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[Review] Phil Manzanera: K-Scope (1978)
An 801 album in all but name, featuring the same spectrum of players from his last few albums.
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Godley & Creme: Ismism (a/k/a Snack Attack) (1981)
Finally, a Godley & Creme album that doesn’t feel like a Q-tip being poked into your brain. After a steady diet of defiant and restless art pop, the pair return to their roots (i.e., 10cc) with clever narratives and throwbacks to ‘50s music. Snack Attack (released in the UK as Ismism) actually generated two UK…
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Godley & Creme: Birds of Prey (1983)
[Kronomyth 5.0] Birds A Capella Stick Together.
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Godley & Creme: “Cry (remix version)” (1985)
The remixed version of “Cry” became their biggest US hit, and a clever video featuring one of the first examples of “morphing” faces no doubt helped the succinct, catchy song make commercial inroads. The flip side, “Love Bombs,” is an excessive percussive excursion that will be familiar to anyone who’s heard Andy Partridge’s dub experiments…
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Godley & Creme: Goodbye Blue Sky (1988)
Kronomyth 7.0: GOODBYE GODLEY AND CREME. The human voice and the harmonica figure prominently on Goodbye Blue Sky. Since the doo-wop send-up of “Donna,” Godley and Creme have shown an uncanny facility for beautiful harmonies (with the inevitable lyrical wrench thrown in for good fun). Although this would appear to be a concept album about…
