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Tiny Desk Unit recorded live at the 9:30 club opening night, May 31st 1980 NPR’s Bob Boilen on the synthesizer They recently reunited for the 9:30 club’s 30th…
Love Tractor, Around the Bend, 1983 on DB Recs. Second album from a key band in the Athens GA alternative rock scene of the early 80s. Found this…
This was a US only release, taking cuts from their UK debut album, Eden, plus other singles. Tracey Thorn and Ben Watt are both still active making wonderful…
My copy is an italian pressing I got at Flashback London Always loved Annie Lennox and Dave Stewart, apart or together
Thompson Twins’ second album. In the US we didn’t get A Product Of and Set but instead got In the Name of Love, which was most of this…
Zang Tuum Tumb 12 ZTAS 3, 1984. Side A: Annihilation Side B: Surrender From Flashback London
European pressing of Hall & Oates’ 1983 greatest hits collection. Includes a 1984 calendar. From Flashback Records in London
Two great mid-eighties albums with Karl Wallinger Picked both up at Record Exchange in St. Louis this fall.
Nitzer Ebb “That Total Age,” 1987 on @geffenrecords (US pressing). Another from my own (meaning I’ve had it since the eighties and can’t recall where I got it)….
The Firm, self-titled debut from 1985 Post-zeppelin Jimmy Page with Paul Rodgers from Bad Company. “Satisfaction Gaurunteed” and “Radioactive” – but also a cover of “You’ve Lost That…
More 80s goodness I’ve had probably since it came out in 1988 – Shriekback’s fifth full-length Go Bang! Includes a wonderful cover of Get Down Tonight (yes, *that*…
B-52s Wild Planet. “Who is really to blame when parties get out of hand? / Who’s to blame where they are poorly planned?” Questions just as relevant today…
The Ophelias self-titled from 1987. Not @theophelias but The Ophelias The inclusion of dialogue from Hamlet won me over as a precocious high school Shakespeare scholar but the…
Still sounds great 35+ years later. 36 cover variations – this one I’ve had since the mid eighties. Known for the hits but also has the glorious weirdness…
Love this Coil’s Panic/Tainted Love 12″ from 1985 on Wax Trax (in the US). Believe this may have been the first benefit single for AIDS research – certainly…
RiP Ric Ocasek Both from record fair at Mill No. 5 in Lowell MA
‘Til Tuesday’s second album, 1986. @realaimeemann is still the coolest.
General Public, Hand to Mouth (1986). Second album from the group formed by The [English] Beat’s Dave Wakeling and @rankingroger (RIP), along with Mickey Billingham (Dexy’s Midnight Runners)…
Defenestration was Tyson Todd Meade’s band from Norman OK, before Chainsaw Kittens. ( @ttmeade on instagram, http://twitter.com/dadacameltalk & tysonmeade.com) . He’s got new music out again . ….
Extended Play Hot Mix Versions? A Passport to the World’s New Music? Specials AKA “Free Nelson Mandela”? Yes, please.