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

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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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!

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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

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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.

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^^ 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

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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!

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Unibrow!

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

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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.

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