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Tones on Tail, The Album Pop, 1984 on PVC.

Tones on Tail, The Album Pop, 1984 on PVC. This is the US version of what in the UK was just called Pop, with three songs from the…

Eurythmics, Touch Dance, 1984 on RCA.

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.

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

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…

Midnight Oil, Red Sails In The Sunset, 1984 on Columbia

Midnight Oil, Red Sails In The Sunset, 1984 on Columbia Follow up to 10,9,8,7,6,5,4,3,2,1 – no big hit singles but a solid LP

The Del Fuegos, The Longest Day, 1984 on Slash Records

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…

Echo and The Bunnymen, self-titled EP, 1983 on Sire

Echo and The Bunnymen, self-titled EP, 1983 on Sire My favorite era of Echo and the Bunnymen Via In Your Ear in Allston

Laurie Anderson, Mister Heartbreak, 1984 on Warner Bros.

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.

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…

The Alarm, Declaration, 1984 on IRS Records.

The Alarm, Declaration, 1984 on IRS Records. Look at that 1984 hair – I think Eddie MacDonald set the bar for my 14 year old attempts at big…

Now This Is Music, 1984 on EMI out of the Netherlands.

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.

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

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

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)

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….

Frankie Goes To Hollywood, The Power of Love, picture disk, 1984 on ZTT

Frankie Goes To Hollywood, The Power of Love, picture disk, 1984 on ZTT I dont have a ton of picture disks (they tend not to sound as good…

The Eurythmics, Sexcrime (Nineteen Eighty-Four), 1984 on RCA.

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

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…

Forever Young, Alphaville, 1984 on WEA.

Forever Young, Alphaville, 1984 on WEA. Venezuelan pressing I found atDaddy Kool Records in St. Petersburg Debut album rushed out based on the success of “Big In Japan”

Los Lobos, How Will The Wolf Survive?, 1984 on Slash Records.

Los Lobos, How Will The Wolf Survive?, 1984 on Slash Records. The major label debut from East LA’s Los Lobos – this copy is the 180g remastered 2018…