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Tag: 1980s

  • True Stories: The Complete Soundtrack, 2018 on Nonesuch Records

    True Stories: The Complete Soundtrack, 2018 on Nonesuch Records

    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.

    The Wallets, Take It, 1986 on Twin Tone.

    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 an apology to The Wallets for the title “totally nude.” Made me proud to see the Mnpls scene represented.

  • Rank and File, Sundown, 1983 on Slash

    Rank and File, Sundown, 1983 on Slash

    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 Black” and “Post Office” on it. I think it was Slash Cuts and The Early Sessions  – both including Rank and File

  • Tiny Desk Unit, 1980, on 9 1/2 x 16 records

    Tiny Desk Unit, 1980, on 9 1/2 x 16 records

    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 anniversary – video is on Facebook. You can hear the album at http://bobboilen.info/live

  • Love Tractor, Around the Bend, 1983 on DB

    Love Tractor, Around the Bend, 1983 on DB

    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 copy at Academy Records

  • Everything But the Girl, Self-Titled, 1984 on Sire

    Everything But the Girl, Self-Titled, 1984 on Sire

    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 music.

  • Eurythmics, Revenge, 1986 on RCA

    Eurythmics, Revenge, 1986 on RCA

    My copy is an italian pressing I got at Flashback London Always loved Annie Lennox and Dave Stewart, apart or together

  • Thompson Twins, Set, 1982 on T Records

    Thompson Twins, Set, 1982 on T Records

    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 album plus a few songs from the former.

  • Frankie Goes To Hollywood, Two Tribes, 1984 on Zang Tuum Tumb

    Frankie Goes To Hollywood, Two Tribes, 1984 on Zang Tuum Tumb

    Zang Tuum Tumb 12 ZTAS 3, 1984. Side A: Annihilation Side B: Surrender From Flashback London

  • Daryl Hall and John Oates, Rock’N Soul Part 1, 1983.

    Daryl Hall and John Oates, Rock’N Soul Part 1, 1983.

    European pressing of Hall & Oates’ 1983 greatest hits collection. Includes a 1984 calendar. From Flashback Records in London

  • World Party, Private Revolution, 1986, and The Waterboys, In A Pagan Place, 1984

    World Party, Private Revolution, 1986, and The Waterboys, In A Pagan Place, 1984

    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 Geffen

    Nitzer Ebb “That Total Age,” 1987 on Geffen

    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). Without Nitzer Ebb there would be no Nine Inch Nails or so many other wonderful things.

  • The Firm, self-titled, 1985

    The Firm, self-titled, 1985

    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 Lovin’ Feeling”

  • Shriekback, Go Bang!, 1988 on Island Records

    Shriekback, Go Bang!, 1988 on Island Records

    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* Get Down Tonight)

  • The B-52s, Wild Planet, 1980 on Warner Brothers

    The B-52s, Wild Planet, 1980 on Warner Brothers

    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 as in 1980.

  • The Ophelias, self-titled, 1987.

    The Ophelias, self-titled, 1987.

    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 music is a wonderful genre mixing psychedelic joyful mess. One of my favorite early vinyl finds I picked up based on the name and the cover in…

  • The Police, Synchronicity, 1983 on A&M

    The Police, Synchronicity, 1983 on A&M

    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 of “Mother” and “Miss Gradenko.”

  • Coil, Panic/Tainted Love (12″), 1985 on Wax Trax

    Coil, Panic/Tainted Love (12″), 1985 on Wax Trax

    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 was an early one.