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

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.

Elliot Sharp told me that that cover was a printers mistake and it was supposed to be bigger. The other early Zoar compilation Peripheral Vision has some killer stuff. Especially V-Effect.

i own peripheral vision on vinyl. it's awesome. now i have both comps! don't think they were ever put on CD. probably too hard with that many people.

28th Day - "Pages Turn"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CU62z6efOCQ

And a twofer from the great Boston-area band The Flies' Get Wise album (1984).
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TzWWRLYbGlM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pzhkcgEGNWk

i'm surprised that i don't see more flies records around here. you'd think they'd be everywhere like ultimate spinach and november group records. vocally they are getting into that michelob cowboy territory but i like the guitars. who was the big boston cowboy band...not the long ryders. shucks, i should know this.

i'll have to check out that whole 28th day album. i like it. i never really listened to barbara manning. i still have a terrible barbara manning memory. bunnybrains were waiting to go on at CBGB at a matador records new music seminar showcase during the height of grunge and i swear she played until two in the morning. bunnybrains were last. it was so hot. i thought i was gonna die. i guess they figured have bunnybrains last and everyone can just go home after barbara manning. hahaha! probably not far from the truth. but she played like a springsteen-length set.
i don't hold it against her. play until someone tells you to stop. that's my motto. it isn't really. my motto.
to make worlds smaller her guitarist that night lives here in town and i had to give him an earful about that time. he's a nice guy.

del fuegos?

I have a November Group 12". I always remember Trouser Press' critique: "unnervingly more suited to marching than dancing or listening."

november group were cool. and probably underrated because they were from here and not austria or something. but hey you can buy their records for a dollar and they are lotsa fun. i think a lot of people think the big underrated boston band was the proletariat. too weird for punk too punk for...you get the idea.

yes, del fuegos!

i saw my pal chuck warner this july! speaking of forgotten boston bands. i still enjoy listening to those throbbing lobster comps he put out in the 80s. (not to mention his invaluable service to mankind since the 80s what with all the diy madness he has put out there and also thank you chuck for the homosexuals collection. i actually do thank him for it every time i see him.)

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one of my fave forgotten boston bands is Ground Zero. there was an italian comp of their 2 7-inch EPs that nobody ever saw in 2013 but no domestic reissue. they were also outside the punk/new wave world of that time. more artpsychpunk.

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

Chuck Warner was a HUGE influence on my listening (and BUYING) habits.

^ Ground Zero totally sounds like Chrome circa Meet you in the subway. Pretty cool!

Oh those Throbbing Lobster comps were such a big deal to me and my friends as a Boston area teens. Someone's second cousin was in the Neighborhoods. Someone's brother was smart enough for Andover and knew the Del Fuegos. Good bands, local bands! We could hardly see them in person 'cause most of the gigs were 21+. The hardcore bands, yes. But the rock bands got considerable airplay on WBCN and the college stations. I never got to see The Blackjacks.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VukDgwI3uQI

I met Chuck at the WFMU record fairs. At that point while KBD record collecting was getting super expensive nobody was really looking into the DIY stuff like he was, both US and UK. The Homework and Messthetics comps, which grew out of the types of mixtapes people'd make just to show what they were selling, were so crucial and killer. I bought stuff like Homosexuals and Desperate Bicycles from him, and helped out a bit on the Homsexuals CD he put out, and he was always a guiding hand and help with the Acute releases.

he is so awesome. he had a terrible fire a few years back that destroyed a lot of his archives and it is the saddest thing. but nobody was hurt and he is doing good and its always so nice to see him.

French label Closer Records put this comp out in 1984 and i did a double-take until i found out that there was in fact a French Bad Brains. #youlearnsomethingneweveryday

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i like this! never heard them. are they from new zealand? australia? a homestead release that i don't remember seeing.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7JrtwOcuh6I

i'm actually going to see an australian rock act tonight! they are called dippers and they have a new record on goner records. i'd never heard them before but my friend chris is putting the show on and maria wanted to go. the stuff i've heard sounds good and also like the 80s.

I love noise unit.

might have to get this shirt actually
https://shop.waxtrax.com/product/noise-unit-logo-t-shirt-new-wax-trax-only

if you guys like 80s indie pop you would like that dippers band i saw tonight. listen to their record on Goner. they were a duo with drum machine. sounded good. i think they used to be called Thighmaster! that's like a band name from a Whiney thread.

oh but get this. the show was outside this old industrial building complex in north adams. Belltower Records is there and the people who own it are very nice and i enjoy seeing them and if you like weird 80s stuff they have good stuff. i got a reissue of Pink Turns Blue's Meta album from 1988. i got a nice cheap copy of my skin covers my body by happy flowers because i always buy it when i see it. i got a reissue of epic garden music by sad lovers and giants, their debut from 1982. and i got LPs by rolling blackouts c.f. and the aislers set because they remind me of the 80s. haha, kidding. a little. its a reissue of the aislers set how i learned to write backwards which i think i have on cd but not vinyl. i wrote a review of it for the village voice newspaper. that paper is now defunct.
anyway, i would have bought more (also got Total's Beyond The Rim LP from 1993 on Majora), but then i remembered that i owned a record store and i still have mounds of haircut music to listen to.

this is what modern english buys in my store. damn hippies!

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Did you just recognize him, or was he walking around the store humming "Life in the Gladhouse"?

he chatted with maria. maria is going to see them tonight two doors down from our store. and he's a record person. mick conroy.

synth-pop Bauhaus you are my new master!

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The guy who started the Touch label put that record out in 1981. Mike Harding.

Really cool band. Some stuff on Glass as well. Awesome label, arty/psychedelic post-punk type stuff.

most famously spacemen 3. lots of stuff i haven't heard as well. and those membranes and jazz butcher records that i avoid for some reason? i don't know why. i just always have.

here's a tape for you. that i haven't heard. but i could youtube i suppose.

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