Eurythmics, Touch, 1984 on RCA Third studio album from Eurythmics – followup to Sweet Dreams Are Made Of This Recorded at The Church Studios in Crouch End Annie…
Eurythmics, Touch Dance, 1984 on RCA. Remixes of four tracks from the album Touch, by Jellybean Benitez and Francois Kerkorkian- 4 with vocals on the A side and…
Human League, Lebanon, 1984 on Virgin. 12″ single with an extended Lebanon om the A side and “Thirteen” plus an instrumental version on the B side EMI Records…
U2, The Unforgettable Fire, 1984 on Island Soundtrack to much of my adolescence – big shift for the band after Boy->October->War and Under a Blood Red Sky Produced…
The Del Fuegos, The Longest Day, 1984 on Slash Records My favorite Del Fuegos album: Back Seat Nothing, Have You Forgotten, Missing You. Both Dan Zanes and Warren…
Laurie Anderson, Mister Heartbreak, 1984 on Warner Bros. Not sure how I first heard of Laurie Anderson, but it would have been around the time of this album….
Blancmange, Don’t Tell Me, 1984 on London Records (uk pressing). 12″ single, b-side is “Get Out of That.” Neil Arthur and Stephen Luscombe, my favourite electropop duo named…
Now This Is Music, 1984 on EMI out of the Netherlands. First in a series of Dutch copilations which appeared between 1984 and 1989 – basically the Dutch…
The Pretenders, Learning to Crawl, 1984 on Sire. Third Pretenders studio album, recorded after the deaths of James Honeyman-Scott and Pete Farndon. Middle of the Road, Chain Gang,…
Guadalcanal Diary, Walking in the Shadow of the Big Man, 1984 on DB records. My copy is the 1985 repressing on Elektra. Murray Attaway, Jeff Wallls (who passed…
The Art of Noise, Into Battle With The Art Of Noise, 1983 (UK)/1984(US) on Island/ZTT A single, EP, or album depending on your perspective. Cover art by Jan…
What’s New (1983), Lush Life (1984), and For Sentimental Reasons (1986) A great trio of platinum albums by Linda Ronstadt with the Nelson Riddle Orchestra on Asylum/Warner Bros….
The Eurythmics, Sexcrime (Nineteen Eighty-Four), 1984 on RCA. The Eurythmics made a soundtrack for Virgin Records for the film version of Orwell’s 1984 by Michael Radford, not knowing…
The March Violets, Natural History, 1984 on Rebirth Rebirth was a label formed by the band. Includes “Religious as Hell” which was their first single in 1982 on…