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Aug 11, 2022
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I forgot to mention NIN Year Zero. Take a look at that album's marketing campaign (Wikipedia?) if you want to go down a real rabbit hole. Guerrilla marketing that started during the previous years tour - hidden messages on tour shirts, flash drives with strange fragmentary mp3s left in venues, obscure websites with surreal content. The entire backstory is cool as well
Hell yeah! My favorite NIN album by far. I picked it up on vinyl so soon after it had come out that I wasn't familiar with any of the songs. Trent sure knows how to close an album, too -- those last three songs are just *chef's kiss*.
 
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"Cupid & Psyche 85" by Scritti Politti.


It's not necessarily my favorite album of all time, but when I'm in the mood, I'll put it on the turntable and just grin and bop my head for the full 39 minutes. It's so 80's, slick yet full of jarring Fairlight sample work (J.J. Jeczalik is on a track or two.) Every track made me go "WTF?" the first time I heard it, now I can't pick a favorite.

Okay, that's a lie -- it's "Small Talk". All the chittering percussion and sequenced synth parts are like bright flashing lights, a delight for this ADHD brain.

Is it a concept album? Sure, it uses a slick commercial sound to raise class consciousness and explore the relationship between text and meaning. Tale as old as time, really... puffy
 
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Hiatt is a national treasure. My two favorite of his are Perfectly Good Guitar and Walk On. He was at the height of his powers during the period he made those two imo.
John Hiatt is my favorite artist. Those two albums are great examples of John in his prime. I would add Slow Turning and Crossing Muddy Waters. I saw him perform several times during this period. With a band and solo with just a guitar. Amazing performance every time.
 

brian64

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John Hiatt is my favorite artist. Those two albums are great examples of John in his prime. I would add Slow Turning and Crossing Muddy Waters. I saw him perform several times during this period. With a band and solo with just a guitar. Amazing performance every time.

Definitely agree ST and CMW are great albums too.

I also saw him on both tours for PGG and Walk On...great shows with full band both times.
 
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SmokingInTheWind

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Definitely agree ST and CMW are great albums too.

I also saw him on both tours for PGG and Walk On...great shows with full band both times.

I put on the Perfectly Good Guitar CD this afternoon while the wife prepared dinner. It had her dancing around the kitchen 😍

When we had dogs , if I played Bring the Family, as soon as Thank You Girl started to play, our dog Zack would wiggle up to my wife and jump up and she would hold his front paws and they would dance. It was the cutest thing. He would do it every time. It was their song.
 
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Lees65GTO

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“Crosby, Stills & Nash” (1969) and Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young – “Déjà vu” (1970).
I would put on my head phones and listen to these albums for hours.

Connie Francis - “Connie Francis Sings Modern Italian Hits” (1962)
I especially liked Al di là, I could not get enough of that song.

“Encore of Golden Hits” and “More Encore of Golden Hits” - The Platters (1960)

I still have these vinyls I bought back in the 60’s and 70’s.

And any album Slow Hand plays or sings on.
 

Sig

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Most Pink Floyd albums.
Most Ozzy.
Tom Waits- Raindogs
Black Sabbath- Paranoid
Supersuckers- How The Supersuckers Became The Grestest Rock And Roll Band In The World.

And every hair band album ever made.....Cinderella, Slayer, Poison, Def Leppard, Faster Pussycat, Quiet Riot......and especially Motley Crue!

In 1982 my buddy Billy and I were first in line for Motley Crues debut album, "Too Fast For Love" at the Record Giant in Jamestown NY.
We were 11 years old and decked out from head to toe in denim...aka, Canadian Tuxedo. :)
 
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