Probably some of the best (and worst) records of 1988, but not all of them

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>these are probably more entertaining than they have any right to be. roll on 1988. <

same thing as 1987: i listed titles when i knew them. and the lists, created at the end of the year, have been gathering dust in my hall closet for eons.

ALBUMS
1. schooly-d - smoke some kill
2. *history of the house sound of chicago* (bcm germany 12-album box set)
3. spoonie gee - the godfather of rap
4. poison - open up and say...ahh!
5. sa-fire
6. shinehead - unity
7. madonna - you can dance
8. rock city angels - young man's blues
9. pet shop boys - introspective
10 - voivod - dimension: hatross
11. *in the key of e*
12. public enemy - it takes a nation of millions to make us mulitplatinum
13. kool moe dee
14. *techno: the new dance sound of detroit*
15. todd terry project
16. last exit - iron path
17. sonny sharrock - seize the rainbow
18. epmd - strictly business (i guess)
19. prince - the black album
20. henry threadgill
21. teena marie - naked to the world
22. mantronix
23. dag nasty - field day
24. westworld
25. bananarama (greatest hits LP, i think)
26. *acid trax vol. 2*
27. fleetwood mac (greatest hits LP, i think)
28, the fall - palace of swords reversed
29. salt n pepa
30. death of samantha - where the women wear the glory and the men wear the pants
31. sonic youth - daydream nation
32. stacey q - hard machine (actually the best album of the year by the way)
33. lul - inside little oral annie
34. bellamy brothers
35. randy newman
36. tiffany - tiffany
37. *gotta have house*
38. the fall - project: orange (so i guess i was wrong about this being 1987?)
39. *reggae dance hall* (on sleeping bag records, i think?)
40. the fall - the frenz experiment
42. celtic frost - cold lake
43. prince - lovesexy
44. gettovets - missionaries moving
45. ofra haza -shaday
46. eric b and rakim - follow the leader (or whatever its name was)
47. jean-paul bourely - jungle cowboy
48. tim berne
49. *greatest mixers* (sleeping bag compilation)
50. dick destiny - maybe *brutality* again? i'm not sure!
51. guns n roses - lies
52, yazz
53. womack and womack
54. john anderson
55. bootsy collins
56. earth wind and fire (must've been a best-of)
57. golden eagles (? never heard of 'em!)
58. col. bruce hampton
59. gary stewart
60. obed ngobeni
61. black uhuru
62. *hurricane zouk*
63 ac/dc - blow up your video
64. olivia newton-john (NOT a best of, but i forget its name)
65. claude jeter
66. sweet sensation - take it while it's hot
67. shannon jackson
68. bill laswell
69. roscoe mitchell
70. ut
71. dudu pukwana (no idea who he is, but he has a funny first name!)
72. saint vitus - born too late
73. *best of house music* (on profile i think)
74. *house x-ter-c*
75. agnetha faltskog
76. defunkt
77. *the blue iguana* (no idea what this compilation is)
78. antiseen -honour among thieves
79. *human music* (????)
80. living color - vivid
81. *rai rebels*
82. *thunder before dawn* (???)
83. tiffany - hold an old friend's' hand
84. feedtiime - cooper s or whatever it was called, i think
85. ornette coleman
86. najima (???)
87. human league (probably a best-of)
88. ofra haza - fifty gates of wisdom
89. world domination (enterprises, maybe? i dunno, that's all it says)
90. plastic people of the universe
91. *les mysteries...* (hmmm....maybe this is those bulgarian ladies?)
92. gilberto gil
93. gore - mean man's dream
94. green river
95. last exit - cassete recordings '87
96. spaceman 3
97. daniel ponce
98. paranoise (???)
99. nocera - the album with "summertime" on it, i guess
100. metallica - ...and justice for all
101. tackhead
102. iggy pop (was *cold metal* that year? or was that later? i'm not sure)
103. world saxophone quartet
104. r.e.m. (i'm guessing this is a best-of)
105. sonny rollins
106. lester bowie
107. red lorry yellow lorry (possibly a best-of, but maybe not)
108. mekons
109. three johns
110. samantha fox

SINGLES
1. kool moe dee - let's go
2. sweet sensation - take it while it's hot
3. the deele - two occasions
4. vivien vee -heartbeat
5. prince - alphabet street
6. guns n roses - welcome to the jungle
7. tiffany - i saw him standing thre
8. fun fun - baila bolero
9. def leppard - hysteria (the album of which didn't make the '87 list at all!?)
10. l'trimm - cars with the boom
11. hazell dean (i think) - they say it's gonna rain
12. paula abdul - straight up
13. guns n roses - sweet child of mine
14, ??? - get on the dance floor
15. britney fox - girlschool
16. debbie gibson - foolish beat EP
17. s-express - the trip/theme from s-express
18. epmd - you gots to chill
19. poison - every rose has its thorn
20. phuture - we are the phuture EP
21. ofra haza- im nin'alu/galbi
22. george michael - faith
23. bruce springsteen - one step up
24. teena marie - work it
25. public enemy - don't believe the hype
26. teena marie - surrealistic pillow
27, jelly bishops - kings of barstool mountain EP
28. halo of flies - garbage rock EP
29. ac/dc - heatseeker
30. jane wiedlin - rush hour
31. dj jazzy jeff and the fresh prince - parents just don't understand
32. honor role - twist/lives of the saints
33. e.u. - da butt
34. hazell dean - wherever i go/who's leaving who
35. epmd - strictly business
36. ??? - pump up chicago
37. ??? - the only way is up
38. mekons (i think) - ghosts of american astronauts
39. (some latin freestyle duo whose name escapes me) - forbidden lover
40. poison - nothin' but a good time
41. spaga - call me
42. kool moe dee - wild wild west
43. public enemy - cold lampin'/night of the living baseheads
44. pet shop boys - what have i done to deserve this
45. westworld - sonic boom boy
46. poison - fallen angel
47, gladys knight (possibly with the pips) - love overboard
48. m/a/r/r/s - pump up the volume
49. (another latin freestyle group) - tell him i called/i'm over you
50. ??? - body jackin'
51. eric b and rakim - paid in full
52. eric b and rakim - follow the leader
53. ??? - x-men
54. betty wright - no pain no gain
55. kylie minogue - locomotion
56. ??? (is this eric b and rakim too?) - microphone fiend
57. ??? - why can't we talk it over/get out
58. funky worm - hustle! to the music
59. kylie minogue - i should be so lucky
60. john mellencamp - rooty toot toot
61. ??? - party on plastic
62. ??? - honky tonk moon/young guns
63. ??? - if you change your mind
64, tracy chapman - fast car
65. ??? - weekend/just wanna dance
66. nocera - let's go
67. rachel sweet - hairspray
68. ??? - shake your thang
69. jesus and mary chain- surfin usa/kill surf city
70. divinyls (i think) - hey little boy/fighting
71. mc lyte - paper thin
73. rob base and dj ez rock (or whoever he was) - it takes two
74. s-express - superfly guy
75. ??? - twist and shout
76. sweet sensation - never let you go
77. the sugarcubes - birthday
78. michael jackson - man in the mirror
79. ??? - big fun
80. john anderson (i think) - if it ain't broke, don't fix it

EPs (some overlap and position-switching here)
1. debbie gibson
2. phuture
3. halo of flies - garbage rock
4. jelly bishops
5. angry samoans (listed as an album in 87, i think)
5. reese & santonio
6. stooges (also possibly listed as an album in 87)
7. lionell townsell
8. halo of flies - headburn
9. laughing hyenas -- merrygoround
10. jeff clayton & the slimegoats
11. judas bullethead - if they itch
12. maurice joshua
13. soundarden - screaming life
14. judas bullethead - honest it's..
15. anthax - i'm the man

REISSUES (an extremely long and boring list, wow)
1. tom t hall - the essential
2. lou christie - enlightenment: the best of
3. *chess vocal groups*
4. aerosmith - gems
5. ray charles - modern sounds in country and western music
6. chuck berry
7. willie dixon
8. village people
9. *hairspray*
10. james brown - motherlode..
11. *rock instrumentals, volume 2*
12. ray charles - hits, vol. 1
13. billy stewart
14. jimi hendrix
15. ray charles - hits, vol. 2
16. *rock instumentals, volume 1*
17. james brown - funky people
18. sonny boy williamson
19. *golden age, 70-75* (a rhino soul compilation, i think)
20. the drifters - let the boogie..
21. roy orbison
22. hank williams jr.
23. the drifters - all-time greatest..
24, zombies - oddysey and oracle, i think
25. dave dudley
26, howlin wolf
27,. *top of the stax*
28. *hi records, volume 2*
29. joy division
30. etta james
31. *blues, vol. 3*
32. *stax soul brothers*
33. *carnival time*
34. 5 royales - bay don't...
35. muddy waters
36. duke ellington
37. *golden age, '77-'88*
38. kinks - kinkdom
39. sarah vaugan
40. larks - prison walls...
41. ann peebles
42. yardbirds
43. kinks - kinks-size
44. *we got a party* (???)
45. smothers brothers
46. *stax blues brothers*
47. *merry chess xmas*
48. kinks - you really got me
49. larks - my reverie
50. 5 royales - laundramat..

"TEN MOST OFFENSIVE FRISBEES BY POMPOUS IDIOTS"
1. Rick Astley - "Never Gonna Give You Up" single
2. Midnight Oil - *Diesel and Dust* (which I kind of like now, actually)
3. Bongwater - *Double Bummer*
4. Van Hagar - *OU812*
5. Crowded House - *Temple of Lowmen*
6. Terence Trent D'Arby - "Wishing Well" single
7. Eric Clapton - *Crossroads*
8. Megadeth - *So Far So Good So What*
9. Rapeman - "Hated Chinee"/"Marmoset" single
10. MDC - *More Dead Cops 1981-1987*

― xhuxk, Sunday, 5 June 2005 21:36 (twenty years ago)

wait, i think "the only way is up" single is yazz.

and are "shake your thang" and "twist and shout" salt n pepa? i think so.

― xhuxk, Sunday, 5 June 2005 21:39 (twenty years ago)

i think your taste has been getting better with each passing year.

― titchyschneider (titchyschneider), Sunday, 5 June 2005 21:42 (twenty years ago)

temple of low men is great!

― kyle (akmonday), Sunday, 5 June 2005 21:42 (twenty years ago)

did you start talking to Kogan more or something? What do you credit for the change between FEEDTIME 4-EVA in '87 and putting them in like the 400s or something in Stairway To Hell?

― miccio (miccio), Sunday, 5 June 2005 21:45 (twenty years ago)

62. ??? - honky tonk moon/young guns

that would be randy travis, and that was a great single.

― fact checking cuz (fcc), Sunday, 5 June 2005 21:46 (twenty years ago)

>did you start talking to Kogan more or something?,

yeah, and as i've written before, talking to him (and metal mike saunders, who convinced me how good poison were) (and reading people like james hunter and michael freedberg, who I found fascinating) definitely had an effect. but so did getting bored with going to see indie bands in bars, and the fact (i think) that pop radio was getting really good all of a sudden. (still no kix on these lists, though!) (but also, if anything - and if you look back at that '85 list, it SORT OF demonstrates this -- I'd always liked pop radio to begin with. those indie-crazy years were, if anything, sort of an anomaly; a break from listening to the radio. it's not like i was born an indie fan; i sort of BECAME one, for a while. I mean, I was a skinny tie new waver in 1979, but I was also buying rap and pop and metal records in 1980! so the pigfuck was the *real* change.)

> What do you credit for the change between FEEDTIME 4-EVA in '87 and putting them in like the 400s or something in Stairway To Hell? <

well, LOTS of records went higher and lower. I guess the thing didn't hold up (though who knows, maybe if i heard it now, it would wind up higher again!)

― xhuxk, Sunday, 5 June 2005 21:54 (twenty years ago)

I mean, I guess I thought, after the top 40 was totally amazing in 1984, that it really started to suck for a couple years (in fact, i wrote a long essay in the voice about either '85 or '86 being the worst year ever for pop radio). i doubt i'd agree with that now, but it definitely was my impression at the time.

― xhuxk, Sunday, 5 June 2005 21:56 (twenty years ago)

and at the same time, by 1988, i guess i sensed indie rock slowing down and spinning its wheels and turning into Indie Rock. It wasn't surprising me nearly as much anymore, and pop and dance and freestyle and house and rap were surprising me way more. so probably, in retrospect, i wound up underrating (at least for a while) some of those noisy art-punks i'd initially vastly overrated.

― xhuxk, Sunday, 5 June 2005 22:00 (twenty years ago)

Dudu Pukwana was a saxophonist. Born in So. Africa, lived in London.

― Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Sunday, 5 June 2005 22:05 (twenty years ago)

"Mean Man's Dream" by Gore. Man, I'd love to have that on CD. I had the record that year and played it much. I'd digitize and stick satirical vocals on it now and ruin it for the few.

I still have my Rock City Angels vinyl. That came out with a huge hype and they never made another. Converted it to CD and when I put it on, it always poops out for me right after "Deep Inside My Heart."

― George Smith, Sunday, 5 June 2005 22:05 (twenty years ago)

I still love MDC's "Chicken Squawk" and Bongwater's "His Old Look" (or "His New Look," can't remember which), but I guess I can see where you were coming from.

mulitplatinum = mullet-platinum?

― Pete Scholtes, Sunday, 5 June 2005 22:41 (twenty years ago)

according to google:

36. ??? - pump up chicago = Mr. Lee
50. ??? - body jackin' = Incredible Thang Band
49. (another latin freestyle group) - tell him i called/i'm over you = Sequal
65. ??? - weekend/just wanna dance = Todd Terry (whose album was called *To the Batmobile Let's Go*)

― xhuxk, Sunday, 5 June 2005 23:23 (twenty years ago)

14, ??? - get on the dance floor = Rob Base and DJ EZ Rock
61. ??? - party on plastic = Bootsy Collins

― xhuxk, Sunday, 5 June 2005 23:28 (twenty years ago)

>102. iggy pop (was *cold metal* that year? or was that later? i'm not sure)<

actually I think this was *instinct* (and maybe "cold metal" was the single)? I reviewed that one in the Voice, and I also reviewed ac/dc's *blow up your video* and debbie gibson's *out of the blue,* and they all wound up being xgau consumer guide must-to-avoids, apparently (as did *gnr lies* and def leppard's *hysteria,* i just noticed on that other thread. hmm....)

― xhuxk, Monday, 6 June 2005 00:31 (twenty years ago)

I thought "You Can Dance" came out in '87?

Xgau hates Debbie Gibson cuz he hasn't heard the 12"'s of "Shake Your Love" and "Only in My Dreams."

― Alfred Soto (Alfred Soto), Monday, 6 June 2005 00:33 (twenty years ago)

>I thought "You Can Dance" came out in '87? <

yeah, probably, as did some other albums here. but since these lists were working lists to determine my pazz & jop votes, i was pretty clearly going by the famous p&j "year of impact not nessarily literal release date" rule.

― xhuxk, Monday, 6 June 2005 00:35 (twenty years ago)

any house/acid/rap from uk was bad.
-- xhuxk (xedd...), June 5th, 2005.

lol
you listed half my albums and single sand i still play them.

― picture disc fan, Monday, 6 June 2005 02:27 (twenty years ago)

I know a little about 1988

There might up two songs on this that xhuxk didn't already mention.. but I don't have time to do the checklist.

― donut debonair (donut), Monday, 6 June 2005 02:32 (twenty years ago)

(and yes, I still owe a couple of people this 2-CD.. I'm a flake.. I'm sorry and sorry. :( )

― donut debonair (donut), Monday, 6 June 2005 02:33 (twenty years ago)

Wow, no Death Angel, Toxik, or Crumbsuckers?

*dodges flying frying pan from Xhuxk's direction*

― donut debonair (donut), Monday, 6 June 2005 02:36 (twenty years ago)

>any house/acid/rap from uk was bad<

hey! the cookie crew have a track on that house music box set, honest!

and "big fun" is by inner city.

― xhuxk, Monday, 6 June 2005 02:53 (twenty years ago)

temple of low men is great as is Wishing Well.

look at what i did i took those "L"s
hung em on your head and rocked your bells.

*adjusts kangol*

― Hunter (Hunter), Monday, 6 June 2005 03:11 (twenty years ago)

>any house/acid/rap from uk was bad<

And you picked M/A/R/R/S - Pump up the volume, and indeed PSB's introspective too.

Best year so far I'd say.

I think I have that techno-new dance sound of Detroit album, not too sure if it's the same one but any album with Detroit and techno in the title is usually a winner. That Fall album is 'I am kurious, orange' which was some kind of ballet soundtrack. The Todd Terry album is the sole reason I haven't got rid of my tape deck yet.

― Billy Dods (Billy Dods), Monday, 6 June 2005 03:14 (twenty years ago)

Mine is a bit more updated, I guess :)
http://rateyourmusic.com/lists/list_view/list_id_is_16194

Apart from the first handful, not a good vintage.

― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Monday, 6 June 2005 08:18 (twenty years ago)

Album #86 may be Qareeb by Najma Akhtar (1987): a ghazal singer from the UK. (Best track: the beautiful "Dil Laga Ya Tha".)

Dudu Pukwana was in a band called Jabula, who were signed to the Virgin's mid-priced Caroline label in the mid-1970s... maybe in the wake of Osibisa.

― mike t-diva (mike t-diva), Monday, 6 June 2005 09:32 (twenty years ago)

Double Bummer was great as long as it avoided "songs" and backed up Ann Magnuson's monologues. (Of which there were only 4-5 total, but nevermind.) Her hilarious "Frank" was an absolutely classic Sinatra impression (NOT to say "impersonation".)

A few of MY as-yet-unmentioned favourites:

Slammin' Watusis (I think only me and Alex In NYC are familiar with it. My single fave until Daydream Nation late in the year.)
Last Exit - Iron Path
Uncle Sam - Heaven Or Hollywood
Original Concept - Straight From The Basement Of Kooley High
Pere Ubu - The Tenement Year

― Myonga Von Bontee (Myonga Von Bontee), Monday, 6 June 2005 10:23 (twenty years ago)

>Last Exit - Iron Path<

Actually, this is listed at #16, myonga.

As for Ubu, I stil don't remotely get the appeal of their comeback era stuff. Ah well; my loss I suppose...

― xhuxk, Monday, 6 June 2005 11:21 (twenty years ago)

(in fact, i wrote a long essay in the voice about either '85 or '86 being the worst year ever for pop radio).

i don't suppose this is online anywhere, is it?

― strng hlkngtn, Monday, 6 June 2005 11:23 (twenty years ago)

Nah...the Voice archives only go back a few years (if that, these days). If I knew how to scan it, though, I would (even though I think the gist of the article is probably kind of embarrassing, by now.)

― xhuxk, Monday, 6 June 2005 11:35 (twenty years ago)

>Original Concept - Straight From The Basement Of Kooley High<

Hadn't noticed this on Myonga's ommission list. -- I like it a lot, actually. But I don' t think I heard it til around 1999 or so, when I got ahold of the cassette.

― xhuxk, Monday, 6 June 2005 11:40 (twenty years ago)

some stupid ommissions from my album list:

cinderella - long cold winter
the holy cows - we never heard of you either
joan jett and the blackhearts - up your alley
journey - greatest hits
16 bit- inaxycvgtgb

― xhuxk, Monday, 6 June 2005 13:11 (twenty years ago)

No love for Wee Papa Girl Rappers, "Heat It Up"? That was a fun UK rap single.

No love for Boogie Down Productions or Stetsasonic?

― Pete Scholtes, Monday, 6 June 2005 13:36 (twenty years ago)

I think the Wee Papa Girl track made my '89 singles list or thereabouts.

And no. No love for BDP (after Scott La-Rock died anyway) or Stetsasonic. At all. Sorry!

― xhuxk, Monday, 6 June 2005 13:47 (twenty years ago)

I think my favorites of this year are probably Daydream Nation and I'm Your Man, though Surfer Rosa would also make the list.

― o. nate (onate), Monday, 6 June 2005 13:55 (twenty years ago)

No problem, Chuck. "Talkin' All That Jazz" had a corny lyric, but those Stets albums contain some amazing music.

― Pete Scholtes, Monday, 6 June 2005 14:00 (twenty years ago)

I'd also add TFUL282's Wormed By Leonard.

― o. nate (onate), Tuesday, 7 June 2005 00:07 (twenty years ago)

love the way the leeds collective are all grouped together :

"
107. red lorry yellow lorry (possibly a best-of, but maybe not)
108. mekons
109. three johns
"

fluke - or genuine attention to detail ?

god bless the three johns.

― mark e (mark e), Tuesday, 7 June 2005 06:20 (twenty years ago)

I think maybe My Bloody Valentine were doing oh... something that year.

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Tuesday, 7 June 2005 08:07 (twenty years ago)

Well, so were lots of other incredily boring bands, I'm sure (a few of which I was probably even liking at the time, come to think of it).

― xhuxk, Tuesday, 7 June 2005 11:40 (twenty years ago)

Whatever.

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Tuesday, 7 June 2005 16:24 (twenty years ago)

>love the way the leeds collective are all grouped together :
"
107. red lorry yellow lorry (possibly a best-of, but maybe not)
108. mekons
109. three johns

fluke - or genuine attention to detail ?

― xhuxk, Tuesday, 7 June 2005 20:03 (twenty years ago)

uh..not sure what happened there. i guess the board suddenly is hating my > and < signs again.. anyway, i was gonna say that the leeds connection was probably an accident, but who knows? and add that jelly bishops (#4 on the EP list) were also leedsites, i think -- a one-off side project of some mekons and/or 3 johns (incl langford probably) who made a better record than mekons or 3 johns that year

― xhuxk, Tuesday, 7 June 2005 20:14 (twenty years ago)

>Original Concept - Straight From The Basement Of Kooley High<
Hadn't noticed this on Myonga's ommission list. -- I like it a lot, actually. But I don' t think I heard it til around 1999 or so, when I got ahold of the cassette.

-- xhuxk

Heh heh...that would be about five years after I found MY cassette copy! And two years after I LOST it, never to find another! Oh, well.

And yeah, I did overlook Last Exit on your original list, somehow. Strange...

― Myonga Von Bontee (Myonga Von Bontee), Tuesday, 7 June 2005 20:32 (twenty years ago)

two years pass...

57. golden eagles (? never heard of 'em!) = mardi gras indian troupe a la wild tchoupitoulas
79. *human music* (????) = homestead compilation
82. *thunder before dawn* (???) = indestructible beat of soweto 2 compilation
98. paranoise (???) = some kinda world-prog band

the singles are more difficult.

― xhuxk, Tuesday, 10 July 2007 02:06 (eighteen years ago)

"microphone fiend" is indeed eric b & rakim.

indie rock crested in '86, '88 was the year of watching the wave roll back. daydream nation and mudhoney were at least two horsemen of the apocalypse.

― Edward III, Tuesday, 10 July 2007 02:33 (eighteen years ago)

2. *history of the house sound of chicago* (bcm germany 12-album box set)

There we go!

― Eric H., Tuesday, 10 July 2007 02:40 (eighteen years ago)

cold lake was a fucking disaster

― J0hn D., Tuesday, 10 July 2007 02:41 (eighteen years ago)

xpost seriously, that house comp was the best thing I've ever gotten from torrent

― Eric H., Tuesday, 10 July 2007 02:44 (eighteen years ago)

...Two years later, still hoping to replace that Original Concept cassette. (Even GEMM ain't got one!)

― Myonga Vön Bontee, Tuesday, 10 July 2007 02:55 (eighteen years ago)

..Two years later, still hoping to replace that Original Concept cassette. (Even GEMM ain't got one!)

and to think i got rid of my cd copy ..
oh the shame

― mark e, Tuesday, 10 July 2007 10:16 (eighteen years ago)

What a good job I kept mine, hurrah!

How could I possibly have missed that sizzling '88 Bellamy Brothers album?

― Marcello Carlin, Tuesday, 10 July 2007 10:21 (eighteen years ago)

cold lake was a fucking disaster

I've never understood this opinion at all -- It has really catchy songs that remind me of Blue Oyster Cult! And it was a brave move; if Celtic Frost had stayed glammy, I might still care about them now.

― xhuxk, Tuesday, 10 July 2007 10:44 (eighteen years ago)

that sizzling '88 Bellamy Brothers album

Guess it must have been Country Rap! Which I recall being pretty nice, but was quickly supplanted on my shelf by Greatest Hits Volume III in 1989, which included its best songs and then some.

http://allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:fpftxqegld6e

― xhuxk, Tuesday, 10 July 2007 11:03 (eighteen years ago)

Country Rap??? I MUST have a copy of this!!!!

― Marcello Carlin, Tuesday, 10 July 2007 11:10 (eighteen years ago)

I had thought that Gigolo Tony was the last word in Country Rap...(or maybe Bobby Jimmy and the Critters)...

― henry s, Tuesday, 10 July 2007 12:12 (eighteen years ago)

surprised you weren't into this guy, last of the honky tonk heroes.

his 1988 album:

http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/I/519AyMNU%2BvL._SS500_.jpg

― m coleman, Tuesday, 10 July 2007 12:35 (eighteen years ago)

I probably should have been! I've been telling myself for a couple decades I should check him out, but I never got around to it. (I remember thinking a couple of his hits were good, but never delved further. Wasn't really listening to country radio in 1988, though; if I was, I guess I'd know him better.)

― xhuxk, Tuesday, 10 July 2007 12:45 (eighteen years ago)

39. *reggae dance hall* (on sleeping bag records, i think?)

probably sleeping bag's 'reggae dance hall classics' comp?

― haitch, Tuesday, 10 July 2007 12:55 (eighteen years ago)

18. epmd - strictly business (i guess)

you GUESS??!

OUT

― Oilyrags, Tuesday, 10 July 2007 14:48 (eighteen years ago)

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