The Boys are Back in Town! great album

Reggatta De Blanc, The Police Message in a Bottle -- great song, well remembered Reggatta de Blanc -- title cut, another great one Bring on the Night -- good tune, beat, lyric Deathwish -- great intro, good beat Walking on the Moon -- famous tune Any Other Day -- upbeat amusing lyric The Bed's Too Big Without You -- Contact -- Does Everyone Stare -- cool inventive lyric, nice beat No Time This Time --

ArchAndroid, Janelle Monáe (2010) Suite II Overture - fraught, ethereal Dance or Die -- a bit of Santana's beat, electric cool, dense rap lyric (need to read lyric) Faster - pop beat dance tune, nice lyric & melody Locked Inside - intro beat reminds me of Michael Jackson (Thriller album) Sir Greendown -- melody tempo like 60s teen lover songs, ~ dreamer Cold War - bold Ka-BOOM dense lyric ballad, This is a cold war Do you know what your're fighting for? (need to read lyric), fast tempo (disco) Thugga Massina -- blues-y male rap, down-beat tempo, electric synth melody -- didn't work for me Tightrope - pop rap upbeat tempo contrasts with lyric, dance tempo, brass! in interlude (horns -- sweet!) Neon Gumbo -- electric entro, lyric in tongues? perfect track title Oh, Maker -- (laugh) show tune intro, oom-pah-pah beat, musical Come Alive -- another show tune style (electric turbo Streisand, Stoney End) Mushrooms & Roses -- stoned effect (vocals thru special equip) slow elec amusing lyric, her name is ...uh... Suite III Overture -- Broadway expressive opening & chorus (like Moon River in full Wonderland livery -- Judy Garland, Rogers & Hammerstein Neon Valley Street -- sweet love song, slow dance rhythm, rap interlude Make the Bus -- neon sound & lyric, pop dance tune "won' t make the bus" -- bit of Queen (rhapsody) Wonderland -- another etherial track, amusing, reminds my of Knopfler's way of writing offbeat humor into serious criticism 57821 -- lovely, multi-voice (echo) lead, sweet & tough with great melody Say You'll Go -- soft melody & voice contrast with gritty lyric BaBopByeYa -- broadway show tune intro (with horns!) -- show tune style lyric -- orchestral, with a tenor clarinet, harp, great piano, violin -- and rap! Glad I did not die without hearing this album.

Liquid Swords, Genius/GZA Liquid Swords - rap with musical beat, catch few words of lyric Duel of the Iron Mic - inventive story intro, otherwise ditto Living in the World Today - ditto - melody is short loop repeated ~ Gold - ditto Cold World - ditto Labels - ditto 4th chamber - ditto Shadowboxin' - ditto Hell's Wind Staff - mixed conversations over segue to melody + rap lyric Investigative Reports -- rap over background conv. intro, ditto style Swordsman -- ditto I Gotcha Back - ditto - sick throat-slit ending B.I.B.L.E. - ditto

Sufjan Stevens, Illinoise (2005) Concerning the UFO Sighting - wow, piano, male vocal need to read lyric The Black Hawk War - martial instrumental Come on! Feel the Illinoise! - vocal, upbeat, lyric hard to follow John Wayne Gacy, Jr - soft vocal, sweet melody finger-picking guitar Jacksonville - piano & violin intro jazzy blues-y upbeat, vocal, need lyric Decatur - banjo, upbeat instrumental, soft vocal, need lyric Chicago - another upbeat instrumental intro, soft lyric Casimir Pulaski Day - another toe-tapping finger-picking guitar intro, soft lyric -- cancer? bittersweet lyric. Banjo interlude over guitar, horn (trumpet) interlude, The Man of Metropolis - instrumental intro, head-banger + musical, vocal follows, head-banger interlude Prairie Fire -- synth, keyboard, space-y intro with voice over in echo effect A Conjunction of Drones -- 20 second synth The Predatory Wasp -- whispery music & lyric (need to see to understand) They Are Night Zombies - great piano elec guitar intro, swing tempo In This Temple -- fantasy synth sustain echo The Seer's Tower -- piano intro w synth background, soft vocal The Tallest Man -- piano intro, hands clapping, swing beat, horns Out of Egypt - another synth fantasy intro, story-like techno instrumental

Brilliant! Eric Clapton epic.

The Boys are Back in Town! great album

Frank Zappa