On That Note: Album Series Take 5’s, Part 3

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Continuing our LP series that encompasses releases in years ending in “5.”

For part 2, post your favorite LPs released in 1985 and/or 1995. Those years only, NOT the entire decade.

Include 2-4 sound clips. Please do not post link to the entire album. Others who admire the LP may want to post some songs from it.

In addition to the tracks, we encourage you to expound on why the album is meaningful, including personal history of your relationship with the record and its music.

If someone posts an album on your list before you get to it, you still may reference it, but use different song clips.

Choices should focus on studio albums. Avoid greatest hits/live LPs/compilations. We’ll allow it, but it should be a definitive element of an artist’s body of work that isn’t otherwise generally available from studio output.

If you’re more singles-oriented, you may substitute top singles from either of those years.


“On That Note” is presented each week on Cyclone Fanatic by @MeanDean, @cyclones500 and myself.


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cyclones500

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Beck
Guero
(March 29, 2005)

I have a tendency to group this with the '06 LP "The Information." I came a little late to "Guero," shortly before I heard TI.

My preference is The Information, beginning-to-end, but this has a diverse mixture of style from some previous Beck releases.








 

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Wilco
“Star Wars”
(July 16, 2015)

Bonus elements: Audacity to title an album "Star Wars" when it has zero connection to the movie franchise (or any themes of celebrity or stardom) and the cat cover artwork, that has no direct link to anything.








 
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La Vie Théodore, Alain Souchon, 2005

L'île du dédain "The Island of Disdain" - a song about a guy in love with a girl who does not deign to return his affection

She's my darling, cherished one,
She is ignorant of all that
She is my sugar baby love
She doesn't even know it

 

pourcyne

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2005 Oral Fixation, Vol 2 by Shakira (yup, I've got this one)

"How Do You Do?" A great song seeking to understand religion, sung to God

Forgive us our trespasses
As we forgive those who have trespassed against us
Give us this day our daily bread
Daily bread, daily bread
In cello et in terra fiat voluntas tua
Gloria Spiritui Sancto

What language do you speak
If you speak at all?
Are you some kind of freak
Who lives to raise the ones who fall?
Hey, could you tell me why
The cat fights the dog?
Do you go to the Mosque
Or the Synagogue?

And if our fates have all been wrapped around your finger
And if you wrote the script, then why the troublemakers?

 

pourcyne

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2005 The Mighty Rearranger - Robert Plant

Yeah, spent my hard-earned shekels on this one, but liked only one tune on the whole record:

 
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pourcyne

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2005 Prairie Wind by Neil Young

"Falling off the Face of the Earth" written while recovering from a brain tumor (this was before he dumped his wife for Daryl Hannah)

 
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pourcyne

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2005 On ne change pas - Céline Dion A compilation of her greatest hits to that date in French

Can only stand her when she sings in French

This one was about how people don't change from childhood to adulthood



This is her duet with Garou (one of my favorite French language singers)...yes, her part is over-the-top, but it's in French

 

pourcyne

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2015 Chaud by Luce (a Belgian singer)

Biggest hit from this album was "Polka" where she sings how she doesn't want to date a bunch of individuals (with their sexual quirks), she just wants to dance the polka.

 

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