Maybe my favorite female artist ever. That voice and those great produced songs.
Catherine “Kate” Bush, CBE (born 30 July 1958) is an English singer-songwriter, musician and record producer. She is known for her eclectic and experimental music as well as her idiosyncratic performances.
Bush first came to note in 1978 when, at the age of 19, she topped the UK Singles Chart for four weeks with her debut single, “Wuthering Heights”, becoming the first female artist to achieve a UK number-one with a self-written song.[3] She has since released twenty-five UK Top 40 singles, including the top ten hits “The Man with the Child in His Eyes”, “Babooshka”, “Running Up That Hill”, and “King of the Mountain”.
Where to begin picking favorite songs from The Boss himself?  With over 18 albums and still recording them, and still mattering in 2016 after a career-span of 40 years, it’s hard. Bruce Frederick Joseph Springsteen (born September 23, 1949) is an American musician, singer, songwriter, and humanitarian. He is best known for his work with his E Street Band. Nicknamed “The Boss,” Springsteen is widely known for his brand of poetic lyrics, Americana, working class and sometimes political sentiments centered on his native New Jersey, his distinctive voice and his lengthy and energetic stage performances, with concerts from the 1970s to the present decade running over three hours in length.
His first really important and breakthrough album was “Born To Run” in 1975. From that album my favorites are “Thunder Road” and “Jungle Land”.
One of the most beautiful songs i’ve ever heard in a movie. Art Garfunkel’s solo career was not as important as Paul Simon’s. But this song from 1986 made an enormous impression on me while watching Waterschip Down.
After the duo Simon & Garfunkel split up in 1970, Paul Simon began a successful solo career as a guitarist and singer-songwriter, recording three highly acclaimed albums over the next five years. His album Paul Simon was released in January 1972, preceded by his first experiment with world music, the Jamaican-inspired “Mother and Child Reunion,” considered one of the first examples of reggae by a white musician. One of my favorites is “Me and Julio Down by the Schoolyard”.
Simon’s next project was the pop-folk album, There Goes Rhymin’ Simon, released in May 1973. It contained some of his most popular and polished recordings. The lead single, “Kodachrome,” was a No. 2 hit in America, and the follow-up, the gospel-flavored “Loves Me Like a Rock” was even bigger.
Highly anticipated, Still Crazy After All These Years was his next album. Released in October 1975 and produced by Simon and Phil Ramone, it marked another departure. The mood of the album was darker, as he wrote and recorded it in the wake of his divorce.
In 1980 he released One-Trick Pony, his debut album with Warner Bros. Records and his first in almost five years. It was paired with the motion picture of the same name, which Simon wrote and starred in. Although it produced his last Top 10 hit with the upbeat “Late in the Evening.
The best was yet to come. in 1986 he released his most successful solo album. With an eclectic mixture of musical styles including pop, a cappella, isicathamiya, rock, zydeco and mbaqanga and recorded in Johannesburg, this became an international beauty and the nr 2 best selling album of 1987.
Five more albums have been released after this, but they didn’t contain the best of his work like he produced in the 70’s and 80’s. In 2016 a new album will arrive.
Television is an American rock band, formed in New York City in 1973 and considered influential in the development of punk and alternative music. Their album “Marguee Moon” is considered as one of the milestones in punk.
Impossible to single out a favorite song. So many good memories of long drives to our holiday destination. Especially my father was a Supertramp fan. “Crime of the Century” and “Breakfast In America” are my favorite albums.
Supertramp are an English rock band formed in London in 1969. Though their music was initially categorised as progressive rock, they later incorporated a combination of traditional rock, popand art rock into their music. They would enjoy greater commercial success when they incorporated more conventional and radio-friendly elements into their work in the mid-1970s, going on to sell more than 60 million albums.
Though their albums were generally far more successful than their singles, Supertramp did enjoy a number of major hits throughout the 1970s and 1980s, including Hodgson’s songs “Give a Little Bit”, “The Logical Song”, “Take the Long Way Home”, “Dreamer”, “Breakfast in America”, “It’s Raining Again”. Since co-founder Hodgson’s departure in 1983, Rick Davies has led the band.
Peter Brian Gabriel (born 13 February 1950) is an English singer-songwriter, musician and humanitarian activist who rose to fame as the original lead singer and flautist of the progressive rock band Genesis. After leaving Genesis in 1975, Gabriel went on to a successful solo career, with “Solsbury Hill” his first single. His 1986 album, So, is his most commercially successful, and is certified triple platinum in the UK and five times platinum in the U.S. These are my four favorite Peter Gabriel songs:
I was talking to my mother about 70’s and 80’s music and how i was just discovering a lot of “new” music. We were talking about New Wave music and she asked if i’d listened to “the Strangles”… Who? Funny to realise again how much music was played in my youth and what i’d picked up. Song like “Always The Sun”, “No Mercy” and “Golden Brown” took me back to those days for a moment. Also great to listen to the early Stranglers work “Rattus Norvegicus” which is regular punk!
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