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

Update: "Strength" is still massive.

this album is cool! i don't think i have a favorite record on the Mammoth Records label. now i do.

https://i.discogs.com/c2OKdOlUCTFBjh2cKgxHmqP8r2bemRHzs9wzMrgEBqs/rs:fit/g:sm/q:90/h:600/w:592/czM6Ly9kaXNjb2dz/LWRhdGFiYXNlLWlt/YWdlcy9SLTI4ODQ1/MzEtMTU0ODI4NTEw/My00NTIxLmpwZWc.jpeg

I always get Pete Yorn and Pete Droge confused when I think of them, which is almost never. Both Petes with odd last names.

Oh and Pete Krebs too.

Downsiders is one of Cole Marquis's bands, he from 28th Day. Everything he did is worth hearing.

oh man i was listening to this excellent album by What? Noise but it turns out its from 1990. it sounds very very 80s. i like it a lot. not familiar with the group. the cover even has a faux-80s 23 envelope/grafica industria cover. not on 4ad but it should have been. kind of a more industrial wolfgang press? though wolfgang press could be pretty industrial...anyway, it doesn't matter cuz its from 1990. i'm keeping it. please disregard this post.

https://i.discogs.com/-2P8qFhO4r5Lx2JiwZHvDFizquoLnlqyb_vcsLim8Yc/rs:fit/g:sm/q:90/h:600/w:597/czM6Ly9kaXNjb2dz/LWRhdGFiYXNlLWlt/YWdlcy9SLTM0MDk3/OC0xMjI2MTc3ODY0/LmpwZWc.jpeg

new beat 4 life. i definitely have some sort of self-imposed cut-off when it comes to benelux battiness. 1991/1992. somewhere in there. roundabout when all the stuff i never listened to in the 90s got hot. lords of acid. thrill kill kult. latter-day wax trax type stuff. more ebm/goth/vampire/stripper pole. NOT that there aren't probably a zillion things i would like if i listened to them from the 90s in a post-front 242 world. plus, all those 80s people were still making tons of music. a lot of them probably went on to acid or euro house in the 90s. that's my guess. when it comes to the early 90s i'm still a new yorker at heart with tribal house and long-in-the-tooth freestyle. can't help myself. miami. trains going down tracks that lead to mountains made out of gigantic asses and spaceships buzzing around. i am not a rave kid. i like detroit. chicago. berlin. in the 90s. the birth of minimal. house in my tech. tech in my house. and whores. whores in my house.

this single is from 1988. there is nothing special about it. i could listen to it all day.

https://i.discogs.com/eRhfhA49MmCbdGSoAwrnI6chHS9LlBFbUpnS2jW9zZM/rs:fit/g:sm/q:90/h:581/w:600/czM6Ly9kaXNjb2dz/LWRhdGFiYXNlLWlt/YWdlcy9SLTM1NzEx/Mi0xMTc0MjU4NTMy/LmpwZWc.jpeg

i'm on to Fini Tribe and their salute to Can! i dig it.

https://i.discogs.com/mDj2AgP0jM1La1a7_wwaCreuJMIAYL5M9Kv0TdoPL_I/rs:fit/g:sm/q:90/h:600/w:600/czM6Ly9kaXNjb2dz/LWRhdGFiYXNlLWlt/YWdlcy9SLTI1NDUy/LTEzMjgyMjMwMjku/anBlZw.jpeg

classic.

i was listening to Outlaw Posse. i always feel a little bad when i listen to british rap. i'm glad that people over there finally came up with grime and didn't have to worry about rhyming anymore. i like the richie rich mix on the single i listened to. from 1989. overall not great though.

This thread has turned into a parade of bands I saw playing support slots in London in the late 80s/early 90s. Have you done Mute Drivers yet?

Mute Drivers were on the same label as What? Noise iirc. Saw the former supporting Loop, never saw the latter but do have that record somewhere...

Need Headcleaner next plz

i take them as they come!

which is out of a box.

I dont know how good this band is exactly — though I enjoyed exploring it to 'figure it out' — but their sound is such a particular strain of '80s aesthetics I enjoyed digging into it as a kind of singular texture you cant imagine existing before or since

only mentions on ilx are of them being massively hyped / failed spectacularly
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pqJvL3RSE5k
https://i.ebayimg.com/images/g/BEwAAOSw2NJkr1L3/s-l1600.jpg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Et4kiBZBxhA

I feel like they would do well if someone made some edits out of their stuff

https://www.muzines.co.uk/images_mag/articles/emm/EMM_86_03_up_and_runni_large.jpg

the fits

you can imagine them being the guys who do the soundtrack for a fern gully knockoff or something ... I enjoy it as a surface texture

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VnnlN_DG0es

Speaking of the box, out of one or from one, I just learned about this not too bad canadian band that likely belongs here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dDrKOjaY5oE

Only because I was looking for a video about this Sheffield UK band who are killer and don't get much attention:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZUek3AhGnEw

This The Box is basically Clock DVA after they split off with Adi Newton. What they did together, especially the Clock DVA album Thirst, is better than the parts, even though the Box's 80s albums like this are great angsty post-punk and the Box-less Clock DVA followed up with an even more accessible 80s classic that deserves more recognition (Advantage) before becomming Adi Newton's solo electronica project.

I'm thinking Clock DVA though aren't as forgotten as The Box, so I'm not going to post the video for Beautiful Losers but suggest you go watch it. Then watch the Futurama performance of 4 Hours.

Drum Theatre look like the cast of an Australian t.v. show about kids making it in a post-apocalyptic world.

listen to more The Box and Clock DVA. got it. i always liked Clock DVA but never listened to them much.

first album White Souls in BLack Suits is british industrial no wave.

second album Thirst is fantastic.

then they split with The Box on one side and Adi Newton on the other.

next album advantage is a great 80s album.

After that it's more electronic/industrial stuff and not really stuff I kept up on.

And there's older stuff with the Future, when he was part of the pre-Human League bands.

But Thirst and Advantage are well worth anybody's time.

clock dva/box member Roger Quail's done some excellent blogging:

https://www.mylifeinthemoshofghosts.com/author/roger-quail/

thanks, dan!

listening to a Moroder-produced album by a fake band put together by a t.v. producer? never seen it before. i even cracked opened a sealed copy. first song sucks. maybe it gets better.

https://i.discogs.com/7W4Nzk329OXCUAI8wyCnarJVtI6Lo-AuhdAgZUGg-j0/rs:fit/g:sm/q:90/h:594/w:600/czM6Ly9kaXNjb2dz/LWRhdGFiYXNlLWlt/YWdlcy9SLTM4MTI5/NTktMTM0NTM5OTgw/Mi0yNTEyLmpwZWc.jpeg

2nd song is way way better. and more Moroder-y.

sometimes i don't think i can think of anything worse than an 80s reworking of a song like "cool jerk" which is what these fine women are doing now. new wave chestnut polishing a major thing since the 70s and everyone will have faves and unfaves. not everything can be "money". which i just heard in this huge major commercial during an nfl football game. but it was like a remade commercial version of flying lizards. it was weird.

Pretty sure that Big Trouble album must have had a mega promo push in Europe as I had an immediate and dispiriting flashback to seeing that logo in every £1 rack in the late 80s.

Dan otm re: Clock DVA, Thirst is the best but all the early stuff up to & including Advantage is worth yr time

do we have a thread for oldsters going 80s? so many that i come across that are just lost to time. they rarely stray far from the usual singer/songwriter/rock/pop template of old. just put a synth over everything.

https://i.discogs.com/kOpTHdmzlFztiGmSzqUI1VoIffZ-J5ItyS6JPajBgus/rs:fit/g:sm/q:90/h:587/w:600/czM6Ly9kaXNjb2dz/LWRhdGFiYXNlLWlt/YWdlcy9SLTQyODMw/MjUtMTQ5NTc4NzEy/MS05MTM3LmpwZWc.jpeg

late 70s new wave classic rock

this is some sort of platonic ideal. sheesh. i think i'm falling in love.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iexg8I8rQPg

https://i.discogs.com/8QdAmIrOc4c3Hxw8AnNV-BiZL-yivRjsN_jQvqqjzM0/rs:fit/g:sm/q:90/h:600/w:600/czM6Ly9kaXNjb2dz/LWRhdGFiYXNlLWlt/YWdlcy9SLTM2NzMx/NzgtMTQwMDAxMDU3/OC03NDUyLmpwZWc.jpeg

https://i.discogs.com/tYg8ZcIIhI2Swl8F-3yz5YIeidhXODvzcOEGWh6kMa8/rs:fit/g:sm/q:90/h:590/w:600/czM6Ly9kaXNjb2dz/LWRhdGFiYXNlLWlt/YWdlcy9SLTM2NzMx/NzgtMTU0ODcxNjQ1/Mi03OTg2LmpwZWc.jpeg

"For Baby (For Bobbie)" is my new favorite song title.

This song pops into my head once every few years. I had the album back then and may have never listened to the rest of it. Described here as "Celtic soul meets Blue Nile", which works. Produced by Philip Glass!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lH-HRmDruIU

that song is so weird.

Pierce Turner made one of my very favorite rock albums of the 70s: Turner And Kirwan Of Wexford's Absolutely And Completely. Genius record.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rcbk9tJadkw

It's my favorite Hobbit-related rock record of the 70s. its just so great.

i found that pierce turner album in a box this morning. gonna take it home to listen to.

i'm starting an 80s madness section at the store. anything with a good 80s cover and any hits or obvious faves too. i've done it in the past when i've gotten excess 80s stuff in and people really like it. i'm including soundtracks because i love them but also visually they are hard to beat.

here are the soundtracks on vinyl that i'm starting my section with in amongst the duran duran and missing persons:

splash, speed zone, secret admirer, the secret of my success, party party, no small affair, made in usa, out of bounds, cocktail, hiding out, howard the duck, the last american virgin, over the top, harry and the hendersons, the heavenly kid, thief, tequila sunrise, teachers, teen wolf too, the woman in red, working girl, the wraith, xanadu, youngblood, young einstein, heavenly bodies, they call it an accident, thief of hearts, who's that girl, superman III, mad magazine presents up the academy, up the creek, tough enough, tuff turf, top gun, 9 1/2 weeks, private lessons, summer lovers, summer school, weird science, vision quest, twins, flashdance, electric dreams.

i think it's a pretty good start!

That party party soundtrack is a winner. It's like the Judgement Night soundtrack, except with reggae and new wave.

that is a cool soundtrack. i mean it had a theme of sorts.

was going through some records and i forgot i had this

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rnve0tFfhmQ

so great. i got a test pressing of that album in a box! i was so excited.

i've never heard of the movie Party Party but now I've heard Midge Ure doing The Man Who Sold The World for the first time and boy is that good.

as much as i worship bananarama their pistols cover on that album was never my fave.

have too much work to do to pick and choose so i'm playing this excellent youtube playlist of 80s industrial. its on the dance end of industrial. very few clunkers. great flow too. for a super-long playlist on youtube anyway.

http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL639BOEMhHZONR-bcVRll_fuvxffgefr4

it has already made me wish i had a vinyl copy of this:

https://i.discogs.com/eQBe82j7yIsiG1eYbc99SYLmgsvKCo6uD4TCKCuB0oM/rs:fit/g:sm/q:90/h:600/w:600/czM6Ly9kaXNjb2dz/LWRhdGFiYXNlLWlt/YWdlcy9SLTU4NjEz/LTEzMTIwNjI3MTQu/anBlZw.jpeg

now i want a copy of Blind Vision's "Bestialic Beat". damn, there are some great tracks on this. (i see there is a Blind Vision CD comp! want one.)

https://i.discogs.com/7UhcQIhxLChPXqIeDC_StZk0MZBtFuAw93BkEoHnLX8/rs:fit/g:sm/q:90/h:600/w:600/czM6Ly9kaXNjb2dz/LWRhdGFiYXNlLWlt/YWdlcy9SLTEwNTU1/NzI0LTE0OTk4MTQ0/MzktMzE5MS5qcGVn.jpeg