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Bootleg of The Police 1981 live in Melbourne at Festival Hall. My copy says it is on “Washington Ave. Sound” label, but there are many versions out there,…
Run DMC, Tougher than Leather, 1988 on London Records. Via Unknown Pleasures in Edinburgh Scotland (aka @vinylnet.co.uk )
There just aren’t enough Donny Hathaway albums in the world. In Performance, 1980 on Atlantic Records, SD 19278 Via Vintage Vinyl in St. Louls MO
The Cult, Sonic Temple, 1989 on Sire / Reprise / Beggars Banquet
True Stories: The Complete Soundtrack, 2018 on Nonesuch Records 2 LP version expanding on 1986’s Sounds From True Stories. Via ListenUp Music, Natick MA
The Wallets, Take It, 1986 on Twin Tone. Found at Record Exchange in St. Louis When the Talking Heads’ Naked came out in ’88, the liner notes included…
Rank and File, Sundown, 1983 on Slash records. I had (on cassette) two Slash Records samplers in the eighties I played to death, which had “The Conductor Wore…
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…