Crises is the eighth studio album by English multi-instrumentalist and songwriter Mike Oldfield, released on 27 May 1983 on Virgin Records. It marked the continuation of Oldfield's change in musical direction that had started with his previous album Five Miles Out (1982), signified by more commercial and straightforward rock and pop songs. The album contains the hit singles "Moonlight Shadow" featuring Maggie Reilly on lead vocals and "Shadow on the Wall", sung by Roger Chapman. Oldfield supported the album with the Crises Tour across Europe in 1983 that featured most of the musicians that played on the album.

"The Living Years" is a ballad written by B. A. Robertson and Mike Rutherford, and recorded by Rutherford's British rock band Mike + The Mechanics. It was released in December 1988 in the United Kingdom and in the United States as the second single from their album Living Years. The song was a chart hit around the world, topping the US Billboard Hot 100 on 25 March 1989, and reaching No.1 in Canada and Australia and No.2 in the UK. It spent four weeks at No. 1 on the US Adult Contemporary chart. Paul Carrack sings lead vocals on the track.

Работа над альбомом велась в период с апреля по ноябрь 1982 года на студии Westlake Recording Studios в Лос-Анджелесе. Продюсированием занимались Куинси Джонс и сам Джексон. Всего в альбоме девять треков, четыре из них были написаны самим певцом. Все семь синглов, выпущенных из Thriller, попали в топ-10 чарта Billboard Hot 100. На три из них были сняты музыкальные видеоклипы. Эта пластинка позволила Джексону сломать расовые барьеры в поп-музыке: видео на песни «Thriller», «Billie Jean» и «Beat It» попали в регулярную ротацию на MTV. Альбом был одним из первых, использующих музыкальные видео в качестве успешного инструмента продвижения. Всего за год Thriller стал самым продаваемым альбомом всех времён и остаётся таковым до сих пор.

Thriller — шестой студийный альбом американского музыканта Майкла Джексона. Выпущен на лейблe Epic Records 30 ноября 1982 года, через три года после выхода предыдущего коммерчески успешного и положительно принятого критиками альбома Джексона Off the Wall. Thriller записан в таких жанрах, как поп, рок, постдиско, ритм-н-блюз и фанк.

Dangerous features catchy pop hooks and choruses while also introducing underground sounds to a mainstream audience. The album's tone is noted by critics as gritty and urban, with sounds including honking horns, sliding chains, swinging gates, breaking glass, crashing metal. Throughout the album Jackson also implements beatboxing, scat singing, and finger snapping. The album is considered an artistic change for Jackson, with his music focusing to more socially conscious material, and a broader range of sounds and styles.

Meredith Jane Monk - is an American composer, performer, director, vocalist, filmmaker, and choreographer. Since the 1960s, Monk has created multi-disciplinary works which combine music, theatre, and dance, recording extensively for ECM Records. In 1991, Monk composed an opera called Atlas, commissioned and produced by the Houston Opera and the American Music Theater Festival.

Script for a Jester's Tear is the debut studio album by British neo-progressive rock band Marillion, released in the United Kingdom on 13 March 1983 by EMI Records. The album reached number seven and spent 31 weeks in the UK Albums Chart, eventually achieving a platinum certificate, and produced the Top 40 single "He Knows You Know" and the Top 20 single "Garden Party".
Script for a Jester's Tear is the only studio album by Marillion to feature the band's original drummer and founding member Mick Pointer, who was dismissed following the album's UK tour. In Martin Popoff's 2016 biography of Yes, the album is credited with being part of a "new wave" of British progressive rock which also helped to give a second life to earlier bands.

It’s amazing how a scene from the 70s like that in Canterbury with bands like Soft Machine, Caravan and Egg still influences new bands today, both stylistically and aesthetically. One of the most typical examples is the British band Magic Bus, which debuted in 2010 and managed to evolve from each album to the next...

The album’s theme is based around the lives of six famous horror actors of the 1950s and 1960s.
Lyricist Steve Reed: 'My brother and I are both huge fans of the classic Hammer and Universal horror films. I remember as a kid watching the horror double bills on Saturday nights on BBC2 with great fondness. We were looking for a concept for the new album and came up with the idea of basing the songs on some of our favourite actors. The twist is that the stories are about their private lives rather than the characters they portrayed in their films.'
Robert Reed: 'After making the 'We Are Legend' album, which was more contemporary, I really wanted to make a classic PROG album. I was desperate to get back to the original musical template of what Magenta was all about. So there are lots of Moog and guitar solos, 12 string guitar, Mellotrons and bass pedals, but always with melodies. The song is always king!'

This is a very limited bonus CD to Magenta's 2020 release 'Masters Of Illusion' called 'The Lost Reel', featuring 74 minutes of alternative mixes from the new album plus remixes from the band's back catalogue.

Madame X ist das 14. Studioalbum der US-amerikanischen Sängerin Madonna. Es erschien am 14. Juni 2019 bei Interscope Records. Madonna selbst war Co-Autorin sowie Co-Produzentin des Albums und arbeitete mit zahlreichen anderen Musikproduzenten zusammen, darunter Mirwais, Mike Dean und Jason Evigan. Es enthält auch Gastbeiträge von Maluma, Quavo, Swae Lee und Anitta.
Mit den Songs Medellín, Crave und Dark Ballet stellte Madonna die ersten drei Singles ihres neuen Albums vor. Die dazugehörige Madame X Tour begann am 17. September 2019 und endete am 8. März 2020. Sie fand ausschließlich in Nordamerika und Europa statt. Das Album wurde von Kritikern überwiegend positiv bewertet. Madame X erreichte die Charts der Billboard 200 und wurde nach der Veröffentlichung ihr neuntes Nummer-Eins-Album in den Vereinigten Staaten.

Madonna’s 14th studio album Madame X. Influenced creatively by living in Lisbon, Portugal over the past several years, Madame X is a collection of 15 new songs that celebrate Madonna’s career-long affair with Latin music and culture as well as other global influences. Singing in Portuguese, Spanish and English, highlights on the album include Medellín, which was co-produced by Mirwais and captures the spirit of Maluma’s hometown, the anthemic song I Rise, the Jamaican dancehall vibes of Future featuring Quavo, and co-produced by Diplo, as well as the sonically innovative Mirwais produced Dark Ballet. Recorded over 18 months in Portugal, London, New York and Los Angeles, Madonna collaborated on Madame X with longtime producer Mirwais, as well as with producers Mike Dean and Diplo, among others.

Madame X is the fourteenth studio album by American singer-songwriter Madonna. It was released on June 14, 2019, by Interscope Records. The album was creatively influenced by her expatriate life in Lisbon, Portugal, after relocating there in summer 2017. Madonna co-wrote and co-produced the album with a number of musicians, including Mirwais, Mike Dean, and Jason Evigan. It also features guest appearances by Maluma, Quavo, Swae Lee, and Anitta.
The album includes the singles "Medellín", "Crave", "I Rise" and "I Don't Search I Find" as well as two other promotional singles. All four singles reached the top spot on the Dance Club Songs in the United States, extending her record as the artist with the most number-one songs on a singular Billboard chart, with a total of 50.

There's some distinct quality in many Dutch art rock / prog releases since the early 70's, which made bands like "Focus" and "Kayak" so popular. Like those legends, "Lunar Clock" creates melodic, symphonic rock with layered keyboards and exquisite guitars, carrying on the great tradition. As an example, listen to the guitar solo in the 2nd half of the last track. Yeah, that's genuinely Dutch! Favorite track: Metabolism III: Spring.

Как-то это всё прошло мимо меня, но на данный момент немецкая группа Lucifer активно собирает вокруг себя сторонников, в то время как многие поклонники тяжёлой музыки даже называют их новой надеждой классического металла. В то же самое время издания вроде Metal Hammer и Classic Rock активно генерируют хайп вокруг их творчества, а каждый новый их альбом удостаивается просто космических похвал. Так что если вы, как и я, провели последние лет пять где-нибудь под большим и сырым камнем, то вам примерная диспозиция: Lucifer - это проект немецкой вокалистки Иоанны Садонис, который она основала после безвременного распада группы Oath. Исходно одним из его участников был Газ Дженнингс, которого вы можете знать по его работе в Cathedral, - именно этим фактом, скорее всего, объясняется то, что музыка Lucifer с самого начала была пропитана духом дум-металла. Их неторопливые гитарные риффы и атмосферный звуковой напор можно сравнить с ранним творчеством Black Sabbath. Однако этим их творчество не исчерпывалось, - со своей стороны Иоанна вдохнула в песни Lucifer энергетику тяжёлого рока восьмидесятых, что выражается в хитовых и запоминающихся мелодиях и общей композиционной стройности. Если вас до сих пор не заинтересовали эти ребята, то, скажу честно, не знаю, чего вы в жизни этой ищете. Лично я искренне наслаждаюсь как этой группой, так и их новым релизом в лице "Lucifer III".