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No.564: “Ghost In The Machine” by The Police (1981)
Firmly rooted in the pop mainstream now, Sting and his cohorts went forth into a semi-political world with an album of modern age viewpoints. Contains the No.1 ‘Every Little Thing She Does Is Magic’ and this favourite of mine:
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No.564: “Ghost In The Machine” by The Police (1981)
The great ‘Invisible sun’. At one time I could of told you all the words to every Police track. Forgotten them now.
No.563: “Murder Ballads” by Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds (1996)
We’ve had a handful of Nick Cave albums so far but I think I’ve only given them a brief mention without videos. This demonic record featured Kylie Minogue (!) on the rather unnerving single from it, and I thought you may like to see an excerpt from a live concert performed around this time too.
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Same here mate. Used to like them a lot but Sting solo is a hit and miss affair with me. He’s very repetitive with his fade-outs.
No video for this, but do you remember this great album track from Ghost In The Machine?
No.562: “Thriller” by Michael Jackson (1982)
Needs no introduction does it to be honest? World’s best-selling album in the 1980’s and close to the top of all-time as well. But not in my list.
I’m not a massive fan of Michael Jackson but this was a superb record and featured almost all of the tracks as singles in the end. Billie jean, Beat It, Wanna Be Startin’ Somethin’ and more.
A treat for you now to round things off for this afternoon - who remembers this ground-breaking video? The full-length version for you:
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I had forgotten that track tbh. Have to agree with the solo Sting - never been a fan.
Do you remember Weird Al’s pisstake of Beat it.
Eat It.
Bit of trivia you may know.
The track Thriller and some others on the record were written by Brit Rod Temperton.
He played the keyboard and wrote this for Heatwave.
Boogie Nights.
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Oh yes. Hated that when it came out. Actually good to hear again now though. Quite an inspired record.
Yes mate, knew that. 
He was from Grimsby of all places and made a packet from those Thriller tracks. He was such a quiet and humble bloke that he didn’t let it go to his head.
Heatwave. Great disco act. Temperton’s ‘Always And Forever’ I actually read as a poem to my wife when we got married.
I love trivia.
You’re an old romantic at heart then 
Oh definitely mate, I’m a sucker for a ballad depending on who it is. Not into Westlife obviously, but a good AOR track or some classic soul then I’m in.
On we go…
No.561: “In A Broken Dream” by Python Lee Jackson (1972)
Python Lee Jackson was an Australian singer-songwriter and band who somehow managed to get Rod Stewart’s attention and record this fine bluesy-rock album. We all know the marvellous title song, but the other song which Rod guested on is an equally good number. here’s both (sorry but there seem to be no videos available, only these audio clips):
No.560: “Sandinista!” by The Clash (1980)
There were cries of “preposterous!” and “sold out!” when this mammoth triple album by The Clash came out in 1980. So what if the band went against all their so-called ‘punk ideals’ going all disco and experimental on us? They were well-known to have covered reggae and that genre always tied in well with punk music, so why can’t they diversify and simply branch out a bit?
I like the album. I bought it on that expanded gatefold triple-record format some years later and still enjoy it immensely.
No.559: “Live Bullet” by Bob Seger & The Silver Bullet Band (1976)
Jeremy Clarkson’s all-time favourite album! Well, the “Motor City” connection is certainly there. Detroit’s favourite musical hero with his first live release was a brilliant document of what Seger does in concert - tremendous full-on blues-rock. This great songwriter still performs today, although I believe he’s on his final tour.
I try to find videos which are relevant to the albums in question, but with these older live releases it’s sometimes difficult to find any from the actual tour, in fact I don’t think this was filmed. From the mid-70’s though, this is ‘Turn The Page’:
No.558: “Younger Than Yesterday” by The Byrds (1967)
Classic Byrds from the summer of love. Younger Than Yesterday saw Crosby, McGuinn and the guys in full swing on tracks like ‘Have You Seen Her Face’ and this more uptempo song:
No.557: “Smile” by Brian Wilson (2004)
One of the popular music world’s most folklore moments is that The Beach Boys recorded and almost released an album after Pet Sounds called ‘Smile’ in 1967, which was to feature Good Vibrations amongst other songs. With Brian Wilson going into his 6-month ‘bed-in’ phase, the record wasn’t actually recorded, only some session takes were available and so the album ‘Smiley Smile’ was released instead, minus Brian.
Many years later, Wilson decided to put things right and do a completely new solo version of this famous record with the songs he had planned to record for the abandoned set. It was a very fine album composed in four main parts and well worth a listen.
I have a very special treat for you as I have found a live recording of the full album in its entirety from the tour which supported this album. Enjoy:
No.556: “Picture Book” by Simply Red (1985)
Mancunian Mick Hucknall and his pop-soul band’s debut album which led them on to great things. Incidentally, until recently this was the last new album I bought on vinyl for almost thirty years.
No.555: “Discipline” by King Crimson (1981)
Moveng swifly on and as far from Simply Red as is possible, here are king Crimson with their superb early 80’s album Discipline. Robert Fripp, Adrian Belew and all created this Talking Heads-ish record and it took off pretty well indeed. I particularly like the wonky guitar sound of ‘Frame By Frame’.
No.554: “Stereotomy” by The Alan Parsons Project (1986)
Studio wizard Parsons, along with his equally gifted musical partner Eric Woolfson on their penultimate album. This one contains the wonderful ‘Where’s The Walrus’ which won a Grammy for best instrumental that year, but here’s the title track (as it’s supported by a video):
