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

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8xNLp9dr9RI

quite the performance.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kzz-gxGAtLE

Are you guys down with Rexy?? This album is so sick. Eurythmics adjacent.

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

Legal Reins never released music video! Filmed the first week of June 1989, The Reins found themselves making the video for Wait For Fire Burning that Arista refused to make, but they were nearly thrown in jail in the process. Xanadu at Pan Pacific Park, long an architectural and cultural icon in Los Angeles, burned to the ground May 24, 1989. Arson was suspected. A week later, Legal Reins began shooting their non Arista sanctioned video when they stumbled on a burned out building surrounded by police tape. Being a San Francisco band, they knew little of the storied building or its demise. Tell it to the cops who showed up mid shoot and saw the band as interfering with an ongoing arson investigation! Their fast talking manager Kathy Cook was the only thing that kept them out of jail.

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

that rexy album is real collector bait, even the reissue from 2016 goes for about fifty quid now. cool record though!

just so you know, the 1982 album by former Toto dude Joseph Williams - son of John Williams of Ewok fame - is really big with AOR fans.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pYYceKfNW7Q

just in case you need something to talk about at a cocktail party.

save us, nirvana! swoop down on flannel wings and spare us this late-80s thing that was a thing. you can probably blame inxs. though i love inxs.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S4NFBda6md0

Roxy owns. “Do you want to be alien too”?

Rexy

Rexy got a hip reissue a few years back.

90 but how do we feel about Warrior Soul? I remember liking them. Kind of anthemic alternative metal.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zT-DBDhEBCE

more metal than I remember. My memory has them more like a Janes Addiction or something.

My friend was in a band supporting Trouble when Kory Clarke was in them. Apparently he was this brash cowboy hat dude who'd be all like "Hey Stockholm, I hear there's some good pussy in this town!" etc on stage.

i can't remember if chuck eddy was a warrior soul fan. seems like he might have been. i can hear jane's addiction in the vocals. i never listened to them. i mean i was aware of them in the same way that i was aware of king's x and circus of power. but i didn't listen to them.

Oh man I'm lucky I picked up that Rexy reissue when it was cheap!

This is one of the coolest albums I've ever heard in my life. Fred Frith produced it. Dark, angular, funky, experimental shit from Japan.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6SBhcToq17E

there was such a huge amount of amazing metal qua metal coming out in 1990 that i didn't really pay too much attention to MTV stuff. or cowboy stuff. or post-hair roots grunge. i think i just put seasons in the abyss in the tape deck and left it there.

this is cool. i don't know how to describe it. new wave with a quirky art rock side. a side of art rock if you will. not on Youtube.

https://i.discogs.com/sNfq9ajvq0wusc5V7QyaRIrB2tIesj06vKVgL_A4rww/rs:fit/g:sm/q:90/h:600/w:600/czM6Ly9kaXNjb2dz/LWRhdGFiYXNlLWlt/YWdlcy9SLTE5MTMy/NzMyLTE2MjM2Mjkz/MjgtMzQxMy5qcGVn.jpeg

one of the guys from Dreamhouse was in this band and this is from 1979 but its cool and you should hear it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ojt2V6tD37g

i actually saw Warrior Soul in 1989, they supported Metallica on the ...And Justice For All tour in the UK

that Dreamhouse is from 1986 btw. on Domino Records. but not that Domino Records. California label that put out a Steve Roach album.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZjfqTH5iayc

https://i.discogs.com/VQ6A9gCAiFIdikIkPyBa03XaauFTVMkLerrLn2YdYjk/rs:fit/g:sm/q:90/h:600/w:269/czM6Ly9kaXNjb2dz/LWRhdGFiYXNlLWlt/YWdlcy9BLTM3NDc2/Ny0xNDY4NTI5NDUw/LTE4OTkuanBlZw.jpeg

love!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XlG1JZGtqiU

mesmerized by this little old new york hypno-club track from Queens. i love all 4 versions on the 12-inch too. hard to pick a clear fave. the club version is pretty solid though.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=97lzaPTR_3o

i posted this on the thread devoted to him but i will put the link here too because there is a lot that fits here. 173 track Jean-Pierre Massiera playlist that i made. of his own stuff, outside production/engineering/songwriting/etc.

http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLE1-7P1reTFjoEh4WfakzrEGo153ogYu4

i needed something new to work to...

this is a perplexing one for me. i like it but i'm not sure why. the song itself confuses me.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YCsD9usYs4w

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BOVoRgsyn9w

when they put stuff like that out at Atlantic records...what they thinking? were they going for that market of people who loved the short circuit theme "who's johnny"? its bewildering.

hadn't heard that before. fred frith on guitar! kinde reminds me of dave howard:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dwCHi3KbsMQ

this is kinda the best song. love the complete ripping off of "Gloria". Chuck Eddy had to have written about this one at some point.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZfcYcxyMp7o

that is very funny but now i can never hear gloria again without breakdancing

that's a chinn/chapman song that suzi quatro did, apparently.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DAPfFfsrzm0

aha. makes even more sense now. shows how much i know about suzi and chinichap!

i like this video - EZEE POSSE FEATURING DR. MOUTHQUAKE - because it came out in 1989 and you can actually see the 90s being born before your eyes.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xM6AXGWfklw

meanwhile, back in the 80s...(andre 3000 wishes...)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pm3FTukBeA8

keeping this single! i love homemade acid.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m4xcGBnijo8

Ah Play House Records. I'm actually trying to interview the owner of that label for a potential book on the history of italo-disco and its influence in American and on House music. It was the follow-up label to Let's Dance, which had some chicago-based proto/early house tracks that were heavily italo-disco influenced and a big influence on the birth of house music.

This is 1984:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UJs7OqlcSZY

And 1985:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OuE8JNAPeiI

chicago guys going to the clubs and listening to italo-disco imports, madonna, electro and early freestyle, new wave, all feeding into what became house music.

love it, thanks Dan

i can't remember if i posted a link to my hardcore punk playlist on youtube. 1980 to 1984 only. 228 videos. if you need to put a little pep in your step.

http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLE1-7P1reTFgTJcv2kWOAoUr3t4distfZ

and in case you missed it, my Volume playlist. over 2500 tracks/albums. some from the 70s though. more than a few from the 70s. its a quirky book.

http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLE1-7P1reTFh-exzT4SJc8A6fHI1msnJo

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dt0CqAeyqzE

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lAq75yyPfos

dug up the rolling stone "best albums of the 80s" article that was pretty big for me when i read it as a 16 year old kansas dork and gosh, these reviews are so long. anyway the one on was not was mentioned one of them slumming during their off years, "producing 'sexual deviants' like transvestite singer Marilyn" and my interest was piqued. I wasn't super into their clanger-winstanly hit from '83 or the Don Was produced tracks from '85, but misfiled on their spotify page was this unrelated LA-based "Marilyn and the Movie Stars" record from 1981 that is pretty great:

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

looking at this other marilyn's discogs history, her first record was a 1979 trash-synth cover of the 60s nugget talk talk, while in a band called kongress, which at one time included australian performer Geoff Krozier, a.k.a. Krozier the Great, who was a sort of punk magic-act performer at Max's in the 70s. I had never heard of this guy but the videos of him performing tickle my firesign theatre / forbidden zone / bongwater funny-weird bone. he died young after cutting a private press record in 1981 and it is maybe more oingo boingo than forbidden zone but you should check it out:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0sa3GZPRcSs

Tommy Victor from Prong/Danzig plays on that Marilyn record. She still posts stuff online last time I checked.

the 80s were really real for me.

https://scontent-lga3-2.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t1.18169-9/1926834_10152890372112137_546564131_n.jpg?_nc_cat=100&ccb=1-7&_nc_sid=9b3078&_nc_ohc=s8kFN7p1b0QAX_U9hoE&_nc_ht=scontent-lga3-2.xx&oh=00_AfCBePCEkhs0iB07Jx_blRh4wE0GN_CYzIESfCW5_8P7Qw&oe=66055B72

i am totally listening to the first Easterhouse album in my store right now very loudly. it is 8:56 AM. thank you very much.