Tag: Gong
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Depeche Mode, Music For The Masses, 1987 on Mute / Sire
Depeche Mode’s sixth full length album and the follow up to Black Celebration, Music For The Masses was the first album where Alan Wilder took ownership of a lot of the production, though David Bascombe and Daniel Miller (of Mute) also get producer credit. It would be their last studio album of the 1980s, with…
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Paul Simon, The Rhythm of the Saints, 1990 on Warner Bros.
Simon’s 8th solo studio album, Rhythm of the Saints is one of my favorite Simon albums since Graceland. If the former drew on South African music, this was Simon’s collaboration with Brazillian musical traditions. Apparently the Rhythm of the Saints is a polyrhythm. My copy—via Lemezkuckó in Budapest Hungary—is a Hungarian pressing on Gong with…
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Pet Shop Boys, Actually, 1987 on Gong / Parlophone
Secodn studio LP from Chris Lowe and Neil Tennant aka Pet Shop Boys, released in 1987 on Parlophone in the UK and EMI America in the US. Wonderful collection of songs, including “Shopping” and “What Have I Done To Deserve This” as well as “It’s a Sin” which was a hit single. Production duties split…