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

(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!

my area?? i'm not there today. maria is. and my 12-inch section is bleak right now. fair warning.

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

All the youtube comments on that compilation are like "the algorithm brought me here", but little do they know you just need to bookmark the forgotten/unknwn/unloved 80s thread and you're all set.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eC-X6Pn3qEU

that’s awesome

New to me. RVNG reissue in 3...2...1...

i picked up a copy of the cd reissue on discogs and the guy wrote back asking me how come he's sold three in the past week. he said he got the cassette in the 80s and loved it and got the nod from the artist that he could reissue it so he did. i told him there's a discussion group called ilm and gave him a link. he was, like, that's a discussion?!

that’s funny. in this context maybe more like a bulletin board where ppl can stop and discuss but it’s not required

darkwave/jennifer beals Kamala Harris for the win!

https://scontent-bos5-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t39.30808-6/452370773_925097282996328_4778831759924554757_n.jpg?_nc_cat=1&ccb=1-7&_nc_sid=127cfc&_nc_ohc=2tCq-kAMNQIQ7kNvgHRisqc&_nc_ht=scontent-bos5-1.xx&oh=00_AYAMYfCS-qOu4akQPnGsoue_t7BRCywks5hbIuq3onpkBQ&oe=66A5B989

wild....

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

galaxie 500 should have covered this one.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NSmRh-Zv6d4

green day should have covered this one.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9hFRGvfskc8

or no wait green day should have done this one.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U7qCU-6oz1Y

Randomly remembered Jean Beauvoir's name today. Mick Jones plays on this song. The next few are Prince-light. The first song was in a Sylvester Stallone movie.

He co-produced the Ramones "Pet Sematary" and has co-writing credit on an NSYNC song?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k6dEb2DyBpA

AOR Funk.

He was in Little Steven and the Disciples of Soul too! Along with Dino Danelli on drums. I once watched them getting seriously barracked on a Status Quo support slot for wearing long 80s coats and being flashy and American.

jesus, yeah, quo fans are no nonsense.

The Individuals — Fields

Fun little album in a janky kind of Martha & the Muffins / Gang of 4 Lite mode. The songs themselves are a bit naff maybe but the first side has a vibe anyway. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kPU5D2PEZAA

for some reason people were bringing up the black crowes on the oasis thread and i was never a fan because i feel like there are so many brit and aussie bands who did the stones thing better. bands nobody listens to anymore except for obscur-o rock lifers. i am probably more fond of the bands that did stones + ac/dc anyway. its the chuck eddy part of me. anyhoo, forgot about this album. its a lot of fun. it basically does what the cult would end up doing years later. (and its more aerosmith + ac/dc than stones but whatever...)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uHQMTGRp8GM

although to be fair the black crowes are more southernfriedr&bboogaloojimjamhordefestharmonicadelica.

also, i really need a copy of the first method actors album. maybe i need all their stuff.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U01selqSHnw

still think this is one of the best values for your power pop dollar. should only cost you a buck or maybe two in a store. they rocked.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ry9584i3EGs

You do need all the Method Actors stuff. You can buy the GREAT Acute CD compilation I made if needed, but the records aren't that rare. The lesser known second album isn't as good, it's not just the duo, but it has an AMAZING version of All Tomorrows Parties

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=adEbffx1XOQ

is the whole album, link in the description to go to the song.

Vic is a really nice guy and still making wonderful music. He just posted last week in the memory of the drummer David Gamble who passed away in 2021. I commented and he mentioned he's gonna send me some new music. Looking forward to it. Last time he sent me some I tried to reach out to a few people to see if I couldn't help find a home for it but didn't get very far.

https://vicvarney.bandcamp.com/

very cool.

i took those records for granted for decades. like love tractor and lots of other stuff probably.

Yeah. Love Tractor are great!

When I did the Method Actors CD that was the first time where somebody said "but those records are easy to find", as all the other releases were rare/obscure/unreleased/out of print etc and I argued that yes if you know what this is and are looking for it you can find it, but the point of putting it out is to promote it and recontextualize and compile and all that. It did fairly well and earned them so new fans I believe.

that's awesome.

i wish someone would do that for those Urban Verbs records. give them a nice CD reissue. Wounded Bird put them out but they put so much out and i think their stuff gets lost. the UV records are five bucks and nobody wants them but they are so good and i really think there are young people out there who would dig them. they deserve better.

Random Hold are another one. their records are everywhere for cheap but i love them so much and i feel like lots of people still haven't heard them. they've been comped on hard to find U.K. CDs but they've never had a comprehensive reissue. you could probably put everything they did on 3-CDs. if i only had a trust fund! or excess drug money revenue!

keeping this 12-inch! not from 1979 despite what the youtube title says. from 1981. though my copy is a THIRD edition from 1985. must have been a big seller for boots.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=16Zkw_JYS50

I just learned about (Ghost) Riders in the Sky. I'm researching Lee Hazlewood and was looking at the influences of the sort of ersatz-mexican country western music that would lead to surf music, morricone/spaghetti-western scores, the lonely bull type stuff and this song and it's long history was mentioned.

Never heard the disco version but look at this catalog of SF hi-nrg disco fun:

https://www.discogs.com/artist/79945-Randy-Sills

daddy dewdrop himself. i always liked that album.

oh wait randy sills isn't daddy dewdrop. he just worked on that album.

weird comp...

https://i.discogs.com/TZlR7o4huO0PTk3uinhvfEEWSMr0zUZPMA_hiLe0hyQ/rs:fit/g:sm/q:90/h:579/w:600/czM6Ly9kaXNjb2dz/LWRhdGFiYXNlLWlt/YWdlcy9SLTE3MTE4/MzQtMTU3Njc3ODc4/Mi05MzAyLmpwZWc.jpeg

https://i.discogs.com/V0cdocAEQEvW6pxJHboz9E2ysj65oZfwNNYP7MLs4Ss/rs:fit/g:sm/q:90/h:590/w:600/czM6Ly9kaXNjb2dz/LWRhdGFiYXNlLWlt/YWdlcy9SLTE3MTE4/MzQtMTU3Njc3ODc4/Ni01Nzc2LmpwZWc.jpeg

before there was acid jazz there was...uh, this stuff i guess.

the courtney pine promo push was its own monster though.

I was gonna say I figured you were a Daddy Dewdrop fan, but I must've seen you post that somewhere for me to come to that conclusion.

never reissued! my kinda sound. 1984. for Modern Eon fans.

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

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aMHYhWUnGW4

IIRC, they're from Philadelphia and this is their first album (whenever I see it I think it's an IPR release). Cool sound, reminds me of The Sound/Adrian Borland

fun.

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

someone i wanted to shoutout here, even though it's kind of a loose fit, is louis philipe. he was kind of on that sophistipop/classy twee vibe, but way more lofi. he started out in the 80s, but most of his catalogue came later. sometimes he sings in french and his voice is kinda similar to a few different classic 80s alt frontmen. in general, it's very recommended if you like shibuya lounge pop. here's "guess i'm dumb" from 1988―
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0ovTBmmxZCU

his records didn't get consistent until the 90s, but his initial 80s run is pretty idiosyncratic and a pleasant stroll through the b-movies of twee.

that of course is a Glen Campbell cover - song co-written by Brian Wilson - and a very sweet rendition indeed

i can't find anything about him online though. what else is out there?

https://louisphilippe1.bandcamp.com omits Louis' 1980s Él material but has pretty much everything else I know about. He's a proper charmer.

(It occurs to me that Austin may not have come across this small treat: https://hangoverloungerecords.bandcamp.com/track/dont-talk )

Thanks! (name was spelt incorrectly)

tyvm tim this is new to me!

Japan + Alphaville =

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TAudxu01wE0

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rWQnRVpJFg0