Great 80's Music

 

 "Do the things external which fall upon you distract you?  Give yourself time to learn something new and good, and cease to be whirled around" - Marcus Aurelius

 

Some cool tunes shuffled up to the top yesterday evening on my way to work, which lead to this post.  I thought it would be neat to mention a couple of really good not-so-famous albums I'm fond of that were released in the 80's:

David Benoit - This Side Up.  Linking a few tracks.  There is no full album listing on YouTube.

Hollis Gentry - Neon.  Great album from beginning to end... an amazing sax player.  Sadly, he was killed in a car crash in 2006, at the age of 51. 

And one I've mentioned before, and will probably mention again.  Spyro Gyra - Alternating Currents.  Again, no full album - so I'm linking a few tracks.

Basia - Time and Tide

 

Simply Red - Picture Book

Enya - Watermark.  Everyone knows the song Orinoco Flow.  I have always preferred the rest of the album to that one hit song.  Below is the hit song, followed by a couple of other songs from the album.