This was $5.00 . I knew this album already but thought it was a great chance to post something modern that people would like as well as lighten the critical listening load for myself. If by chance, you are unfamiliar with this record, the album cover is pretty beat. It was not designed that way.
This album, released in 1984, was the band’s fourth. Many consider it to be the band’s landmark release. So I was surprised to see the number of mixed reviews it got upon its release. For example, Rolling Stone described the album as “too often a monochromatic dirge of banal existential imagery cloaked around the mere skeleton of a musical idea”. Man, I thought I used too many words. Anyway, 120 Minutes did not feel the same way, giving “The Killing Moon” video a good amount of play. “Silver” and “Seven Seas” also were big hits for the band. This album was a commercial success despite mixed reviews. In 2008, the band would play a series of concerts, performing the album in whole with a 16 piece orchestra.
It is Saturday. I am not going too much further into this. Here is “The Killing Moon” . Easy way out? Maybe but if you don’t like it, I have a Mitch Miller album I could have put in its place. So there.