Word: albums
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...upstart San Francisco record company called Solid Smoke dusted off 18 Sheppards sides and made an album released this summer. While the record has not made the charts, it has delighted Sheppards buffs and ensured the group a rightful niche in rock history. The tunes are mostly sweet, short love songs delivered in two basic styles: what Singer O.C. ("Perk") Perkins calls "that good old gospel harmony"; and a harder, more sinewy sound that took gospel harmonies and made them sweat and work for a living, in the manner of Wilson Pickett. The Sheppards made these disparate approaches into their...
...occasionally. He works nights at a Chicago plating company, picks up extra money as a freelance deejay at parties. He likes to reminisce about the days when 5,000 kids in a Michigan City armory charged the stage when they heard Island of Love. Sometimes he plays the Sheppards album. His wife, his children, or his grandchildren will stop and listen to that impossibly sweet music from 20 years ago; someone will turn the television down low while Perk listens, and remembers a little more. -Jay Cocks
...wrestled with the exotic exigencies of John Cage. She met the attorneys and the accountants; she supervised the buying up of property in Palm Beach, Fla., Cold Spring Harbor, an exclusive enclave on Long Island, and in upstate New York. When the Lennons decided to make another album earlier this year, it was Ono who called Record Executive David Geffen and worked out the deal...
Monty Python's Contractual Obligation Album (Arista). The Pythons tear through assorted comedy sketches and raise their voices in songs of innocence and experience. Titles include Never Be Rude to an Arab, All Things Dull and Ugly, Farewell to John Denver and Sit on My Face. Ideal for Christmas caroling or breaking the lease...
Donna Summer: The Wanderer (Geffen/Warner Bros.). Donna Summer has ridden out disco, and she is just fine, thanks. This is her best album yet, with intricate melodies that sound like musical handstands and vocals that have the easy undulation of a water bed. The Wanderer is an informal concept album in which Summer's teasing sensuality is used as a point of departure. The album begins with a sexuality that is randy and raggedy at once, eases through various tales of love lost and remembered, and ends with a statement of faith and a hope for redemption. The range...