01 Debbie Deb - Lookout Weekend (Jam Packed)02 Strafe - Set It Off (Jus Born)03 Fingers Inc. - Mystery of Love (DJ International)04 Pet Shop Boys - West End Girls (EMI)05 New Order - The Perfect Kiss (Qwest)06 Lisa Lisa & Cult Jam With Full Force - I Wonder if I Take You Home (CBS)07 Jamie Principle - Waiting on My Angel (Persona)08 Chip E. Inc. - Like This (DJ International)09 J.M. Silk - Music Is the Key (DJ International)10 Colonel Abrams - Trapped (MCA)
11 Serious Intention - You Don't Know (Easy Street)12 Juicy - Bad Boy (Epic)13 Bernard Wright - Who Do You Love? (EMI Manhattan)14 Loose Ends - Hangin' on a String (Contemplating) (Virgin)15 Sade - Smooth Operator (Epic)16 The Commodores - Nightshift (Motown)17 Midnight Star - Operator (Solar)18 Ready for the World - Digital Display (MCA)19 Sheena Easton - Sugar Walls (EMI)20 Madonna - Angel (Sire)
21 Jesse Johnson's Revue - Be Your Man (A&M)22 André Cymone - The Dance Electric (CBS)23 Sheila E. - A Love Bizarre (Paisley Park)24 Prince & the Revolution - Pop Life (Paisley Park)25 The Family - The Screams of Passion (Paisley Park)26 The Mary Jane Girls - In My House (Motown)27 Teena Marie - Lovergirl (Epic)28 Starpoint - Object of My Desire (Elektra)29 Rene & Angela - I'll Be Good (Mercury)30 Skipworth & Turner - Thinking About Your Love (4th & Broadway)
31 Steve Arringon - Dancin' in the Key of Life (Atlantic)32 Grace Jones - Slave to the Rhythm (Island)33 Barrington Levy - Here I Come (Greensleeves)34 Tenor Saw - Ring the Alarm (Techniques)35 Wayne Smith - Under Me Sleng Teng (Greensleeves)36 Model 500 - No UFOs (Metroplex)37 Paul Hardcastle - Rain Forest (Bluebird)38 Wally Badarou - Chief Inspector (4th & Broadway)39 Scritti Politti - Perfect Way (Warner Bros.)40 Level 42 - Something About You (Polydor)
41 The Comsat Angels - I'm Falling (Jive)42 The Stranglers - Skin Deep (Epic)43 Kate Bush - Running Up That Hill (EMI)44 Propaganda - P-Machinery (ZTT)45 ABC - Be Near Me (Mercury)46 Simple Minds - Alive and Kicking (A&M)47 Tears for Fears - Head Over Heels (Mercury)48 U2 - The Unforgettable Fire (Island)49 The Sound - Whirlpool (Statik)50 The Chameleons - On the Beach (Statik)
51 Killing Joke - Love Like Blood (EG)52 Cocteau Twins - Quisquose (4AD)53 Minimal Compact - Raging Souls (Crammed Discs)54 Abecedarians - Smiling Monarchs (Factory)55 The Smiths - How Soon Is Now? (Sire)56 Volcano Suns - Jak (Homestead)57 Squirrel Bait - Thursday (Homestead)58 Naked Raygun - I Don't Know (Homestead)59 The Fall - L.A. (Beggars Banquet)60 The Jesus & Mary Chain - Just Like Honey (Blanco y Negro)
61 Hüsker Dü - Green Eyes (SST)62 Savage Republic - Ceremonial (Independent Project)63 Sonic Youth - Halloween (Homestead)64 Einstürzende Neubauten - Yü-Gung (Adran Sherwood Remix) (Some Bizarre)65 Mark Stewart - Hypnotise (Mute)66 Tackhead - What's My Mission Now? (On-U Sound)67 Schoolly D - PSK What Does It Mean? (Schoolly-D)68 Too $hort - Girl (75 Girls)69 LL Cool J - I Can't Live Without My Radio (Def Jam)70 Stetsasonic - Just Say Stet (Tommy Boy)
71 Marley Marl - Marley Marl Scratch (NIA)72 Word of Mouth - King Cut (Beauty & the Beat)73 Run-DMC - King of Rock (Profile)74 Mantronix - Fresh Is the Word (Sleeping Bag)75 DJ Born Supreme Allah - Two, Three, Break (Part II) (Vintertainment) 76 UTFO - Roxanne, Roxanne (Select)77 Roxanne Shanté - Bite This (Pop Art)78 The Arabian Prince & the Sheiks - Innovator (Rapsur) 79 Rock Master Scott & the Dynamic 3 - The Roof Is on Fire (Reality)80 Doug E. Fresh & the Get Fresh Crew - The Show (Reality)
― Andy K (Andy K), Saturday, 6 November 2004 23:50 (twenty-one years ago)
Strongo's version.
― Andy K (Andy K), Saturday, 6 November 2004 23:52 (twenty-one years ago)
(This also serves as a reminder that http://www.cdrgo.org/ is indeed functioning but will yet be updated...)
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Saturday, 6 November 2004 23:54 (twenty-one years ago)
― MindInRewind (Barry Bruner), Saturday, 6 November 2004 23:59 (twenty-one years ago)
btw, aside from the listing of songs, is there some sort of ilx subculture where people trade cdr's of these? and are they necessarily cdr's of mp3s as opposed to old-fashioned music cdr's? because i can play the latter and not the former (at least, i have no interest in playing music on my computer). and i'd really like some of these. especially jody's cdr700s from the 1960s.
― amateur!!st, Sunday, 7 November 2004 00:03 (twenty-one years ago)
My link -- which is to donut bitch's page on the matter -- is supposed to be some sort of ground central for that. But DB has had to concentrate on other things lately.
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Sunday, 7 November 2004 00:05 (twenty-one years ago)
Audio snob.
x-post
― Johnny Fever (johnny fever), Sunday, 7 November 2004 00:06 (twenty-one years ago)
Roughly 20-25% = very? Or do you mean that so much of this was popular in the UK?
― Andy K (Andy K), Sunday, 7 November 2004 00:08 (twenty-one years ago)
― amateur!!st, Sunday, 7 November 2004 00:09 (twenty-one years ago)
― amateur!!st, Sunday, 7 November 2004 00:11 (twenty-one years ago)
― Alba (Alba), Sunday, 7 November 2004 00:20 (twenty-one years ago)
― Alba (Alba), Sunday, 7 November 2004 00:22 (twenty-one years ago)
― amateur!!st, Sunday, 7 November 2004 00:24 (twenty-one years ago)
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Sunday, 7 November 2004 00:29 (twenty-one years ago)
this sounds like a third-string factory records band
― amateur!!st, Sunday, 7 November 2004 02:31 (twenty-one years ago)
(amst: yes we do trade these, I have nearly the whole set; missing the '87 and Sarah Pedal's '65 and '66, though I am working on a '66 one myself so hey . . . )
― Matos W.K. (M Matos), Sunday, 7 November 2004 15:40 (twenty-one years ago)
― Billy Dods (Billy Dods), Sunday, 7 November 2004 17:18 (twenty-one years ago)
― Andy K (Andy K), Monday, 8 November 2004 15:00 (twenty-one years ago)
(And you DID trump half of my planned Mine The Gap 1985.. Arrr, Andy, ARRRRRRRRRRRRr I Say....)
;)
― donut bitch (donut), Monday, 8 November 2004 20:16 (twenty-one years ago)
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 8 November 2004 20:17 (twenty-one years ago)
― donut bitch (donut), Monday, 8 November 2004 20:17 (twenty-one years ago)
― Jeff W (zebedee), Monday, 8 November 2004 20:21 (twenty-one years ago)
― Andy K (Andy K), Monday, 8 November 2004 20:24 (twenty-one years ago)
"Lookout Weekend" is pretty great, although it is pretty much the same excellent song as "When I Hear Music" (which was Debbie Deb's big single in '83)
― Michael F Gill (Michael F Gill), Monday, 8 November 2004 20:32 (twenty-one years ago)
My playlist.
― The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 9 June 2016 01:30 (nine years ago)
Great list, but Time - Jungle Love, Teena Marie - Lovergirl, and Debbie Deb - When I Hear Music are all from 1984
― Josefa, Thursday, 9 June 2016 06:16 (nine years ago)
Well, in the United States "Jungle Love" and especially "Lovergirl" charted in early or spring '85 (peaking at #4 in March 30).
https://weeklytop40.wordpress.com/1985-all-charts/
― The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 9 June 2016 11:48 (nine years ago)
I guess this comes down to the mismatch between the pop and R&B charts. "Jungle Love" hit the R&B chart in Sept '84 and peaked by year's end, while "Lovergirl" entered the R&B chart in Oct '84 but had a long run there peaking in early '85. It doesn't matter anyway, I was just flashing back to high school thinking, "wait that doesn't seem right.." 1984 as a year had better chart songs than '85 imo.
― Josefa, Thursday, 9 June 2016 17:24 (nine years ago)
Fantastic list, Alfred. I've dissed '85 in the past but more careful consideration has turned up some true gems. If I may add some of my own picks:
Animotion - 'Obsession'Chaka Khan - 'This Is My Night'Culture Club - 'Mistake No. 3'DeBarge - 'Who's Holding Donna Now'Eurythmics - 'There Must Be An Angel (Playing With My Heart)'The Family - 'Screams Of Passion'Five Star - 'All Fall Down'Jesse Johnson's Revue - 'Be Your Man'Julian Lennon - 'Valotte'Kim Wylde - 'Go For It'Klymaxx - 'Meeting In The Ladies Room'Lisa Lisa & Cult Jam - 'I Wonder If I Take You Home'Mary Jane Girls - 'In My House'Midnight Star - 'Operator'Red Rider - 'Lunatic Fringe'Rene and Angela - 'I'll Be Good'Sheena Easton - 'Sugar Walls'Starpoint - 'Object Of My Desire'Steve Miller Band - 'Bongo Bongo'
― Manspread Mann (Old Lunch), Thursday, 9 June 2016 17:38 (nine years ago)
― Josefa
oh totally! As I've posted on FB, release dates often mean "year of impact." No real wrong answers. I don't wanna be a pedant.
― The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 9 June 2016 17:41 (nine years ago)
I thought about "Object of My Desire" and "Sugar Walls."
I think I had "I'll Be Good" on my list; I can't check now. Street Called Desire is so good.
― The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 9 June 2016 17:42 (nine years ago)
Ah, so you did!
― Manspread Mann (Old Lunch), Thursday, 9 June 2016 17:44 (nine years ago)
"I Wonder If I Take You Home" is my favorite record of '85 and probably all of the 1980s
― Josefa, Thursday, 9 June 2016 17:50 (nine years ago)