Clouds Above The Hill [1979, 2012 15]

After recording Level Headed, an album that mostly forsaked their hard rock leanings for pure pop, longtime lead vocalist Brian Connolly left Sweet for good. The rest of the group decided to press on as a trio, combining their pop/rock sound with a variety of other musical styles in a bid to gain a more progressive image. The result was Cut Above the Rest, a bizarre combination of the hard-rocking pop that dominated classic Sweet singles with progressive flights of fancy in a 10cc/Electric Light Orchestra vein, plus a dash of lounge lizard-ish soft rock balladry thrown in to cover all the pop/rock bases. There's no way an album that tries do so many things at once could succeed at all of them, but Cut Above the Rest is a surprisingly listenable affair…

EMI's Immersion Edition of The Wall offers a new remaster of the original album, a remaster of the previously released concert album Is There Anybody Out There: The Wall Live, a DVD containing a documentary among other visual highlights and, finally, two discs of demos from the band and the album's chief songwriter, Roger Waters…

Light Of The World - Light Of The World (1979) {2012 Remastered & Expanded - Big Break Records CDBBR0133}
EAC rip (secure mode) | FLAC (tracks)+CUE+LOG -> 461 Mb | MP3 @320 -> 156 Mb
Full Artwork @ 300 dpi (png) -> 58 Mb | 5% repair rar
© 1979, 2012 Chrysalis / Big Break Records / Cherry Red Records | CDBBR 0133
R'n'B / Jazz Funk / Funk / Jazz

LIGHT OF THE WORLD were a forerunner of the late seventies and early eighties British Jazz-Funk movement and took their name from Kool & The Gang’s 1974 album Light Of Worlds. Band members Wellington, Baptiste and McKreith later went onto become Beggar and Co. and also worked with Spandau Ballet on their UK #3 hit ‘Chant No. 1 (Don’t Need This Pressure)’.