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

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

I have that Anne Clark single, it's a HUGE detroit techno/house track. She has other great dancey songs, Sleeper in Metropolis is the big one. The proto-techno industrial electro stuff is produced by David Harrow but she worked with other people. There's an LP where one side has her backed by Harrow and the other side is Vini motherfucking Reilly.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dKNDmM7Hed8

also did some stuff with Eyeless In Gaza iirc

you can't go wrong with vini.

this is awesome. 1988. listening to the diskorrosion mix now.

https://i.discogs.com/FP4yw3I1C0PcwaMefly7oX6rycrTFfYxj8hllyF7_mM/rs:fit/g:sm/q:90/h:600/w:600/czM6Ly9kaXNjb2dz/LWRhdGFiYXNlLWlt/YWdlcy9SLTc0ODQw/Mi0xNDgwNzYwNDk2/LTEwOTUuanBlZw.jpeg

Ha i was late catching up to sdtrk list but agree- party party jumped right off the screen it owns

for major label 80s pop this is a pretty weird song!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kum96DDHUIo

something i didn't see coming: oingo boingo records are, like, $30 records now. who knew? pretty sure they were dollar bin fare throughout the 90s and early 2000s. i could say the same about sade, but, come on, it's sade. every record of hers should be $500.

that first tracy chapman took me by surprise as well. i can put it on discogs for $40 or $50 and its gone in an instant.

sorry don't want to make this an I Love Vinyl thread.

have you looked at jimmy buffett lp prices lately?
https://www.ebay.com/itm/386123586434

now that's just silly. there are millions of those records.

this is cool:

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

i love the first song on this lizard train ep. are their albums good? you guys probably know.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E6_fgstiDJQ

i'm taking this home to listen to. a weird Factory record i've never heard!

https://i.discogs.com/AFpkLX3ZwuqlkmRsx1MKJRDZs0nfokO9udtiDD46yrk/rs:fit/g:sm/q:90/h:598/w:598/czM6Ly9kaXNjb2dz/LWRhdGFiYXNlLWlt/YWdlcy9SLTEyNTA4/LTEzMzgwNDM5MTgt/MjM2Ny5qcGVn.jpeg

I worked in a record store in the 80s, and I do not recognize a lot of these. It's almost like an alternate timeline.

Biting Tongues became 808 State, mostly they were in the vein of 23 Skidoo et al I think but that was a soundtrack LP so maybe different.

Never heard Lizard Train, but there was so much Lou/Iggy influenced Aussie (& Swedish) stuff around then! Gouts of it. A surplus, really.

Biting Tongues are great, kind of a post punk jazz funk racket that gradually became more electronic, Graham Massey then ended up founding 808 State. Haven't heard that album though! Xp

did you know that steve nieve of the attractions made a solo album in 1987 called Playboy? me neither. kinda curious. but maybe its all noodly piano pieces.

https://i.discogs.com/mGCyBjk6ec80Dgf9LMx6KyjAR5O9Wdi3DyadQ7XM16Q/rs:fit/g:sm/q:90/h:591/w:593/czM6Ly9kaXNjb2dz/LWRhdGFiYXNlLWlt/YWdlcy9SLTIzODY4/NzgtMTM0MTU5MTI2/MC0yNDUwLmpwZWc.jpeg

Did Bryan Ferry sue him?

haha, maybe that's who he got the jacket and tie from!

this is going into my DJ crate too. rock the crowd!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a7Y1Kj5RmLI

i was reminded last night how much i dig the fake bowie record by zaine griff from 1980. produced by tony visconti for top fake bowie street cred. i like how if you have a fake bowie record in 1980 you have to have songs called "The Scandinavian", "The Orient", and "The Iron Curtain". i feel like a lot of people haven't heard it?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kanTDP831tQ

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J6X-txkh1Rg

worst band name!

https://i.discogs.com/w6rHKBjIY5Pvs70mU_ZE8jbd5oNIIJxeGEpYNHwzl5s/rs:fit/g:sm/q:90/h:600/w:592/czM6Ly9kaXNjb2dz/LWRhdGFiYXNlLWlt/YWdlcy9BLTc3MjU3/NC0xNTExODc1ODQ3/LTU3MDguanBlZw.jpeg

best name!

https://i.discogs.com/IUUWGhs7HnYO76Aw_DxOmWA1CTQ8yu_e4Jl_YMRWU0s/rs:fit/g:sm/q:90/h:516/w:530/czM6Ly9kaXNjb2dz/LWRhdGFiYXNlLWlt/YWdlcy9SLTEyOTQz/MzUtMTIwNzE3MzY1/MS5qcGVn.jpeg

best jacket!

weird italian industrial thing produced by adrian sherwood.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JFcouiZF5rw

ahead of its time 90s album cover in 1988!

https://i.discogs.com/KNXd60Hu5ZXg1OTWSQZYdlMnNhlknnkPaFTRPXT_AdU/rs:fit/g:sm/q:90/h:600/w:600/czM6Ly9kaXNjb2dz/LWRhdGFiYXNlLWlt/YWdlcy9SLTE0NDky/NjgtMTUzMjk2MDQw/Ni0yMDY3LmpwZWc.jpeg

the non-U.S. cover looks more like 1988.

https://i.discogs.com/jnS-qIYfEotAQerVVGKlEoKiXPpZA8yckAZOLztdkNc/rs:fit/g:sm/q:90/h:600/w:600/czM6Ly9kaXNjb2dz/LWRhdGFiYXNlLWlt/YWdlcy9SLTE4MDE0/NTItMTI2ODU4NTk2/Ni5qcGVn.jpeg

two different versions of the same album too. who wants to listen to both of them? i didn't think so...

#diy #lo-fi #darkwave #minimalsynth #rare #cassetteonly

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zW6jIKGaEL8

Scott. Re fake Bowie how about Metro and Peter Godwin? Good enough for Bowie to cover. The solo Godwin is great not well remembered but well loved by some new wave, with one crossover club fave in the instrumental version of Emotional Disguise.

I was listening to Peter Godwin yesterday. I brought the "Images Of Heaven" 12-inch home with me to play today as well! I like to imagine a world where Peter Godwin took over Ultravox instead of Midge Ure. I feel like Metro were more their own thing. They were definitely ahead of their time as far as making 80s music in 1976 goes. Bowie knew a good thing when he heard it. "China Girl" was made for the 80s too. I am glad that Bowie left "The Passenger" for Siouxsie though. Her version is tops. Though I have no doubt Bowie could have made it a big hit.

Ha, I definitely forgot about Peter Godwin for a long time until I was finally reminded: RFI New Wave Cars-sounding tune with lyric "Nothing I can do"

I love "Images of Heaven."

Yeah, me too.

Hey, Scott — for posterity, whyn’t you name the bands/songs you’re linking so if someone happens to search, say, RINF, they’ll find this thread?

okay! Here is a blatant example of Cure worship from 1988.

THE ESSENCE - LOLLIPOP

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OqnT0cDMHJk

early single from Q which would become SSQ from which Stacey Q would be born.

Q - "Playback"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O6Bzr-Lqjms

Stacey's old bandmate from the Q days gets her back for one more new wave rodeo with this track from a Jon St. James solo album. Stacey on syth. Guitar legend Allan Holdsworth and Freestyle legend Stacey Q would never appear on the same album again.

Jon St. James - "Down Time"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qefzd1jZ_kw

I can only vouch for the U.S. version because that's the one I have - original U.K. and Euro versions have completely different track orders - but the 2nd album by The Quick REALLY holds up well. It sounds excellent in 2023. I usually think of them as a singles act and I get their 12-inches in all the time and nobody cares about them. I don't know how big they were in Europe. I don't think I've even SEEN their 3rd and 4th albums. Anyway, this is a near-dollar bin record in the states and its well worth owning.

https://i.discogs.com/QVTkyc9nDefCyHKq-SLm_n2LB-KGmLxnuhSlGJvaz70/rs:fit/g:sm/q:90/h:596/w:600/czM6Ly9kaXNjb2dz/LWRhdGFiYXNlLWlt/YWdlcy9SLTMyNDEz/Mi0xNjExODc2NjA4/LTkyNzguanBlZw.jpeg

https://i.discogs.com/rhToR8WfXAq1DK3p_TKKJP4IMsP8SJsQ0Ohq8w3InfE/rs:fit/g:sm/q:90/h:600/w:600/czM6Ly9kaXNjb2dz/LWRhdGFiYXNlLWlt/YWdlcy9SLTIzMDY5/NDA4LTE2NTEzNTQ2/MzAtNzcwOC5qcGVn.jpeg

The Quick - "Twisted"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gFk6c6eJ7kY

It's ironic given their name that if you put the music of Japan, early Ultravox, and Duran Duran into a computer, the AI would give you back Pseudo Echo! Listening to their debut now and its pretty boring but that production is tops! Sounds like a million bucks. The U.S. version takes away the original cover and title of their Autumnal Park but leaves the music and track-list the same.

Pseudo Echo - "From The Shore"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nb-JMnrdfDc