Everything But The Girl - Love Not Money

アコースティックなサウンドをベースとしながらも、カントリーやフォークなどルーツ・ミュージックからの影響もあらわになった2作目。ホーンを導入するなど演奏面、アレンジともに前作より洗練された飛躍作。12インチ・シングルに収録されていたプリテンダーズのカバー「愛しのキッズ」と「ヘブン・ヘルプ・ミー」をボーナス・トラックとして収録。

ベン・ワットとトレイシー・ソーンの2人による人気英国ユニットが、ブランコ・イ・ネグロ/チェリーレッド・レーベルに残したアルバム。85年発表の2ndはフォーク・ロック・テイストが色濃い作品。

1. When All's Well

2. Ugly Little Dreams

3. Shoot Me Down

4. Are You Trying To Be Funny?

5. Sean

6. Ballad Of The Times

7. Anytown

8. This Love

9. Trouble And Strife

10. Angel

Love Not Money

• アーチスト: Everything But The Girl
• 発売元: Warner Bros UK
• 価格: ￥ 1,460
• 発売日: 2007/10/23
• 売上ランキング： 126900

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Kraftwerk - Computer World

Only available in the U.S. as part of their remastered box set and not sold separately! Digitally remastered edition of the German Electronic band's 1981 album. Kraftwerk beam themselves into the future by writing about home computers, online dating and globalised electronic surveillance years before these phenomena truly come into being. A journey into the bright hopes and dark fears of the booming microchip revolution, Computer World is a serenely beautiful and almost seamless collage of sensual melodies and liquid beatscapes. Tracks like 'Numbers' and 'Pocket Calculator', with their weightless bleeps and elastic beats, predict the silky rhythms of Chicago House and inspire a generation of Detroit Techno artists. Kraftwerk's fanfare for the silicon age still sounds ageless, timeless and throbbing with invention. Mute. 2009.

80年代初頭のピコピコサウンドでもリマスターで音が良くなるんだなというところ。
テクノポップを代表するアルバムではあるが、今聴くと当時ほどのインパクトは個人的には感じなかった。でも記念碑的なアルバムには違いない。

★★★

Propaganda - Secret Wish-25th Anniversary

Digitally remastered deluxe two CD 25th Anniversary edition of the Synth band's 1985 debut including a plethora of bonus material. Propaganda were a D sseldorf band, and with hindsight you can see them as the halfway point between the city's most famous sons Kraftwerk and the common European language of Techno-Pop that flourished in Ralf and Florian's wake. But Propaganda were pipe-banging confrontationalists before they became a waking Pop dream. Ralf D"rper, a bank employee, music writer and member of D sseldorf Industrial-Electronic band Die Krupps, founded Propaganda with vocalist Claudia Brucken, part-time DJ Andreas Thein and jeweler/goldsmith Susanne Freytag. None was a musician in the conventional sense but they made a demo version of 'Discipline' by Throbbing Gristle which found its way to NME writer Paul Morley, then in the process of setting up ZTT with Trevor Horn and Jill Sinclair. The rest is history. 26 tracks. Salvo. 2010.

25年前に発売されたアルバム・12インチシングルを集めてデジタルリマスターした二枚組。
当時聴きまくった人（俺を含めて）には涙もののチョイスで、音質も向上してるのでかなり買いの一枚。

★★★★

The Police - LIVE

Consisting of one disc recorded from a Boston radio broadcast in 1979 and the other from a large concert hall in Atlanta in 1983, Live! demonstrates the evolution of the Police's sound while showing off their ability to perform onstage. Aside from the track listings (although several of the same tracks are found on both discs), there are notable differences between the two concerts. The production is the most obvious. The 1979 recording, sounding raw like a well-done bootleg, is mixed for a punk band, which the Police largely were at the time. The Atlanta recording is slick and professional, perfect for the world-famous pop stars they had become. The second major difference is the performances themselves. In the Boston concert, because they had less material to fill an entire show, the band extended the songs by improvising on themes and progressions (while at the same time frequently lead-footing the tempos). In contrast, the Atlanta show featured a denser mix. Three backup singers doubled the number of people onstage, while the songs were moody and atmospheric. Again the band expanded on its arrangements. You won't hear your favorite licks from many of these songs, but the fair exchange is getting to hear drummer Stewart Copeland's inspired improvised fills; Andy Summers's cautious, delicate guitar textures; and Sting's rasta chants. Aside from being a transcendent live album, this collection makes it very clear that the Police were so much more than just Sting and "two other guys." Quite the opposite is true. It testifies not only to the strength of the songwriting but, more important, to the band's musicianship. The Police were a perfect musical trinity, each member an indispensable and inseparable part of the whole.

ディスク：1
1. Next To You
2. So Lonely
3. Truth Hits Everybody
4. Walking On The Moon
5. Hole In My Life
6. Fall Out
7. Bring On The Night
8. Message In A Bottle
9. The Bed's Too Big Without You
10. Peanuts
11. Roxanne
12. Can't Stand Losing You
13. Landlord
14. Born In The 50's
15. Be My Girl/Sally
ディスク：2
1. Synchonicity
2. Synchonicity II
3. Walking In Your Footsteps
4. Message In A Bottle
5. O My God
6. De Do Do Do, De Da Da Da
7. Wrapped Around Your Finger
8. Tea In The Sahara
9. Spirits In The Material World
10. King Of Pain
11. Don't Stand So Close To Me
12. Every Breath You Take
13. Roxanne
14. Can't Stand Losing You
15. So Lonely

実はポリス初のオフィシャルなライブ盤。ただしディスク2の音源はレーザーディスク等で発売されていたシンクロニシティコンサートのものと思われるが、ファンには嬉しい二枚組。
個人的には初期のディスク1が好みなのだが、ディスク2も聞き込むとなかなか悪くない。

★★★★

Ministry Of Sound - Electronic 80s

GARY NUMAN、OMD、DEVO、ULTRAVOX(JOHN FOXXのソロ作品も収録!)、YAZOO、JAPAN、HEAVEN17、SCRITTI POLITTIといったこれぞニュー・ウェイブ!といったラインナップに加え、KRAFTWERK、ART OF NOISE、NEW ORDER等現在のダンス~テクノ・シーンに深く影響を及ぼした伝説のアーティスト達の作品群のほか、DAVID BOWIE、BLONDIE、STRANGLERSなど同時代を並走、クロスオーバーしていたパンク・ムーヴメント~ロック・フィールドのベテラン勢含む面々、さらには懐かしの一発屋SIGUE SIGUE SPUTNIK(もちろん収録曲はLove Missile)に至るまで、サウンド・スタイルも多岐にわたり多彩、才気とアイデアに溢れた80年代を代表する強力ラインナップの名曲達が次々と繰り出される超強力な一枚。全60曲(!)という怒涛さは流石ニュー・ウェイブご当地イギリスの老舗レーベルならでは。現在第一線で活躍するクラブ~ロック・オルタナティブ系までを含む、数々のクリエイター達がその影響を口にするアーティスト達の作品も数多く収録、ルーツ巡りの若い音楽ファンから当時を懐かしむ音楽ファンまでを幅広く取り込める注目盤です。

ディスク：1
1. Ultravox/Vienna
2. Gary Numan/Cars
3. Soft Cell/Tainted Love/Where Did Our Love Go? (12 Mix)
4. Visage/Fade To Grey
5. Yazoo/Don't Go
6. Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark/Enola Gay
7. Joy Division/Love Will Tear Us Apart
8. Japan/Quiet Life
9. Duran Duran/Planet Earth
10. The Human League/Being Boiled
11. Heaven 17/Penthouse And Pavement
12. Simple Minds/Promised You A Miracle
13. and more...
ディスク：2
1. The Human League/Love Action (I Believe In Love)
2. Heaven 17/Temptation
3. Spandau Ballet/To Cut A Long Story Short
4. Scritti Politti/Absolute
5. Blancmange/Living On The Ceiling
6. Thompson Twins/Love On Your Side
7. A Flock Of Seagulls/Wishing (If I Had A Photograph Of You)
8. China Crisis/Black Man Ray
9. Thomas Dolby/Hyperactive!
10. Landscape/Einstein A Go-Go
11. Simple Minds/New Gold Dream (81/82/83/84)
12. B.E.F./Groove Thang
13. and more...
ディスク：3
1. Tears For Fears/Mad World
2. Pet Shop Boys/West End Girls
3. New Order/Blue Monday
4. Duran Duran/The Reflex
5. Bronski Beat/Smalltown Boy
6. Yazoo/Situation (12 Remix)
7. Erasure/Sometimes
8. David Bowie/Fashion (Radio Edit)
9. Blondie/Rapture
10. Philip Oakey & Giorgio Moroder/Together In Electric Dreams
11. Johnny Hates Jazz/Shattered Dreams
12. and more...

とにかくボリュームたっぷりな80年代ロック（特にエレクトリック系）てんこ盛りなオムニバス盤。
ブロンスキー・ビートやチャイナ・クライシス等なかなか渋い選曲もナイス。
★★★★

Frank Zappa - Jazz from Hell

88年のグラミー賞を受賞した傑作。通常の楽器演奏では表現しきれない範囲をシンクラヴィアによって作品化した、ザッパの電脳音楽集。才能と技術が成し遂げた、加速する創造力のジャズ化。

1. Night School

2. The Beltway Bandits

3. While You Were Art ll

4. Jazz From Hell

5. G-Spot Tornado

6. Damp Ankles

7. St. Etienne

8. Massaggio Galore

説明でもあるように一部を除いてほぼすべてをシンクラヴィアで作り上げたアルバム。打ち込み系ザッパ風ジャズという感じで、スリリングな展開がなかなか面白い。シンセ嫌いな人にはちょっと難しいか？

★★★

Kate Bush - Hounds Of Love

Few women have expanded the vocabulary of rock as bewitchingly as Kate Bush; among male stars, only Prince may have taken as many risks. Hounds of Love saw Bush reining in the kookier aspects of The Dreaming, channelling them into epic electro-pop that tackled big issues of life and death and God with gripping drama and intensity. "Running Up That Hill" was one of the great singles of the '80s; "Cloudbusting" was string-driven, magically pretty; "Jig of Life" showed that Bush is one of the few pop artists who can flirt with Celtic mysticism without sounding twee or trite. Forget the riot grrrls: Bush is the real thing.

1. Running Up That Hill (A Deal With God)

2. Hounds Of Love

3. The Big Sky

4. Mother Stands For Comfort

5. Cloudbusting

6. And Dream Of Sheep

7. Under Ice

8. Waking The Witch

9. Watching You Without Me

10. Jig Of Life

11. Hello Earth

12. The Morning Fog

1985年のアルバム。聞き所はやはり1曲目のRunning Up That Hill (A Deal With God)あたり。
★★★

The Alan Parsons Project - The Turn Of A Friendly Card

1. May Be A Price To Pay

2. Games People Play

3. Time

4. I Don't Wanna Go Home

5. The Gold Bug

6. I. The Turn Of A Friendly Card (Part One)

7. II. Snake Eyes

8. III. The Ace Of Swords

9. IV. Nothing Left To Lose

10. V. The Turn Of A Friendly Card (Part Two)

★★★

Kraftwerk - Techno Pop

Only available in the U.S. as part of their remastered box set and not sold separately! Digitally remastered edition of this 1986 album from the German Electronic outift. Kraftwerk return from five years of silence to reclaim their throne as leaders of a machine-pop revolution that they themselves began over a decade before. Their Techno Pop album, first released under the name Electric Caf but now restored to its originally intended title, provides a 360-degree overview of a multi-lingual, multi-channel, musically diverse global village. From the block-rocking beats of 'Boing Boom Tschack' to the electronic Funk and computer animation of 'Musique Non Stop', Kraftwerk soar into the digital age. Their first excursion into digital recording finds both beauty and unease in a polyglot world of permanent media overload. Once again, Dusseldorf's test pilots of the musical future effortlessly break new ground. Mute.

1. Boing Boom Tschak

2. Techno Pop

3. Musique Non Stop

4. The Telephone Call

5. House Phone

6. Sex Object

7. Electric Caf

George Michael - Faith

80年代半ば、幼ななじみアンドリュー・リッジリーとのユニット「ワム！」で一世を風靡（ふうび）したジョージ・マイケル。しかしながら、アイドル路線をひた走る人気先行型のポップデュオと見られてしまい、彼本来のヴォーカリスト、またソングライターとしての才能については、いまひとつ過小評価気味だった。

87年にソロとして本格的に活動を開始したが、そのプロローグとなった本作は、これまでのフラストレーションを解消するかのようなセルフプロデュース作品である。アコースティックギターのカッティングが小気味よいタイトルチューンの<1>、ジャジーなテイストが漂う<9>など、さまざまなアプローチを見せ、あらためて人々をうならせた

1. Faith

2. Father Figure

3. I Want Your Sex, Pts. 1-2

4. One More Try

5. Hard Day

6. Hand to Mouth

7. Look at Your Hands

8. Monkey

9. Kissing a Fool

10. Hard Day [Shep Pettibone Remix]

11. Last Request (I Want Your Sex, Pt. 3)

日本ではそのキャラからか微妙に色物扱いで残念なのだが、このアルバムを聴いてみると彼の優れたソングライティング力と唄に拍手喝采は確実。個人的にもっと再評価されても良いと思う。★★★★

Frank Zappa - You Can't Do That On The Stage Anymore, Volume 1

ディスク：1
1. Florida Airport Tape
2. Once upon a Time
3. Sofa No. 1
4. Mammy Anthem
5. You Didn't Try to Call Me
6. Diseases of the Band
7. Tryin' to Grow a Chin
8. Let's Make the Water Turn Black/Harry, You're a Beast/The Orange ...
9. Groupie Routine
10. Ruthie-Ruthie
11. Babbette
12. I'm the Slime
13. Big Swifty
14. Don't Eat the Yellow Snow
ディスク：2
1. Plastic People
2. Torture Never Stops
3. Fine Girl
4. Zomby Woof
5. Sweet Leilani
6. Oh No
7. Be in My Video
8. Deathless Horsie
9. Dangerous Kitchen
10. Dumb All Over
11. Heavenly Bank Account
12. Suicide Chump
13. Tell Me You Love Me
14. Sofa No. 2

60年代から80年代までの未発表ライブ音源を集めた2枚組アルバム。
個人的には(5) Sweet Leilani　(6) Oh No　(7) Be In My Videoあたりをよく聴きます。ザッパ入門用としても面白いアルバム。
★★★★

Suzanne Vega - Solitude Standing

アコースティックギター片手に、そのまなざしで見つめた世界を歌いあげる。そんなスザンヌ・ヴェガの代表作である。

スタイリッシュな個性派シンガーソングライターとして注目を集めた彼女の歌には、自らの背景にあるニューヨークの街角の情景が貼り込まれている。スマッシュヒットとなった(2)は、どことなくさわやかでキャッチーなサウンド＆メロディーだ。しかしそこには、深刻な社会問題である幼児虐待がテーマとして据えられている。淡々と語るようなヴォーカルが、とある現実を浮き彫りにし、世の中に一石を投じることとなった。

1. Tom's Diner

2. Luka

3. Ironbound/Fancy Poultry

4. In the Eye

5. Night Vision

6. Solitude Standing

7. Calypso

8. Language

9. Gypsy

10. Wooden Horse (Casper Hauser's Song)

11. Tom's Diner (Reprise)

Santana - Shango

1. Nile

2. Hold On

3. Night Hunting Time

4. Nowhere to Run

5. Nueva York

6. Oxun (Osh n)

7. Body Surfing

8. What Does It Take (To Win Your Love)

9. Let Me Inside

10. Warrior

11. Shango

Suzanne Vega - Suzanne Vega

Though not the songs that would put her on the pop music map--that would come with 1987's Solitude Standing--Vega's first album, Suzanne Vega, shows her folky song-writing origins and, song-for-song, may still be her best. Produced by Patti Smith guitarist Lenny Kaye, the sound is softly sculpted by Kaye's silvery guitar and an airy, occasional string section, matching the dream-like introspection of "Queen and the Soldier" and the surreal word play of "Small Blue Thing". Vega's philosophical, quiet-but-confident approach would open the door for a second generation of female singer-songwriters like Dar Williams and Shawn Colvin. Her debut remains an unassuming sleeper for one of the 1980s best folk or pop albums.

1. Cracking

2. Freeze Tag

3. Marlene on the Wall

4. Small Blue Thing

5. Straight Lines

6. Undertow

7. Some Journey

8. Queen and the Soldier

9. Knight Moves

10. Neighborhood Girls

Penguin Cafe Orchestra - Penguin Cafe Orchestra

1. Air Danser
2. Yodel 1
3. Telephone and Rubber Band
4. Cutting Branches for a Temporary Shelter
5. Pythagoras's Trousers
6. Numbers 1 to 4
7. Yodel 2
8. Salty Bean Fumble
9. Paul's Dance
10. Ecstasy of Dancing Fleas
11. Walk, Don't Run
12. Flux
13. Simon's Dream
14. Harmonic Necklace
15. Steady State

The Police - The Police

The Police celebrate the 30th anniversary of their recording debut with their first double-disc CD "best of" collection entitled, The Police. The 28 songs bring together the biggest hits from the band's five original studio albums and includes their very first single, 1977's "Fall Out."

From that rarity to one of the most-remembered and most performed rock ballads of the `80s, 1983's "Every Breath You Take," The Police spans the group's six-year journey from sweaty clubs to sold-out stadiums - establishing them as one of the definitive and most popular rock groups in the world.

ディスク：1
1. Fall Out
2. Can't Stand Losing You
3. Next to You
4. Roxanne
5. Truth Hits Everybody
6. Hole in My Life
7. So Lonely
8. Message in a Bottle
9. Reggatta de Blanc
10. Bring on the Night
11. Walking on the Moon
12. Don't Stand So Close to Me
13. Driven to Tears
14. Canary in a Coalmine
ディスク：2
1. De Do Do Do, De Da Da Da
2. Voices Inside My Head
3. Invisible Sun
4. Every Little Thing She Does Is Magic
5. Spirits in the Material World
6. Demolition Man
7. Every Breath You Take
8. Synchronicity, Pt. 1
9. Wrapped Around Your Finger
10. Walking in Your Footsteps
11. Synchronicity, Pt. 2
12. King of Pain
13. Murder by Numbers
14. Tea in the Sahara

Genesis - Abacab

Phil Collins might be swinging away the late 1990s but in 1981 he was sharpening his pop chops from his first solo offering to this, the first Genesis album to break the hallowed million-copy mark stateside. But Abacab wasn't entirely about charting singles ("No Reply At All", "Man on the Corner" and the title track); it still exhibited some late-stage evidence of a trio courting the art-rock muse that had graced its past ("Who Dunnit", "Dodo", "Keep It Dark"). However, by 1983's eponymous follow-up, the hit factory that was Genesis in the mid- to late-1980s was operating full steam ahead, and the angel Gabriel's spectre had all but vanished. Then, there were truly only three. 

1. Abacab

2. No Reply at All

3. Me and Sarah Jane

4. Keep It Dark

5. Dodo/Lurker

6. Who Dunnit?

7. Man on the Corner

8. Like It or Not

9. Another Record

The Fixx - Reach the Beach

1. One Thing Leads to Another

2. Sign of Fire

3. Running

4. Saved by Zero

5. Opinions

6. Reach the Beach

7. Changing

8. Liner

9. Privilege

10. Outside

Clannad - Magical Ring

1. Theme from Harry's Game

2. Tower Hill

3. Searchran Charin Tsiail

4. Passing Time

5. Coinleach Ghlas an Fhmhair

6. I See Red

7. T M 'Mo Shui

8. Newgrange

9. Fairy Queen

10. Thios Fa'n Chosta

Propaganda - A Secret Wish

ドイツはデュッセルドルフで結成された5人組のエレポップ・バンド。アバを意識したということからもうかがえる徹底したポップセンスとドイツらしい重厚なエレクトロニクス、そして84年のデビュー曲でフリッツ・ラングのカルト映画「ドクトル・マブゼ」を題材にするというあたりのゴシック趣味が渾然となり、本国はもとより、イギリスやフランスでもヒットを記録した。

実質的なプロデュースはトレヴァー・ホーンではなく、彼を長きにわたって支え、現在はトレヴァー・ホーンの新バンド、ザ・プロデューサーズのメンバーでもあるステファン・リプソンが行っているが、それがかえってよかったのではないかと感じられるこのアルバム『シークレット・ウィッシュ』は、今でも信奉者の多い傑作だ。

その後は、数多くのヴァージョンちがいやリミックスをシングルでリリース。また、ZTTのアーティストとしては珍しくライヴに力を入れ、アメリカまでツアーした。デビュー当時にまだ19歳だった女性ヴォーカルのひとりクラウディア・ブルッケンは、ZTTの運営者のひとりポール・モーリーと結婚し、プロパガンダとしてはもちろん、グループを脱退した後もソロやコラボ作、そしてACTというユニットなどを通しZTTとの関係性を維持し、また積極的に活動を行った。

1. Dream within a dream

2. The murder of love

3. Jewel

4. Duel

5. Frozen faces

6. P-machinery

7. Sorry for laughing

8. Dr. mabuse

9. The chase

10. Strength to dream