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Tuesday, January 7,1986

‘Morning Desire’ stakes claim to being top country single

By The Associated Press The following are Billboard’s hot record hits as they appear in next week’s issue of Billboard magazine. Copyright 1986, Billboard Publications, Inc. Reprinted with permission. HOT SINGLES 1. You, Say Me” Lionel Richie (Motown) 2. “Party All the Time” Eddie Murphy (Columbia) 3. What Friends Are For” Dionne & Friends (Arista) 4. and Kicking” Simple Minds (A&M) 5. Miss You” Klymaxx (MCA) 6. Town” John Cougar Mellencamp (Riva) 7. She Comes” The Cars (Elektra) 8. To Me” Stevie Nicks (Modern) 9. Wings” Mr. Mister (RCA) 10. Life” Dire Straits (Warner Bros.) TOP LP’s 1. “Miami Vice” Soundtrack (MCA) 2. Broadway Album” Barbra Streisand (Columbia) 3. Heart (Capitol) 4. “Scarecrow” John Cougar Mellencamp (Riva) 5. “Afterburner” ZZ Top (Warner Bros.) 6. in Arms” Dire Straits (Warner Bros.) 7. Square Circle” Stevie Wonder (Tamla) 8. “Born In The U.S.A. Bruce Springsteen (Columbia) 9. Deep In The Hoopla” Starship (Grunt) 10. From The Big Chair” Tears For Fears (Mercury) COUNTRY SINGLES 1. Desire” Kenny Rogers (RCA) 2. Dan Seals (EMI-America) 3. Be You” Rosanne Cash (Columbia)

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4. Again In My Heart” Nitty Gritty Dirt Band (Warner Bros.) 5. In My Mind” Reba McEntire (MCA) 6. “Memories To Burn” Gene Watson (Epic) 7. “Just In Case” Forester Sisters (Warner Bros.) 8. Mercy” The Judds (RCA) 9. To The) Heartbreak Kid” Restless Heart (RCA) 10. “Hurt” Juice Newton (RCA) ADULT CONTEMPORARY SINGLES 1. “That’s What Friends Are For” Dionne & Friends (Arista) 2. “Say You, Say Me” Lionel Richie (Motown) 3. Miss You” Klymaxx (MCA) 4. Wings” Mr. Mister (RCA) 5. “Go Home’ ’ Stevie Wonder (Tamla) 6. “Walk Of Life’ ’ Dire Straits (Warner Bros.) 7. James Taylor (Columbia) 8 “Separate Lives” Phil Collins & Marilyn Martin (Atlantic) 9. ‘‘Somewhere’ ’ Barbra Streisand (Columbia) 10. “The Sweetest Taboo” Sade (Portrait) BLACK SINGLES l.“ Say You, Say Me” Lionel Richie (Motown) 2“Don’t Say No Tonight” Eugene Wilde (Philly World) 3. “That’s What Friends Are For” Dionne & Friends (Arista) 4. “Digital Display” Ready For The World (MCA) 5. Home” Stevie Wonder (Tamla) 6. “Secret Lover” Atlantic Starr (A&M) 7. “Count Me Out” New Edition (MCA) 8. “The Sweetest Taboo” Sade (Portrait) 9. “Curiosity” Jets (MCA) 10. “Emergency” Kool & The Gang (De-Lite)

In review Big names band together to help causes

Albumsßy ROBERT PALMER c. 1986 N. Y. Times News Service NEW YORK almost every style and stripe banded together in all-star recording sessions and marathon concerts and asked audiences numbered collectively in the billions to help feed the world’s starving, shelter the homeless and fight racial discrimination. These were unparalleled events in the history of popular music, and journalists rightly gave them comprehensive coverage. But it is the business of the music critic to listen to music, to feel it emotionally and appreciate it intellectually and, finally, to impart some opinion as to its musical worth. Whether the critic writes about classical, jazz or popular music, there are certain musical standards against which a work can be judged. In pop, for example, a singer’s performance can be compared with traditions having to do with stylistic integrity and musicality and emotional impact that crystallized through several centuries in American vernacular music before vernacular music overtook the pop mainstream in the early years of rock-and-roll. But every listener reacts to every new musical encounter one-on-one, and while familiarity modifies and often supersedes initial impressions, sometimes one just doesn’t warm up to a piece of music that is perfectly acceptable according to every reasonable critical standard. And since the arrival of rock-and-roll in the 50s, definitive pop music has been about breaking standards as well as making them. The rough timbre of blues and gospel-based vocal styles and the howl and whine of guitar feedback may still be anathema to many listeners, but in the context of contemporary rock they are traditional elements. And there is always the emotive vocal performance that plainly wavers in and out of tune but just as plainly feels right—a pop tradition that is almost as old as the beginnings of recorded music. The pop critic listens and evaluates as he goes along. At the end of the year, he listens again to earlier favorites, and probes newer infatuations hoping to divine whether and how long they’ll retain their charms. And out comes the traditional 10best list. Around this critic’s house, the list consists of the records that keep getting played the records that mean the most, and seem likeliest to remain meaningful in years to come. In other words, while a lifetime of listening and a set of musical standards and a sense of tradition all enter into it, the thing is personal . And that is

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Albums 1. Rain Dogs - Tom Waits - Island 2. Go-Go Crankin’ - Various Artists - T.T.E.D.Island 3. Gas Food Lodging - Green On Red - Enigma 4. Bad Moon Rising - Sonic Youth - Homestead 5. Southern Accents - Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers -MCA 6. He Is the Light -A1 Green A&M 7. Field Of Fire - Richard Lloyd - Mistlur (Swedish Import) 8. Lost And Found - Jason and the Scorchers - EMI America 9. Boys and Girls - Bryan Ferry - Warner Brothers 10. Atlantis - Wayne Shorter - Columbia Singles 1. Sun City - Artists United Against Apartheid - Manhattan 2. The Old Man Down the Road - John Fogerty - Warner Brothers 3. E.U. Freeze-E.U.-T.T.E.D. - Island 4. Part-Time Lover - Stevie Wonder - Tamla 5. I Wonder If I Take You Home - Lisa Lisa and Cult Jam with Full Force - Columbia 6. Just Like Honey - The Jesus And Mary Chain - Blanco y Negro (British Import) 7. Spinning Round - Red Lorry Yellow Lorry - Mute (British Import) 8. Back in Stride - Frankie Beverly and Maze - Capitol 9. Hang On to Your Love - Sade - Epic-Portrait 10. Brainbox (He’s a Brainbox) - The Three Johns - Abstract (British Import) EP’s 1. The Very Long Fuse -Breaking Circus - Homestead 2. No Free Lunch - Green On Red - Mercury (British Import) 3.1 Crawled - Swans - Homestead

why its relationship to the records that sold the most copies, and this year to the music that helped the most lives, is somewhat tangential. This year’s lists of albums and EP’s (records longer than a single, but shorter than an album) reflect a prodigious upsurge of new American rock-and-roll bands. Some of them proudly reaffirm the verities of American musical and cultural traditions by contributing to, and hopefully stretching, those traditions. Green On Red (from Arizona by way of Los Angeles), Jason and the Scorchers (from Nashville), Panther Burns (Arkansas), Alex Chilton (Memphis), and Miracle Legion (Connecticut), might all be considered part of this movement. It was also reflected in an exquisitely crafted reassessment of personal and geographical roots by an established group that probably includes the finest American musicians playing the stadium circuit “Southern Accents” by Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers. Other new performers on these lists revel in the sound of boundaries being stretched and standards shattered. To these ears, the New York-based quartet Sonic Youth is making the most startlingly original guitar-based music since Jimi Hendrix using only cheap guitars, ordinary amplifiers and all the untried tunings and harmonic combinations their

Top records in ‘BS

4. Goodnight Moon - Floor Kiss -I. A S.-New Rose (French Import) 5. Sugar Ditch Revisited - Tav Falco’s Panther Bums -Frenzi-New Rose (French Import) 6 Feudalist Tarts-Alex Chilton-Big Time 7 Just South Of Heaven - Crime and the City Solution - Mute (British Import) 8. The Backyard - Miracle Legion - Incas Following are Stephen Holden's top 10 albums of 1985: 1. Follies in Concert - Stephen Sondheim - RCA Red Seal 2. Biograph - Bob Dylan -Columbia 3. The Broadway Album - Barbra Streisand - Columbia 4. Lost in the Stars: The Music of Kurt Weill - Various Artists -A&M 5. Promise -Sade - Epic-Portrait 6. Rain Dogs - Tom Waits - Island 7 Brothers in Arms-Dire Straits-Warner Bros. 8. The Dream of the Blue Turtle - Sting - A&M 9. In Square Circle - Stevie Wonder - Tamla 10. Dog Eat Dog - Joni Mitchell - Geffen Following are Jon Pareles’s top 10 albums of 1. Fables of the Reconstruction - REM - A&M 2. Live at the Harlem Square Club 1963 - Sam Cooke -RCA 3. New Day Rising - Husker Du - S.S.T. 4. Scarecrow - John Cougar Mellencamp - Polygram 5. Toure Kunda - Live-Paris-Ziguinchor - Celluloid 6. Lost and Found - Jason and the Scorchers - EMI America 7. Twilight Time - Bennie Wallace - Blue Note 8. A Walk in the Woods - Mikel Rouse - Crammed Disks (Belgian import) 9. Dense Band - David Moss - Moers Music (West German import) 10. Little Creatures - Talking Heads - Sire

hyperactive imaginations can devise. In somewhat different ways, Breaking Circus, Swans, Floor Kiss, the Three Johns, the Jesus and Mary Chain, and Red Lorry Yellow Lorry are after the same thing a music that sizzles, flares, crashes and burns. And in at least some of his many, mercurial guises, so is Tom Waits, a longestablished talent who made the year’s most dazzling and protean pop album, “Rain Dogs.” Black music, for reasons both artistic and economic, has always tended to find the single its most accommodating medium, and here this listener’s tastes were more in step with the mainstream. “Go-Go Crankin’,” compiled from several years’ worth of singles by various bands, was the year’s hottest album of dance music, the definitive introduction to Washington’s distinctively polyrhythmic “Go-Go” funk. “Sun City,” by Artists United Against Apartheid, wasn’t exactly a “black record,” in music-industry parlance, since Bruce Springsteen, Bob Dylan, Jackson Browne and Joey Ramone were among the vocalists assembled for a protest against South Africa’s racial policies. But its steamroller rhythm was pure New York street-funk, and featured in the cast were funk, rap, soul, jazz, reggae, salsa and Afro-pop artists.