You forgot to bold Rio. I see you gave it a high grade, so I assume you’re in my boat of more synth-pop = better synth-pop. It’s a bit “adjacent” but one album I associate with the first two Duran Duran records is Hall & Oates’ Big Bam Boom. The big hit everyone knows is the second track after an intro but I forget what that song actually is. I hear “Method of Modern Love” a lot at work and that’s on that album.

I haven’t been doing too much new listening. I’ve been absorbing Die schöne Müllerin (very good, prefer it to Winterreise but it doesn’t hold a candle to Schwanengesang) and Brahms’ motets, string sextets, and late piano pieces (Ivo Pogorovich or whatever the guy’s name is – you know who I mean) – mixed lot, that – and enough of Glenn Gould’s Kunst der Füge to pick out a suitable track for a playlist/mix CD I was making. The particular contrapunctus is recorded in both organ and piano versions and c:mon, it’s organ or bust when you’re displaying this stuff for public consumption. Link available upon request.

Aside from that, I was stuck in my Brazilian list and had been for a long time before I just decided to Colace its ass and flushed the crap and proceeded right along to Luiz Melodia’s Pérola Negra. Great album! Also on that new playlist/mix CD.

Other than that, just playlists. I’ve been working a lot but I’ll have more free time coming up