Word: albums
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Like last year's Lodger album, Bowie serves up his techno-rock blend with great coolness and calculation here. Scary Monsters' atmosphere of brooding paranoia is constructed with meticulous care, emphasizing abrasive musical textures. Clattering percussion, slithering keyboards and piercing guitar (courtesy of Robert Fripp) surround Bowie's sometimes morose, sometimes hypertense vocals. Oddities, such as a Japanese translation of "It's No Game," are included just for the sake of bizarreness...
...Like a Baby" is an account of a government crackdown on undesirables told with emotion and immediacy. "They came down hard on the faggots/They came down hard on the street," Bowie sings, giving specifics in place of his usual vague insinuations. Set to sleek rock backing, it's the album's outstanding tune...
Looking sleepy, friendly and Englishman-pale alongside the beach-sunned office workers, Mark Knopfler, centrifugal force of Dire Straits, and bassist John Illsley are wandering the corridors of Warner Bros. Records in New York. They're on holiday from the making of Making Movies, their third album, recorded in a scant few weeks at Nassau's Compass Point studios. Coffee is thrust into their hands; radio stations phone incessantly, demanding over-the-phone interviews...
...There's difference in the rhythm now," songwriter Knopfler says of the album. "Pick (Withers, drummer) and John've become my favorite rhythm section. I don't feel I've come on like they have. There're few rhythm sections I like--Fred Smith and Willie Nile, maybe, and Tom Verlaine's Television, they're good. But we've got the same level now. It's a tightness in the sound and feel...
...straight-ahead tunes of their early years, like Listen to the Music, the Doobies have turned fancier, slicker and more synthetic. They were a good singles band that was tuned up and turned into a commercial phenomenon. Producer Ted Templeman did the tuning. When he produced the first Doobies album in 1971, the band was led by Founder Tom Johnston, a hang-tough rocker who wrote many of the group's first hits. Templeman gave the early records an uncluttered, unaffected sound. But as the group started to change, its producer changed with...