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

"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

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