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MUSIC, Page 83BEST OF THE DECADE
Bruce Springsteen: The River (Columbia, 1980). Born in the
U.S.A. was the record that made the Boss a legend, but the bleak
majesty of this two-LP set shows the bedrock of his talent.
The Unknown Kurt Weill (Nonesuch, 1981). Acerbic rarities from
the composer of The Threepenny Opera, sung by opera's sexiest
soprano, Teresa Stratas.
Wynton Marsalis: Think of One (Columbia, 1983). The
award-winning album of a trumpeter who was jazz's hope of the
decade, as well as its hottest, coolest talent.
Bob Marley and the Wailers: Legend (Island, 1984). Marley died
in 1981, but this collection of some of his best songs was no
epitaph. It was a perpetual baptism of Jamaican soul.
Prince and the Revolution: Purple Rain (Warner Bros., 1984).
Not only the best rock sound track ever written, Purple Rain is the
most contained and passionate work to come from this protean regent
of R. and B.
The Mapleson Cylinders (Distributed by Metropolitan Opera
Guild, 1985). Calve sings! And so do Nordica, Sembrich and De
Reszke on these treasures from the Met, recorded on wax cylinders
by the company's librarian between 1900 and 1904.
Bob Dylan: Biograph (Columbia, 1985). A premature but timely
career retrospective of rock's most formidable writing talent,
Biograph was also a welcome reassertion of Dylan's primacy. Was
great, is great, will be great.
U2: Rattle and Hum (Island, 1988). In which the rockers with
the decade's biggest reach and most tender conscience discovered
America, and outdid themselves, besting even their breakthrough The
Joshua Tree album of 1987.
John Adams: Nixon in China (Nonesuch, 1988). The decade's most
exhilarating and accomplished new opera: a waltz across the Great
Wall with Dick, Pat, Henry, Mao and his missus.
Jerome Kern: Show Boat (Angel/EMI, 1988). With a cast that
boasted the likes of mezzo Frederica von Stade, the landmark
American musical was revealed for what it is: a landmark American
opera as well.