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

just say no.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M-c7m32-iMQ

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zgGtViqj-ps

what the......hell. i think this did something weird to my brain.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4c0EUpLGg0U

i don't know that maisonettes record that you posted - the only tune of theirs anyone at all knows is 'heartbreak avenue' which was top ten in the UK and is kind of an 80s take on early 60s doo wop/soul, and it's possibly a bit naff really, but i've a huge soft spot for it all the same:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h-t66drtfWs

obviously the racial stereotypes in that freida parton video are awful and dumb, but i really enjoyed the song itself! (probably wouldnt rush to play it to anyone else though)

That's Dolly Parton's sister?!

wow, yes!

maisonettes were pretty good. I'm convinced their one album is all demos polished up. everything sounds a bit worn-out and transparent including "heartache avenue".

The singer from the Maisonettes had been in City Boy a few years before, the sound of young Birmingham c1978 (or perhaps not)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9pykQ7pxFBQ

ISTR he died a few years back, RIP.

i love city boy. at one point i had all their albums. the poor man's 10cc.

not an easy one to find by a long shot. david wertman is on some really great 70s records that are even harder to find. i'm still looking for a nice copy of steve reid's Odyssey of the Oblong Square record that he plays on. anyway, he was cool and this is another rare thing. a free/spiritual jazz flexi-disc! and it sounds really good. eva-tone soundsheets for the win! he made another one the same year. a good cheap way to get your music out.

https://i.discogs.com/Afjv570r5Ohl531CdoLi6hing6tXurZKsK5K9WZQlhY/rs:fit/g:sm/q:90/h:564/w:600/czM6Ly9kaXNjb2dz/LWRhdGFiYXNlLWlt/YWdlcy9SLTYzOTM5/MjktMTU1MTI5Njg5/My02ODk3LnBuZw.jpeg

https://i.discogs.com/IlM_3PhNWGCgP0JQKTV4C4kBIxAEasUQ5mA16IZMJSI/rs:fit/g:sm/q:90/h:568/w:600/czM6Ly9kaXNjb2dz/LWRhdGFiYXNlLWlt/YWdlcy9SLTYzOTM5/MjktMTU1MTI5Njg5/Ni05MjA0LnBuZw.jpeg

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qMIc1ZYBGRo

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l_iaqihk6bo

^ stellar stuff!

Record of the day! I love this. They are connected to the band Red Guitars and I have an album by THEM on deck that i have never heard. I don't even know how to describe this one. Or maybe i'm just too tired to. Sounds great on vinyl. It's not on Youtube! They were from Hull.

The Planet Wilson - In The Best Of All Possible Worlds (Virgin - 1988)

https://i.discogs.com/nxr3BkfwFsn_vFBNsi5JX5aYlVjPc-Szq6dhbA3XkzI/rs:fit/g:sm/q:90/h:311/w:320/czM6Ly9kaXNjb2dz/LWRhdGFiYXNlLWlt/YWdlcy9SLTU2NTI3/MDAtMTQwNDMyMjgy/My0zNjc0LmpwZWc.jpeg

its like 3 bucks on discogs. probably even less if you are in Hull.

stuff i wasn't feeling that i'm not going to go into:

alliance - s/t (handshake - 1982)

badbob - now is reaction (incas records - 1988)

the atom smashers - first strike (pathfinder - 1986) (monte cazazza! but, uh, no thanks.)

justo almario - plumbline (meadowlark - 1987)

nancy and the antlers - presents 101 heresies (psychotic-plastic - 1989)

the pedaljets - today today (twilight - 1988)

underrated soundtrack alert. a nice album experience of synth goodness. check the dollar bins. unfortunately sells for more than a dollar now online.

once bitten ost - v/a (curb - 1985)

https://i.discogs.com/uAKSC0EPCuWsDIrKBa3rqvmY0Q__THKzvJn60A4bhuY/rs:fit/g:sm/q:90/h:600/w:597/czM6Ly9kaXNjb2dz/LWRhdGFiYXNlLWlt/YWdlcy9SLTgwNDcy/NjItMTU4NzkzNjcy/My03NjA1LmpwZWc.jpeg

https://i.discogs.com/0yLDD_M_oqc_NDuVP4uvM6iSoRmuH_DVantiIh6WRUY/rs:fit/g:sm/q:90/h:600/w:600/czM6Ly9kaXNjb2dz/LWRhdGFiYXNlLWlt/YWdlcy9SLTgwNDcy/NjItMTU4NzkzNjcy/Mi05NDU1LmpwZWc.jpeg

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

Is that the vampire 80s movie Jim Carrey is in? That was on tv all the time when I was a kid omg.

yes! his shining moment. that and earth girls are easy.

just gonna post YT vids. too many broken links on here. sorry. my bad. plus, i am just swamped over here. hooooooboy. so many records. which is great, but, you know. work.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b9N6H9LMAug

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-wtWHD-iSAw

If you post YT links without naming them they’ll be unidentifiable when they break. :-(

oh right that. okay i'll do that.

those two aren't so essential anyway! haha. more examples of "they gave a major label deal to who again?".

you don’t need to name YouTube’s this is a discussion board not a museum

i went to my old 80s skot thread and i couldn't believe there were still pictures there! i posted them 16 years ago! the web is wild.

me and my 80s ladies

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2129/1783586722_1cdd19b07a_b.jpg

my authentic 80s bedroom

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2164/1782734157_3afb5a27b3_b.jpg

i even know what those pictures are that you can't see. gene loves jezebel, madonna, die kreuzen poster, and a picture of david lynch with isabella rosellini.

best high school smoking lounge ever.

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2341/1782730137_59c7d4105e_b.jpg

my best pal LV had the best bedroom. he genius.

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2419/1782725383_45a00f8671_b.jpg

my failed attempt at college. it didn't take. i tried to fit in. all i learned was how to smoke. 1988 was my nadir.

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2084/1784362672_0abd03e2dc_b.jpg

okay back to work. too many records to price!

that was a v. enjoyable diversion i feel

cheers! one more vid. i just found the record. from 1980. this is members of the hippie commune The Farm who made some cool jam band records in the 70s. a guy down the street here was in the band and i told him i had this. he doesn't have a copy. gotta put it somewhere where i'll find it again. he's great guy. he plays zydeco now. their new wave album is cool!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cUDnXKwWpP4

lolll <3 scott

i was gonna sell my copy of uglyman's ugly lover lp that i've had for years but then i play it and its so cool...!! the man with the rockstone voice! i think it was his only LP? don't think its ever been on CD either.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QAtQmx8vv-A

that cover...novelty value sure but its such a solid record.

https://i.discogs.com/b-G-TDNY41jePfQzlU74lHiZBZ_b0qYLk4ZVs_WybyU/rs:fit/g:sm/q:90/h:600/w:600/czM6Ly9kaXNjb2dz/LWRhdGFiYXNlLWlt/YWdlcy9SLTE4OTc2/ODktMTI1MDkyNzQ2/Ni5qcGVn.jpeg

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

Hawkes would not release another solo album for 25 years. His second solo album, though also instrumental, was very different in sound than this, his first: The Beatles Uke (2005) featured Hawkes playing instrumental versions of Beatles songs on the ukulele.

this greg hawkes is awesome

it's so good, I love it

"Voyage Into Space" is a secret DJ weapon of mine

I picked up the Greg Hawkes in a used bin in the late 80s, thought it was too cheesy and quickly exchanged it. I'm way more into this kinda stuff now than I was then though, it's sounding great to me today.

whoah. Surprised this doesn't come up more. Never even heard of it. Tagged in discogs as experimental, synth-pop, minimal, so obviously some people think about it in those contexts. I'll def pick it up.

dan it's right up your alley I think, a minor lost classic

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QmCjf-OO2w8

that is a weird record, here’s what I had to say about it in 2016

http://www.discogs.com/Workdub-Workdub/release/3529191

this is supposedly from 1989, really weird kind of homebrewed sounding crap instrumental stuff.. could be corporate muzak but the sampling just sounds "off" sometimes. i'm not convinced it's NOT a joke (i.e. some recently made garageband thing).. it would've sounded weird in 1989, but it sounds weird in a different kind of way in 2016.

a few years ago Dark Entries reissued this really nice scottish new wave disco

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=38ElF_MExm0

A few weeks ago I found a later single which I had to pick up because it's produced by Rico Conning of the Lines

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gj82UW-7lxs

I recently discovered River City People who just sneak into this thread by virtue of their début single being released in 1989 although their two albums both came out in the 1990s. Lovely, chiming folk rock that should appeal to fans of 10,000 Maniacs:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uwGHp6e_f6s

i know that scratch acid were big birthday party fans but i forgot about inca babies. they must have totally fallen for them too. kinda the same thing really. (i am a teen scratch acid fan. was never much of a birthday party fan except for the stooges cover on the live split with lydia lunch. i used to play that song a lot because i didn't have the stooges record to listen to!)

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

all the ranting young men. so many ranters in the 80s. blame Mark E. i guess.

(related to ranters: i was totally loving this vic godard/subway sect comp i got recently and i hadn't heard that stuff in literally decades and now all i can think is that half of the diy brit tape music dudes must have picked up guitars after hearing those two 1978 singles. nobody's scared and ambition. they're so fucking great and they totally give you the feeling of: hey, i could do this! not exactly a VU revelation maybe but they must have been a revelation for some people!)