FM: Tonight (1987)

Any lingering question as to the direction that FM was taking in the mid to late 80s was put to rest with this record. The band even covered a Beach Boys tune. The lead-off track--Magic (in Your Eyes)--is a finely-crafted pop song. I can't really complain, but the rest of the record does not fair so well. Dream Girl and She Does What She Wants are insipid. I miss the early prog-jazz-space influences. I probably bought this because I had everything else the band had recorded, so why not?

David Bowie: Tonight (1984)

While Tonight is arguably a weaker effort from David Bowie, I still appreciate it, mostly because I had a friend is residence with truly awful taste in music. When given the chance to pop a cassette into his tiny boom box, I would always choose this, so that I could avoid Madonna and Bananarama and the other garbage littering his shelf of cassettes. I think that this is a record that has improved with age, especially if you skip the title track.

The other question I have, vis-a-vis the title track, is why were people so eager to record with Tina Turner back in the day?