Tag: 1980s
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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
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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.
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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
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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.
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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
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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
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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.
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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.
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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”
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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)
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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.
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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…
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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.”
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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.
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The Cars, Heartbeat City, 1984 and The Cars, Shake It Up, 1981.
RiP Ric Ocasek Both from record fair at Mill No. 5 in Lowell MA
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‘Til Tuesday’s second album, 1986. @realaimeemann is still the coolest.
‘Til Tuesday’s second album, 1986. @realaimeemann is still the coolest.
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General Public, Hand to Mouth (1986).
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) and Horace Panter (Specials) @theenglishbeat http://twitter.com/dave_wakeling
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Defenestration, Dali Does Windows, 1987 on Relativity
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 . . . He also has a “luxury cannabis line” at http://twitter.com/smokeMeade