Tag: 1982Page 3 of 3
ABC, The Lexicon of Love, 1982 on Mercury (in the UK it came out first on Neutron). Shoot That Poison Arrow, The Look of Love – debut album…
New Music Seminar Sampler, 1982 on Columbia. Great collection connected to an annual NYC event (1980-1995, relaunched in 2009). Dave Edmunds, Men At Work, Nina Hagen, Translator, Romeo…
Grandmaster Flash & The Furious Five, The Message, 1982 on Sugar Hill Records. My intro to socially conscious hip-hop, circa 1982. “It’s like a jungle sometimes it makes…
The Young Snakes, Bark Along With The Young Snakes, 1982 on Ambiguous Records. Aimee Mann , Douglas Vargas, and Michael Evans. Extra credit for a pre-internet cat meme…
Stray Cats, Built For Speed, 1982 on EMI America. This was their US debut, built from two earlier UK releases. Brian Setzer of course went on to a…
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…
Rosetta Records RR 1306 – Independent Women’s Blues Volume 2, Big Mama’s, 1982. Picked up at Honest Jon’s on Portabello Road in Ladbroke Grove.
Couple of “unofficial” Talking Heads live shows I picked up at Sister Ray in Soho (London) earlier this year. DOL is somewhat controversial as a “grey market” label…
The PolyGram/Mercury reissue after they signed the band (not the original Twin/Tone). 33 1/3rd on one side 45 on the other. It was as a result of this…