A live album, 1976’s exceptional Live Bullet, had launched Bob Seger’s career, and Seger returned to the format a second time five years later with 1981’s Nine Tonight. The album is comprised of versions of songs from Seger’s previous three best-sellers: 1976’s Night Moves, 1978’s Stranger in Town, and 1980’s Against the Wind. While Seger … Read more
Loose and spontaneous, this (mainly) live album is a meeting of three of the greatest guitarists in the world for an acoustic summit the likes of which the guitar-playing community rarely sees. Broken up into three duo and two trio performances, Friday Night in San Francisco catches all three players at the peaks of their … Read more
Give the People What They Want is an album by the English rock group, The Kinks. It was released in August 1981 in the US, but was delayed until January 1982 in Europe. It was delayed because Ray Davies wanted to produce a full length video for the album, but financing fell through. Also scrapped … Read more
Pretenders II is the second studio album by British rock band the Pretenders. Their second album, Pretenders II, was released a scant two months later, to mixed critical reception, partly because two of the better songs on the album had been previously released, and partly because many of the songs were viewed as overly-similar (though … Read more
You Want It, You Got It is Bryan Adams’s second solo album, and was released in 1981 (see 1981 in music). This was the album that established the sound that Adams has retained throughout his recording career. Unlike the debut album where Adams and Vallance played most of the instruments themselves, You Want It You … Read more
Sorry Ma, Forgot to Take Out the Trash is the first studio album by the American punk rock band The Replacements. It was released on August 25, 1981. The album contained the single “I’m In Trouble” (backed with “If Only You Were Lonely”, an album outtake) which was released the same month as the album. … Read more
Faith is the third studio album by English alternative rock band The Cure, released on 14 April 1981 by record labels Fiction and Polydor. Preceded by the single “Primary”, the album was a moderate success commercially but was received ambivalently by critics. Faith saw The Cure continuing in the gothic rock vein of 1980’s Seventeen … Read more