Tag: Chrysalis
This was Sinéad’s debut album and is still just astonishingly great. The spoken word intro in gaelic by Enya before “Never Get Old” is Psalm 91: For He…
Tribute album full of covers of Nick Drake songs, by modern artists including: Fontaines D.C., David Gray, John Parish & Aldous Harding, Ben Harper, Joe Henry & Meshell…
In the UK, this was released on Two Tone, but in the US they were distributed by Chrysalis and issued on the Chrysalis label. Sleeve design credit to…
Spandau Ballet’s third album and major breakout – with Steve Norman on Sax adding to the New Romantic sound. The title single was unavoidable in the early 80s,…
So happy to see De La Soul’s catalog get reissued with quality new pressings. Three Feet High and Rising was one of my favorite hip hop albums of…
Kim Wilson, Jimmy Vaughan, Keith Ferguson, and Fran Christina, joined by the Roomful of Blues horn section. Produced by Denny Bruce, this was their third LP. I feel…
Pretty hard to ignore this LP if you were listening to the radio (or more accurately watching MTV which showed videos then) in the early 80s. I think…
Art of Noise, Re-Works of Art of Noise, 1987 on Chrysalis. Three extended tracks and three live versions from Hammersmith Odeon.
World Party, Bang!, 1993 on Chrysalis / Ensign. My copy is a 2021 reissue on Seaview Records which is reissuing the World Party catalog via Newbury Comics
Blondie, Autoamerican, 1980 on Chrysalis. Autocorrect wants to make Blondie into Oldie but I resist. Blondie”s fifth studio album, with The Tide Is High and Rapture Via Spinnaker…
The Waterboys, self-titled LP, 1986 on Chrysalis. In the UK, this came out in 1983 (on the Chicken Jazz label) , and was followed later by the 1984…
Ultravox, Vienna, 1980 on Chrysalis. My copy is a slightly later pressing when Columbia took over manufacturing and distribution for Chrysalis in 1983. Fourth LP for Ultravox, first…
Ultravox, Rage In Eden, 1981 on Chrysalis Fifth full length from Ultravox with Midge Ure , Billy Currie, Chris Cross, and Warren Cann. Cover bleeding by Peter Saville…
Laura Marling, song For Our Daughter, 2020 on Chrysalis / Partisan Records. Such a beautiful record that came out this summer. Marling’s seventh studio release, co-produced by Marling…
Blondie, Parallel Lines, 1978 on Chrysalis. Their third full length, with: Hanging On the Telephone, One Way Or Another, Heart of Glass. Via Academy Records