories, Tears for Fears turned raw feelings into
self-expressive songs etched with tenderness and directness, earnestness and
melancholy. The synthpop duo spins perfectionism into platinum on Songs
from the Big Chair and The Seeds of Love, distinguished with sumptuous
production that reportedly cost more than a million pounds to realize.
Just as Dead Can Dance are utterly distinctive, so too, are the world-fusion
group’s Into the Labyrinth and Spiritchaser. Intimate, textured, and deeply
spiritual, they are some the most gorgeous LPs you will ever hear. Anchored
by glossolalia vocals and kaleidoscopic arrangements, exotic soundscapes
mesmerize at every turn. Think of them as ethereal portals to lost cultures.
Floodland
First and Last and Always
Cargo
Business as Usual
THE SISTERS OF MERCY
MEN AT WORK
Towering, epic, grand: Floodland combines evocative spirituality, delicate
accents, and anthemic riffs with funky drum-machine beats and visceral
tension to yield music that dares listeners not to dance. Helmed by Meat
Loaf producer Jim Steinman, the monumental production relishes in
splendid dynamic contrasts and moody atmospherics. The 1987 LP and the
band’s 1985 debut, First and Last and Always, remain goth-rock milestones.
They came from the land down under. And they conquered the charts with
their Business as Usual debut that stayed for 15 consecutive weeks at the pole
position on the Billboard Top 100. Then they proved they weren’t a fad with
a hit, fun-loving follow-up, Cargo. They were Men at Work, a quirky bunch led
by Colin Hay, whose humor, style, and singing on these two LPs helped the
quintet become a consummate 1980s new-wave act.
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RICKY NELSON
BOBBY DARIN
KC AND THE SUNSHINE BAND
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