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

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

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ps5I6Ao5qqc

used to have the cd single of that queen b track, loved it.
for some reason i got rid of it.
may have to see if there are cheap options via the usual suspects to replace it.

was it a hit!!?? i'd never heard of it.

i dig this one. not your average italian record.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v9b0ft_M__8

i love this song. i still think this band is so underrated. people should listen to them. i love the singles so much. but the albums are so cool. this is a weird song! i love the no wave guitar break in the middle.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l87SgNqHikg

this is clunky but i always like it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0mhNdmljTCo

the video is peak 80s...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N9AXxytp3Fw

you almost can't believe that they can FIT that much 80s into a video.

this is the best song. this should have been big. i feel like a lot of british acts would have hit big with this.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dZzrnCH7CQ0

classic

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DYUKarXb1dg

god i love this thread

they used to play that remix on the college radio station i listened to when i was a kid.

this promo will cost you a dollar and totally worth it for the dub of this song.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j7WDDKZcfyc

NEW BEAT NATION RISE UP!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C2nqQL4rrwI

i'm keeping this 12-inch.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VDAYbo0T6Dc

i'm keeping this 12-inch.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yYWdeHL1zuA

i had to get rid of "monkey say monkey do" when i realised it was sampling iggy's godawful 'african man' *shudder*

did you guys see that the vinyl on demand guy is going to be selling all his tapes?

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Progress Report Tapes for Sale in May
Now done with Wave/Synth
Almost at 2000 Tapes now and still to go is
UK-Tapes
US-Tapes
Industrial/Noise/ Power Electronics Tapes
Sound Poetry/Avantgarde Tapes

I guess the first Sales-list will contain an equal amount of tapes as Vinyls (currently 3400 Vinyls)

So if all goes well I have a saleslist with round about 8500 medias
3400 Vinyl
3400 Tapes
1700 Books / Small Press / Magazines

Maybe I even manage to get 10,000 medias together which is then a reduction of my collection by 1/3 and that is really something great to finally let go on some

I will probably not sell more than 20-40% of them short to mid-term but still, the feeling to be able to let go on physical things is healing to me

oh yes, I've been following those posts

Moev - Took Out The Lace

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Q-6nSh-OyA

Does anybody remember the Rhythm Corps? In the late 80s they had a sorta-hit with Common Ground. The video is absurd in the ways only very earnest 80s bands can be.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=90Dt75MVtqw

Always thought if moev as a nettwerk skinny puppy industrial type band but got into an early single called cracked mirror which is lovely.

Came across Hilary via Christgau's 1983 A List -- which, y'know, whatever. Produced by Steven Hague. Of its era in a good way and def belongs in this thread.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0oXY544o1iI

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

can anyone recommend more inept/chaotic/barely-together first-wave hardcore like this?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mME_veUxVq4

or this

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RyJIgNbPk5Y