Brian Eno & David Byrne - My Life In The Bush Of Ghosts [7 bonus tracks] (1981)

Year: February 25, 1981 (CD Apr 11, 2006)
Label: Nonesuch Records (US), 79894-2
Style: Experimental, Electronic
Country: England / Scotland
Time: 59:54
Format: Flac Tracks 16/44,1 kHz
Size: 385 Mb

My Life in the Bush of Ghosts is the first collaborative studio album by Brian Eno and David Byrne, released in February 1981. It was Byrne's first album without his band Talking Heads. The album integrates sampled vocals and found sounds, African and Middle Eastern rhythms, and electronic music techniques. It was recorded before Eno and Byrne's work on Talking Heads' 1980 album Remain in Light, but problems clearing samples delayed its release by several months.
The album title is derived from Amos Tutuola's 1954 novel My Life in the Bush of Ghosts. According to Byrne's 2006 liner notes, neither he nor Eno had read the novel, but they felt the title "seemed to encapsulate what this record was about".
The extensive sampling on the album is considered innovative, though its influence on later sample-based music genres is debated. Pitchfork named it the 21st best album of the 1980s, while Slant Magazine named it the 83rd.
(en.wikipedia.org/wiki/My_Life_in_the_Bush_of_Ghosts_(album))

01. America Is Waiting (03:38)
02. Mea Culpa (04:57)
03. Regiment (04:11)
04. Help Me Somebody (04:17)
05. The Jezebel Spirit (04:56)
06. Very, Very Hungry (03:21)
07. Moonlight In Glory (04:30)
08. The Carrier (04:19)
09. A Secret Life (02:31)
10. Come With Us (02:42)
11. Mountain Of Needles (02:39)
12. Pitch To Voltage (bonus track) (02:38)
13. Two Against Three (bonus track) (01:55)
14. Vocal Outtakes (bonus track) (00:36)
15. New Feet (bonus track) (02:26)
16. Defiant (bonus track) (03:41)
17. Number 8 Mix (bonus track) (03:30)
18. Solo Guitar With Tin Foil (bonus track) (02:58)

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David Bowie - Let's Dance [USA/Japan Ed.] (1983)

Year: 14 April 1983 (CD January 1984)
Label: EMI America (USA-Japan), CDP 7 46002 2
Style: Pop, Pop Rock
Country: New York City, U.S. (8 January 1947 - 10 January 2016)
Time: 39:48
Format: Flac Tracks 16/44,1 kHz
Size: 254 Mb

Charts: UK #1, AUS #1, AUT #2, GER #2, NL #1, NOR #1, NZ #1, SWE #1, SWI #17, US #4. UK, NL & US: Platinum; CAN: 5x Platinum.

14 April 1983: At first hearing it may seem a little commercial but with continued listening the quality of the arrangements and singing make it sound more and more like a classic.
David Bowie’s Let’s Dance should prove to be the most commercial album he’s made yet, and justify the undisclosed, allegedly enormous sum that EMI, his new record company, paid for him. There must be considerable depression over at RCA, his former company.
Bowie told me that RCA had been unhappy with his last three, impressively experimental albums, Lodger, Low and even Scary Monsters, and that the company had offered to get him a flat in Philadelphia in the hope that he’d record another album like Young Americans. Instead, he’s made an even more fashion-conscious move: not back to a black Philly sound but to a contemporary black New York funk style, with help from his co-producer, Chic’s Nile Rodgers.
The album is highly impressive, yet mildly disappointing. This is partly because he is now working within an instantly recognisable, accessible field, as opposed to experimenting with Fripp or Eno, and partly because his brilliant single, Let’s Dance/Cat People, contributes the best two tracks on the album.
At first hearing it may seem like Bowie is playing a little commercial and safe (even if this is a new musical direction for him), but with continued listening the sheer quality of the playing, the arrangements, and – most of all – his skill as a singer, make it sound more and more like a classic.
Many of the songs mix a sparse, attacking, cool New York dance backing with melodies that have catchy, poppish hook lines. Modern Love, the plinky-plonk China Girl (a new treatment of the song he wrote with Iggy Pop) and Criminal World could all be good but common-place in lesser hands.
Bowie is in magnificent, confident voice and can transform the potentially trivial to the epic. One moment cool and rhythmic, then the growling grand balladeer and crooner, he emerges as a vocalist to last. That Christmas song he recorded with Bing Crosby was perhaps more important than it seemed at the time.
(theguardian.com/music/2023/apr/14/david-bowie-lets-dance-reviewed-1983)

Album recorded and mixed in the analog domain - AAD. That is, a minimum of digital processing.
A=Analog. D=digital. The first letter stands for how the music was recorded. The second letter for how it was mixed. The third letter stands for the format (all CD's will have D as the last letter).

01. Modern Love (04:47)
02. China Girl (05:33)
03. Let's Dance (07:36)
04. Without You (03:09)
05. Ricochet (05:13)
06. Criminal World (04:24)
07. Cat People (Putting Out Fire) (05:10)
08. Shake It (03:51)

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