Mostly Summer Volume 59

Flashback Year 1984

Hour 1

Playin’ It Cool is the debut studio solo album by Timothy B. Schmit, the bass guitarist and co-lead vocalist for the Eagles. The album was released in 1984

Track:  Gimme Some Money

Big Bam Boom is the twelfth studio album by Daryl Hall & John Oates, released by RCA Records on October 12, 1984

Track: Out of Touch

Sparkle in the Rain is the sixth studio album by Scottish rock band Simple Minds, released in February 1984

Track: Book of Brilliant Things

Home by Dawn is the fourth album by American singer-songwriter J.D. Souther, released in 1984

Track: Bad News Travels Fast

Into the Gap is the fourth studio album by the British pop group Thompson Twins. The album was originally released on 17 February 1984

Track: Hold Me Now

The Cat Is Out is the title of the sixth studio album by the British singer-songwriter Judie Tzuke, released in June 1985.

Track: I’ll Be The One

Tonight is the sixteenth studio album by English musician David Bowie, released on 29 September 1984

Track: Loving The Alien

Oblivion is an album by the rock group Utopia, released in 1984 who featured Todd Rundgren

Track: Winston Smith Takes it on the Jaw

Jim Capaldi was an English drummer, singer, and songwriter. His musical career spanned more than four decades. He co-founded the psychedelic rock band Traffic in 1967 with Steve Winwood with whom he co-wrote the majority of the band’s output, One Man mission was his 1994 album

Track: Nobody Loves You

Anthony Phillips is an English musician, songwriter, producer and singer who gained prominence as the original lead guitarist of the rock band Genesis, from 1967 to 1970, Private Parts and Pieces IV: A Catch at the Tables is the ninth studio album by English multi-instrumentalist and composer Anthony Phillips. It was released in April 1984

Track: Lights on The Hill

Barclay James Harvest, Victims of Circumstances

Track: Stay You’ll Stay

Hour2

The Leylines a band from Weston super mare and their album Recover Reveal

Track: This is your Life

Eric Gales  is an American blues-rock guitarist,,his 20th album The Bookends

Track: With A Little Help from my friends (ft Beth Hart)

Parallel Universe Blues is the sixth studio album by American band Papercuts, is an American indie pop project centered on San Francisco songwriter/producer Jason Robert Quever.

Track: How to Quit Smoking

The Tirith are one of the new UK-based Melodic / Classic Rock Bands. The band has a long history stretching back to the 70s, the present band reformed in 2010, A leap in the dark is to be release on May 18th

Track: No More

Formed in 2012, Pisa-based Eveline’s Dust is yet another young group to come out of Italy’s thriving prog scene.Theit new album is called K

Track: Lost in a Lullaby

A collection of musicians got together formed a  band Nation of Strangers, and recorded an album called The Festival at the end of the world

Track: The festival at the end of the world.

Strand of Oaks is the rock project by songwriter and producer Timothy Showalter. Originally from Indiana, he currently resides in Philadelphia. His music classifies with the genres rock and folk music, or folk rock. Eraserland is his 7th album

Track: Eraserland

Lonely Robot, the project masterminded by producer, guitarist and singer/songwriter

John Mitchell (Kino, Frost*, Arena, It Bites), is set to release their new album ‘Under Stars’ this Friday 26th April

Track: ‘Authorship Of Our Lives’

United progressive Fraternity and their 2nd album Planetary Overload

Track: Stop Time

Waterboys – “Where The Action Is” from album Where The Action Is

Mike Scott’s band return with their thirteenth studio album. This song was apparently inspired by Robert Parker’s 1960s mod/northern soul classic ‘Let’s Go Baby’. The album is set for release on  24th May.

The Cranberries – “In the End” from album In the End

The final album from the Irish band is released at the end of this week (26th April). Their late lead singer Dolores O’Riordan had recorded a number of demos of new material she’d co-written between 2017 and 2018, which were used as the basis for the album.

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