Gun For Hire

One of Billy Ocean's best releases, this album features a nice mix of funky upbeat cuts ("Stand And Deliver", "Gun For Hire") and romantic "Quiet Storm" ballads ("The Colour Of Love", "Here's To You"). The highlight of the album is the FULL-LENGTH version of the huge hit "Get Outta My Dreams, Get Into My Car" (the version on his Greatest Hits CD was a shorter radio edit). This album is filled with fun pop music, but there are enough sophisticated touches to keep it interesting (such as a trumpet solo on the uptempo song "Pleasure"). For fans of elegant 80s music, this will be a nice addition to your collection.

A Swedish whaler is out for revenge when he finds out that a greedy oil man murdered his father for their land.

You’d only need fingers and toes to count up the number of guitarists whose sound is so singular that you’d recognize them immediately by ear alone. David Grissom would definitely make that list long before you even got to your toes. In fact, David’s tone, style and musicality is so distinct that it likely wouldn’t take more than a measure or two to crack a smile of recognition. “David Grissom is a guitar geek's dream, an inventive player who combines power, finesse, theory and good taste into a disturbingly virile mix that straddles the line between beautiful abstraction and full-tilt boogie. Grissom is both virtuoso and journeyman, sideman and leader, merciless road dog and insouciant studio gun-for-hire.” - William Michael Smith, Houston Press.

One of the death metal genre's seminal cornerstones, Autopsy's debut album, Severed Survival, arrived in 1989, following two widely traded cassette demos and drummer Chris Reifert's brief association with Chuck Schuldiner's Death, prior to relocating from Florida to San Francisco. Once based there, Reifert completed his new band was with guitarists Eric Cutler and Danny Coralles, plus fretless bassist extraordinaire Steve DiGiorgio, who had just recently launched his "four-string gun for hire" career with neighboring headbangers Sadus.

Just twenty five years old, Brazilian cinema novo force Glauber Rocha wrote and directed this impressive feature addressing socio-political problems within his country–and indeed, anywhere it may apply. It is the 1940s, during another drought in the Brazilian sertao, when ranch hand Manuel is fed up with his situation. His boss tries to cheat him of his earnings and Manuel kills him, fleeing with his wife, Rosa. Now an outlaw, Manuel joins up with a self-proclaimed saint who condones violence and preaches disturbing doctrines. It is now Rosa who turns to killing and the two are on the move once again. And so it goes, the two running from one allegience to another, following the words of others as they attempt to find a place in their ruthless land. Blending mysticism, religion, and popular culture in this symbolic and realistic drama, Rocha insists that rather than follow the external and obscure dogmas of culture and religion, man must determine his path by his own voice.