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

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kOIllLueNJ4

these are all singles i got in and have been enjoying. not a random skot attack.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bWKF4KqmCMY

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pYVtV5-LWDg

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lZZSk2oNTJQ

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AUriUIYe2G8

okay, boogie bomb is done.

look forward tho checking these out! i picked up that Omni just a couple of weeks back and it's fantastic

i just traded that Chocolate Cholly promo EP with the Roadway track on it above and some other boogie stuff to my friend Ryan for a super-clean Linda Perhacs! my day started out disco-fied and now its ending in the swirling ether.

I think x rated man is worth something? One of the first Italo adjacent hinrg records I got. Got a boost when Metro Area used it on their fabric mix.

this was part of the trade with my pal. i was gonna keep it but i'll be honest...i have a lot of records. and he digs this stuff a lot. plus, i've never had a nice copy of the linda perhacs album. it sounds like a dream on my hi-fi.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GPOOfgd-Miw

i was happy to get a copy of this yesterday. needed it. not 80s though. don't sue me.

https://i.discogs.com/ZwUvM6JLYrYQfzzx-sXFX8XqE283lQ1wPB8ZCSpHjoE/rs:fit/g:sm/q:90/h:600/w:599/czM6Ly9kaXNjb2dz/LWRhdGFiYXNlLWlt/YWdlcy9SLTE4MTI3/MC0xNTU4MDg3MDc4/LTQyMjUuanBlZw.jpeg

the thing with late 70s/early 80s disco/boogie/funk is that i am perfectly happy with 5 dollar High Inergy records. there is an embarrassment of inexpensive riches out there. i don't really need to own $$$ singles. though they are fun to find and sell. and i do keep the ones i truly love.

i will not be keeping this. this is a great promo video for the album though! it was apparently always 1978 for Walter Murphy.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kjOgL1IsNE4

he did lay down some dope library beats in the 80s.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hyla7SWaMD4

Ohhhhh I mean that ORS sounds beautiful

bet not mean

this track is fun. 1980. fenderella right before the genius that was Klymaxx.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QWxUPy9ATQM

nickb posted her on the quiet storm thread: https://www.discogs.com/artist/131877-Sheree-Brown

patrice rushen collaborator. her albums for capitol are very pleasant mor r+b. patrice is all over the first one.

crushed by the wheels of new beat! haha, i dig it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xvAoavw72ZM

picked this nice slice of college rock up the other day, would like to hear their previous indie album, but overall this is a case where the band didn't get totally undercut by bad 80s production, very clear, crips production, two vox (m/f), some interesting lyrics, good songs overall

https://i.postimg.cc/mkjwSGp0/PXL-20240416-022407166.jpg

famously ripped off by LCD Soundsystem, I forget which song tho

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KWO7asc2_4w

i love this. she reminds me of my hero Lorita Grahame.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6IcjDVpLZ3Y

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZTT_opq0VyQ

what an earworm

alisha ruled. she does those stars of freestyle concerts i think. i'm always so tempted to go to one at a casino near here. they usually have them once a year.

i had that album in 1985. that's how cool i am.

too cool

fuck Kim Fowler but this Orchids song is so damn good

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fJ39VhVaiKE

Fowley

i'm keeping this 12-inch. someday someone somewhere is going to let me deejay new beat and i will be ready.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rb4Pb-MWJEk

this is so awesome. not nice to not credit the rappers though! erica? markita? they are dope.

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

when you DJ play this right after da da da and right before din daa daa.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GfgPf634JW0

https://images.eil.com/large_image/MAINFRAME_TENANTS%2BOF%2BTHE%2BLATTICE%2DWORK-553045.jpg

Have been revisiting the Mainframe album 'Tenants Of The Lattice Work', a british synthpop concept album from 1983. Some definite traces of prog in their dna, makes me think of stuff like the Buggles, New Musik and Freur. Lots of very lovely moments, don't know why it's not more well-known tbh - probably came out a bit after this sort of stuff had peaked...

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

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fs6wQmMYNwY

"don't know why it's not more well-known tbh"

because i've never seen or heard of it, that's why. if i had ever seen that cover i would have bought it, trust me.

well, no wonder. i see they put it out themselves. not every privately-pressed record is going to make it over here.

you would think someone would have reissued it by now but maybe its a case of the people behind it owning it/wanting to put it back out themselves. and then never doing that. it happens.

One of the things they did was their first couple of singles had software on the b-side that you could load onto your home computer so you could have graphics to go with the music. kind of a vinyl precursor to the whole enhanced cd thing. I know there are other examples of that, kind of blanking on who else did it though

Those tracks aren't really the best ones on the album btw, just not many of them on youtube

My heroes Kissing The Pink did that! and also The Thompson Twins, i think.

all the nerds! Just remembered i've got this single by Chris sievey from before he became Frank sidebottom where he does the same thing:

https://www.discogs.com/release/3178528-Chris-Sievey-Camouflage

Don't know what the software is like but the song is pure garbage

God I had that Mainframe album, I'd guess those guys went into software development and made a mint. Tragically they're not listed on Progarchives, but googling them uncovered a Mainframe website!
http://mainframe-music.info/index.html

Pete Shelley also had some kind of program on an LP iirc

I know they ended up doing music for some amiga games. Thanks for the link btw!

xp yes indeed!

are those two Gadgets albums a dime a dozen in the U.K.? i never see them here. i only see The Blue Album. which i like a lot.

not something I've seen around, but I have picked up a Jeremy's Secret LP and a Colin Lloyd Tucker solo album in the last few tears

EVERYONE HERE should listen to The Gadgets just in case they have passed you by. that stuff is awesome.

I can't decide if the Doug and the Slugs vibe is more Kids in the Hall or Barenaked Ladies

https://imgur.com/a/xbNBCjM

i think just "Canadian" will do.

https://imgur.com/a/xbNBCjM

Could a Canadian help me parse the tam-as-comedy-signifier? Or am I overfitting connections between D&TS, BN Ladies and Nardwuar?

im obsessed w this one right now ... such a cool vibe, amazing video, feels so on trend

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TeufM5V1iGg

also may I recommend the 'rubble mix'

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1v88H6OSdOQ