Private Investigations – Dire Straits.
Honestly can’t argue with that, the original 12” single release was outstanding, and the first vinyl pressings of Love Over Gold were simply stunning, mastered by Bob Ludwig at Masterdisk.
Difficult this, trying to think of individual songs from thousands.
One that springs to mind is ‘Gravity’s Angel’ by Laurie Anderson from ‘Mister Heartbreak’. Lots of deep bass, sudden sharp sounds, just a great song and recording.
Peter Gabriel does vocals on it, as well as on ‘This Is The Picture (Excellent Birds), and he does the same song on ‘So’, but with his own style.
Both albums work really well through ’phones, I particularly like the chosen tracks.
There are a couple of songs by Paul Simon I particularly love, from an album I keep going back to, ‘Hearts And Bones’. Never really considered to be one of his best, it was supposed to be a Simon & Garfunkel album, but Simon got fed up waiting for Artie to finish doing something else, took all of Artie’s vocals off that he’d done, and finished it himself. And I love it to bits, it’s a great recording, with the title track, and also ‘René And Georgette Magritte With Their Dog After The War’ (!) standouts for me.
