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doug e. fresh - "the show"/"la-di-da-di"
sly fox - "let's go all the way"
the smiths - "how soon is now?"
word of mouth feat. dj cheese - "king kut"
lisa lisa & cult jam - "i wonder if i take you home"
schooly d - "p.s.k."/"gucci time"
double dee & steinski - "the payoff mix"/"lesson two"/"lesson three"
sheila e. - "a love bizarre"
roxanne shante - "roxanne's revenge"
rockin sidney - "my toot toot"

― cinniblount (James Blount), Thursday, 5 February 2004 04:16 (twenty-two years ago)

aargh - replace sly fox's "let's go all the way" (which is 86)(i was right about it being fifth grade though) with... wayne smith - "under me sleng teng"

― cinniblount (James Blount), Thursday, 5 February 2004 04:18 (twenty-two years ago)

scritti politti, "perfect way"
echo and the bunnymen, "bring on the dancing horses"
tears for fears, "everybody wants to rule the world"

― Eisbär (llamasfur), Thursday, 5 February 2004 04:21 (twenty-two years ago)

Killing Joke: "Kings & Queens"

― Aja (aja), Thursday, 5 February 2004 04:22 (twenty-two years ago)

mbv "no place to go"

― the surface noise (electricsound), Thursday, 5 February 2004 04:23 (twenty-two years ago)

The Jesus and Mary Chain - "Never Understand" "Just Like Honey" "You Trip Me Up"

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Thursday, 5 February 2004 04:24 (twenty-two years ago)

there's some proto-house, proto-miami bass, and last gasp go-go someone else who knows the dates fer sure can put on here (plz)

― cinniblount (James Blount), Thursday, 5 February 2004 04:27 (twenty-two years ago)

"Hold My Life" - Replacements
"On the Beach" - Chameleons
"I Apologize" - Husker Du
"Feeling Gravity's Pull" - REM
"Party at Ground Zero" - Fishbone
"Pop Life" - Prince
"The Headmaster Ritual" - The Smiths
"Faron" - Prefab Sprout
"Couldn't Get Ahead" - The Fall
"Perfect Way" - Scritti Politti

― Rocco, Thursday, 5 February 2004 14:32 (twenty-two years ago)

The Payoff Mix and How Soon Is Now were both 84. I nominate:

Status Quo - Donald Banks
Hymn From A Village - James

― mike t-diva, Thursday, 5 February 2004 14:42 (twenty-two years ago)

Pet Shop Boys - "West End Girls"
Madonna - "Into The Groove"
Nu-Shooz - "I Can't Wait"
Nu-Shooz - "Point Of No Return"
Wayne Smith – “Under Mi Sleng Teng”
Kate Bush – “Running Up That Hill”
Kate Bush - "Cloudbusting"
Grace Jones – “Slave To The Rhythm”
Scritti Politti – “Wood Beez (Pray Like Aretha Franklin)”
Dead Or Alive: "You Spin Me Round (Like a Record)"

― stevem (blueski), Thursday, 5 February 2004 14:44 (twenty-two years ago)

Recently started working on a CDR for this year. Not even halfway done with researching (rifled through R&B, mostly), but here's a POX so far. Sticking to unmentioned ones...

Andre Cymone - Dance Electric
Skipworth & Turner - Thinking About Your Love
JM Silk - Music Is the Key
Loose Ends - Hanging on a String
Scritti Politti - Hypnotize (always preferred this over Perfect Way)
Mary Jane Girls - In My House
The Family - Screams of Passion
Steve Arrington - Dancing in the Key of Life
Juicy - Bad Boy
Model 500 - No UFOs

― Andy K (Andy K), Thursday, 5 February 2004 15:23 (twenty-two years ago)

@ cinniblount, early house saw a lot more releases in/after '86, but here's a few, & some other early techno/bass, don't know enough go-go stuff though..

Ron Hardy - Sensation (Trax)
Chip E - Like This (DJ International)
Steve Silk Hurley - Jack Your Body (DJ International)
Freestyle - Don't Stop The Rock (Music Specialists)
Model 500 - Night Drive (Metroplex)
Cybotron - R-9 (Fantasy)
Zapp - Computer Love (Warner Bros) :)

― pete from the street, Thursday, 5 February 2004 15:31 (twenty-two years ago)

R.E.M., Fables of the Reconstruction
The Fall, This Nation's Saving Grace
Jesus and Mary Chain, Psychocandy
Fishbone
Tom Waits, Rain Dogs
Husker Du, New Day Rising
Talking Heads, Little Creatures
Camper Van Beethoven, Telephone Free Landslide Victory
The Pogues, Rum Sodomy & the Lash
The Dead Milkmen, Big Lizard in My Backyard

― Nick Mirov (nick), Thursday, 5 February 2004 16:11 (twenty-two years ago)

Frankie Ruiz: La Cura
" : Esta Cobardia
Siouxsie & the Banshees: Cities in the Dust
Velvet Underground: Lisa Lisa Says
Psychic TV: Meanwhile
Butthole Surfers: Woly Boly
Sonic Youth: Flower
" : Halloween
The Fall: Paint Work
Sun Ra: Cosmonaut Astronaut Rendezvous

More indie in spirit than I would have preferred. cinniblount took some picks I would have made.

― Rockist Scientist, Thursday, 5 February 2004 16:17 (twenty-two years ago)

1. The Word Girl – Scritti Politti
2. A Night Like This – The Cure
3. Your Latest Trick – Dire Straits
4. Mole From The Ministry – The Dukes Of Stratosphear
5. Shake The Disease – Depeche Mode
6. Spirit Of 76 – The Alarm
7. Heart Of Lothian – Marillion
8. Raspberry Beret – Prince
9. One Vision – Queen
10. Fly On The Windscreen – Depeche Mode

― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Friday, 6 February 2004 03:30 (twenty-two years ago)

eighteen years pass...

I just found the coolest 1985 photo gallery.

On October 10 & 11 1985, the Pandora's Music Box festival was held in De Doelen, a venue in Rotterdam, the Netherlands.

The Woodentops, The Triffids, Shock Headed Peters, Jeffrey Lee Pierce, Nico, John Martyn, The Legendary Stardust Cowboy, The Legendary Pink Dots, Chris Isaak, Green On Red, Einstürzende Neubauten, Crime & The City Solution, Rain Parade, Sonic Youth, Claw Boys Claw, The Long Ryders, Fatal Flowers, Echo & The Bunnymen, The Cult, L'Attentat, Anne Clark, Alex Chilton, Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds, Butthole Surfers.

But the thing is, everyone who attended was required to have their photo taken. These pics were lost for a while but have been found. Some of them:

https://english.digitup.nl/pandoras-music-box-2/online-expo/

https://omeka.digitup.nl/s/DIU/item-set/4256

― StanM, Monday, 12 December 2022 15:06 (three years ago)

First year-end I ever compiled for publication:

https://web.archive.org/web/20040525044558im_/http://www.rockcritics.com/Ballot_Dellio.jpg

Nothing really makes me cringe on there, but, as you can see from the '86 list--where I'm just starting to make the transition back with my #2--I was completely disengaged from the charts and pop music. (Those old Chess albums were reissued in '85.)

At work right now, but I might try to put together a revised list later tonight.

― clemenza, Monday, 12 December 2022 19:37 (three years ago)

The 61-year-old not all that different from the 25-year-old.

1. "Take the Skinheads Bowling," Camper Van Beethoven
2. "Bonzo Goes to Bitburg," Ramones"
3. "Books About UFOs," Husker Du
4. "Safety Net," Shop Assistants
5. "P.S.K. What Does It Mean?" Schoolly D
6. "Cloudbusting," Kate Bush
7. "Never Understand," Jesus & Mary Chain
8. "West End Girls," Pet Shop Boys
9. "Raspberry Beret," Prince
10. "Death of the European," Three Johns

I also really love Simply Red's "Holding Back the Years," but I don't want to admit that, so I'm massaging my list and booting them out.

― clemenza, Tuesday, 13 December 2022 00:33 (three years ago)

your 4 - 10 could easily be in my hypothetical top 10. i generally find these impossible to do but there is a very high chance "P.S.K. What Does It Mean?" Schoolly D would be my no. 1.

― stirmonster, Tuesday, 13 December 2022 00:37 (three years ago)

"P.S.K." still sounds amazing and unique and scary to me.

― clemenza, Tuesday, 13 December 2022 00:41 (three years ago)

I like "Holding Back the Years"! Thanks to its American release date, I'd include it in my 1986 list.

― Malevolent Arugula (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 13 December 2022 01:04 (three years ago)

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