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

fun. just fun. on Pasta Records.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VjHdo3w_Em8

Moral Support - Insanity

Found this in a dollar bin recently. There’s jamz in them thar bins! Still! Sometimes….

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LQX2Vx6ilzw

that's a cool record. that sound they got is really something else. i have to go to canadian dollar bins to find one.

Just pulled out this Jerry Dale McFadden Stand and Cast a Shadow album I don't remember ever picking up or even hearing, but I would buy anything that looked like rockabilly circa 1990. It's got Duane Eddy on guitar. On a Nashville indie or private press. He went on to be in the Mavericks. Plopping it on, I did not expect to hear Peter Ivers style helium vocals

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N7Dc1icUig8

This High Fashion album from '82 is really good

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

^ fantastic record! but not very easy to find in the UK, took me ages to get that. Well worth the search though

The Alfie Silas s/t also took me a similarly long time to find but just listen to this very underappreciated beauty:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bI4hy0UJzlM

oooh I thought of some great forgotten 80s shit. reminded by High Fashion that there was a great band called Fashion:

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

This is my favorite song they did...soooo good

one of the guys from that band came to my high school English class for a guest lecture/Q&A for some unknown reason, circa 1982. maybe the teacher knew him?

yessss Fashion owns

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0ocgkKB43xs

They started more post-punky, as Fashion Music, excuse me, Fàshiön Music.

But the stuff from the 80s that people remember had some club popularity and was produced by the great Zeus B. Held, who was involved with some of your other 80s favorites like Gina X.

Then there's Zee: Dave Harris from Fashion and Richard Wright from Pink Floyd

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j3FIokFVNZw

Avengers and Flipper are bands from SF that I loved in the early 80s

The B Team, Yo, and Wire Train also, although they are now mostly forgotten

Romeo Void is not forgotten though

Never say never!

that first wire train album should go on that good bargain record thread. its cool and it is always a dollar. speaking of 415 Records, i like the first Translator album even more. as much as i love their college radio smash "everywhere that i'm not" the rest of the record is weirder. so good. 415 Records was such a cool label. 415/Columbia was the Matador/Atlantic deal of its day.

I saw Wire Train open for Bob Dylan once

did i not post a Fashion vid already? maybe i was just listening to them. i am up to my ears in Fashion 12-inches.

anyway, i came here to say that as much as i never want to criticize anyone who played on "rappers delight" AND "the message", tackhead's "ticking time bomb" is hella dated. even for cut-up industrial from 1989 which is saying something. i usually don't care about datedness in music but listening to that and the b-side was kinda cringey. even if it does still have plenty of wimbishosity.

i would be posting here more but i've been swamped with work and also i've been listening to tons of..........90s music! i know i know. but i have a lot to listen to.

(the coolest stuff i have heard since being here: two CDs on the Hearts In Space sub-label Fathom. Robert Rich/Lustmord 1995 album Stalker and Kenneth Newby's 1994 Ecology of Souls. whoooooo boy. if you ever missed doing acid just pop these discs in. you'll be right back in the thick of things. so intense and cool. and all these people made music in the 80s. there. had to throw that in there somewhere. *also my new fave indie rock is erector set by erectus monotone*. never heard them before. but all of this should go on We Listen With Seuss Hats the 90s sub-thread.)

That "Love Shadow" vid just gave me a bit of a crisis, as I felt like should be able to pinpoint the year and city of origin of anything that eighties. But it's so pan-eighties, I couldn't do it! I wagered 1985, Philadelphia; and that was so wrong. Those ponytails really scramble the signal.

I actually think 'ticking time bomb' sounds incredibly futuristic now — the so-dated-its-NOW file for me

like, you cant find music that sounds like that on spotify playlists. nobody is making it today. it sounds refreshing

man i had that wire train cassette, i only remember chamber of hellos offhand tho. last heard? not later than 86. by memory, a lot things sound like it, i guess it's technically jangle pop?

hmmm, i dunno....that might be true but i think there are better examples than that single. previous tackhead singles for example. would be better examples. "hard left" is my jam.

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xp relistened to wire train it’s much better than i remembered tbh. and like i think the vox mode is kinda bad, but if improved would come across worse. good band good songs basically.

“someone’s masquerading…” lyric invited lots of 15y/o mockery at the time not by me i was not so puerile

seriously though don't sleep on the translator album. a true gem for a dollar anywhere in the country. every song is solid. 1982.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zON1s_b2aQg

i like that one and it still gets plays!

for roxy completists only probably.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vkF8AHm3pJ4

mixed by John Potoker aka "tokes", whom I never heard of until a few weeks ago somebody posted a picture of some classic disco dj types and he wasn't named and a lot of heavyweights pointed out who he was. Massive discography of engineering, mixing, remixing etc.

for roxy completists only probably.

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children by the millions scream for hot pursuit and they come runnin'...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e2zM7QbHV9U

band logo is remarkable and song sounds exactly as i would guess. the whole set is like a request to AI to make a generic 80s song and logo.

bethlehem garage rock steel from brother jt and the original sins

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SdSFAntS_B8

they loved jt in philly. back then. in the day. the grunge days.

had some traction in the underground. Twisted Village. Siltbreeze. That sort of thing.

that might have been the last time i saw jt at a major stars show?? or a siltbreeze thing. who can remember? its all a blur of harry pussys and shadow rings. so many yuenglings so many herr's salt & vinegar chips....*burp*.

the phrase 'ticking time bomb' will always remind of this crew.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6YKRHqxvrOY

not to be confused with Shakatak.

https://i.discogs.com/3j71ZMwDahaahGoSkJymTzcFry97Ia8VsXbgF1pEjrw/rs:fit/g:sm/q:90/h:553/w:580/czM6Ly9kaXNjb2dz/LWRhdGFiYXNlLWlt/YWdlcy9BLTQ3MjAy/LTE1NTIxNjgwOTQt/ODg2MS5qcGVn.jpeg

i like that Chakk more than the Tackhead time bomb. it is ripe for remixing. i must have that single in a box here somewhere...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TJDI8BaBXPg

^ Stroom have just put out a comp of this band's stuff, had never heard of them before but they're called W.A.T. (World According To) and they're kind of like a Belgian version of The Passions - really good!

this is a really super soundtrack EXCEPT for the dreadful brian wilson song on side one and the dreadful southern pacific song that ends side two. oh well. nothing is perfect. everything else on this record totally fits together.

https://i.discogs.com/BoiGq6wN_Neazqkq_TBuegHg1pGdQprZ46shpdTXtoE/rs:fit/g:sm/q:90/h:600/w:599/czM6Ly9kaXNjb2dz/LWRhdGFiYXNlLWlt/YWdlcy9SLTIyMzc4/MzAtMTYzMDg1MzA1/OC00NTA3LmpwZWc.jpeg

The Relations - Patrick (1989 - Stairwell Recordings)

https://i.discogs.com/xaZJIYxYb2SPJeqbJIo4zLI8A647GDxMoo89NXO-Cy0/rs:fit/g:sm/q:90/h:495/w:495/czM6Ly9kaXNjb2dz/LWRhdGFiYXNlLWlt/YWdlcy9SLTY4MTg0/NTYtMTQyNzI3OTYy/OC05MjM4LmpwZWc.jpeg

the first songs reminds me of robyn hitchcock. wait, david bowie had a song called ""right on mother"? and peter noone sang it? produced it? i'm too sleepy to google.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o05FfODGJdY

some people might call this bog standard scottish indie. or something like that. i like the echo on the vocals on the third track. one of the perks of having no money to record. reminds me of the straightjacket fits. nowhere near as good but still...

on the fourth song the singer channels shayne carter of straightjacket fits and fellow scot jim reid. i like that mix. the song sucks though.

and on the next song he is a scottish michael stipe! hoo boy, pick a lane, dude.

whole wide world - s/t (penny for the guy records - 1987)

not great. but hopefully the band had fun. unfortunately sounds NOTHING like wreckless eric. they mostly have a male lead singer but they do give their female bass player a song and they should have done that more because she sounds like a young amy rigby. kidding! but she is definitely an improvement on generic male american indie singer hoping for a deal with Mammoth Records or Big Time Records or Alias Records or Twin/Tone Records.

https://i.discogs.com/S3x70NOUlA83GLd_i7YvUyAnILNgEXhTOj2f-zNsM58/rs:fit/g:sm/q:90/h:598/w:600/czM6Ly9kaXNjb2dz/LWRhdGFiYXNlLWlt/YWdlcy9SLTEyODA1/NjUtMTY0ODM2ODMw/NS01OTEyLmpwZWc.jpeg

main members of WWW were in a band called Modern Clix. who discogs says made "punk rock with caribbean influences". so, they sounded like bad brains, i guess.

https://i.discogs.com/6dIEvxePscSagx48r3Qw-3OMV9dcOfT7b0kKy6EictM/rs:fit/g:sm/q:90/h:410/w:533/czM6Ly9kaXNjb2dz/LWRhdGFiYXNlLWlt/YWdlcy9BLTM1ODYy/OTMtMTQyNTE3MjE0/NC01NjU3LmpwZWc.jpeg

uh...not like bad brains.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hCySN08xyVk

haha Discogs says the guitarist Fran Powers also used the alias "Ratti Dread"

the boring reggae part of bad brains they've got down anyway.