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
― scott seward, Sunday, 13 August 2023 20:28 (ten months ago) link
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
― scott seward, Sunday, 13 August 2023 20:31 (ten months ago) link
just discovered BOGSHED last week and now I have a whole nother slew of weird 80s bands to dig into
― brimstead, Sunday, 13 August 2023 23:29 (ten months ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=phxebNsiiTo
― brimstead, Sunday, 13 August 2023 23:32 (ten months ago) link
xp YES see also Jackdaw Crowbar, Dog Faced Hermans, Dawson, etc
― out-of-print LaserDisc edition (sleeve), Sunday, 13 August 2023 23:33 (ten months ago) link
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. Aspresented by Sonic Youth's Thurston Moore and Forced Exposure's Byron Coley, theFoole, armed now only with mostly non-noisy vocals and solo guitar, does indeedfight A Long Losing Battle With Eloquence and Intimance (sic), and listenerswin. He's the bard of the barred and scarred, the ones who pay the toll and thetroll. (Ain't Sorry.)
― dow, Monday, 14 August 2023 01:06 (ten months ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qeZs0puN3xM
― bbq, Monday, 14 August 2023 02:59 (ten months ago) link
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
― enochroot, Monday, 14 August 2023 07:48 (ten months ago) link
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.
― scott seward, Monday, 14 August 2023 14:08 (ten months ago) link
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
― scott seward, Monday, 14 August 2023 14:49 (ten months ago) link
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
― scott seward, Monday, 14 August 2023 15:26 (ten months ago) link
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
― scott seward, Monday, 14 August 2023 15:29 (ten months ago) link
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.
― The land of dreams and endless remorse (hardcore dilettante), Monday, 14 August 2023 15:42 (ten months ago) link
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
― scott seward, Monday, 14 August 2023 16:36 (ten months ago) link
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
― Three Rings for the Elven Bishop (Dan Peterson), Monday, 14 August 2023 17:00 (ten months ago) link
"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!
― scott seward, Monday, 14 August 2023 17:22 (ten months ago) link
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
― the phantom flim-flammer (Matt #2), Monday, 14 August 2023 17:30 (ten months ago) link
yikes, that's some crazy stuff! the cruella. i would never mock anyone's 80s love for anything.
― scott seward, Monday, 14 August 2023 17:33 (ten months ago) link
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.
― scott seward, Monday, 14 August 2023 17:37 (ten months ago) link
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
― scott seward, Monday, 14 August 2023 17:38 (ten months ago) link
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.
― scott seward, Monday, 14 August 2023 17:39 (ten months ago) link
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
― Chuck_Tatum, Monday, 14 August 2023 17:41 (ten months ago) link
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.
― scott seward, Monday, 14 August 2023 17:47 (ten months ago) link
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.
― scott seward, Monday, 14 August 2023 18:05 (ten months ago) link
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
― scott seward, Monday, 14 August 2023 18:20 (ten months ago) link
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
― scott seward, Monday, 14 August 2023 18:42 (ten months ago) link
this gyrlz album is really solid! both sides.
― scott seward, Monday, 14 August 2023 18:44 (ten months ago) link
love!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JJh0wyWsjHU
― scott seward, Monday, 14 August 2023 18:46 (ten months ago) link
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.
― scott seward, Monday, 14 August 2023 19:24 (ten months ago) link
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
― scott seward, Monday, 14 August 2023 19:31 (ten months ago) link
I love this edit of “Damascus”https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_IOz1Ub3u_s
― brimstead, Monday, 14 August 2023 19:43 (ten months ago) link
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
― scott seward, Monday, 14 August 2023 19:51 (ten months ago) link
they put out 3 albums in 2 years!
― scott seward, Monday, 14 August 2023 19:52 (ten months ago) link
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
― scott seward, Monday, 14 August 2023 19:59 (ten months ago) link
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.
― Gerald McBoing-Boing, Monday, 14 August 2023 20:01 (ten months ago) link
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!)
― scott seward, Monday, 14 August 2023 20:19 (ten months ago) link
SEE CROW BABY!
― out-of-print LaserDisc edition (sleeve), Monday, 14 August 2023 20:19 (ten months ago) link
i haven't gotten to crow baby yet! i'm really digging this though. tempted to keep...
― scott seward, Monday, 14 August 2023 20:34 (ten months ago) link
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.
― scott seward, Monday, 14 August 2023 20:36 (ten months ago) link
Good call, Scott. "Walk Into The Sun" is my fave from them but they had lots of good stuff.
― Gerald McBoing-Boing, Monday, 14 August 2023 20:37 (ten months ago) link
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.
― scott seward, Monday, 14 August 2023 20:53 (ten months ago) link
"snake dance" is epic! what an epic! good job, march violets. if i'm ever in leeds i will buy you a pint.
― scott seward, Monday, 14 August 2023 20:58 (ten months ago) link
(meanwhile this album by The Jets is one of the best things i've heard all day. they are kinda forgotten!)
― scott seward, Monday, 14 August 2023 21:01 (ten months ago) link
(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, 14 August 2023 21:08 (ten months ago) link
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.
― glenn mcdonald, Tuesday, 15 August 2023 01:42 (ten months ago) link
another all time favorite, UK peace punk buys a synth and goes proto-emo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PILkLaKixiI
― out-of-print LaserDisc edition (sleeve), Tuesday, 15 August 2023 01:44 (ten months ago) link
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
― out-of-print LaserDisc edition (sleeve), Tuesday, 15 August 2023 01:45 (ten months ago) link
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...)
― scott seward, Tuesday, 15 August 2023 04:46 (ten months ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ezzz0CQUlEY
― scott seward, Saturday, 27 April 2024 14:35 (one month ago) link
https://scontent-bos5-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t1.18169-9/10314622_10153023568797137_5874618969430183496_n.jpg?_nc_cat=107&ccb=1-7&_nc_sid=5f2048&_nc_ohc=AD3DzRZN7Z4Q7kNvgHMoVsM&_nc_oc=AdgzJLRq8SF6WCOsLCePXnwplVarSE7UUDyGMaHWXh5tLSHS0N-6HyqS2gJFjJg5Qr42baGy7zs9grO6GwBg0sol&_nc_ht=scontent-bos5-1.xx&oh=00_AfAYAVcRrEb23a4bPLqhOBpirdTs0AVDrppxSvKl_e6ffg&oe=66599096
― scott seward, Wednesday, 1 May 2024 12:07 (one month ago) link
https://scontent-bos5-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t1.18169-9/10245435_10153023568717137_396000155325350552_n.jpg?_nc_cat=103&ccb=1-7&_nc_sid=5f2048&_nc_ohc=5XxMWLO4yiIQ7kNvgGKB-Wv&_nc_ht=scontent-bos5-1.xx&oh=00_AfDw4uEpMrB0IA5kxa6Nd8eACBGhkx_1644IW6JC8dMcWQ&oe=66599751
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― scott seward, Wednesday, 1 May 2024 12:08 (one month ago) link
https://scontent-bos5-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t1.18169-9/10168049_10153023568947137_6712729758405686441_n.jpg?_nc_cat=105&ccb=1-7&_nc_sid=5f2048&_nc_ohc=ZHh7sZzB7nsQ7kNvgESXy_W&_nc_ht=scontent-bos5-1.xx&oh=00_AfCUC8-s-ZEOLDd0CsUf1pHXtThiOc258ZeZ1uUhAoEATw&oe=6659AD01
https://scontent-bos5-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t1.18169-9/10295810_10153023569037137_6425497312064379209_n.jpg?_nc_cat=108&ccb=1-7&_nc_sid=5f2048&_nc_ohc=YrpwJtKFcY0Q7kNvgGo9ww7&_nc_ht=scontent-bos5-1.xx&oh=00_AfB8ODEDj4u2O89Oaxj00_cnTu8RWEZMch4tS6C_hjwIjg&oe=6659B53F
― scott seward, Wednesday, 1 May 2024 12:09 (one month ago) link
https://scontent-bos5-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t1.18169-9/10173716_10153023569117137_9076406885877087495_n.jpg?_nc_cat=104&ccb=1-7&_nc_sid=5f2048&_nc_ohc=stwDuh3yzR0Q7kNvgHS4IHo&_nc_ht=scontent-bos5-1.xx&oh=00_AfD4Vn_-oBmwd_6mIiHmKr_Qza8Ll8az5w_Cn1p0UFZgbw&oe=6659BCE3
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― scott seward, Wednesday, 1 May 2024 12:10 (one month ago) link
https://scontent-bos5-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t1.18169-9/10268631_10153023569312137_6573802928938267230_n.jpg?_nc_cat=103&ccb=1-7&_nc_sid=5f2048&_nc_ohc=11xk2hlkIiAQ7kNvgHxWGao&_nc_ht=scontent-bos5-1.xx&oh=00_AfC0aeabXt6IXqen_w34t2QBxBLpXOxgxM709XZoCSqzRA&oe=6659A2EE
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― scott seward, Wednesday, 1 May 2024 12:11 (one month ago) link
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Oi! and crust punk were so much more popular than anyone wanted to admit. Nice to see GG at #6 in the hipster chart though.
― a fatal dose of irony (Matt #2), Wednesday, 1 May 2024 12:45 (one month ago) link
Amazing snapshot in time. Reminds me of trying to gym class that winter as the teacher tried to get us to properly rotate nine-person vollyball teams. Is this from Sounds? How long did/could the rockabilly chart last I wonder. "Nutbush City Limits" as a metal standard. I guess the New Pop New Romantics erased all that oi and crust a few months later.
― sox concrète (bendy), Wednesday, 1 May 2024 13:26 (one month ago) link
* reminds me of gym class that winter as the teacher tried to get us to properly rotate nine-person vollyball teams.
― sox concrète (bendy), Wednesday, 1 May 2024 14:04 (one month ago) link
"when our love passed out on the clash"
― well below the otm mendoza line (Hunt3r), Wednesday, 1 May 2024 16:00 (one month ago) link
that american albums list is some serious 8th grade flashback stuff. its a lot of what kids were listening to where i was. i had bought kings of the wild frontier in 1980 so i was already well on my way to becoming whatever the hell i became. new wave/punk/metal fan of the 80s.
― scott seward, Wednesday, 1 May 2024 16:10 (one month ago) link
1980 was that weird year where my favorite bands were judas priest, the kinks, and adam & the ants.
― scott seward, Wednesday, 1 May 2024 16:11 (one month ago) link
yeah the american lists are so "what i talk about when i am talking about the 80s."
it was utterly immersive omnipresent and hard to avoid. there's like 20 other charts posted above and there were like 8 ppl hearing that lol.
― well below the otm mendoza line (Hunt3r), Wednesday, 1 May 2024 16:15 (one month ago) link
Great post, Scott. Kinda wild that the Geordie cover of Ike and Tina would end up being an AC/DC audition around this same time. Wild to see the Misunderstood archival album in the indie chart.
― BlackIronPrison, Wednesday, 1 May 2024 16:21 (one month ago) link
cherry red and john peel were misunderstood super fans.
― scott seward, Wednesday, 1 May 2024 16:41 (one month ago) link
this is certainly handy to have online.
https://peel.fandom.com/wiki/Misunderstood
― scott seward, Wednesday, 1 May 2024 16:43 (one month ago) link
i actually read that book-length story of the Misunderstood that Mike Stax wrote for Ugly Things magazine. it could be a slog but the Peel stuff was always interesting.
― scott seward, Wednesday, 1 May 2024 16:44 (one month ago) link
Weird thing was that IIRC there was still one last part of that story to go about what happened after the band fell apart and I don't think that ever got published?
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 1 May 2024 17:11 (one month ago) link
i don't remember. i thought it went on to Juicy Lucy and the move to England and all that and someone dropping out and going to India...? its all a blur. that thing was very very long.
― scott seward, Wednesday, 1 May 2024 17:24 (one month ago) link
i was a teenage Shop Assistants and Fuzzbox fan but i didn't know about Chin-Chin!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1nBX1qVGDd4
― scott seward, Saturday, 4 May 2024 15:53 (one month ago) link
chilly!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FlUx5cPLAM0
― scott seward, Saturday, 4 May 2024 15:54 (one month ago) link
do i need to listen to Will & The Bushmen or The Windbreakers?
― scott seward, Monday, 13 May 2024 15:31 (one month ago) link
Trouser Press was hot on the Windbreakers, but the one record I bought never warranted a second listen. I think I mentally file them with Dwight Twilley: meat and potatoes, straight ahead, workmanlike rock that I don't get what the big deal is.
― enochroot, Monday, 13 May 2024 23:47 (one month ago) link
this one's for you, ILM.
https://i.discogs.com/Di3DC6jffrS6iEmPzXDzXRa7ZXwH2X_3G8EVGHB19lY/rs:fit/g:sm/q:90/h:594/w:376/czM6Ly9kaXNjb2dz/LWRhdGFiYXNlLWlt/YWdlcy9SLTE1MjA5/MTE1LTE1ODgxMzA2/OTUtMTM3MS5wbmc.jpeg
― scott seward, Wednesday, 15 May 2024 17:24 (one month ago) link
https://i.discogs.com/T0vLIOZvEiwjHeOvBOqoQdpr5bkeoVystZ6raP8mNwI/rs:fit/g:sm/q:90/h:598/w:374/czM6Ly9kaXNjb2dz/LWRhdGFiYXNlLWlt/YWdlcy9SLTE1MjA5/MTE1LTE1ODgxMzA2/OTctMjE3NC5wbmc.jpeg
― scott seward, Wednesday, 15 May 2024 17:25 (one month ago) link
original title. because, yes, there are have to be different versions.
https://i.discogs.com/ghpzI7-ZFgy-3Rs1vLUqURdtneGvCEoErn8SrTBDK0c/rs:fit/g:sm/q:90/h:585/w:600/czM6Ly9kaXNjb2dz/LWRhdGFiYXNlLWlt/YWdlcy9SLTEwMjY5/Nzg1LTE1MDA3OTMw/MjctMTI0Ni5qcGVn.jpeg
https://i.discogs.com/EGS_ezCzE-pe1msJqEJbXFS_JAoN65rQOcnNCugHwkk/rs:fit/g:sm/q:90/h:587/w:600/czM6Ly9kaXNjb2dz/LWRhdGFiYXNlLWlt/YWdlcy9SLTEwMjY5/Nzg1LTE1MDA3OTMw/MzEtMTg1OC5qcGVn.jpeg
― scott seward, Wednesday, 15 May 2024 17:27 (one month ago) link