we listen so fast: forgotten/unkown/unloved 80s we are listening to.

just wanted a spot to bring up/talk about/mention any 80s listening you are doing and i would especially love to know about things you are listening to that are new to you. that is most of my 80s listening now other than the obligatory walks down sad dad lane with the usual lot of hit paraders. there is SO MUCH that i haven't heard in just about every genre imaginable and i kinda love the endlessness of it all. i will end long before i hear all the things i want to hear. which is as it should be.
would also love any reappraisals of things that you may have written off or ignored in the past.
but talk about whatever you want. its a free country lol. but i would love thoughts! as opposed to just pictures of covers.

anyway, this thread will be here. the 34737382th 80s thread. i know decades are kinda phony baloney in a lot of ways but for some reason i have always decided to go along with society when thinking about art and time. ten years makes sense to my brain. i grew up in the 70s and 80s and i'm always going to be fascinated with those years.

RIGHT NOW i am listening to Hee Haw's wriggl EP from 1989. listening to this you would never know that the 90s were about to happen. very 80s brit indie jangle with art school delivery. their address is in Edinburgh. sounds more early 80s. i dig it! i've never heard of them. they had two cassettes and this vinyl EP. vocals will give you a Go-Betweens feel.

this is them next to a tunnel that goes into the 90s and they are scared of it!

https://i.discogs.com/E0bXhKjv20spT9h7gEhWGf3Sy3SzmkBSH05ZNJSlpfM/rs:fit/g:sm/q:90/h:444/w:600/czM6Ly9kaXNjb2dz/LWRhdGFiYXNlLWlt/YWdlcy9BLTEyMzY5/MzEtMTQzMDU4NTAw/My03NDU1LmpwZWc.jpeg

(also: anything can be forgotten. so feel free to talk about something you forgot about and heard for the first time in a long time.)

(or i can just blab forever about shit nobody listens to. does anyone on ilx keep a listening diary of some sort? i don't know why i haven't done it. would be cool to have a chronological record of what i was hearing. but that does sound like more work and i have so much work already.)

I was recently checking out Slow Children; kind of interesting duo that I wasn't previously aware of. Their 2016 "reunion" album (the only one actually streaming) sounded surprisingly vital, though I only listened to a few tracks.

(the '80s stuff is on YouTube)

I am very excited that the Corbett vs Dempsey label is doing an archival deep dive into the work of Dredd Foole & the Din, one of my favorite largely unknown 80s bands. It started out as Dredd Foole with Mission Of Burma as his backing band, though they only released a single as that lineup. A later version put out an absolutely incredible album, Take Off Your Skin, which it seems is gonna be the final volume in this series.

Vol. 1 - Songs In Heat https://corbettvsdempsey.bandcamp.com/album/songs-in-heat

Vol. 2 - We Will Fall https://corbettvsdempsey.bandcamp.com/album/we-will-fall

This is the first track from Take Off Your Skin:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y5Fn1GY3Ygw

I bought the CD to Songs in Heat - that album smokes

been listening to this absolutely great never-before-released album by lost Bloomington Indiana band The Veritables

https://theveritables.bandcamp.com/album/the-veritables

recorded summer 1986

pretty sure they played in the basement of my rental punk house that summer

I also highly recommend this modern reissue of David Myers' (later Arcane Device, still later David Lee Myers) great mid-80s cassette releases

https://davidleemyers.bandcamp.com/album/1986

oh and this Amos & Sara reissue (1983)

https://emotional-response-recs.bandcamp.com/album/go-home-soldier

Hal McGee is a total hero for preserving the Psychodrama and Girls On Fire tapes

https://cassetteartclassics.bandcamp.com/album/300-days-of-sodom-enhanced
https://cassetteartclassics.bandcamp.com/album/i-think-about-jackson-pollock

basically this thread was made for me, ty scott

raging, passionate proto-emo-punk anyone?

https://hated-numero.bandcamp.com/album/the-best-piece-of-shit-vol-3

idk how I feel about Ken Clinger listing other people's records under his own label/artist name, but his site also has lots of fab 80's analog synth tape stuff by Lauri Paisley, Don Slepian, etc

https://anvilcreations.bandcamp.com/album/womr-concert-1988
https://anvilcreations.bandcamp.com/album/real-to-reel

(see also all the I.E.M.A. Group Tape compilations on his site there)

is this the best of the many pseudonymous Nocturnal Emissions releases? I think so

https://nocturnalemissions.bandcamp.com/album/rpm-33-bpm-111-113

"the Corbett vs Dempsey label is doing an archival deep dive into the work of Dredd Foole & the Din..."

Dan is a friend of mine! I love him so much. And his wife too. they are both great. I saw them in July at Byron Coley's big summer shindig. I also bought all of Dan's EDM/Techno/Glitch CDs during the pandemic when he was moving house. That was fucking insane. I am STILL listening to it all. but i can't talk about that here. it's all 90s stuff he got when he was working at Forced Exposure. also Roger Miller lives up the road from me. It's good to have Din friends.

this sounded huge to me this week. her only album. i think even reissues are hard to find. it's friggin' amazing. produced by roy ayers. 1981. oof. i just love it. i only wish you guys could hear it loud on my stereo. the original sells for $300 and i am stating for the record that it is worth every penny. uh, not that i paid that for it. her voice is so cool. sometimes i hear minnie riperton in it. sometimes i hear my hero corey daye. but its all her really. and quite a performance.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ER7NilM3vlI

i brought this up on another thread but i had one of those real "how have i never heard this before!!!" moments last week. such a cool album. now i need the other two they made. i only knew that single "I'm In Love With A German Film Star".

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f8mNY8qx_sk

just discovered BOGSHED last week and now I have a whole nother slew of weird 80s bands to dig into

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=phxebNsiiTo

xp YES see also Jackdaw Crowbar, Dog Faced Hermans, Dawson, etc

omg this thread--- Because not like there are so many Dredd records ever, here's another, from my '05 Voice round-up of outriders:

New England's Dredd Foole (Dan Ireton) used to lead a tribe called the Din,
which sometimes included emissaries from Boston noise kings Mission of Burma. As
presented by Sonic Youth's Thurston Moore and Forced Exposure's Byron Coley, the
Foole, armed now only with mostly non-noisy vocals and solo guitar, does indeed
fight A Long Losing Battle With Eloquence and Intimance (sic), and listeners
win. He's the bard of the barred and scarred, the ones who pay the toll and the
troll.
(Ain't Sorry.)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qeZs0puN3xM

I just saw a documentary about the Blitz club on a flight yesterday, and it reminded to go back and listen to Rexy again (obscure one-off from two Blitz kids):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OX3Cj1v-AYE

there must have been a time when i knew that Graham Gouldman of progpop legends 10CC had a duo called WAX with american soft pop legend Andrew Gold, right? and that they made THREE(!!!) albums in the 80s. right? i have no memory of this. listening to their first album Magnetic Heaven from 1986. very Mike & The Mechanics with maybe a smidge more era-appropriate clanking drum machines and synth blurbs. not so terrible. Graham Gouldman is some sort of hero. ooooooh, an old-fashioned 10cc-style guitar break. don't know if i would listen again. i've heard other 80s stuff by 10cc people and they must have gone nuts with the new tech but i can't help but think about how GODLY (get it?) the production on 70s 10cc was. i mean, beyond godly. it was the creme of the crop. (did you catch that last part?) RAK Studios must have just got an upgrade of shiny new bells and whistles in 1986. but it sorta turns into mush. maybe i need an 80s-to-Analog converter for my stereo. my poor Marantz doesn't know what do with these chiming plastic synth washes.
man, my sister played the hell out of that second andrew gold album back in the 70s. i liked looking at the cover. i liked busy room covers.

apparently i'm going mousse hunting this morning. listening to Lodgic's 1985 album Nomadic Sands. you get lyrics about nuclear destruction by the second song so i am in the right place. the production is already way better than on the Wax album courtesy of Steve Porcaro. i would listen to this album again! good vibes. there is also air. and room to breathe. i guess all my 80s r&b listening (and synth-pop listening) has made me really prize minimalism when it comes to 80s synths and gadgets. (i mean really when you get right down to it there is no reason on god's green earth to listen to a Wax album when there is so much goodness you could be listening to just on the Solar label alone. but someone has to do the heavy lifting.)
hats off to Lodgic! you could be an r&b fan or an aor fan and maybe like this. a little sad that the better harmonies and melodies are on this album and not the graham Goldman album!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YmTRHZYOtQc

i thought it might be a bridge too far to play the one and only album by Shy Talk from 1985 but they are standing on nomadic sand on the cover so i had to! and i'm enjoying it. maybe i have a fever. i dunno. sounds good to me in a kevin bacon movie soundtrack kinda way. their single could have been in Quicksilver for sure.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NfCDXCdS1aQ

Shy Talk were never on an 80s soundtrack (which is baffling and i hope they fired their manager) but they were included on this cassette pop comp from Indonesia.

https://i.discogs.com/hk-MsV9-3lrULMzfpPXwBj6I4lOmwKmQkgHolGeZQe4/rs:fit/g:sm/q:90/h:600/w:395/czM6Ly9kaXNjb2dz/LWRhdGFiYXNlLWlt/YWdlcy9SLTE1NDQy/MjYzLTE1OTE1OTAy/MzEtMTIyNi5qcGVn.jpeg

Scored a stack of forgotten 70s & 80s records in great condition for $1 each. They’re generally a cornucopia of mediocrity but a few stand out & will be getting a closer listen. First in mind is Ken Lockie’s The Impossible, which has at least one killer track, “Dance House”, a kind of industrial-lite post-disco stomper.

listening to Gus & The New Breed right now. Gus had two albums on the mighty Nemperor label. i know i have played the first one but i have no memory of it. this 2nd album from 1983 has some good hard rockin' power-poppin' bar bandin' fun. pay no more than $2. i guarantee that if he had made this album in 1985 it would have been wall to wall synths. "He Was So Humble" is the most hard rocking track.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b-RxJGjXdUw

Years ago I picked up a 1985 album by a Canadian band called Condition, Mumbo Jumbo, based on the cover (sharkskin suits, evening gown) and the covers (Cole Porter, The Cadets, and a Lil Green number "Knockin' Myself Out.") Chanteuse plays combo organ, there's sax, drums, and lots of exotica bongo banging. Her voice is a little strident.

https://i.discogs.com/vyN0aJS6--0AaocyMCaQiVoEf115c0yhD6ptrp-xVdg/rs:fit/g:sm/q:90/h:450/w:465/czM6Ly9kaXNjb2dz/LWRhdGFiYXNlLWlt/YWdlcy9SLTIzMjMw/NDYtMTI4MjIzODAz/Ni5qcGVn.jpeg

This thread prompted me to search youtube and to my amazement there is a video.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lbVrwFTa6kY

"Scored a stack of forgotten 70s & 80s records in great condition for $1 each."

this is a big reason for this thread. the inspiration really. i bought the motherlode of 80s stuff. so much stuff. so fun too!

Mock me if you will but I'm quite a fan of this ludicrous 1983 piece of sub-Queen nonsense from Northern Ireland's Cruella de Ville, just playing it for the first time since it came out

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dYHq-ajJdC0

yikes, that's some crazy stuff! the cruella. i would never mock anyone's 80s love for anything.

i'm playing Cameo's Machismo album for the first time ever and i did not know that there is a Miles Davis jazz jam at the end of side one! nobody told me. there is some great horn action in general courtesy of the brecker brothers and maceo and kenny garrett.

If you need further confirmation that I'm the Lenny Williams aka kid Seville that played guitar on the machismo album you can contact Sammy merendino he put me in touch with cameo he was their drummer on numerous album's for them he can be reached at Sammy meredino.com or(212)9**-35**,I'm from Philadelphia, you have a album of mine and a picture of me I am the artist kid Seville so please change that it's not cool when someone takes credit for something that you've done even if it's a mistake but this can be rectified thank you Lenny Williams aka kid Seville, Leonard j Williams

discogs needs to get on that. notice how i covered the phone number. i don't want any of you guys calling sammy meredino and pranking him.

Hard to know what counts as "unknown" to ILM, but I've never met another person who knows and loves this whiny country song.

The Rave-Ups, Radio

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yn4M0HvuxGs

i like it! its sad. i love songs about radio. or when people say the word radio over and over. i remember the rave-ups of course because they were lumped in with all the other alt country rock people but i never listened to them.

Cameo's Machismo album is really ambitious! it's impressive. sounds great too.

are there fans of early soup dragons...i'm a little scared of this 1986 EP i have in front of me. Edinburgh address. i wonder if they were friends with Hee Haw up above there.

listening to the one and only album by The Gyrlz from 1988 on Capitol which sounds pretty much like you would think a girl group with involvement from Teddy Riley and Al B. Sure! would sound like. it's right up my nujak alley. i'm thinking of starting a tape label that is just chopped & screwed new jack r&b records from the 80s and 90s. #milliondollaridea

https://i.discogs.com/HRJDF4RP9P7tkXyiec6fHfGzhap55NIOJTDp-DS2HyU/rs:fit/g:sm/q:90/h:360/w:395/czM6Ly9kaXNjb2dz/LWRhdGFiYXNlLWlt/YWdlcy9BLTI5NDg0/OS0xNDU5NTM5MjU0/LTUwMTguanBlZw.jpeg

i haven't played it yet but i can't stop staring at this cover...

https://i.discogs.com/0VoiD6SljduZo7UWEUsmmn1L7B65_SL-3l1S_50RFm8/rs:fit/g:sm/q:90/h:487/w:500/czM6Ly9kaXNjb2dz/LWRhdGFiYXNlLWlt/YWdlcy9SLTI0MTk1/MTYtMTI4MzA2NzIy/NC5qcGVn.jpeg

this gyrlz album is really solid! both sides.

love!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JJh0wyWsjHU

Listening to Richard Strange's live debut solo album The Live Rise Of Richard Strange from 1980. it's cool. he was Kid Strange from my fave band Doctors of Madness. i've never heard his solo stuff. and you know how i love a live debut album. obviously remixed later but it originated live from Hurrah in NYC. i never got to go to Hurrah. its stripped down stuff compared to the proggy bombast of DoM. as befitting the times. still very vocal-forward and quirky. if you like the records that nash the slash did apart from the band FM then you would like this. that's pretty specific but pretty accurate too. this is more straightforward than nash's stuff though.

in case anyone might be interested. this was my pandemic project. i kinda got obsessed by the book VOLUME: International Discography Of The New Wave from 1980 and decided to make a playlist for the book. It took me...two years? more? Who knows. It was pandemic time, baby! Time wasn't really a thing. Anyway, it was really hard because that book was a mess. Lots of detective work. But fun too. I learned a lot and heard even more. Not totally applicable to this thread but in the spirit of this thread. this link should work.

http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLE1-7P1reTFh-exzT4SJc8A6fHI1msnJo

I love this edit of “Damascus”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_IOz1Ub3u_s

i'm debating whether i want to hear this album by The Wreckery from 1987. seriously weird lyrics on the back cover make me curious.

https://i.discogs.com/PZEws1j7zVIXL21ZQK43qSUlKNsfbWJsrFiq7RfLtIM/rs:fit/g:sm/q:90/h:334/w:600/czM6Ly9kaXNjb2dz/LWRhdGFiYXNlLWlt/YWdlcy9BLTU3MzIx/Mi0xMjgyNTU5ODI3/LmpwZWc.jpeg

they put out 3 albums in 2 years!

right now i'm listening to Jak's I Go Wild from 1985. I'm on the second side which is a sign of goodness. nobody in the store seemed to mind his masterpiece "Sixty Nine". it's good to work to. i know it's hard to believe but i'm actually working.

https://i.discogs.com/WwaqjYGBFz9nQWWkYf-H3Cvp7zHdMo98yTe4co1Xcds/rs:fit/g:sm/q:90/h:400/w:378/czM6Ly9kaXNjb2dz/LWRhdGFiYXNlLWlt/YWdlcy9SLTEyMzkw/NTEtMTMzMjMzMzkz/MS5qcGVn.jpeg

I recently listened to the Zulus debut s/t EP and Down On The Floor LP. They're legendary around Boston and I must've seen them in the early 90s. But I still prefer Human Sexual Response.

i love human sexual response. i have had zulus records and not listened. i'll bet i have some around here. i just saw another record around here connected to HSR and now i can't remember what it was.

i'm gonna listen to the march violets after jak. i have a comp of theirs from 1984. and i've never really listened to them much! even though they are way more well known than most things mentioned here. better late than never! (its weird too cuz i love early goths like i love my mother!)

SEE CROW BABY!

i haven't gotten to crow baby yet! i'm really digging this though. tempted to keep...

i can remember having that 1985 u.s. comp on relativity in the store forever and i can't remember if i ever played it. this one has tons of stuff on it. maybe 2023 was my year for march violets. it happens when it happens.

Good call, Scott. "Walk Into The Sun" is my fave from them but they had lots of good stuff.

i got a lot of new beat/industrial stuff i've never listened to and i'm excited to dig into that. its time that i give the cassandra complex the hearing they deserve.

"snake dance" is epic! what an epic! good job, march violets. if i'm ever in leeds i will buy you a pint.

(meanwhile this album by The Jets is one of the best things i've heard all day. they are kinda forgotten!)

(seriously, do you all own the first album by The Jets? the one with "You Got It All" on it? every home should have one. this has been an 80s public service announcement.)

A similar realization that some of my odd favorites from the 80s had recently finally made their way to streaming got me to start making a playlist of them, which snowballed into a playlist of everything I liked in the 80s (1 song per artist from 337 artists):

https://open.spotify.com/playlist/3AJFnVl9iQvGmyuzfW7FL0?si=b6ed7482b2104f03

and then a second playlist of everything like those things that I didn't like (at the time) (1007 more artists, release dates not as diligently checked in this list):

https://open.spotify.com/playlist/0dDujxqL97daTfL91wdYZb?si=fa2608d4c0db46cc

Chances are good that you will have forgotten at least some of these.

another all time favorite, UK peace punk buys a synth and goes proto-emo

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PILkLaKixiI

this also fits the rare "artists who only released one great track" criteria, much more common in the 80s imho

scott didn't you post this insanely great comp on FB or maybe here recently?

https://www.discogs.com/release/843837-Various-Subtle-Hints

yeah on the listening thread. its so amazing. so much unknown goodness. unknown to me anyway.

this was fun today. i actually got a lot of work done with this music playing!

i'll be back in a day or two. going to get more records. because more records.

and then more to talk about! (and i will be checking out all the links on here too...)

the chorus on this is amazing

Stella Carnacina - “Non Bastera”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q-W26GQuXcs

(seriously, do you all own the first album by The Jets? the one with "You Got It All" on it? every home should have one. this has been an 80s public service announcement.)

― scott seward, Monday, August 14, 2023 5:08 PM (yesterday) bookmarkflaglink

And speaking of public service announcements

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r-lLIE55hUw

started my day with two records i've never heard by people certainly not obscure but maybe not a part of the daily national conversation. both records have really good sound. evelyn's record has a nice barebones freestyle vibe. cole & clivilles work their magic on a couple of tracks. payola$ were produced by mick ronson but bob rock did a lot and why do i forget that bob rock was in payola$? if i was canadian i would know this. anyway, this record doesn't ever sound like generic mush and it would have had the label just thrown some generic producer at them. their fake reggae sounds fine. i vaguely remember "eyes of a stranger". i think it was the album after this that had the college radio song i liked.

oh shit cole & clivilles are sampling art of noise on evelyn's album now. "before the date". i will never not love that.

https://i.discogs.com/GEEbKrOJwCCjZEGsR6l4bk4eS-2lWQimryY0LWC2aXQ/rs:fit/g:sm/q:90/h:600/w:600/czM6Ly9kaXNjb2dz/LWRhdGFiYXNlLWlt/YWdlcy9SLTc1MjIx/OS0xMzk5MTg1MDA3/LTU1ODcuanBlZw.jpeg

https://i.discogs.com/1F3L8yK1bZUuV2SFxPUWE4HAaMCFauJsBY-N19eRqOQ/rs:fit/g:sm/q:90/h:596/w:600/czM6Ly9kaXNjb2dz/LWRhdGFiYXNlLWlt/YWdlcy9SLTU3Njgy/OS0xNTgzMzQzODA1/LTg2NDkucG5n.jpeg

Some relatively new to me tracks I've thrown into my 80-84 playlists. Probably around half of these came thru from Discover Weekly.

Ryuichi Sakamoto - Riot In Lagos
Polyrock - Your Dragging Feet
Talking Heads - Unison
Felt - Evergreen Dazed
The Au Pairs - Headache For Michelle
Essential Logic - Wonderful Offer
Rexy - Running Out Of Time
Kim Carnes - Draw Of The Cards
Cha Cha Guitri - Non Non Non
James Last - Biscaya
Pilou - Ca Va
Antena - Camino Del Sol
Pat Metheny Group - Au Lait
The Flirts - Surf’s Up
Material - Don’t Lose Control
Manu Dibango - Mouna Pola
Richenel - Autumn
International Music System - Mojave
XTC - Frost Circus
Roy Ayers - Chicago
The Durutti Column - Prayer
Eddy Trauma - Macaroni Radio
Suburban Lawns - Flavor Crystals
Sisters Of Mercy - Phantom
The System - Pendy! You’re In Some Awful Danger
Witch - Erotic Delight
Thomas Leer - International

Blitz - Second Empire Justice

British OI! lads go post-punk on their second album

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2pJnYbcMz2U

Jimmy Harnen - Where are you Now?

if i'm gonna listen to an 80s record produced by mick ronson then its only fair to then play an 80s record produced by rick derringer. this is pretty good. milwaukee band's one and only album from 1984. they try to sound british which is always a plus with american new wave. i would totally put the cut "adrianna dreams" on a new wave mixtape. check that one out. they actually say "fade to grey" in the lyrics! wearing their influences on their sleeve. anyway, underrated!

https://i.discogs.com/Uwlyc9BnzEzt09v244niMOBKoEr-liETAyhKNRVOUg8/rs:fit/g:sm/q:90/h:467/w:465/czM6Ly9kaXNjb2dz/LWRhdGFiYXNlLWlt/YWdlcy9SLTI5OTk1/MjItMTMyNzIzODc0/OC5qcGVn.jpeg

i love that Blitz record! its so good.

those jimmy pursey post-punk albums have always been underrated as well.

it doesn't fit this thread but i ALSO love the 1990 Blitz album The Killing Dream. such a weird one.

was the Payola$ singer...welsh? i can't place his accent. doesn't sound canadian but maybe he wanted to sound more exotic.

love this. keeping it too! my keeping something is not exactly a trademark of quality but i support this record. if you are german and want to sound like gary numan its a safe bet that i will support you. now i just have to find their four(!!) other 80s albums.

https://i.discogs.com/BVrrHhyhWWAg4F-rYaZiONr2JvYCRf9Hz5IeEIXNDss/rs:fit/g:sm/q:90/h:440/w:440/czM6Ly9kaXNjb2dz/LWRhdGFiYXNlLWlt/YWdlcy9SLTI0OTM4/Ny0xMTYxNDY3MzIz/LmpwZWc.jpeg

i bumped into the cassandra complex bloke a couple of times in leeds back in the day.
first time was in a synth/keyboard shop, and then he would always give me the nod after that.
always meant to pick up their 'hello america' album, but never got around to it.
in my head their stuff was in the same ballpark as 'drug free america',
but have never really dug around to confirm/deny this mental association due to forgetting about them both until scotts mention.

listening to Carole Davi$'s 1988 LP produced by Nile Rogers. she should have toured with Payola$. it's good! she collaborated with Prince and this would definitely fit on the paisley park roster but its on Warner. this is the kind of thing i usually play on CD. if i had the CD it would totally make my car's playlist. she doesn't have a great voice but the songs and production are cool. plus: surprise appearance by MC Shan!

https://i.discogs.com/4tiyu5nr_pMELZcmPqpAdco3VoX4hL8pQI9SfVIJdDw/rs:fit/g:sm/q:90/h:598/w:600/czM6Ly9kaXNjb2dz/LWRhdGFiYXNlLWlt/YWdlcy9SLTMxMjcw/OS0xNDI3NTYwMDE5/LTYxMjguanBlZw.jpeg

https://i.discogs.com/uqRq8-laQAfYvCZxg-7IjXw8Af404ovWEdgaLlElUB8/rs:fit/g:sm/q:90/h:600/w:596/czM6Ly9kaXNjb2dz/LWRhdGFiYXNlLWlt/YWdlcy9SLTMxMjcw/OS0xNDI3NTYwMDE5/LTUzOTYuanBlZw.jpeg

uh oh i've gone full ebm. set yer walkie-talkie vocals on stun. #lucvanacker

(could kinda listen to this stuff all day...)

https://i.discogs.com/C2Ocl6hvdCZjUpxd-6NGw92TlmHuhWjeWxr93aJL0Is/rs:fit/g:sm/q:90/h:600/w:600/czM6Ly9kaXNjb2dz/LWRhdGFiYXNlLWlt/YWdlcy9SLTk1NTc5/OS0xNjQ1OTgxNjE5/LTQwNTcuanBlZw.jpeg

seriously thought about getting this logo as a tattoo. now i'm thinking i might get a tattoo of tony tony chopper from one piece wearing an antler subway t-shirt.

https://i.discogs.com/GjC1CCFB2TIejLQ4FDcm5n3tkJ1NZ_nrp10-J0xON8o/rs:fit/g:sm/q:90/h:303/w:280/czM6Ly9kaXNjb2dz/LWRhdGFiYXNlLWlt/YWdlcy9MLTI1MjYt/MTY0MTQ5NDEyNC01/MTY4LmpwZWc.jpeg

this KK insert is a gem.

https://i.discogs.com/DgiFXzsMgE9mP6EZRkIIU5MjwK33QNOzW9WyZHUQhYE/rs:fit/g:sm/q:90/h:600/w:422/czM6Ly9kaXNjb2dz/LWRhdGFiYXNlLWlt/YWdlcy9SLTk1NTc5/OS0xNjQ1OTgxNjIy/LTUwMjEuanBlZw.jpeg

that H.N.A.S. record is an all time fave, the D.D.A.A. is very disappointing

lol the Vinyl On Demand guy has been raving about Force Dimension today #onethread

christoph heemann of h.n.a.s. played at my store once. he is so nice. and so fun to talk to about records cuz he has that crazy brain like his nurse with wound friend. crazy in a good way. for instance, one of his favorite records is Ball by Iron Butterfly. i always liked that about him.

haha that's awesome

listening to the one and only album by The Ladder. not terrible? so far. that production though...wow. 1986 in full effect. 1985 to 1989 could be an awkward period for studio engineers. apparently. but they were right there in joe the butcher's house! i know that they probably said make it like the hooters, joe! and they should have said make it like schoolly d, joe!

https://i.discogs.com/tM30HH6Z-iwgDWPR4RqkNXrjwj81EdM-0we6tl8ftCI/rs:fit/g:sm/q:90/h:448/w:450/czM6Ly9kaXNjb2dz/LWRhdGFiYXNlLWlt/YWdlcy9SLTI4NDUy/MTQtMTMwMzY3NDk3/Ny5qcGVn.jpeg

I mentioned this in another obscure 80s thread, but this album was fucking fantastic, and dark as hell.

https://i.discogs.com/tOmoEDhf4wY1G7RkYngkbG3RQaNlC3Ax99fiU_ndi_8/rs:fit/g:sm/q:90/h:593/w:600/czM6Ly9kaXNjb2dz/LWRhdGFiYXNlLWlt/YWdlcy9SLTkwNzM1/Ni0xNDcwNzUzOTY1/LTYyMzAuanBlZw.jpeg

i should listen to it! i have avoided it all these years and it is ubiquitous around here. i mean i know the hit obviously.

Ubiquitous, really? They always struck me as one-hit wonders. David Baerwald had a solo album or two afterwards, but I don't think they did very well. I remember getting a promo copy of this one from the record store I was working at and being just blown away.

there are a million copies of it around here. must have been their core demographic. the state of massachusetts.

I don't remember selling a single copy of it back in the day lol

Boulder, Colorado may not have been their core demographic

That sleeve is v.v. familiar, must have been a bargain bin perennial in the UK too

nothing like the sheer weight and volume of joan armatrading albums but i've had dozens and dozens of copies of boomtown here.

related: I cannot believe how much cheaper records are on the east coast/midwest. the Goodwills here charge $3.99 for total garbage, the other thrift chain (St. Vincent de Paul) charges $2.99 for everything, you can still find deals but jeez

xp Yeah, I think A&M tried to promote it pretty hard.

(I am in Oregon, which appears to be the worst state in the country for used vinyl)

ATL is all over the map, some bargains and a ton of stuff overpriced (like $35 and up for middling releases).

okay, screw The Ladder and their bloat this is more my speed. Philadelphia Five via KK Records. 1988 New Beat the way I love it. this is dope!

https://i.discogs.com/4RScPRR-w0ScOg0bIYviZajZ7mo6JsvD3bezfNuUKrM/rs:fit/g:sm/q:90/h:600/w:600/czM6Ly9kaXNjb2dz/LWRhdGFiYXNlLWlt/YWdlcy9SLTE2NTgz/NS0xNTYxMzQ5NzA1/LTMwMTcuanBlZw.jpeg

i like stacy. never listened to this record all the way through! a narada michael walden production. A+ pop r&b.

https://i.discogs.com/ohYVcPhv8JqsB_yVtYqJRtYwddjwIt_QvMQc1Lcc3_A/rs:fit/g:sm/q:90/h:590/w:600/czM6Ly9kaXNjb2dz/LWRhdGFiYXNlLWlt/YWdlcy9SLTE2MDIw/NzQtMTUyMzExNDA3/Mi02NDkyLmpwZWc.jpeg

listening to 1981 power pop right now. i've heard worse! but there is definitely some corniness here.

https://i.discogs.com/nH-lRr9GM6OlEIMMC8HpHUuCDz4k-puNTjLdx6X4d2U/rs:fit/g:sm/q:90/h:500/w:500/czM6Ly9kaXNjb2dz/LWRhdGFiYXNlLWlt/YWdlcy9SLTE1MTYz/MTQtMTMzODYyMzg2/Ni05MzE3LmpwZWc.jpeg

Previously on ILM:
C/D: David & David - Boomtown
David and David: "Boomtown" -- C/D?

Whenever I see H.N.A.S. written out I momentarily mix it up with HSAS a.k.a. Hagar Schon Aaronson Shrieve which is an 80s band that no one should really remember. Except I think that J. D. Considine's review of the HSAS album ("Fred Zeppelin") is funnier than the infamous GTR review

It was a long way from Santana at Woodstock to HSAS for Michael Shrieve

your morning workout!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rs_gXpPg31c

canadian new wave from 1982. this is actual synth-pop! so far. i dig it. we shall see how things progress. with these types of dollar records you don't know if you will get actual synth-pop or slightly skinny tie power pop with a dash of synth from a band that turned in its steve miller and eagles covers 6 months ago and bought some pointy shoes. not that i have a problem with the latter if the songs are good. but often the former bar band will have one cool single that is A1 on side 1 and then a bunch of whatever.

https://i.discogs.com/PLarDiRE-LR5sn4M6EDFD1OW0z4U_3T5FiPdo5qg4jg/rs:fit/g:sm/q:90/h:600/w:600/czM6Ly9kaXNjb2dz/LWRhdGFiYXNlLWlt/YWdlcy9SLTE1NzA0/NDctMTM3MTI2Mzk0/MC03ODcxLnBuZw.jpeg

in general, though, all bets are off once the calendar turns to 1985. things go downhill fast. as far as that kinda stuff goes. by 1985 you have full rooster hair a la The Alarm and cowboy boots and before you know it you are caught in a zodiac mindwarp!

i love this one! but i have already expressed my love for radio songs. this is kinda ultravox + blue nile.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IU7IESCs-j0

I haven't been following this thread (was planning to revisit it later when I'm next obsessed with a very minor 80s band, upon which I'll mention the ones I already have in mind) but I just want to say Cruella de Ville are great and it's a shame there was never an album.

it's official. the first Strange Advance album is UNDERRATED. maybe not in canada. i wouldn't know. they don't put a bar band new wave rock song on the album until track 10! and its the only song with Bob Rock playing rock guitar. everything before that any new wave band would have been happy to have a single. for the most part. good job, gang!

https://i.discogs.com/78UZaLBZo4_3B_h4djo9jmasakJ_sjPkny_uj7hKPh0/rs:fit/g:sm/q:90/h:423/w:500/czM6Ly9kaXNjb2dz/LWRhdGFiYXNlLWlt/YWdlcy9BLTI5MzE5/NC0xNDg0NTAzMDc0/LTI2NDQuanBlZw.jpeg

It's Jesse's Gang! Who could ever forget them? Me! I'm sure I've seen their singles a bunch. That's the great situation I'm in right now. I have a ton of full-length albums by artists who I have only seen on singles before. The albums rarely pop up. The singles tanked so the album tanked. Or something like that. Plus, this is from 1987 so if anyone was a Jesse's Gang fanatic they would buy the tape or CD. anyway, I'll report back. I'm looking forward to their song "Noiz Without Words".

https://i.discogs.com/rEz4vpsByk-xGYu-ut62rcMCxUZ5RqHZsq1WpjhR0Sc/rs:fit/g:sm/q:90/h:600/w:600/czM6Ly9kaXNjb2dz/LWRhdGFiYXNlLWlt/YWdlcy9SLTE5OTAw/OTEtMTM3OTYwMjYx/Ny00NjE3LmpwZWc.jpeg

since canadian synth-pop is a recurring theme of this thread, i will humbly submit this amazing b-side by the band Roman Grey, who had some degree of success in their home country but are basically unknown in the states. could only find one mention of them in the ilx archives.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mHRAUN8rudU

i like that a lot!

nobody needs that Jesse's Gang album i was listening to. sorry, Jesse. and as a sorta/kinda kid creole/august darnell/stony browder completist i'm embarrassed to say that i have never heard this project by the ever-fecund darnell mind. from 1983. playing now!

https://i.discogs.com/1GTQoCIiqQdyS_9crwqz5cWLoV4ZB38Qnck3P1zWIZQ/rs:fit/g:sm/q:90/h:600/w:600/czM6Ly9kaXNjb2dz/LWRhdGFiYXNlLWlt/YWdlcy9SLTExMTAz/MC0xNjIxNzczMzk3/LTk0ODEucG5n.jpeg

I haven't thought about some of these albums in years. The cover art brings back the heady days of stocking the bins.

Hmm pop with synths is not synthpop imo? Song 1 vibes more as, like ultravox, but performed by like, rush? By songs 2 and 3 they’re even better at it.

i guess i just meant the difference between SYNTH-pop with a big emphasis on new wave/new romantic/post-punk synth sounds and some rock band with some added synths farting along behind them.

there was a lot of anonymous power pop with a loud keyboard player thanks to The Cars. every label wanted another Cars. who can blame them?

listening to the first album by then Jerico (First (The Sound Of Music) from 1987) but i think i like their promo pics better than their album.

https://i.discogs.com/KXQ94X44qqxNxuhDtDH7VFjSwe4PbnMoy0FfHd2WPz4/rs:fit/g:sm/q:90/h:600/w:600/czM6Ly9kaXNjb2dz/LWRhdGFiYXNlLWlt/YWdlcy9BLTk2MTI5/LTE1ODUwNzkyNzMt/ODcyOS5qcGVn.jpeg

https://i.discogs.com/cD2Ty00cmd89yvNWLyzGy9NTtfHwvk2_tZJ7Ub5EgH8/rs:fit/g:sm/q:90/h:613/w:600/czM6Ly9kaXNjb2dz/LWRhdGFiYXNlLWlt/YWdlcy9BLTk2MTI5/LTE1ODUwNzkzMDQt/NDU3Ni5qcGVn.jpeg

https://i.discogs.com/IBU7pxm3aw84Nse0jyRl0EkWzefFjLDVBBoyonz8R88/rs:fit/g:sm/q:90/h:600/w:600/czM6Ly9kaXNjb2dz/LWRhdGFiYXNlLWlt/YWdlcy9BLTk2MTI5/LTE1ODUwNzkyNTMt/NDk3Ny5qcGVn.jpeg

did they have their own line of ripped sweaters? that is so cool.

https://i.discogs.com/TImSuXnXYhnqB7g7sH0hplaXuPBw8EGW_WNh0MJ5GlU/rs:fit/g:sm/q:90/h:603/w:600/czM6Ly9kaXNjb2dz/LWRhdGFiYXNlLWlt/YWdlcy9BLTk2MTI5/LTE1ODUwNzkyODUt/MjgzMy5qcGVn.jpeg

xp Ha yep. I agree that strange advance album is consistently good at what it was doing.

though possibly more interesting than then jerico - and as much i like jan hammer - i don't think i can listen to this styx solo record. i'm moving on after one track.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6SanTtzMW2c

we have a winner!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m7ReMYa64MQ

acieeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeed. this is really good. i'll go light on the acid house singles i'm cleaning because 95% of all british acid house is obscure to me. i listen to it on comps and i never know what i'm hearing. from 1988. i would listen to a comp of whoever this is on cd.

https://i.discogs.com/lOBQL4baOk7OX-PG8xLS0sKV_p8ZyWdqK8GFshwScbY/rs:fit/g:sm/q:90/h:598/w:595/czM6Ly9kaXNjb2dz/LWRhdGFiYXNlLWlt/YWdlcy9SLTg2Mzk4/LTEyMDExNzQzMTYu/anBlZw.jpeg

haha, no wonder. its one of the 5% i know and love, a guy called gerald!

british ebm. 1986. so keeping this 12-inch. i dig it. and i won't have to listen to the crappy youtubes that people put up. this one isn't as crappy. some of them are really bad. turntables from 1902 playing industrial music. maybe that's steampunk.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JqbWgyx8jtY

maybe you’ve heard it already scott but the richard sen comp ‘this ain’t chicago’ has that annette track and lots of other excellent british acid house besides

speaking of britishes: the UK group White Door, from their album Windows. the members of this band also played in a prog band called Grace about whom i know nothing. italian DJs in the 80s liked to play this one @ 45, and i can see why - it’s a bit on the slow side, but i like its prettiness. they apparently released a second album a few years ago!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=roagtiGaMhA

the white door track is cool. like a dubby japan sorta. or a murkier japan. i like that tempo. i will keep my eye out for the album.

that comp looks cool too. i like baby ford a lot. confused me when i searched it that there was a u.k. acid house group named This Ain't Chicago but they aren't on the comp! and they had a smash hit apparently.

okay, i'm out of here. but before i go i totally forgot about THIS song until i heard it on youtube today. probably haven't heard it since 1983. sounds good in 2023!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i44WVe1Hci4

'A Night In New York' by Elbow Bones & The Racketeers is fabulous.

the cruella de ville up thread, i wonder if it's the same band I have a single by, "hong kong swing"? listening again it obviously is. haven't thought about those for about 40 years.

xxp dud for suing Jandek

speaking of britishes: the UK group White Door, from their album Windows. the members of this band also played in a prog band called Grace about whom i know nothing.

I had a couple of Grace albums back in my 80s-era neo-prog days. They had a song about a witch I used to play a lot, the rest of it I don't recall. More dud than classic from my hazy recollections.

I have tried with the units before because Hugh Jones

White door yessssss

it's official. the first Strange Advance album is UNDERRATED. maybe not in canada. i wouldn't know. they don't put a bar band new wave rock song on the album until track 10! and its the only song with Bob Rock playing rock guitar. everything before that any new wave band would have been happy to have a single. for the most part. good job, gang!

🖼

John Robb's book Death To Trad Rock was a great source for mid 80s UK alternative bands like a UK equivalent of Michael Azzerad's This Band Could Be Your Life or something.
Most off the leftfield bands that were on the same circuit as the Membranes that Robb himself fronted.
Just saw some talk about a few bands I think are in it upthread.

I confused the Units with the Staff

https://www.discogs.com/master/510426-The-Staff-Out-Of-Bounds

Annette is prime UK acid from Simon Topping of A Certain Ratio and Quando Quango and the Haciendas Mike Pickering as T Coy. Think there was even a Derrick May mix.

oh ok maybe gerald just produced it. i was scanning quickly. because i scan so quick. though JUST having him produce your acid house in 1988 would be enough for most people.

i'm taking a let's active break to start my listening day. let's active who are neither forgotten nor obscure. and who i have been listening to year in and year out since 1983. been listening to oh ok since 1983 as well come to think of it.

https://i.discogs.com/Z9479GhyXkANCyNEc9IVofY3wnD1EzBjewK0iIWwP5I/rs:fit/g:sm/q:90/h:450/w:600/czM6Ly9kaXNjb2dz/LWRhdGFiYXNlLWlt/YWdlcy9BLTI1Njk3/NC0xMjc5ODk4NjY1/LmpwZWc.jpeg

i tried to listen to the first Ph.D. album but i really can't take the singer's voice. one of those rare cases where a voice just completely drives me up a wall immediately. sorry, Ph.D.! (more of a prog voice than a new wave voice....)

https://i.discogs.com/A-wJODiQLyruik1W8pdgJUI_tPUMGSrzlUyig0WW4s0/rs:fit/g:sm/q:90/h:463/w:466/czM6Ly9kaXNjb2dz/LWRhdGFiYXNlLWlt/YWdlcy9SLTM0OTg0/MDAtMTMzMjc4ODcz/MC5qcGVn.jpeg

the things i do for science...

https://i.discogs.com/3J3YrsVHfe8cAt4iESbUhEX1P9EfEOGxQ7ANo-4PHmM/rs:fit/g:sm/q:90/h:600/w:598/czM6Ly9kaXNjb2dz/LWRhdGFiYXNlLWlt/YWdlcy9SLTQwMzU4/MDEtMTYzNTkzMjI4/Mi0zMDUzLmpwZWc.jpeg

the sheer tonnage of denim in the 80s...

the cotton fields must have been running 24/7.

jesus, "girl in the ghetto"...why, cry before dawn, why...??

Another familiar face from the unbought-even-at-£1 second-hand racks in London (and probably the rest of the UK)!

Were they Irish?

i blame bono so hard.

one thing i will say about U2 and Alarm wannabes - and did they give some sort of government stipend if you started one of these bands in the u.k.? - is that usually the singers can actually sing. so, a good voice at least something to hang onto.

yeah, they are irish. they just added some pipes to their ghetto song!

of course they have a song called "flags". they must have been bummed that there was already a band called Flag.

its official. i will listen to anything.

https://i.discogs.com/kbniNvHnF0LIaMtQIAXwRN4PF_pOEn4WfIq0XLanRf0/rs:fit/g:sm/q:90/h:598/w:600/czM6Ly9kaXNjb2dz/LWRhdGFiYXNlLWlt/YWdlcy9SLTU2ODI0/OS0xNDc1MjM0MjI1/LTI4OTUuanBlZw.jpeg

the little "80s" doodads and sounds added to his joe walsh music is just so dumb.

i had to take that abysmal don felder thing off. and that's coming from me! i have a very high tolerance for mediocrity. i feel like i need to hear the one and only Device album. feels weird that i've never played it. its a pretty common dollar bin item. holly knight was such an integral part of u.s. pop in the 80s and it feels wrong to go any further without playing it. she wrote or co-wrote "love is a battlefield", "the best", AND the grandaddy of all and cornerstone of 80s american DJing "obsession". and probably a ton more i can't think of. plus, she was tight with mike chapman. and he produced the Device album and i am a big fan of his. playing now.

https://i.discogs.com/-aLfob6Wq8FVqt0s1LAN3d01CeByCRyYoDjTGO9JQRU/rs:fit/g:sm/q:90/h:454/w:600/czM6Ly9kaXNjb2dz/LWRhdGFiYXNlLWlt/YWdlcy9BLTEyOTg0/My0xMzM3MzEyNTI4/LTY3MzkuanBlZw.jpeg

man, mike chapman should have recorded every aor album in the 80s. sounds like a dream. if you dream of los angeles and sunglasses. its obvious that they wanted every song to be a possible single. they really went for it.

oh you want another Device recommendation from youtube:

@mile0931
2 years ago
Of my collection of 2000 CD’s and 300 pieces of vinyl, I have 10 “essential” releases locked in a fire proof safe. This CD is among those 10. Absolutely STELLAR album!

sad there is no holly knight thread on ilm. she wrote "never"! one of my fave heart songs. not to mention "the warrior". the carole king of the 80s! kinda.

She was all over the map. She wrote "Better Be Good to Me," and the forgettable KISS number "I Pledge Allegiance to the State of Rock & Roll."

i'm going in...

https://i.discogs.com/e9Q20a-pHy8gT7Me2Kj_IRmfXn0b4B4Sb4uDpbjWrY4/rs:fit/g:sm/q:90/h:579/w:600/czM6Ly9kaXNjb2dz/LWRhdGFiYXNlLWlt/YWdlcy9SLTM2ODIw/MjYtMTQzOTk1NTcz/Ny0yNjM1LmpwZWc.jpeg

jesus, its the Cheers dude...

did these all come from a single collection?

i mean he hadn't done the cheers theme yet but he was close. if you were a songwriter with any kinda hit you got your own record or even records(!!) just based on that. makes sense. the labels probably got a cut of anything that got used by someone later, no? so even if gary's album tanked (and they had to kinda know that it would) it could still pay dividends down the line. i don't really know how business works. but a lot of these no-name people littering bargain bins wrote hits for, like, glen campbell and people like that.

i bought a ton of records. but they weren't a collection per se. more of an amassment by someone who sells records. a lot haven't seen the light of day since the 90s. some are old store stock. from different stores. its a fun mix. if you are me.

this cheers guy's album is not unlike this album that i enjoy a lot from the 70s:

https://i.discogs.com/2cEVELmOeLneiX-DYEGo9F5k0P6wjdmBJONXWncdhOQ/rs:fit/g:sm/q:90/h:600/w:596/czM6Ly9kaXNjb2dz/LWRhdGFiYXNlLWlt/YWdlcy9SLTYyMTI2/OTMtMTQxMzg1MzM0/OC03MjE1LmpwZWc.jpeg

i'm not going to play it but this is one of my fave kitaro covers. still can't believe that modern hepcats didn't start a kitaro cult. he still languishes in the bargain bins. so entertaining though!

https://i.discogs.com/JZjfh6BFDSPZRVddgk63m7DJbjpr-ttBRrW-A7Dyh_4/rs:fit/g:sm/q:90/h:598/w:600/czM6Ly9kaXNjb2dz/LWRhdGFiYXNlLWlt/YWdlcy9SLTU0OTg3/NDgtMTUzNDAwMDM4/Ny03MjIyLmpwZWc.jpeg

i think i found my new favorite group. omg, they make my heart go boom. the production. the songs. oof. calgon take me away...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tcex8QXJ2WI

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ihy280-8nGM

I don’t think this is forgotten but it’s new to me. Prime cyberphunk

Zwischenfall - “Flucht”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ReGxagHGEkg

That was released on Fuzz Dance AND Crepuscule, and got reissued by Dark Entries, so not exactly a hit, but definitely has it's fans.

its very cool. be fun to play out as a dj. people might fall in love with you if you played that.

yes it was the zulus that was the human sexual response spin-off record. playing now. the guitars sound cool! first ever hearing this. don't tell all the boston people i know. also didn't know that they later made a record with bob mould producing.

https://i.discogs.com/KWkxkjFSVIwlcjzw0jc8lzRuYyP6aCOS3nplmsGb834/rs:fit/g:sm/q:90/h:592/w:600/czM6Ly9kaXNjb2dz/LWRhdGFiYXNlLWlt/YWdlcy9SLTI5MDQz/NjMtMTQ4NjA4MjQ2/NC05NzM3LmpwZWc.jpeg

"Can't Stop Having Fun" is an excellent song! love it.

listening to the bob mould album now. so good! i had no idea. rockin' stuff.

okay, its time for a new regime. gotta be canada again, right?

https://i.discogs.com/6vqciwROkt3N4kWg61VjdMO7_50dN12i4y0Cq4Kh4G4/rs:fit/g:sm/q:90/h:600/w:600/czM6Ly9kaXNjb2dz/LWRhdGFiYXNlLWlt/YWdlcy9SLTQzMzU1/ODItMTM2MjA4NzY0/MS05NTY5LmpwZWc.jpeg

i was working and new regime kept playing and i kept meaning to take it off...not great. every song is a bland approximation of another band. they were INXS fans. and ABC fans. bleh.

Four-In-Legion. of "party in my pants" fame. wait, was that song famous? did they invent the party in my pants thing? oh lord...

(i kinda just want to hear their song "laser gun".)

https://i.discogs.com/C9WIbGofq4iAm2ZAtIykpf6SvA00yQEL_xDYHDezAfw/rs:fit/g:sm/q:90/h:585/w:600/czM6Ly9kaXNjb2dz/LWRhdGFiYXNlLWlt/YWdlcy9SLTQ3ODQ5/MjYtMTQ5NTg0MjE3/Ny02MDIwLmpwZWc.jpeg

some real peak 80s fashion on these covers

i would like the four-in legion record if it wasn't for that party in my pants song. they have the same obliviousness to cultural appropriation that modern romance did so they end up having a lot of fun with drums. and i like almost any fun with percussion album. persuasive bongos. bass drums in hi-fi. doesn't matter to me. fake latin drum records are the best.
but "laser gun" is their...hard rock song? sorta rocking.

i used to love that "belly of the whale" song. had that EP and never played another song on it. that would have been fake calypso or something. played it over and over. burning sensations. that was them. total bar band with an MTV hit.

(and needless to say i worshipped bow wow wow, adam & the ants, wide boy awake, etc. anyone who used that burundi beat. passion puppets. didn't matter who.)

this looks good. haven't read it. great pictures:

https://medium.com/loopandreplay/burundi-beat-the-ants-annabella-and-appropriation-258a804a2176

not gonna play the whole album but felt like i had to play this tune. its 1980! what's gonna happen?? there was a lot of 80s speculation going on at the dawn of the decade.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CFjtzWYilPQ

gonna listen to the whole Brilliant album. when was the last time someone did that? i am a Youth fan. i mean, duh, killing joke, but i think he was a good producer/collaborator. he made one of my fave bananarama albums that nobody listened to. i even listened to one of those techno albums he made with paul mccartney.

https://i.discogs.com/kyjSryHkQudF6U8tKKKvPb4wLCCIauKsELl7vviYdeA/rs:fit/g:sm/q:90/h:600/w:592/czM6Ly9kaXNjb2dz/LWRhdGFiYXNlLWlt/YWdlcy9SLTQxNTY3/LTE0Mzg4OTI3MDgt/ODYxNC5qcGVn.jpeg

this is how a bar band turns into a new wave band. courtesy of a band called The Ravyns.

before duran duran:

https://i.discogs.com/Ne61PPwyPTGyZLoHE5e1MxCEOoEr5-cLYk1IV6Dczhs/rs:fit/g:sm/q:90/h:320/w:254/czM6Ly9kaXNjb2dz/LWRhdGFiYXNlLWlt/YWdlcy9BLTU2MzI1/NC0xMjk4NDg2NTMy/LmpwZWc.jpeg

after duran duran:

https://i.discogs.com/Zf1gKOeJVa89oDmO5lr410BEafIosCuYqTKPcJYrNxM/rs:fit/g:sm/q:90/h:316/w:310/czM6Ly9kaXNjb2dz/LWRhdGFiYXNlLWlt/YWdlcy9BLTU2MzI1/NC0xMjk4NDg2NTAz/LmpwZWc.jpeg

now i know why i've avoided the Brilliant album for so long. not great. as someone who worships at the temple of Colourbox, you sirs and madam, are no Colourbox.

i've been listening to these no-name waver and aor bands and it occurred to me that i've never actually listened to any of the bands who actually had name recognition who made the same kind of music. bourgeois tagg. curiousity killed the cat. johnny hates jazz. uh...glass tiger? there are a million of them. most of them have always looked really lame to me. but there might be another Device album to discover.

i have one of these! with the plinth. so swanky.

https://i.discogs.com/3fVrJWzUC48WmHCZQYebeZ32GJukPhrViFm1V9RyodQ/rs:fit/g:sm/q:90/h:564/w:600/czM6Ly9kaXNjb2dz/LWRhdGFiYXNlLWlt/YWdlcy9SLTE4MTEy/NTctMTYxNDUyNTUy/MC02MTA5LmpwZWc.jpeg

i'm keeping a devo single! i don't own any devo. it's a promo single for the song "baby doll" and it has edits by my lord and savior chep nunez. i don't think i could ever be a chep completist - he did too much - but i grab what i can.

we have a winner!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5b5yUVGQwIQ

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suzanne_Mallouk

damn, that is some story! who knew?

that's amazing, ty

"That's great, you get a biopic, and I'm a god damn amalgam."

i had to take that abysmal don felder thing off. and that's coming from me! i have a very high tolerance for mediocrity. i feel like i need to hear the one and only Device album. feels weird that i've never played it. its a pretty common dollar bin item. holly knight was such an integral part of u.s. pop in the 80s and it feels wrong to go any further without playing it. she wrote or co-wrote "love is a battlefield", "the best", AND the grandaddy of all and cornerstone of 80s american DJing "obsession". and probably a ton more i can't think of. plus, she was tight with mike chapman. and he produced the Device album and i am a big fan of his. playing now.

― scott seward, Friday, August 18, 2023 12:07 PM (three days ago) bookmarkflaglink

Hey Scott! Have you checked out Old Lunch's Cheesy '80s Songs About Heart and Soul and Overcoming and Winning and Givin' it All That You Got (RIYL Action Movies and Training Montages and Cocaine) ? Device's Hanging on a Heart Attack is one of the first songs posted in there. It seems like a topic that might overlap with your interests.

ooh no i will check that thread out.

running around today and haven't had a chance to jam any soft rock gems but i did dig this out today and play it. it's a winner!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ynCU3KhNlvs

i'm glad i discovered that i'm a Zulus fan two days ago because i found their bob-mould produced CD today and i wouldn't have looked at it twice three days ago! that's called scottchronicity.

this is the part where they invent the white stripes! okay maybe not but still...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cfiRbz4OS4E

The version of The Sports' Don't Throw Stones cobbled from the Australian album of that name and Reckless, their debut, has an official US release date in October 1979, but I never saw it 'til '80, so I'll push it in, because it's that good. They were compared to overseas (only?) tourmates Graham Parker & The Rumour, but the guy's voice could get rougher than Parker's (my buddy Richard Riegel interviewed them for Creem when they came to Cincinnati and I think slipped in an apt reference to his vocal hero, Eric Burdon). They could also a be bit slicker and more succinct than The Rumour---a little New Wave, well kind of---and I really liked that combination. Got some American airplay, at least in Collegetown, with "Don't Throw Stones" and "Who Listens To The Radio."

i like The Sports. sports. yachts. motors. its all good.

i'm listening to that 1989 xymox album. i loved 4ad clan of xymox and for some reason i didn't think i would like this album based on one single i heard. but it's cool! i dig it. very shiny. but still with the goth undercurrent. ready for the dancefloor.

in my head i hear “80s” and “Sports” and obv just go

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sports_(Huey_Lewis_and_the_News_album)#/media/File%3AHuey_Lewis_and_the_News_-_Sports.png

i listened to this as long as i could do. album is in a middle place, but i grew up long enough in that place, and all my choices at least at the time, tho modest, were to oppose it, lol.

https://i.discogs.com/2oa64h3rB109lOXksssyFblCNZAIF8zNCc6v_rwD_94/rs:fit/g:sm/q:90/h:600/w:571/czM6Ly9kaXNjb2dz/LWRhdGFiYXNlLWlt/YWdlcy9SLTY4MDk2/MzAtMTUwODg5MzE1/MS0zODE3LmpwZWc.jpeg

We drove all night
Through the semi-dark light, and then we found them
With their metal music
And their ice-blue Chevy's all around them
Perfecting the look that destroys
The American boys

With their adolescence
And their daddy's futures and their tight pants
With their innuendo
At the girls' gym locker and the school dance
Who's making that star-spangled noise?
The American boys

And they go
Bop, bop
Bop-a-dee-doo-da-da-ay, ay
All through the night
Bop, bop
Bop-a-dee-doo-da-da-ay, ay
All through the night

https://i.discogs.com/w6FlfcmA5MaLBzR4bvfZvEKEvGHA6xwlNC6xZw0p5Cs/rs:fit/g:sm/q:90/h:482/w:500/czM6Ly9kaXNjb2dz/LWRhdGFiYXNlLWlt/YWdlcy9SLTEwMjgx/NjEtMTQ0NTkyODE4/OS0zNjg5LmpwZWc.jpeg

not essential!

https://i.discogs.com/6pw7CeekAE-JUYueV5D8_Fw8p4CmInEdinJlAWF9M5s/rs:fit/g:sm/q:90/h:594/w:600/czM6Ly9kaXNjb2dz/LWRhdGFiYXNlLWlt/YWdlcy9SLTE0ODA1/MjMtMTUwOTY2NjYy/OS05NTk2LmpwZWc.jpeg

1982 u.s. release of an album put out in canada in 1980. "so you learn from computers" is about the future. its not bad. too late-70s rock in parts though. they even have dominic troiano playing some session guitar. dominic troiano is not new wave!

https://i.discogs.com/U2jZbaiFI-Jk2sdsPSfTFQeqZe--0Drczs3xFQxV2lM/rs:fit/g:sm/q:90/h:413/w:414/czM6Ly9kaXNjb2dz/LWRhdGFiYXNlLWlt/YWdlcy9SLTMxMTA4/NzUtMTQ3MTYwOTIx/Ni0yNjMyLmpwZWc.jpeg

keeping this! snowy canadian new wave. for fans of ultravox and also fans of ultravox.

https://i.discogs.com/7l4k9I8KvgQMClwR8GLSa_JRciplKD5wJEWWvgxfMUQ/rs:fit/g:sm/q:90/h:600/w:600/czM6Ly9kaXNjb2dz/LWRhdGFiYXNlLWlt/YWdlcy9SLTUyNzEy/OTUtMTUyMjI3MTI0/OS04OTY0LmpwZWc.jpeg

I forgot I owned this album, found it the other day. My local Adult Album Alternative station used to play it a bit, must have been why I picked it up. Very Eurythmics-y.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bEuKgzOy6RE

i will make a note of rebel heels. chances are i will come across it.

somehow i ended up playing Woodentops. a 1986 fave of mine but not a group that traveled through time with me. they sound exactly as they used to. paying attention now to the songs that i skipped over or didn't pay attention to in favor of the college radio hits.

there were albums back then that i would buy for one song and if it was on side one i might never make it to side two. hey, i was a kid.

yikes...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7_xomVVeD5c

i can't believe i'm still listening to the woodentops. with a brief rest for stevie's clanky clunky thing. listening to that 1988 woodentops album that i've never heard. who was still listening to the woodentops in 1988? not me, brother. its not bad! but i had surfa rosa and public enemy and every other legendary rapper and metallica and spirit of eden (found the import right at sound of market after it came out i was so happy) and south of heaven and strictly business and my fave album of the year follow the leader. but woodentops? not when i could go down the street and see the feelies at chestnut cabaret right after only life came out! i mean we all have priorities. found blue bell knoll at sound of market too. didn't have to walk all the way down to tower on south street.

speaking of 1988 i wrote this on facebook and then i took it down but i will leave it here forever. sorry this has turned into my blog! feel free to post all you want. i will totally listen to stuff. i'm good at it. anyway, this is all about listening to the "jump in the river" remix with karen finley on it and sinead but also about how formative 1988 as a year was for me:

I first heard The Lion And The Cobra in the winter of 1987 at my friend Liz Buckingham's house in Connecticut. She also played Diamanda Galas's Saint Of The Pit and that record also blew my mind. It was a religious experience all around. These strong and sure and fiery female voices telling me that there were all these worlds that I had no idea about. And almost daring me to try harder to make my own reality more magical and strong. Thank you Liz! I turned her on to Slayer and Crass when we were kids so fair is fair. Jim Roberto was there! I think we might have all slept in the same bed that night. It was cold. True story: I've slept in a bed with Jim Roberto more than once. I think the last time was when he opened up for Elastica at the Khyber Pass with St. Johnny when they were supporting their new album on Geffen. Those Geffen guys were assholes! Are they Mafia or something? I will never ever sign to that label no matter what and that's a promise. St. Johnny rocked the house that night. Elastica's tour bus took up half the block. Either me or my pal Lance bought this single in 1988. We couldn't fucking believe it! Karen Fucking Finley! Lance and I saw The Constant State Of Desire in 1988 at the Painted Bride in Philly and we thought we were going to DIE of sheer exhilaration. Or maybe a panic attack! Not unlike how we felt when we went to see Robert Maplethorpe at UPenn for his The Perfect Moment show also in 1988. Something was happening! Punk wasn't dead! People were dying all over Philly and art was trying to keep up with the anger all around us. And Sinead's collab with MC Lyte in 1988? And Lyte's 1988 masterpiece Lyte As A Rock! Ahhh! It was all so much beauty. An embarrassment of brilliant women. Art was keeping me alive back then. I clutched at it like a lifeline. Thank you so much, Sinead. I love you so much. Thank you for loving and respecting Hip Hop. I am so sorry that this world can be so cruel. You made it less so. You really did. I will listen to your voice until I die.

Keep it up Scott - love this thread. Ya turned me on to Larry Gatlin's Rain Rainbow once upon a time so, there's bound to be a fun discovery here! Forgot all about the Woodentops! The Zulu sounded good!

cheers. the first song on Rain Rainbow makes me swoon. so beautiful. the whole thing is great.

i remember getting a record, like ep length, called well well well by woodentops while living in boston, when it dropped. ohhh man, so great. then giant happened, and i really liked it tho it was a bit of a tone change, and not quite as good to me. then it was "what ever happened to woodentops?" basically. fuck i wish i had that woodentops vinyl anymore.

that was my experience pretty much. bought the EP and the album and then just forgot about them.

i do remember them having a resurgence during the whole balearic craze of the early 2000s. i think. maybe even here i remember that? tim f. would know.

so far so pleasant. with st. elmo's fire saxophone. but even that sounds pleasant. i like skipper's voice. skipper wise of wink! and windows fame, of course.

https://i.discogs.com/XETpoztvO5D3OR-8SGyt0V0oRQryoKYFVjJJRXobG5g/rs:fit/g:sm/q:90/h:522/w:516/czM6Ly9kaXNjb2dz/LWRhdGFiYXNlLWlt/YWdlcy9SLTQzNDg0/MjItMTM2MjQ0MzQw/Ny00NjkyLmpwZWc.jpeg

skipper should have stayed in the mellow zone. the uptempo stuff on his album really ruins the vibe. oh well. he had the right idea with this track:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-_Hf5GdB6R4

best song i've heard in a while. courtesy of the double album entitled *Revolutions Per Minute (The Art Record)* from 1982.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p230fgtXcUc

both of the 80s woodentops albums/eps and various remixes were put onto a 3cd set a few years back.
my vinyl of GIANT is a truly dreadful 80s pressing, so was good to hear it properly.

wow, this Snapper EP on Flying Nun. You guys never told me! so cool. motorik in 1988. "Buddy" is now my new theme song.

SO GOOD

I quite like 'Skeletons' but 'Go Home' is a better Stevie Embraces Digital (and House - the bass sound kinda anticipates Larry Heard wonderfully) endeavour imo.

the video they made for buddy is a classic, very south island

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GhyIV-XLgPo

the funny thing is: it's 9:20 am and i might not be the only person in new england blasting gorilla biscuits and pricing journey records.

don't worry their album came out in 1989 otherwise i wouldn't mention it. i used to see them live when i was a youth of today.

australian new wave. i dig it. i guess this band was around since the 70s but this album is from 1988. i don't know who i would compare them to...

https://i.discogs.com/cUTimiGFBRZsME1tVYu1ld22748eaDtbI9xq-zfVx3A/rs:fit/g:sm/q:90/h:568/w:600/czM6Ly9kaXNjb2dz/LWRhdGFiYXNlLWlt/YWdlcy9SLTI1Nzky/MDUtMTUyMDIzNTk5/NS04MjMwLmpwZWc.jpeg

actually you know what some of it reminds me of? roky in the 80s with some punky band behind him. like the aliens album. which is cool. why did i ever sell my copy of the evil one? oh well.

oh also: i listened to Monsters by Meat Puppets for the first time yesterday. that's a weird one. "touchdown king" is the one song i really liked probably because it reminded me of up on the sun or something from that era.

(i think after the godhead that is up on the sun i bought the next three things when they came out mirage/huevos/out my way and just never listened to them much. i really wanted to like them as much as up on the sun so bad. but it didn't happen. so, by 1989, i was on another planet. with rakim. and special ed.)

I had the same Meat Pups trajectory, was disappointed in Monsters and sold it back, didn't really pay attention to later releases. I should relisten, my tastes have changed in 30 years.

I think Monsters was when they started going for the crunchy guitar tone instead of the clean psych tone, hence disappointing

the first side is really metal-y. but the second side is different. maybe they were recorded at different times.

doesn't look like it?

Copyright © – Meat Puppets Music
Mixed At – For the Record
Phonographic Copyright ℗ – SST Records – SST CD 253
Recorded At – For the Record

Bass, Vocals – Cris Kirkwood
Drums – Derrick Bostrom
Guitar, Vocals, Written-By – Curt Kirkwood
Photography By – Christopher Gardener, Ian Harper (2), Janet McCracken, Linda Earley, Raenie Kane
Producer – The Meat Puppets*
Recorded By, Mixed By – E*

Maybe Curt demanded the album be front-loaded with his metal guitar workouts?

maybe! the sound is a little jarring at first.

man, i just can't make myself listen to thomas dolby's aliens ate my buick.

digging this. tree hugger new wave from 1988. the sticker on the front says "the first rock 'n roll New Age record". (only new age is capitalized. rock doesn't do capital letters.)

https://i.discogs.com/YG7uphu-hQTuXYlOR18lh13Qx0xWL3qtE0w0NRTgVFk/rs:fit/g:sm/q:90/h:496/w:496/czM6Ly9kaXNjb2dz/LWRhdGFiYXNlLWlt/YWdlcy9SLTE2MTQy/MDAtMTI4MzI0MTg0/NC5qcGVn.jpeg

xxxp is "attacked by monsters" just the kirkwood boros getting so baked they forgot the song is actually bowie's "scary monster & super creeps"?

Was amazed to see that Condition post - saw them live back sometime in the late 80's, total kitsch even for the times but they pulled it off somehow, singer had great stage presence.

Yeah, they seem like an act much better experienced live than listened to on vinyl.

i have never ever ever heard of Diesel Park West and they have, like, 12 albums! where do these people hide themselves? says they are from leicester. maybe they hide there. i have a ten-inch from 1989 but i played a snippet from it and yeah i don't need that right now. that bombastic thing. the alarm thing again. or the u2 thing. i almost never need anything that sounds like U2. unless its simple minds. but they are contemporaries.

when i think of all things the u.k. tried to foist on me way back when. why did they want me to listen to cathy dennis SO much back then? a lotta lame ladies. even lamer the 60s and 70s ladies making synth-pop singles. not ALL of them of course but a lot of them. i'm sure there is a bad Lulu italo single out there. hazell dean? really? are you sure? why again? that yazz woman. nobody knew that was someone's name here. someone should have told us. we just thought the british were supremely lazy for naming yet another group yaz. and in case you didn't know this brits we had to call yazoo yaz. it was in our contract. more power to all those women for making a name for themselves. it ain't easy. especially here where people in the 80s were routinely making the greatest dance singles on earth revered to this day all around the world.

cathy dennis more 90s...sorry, cathy. you shouldn't even be here!

lotsa fellas i have ignored too. one of these days i will listen to a paul haig solo album i promise.

there are zarkons in my future.

https://i.discogs.com/bJaDe0SSXTN3-0cHg4eqnSVmugB251jPJziy6MTyirY/rs:fit/g:sm/q:90/h:387/w:600/czM6Ly9kaXNjb2dz/LWRhdGFiYXNlLWlt/YWdlcy9BLTgzNzQ2/NS0xMzUwODA1MDg5/LTkyMjkuanBlZw.jpeg

shit, they were the alley cats! i love that alley cats record. another one i wish i had kept. anyway, after one and a half songs of the 2nd Zarkons albums i say: brilliant! high camp goth by people who can sing is cool.

https://i.discogs.com/EjS2hAr2Nnb0Gn_Gk9Qr816iC9OSQXDjdSdY6z-NcRQ/rs:fit/g:sm/q:90/h:565/w:565/czM6Ly9kaXNjb2dz/LWRhdGFiYXNlLWlt/YWdlcy9SLTM5NjYz/OTItMTM1MDgwNTg4/MS0yOTI3LmpwZWc.jpeg

the title track from the alley cats nightmare city album has the same vibe as that snapper single. love them both. i might have to break down and buy a copy if i ever see one. i've only had one copy ever! and i don't think i've ever seen the 2nd album despite its major label status. seems weird. but i am still alive and there is still time.

listening to this CD comp on my laptop now. i have never "burned" a CD but last month i "ripped" a CD for the first time ever! i just happened to notice that my computer's player had a button that said "rip" so i pushed it! and it totally worked. so, i have a one album digital archive. (most of the stuff on this cd are from 1989 but there are obviously reissues that Line was pushing like Deviants and UFO. i will skip them in honor of this thread.)

https://i.discogs.com/9TS2qYUj3QfdHUgMubUl4VhSL92fCMF49B4d1pcRBak/rs:fit/g:sm/q:90/h:466/w:600/czM6Ly9kaXNjb2dz/LWRhdGFiYXNlLWlt/YWdlcy9SLTEzOTk1/NzYtMTY0MTA2ODA0/Mi0yNDI4LmpwZWc.jpeg

what a completely bizarre tracklist

that comp was too blues-heavy. i skipped a lot. this one is more my speed. playing now. from 1988.

https://i.discogs.com/i9WrOruMzQ1MJsGgiD3jV-Fl2IajFz7IpHpEAIem3r8/rs:fit/g:sm/q:90/h:600/w:600/czM6Ly9kaXNjb2dz/LWRhdGFiYXNlLWlt/YWdlcy9SLTI3MTk4/OTY2LTE2ODUxMjYx/NjQtMjgzNy5qcGVn.jpeg

1 Casanova - You're Not The Only One
2 Human Drama - Heaven On Earth
3 etc - Delta I'll
4 Nikita - It Don't Hurt
5 Vice - Holdin' On
6 Runner-Up - On the Other Side
7 The Passengers - Back To Neverland
8 Britton - Rock Hard
9 One Thousand Steps - Manzanera
10 One-Four-Five - Girl In The Window
11 Lava And The Hot Rocks - I Saw You With Another Girl
12 Blackbird - Howl
13 17 - Feel Your Love
14 The Pressures Of Time - Left And Right
15 Axis Power - Give Me All Your Love
16 Bekka And The Blue - Theodore
17 The Tapp - How 'Bout You

words I learned today: bullshitiaco

this is a very entertaining CD to work to! would play again. maybe i should "rip" it.

i want this 12-inch now! it sells for a dollar on discogs. so cool. i'm gonna be 1988's a&r man.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DrgnIhGaLrY

https://i.discogs.com/p2WNkkMLR0Vd8oDTROjjxkZRb15Tn1uJdNNIr6jLh_o/rs:fit/g:sm/q:90/h:600/w:595/czM6Ly9kaXNjb2dz/LWRhdGFiYXNlLWlt/YWdlcy9SLTQ2ODM3/NTctMTQyNjU5NTE5/Ny03NzUyLmpwZWc.jpeg

none of you are ever going to listen to that "howl" song. i understand. i guess it could be likened to a more distorted timbuk 3. i listened to the other songs connected to that song on youtube and i dig them. would definitely keep a CD around.

you don't have to listen to tommy shaw's remo williams theme. it doesn't really get at the essence of remo.

i'm rockin' another one of these comps. so addictive.

https://i.discogs.com/TtQp6K_eVlAF-AVRNBBbx4XUO9eF_Ufx61-dsDpEAV0/rs:fit/g:sm/q:90/h:526/w:600/czM6Ly9kaXNjb2dz/LWRhdGFiYXNlLWlt/YWdlcy9SLTI3Njc2/MjQ1LTE2OTI4MTc5/OTctNzYwMC5qcGVn.jpeg

okay i'm listening to a paul haig album what do i win? who listened to his records originally? josef k. fans? they made no dent here. i don't even know if any of them came out in the u.s. we were too busy listening to paul kelly and the messengers and juluka and spear of destiny. this song i'm listening to is okay but i keep feeling that he's ripping off echo & the bunnymen's "read it in books". especially the part when he sings the line "read it in books".

so far so okay. this album is called Chain.

tempting....

maybe tomorrow. 2xlp set. snickers DOES satisfy after all.

https://i.discogs.com/2KlcmBJQLf1eX1HqYwaqb4jo71P83PD0Ao0ZRsHcozU/rs:fit/g:sm/q:90/h:600/w:595/czM6Ly9kaXNjb2dz/LWRhdGFiYXNlLWlt/YWdlcy9SLTE1OTkx/NzQtMTY1NTAxODU2/MS04MzI4LmpwZWc.jpeg

i've actually been listening to A Witness. the album. john peel was a fan. those vocals are rough for me in my old age. the music is cool though. that herky jerky thing. they must have shared bills with pre-C86 titans Membranes and Three Johns. except they were ON the C86 tape! so they are officially pre-C86 and C86. i was never a big stump fan. i think you either were or weren't back then.

for the record, the only C86 bands that i love: Pastels (worshipped them in the 80s and luckily homestead picked some of their stuff up and i could get it easy), shop assistants (another why oh why did i sell my album...actually sold it at my first store in philly in the 90s), half man half biscuit (because genius), fuzzbox (cuz i'll always love that first album a ton). i should love the wedding present but i mostly like and admire them. as for the rest, eh. (there are some i haven't heard much of though.)

I'll take the opportunity to propone Thirteen Moons, who fall somewhere between late-era Talk Talk, This Mortal Coil, and Shelleyan Orphan. The best English 4AD band that were neither.

http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_n0GkpMub54vy5paTv98R-yz0nqefTtxZw&playnext=1&index=1

Lots of good Paul Haig stuff, including collaborations with New Order folk and Alan Rankine. Little impact here but The Only Truth might’ve had some new wave dance floor success in the uk. I like that, Blue for You, Running Away, Never Give Up and more. Ur I’m a Josef K fan who also likes new wave dance music so I’m the demographic.

man, i just can't make myself listen to thomas dolby's aliens ate my buick.

― scott seward, Friday, August 25, 2023 11:14 AM (two days ago) bookmarkflaglink

aliens ate my buick rules and sort of anticipates y2k era novelty/comedy 'jukebox' style albums like sfa's guerrilla, daphne & celeste's we didn't say that and ween's chocolate and cheese, if you are wanting it to be "good" you are in the wrong frame of mind to listen

duly noted! you might have pushed me to listen. i have never heard anyone even mention the album let alone say anything good about it. just a ubiquitous record cover in my life.

Definitely hear Aliens Ate My Buick if only for the skewiff poignance of 'Budapest By Blimp'. I was ambushed by unexpected emotion hearing that for the first time just over ten years ago - particularly by that crowd singing along.

not forgotten or unknown but i'm listening to the first bitch magnet album. i was kinda surprised that their first album came out in 1989. i guess i thought of them as a strictly 90s thing. i've never listened to them. despite being a fan of amrep, touch&go, chicago, windy, oprah.

i've never really listened to polvo either. probably lots of gaps in my post-hardcore indierock knowledge.

stuff i played over and over in 1989: no more color, sittin' pretty, l'eau rouge, the burning world, on fire, freedom, hats, streetcleaner, technique, the stone roses, doolittle, symphonies of sickness, uh...lots of rap and dance singles. i flipped for earache. godflesh and bolt thrower and that stuff would have excited me a lot more than a bitch magnet album. though just a year or two later i was flipping for jesus lizard.

i bought whatever And Also The Trees album came out in 1989! lord knows why. i dug it though.

when all is said and done Done By The Forces Of Nature was probably my fave album of that year. sorry Disintegration!

shit this bitch magnet song playing now sounds a lot like Slint! the vocals especially.

Storm The Studio! feel like meat beat have become a little forgotten. maybe not by industrial people. whoever industrial people are now.

the last Felt album came out in 1989. i adored it. my favorite rock band of the 80s pretty much. 1979 to 1989 and i love it all. still need a pristine copy of that French 10-inch comp from 1984. i never go to france!

oh shit i bought branca's symphony no. 6 in 1989. that was a big one for me. it scared me! so cool.

my big disappointment was Candleland. i think i played it twice. sorry ian! love you!

man this bitch magnet song is even more slint! the talking vocal thing. that guy sounds just like slint guy!

I just bought, and am listening to, The Glass Bead Game by Breathless, an album that came out in '87 by a band I had never even heard of until pretty recently. I think it's pretty good? Still trying to get my head around it. Seems like they should have been on 4AD. I know the singer was part of This Mortal Coil.

Guitarist played in UK noise outfit Ramleh too! You used to see their records everywhere, always looked like they wanted to be on 4AD but 4AD weren't interested. I think it was all self-released?

Breathless are great (they're still going, had a new album out last year). Between Happiness & Heartache and Blue Moon are the highlights of their discography for me.

Jesus christ this thread is like a drunken Bumble back in the day...

I own and like "Aliens Are My Buick". It's ridiculous in parts but as it's own thing, it's fun. Compared to the rest of his catalog it lacks the depth that I get from the rest. Even the comeback albums from a decade ago.

Ian's "Candleland" is great! Better than the self-titled Echo lp. His duet with Liz Fraser is all-time. It has a somber mood but it fits the material.

I could never get past the lisp of Breathless!

And Also The Trees, meh, a few good doomy tracks but otherwise not my thing.

Felt! Don't get me started a-la Bumble, I could ramble on about how it took me ages to be won over but, yeah, a top band for me too.

Damn autocorrect, that should be Bimble!

I've never heard of Breathless, had no idea Gary Mundy played in a dreampop shoegaze 4ad style band. He was Ramleh and it's tape label Broken Flag. They have a long history in the power electronic scene but in the 90s Ramleh became more of an experimental noise rock band, same circles as Skullflower, and both of them had some amazing if extreme stuff back then. I used to play this at TOP volume in college, but that was the 90s.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VvGZBvnSaXY

Definitely certain types of Industrial people still have MUCH love for Meat Beat Manifesto. But also techno people. The first two or so (storm the studio and armed audio warfare) are really awesome Public Enemy industrial funk that personally I think is way better and more interesting than any number of chicago wax trax type bands. Then they got even more new wave and the next two (99% and Satyricon) are awesome, though a bit dated at times. After that the records got a bit more "illbient".

But ask any (mostly white) techno producer in their 40s what they think of Meat Beat Manifesto and you'll get much love. The production was always really cool.

Before MBM, Jack Dangers was in the more post-punk Perennial Divide. That's more 80s.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cooKyw_aAEY

When I was a junior in high school they toured the states with 808 State. I saw the shows in manhattan and trenton NJ. Life-changing for me. Jack's rapping and later new wave singing is all good, but this track from 1990 in various mixes probably had the biggest impact across industrial and techno worlds.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qfH0AOAVDPU

99% especially still holds up. Great album.

“Helter Skelter/Radio Babylon” is an all-time EDM single, got lots of love in Detroit clubs at the time, as I recall. Big overlap with Belgian New Beat, also a Detroit object of affection.

let me know when the 90s version of this thread starts and we can talk about Pop Will Eat Itself and Renegade Soundwave. Both started in 80s but really belong to the 90s.

Feel like there could be some crossover between this thread and this one:

That early to mid 80s jangly sophisticated pop sound (think Aztec Camera, Postcard Records, The Lotus Eaters, etc)

The Bible is the first name that springs to mind for me.

I was also a big fan of Attacco Decente back in the '80s but very few people ever heard them. Brighton band who used dulcimers and vocal harmonies as a vehicle for excellent, politically conscious songwriting.

i LOVED 99% when that came out. i need to get a cd copy again. shit, now i want the helter skelter 12-inch...

anyway glad to hear that there is still love for that stuff.

i also didn't know about the pre-meat beat band! cheers, dan.

i'm gonna listen to everything mentioned on here eventually.

speaking of the 90s and the 80s and techno and all that i listened to an early 90s cabaret voltaire 12-inch and i don't think i knew that they made total 100% techno in the 90s. never listened to their 90s output. it was okay but i have to be honest and say that i wasn't really feeling what they were laying down. but maybe it was just a first listen kinda thing.

i got no problem if i evoke the mighty bimble on here! haha. what a kook. god bless and keep the bimble.

I got to work on the art layout for a Perennial Divide CD some time ago and was excited to be in somewhat indirect contact with Jack Dangers.

When house/techno hit Cabaret Voltaire, I'd sum it up this way. Kirk started a super prolific underground solo career in bleep techno with Sweet Exorcist and Sandoz. The Cabs went pop with it working with chicago producers, probably the glossiest thing they ever did:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tw6MmJbHDyA

but they also did some more stripped down bleep stuff:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fRzzwVGE7J0

but most of the last few Cabs albums of that period were more ambient/electronic with samples and such, not much vocals or dance beats. I think Kirk kept the clubby side for himself and the ambient side for the Cabs.

And Mallinder teamed up with Dave Ball from Soft Cell and bleep techno pioneer Robert Gordon for this oddity, which would likely give any owner of The Voice of America a heart attack.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZUbLuL3oGAs

quite a journey from live in sheffield 19 jan 82. or live at the y.m.c.a. 27.10.79 for that matter.

i like all 80s cabs pretty much.

i think it was colours that i listened to. i should really listen to more of their 90s stuff. i don't know what i'm afraid of. those guys will always be cool with me.

Yeah, plenty of people are picky about where they get off the cab train (when Chris Watson left, when they signed to Virgin etc) but I'm a fan, I like it all more or less.

My intro to Cabaret Voltaire was the very club-oriented Code LP, which I haven't heard in probably 30 years. I do recall it was in the same vein as Nitzer Ebb, which was probably why I picked it up. Lots of booming beats and some guy yelling a bunch of vague stuff about surveillance and government.

Code is the height/end of the industrial funk dance thing. House/Techno pretty much moved the direction right after that.

the first thing i bought was the Drinking Gasoline EP in 1985 because i was obsessed with the song "Kino". they played that on the local college radio station a ton. they played "Yashar" a ton too but i didn't buy that until later. couldn't find it! or forgot to look for it. i make up for that now by playing it, like, 5 times in a row once a year.

i always tell myself i'm gonna try and get all the early rough trade 7-inches but i am too old now. but if i get any at the store they are going home with me.

this is great! this must be some sort of electronic new age classic but i've never heard it. its very engaging. will search out his previous album too.

https://i.discogs.com/w9zfzoyIN-8BCV1wAIf4pWDeTwsNqQY1r4c1ju8vNSg/rs:fit/g:sm/q:90/h:597/w:600/czM6Ly9kaXNjb2dz/LWRhdGFiYXNlLWlt/YWdlcy9SLTEzMjA5/MTktMTU3NzQ1NzEw/OC01ODcyLmpwZWc.jpeg

Ponder this...

https://i.discogs.com/VnZ67nRnhiYmxcRXm7vCXCYTA9SlgOQtnOO9MjnPjbc/rs:fit/g:sm/q:90/h:450/w:600/czM6Ly9kaXNjb2dz/LWRhdGFiYXNlLWlt/YWdlcy9BLTU3Nzk0/Ny0xNTI3OTcyMzQz/LTcyMTQuanBlZw.jpeg

damn! luv.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eLovjE9owfY

A1 Graham Dene– "Hello from Great Britain..."
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A4 Genesis– Just A Job To Do 4:30
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i would totally get a kissing the pink tattoo.

although a haysi fantayzee tattoo would be even cooler.

“certain things are likely” is my KTP OPO, a perfect anthem that should have been huge

i only listen to the first two albums. and the 8 or 10 singles that came from those albums. but i do enjoy the song "certain things are likely".

Certain things are likely must’ve had some impact on the American clubs. It’s got a “paradise garage lol mix and the 12” is pretty common in NY dance store bins. Earlier stuff was big in the cosmic/balearic scenes.

Interesting band.

Another 80s band I like that has one balearic classic hit started with some really cool post punk stuff and went more adult pop is It’s Immaterial.

yeah I know it was a successful club record, I meant more like hearing it at the grocery store or something

i really like that first It's Immaterial album. a late discovery for me about 5 or 6 years ago.

with kissing the pink i bought Naked when it came out because they played "The Last Film" a ton on the radio and i fell in love. i have never stopped playing that album since 1983. it was a big deal to me. funnily enough, i never even saw the second album, What Noise, until years later! mostly because it didn't come out in the U.S. It's great too.
the KTP stuff i wasn't as sold on but i did love the big single.

Naked one of my fave art rock records of all time. i think i can call it that. its perfect to me.

the KTP song must have charted here? it was kinda everywhere at the time. mtv. radio.

they toured it here too. lots of publicity money spent on it.

okay i'm gonna listen to that ktp album now. maybe i will fall for it late in life.

aww, i forgot about "one step"! love this song. they played this song on the radio too.

where do people stop with Shriekback though? it's Go Bang!, right? but i'm pretty sure they put out records in the 90s! we may never know what they sound like. they were godhead up to and including Big Night Music. Simple Minds win for me. seven amazing albums until they all became filthy rich and i stopped listening. but i will listen to those 7 records until they cart me away to the old grump's home.

I would think that they would have a decent hi-fi at the old grumps home.

ok I stand corrected Re Kip , maybe it’s an east coast/west coast thing

there’s this apocryphal meeting between Jim Kerr and Bono on the beach that occurred in between NGD and Sparkle, I always cite that as the beginning of the end

Shriekback never stopped making excellent records. "Go Bang" is the one outlier in their catalog, everything else is worth hearing.

I liked Go Bang! :(

weird to see ktp love, i had an import lp on the strength of love lasts forever i think? somewhere in the pacific trash gyre now after a relocation catastrophe in the 80s

Add me to the love of KTP.

Barry wrote up the story of "Go Bang" on his website:
https://www.tumblr.com/shriekbackmusic/87300284602/go-bang-and-after-compromise-king-swamp-and

Sometime within the last few years I saw a brand new video for a new shriekback and it was way better than I’d ever have expected. Some people just never lose it.

Simple Minds I thinks gets the interest in all their history and tries to recapture it a bit but it’s not quite there. I like a tiny bit of post Derek Forbes stuff but his leaving seems the turning point to me.

i like this. from the movie Wildcats. there is an actual LOL 80s video for the song but the long version is nice. i would play this if i was DJing an 80s night.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-d5-GUE4va8

i got a copy of the first Blackbird EP! in a random box of records. "Howl" sounds even better on vinyl than on the unsigned band CD comp i first heard it on. now i want the album on Scotti Brothers from 1992 which ALSO has "Howl" on it because why not nobody ever heard it and its a bitchin' song. in 1990 Fundamental put out a Blackbird comp that...you guessed it...also has "Howl" on it. the first side of the EP is so cool i haven't even gotten to the second side. lots of great guitar noise.

i won't post the "Howl" youtube again but you should listen to it! it's addictive to me.

https://i.discogs.com/OJj41mjCIT9Q1k04qUfjL4TWmFaf4biyCy6vBQ61kJc/rs:fit/g:sm/q:90/h:600/w:600/czM6Ly9kaXNjb2dz/LWRhdGFiYXNlLWlt/YWdlcy9SLTI4ODQ2/ODYtMTUxODgwNDU1/NC0yNTkxLmpwZWc.jpeg

(they also put out their own album in 1989 after the EP and it does not have "Howl" on it. i'd like to get a copy of that too.)

This is one of my all time favorite deep dive tunes. It's not even the considered the good lineup of TSOL. I found this one doing radio back in college.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=voJSmhxiQBM

i had that album! i liked it a lot. i even liked that hokey song "how do". i bought it when it came out thinking it would be punkier of course. but i played it a bunch.

i just sold that first red rockers album - condition red, which is great and i was totally tempted to keep the copy - and they did that similar thing that t.s.o.l. did.
heck lots of punk bands did it. went cowpunk or poppunk or slower/gothier.

'October File' by Die Kreuzen is an example of that thing. I heard that before I heard the early hardcore.

This may be an ILX first mention, of this song, at any rate? A truly weird and good 80s Quebec band called The Box

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4A3gcDg5M3M

Mock me if you will but I'm quite a fan of this ludicrous 1983 piece of sub-Queen nonsense from Northern Ireland's Cruella de Ville, just playing it for the first time since it came out ― the phantom flim-flammer (Matt #2), Monday, August 14, 2023

I absolutely ADORE Cruella de Ville. I wish they'd gone further - they had a Roy Wood-produced album in the can apparently. I'd love Cherry Red to pick that up, but maybe not enough people are aware of the band.

I can't not post China Doll, a singer from Birmingham who fused Kate Bush with italo disco and got... nowhere.
Great tune.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V4Tv0_ln4N0

Wow! that is really something. how have i never seen that? that is a gem.

i got a copy of the first Blackbird EP! in a random box of records. "Howl" sounds even better on vinyl than on the unsigned band CD comp i first heard it on. now i want the album on Scotti Brothers from 1992 which ALSO has "Howl" on it because why not nobody ever heard it and its a bitchin' song.

heck lots of punk bands did it. went cowpunk or poppunk or slower/gothier.

I love TSOL's Change Today?

were Blackbird any good live, elvis?

thank you so much for the offer of the rip but i probably wouldn't listen to it that way. i don't know why. i take things slow. i just ripped my first CD a month ago. i haven't even progressed to burning yet.

i'm imagining they were the kids of some hollywood guy who made music for commercials and they used their dad's studio to make their EP and LP. that's my imagination for you.

right now i'm listening to a 1987 EP by the band King Face and i only put it on because Ian MacKaye produced it. it's pretty terrible. and produced terribly at Inner Ear. maybe Inner Ear was just terrible. it was that guy's basement, right?
you can see the 90s coming in King Face and not in a good way.
Ian connection. the singer of King Face was in the band Sevens with Joe Lally.

SKOT'S TIP FOR THE DAY! buy this record. go get it on discogs. cost you like 10 bucks. get it before numero group or soul jazz or whoever gets their hands on it and the price skyrockets. its insane. homemade mix of soul/rock/dub/dance/whatever. sounds crazy. just gets crazier because they include an LP of dub versions that are even MORE bonkers. there is one track on youtube but it doesn't really do justice to how the record sounds.

https://i.discogs.com/4jRRhU8Hg39PiReFrk8lvbgFPylGIP5_18n1MwyJJfA/rs:fit/g:sm/q:90/h:600/w:600/czM6Ly9kaXNjb2dz/LWRhdGFiYXNlLWlt/YWdlcy9SLTc4ODY5/NTUtMTQ1NDcxNzcz/My02NjY4LmpwZWc.jpeg

what the heck i'll include it but you really need to hear the dub version which is a whole other animal. this record will do something to the wiring in your brain. its made...weird. the first track on the album "rita rita" is the most bizarre of the bunch.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q1dJxAmxS-8

private press. vinyl only. never reissued.

were Blackbird any good live, elvis?

...

i'm imagining they were the kids of some hollywood guy who made music for commercials and they used their dad's studio to make their EP and LP. that's my imagination for you.

OK, this has officially supplanted the Sly Stone thread as my favorite active thread on ILM.
(even though i know half the stuff getting boosted in secretly garbage)

XP - I think you mean Cowboy Nation (who actually played cowboy music), not Cowboy Mouth (who were great live, mostly because they had a sweaty, hyperactive singing drummer)

doh! yr right

Wow, there's actually some live recordings of them on YT. I think I was at this show...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hd1GEgDDPmI

Abecedarians were a LA-based group of Factory Records fans - accomplishing their mission by getting Smiling Monarchs released as FAC 117 and an opening slot for New Order in 1985. I've always liked this one from '87

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ANiiCcRTcNE

Following up on my 80-84 list upthread this is tracks from 85-89 that are new to me this decade but went into my year by year playlists with ease

Love And Rockets - Saudade
Scribble - Lowdown
Roger Doyle / Operating Theatre - Spring Is Coming With A Strawberry In Its Mouth
Virginia Astley - A Summer Long Since Passed
Stephen Duffy - Dream Machine
The Cavaliers - It's A Beautiful Game
Helen - Zanzibar
Jasper Van Hof't's Pili Pili - Pili Pili (aka Hoomba Hoomba)
Harold Budd - Flowered Knife Shadows
Black Sabbath - Scarlet Pimpernel
Steven Jeffries, Mary Carewe & Donald Grieg - Evil At Play
Obywatel GC - Przyznaje sie do Winy
Geoffrey Landers - Say You'll Say So
F.O.E. - World Famous Techno Pop
Gigi Masin - Tears Of Clown
Cheryl Glasgow - Glued To The Spot
Yello, Billy Mackenzie - Moon On Ice
Quintus Project - Night Flight
Dionne - Come Get My Lovin'
Quiet Force - Listen To the Music
Severed Heads - All Saints Day
Reese - Just Want Another Chance
The Prince Of Dance Music, LB Bad - The New Age Of Faith
Emerson - Sending All My Love Out
Conroy Smith - Sugar Me
AC Marias - One Of Our Girls Has Gone Missing
Bulgarian Voices Angelite - Oi Mara

Jasper Van Hof't's Pili Pili - Pili Pili

@scott - this is lovely. i don't have a record player - otherwise I'd snap this up immediately

Didn't know that Jasper Van Hoft but seeing on youtube one poster lists it as "electronic-afro" and another "typhoonized" posted it sped up shows this definitely had an impact on the italian Cosmic scene.

this is a lovely Abecadians track that I think was on a later ep on Independent Project Records but also on more recent reissues of the expanded Eureka.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SNvBZfm7KPY

i like that a lot. very nice.

had a wtf 80s moment at home yesterday. put on a copy of Metal Circus and when i put on the other side, well, i will let Discogs tell you:

"Side B contains songs from Side D of Hüsker Dü - Zen Arcade"

surprise! but i am always up for some recurring dreams so i just went with it.

are there fans of early soup dragons...i'm a little scared of this 1986 EP i have in front of me. Edinburgh address. i wonder if they were friends with Hee Haw up above there.

is this a 4-track 7 inch? IIRC they stopped its release but the guy who ran the record company sold it by mail order to anyone who sent him the money.

lol to correct myself it's Jasper Van't Hof. Confident I will never make this mistake again again. Some confusion from Discogs as the 15m version was released as 'Hoomba Hoomba' BY Pili-Pili in '85 but shorter versions credited just to Jasper were released in '84 TITLED 'Pili-Pili'. Not sure why you would listen to the shorter versions tbh :)

i get to crank this before i open the store. my nrg is already hi-r.

https://i.discogs.com/MNqBU3fvMPCrOprWpg9fuJ24UvnB3U90fxsT1mZ-5SA/rs:fit/g:sm/q:90/h:600/w:600/czM6Ly9kaXNjb2dz/LWRhdGFiYXNlLWlt/YWdlcy9SLTU3NDA5/NDYtMTQwMTM3NDk2/MC04Njg4LmpwZWc.jpeg

"is this a 4-track 7 inch?"

no, its a 12-inch.

https://i.discogs.com/2XnjcXtThmeq8epS66l3QmviL9yMYQnTQXXlh4Psre4/rs:fit/g:sm/q:90/h:600/w:597/czM6Ly9kaXNjb2dz/LWRhdGFiYXNlLWlt/YWdlcy9SLTExNzUw/NDgtMTQ4Mjc3NjI3/NS02MzUyLmpwZWc.jpeg

Picked this one up on a whim recently partly on the strength of its cover, weird synthpop with rambling spoken word bits, the main guy went on to found Third Mind Records which would seem to be a good fit for this thread!

https://i.discogs.com/tDZ6TTBR6PexxPZGCf_f5qyJ2RjClpaM5Hbk4GMpyH8/rs:fit/g:sm/q:90/h:595/w:600/czM6Ly9kaXNjb2dz/LWRhdGFiYXNlLWlt/YWdlcy9SLTcyMDE3/LTEzMDU4OTQ2NTAu/anBlZw.jpeg

that looks cool! i love inscrutable covers.

i'm listening to danny elfman's stunt double right now. not bad!

https://i.discogs.com/Wrn7cMQvHsu2FxgL3AG0yWufPtX-JINimouPb-JQXQc/rs:fit/g:sm/q:90/h:596/w:600/czM6Ly9kaXNjb2dz/LWRhdGFiYXNlLWlt/YWdlcy9SLTI4ODI4/OTEtMTMwNTcxMTQz/MS5qcGVn.jpeg

you guys have been so patient with all my archival aor lamecore record listening so here is a perfectly nice u.k. indiepop version of "pretty polly" by Jab for you. self-released on vinyl in 1988.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9waEX34GuJY

ever since i learned that i was SO WRONG about Love Tractor and discovered that their early records are fucking fantastic and sound like some sort of american Durutti Column or something i always check stuff on DB RECS in case i missed a gem that wasn't Pylon and am playing The Windbreakers - A Different Sort... from 1987 and...it is not a lost gem. its boring. like listening to The Connells or something boring like that.

Yeah, the most interesting thing about the windbreakers in their band name.
Maybe the other albums are more interesting, but "A Different Sort" is the only one I bought, and I don't think i managed to get through more than one complete listen to it. There was a time in my life when i probably would have made more effort, especially for sub-REM southern jangle pop.

I FUCKING LOVE THAT BUSHIDO ALBUM

the 12" prior to it and the LP after (Deliverance) are also good

regarding db records and atlanta music, Oh-OK is great, The Method Actors are great (enough for me to put it on CD) and Kevin Dunn's The Judgement of Paris well worth checking out.

i've been an Oh-OK fan since 1983! love them to death.

dan selzer are you a fan of those early love tractor records? i had no idea. nobody ever told me they were cool. i saw those records everywhere ever since they came out and i ignored them like i ignored big dipper and phantom tollbooth records. i don't know why. maybe it was the name? could have been. so great though. viva love tractor.

As far as DB Records goes I was a huge fan of the first Guadalcanal Diary album back in the day, but from a US perspective I guess they're about as cool as Big Country were in the UK? I liked the Zeitgeist album too, or at least that one song from it (Freight Train Rain). Fetchin Bones, not so much. And let's not mention The Coolies. You could pick all these LPS up in the second-hand shops in London for about 50p back then, I had tons of them.

everyone shouyld have this on their ipod:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JojJgMnu7lY

lol fetchin bones. i liked the song "stray" so somehow i ended up owning three of their albums and never playing anything but the song "stray". that album that "stray" is on is okay though. as far as their thing goes. i think don dixon is just supremely not cool.

I had the Don Dixon album too, loads of crap I only played once really. I blame The Bob magazine for recommending it all to me.

guitars that sounded really cool to me after not hearing the album for 20+ years: the first Christmas album, In Excelsior Dayglo.

i like The Bob for that one Robyn Hitchcock flexi they put out with the song "Surgery" on it. love that song. i put it on a lot of tapes.

I FUCKING LOVE THAT BUSHIDO ALBUM

the 12" prior to it and the LP after (Deliverance) are also good

Underrated and under-listened to band x 100 for me is without a doubt...Urban Verbs.

two GREAT major label albums from 1980 and 1981 and i can't even really give them away in my store. they sit and sit forever.

these albums are AWESOME. i don't get it. wounded bird did CD reissues that probably came out for a day and then disappeared. someone hepcat label should do deluxe editions and maybe people will actually hear them. maybe if they had been on Rough Trade or something people would think they were cooler.

love love tractor<3 i only have the wheel of pleasure comp with their magical cover of kraftwek’s “neon lights”

love love tractor

okay back to some nerdcore. i barely remember listening to the Yipes! debut from 1979. but now its 1980. a new day dawning. show me what you got, Yipes!

https://i.discogs.com/R1MEYPJL39U_NRH6N4n_0BnMtFELXNGPSQdELUZHxNY/rs:fit/g:sm/q:90/h:600/w:597/czM6Ly9kaXNjb2dz/LWRhdGFiYXNlLWlt/YWdlcy9SLTMwODU0/MDAtMTMxNTAyODM3/Ni5qcGVn.jpeg

I love mid 80s pop that sounds especially 'post krush groove.' think like the power station lp. or 'lets go all the way.' skott do you have any recommends in that vein??

listen to this. if you haven't before. its a personal fave of mine. might not be something people even listen to anymore. but i got an unplayed copy and played the first side last night and i still love it. all the laswellisms are fine by me. and the drums are very power station.

https://i.discogs.com/_6xmLyiIEnK35e5U4efSvPeK3UBSaFWcuaRXW3AXwFU/rs:fit/g:sm/q:90/h:600/w:600/czM6Ly9kaXNjb2dz/LWRhdGFiYXNlLWlt/YWdlcy9SLTQxMjc4/LTExNTgzMzIyMDgu/anBlZw.jpeg

wait sly fox guy is on this too! i think. so, good for sly fox fans. mudbone.

that yipes! record sucks. don't buy that one. playing some more unknown powerpoppers. i just put this on and i can't help but notice the completely horrible production. its so bad.

https://i.discogs.com/PPK4FU15LgB5-ZbC0TlahEVatxEFx_0NecgsIlZ-JHk/rs:fit/g:sm/q:90/h:600/w:596/czM6Ly9kaXNjb2dz/LWRhdGFiYXNlLWlt/YWdlcy9SLTkxMTMw/NzYtMTU0MTQxNDA1/OS0xOTY0LmpwZWc.jpeg

911 are WAY better than Yipes! for the record. they can jam.

dig the music on this. luckily the 12-inch comes with an instrumental version. gonna play it loud.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R4lTTD74CTQ

man, talk about forgotten. how did all these people get signed to labels? they had an album too. Keep It Dark is a weird name for a band that is not goth. their a-side single sucks. gonna try the b-sides.

https://i.discogs.com/HSFxFGIAVgHDfhyXGuiNSSaoDqbG-DXMQfVYBjrlZrM/rs:fit/g:sm/q:90/h:600/w:595/czM6Ly9kaXNjb2dz/LWRhdGFiYXNlLWlt/YWdlcy9SLTU5MDgz/MjctMTQwNjAzMzAz/My02MTg2LmpwZWc.jpeg

how did all these people get signed to labels?

guessing cocaine played a large part in all this

i made fun of the connells so i listened to their "hats off" single. i think i remember seeing the video on mtv. they got the smiths jangle as well as the r.e.m. jangle. if "hats off" wasn't at least a little bit inspired by smiths i'll take my hat off and eat it.

they were the buffalo tom of their day.

grant lee buffalo being the buffalo tom of THEIR day. which might have actually been the same day...

I was disappointed to play a bit of Shiva Burlesque recently (talking of GLB) and finding that I didn't love it nearly as much as I did at the time. Althogh I did keep the first couple of Downy Mildew LPs on a replay, were they known in the US? Totally obscure in the UK.

When I was a teenager and used to tape 120 Minutes every sunday night I HATED the Connells. I thought this song was the tweest wimpiest thing of all time.

Revisiting a few years ago when I wrote a thing about 120 Minutes for my blog I realized I had grown up and could now appreciate this anthemic jangle.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fluvL_5P1XM

here's my 120 minutes if yr interested. Sorry for the dead links.

http://acuterecords.com/blog/?p=29

The first Downey Mildew album was on Jack Rabid’s top 200 of all time list or whatever (from a 90s big takeover issue)

this is so great. john luongo for the win!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JJ_NDwZTlU4

speaking of don dixon, jack rabid, jangle rock, and the 80s, i went and saw concrete blonde at their debut performance in nyc after their first album came out (and sang "still in hollywood" on stage with them!) and jack rabid was playing the original version of "blue line" up above and this led to me hanging out with jack and looking at all his cool 45s and he had every cool 45. i was a top let's active fan as well as a top oh OK fan. i had never heard the original. i flipped out that someone would play it in a packed rock club.

ubiquitous 80s album i have never been tempted to play: Rave On Andy White

buzz buzz buzz. i got a bunch of these radio shows on vinyl. john peel intros to every track.

https://i.discogs.com/LNOCJwiDWh1o_Oqc7AcaHKeykkRAFhdqGVDltwLb6Og/rs:fit/g:sm/q:90/h:444/w:450/czM6Ly9kaXNjb2dz/LWRhdGFiYXNlLWlt/YWdlcy9SLTExODA2/MTQtMTE5ODgxNTAw/Mi5qcGVn.jpeg

hubba hubba...

https://i.discogs.com/0krwFVRpmWcpPS7DuTl8L3_YU64m3DLFSNS2OxJ9-78/rs:fit/g:sm/q:90/h:594/w:600/czM6Ly9kaXNjb2dz/LWRhdGFiYXNlLWlt/YWdlcy9SLTI4Njg2/ODctMTQxMTA5NzA4/MS04MjA0LmpwZWc.jpeg

damn, i wasn't expecting such freestyle goodness! sign me up!

also, r.i.p., tommy:

Tommy Page (born May 24, 1967, Glen Ridge, New Jersey, USA - died March 3, 2017, New York City, New York, USA) was an American singer-songwriter and later a music industry executive. He served as an A&R executive and Vice President of Top 40 Promotion at Warner Bros. Records/Reprise Records, associate publisher at Billboard, and Vice President of Artist and Brand Partnerships at Pandora Internet Media.

I don't remember Tommy Page at all but his Wiki entry is filled with "unusual details in Wiki articles."

Page also appeared on an episode of Full House, titled "Crushed", which first aired on January 14, 1992.[6] In the episode, he sings a special song to Stephanie Tanner on her tenth birthday, but spends the following day with her sister DJ, much to Stephanie's dismay.

this album is outstanding. the freestyle is actual freestyle and not some pop hybrid and the syrupy pop ballads are way over the top orchestral and goopy behind his unthreatening boy voice. they sound cool. plus, you get a pet shop boys song about africa!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pJ-wOIJ4TUY

playing loudly in public...

https://i.discogs.com/yG62W0hYcTclJlwJ8pVzs1SrDs-UcFIaqAr3MXQ5I5g/rs:fit/g:sm/q:90/h:400/w:400/czM6Ly9kaXNjb2dz/LWRhdGFiYXNlLWlt/YWdlcy9SLTMyMTk2/MDItMTMyMTAxNjYy/OS5qcGVn.jpeg

listening to this and trying to figure out why people pay so much for it. $200+. apparently its because of the LONDON STEPPER RARE GROOVE SCENE OF YORE. kinda one of those IF YOU KNOW YOU KNOW situations. sounds nice. that Koko Pop record sounded nice too. and it will only set you back five bucks.

https://i.discogs.com/j8OC96UoZvUf2u_XXv_4son_yfxSOPJKNtwa9kvrB-s/rs:fit/g:sm/q:90/h:593/w:596/czM6Ly9kaXNjb2dz/LWRhdGFiYXNlLWlt/YWdlcy9SLTEwNjQ4/MzQ1LTE2MDQxMzQz/MTAtNzI1Ni5wbmc.jpeg

i sold that Zulus EP! same guy bought a drum & bass 12-inch and his kid got a sweet copy of Beck's Loser 12-inch. 1st pressing. it's really the best way to hear "Loser". the one Beck song i love.

i sold that tommy page record so fast. and that rare soul stepper lp as well. definitely want the tommy page CD.

best promo cover of the day. please believe us! midge is your man! hahaha. so not going to happen.

https://i.discogs.com/0CnydiHENZla14sn8K77tYvwkWJpHLa2UjK1RQy3sOo/rs:fit/g:sm/q:90/h:588/w:600/czM6Ly9kaXNjb2dz/LWRhdGFiYXNlLWlt/YWdlcy9SLTQxNDQ2/NjMtMTUxMDg0NjU3/Ni01NzU2LmpwZWc.jpeg

Is the Baton Rouge Morning Advocate a notable venue for incisive rock criticism?

It's a bit impressive how anonymous Midge Ure remained in the US given all that hyperbole.

I had literally never heard of him before just now, but it’s the guy from Ultravox? Weird that I didn’t know that

(fwiw i am almost 39 so it sort of makes sense that i wouldn’t know but still)

The guy from Band Aid you mean

His Wikipedia page says McLaren asked him to be lead singer of the Sex Pistols. Hard to imagine God Save The Queen in the Vienna voice.

That was later. At the time he was doing this.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQod5Qwjteg

He was briefly a guy in Thin Lizzy!

He was briefly a guy in Thin Lizzy!

At least twice!

i'm a sucker for this kinda stuff. they made three singles and then made two singles as Escape From New York.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JtlLztQQVdI

only two years from their initial "crime" and "english guns" political platform and they had discovered party drugs in Thatcher's England.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j-B00sIXLcs

You’re missing their big track Fire In My Heart. This has been bootlegged and repressed and is something of an underground/cosmic/balearic hit.

https://escapefromnewyork.bandcamp.com/album/fire-in-my-heart

His Wikipedia page says McLaren asked him to be lead singer of the Sex Pistols. Hard to imagine God Save The Queen in the Vienna voice.

He had more of a trad punk rock voice when he was in Rich Kids w/ Glen Matlock:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5TkQYKLDK4A

oh man you guys i wish you could hear this so bad. this band from liverpool sounded EXACTLY - and not like a little or oh they must have been fans of that band in a big way - no, EXACTLY like...wait for it....R.E.M.! it is a true approximation. its funny. it really is. and they have a saxophone! just to make things better. even the picture of their EP on discogs is funny!

https://i.discogs.com/4t7p6wepggm_9lXdEf2m0ct_CSnoDKE07j8RszppFrU/rs:fit/g:sm/q:90/h:337/w:600/czM6Ly9kaXNjb2dz/LWRhdGFiYXNlLWlt/YWdlcy9SLTM2Mjcw/MjktMTUzNTI5MjMw/NC00NDQ4LmpwZWc.jpeg

oh but anyway i couldn't find it on youtube. maybe you can find it on one of your shadowy dark music torrent sites. search for the song "inching up" or "two men waiting".

they had a later album too. haven't looked for that yet. i hope they sound like late-80s r.e.m. on that.

i put this de wolfe library record on from 1981 and it turns out its the music from Prisoner: Cell Block H! can't get much more 80s than that. i just couldn't resist the challenger floating past the world trade center. *kidding* *lol* #neverforget #christa4ever

guitarist alan parker started making library music in 1970! he also made that sappy Congregation album that had a big 70s hit. he made a lot of music with the great herbie flowers. studio legends spend a lot of time together. he was also in Blue Mink. he was in CCS that had a big hit with their led zep cover. him and herbie made the legendary Rumplestiltskin album. a hard rock classic. basically, if chris spedding was busy, alan got a phone call.

https://i.discogs.com/lEGrmJhFR56xptH8T6h7K5XXla8UYJXvg_r8_MYiWWU/rs:fit/g:sm/q:90/h:461/w:463/czM6Ly9kaXNjb2dz/LWRhdGFiYXNlLWlt/YWdlcy9SLTIzNDg0/NzctMTMzMDE5ODUw/NS5qcGVn.jpeg

see i told you guys i loved that robyn hitchcock song a lot. a tape i made in 1987. a very definite "rock" tape made for rocking purposes. i loved LSD at the time. this was about as amerindie as i ever got. touch & go and homestead ruling my world apparently. and its a pretty sloppy tape as mixes go. why clan of xymox and that new order tracks are on there i have no idea. in 1985 half the tape would have been stuff from It'll End In Tears and Up On The Sun. in 1984 it would have been hardcorehardcorehardcore and hippie rock. i tried so hard to like That Petrol Emotion after the first album. i played that first album at least a thousand times. "Big Decision" wasn't so terrible except for the rapping. i made dance and synth-pop mixes too. they would probably be more fun to hear now.

https://scontent-bos5-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t31.18172-8/704883_10151943131067137_1390051502_o.jpg?_nc_cat=110&ccb=1-7&_nc_sid=2c4854&_nc_ohc=BV3CnWqF0MsAX9UoYDC&_nc_ht=scontent-bos5-1.xx&oh=00_AfDz1roVBZ8Bk77O9FlA0EMXOyvPJdlH8JQU1Ajn2OpMbA&oe=65280086

with a few exceptions, my kind of americana!

Salem 66 are a great lost band.

Liking the ‘That Petrol Emotion’ love - co-sign Salem 66 contribution.

I nagged the Omnivore Records twitter account at least a dozen times that they should reissue the Salem 66 records.

Talking of bands from Liverpool, I think "Immaculate" by The Wild Swans might be the most 80s-sounding track ever. To my ears it manages to combine New Order, Smiths, Echo & the Bunnymen, Lloyd Cole, The The, Icicle Works...

i should listen to a wild swans record. wait, have i?? well, again then. cuz i can't hardly remember.

meanwhile, in the north of england, this sounds so GREAT at 9AM eastern time.

https://i.discogs.com/DABhduX06qiZB-dHx-ZF8pWDpbtZWrQpuSS9FQeZw1U/rs:fit/g:sm/q:90/h:591/w:600/czM6Ly9kaXNjb2dz/LWRhdGFiYXNlLWlt/YWdlcy9SLTQyMzI4/MC0xMTQ3NTM0NTE1/LmpwZWc.jpeg

https://i.discogs.com/mI0lL-IuUj02VxR60s0RbbEaQKTXcHa2XA6BXXvaMOI/rs:fit/g:sm/q:90/h:547/w:588/czM6Ly9kaXNjb2dz/LWRhdGFiYXNlLWlt/YWdlcy9SLTQyMzI4/MC0xMjg4NzYyMDM5/LmpwZWc.jpeg

wait, liverpool is northern too.....?

i just think of manchester. and newcastle. coal...so much to answer for.

i watched both seasons of The Cleaner on Britbox the last couple of nights. its a Madchester-themed dramedy. lots of happy mondays talk.

Shakin' Stevens was on the last episode of The Cleaner playing the singer of a Shakin' Stevens cover band called Shaking Stevens! i thought that was funny and i'm not even Welsh.

1982 was the best time to make that comp above. in two or three years everyone would sound like U2. or The Alarm. or Tenpole Tudor. or Beltane Fire.

just to torture myself with something that i know i won't like anywhere near as much as that northern comp i'm playing bands playing live in lawrence kansas in 1988.

https://i.discogs.com/v32TGglieoG4m7u7WbTCIuwdSbZFC27evvHxN7wO-BE/rs:fit/g:sm/q:90/h:600/w:463/czM6Ly9kaXNjb2dz/LWRhdGFiYXNlLWlt/YWdlcy9SLTI2MTM0/NTktMTQ1OTg3Mjk0/NS0zODI4LmpwZWc.jpeg

That compilation is incredible. It's like a lost installment to that "1981" series that one ILXor did.

Apart from Pulp and Chameleons, I've never heard of any of these bands (and some of them have no other presence on Discogs), but this is wall-to-wall awesomeness.

its a great one for sure! hard to find a double album comp with no dud tracks. well, there is that dylan cover that was probably really funny to everyone involved that might not be needed.

but you have to have one dud on an album or you'll offend God. kinda like how a Mason will include one flaw in a building they are building.

every great Oi! comp had to have one Judge Dread track that you want to skip. its the balance and order of life.

(its 80s but not gonna talk about it here too much cuz too famous but listening to HALO 3 head like a hole 12-inch right now and has anyone ever made a 12-inch single calling card that basically says: "this is what you can expect from me for the next 30+ years" as much as this one does?)

(i mean not exactly what he was gonna do but pretty close!)

(probably more common with regular rock bands. "this charming man" a pretty good indication of what you would get for the next 4 years from the smiths. i do like unity of vision in a band. its like joining the army for a four year stretch. or going to prison and joining a gang.)

listening to a swampedelic gothabilly band from canada now. one side of this should do. if you have a beehive or pomade in your hair you might like this.

https://i.discogs.com/S40C321sIQJaaejivng2m4BNb4G5Zcv1nz4bxb-dV2c/rs:fit/g:sm/q:90/h:600/w:599/czM6Ly9kaXNjb2dz/LWRhdGFiYXNlLWlt/YWdlcy9SLTEzNTgw/MjktMTQ1MDM5NjA2/MC0yNjgxLm1wbw.jpeg

I like this better than the Condition song I posted upthread but her voice is still kinda strident.

its not very good! i actually had to turn it off because i remembered i was in public and anyone could just walk in and hear it.

(all that meat puppets talk on ilm has me listening to out my way for the first time in a very long time. when i bought it new i couldn't help but be a little sad that it wasn't up on the sun. but it sounds cool now! and the "everything is green" bonus jam on the cd is very cool. might play mirage next. don't think i've heard it since the 80s!)

there is a 40th anniversary vinyl pressing of love tractor's around the bend! just came out. tempted to get one.

that north of england comp...the only name I recognize is Makaton Chat because years ago I did a deep dive on John Hodgson aka Blank Frank.

Started out in a fun uk punk band Blitzkrieg Bop. Then a fantastic one off DIY single as The Gynaecologists (the Red Pullover). Then Basczax, who are on the second Fast Earcom compilation with Joy Division. Then Makaton Chat. Couple other bands in there as well.

i know they aren't forgotten but i have never ever listened to a danse society album. until...now. looking forward to it!

https://i.discogs.com/cLaOh2IOZhrDX9WFYpwojFzVcXROhmEZhv1t-9Jg3xA/rs:fit/g:sm/q:90/h:600/w:600/czM6Ly9kaXNjb2dz/LWRhdGFiYXNlLWlt/YWdlcy9SLTEzODU3/My0xNjQwNjI4NDA4/LTYwNDQuanBlZw.jpeg

ooh the big beat after the scary atmospheric intro is dope.

i dig this. feel kinda dumb that i haven't been listening to it for years. nice dark echo-y vibes. modern english is playing two doors from my store saturday night and once upon a time in their early days they had that dark echo-y thing going on.

used to have that album on cassette and have been hoping to find it on cd for years.
seem to remember there is a cheesy but brilliant rolling stones cover version on it ?

ya know what someone brought to our listening party a couple weeks ago? this cool thing

https://i.discogs.com/eyUjp570jLF7whHGRLazOtoQp2q1Sme0yCreNdEoZ9M/rs:fit/g:sm/q:90/h:469/w:450/czM6Ly9kaXNjb2dz/LWRhdGFiYXNlLWlt/YWdlcy9SLTE2NTM0/NjktMTQwODY2OTQ3/MS00OTI2LmpwZWc.jpeg

speaking of mid-80s goth worship

i didn't need the rolling stones cover but other than that the danse society are a-ok with me! now i'm playing modern english labelmates wolfgang press (featuring former members of 4ad hit makers in camera and rema-rema!) and their 1985 EP compilation. and for the life of me i don't think i knew that they had anything that old. thought they started later. and meanwhile they have a 1983 album i've never heard! crazy.
i'm a weird Wolfgang Press fan. i ADORE the Kansas 12-inch and the Mama Told Me Not To Come 12-inch and i've been playing them for decades but i never listen to their albums. this has to change. this will not stand.
again, not forgotten, but maybe a little dusty. they need a dusting. do people still play wolfgang press records? we would have to ask spotify.

https://i.discogs.com/qKDC9sSx2iu1D2TsKK2uBpbLWn0hGc4u6as4OwcdVEM/rs:fit/g:sm/q:90/h:600/w:600/czM6Ly9kaXNjb2dz/LWRhdGFiYXNlLWlt/YWdlcy9SLTQ2MzI4/MS0xMzY4MjA4OTU5/LTE0MzQuanBlZw.jpeg

^^ that's my favorite

I love "velveteen"!! pretty sure that was rose of avalanche's one great moment. they used to play it on the radio station i grew up with.

it's like 50% Sisters Of Mercy worship and 50% jangle pop! I liked it

I think by 87 they became Society and jumped on the Coldcut train with the pump up the volumeesque “kick it”

Digging this. Good autumn music

could have done with out the "respect" cover

yeah the "respect" cover is not great. and it stands out like a sore thumb.

there is something wrong with this.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=StAege5iHMs

https://i.discogs.com/vw2KJl68nVGCD3AG5iI_NCqrn2oMpmD216euMbVa9wk/rs:fit/g:sm/q:90/h:443/w:451/czM6Ly9kaXNjb2dz/LWRhdGFiYXNlLWlt/YWdlcy9SLTIxNzg1/MjEtMTI2ODI0NzQ5/MC5qcGVn.jpeg

i would kill for a clean copy of the satanic video for the song. but i have to make do with someone's lopsided televison viewing.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=msaVDDSUvyQ

Unipop!

https://i.discogs.com/st-dzfpyt7zy58ROFpoV04vIQqTiMn07-42A8neeGvk/rs:fit/g:sm/q:90/h:393/w:467/czM6Ly9kaXNjb2dz/LWRhdGFiYXNlLWlt/YWdlcy9BLTE3NDc4/ODMtMTI2ODI0OTg0/OC5qcGVn.jpeg

https://i.discogs.com/7-d64n2DtnfwQxBxTPs9sz1FHvwk5dSIEgGVPkIfme8/rs:fit/g:sm/q:90/h:600/w:523/czM6Ly9kaXNjb2dz/LWRhdGFiYXNlLWlt/YWdlcy9BLTE3NDc4/OTYtMTY1Nzk3ODM1/OC00NTUxLmpwZWc.jpeg

Unibrow!

listening to this now. never heard it! star-studded! it sounds great to these ears.

https://i.discogs.com/QrbBF8rdQdtP6SGn4EToLQsAJKMxueVQXiJ4v87CzAI/rs:fit/g:sm/q:90/h:273/w:280/czM6Ly9kaXNjb2dz/LWRhdGFiYXNlLWlt/YWdlcy9SLTExNTM2/MTQtMTMwMTUzNzc5/My5qcGVn.jpeg

https://i.discogs.com/hMoWwtasueBWgUB-Cgm8IkCe17ZElOY3MYbfWbSLgEE/rs:fit/g:sm/q:90/h:600/w:600/czM6Ly9kaXNjb2dz/LWRhdGFiYXNlLWlt/YWdlcy9SLTExNTM2/MTQtMTU4NjgxMjQ3/Ny05NjcyLmpwZWc.jpeg

not *exactly* a continuous mix but its close and i just like the way everything blends. always wished more weird comps took liberties and played DJ with short noise pieces.

that is fucking cool. Tim Wright solo piece!

also, I never knew Ann Magnuson's middle name!

i wish i could get a tattoo of how this 12-inch sounds. beauty. 1989. i think i want a noise unit boxed set. with even the later stuff that i would never listen to unless it came in a boxed set. why have i never listened to front line assembly much? i will rectify.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qihPqCe19mE

noise unit put out an album LAST YEAR and yes it was called Cheeba City Blues.

https://i.discogs.com/tOCCf2k70AEI3Jc5p0bzuPXxTdV4GnJDEoSiiDYz-fM/rs:fit/g:sm/q:90/h:534/w:600/czM6Ly9kaXNjb2dz/LWRhdGFiYXNlLWlt/YWdlcy9SLTI0ODk3/ODE1LTE2Njc4NjE1/ODUtNjMwOC5qcGVn.jpeg

also i want a *the klinik* boxed set. the other guy from the early noise unit stuff.

Elliot Sharp told me that that cover was a printers mistake and it was supposed to be bigger. The other early Zoar compilation Peripheral Vision has some killer stuff. Especially V-Effect.

i own peripheral vision on vinyl. it's awesome. now i have both comps! don't think they were ever put on CD. probably too hard with that many people.

28th Day - "Pages Turn"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CU62z6efOCQ

And a twofer from the great Boston-area band The Flies' Get Wise album (1984).
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TzWWRLYbGlM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pzhkcgEGNWk

i'm surprised that i don't see more flies records around here. you'd think they'd be everywhere like ultimate spinach and november group records. vocally they are getting into that michelob cowboy territory but i like the guitars. who was the big boston cowboy band...not the long ryders. shucks, i should know this.

i'll have to check out that whole 28th day album. i like it. i never really listened to barbara manning. i still have a terrible barbara manning memory. bunnybrains were waiting to go on at CBGB at a matador records new music seminar showcase during the height of grunge and i swear she played until two in the morning. bunnybrains were last. it was so hot. i thought i was gonna die. i guess they figured have bunnybrains last and everyone can just go home after barbara manning. hahaha! probably not far from the truth. but she played like a springsteen-length set.
i don't hold it against her. play until someone tells you to stop. that's my motto. it isn't really. my motto.
to make worlds smaller her guitarist that night lives here in town and i had to give him an earful about that time. he's a nice guy.

del fuegos?

I have a November Group 12". I always remember Trouser Press' critique: "unnervingly more suited to marching than dancing or listening."

november group were cool. and probably underrated because they were from here and not austria or something. but hey you can buy their records for a dollar and they are lotsa fun. i think a lot of people think the big underrated boston band was the proletariat. too weird for punk too punk for...you get the idea.

yes, del fuegos!

i saw my pal chuck warner this july! speaking of forgotten boston bands. i still enjoy listening to those throbbing lobster comps he put out in the 80s. (not to mention his invaluable service to mankind since the 80s what with all the diy madness he has put out there and also thank you chuck for the homosexuals collection. i actually do thank him for it every time i see him.)

https://i.discogs.com/ildA-mG3ap-3XNoKqb0G25Lpq9thUJlgZw0jDY9NOFE/rs:fit/g:sm/q:90/h:588/w:600/czM6Ly9kaXNjb2dz/LWRhdGFiYXNlLWlt/YWdlcy9SLTE1NDc3/ODctMTY0NzkwNTcy/NS04NzU5LmpwZWc.jpeg

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one of my fave forgotten boston bands is Ground Zero. there was an italian comp of their 2 7-inch EPs that nobody ever saw in 2013 but no domestic reissue. they were also outside the punk/new wave world of that time. more artpsychpunk.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=__XQTzcVEdw

Chuck Warner was a HUGE influence on my listening (and BUYING) habits.

^ Ground Zero totally sounds like Chrome circa Meet you in the subway. Pretty cool!

Oh those Throbbing Lobster comps were such a big deal to me and my friends as a Boston area teens. Someone's second cousin was in the Neighborhoods. Someone's brother was smart enough for Andover and knew the Del Fuegos. Good bands, local bands! We could hardly see them in person 'cause most of the gigs were 21+. The hardcore bands, yes. But the rock bands got considerable airplay on WBCN and the college stations. I never got to see The Blackjacks.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VukDgwI3uQI

I met Chuck at the WFMU record fairs. At that point while KBD record collecting was getting super expensive nobody was really looking into the DIY stuff like he was, both US and UK. The Homework and Messthetics comps, which grew out of the types of mixtapes people'd make just to show what they were selling, were so crucial and killer. I bought stuff like Homosexuals and Desperate Bicycles from him, and helped out a bit on the Homsexuals CD he put out, and he was always a guiding hand and help with the Acute releases.

he is so awesome. he had a terrible fire a few years back that destroyed a lot of his archives and it is the saddest thing. but nobody was hurt and he is doing good and its always so nice to see him.

French label Closer Records put this comp out in 1984 and i did a double-take until i found out that there was in fact a French Bad Brains. #youlearnsomethingneweveryday

https://i.discogs.com/EYGOZp_FGVs-zsXD7GP-xtZh0Fxx4DrenRKWwwIi61o/rs:fit/g:sm/q:90/h:600/w:589/czM6Ly9kaXNjb2dz/LWRhdGFiYXNlLWlt/YWdlcy9SLTEwOTUw/NDItMTU5NTQ1MTcy/Mi04MTI1LmpwZWc.jpeg

i like this! never heard them. are they from new zealand? australia? a homestead release that i don't remember seeing.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7JrtwOcuh6I

i'm actually going to see an australian rock act tonight! they are called dippers and they have a new record on goner records. i'd never heard them before but my friend chris is putting the show on and maria wanted to go. the stuff i've heard sounds good and also like the 80s.

I love noise unit.

might have to get this shirt actually
https://shop.waxtrax.com/product/noise-unit-logo-t-shirt-new-wax-trax-only

if you guys like 80s indie pop you would like that dippers band i saw tonight. listen to their record on Goner. they were a duo with drum machine. sounded good. i think they used to be called Thighmaster! that's like a band name from a Whiney thread.

oh but get this. the show was outside this old industrial building complex in north adams. Belltower Records is there and the people who own it are very nice and i enjoy seeing them and if you like weird 80s stuff they have good stuff. i got a reissue of Pink Turns Blue's Meta album from 1988. i got a nice cheap copy of my skin covers my body by happy flowers because i always buy it when i see it. i got a reissue of epic garden music by sad lovers and giants, their debut from 1982. and i got LPs by rolling blackouts c.f. and the aislers set because they remind me of the 80s. haha, kidding. a little. its a reissue of the aislers set how i learned to write backwards which i think i have on cd but not vinyl. i wrote a review of it for the village voice newspaper. that paper is now defunct.
anyway, i would have bought more (also got Total's Beyond The Rim LP from 1993 on Majora), but then i remembered that i owned a record store and i still have mounds of haircut music to listen to.

this is what modern english buys in my store. damn hippies!

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Did you just recognize him, or was he walking around the store humming "Life in the Gladhouse"?

he chatted with maria. maria is going to see them tonight two doors down from our store. and he's a record person. mick conroy.

synth-pop Bauhaus you are my new master!

https://i.discogs.com/YcXA7AnzXqE0GfbQVu9FGEBcJoeLCBjPw6e0gzab13U/rs:fit/g:sm/q:90/h:600/w:589/czM6Ly9kaXNjb2dz/LWRhdGFiYXNlLWlt/YWdlcy9SLTMyMjcz/Ny0xMTYyMjQ0NzIz/LmpwZWc.jpeg

The guy who started the Touch label put that record out in 1981. Mike Harding.

Really cool band. Some stuff on Glass as well. Awesome label, arty/psychedelic post-punk type stuff.

most famously spacemen 3. lots of stuff i haven't heard as well. and those membranes and jazz butcher records that i avoid for some reason? i don't know why. i just always have.

here's a tape for you. that i haven't heard. but i could youtube i suppose.

https://i.discogs.com/2YUJ0lNQsmofFtW9AAht4_lKdRS3KfJFaNAf4mzYwpI/rs:fit/g:sm/q:90/h:450/w:600/czM6Ly9kaXNjb2dz/LWRhdGFiYXNlLWlt/YWdlcy9SLTMwMTAy/MDEtMTYwMDgwOTc5/MC00MjQ2LmpwZWc.jpeg

gotta love this early one. 1981. i'm gonna find it in a box. i just know it. maybe.

https://i.discogs.com/g0KMnTd4PKm9YbS04Xykbgp0hxvGeCDYeYCy680oL1Q/rs:fit/g:sm/q:90/h:600/w:600/czM6Ly9kaXNjb2dz/LWRhdGFiYXNlLWlt/YWdlcy9SLTI5NzI5/Ni0xNDUxODQ1MTEz/LTUwNTkuanBlZw.jpeg

Kevin Harrison's really cool too. A range of stuff, some more electronic and experimental, some poppier, and this balearic disco tune:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YhLszxTDq44

and my copy of Mayo Thompson's Corky's Debt to his Father is a Glass reissue.

Jazz Butcher on Glass = classic
Jazz Butcher on Creation = not so much

so good! 1986 but sounds a little earlier than that. like 83 or 84. they have such a great blend of quirky synths and sharp post-punk guitar and bass. and what a bass! more of a talker than a singer if that's a turn-off. my copy is a u.k. press on Ink, the subsidiary of Red Flame, those heroes who shared the beauty and joy of Severed Heads with the world and showed us that anything was possible if we looped enough. a young Omar Santana was listening to that call of action. okay, he probably wasn't. but you never know he might have been! he did later in life help redefine and turbocharge American hardcore techno so who is to say he isn't a Severed Heads superfan? though he was probably already cutting shit up around the time that Clifford Darling came out and when you have the Latin Rascals and Chep Nunez and Kurtis Mantronik around as inspiration and mentors you are already learning the skills required to reach heaven without ever leaving Queens.
anyway, Scattered Order put out a record LAST YEAR. so if you like this record you have 40 years of superfandom of your own to get going with. their first single came out in 1981. and i first heard of them yesterday. when i picked this record up.

https://i.discogs.com/1kjH11YqwOhQfS3TGPcAANtiftZp6nM5xnP59C19xYo/rs:fit/g:sm/q:90/h:563/w:591/czM6Ly9kaXNjb2dz/LWRhdGFiYXNlLWlt/YWdlcy9SLTgyOTE5/NC0xMzQxODQ3NjE5/LTk5NDMuanBlZw.jpeg

good band, I have a Vinyl On Demand box with them on it

Medium Medium's "Hungry, So Angry" is such a thing of beauty. Jesus. I wish I had written it and I am very rarely jealous of songwriters. Because why would i be i don't write songs. But I wish I had written that one.

One of the best albums I've listened to since starting this thread is by someone who I've already been knocked out by since starting this thread. The Passions! I just didn't know. I'm so sorry. I vaguely remembered "I'm In Love With A German Film Star" and nothing else. But sheesh Thirty Thousand Feet Over China is just such an amazing record. I don't think I thought it would sound so homemade or so spacy and dubby. So many cool guitars. Drone-y guitars! and that singer could be from a Sarah Records band. Very D.I.Y. and some punk vibes vocally. Anyway, I love it. I should have been listening to it forever. People need to tell me these things. also, the vinyl sounds so cool. I can't vouch for digital.

https://i.discogs.com/N-oMYDkMnSbxanDWlES_EqiNTN8iYakMddk0JqehPQI/rs:fit/g:sm/q:90/h:599/w:600/czM6Ly9kaXNjb2dz/LWRhdGFiYXNlLWlt/YWdlcy9SLTU1NTM5/OC0xNTI4NTc3OTcz/LTE1NzQuanBlZw.jpeg

i love this song so much. throwing muses could have covered this. tanya could have sung it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nntoQMUsX28

Great great great album! Their earlier more postpunky album doesn’t have the same impact.

Yo that Passions album is pretty damn amazing, I've never listened to it before. It is very accessible but actually pretty sonically interesting post punk imo. I'm hearing mp3 (and failing at acquiring), it sounds very good. The arrangements are kinda open and spacious and clear. Man I like that one, I had never even heard German Film Star tmk. Thx yet again Scott I'm getting a good education in spaces I thought I knew. That Schleimer K, same same.

"interesting post punk pop" is what i meant to type.

cool, i'm glad you listened to it! it's a wonderful album.

I listened to that album a lot around 2005-2008, thank you for reminding me of it. "Small Stones" is hitting the spot.

"Thirty Thousand Feet Over China" scratches the same itch for me as Alvvays or maybe even Life Without Buildings -- the hooks aren't super obvious at first, but the melancholy vibes kept me kept me coming back, until it wormed its way into my subconscious, and then it finally clicked that I've loved it all along.

Anyway, given the response on that one, The Passions probably weren't underloved.

Does anyone know if Sanctuary (the next album) is worth seeking out?

speaking of "velveteen" it makes the cut on this indie top 20 cd88 comp that i just pulled out of a box.

https://i.discogs.com/j6H52yepYIJqwZmUfVPTS76PN64FxqzmYDLfCL9QZ5k/rs:fit/g:sm/q:90/h:434/w:569/czM6Ly9kaXNjb2dz/LWRhdGFiYXNlLWlt/YWdlcy9SLTUyMjQ2/NS0xMTg1NDQ5NTEx/LmpwZWc.jpeg

Those Beechwood indie comps were pretty good, kinda the way I was able to hear a lot of British bands for the first time.

not forgotten, but when was the last time you listened to a damned album? hmmmmm...???

listening to a 1982 u.k. reissue of the black album with the totally black cover. i love that cover. kinda like how i got a 1986 reissue of agnostic front's victim in pain recently which also has a completely black cover instead of the original sad and scary cover.

best thing about this copy is it still has the poster! the damned were so cool. here's the poster:

https://i.discogs.com/2VpDG7SeGGUom724Fna8Yhs9NwCoyiWwpazt9Kr6gWw/rs:fit/g:sm/q:90/h:600/w:434/czM6Ly9kaXNjb2dz/LWRhdGFiYXNlLWlt/YWdlcy9SLTQ4NDkw/MjktMTYxNjY2OTAw/NS0yOTA4LmpwZWc.jpeg

OMG, I need a big frame! This came in a Go-Betweens promo LP. My spirit animal and life coach Linda Manz and the Go-Betweens. A match made in heaven!

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Pee Wee!

keeping this. or at least bringing it home for further research. its insane. i don't know how to describe it really. it sort of belongs on Lovely Music, Ltd. Red Grooms cover!

https://www.discogs.com/release/5749114-Kenward-Elmslie-Palais-Bimbo-Lounge-Show

https://i.discogs.com/PdbNzTI5l16B5d4U9-vaom9MzgyPybHIRziB2o835to/rs:fit/g:sm/q:90/h:300/w:298/czM6Ly9kaXNjb2dz/LWRhdGFiYXNlLWlt/YWdlcy9SLTU3NDkx/MTQtMTQwNTMwNDEy/NC0zNjExLmpwZWc.jpeg

I listen to that Damned album all the time. The Black Album and Strawberries are a great combo.

loving these. got the "dirty" 12-inch and it is going into my battle box for when i have to battle all other sucker DJs. there is a local group here called Boy Harsher and they are very popular and I could see them covering one of these. Boy Harsher playing in my basement one of the best shows I put on over the years.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=swKs2TsuIw0

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ukh8il7kEs0

finally found the time to catch up with this whole thing. great work scott and crew! <3

this is my humble offering to the thread:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ui_2WQZLlQg
Recipe - Waterglide (1984)

heck, have a bonus - don't really know who this guy was but it's like a one man OMD-meets-New Order:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SQcObrAQ5Qk
Tony Martin – Barriers (1984)

^ costs a quid in the UK btw and don't worry, there's an instrumental version on the b-side

ooh i dig Recipe. its a warm synth bath. makes me curious about their other stuff.

> ooh i dig Recipe. its a warm synth bath. makes me curious about their other stuff

the first album (skinny dipping) is GREAT! more of the same, really good pop songs, they remind me a bit of the post-YMG band The Gist. one of the two people involved is Douglas Benford who is a longterm fixture in the london improv weirdo scene, mostly famously(?) under the name Si-{cut}.db

^ when i say famous, i just mean he's probably been giving Wire magazine sub-editors a migraine for years with that moniker

breaking out this one again - julian marshall's project after marshall-hain split up (M-H had a hit with 'dancing in the city' if you remember that). some big name steely dan-related session guys playing on it (rick derringer on guitar iirc?), songs are sharp art pop with great vocals. think that any lurking laura groves fans here would love it. might have been moderately successful in the US but it didn't do shit here and it took me ages to find a copy in the wild:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LEHn7Tw-AD8
Eye To Eye - Progress Ahead (1982)

oh man eye to eye are pretty common here and i must confess i don't listen to them but now i will! i don't know why i had it in my head that i didn't need to listen to them. brains are funny that way. i know i have some vinyl at the store.

Man i am listening to The Passage for the first time in a long time and they are just as weird as ever! For All And None. what a record. they totally made art rock. they could have been called Art Bears. they liked art. i remember first hearing them and thinking i was gonna get something completely different. i don't know what. more Cherry Red cute or jangly or something? I have no idea. but The Passage aren't cute. I feel like close listening is rewarded. They really go places.

https://i.discogs.com/7-6hlv3P91x5wXOauyV0oVxir6LUrXrLsgQqngvdAX4/rs:fit/g:sm/q:90/h:590/w:600/czM6Ly9kaXNjb2dz/LWRhdGFiYXNlLWlt/YWdlcy9SLTg0NDcz/MS0xMTY0Njc5OTg0/LmpwZWc.jpeg

Def a range of sound. Never quite cherry red twee but an evolution from the fall diy post punk poppier new wave through some minimal art rock post punk stuff. XOYO prob the hit?

The Passage always seemed like a band (was it just 1 dude at first?) who had read a lot about music but had never actually heard any music, so were just guessing what it actually sounded like

hip rebels is my favourite passage tune atm, its very fad gadgety:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WaWqlT14e1g

huh i don't recall em but i def hear the fall postpunk minimal artrock named above. it's pretty nice imo.

The Fall connection is direct, they were founded by Tony Friel who formed the Fall but left after the first single and appeared on the first two Passage singles, which were on Object Music, one of Manchesters other indie labels. But this belongs in the forgotten 70s thread.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SvVLPhEiFPM

I think after Friel left it was Dick Witts vehicle. Interesting history with the Manchester Musicians Collective and Object Music connections, as well as the Fall.

they can be confounding. and not afraid to be unlikable. which i respect. they could have just thrown off some hot post-punk basslines and disaffected mumble rants and called it a day but the later records are weirder than that and i think that's why they sometimes (inadvertently? or on purpose? i'd have to read some retrospective interview with one of the members) remind of of some Rock in Opposition people. i think this is especially true of the Degenerates album.

"Witts had trained as a classical percussionist and briefly played with the prestigious Hallé Orchestra; he was also a founder member of the Manchester Musicians' Collective."

seems like it would be an interesting history to write about. maybe someone already has. at the very least i should check and see if there is a good interview with dick witts.

really long interview as a google doc if you scroll down his page:

https://richardwitts.com/selected-papers-and-talks/

Object Music is an awesome label and scene and a discussion for a different thread.

!!!!!!!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xo5bY7CM-YY

making the best of a bad situation:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DkZGw_9xcRo

for all your Roland needs.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7EIxNXsiuXw

Stepping back to the Passage, nearly all the members posted on the thread on here at one point, and I still think all my old AMG reviews are up...

why do some albums repel me? like the cactus world news album. urban beaches. maybe i've just seen it too much in too many dollar bins. i should just put it on. what's the worst that could happen?

this isn't so bad! they were no bolshoi but its better than listening to the alarm. (you can put that blurb on any cactus world news reissue...)

I taped that one off a friend when I was 16. It's decent for what it is, there were far worse bands that got signed in the hope they were gonna be the next U2

And talking of U2, I *think* I'm right in saying that they were one of the bands that got released on Bono's label, Mother Records. Most of the stuff on that label was garbage, but if you ever see this one, grab it cos its an absolute treasure:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z9GnqZ3JkKE
Operating Theatre - Spring Is Coming

new fave band!!!

https://i.discogs.com/rIwochCjhgGiB53wNhxJ6VUaaQDAck8zvV0uau7FZO4/rs:fit/g:sm/q:90/h:579/w:567/czM6Ly9kaXNjb2dz/LWRhdGFiYXNlLWlt/YWdlcy9SLTE4Nzc0/MS0xMTQ5MjczNTM4/LmpwZWc.jpeg

this single rules! wow. there is an Isolation Ward CD compilation but i don't see a copy for sale in the U.S. just one more reason why this country sucks. Thanks, Trump!

i will make a note of Operating Theatre.

i'm at my store now and we are closed so i can really blast stuff on the turntable and blasting stuff is what i am really good at. Isolation Ward. Who knew? other than Dan Selzer. he probably knew.

and one more thing: as someone who still occasionally plays the first Easterhouse album for enjoyment, i would never throw stones at a Cactus World News fan. or a Screaming Blue Messiahs fan either.

i think i did buy that IRS Records Alarm EP when it came out for "The Stand" which they drummed into my head on college radio. and then i did buy that debut album but by then...yeah...no.

holy shit exactly my track on alarm too

i can't believe how much promo money Geffen spent on Peter Case and that album. what the hell did they think would happen with it? omg, the guy from the Plimsouls has a new album out!! the amount of money probably pales in comparison to how much Columbia later spent to make Pete Yorn a huge huge star. sooooo much money spent on Pete Yorn. its a wild world we live in. Peters haven't paid since Frampton came alive.

https://i.discogs.com/R29L7lXkKK7IqxX4GbZXLX5l7PUsF6lbPUxSus-8988/rs:fit/g:sm/q:90/h:576/w:583/czM6Ly9kaXNjb2dz/LWRhdGFiYXNlLWlt/YWdlcy9SLTMyODE2/MjQtMTMyMzc4NzQ3/MC5qcGVn.jpeg

My next door neighbor sang the Alarm's "Strength" at the high school talent show when i was a freshman... I'm going to have to listen to that now, because there's no way the actual track can be as colossal as it is my memory.

I also owned the Alarm EP because of a good Rolling Stone review, but immediately lost interest after that

Update: "Strength" is still massive.

this album is cool! i don't think i have a favorite record on the Mammoth Records label. now i do.

https://i.discogs.com/c2OKdOlUCTFBjh2cKgxHmqP8r2bemRHzs9wzMrgEBqs/rs:fit/g:sm/q:90/h:600/w:592/czM6Ly9kaXNjb2dz/LWRhdGFiYXNlLWlt/YWdlcy9SLTI4ODQ1/MzEtMTU0ODI4NTEw/My00NTIxLmpwZWc.jpeg

I always get Pete Yorn and Pete Droge confused when I think of them, which is almost never. Both Petes with odd last names.

Oh and Pete Krebs too.

Downsiders is one of Cole Marquis's bands, he from 28th Day. Everything he did is worth hearing.

oh man i was listening to this excellent album by What? Noise but it turns out its from 1990. it sounds very very 80s. i like it a lot. not familiar with the group. the cover even has a faux-80s 23 envelope/grafica industria cover. not on 4ad but it should have been. kind of a more industrial wolfgang press? though wolfgang press could be pretty industrial...anyway, it doesn't matter cuz its from 1990. i'm keeping it. please disregard this post.

https://i.discogs.com/-2P8qFhO4r5Lx2JiwZHvDFizquoLnlqyb_vcsLim8Yc/rs:fit/g:sm/q:90/h:600/w:597/czM6Ly9kaXNjb2dz/LWRhdGFiYXNlLWlt/YWdlcy9SLTM0MDk3/OC0xMjI2MTc3ODY0/LmpwZWc.jpeg

new beat 4 life. i definitely have some sort of self-imposed cut-off when it comes to benelux battiness. 1991/1992. somewhere in there. roundabout when all the stuff i never listened to in the 90s got hot. lords of acid. thrill kill kult. latter-day wax trax type stuff. more ebm/goth/vampire/stripper pole. NOT that there aren't probably a zillion things i would like if i listened to them from the 90s in a post-front 242 world. plus, all those 80s people were still making tons of music. a lot of them probably went on to acid or euro house in the 90s. that's my guess. when it comes to the early 90s i'm still a new yorker at heart with tribal house and long-in-the-tooth freestyle. can't help myself. miami. trains going down tracks that lead to mountains made out of gigantic asses and spaceships buzzing around. i am not a rave kid. i like detroit. chicago. berlin. in the 90s. the birth of minimal. house in my tech. tech in my house. and whores. whores in my house.

this single is from 1988. there is nothing special about it. i could listen to it all day.

https://i.discogs.com/eRhfhA49MmCbdGSoAwrnI6chHS9LlBFbUpnS2jW9zZM/rs:fit/g:sm/q:90/h:581/w:600/czM6Ly9kaXNjb2dz/LWRhdGFiYXNlLWlt/YWdlcy9SLTM1NzEx/Mi0xMTc0MjU4NTMy/LmpwZWc.jpeg

i'm on to Fini Tribe and their salute to Can! i dig it.

https://i.discogs.com/mDj2AgP0jM1La1a7_wwaCreuJMIAYL5M9Kv0TdoPL_I/rs:fit/g:sm/q:90/h:600/w:600/czM6Ly9kaXNjb2dz/LWRhdGFiYXNlLWlt/YWdlcy9SLTI1NDUy/LTEzMjgyMjMwMjku/anBlZw.jpeg

classic.

i was listening to Outlaw Posse. i always feel a little bad when i listen to british rap. i'm glad that people over there finally came up with grime and didn't have to worry about rhyming anymore. i like the richie rich mix on the single i listened to. from 1989. overall not great though.

This thread has turned into a parade of bands I saw playing support slots in London in the late 80s/early 90s. Have you done Mute Drivers yet?

Mute Drivers were on the same label as What? Noise iirc. Saw the former supporting Loop, never saw the latter but do have that record somewhere...

Need Headcleaner next plz

i take them as they come!

which is out of a box.

I dont know how good this band is exactly — though I enjoyed exploring it to 'figure it out' — but their sound is such a particular strain of '80s aesthetics I enjoyed digging into it as a kind of singular texture you cant imagine existing before or since

only mentions on ilx are of them being massively hyped / failed spectacularly
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pqJvL3RSE5k
https://i.ebayimg.com/images/g/BEwAAOSw2NJkr1L3/s-l1600.jpg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Et4kiBZBxhA

I feel like they would do well if someone made some edits out of their stuff

https://www.muzines.co.uk/images_mag/articles/emm/EMM_86_03_up_and_runni_large.jpg

the fits

you can imagine them being the guys who do the soundtrack for a fern gully knockoff or something ... I enjoy it as a surface texture

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VnnlN_DG0es

Speaking of the box, out of one or from one, I just learned about this not too bad canadian band that likely belongs here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dDrKOjaY5oE

Only because I was looking for a video about this Sheffield UK band who are killer and don't get much attention:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZUek3AhGnEw

This The Box is basically Clock DVA after they split off with Adi Newton. What they did together, especially the Clock DVA album Thirst, is better than the parts, even though the Box's 80s albums like this are great angsty post-punk and the Box-less Clock DVA followed up with an even more accessible 80s classic that deserves more recognition (Advantage) before becomming Adi Newton's solo electronica project.

I'm thinking Clock DVA though aren't as forgotten as The Box, so I'm not going to post the video for Beautiful Losers but suggest you go watch it. Then watch the Futurama performance of 4 Hours.

Drum Theatre look like the cast of an Australian t.v. show about kids making it in a post-apocalyptic world.

listen to more The Box and Clock DVA. got it. i always liked Clock DVA but never listened to them much.

first album White Souls in BLack Suits is british industrial no wave.

second album Thirst is fantastic.

then they split with The Box on one side and Adi Newton on the other.

next album advantage is a great 80s album.

After that it's more electronic/industrial stuff and not really stuff I kept up on.

And there's older stuff with the Future, when he was part of the pre-Human League bands.

But Thirst and Advantage are well worth anybody's time.

clock dva/box member Roger Quail's done some excellent blogging:

https://www.mylifeinthemoshofghosts.com/author/roger-quail/

thanks, dan!

listening to a Moroder-produced album by a fake band put together by a t.v. producer? never seen it before. i even cracked opened a sealed copy. first song sucks. maybe it gets better.

https://i.discogs.com/7W4Nzk329OXCUAI8wyCnarJVtI6Lo-AuhdAgZUGg-j0/rs:fit/g:sm/q:90/h:594/w:600/czM6Ly9kaXNjb2dz/LWRhdGFiYXNlLWlt/YWdlcy9SLTM4MTI5/NTktMTM0NTM5OTgw/Mi0yNTEyLmpwZWc.jpeg

2nd song is way way better. and more Moroder-y.

sometimes i don't think i can think of anything worse than an 80s reworking of a song like "cool jerk" which is what these fine women are doing now. new wave chestnut polishing a major thing since the 70s and everyone will have faves and unfaves. not everything can be "money". which i just heard in this huge major commercial during an nfl football game. but it was like a remade commercial version of flying lizards. it was weird.

Pretty sure that Big Trouble album must have had a mega promo push in Europe as I had an immediate and dispiriting flashback to seeing that logo in every £1 rack in the late 80s.

Dan otm re: Clock DVA, Thirst is the best but all the early stuff up to & including Advantage is worth yr time

do we have a thread for oldsters going 80s? so many that i come across that are just lost to time. they rarely stray far from the usual singer/songwriter/rock/pop template of old. just put a synth over everything.

https://i.discogs.com/kOpTHdmzlFztiGmSzqUI1VoIffZ-J5ItyS6JPajBgus/rs:fit/g:sm/q:90/h:587/w:600/czM6Ly9kaXNjb2dz/LWRhdGFiYXNlLWlt/YWdlcy9SLTQyODMw/MjUtMTQ5NTc4NzEy/MS05MTM3LmpwZWc.jpeg

late 70s new wave classic rock

this is some sort of platonic ideal. sheesh. i think i'm falling in love.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iexg8I8rQPg

https://i.discogs.com/8QdAmIrOc4c3Hxw8AnNV-BiZL-yivRjsN_jQvqqjzM0/rs:fit/g:sm/q:90/h:600/w:600/czM6Ly9kaXNjb2dz/LWRhdGFiYXNlLWlt/YWdlcy9SLTM2NzMx/NzgtMTQwMDAxMDU3/OC03NDUyLmpwZWc.jpeg

https://i.discogs.com/tYg8ZcIIhI2Swl8F-3yz5YIeidhXODvzcOEGWh6kMa8/rs:fit/g:sm/q:90/h:590/w:600/czM6Ly9kaXNjb2dz/LWRhdGFiYXNlLWlt/YWdlcy9SLTM2NzMx/NzgtMTU0ODcxNjQ1/Mi03OTg2LmpwZWc.jpeg

"For Baby (For Bobbie)" is my new favorite song title.

This song pops into my head once every few years. I had the album back then and may have never listened to the rest of it. Described here as "Celtic soul meets Blue Nile", which works. Produced by Philip Glass!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lH-HRmDruIU

that song is so weird.

Pierce Turner made one of my very favorite rock albums of the 70s: Turner And Kirwan Of Wexford's Absolutely And Completely. Genius record.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rcbk9tJadkw

It's my favorite Hobbit-related rock record of the 70s. its just so great.

i found that pierce turner album in a box this morning. gonna take it home to listen to.

i'm starting an 80s madness section at the store. anything with a good 80s cover and any hits or obvious faves too. i've done it in the past when i've gotten excess 80s stuff in and people really like it. i'm including soundtracks because i love them but also visually they are hard to beat.

here are the soundtracks on vinyl that i'm starting my section with in amongst the duran duran and missing persons:

splash, speed zone, secret admirer, the secret of my success, party party, no small affair, made in usa, out of bounds, cocktail, hiding out, howard the duck, the last american virgin, over the top, harry and the hendersons, the heavenly kid, thief, tequila sunrise, teachers, teen wolf too, the woman in red, working girl, the wraith, xanadu, youngblood, young einstein, heavenly bodies, they call it an accident, thief of hearts, who's that girl, superman III, mad magazine presents up the academy, up the creek, tough enough, tuff turf, top gun, 9 1/2 weeks, private lessons, summer lovers, summer school, weird science, vision quest, twins, flashdance, electric dreams.

i think it's a pretty good start!

That party party soundtrack is a winner. It's like the Judgement Night soundtrack, except with reggae and new wave.

that is a cool soundtrack. i mean it had a theme of sorts.

was going through some records and i forgot i had this

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rnve0tFfhmQ

so great. i got a test pressing of that album in a box! i was so excited.

i've never heard of the movie Party Party but now I've heard Midge Ure doing The Man Who Sold The World for the first time and boy is that good.

as much as i worship bananarama their pistols cover on that album was never my fave.

have too much work to do to pick and choose so i'm playing this excellent youtube playlist of 80s industrial. its on the dance end of industrial. very few clunkers. great flow too. for a super-long playlist on youtube anyway.

http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL639BOEMhHZONR-bcVRll_fuvxffgefr4

it has already made me wish i had a vinyl copy of this:

https://i.discogs.com/eQBe82j7yIsiG1eYbc99SYLmgsvKCo6uD4TCKCuB0oM/rs:fit/g:sm/q:90/h:600/w:600/czM6Ly9kaXNjb2dz/LWRhdGFiYXNlLWlt/YWdlcy9SLTU4NjEz/LTEzMTIwNjI3MTQu/anBlZw.jpeg