Adding keyboard player Andrew Clark to make Be Bop Deluxe a quartet, Bill Nelson finally found a balance between his virtuosic guitar playing and the demands of pop songwriting. The arrangements were still busy, but the humor of Nelson's music was on display as never before, and the songs frequently were catchy. For the first time, it began to seem that the group had a future beyond serving as a foundation for Nelson's splashy guitar work, as Be Bop Deluxe charted in the U.S. and the U.K. and even scored a Top 25 British hit with "Ships in the Night."
I've had this urge for a while to convert my vinyl, or some of it anyway, to digital, and make it more shareable. And since recently I've been wanting to find new music apart from the Prog Rock I tend to listen to quite often, I thought I'd take another peek at the old stuff. I found Be Bop Deluxe, and was captured once again.One thing I've noticed over the years is that often when I go back to...
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| 1 Fair Exchange |
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| 2 Heavenly Homes |
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| 3 Ships in the Night |
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| 4 Crying to the Sky |
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| 5 Sleep That Burns |
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| 6 Beauty Secrets |
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| 7 Life in the Air Age |
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| 8 Like an Old Blues |
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| 9 Crystal Gazing |
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| 10 Blazing Apostles |
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