we listen so fast: forgotten/unkown/unloved 80s we are listening to.

"Scored a stack of forgotten 70s & 80s records in great condition for $1 each."

this is a big reason for this thread. the inspiration really. i bought the motherlode of 80s stuff. so much stuff. so fun too!

Mock me if you will but I'm quite a fan of this ludicrous 1983 piece of sub-Queen nonsense from Northern Ireland's Cruella de Ville, just playing it for the first time since it came out

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dYHq-ajJdC0

yikes, that's some crazy stuff! the cruella. i would never mock anyone's 80s love for anything.

i'm playing Cameo's Machismo album for the first time ever and i did not know that there is a Miles Davis jazz jam at the end of side one! nobody told me. there is some great horn action in general courtesy of the brecker brothers and maceo and kenny garrett.

If you need further confirmation that I'm the Lenny Williams aka kid Seville that played guitar on the machismo album you can contact Sammy merendino he put me in touch with cameo he was their drummer on numerous album's for them he can be reached at Sammy meredino.com or(212)9**-35**,I'm from Philadelphia, you have a album of mine and a picture of me I am the artist kid Seville so please change that it's not cool when someone takes credit for something that you've done even if it's a mistake but this can be rectified thank you Lenny Williams aka kid Seville, Leonard j Williams

discogs needs to get on that. notice how i covered the phone number. i don't want any of you guys calling sammy meredino and pranking him.

Hard to know what counts as "unknown" to ILM, but I've never met another person who knows and loves this whiny country song.

The Rave-Ups, Radio

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yn4M0HvuxGs

i like it! its sad. i love songs about radio. or when people say the word radio over and over. i remember the rave-ups of course because they were lumped in with all the other alt country rock people but i never listened to them.

Cameo's Machismo album is really ambitious! it's impressive. sounds great too.

are there fans of early soup dragons...i'm a little scared of this 1986 EP i have in front of me. Edinburgh address. i wonder if they were friends with Hee Haw up above there.

listening to the one and only album by The Gyrlz from 1988 on Capitol which sounds pretty much like you would think a girl group with involvement from Teddy Riley and Al B. Sure! would sound like. it's right up my nujak alley. i'm thinking of starting a tape label that is just chopped & screwed new jack r&b records from the 80s and 90s. #milliondollaridea

https://i.discogs.com/HRJDF4RP9P7tkXyiec6fHfGzhap55NIOJTDp-DS2HyU/rs:fit/g:sm/q:90/h:360/w:395/czM6Ly9kaXNjb2dz/LWRhdGFiYXNlLWlt/YWdlcy9BLTI5NDg0/OS0xNDU5NTM5MjU0/LTUwMTguanBlZw.jpeg

i haven't played it yet but i can't stop staring at this cover...

https://i.discogs.com/0VoiD6SljduZo7UWEUsmmn1L7B65_SL-3l1S_50RFm8/rs:fit/g:sm/q:90/h:487/w:500/czM6Ly9kaXNjb2dz/LWRhdGFiYXNlLWlt/YWdlcy9SLTI0MTk1/MTYtMTI4MzA2NzIy/NC5qcGVn.jpeg

this gyrlz album is really solid! both sides.

love!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JJh0wyWsjHU

Listening to Richard Strange's live debut solo album The Live Rise Of Richard Strange from 1980. it's cool. he was Kid Strange from my fave band Doctors of Madness. i've never heard his solo stuff. and you know how i love a live debut album. obviously remixed later but it originated live from Hurrah in NYC. i never got to go to Hurrah. its stripped down stuff compared to the proggy bombast of DoM. as befitting the times. still very vocal-forward and quirky. if you like the records that nash the slash did apart from the band FM then you would like this. that's pretty specific but pretty accurate too. this is more straightforward than nash's stuff though.

in case anyone might be interested. this was my pandemic project. i kinda got obsessed by the book VOLUME: International Discography Of The New Wave from 1980 and decided to make a playlist for the book. It took me...two years? more? Who knows. It was pandemic time, baby! Time wasn't really a thing. Anyway, it was really hard because that book was a mess. Lots of detective work. But fun too. I learned a lot and heard even more. Not totally applicable to this thread but in the spirit of this thread. this link should work.

http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLE1-7P1reTFh-exzT4SJc8A6fHI1msnJo

I love this edit of “Damascus”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_IOz1Ub3u_s

i'm debating whether i want to hear this album by The Wreckery from 1987. seriously weird lyrics on the back cover make me curious.

https://i.discogs.com/PZEws1j7zVIXL21ZQK43qSUlKNsfbWJsrFiq7RfLtIM/rs:fit/g:sm/q:90/h:334/w:600/czM6Ly9kaXNjb2dz/LWRhdGFiYXNlLWlt/YWdlcy9BLTU3MzIx/Mi0xMjgyNTU5ODI3/LmpwZWc.jpeg

they put out 3 albums in 2 years!

right now i'm listening to Jak's I Go Wild from 1985. I'm on the second side which is a sign of goodness. nobody in the store seemed to mind his masterpiece "Sixty Nine". it's good to work to. i know it's hard to believe but i'm actually working.

https://i.discogs.com/WwaqjYGBFz9nQWWkYf-H3Cvp7zHdMo98yTe4co1Xcds/rs:fit/g:sm/q:90/h:400/w:378/czM6Ly9kaXNjb2dz/LWRhdGFiYXNlLWlt/YWdlcy9SLTEyMzkw/NTEtMTMzMjMzMzkz/MS5qcGVn.jpeg

I recently listened to the Zulus debut s/t EP and Down On The Floor LP. They're legendary around Boston and I must've seen them in the early 90s. But I still prefer Human Sexual Response.

i love human sexual response. i have had zulus records and not listened. i'll bet i have some around here. i just saw another record around here connected to HSR and now i can't remember what it was.

i'm gonna listen to the march violets after jak. i have a comp of theirs from 1984. and i've never really listened to them much! even though they are way more well known than most things mentioned here. better late than never! (its weird too cuz i love early goths like i love my mother!)

SEE CROW BABY!

i haven't gotten to crow baby yet! i'm really digging this though. tempted to keep...

i can remember having that 1985 u.s. comp on relativity in the store forever and i can't remember if i ever played it. this one has tons of stuff on it. maybe 2023 was my year for march violets. it happens when it happens.

Good call, Scott. "Walk Into The Sun" is my fave from them but they had lots of good stuff.

i got a lot of new beat/industrial stuff i've never listened to and i'm excited to dig into that. its time that i give the cassandra complex the hearing they deserve.

"snake dance" is epic! what an epic! good job, march violets. if i'm ever in leeds i will buy you a pint.

(meanwhile this album by The Jets is one of the best things i've heard all day. they are kinda forgotten!)

(seriously, do you all own the first album by The Jets? the one with "You Got It All" on it? every home should have one. this has been an 80s public service announcement.)

A similar realization that some of my odd favorites from the 80s had recently finally made their way to streaming got me to start making a playlist of them, which snowballed into a playlist of everything I liked in the 80s (1 song per artist from 337 artists):

https://open.spotify.com/playlist/3AJFnVl9iQvGmyuzfW7FL0?si=b6ed7482b2104f03

and then a second playlist of everything like those things that I didn't like (at the time) (1007 more artists, release dates not as diligently checked in this list):

https://open.spotify.com/playlist/0dDujxqL97daTfL91wdYZb?si=fa2608d4c0db46cc

Chances are good that you will have forgotten at least some of these.

another all time favorite, UK peace punk buys a synth and goes proto-emo

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PILkLaKixiI

this also fits the rare "artists who only released one great track" criteria, much more common in the 80s imho

scott didn't you post this insanely great comp on FB or maybe here recently?

https://www.discogs.com/release/843837-Various-Subtle-Hints

yeah on the listening thread. its so amazing. so much unknown goodness. unknown to me anyway.

this was fun today. i actually got a lot of work done with this music playing!

i'll be back in a day or two. going to get more records. because more records.

and then more to talk about! (and i will be checking out all the links on here too...)

the chorus on this is amazing

Stella Carnacina - “Non Bastera”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q-W26GQuXcs

(seriously, do you all own the first album by The Jets? the one with "You Got It All" on it? every home should have one. this has been an 80s public service announcement.)

― scott seward, Monday, August 14, 2023 5:08 PM (yesterday) bookmarkflaglink

And speaking of public service announcements

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r-lLIE55hUw

started my day with two records i've never heard by people certainly not obscure but maybe not a part of the daily national conversation. both records have really good sound. evelyn's record has a nice barebones freestyle vibe. cole & clivilles work their magic on a couple of tracks. payola$ were produced by mick ronson but bob rock did a lot and why do i forget that bob rock was in payola$? if i was canadian i would know this. anyway, this record doesn't ever sound like generic mush and it would have had the label just thrown some generic producer at them. their fake reggae sounds fine. i vaguely remember "eyes of a stranger". i think it was the album after this that had the college radio song i liked.

oh shit cole & clivilles are sampling art of noise on evelyn's album now. "before the date". i will never not love that.

https://i.discogs.com/GEEbKrOJwCCjZEGsR6l4bk4eS-2lWQimryY0LWC2aXQ/rs:fit/g:sm/q:90/h:600/w:600/czM6Ly9kaXNjb2dz/LWRhdGFiYXNlLWlt/YWdlcy9SLTc1MjIx/OS0xMzk5MTg1MDA3/LTU1ODcuanBlZw.jpeg

https://i.discogs.com/1F3L8yK1bZUuV2SFxPUWE4HAaMCFauJsBY-N19eRqOQ/rs:fit/g:sm/q:90/h:596/w:600/czM6Ly9kaXNjb2dz/LWRhdGFiYXNlLWlt/YWdlcy9SLTU3Njgy/OS0xNTgzMzQzODA1/LTg2NDkucG5n.jpeg

Some relatively new to me tracks I've thrown into my 80-84 playlists. Probably around half of these came thru from Discover Weekly.

Ryuichi Sakamoto - Riot In Lagos
Polyrock - Your Dragging Feet
Talking Heads - Unison
Felt - Evergreen Dazed
The Au Pairs - Headache For Michelle
Essential Logic - Wonderful Offer
Rexy - Running Out Of Time
Kim Carnes - Draw Of The Cards
Cha Cha Guitri - Non Non Non
James Last - Biscaya
Pilou - Ca Va
Antena - Camino Del Sol
Pat Metheny Group - Au Lait
The Flirts - Surf’s Up
Material - Don’t Lose Control
Manu Dibango - Mouna Pola
Richenel - Autumn
International Music System - Mojave
XTC - Frost Circus
Roy Ayers - Chicago
The Durutti Column - Prayer
Eddy Trauma - Macaroni Radio
Suburban Lawns - Flavor Crystals
Sisters Of Mercy - Phantom
The System - Pendy! You’re In Some Awful Danger
Witch - Erotic Delight
Thomas Leer - International

Blitz - Second Empire Justice

British OI! lads go post-punk on their second album

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2pJnYbcMz2U

Jimmy Harnen - Where are you Now?

if i'm gonna listen to an 80s record produced by mick ronson then its only fair to then play an 80s record produced by rick derringer. this is pretty good. milwaukee band's one and only album from 1984. they try to sound british which is always a plus with american new wave. i would totally put the cut "adrianna dreams" on a new wave mixtape. check that one out. they actually say "fade to grey" in the lyrics! wearing their influences on their sleeve. anyway, underrated!

https://i.discogs.com/Uwlyc9BnzEzt09v244niMOBKoEr-liETAyhKNRVOUg8/rs:fit/g:sm/q:90/h:467/w:465/czM6Ly9kaXNjb2dz/LWRhdGFiYXNlLWlt/YWdlcy9SLTI5OTk1/MjItMTMyNzIzODc0/OC5qcGVn.jpeg

i love that Blitz record! its so good.

those jimmy pursey post-punk albums have always been underrated as well.

it doesn't fit this thread but i ALSO love the 1990 Blitz album The Killing Dream. such a weird one.

was the Payola$ singer...welsh? i can't place his accent. doesn't sound canadian but maybe he wanted to sound more exotic.

love this. keeping it too! my keeping something is not exactly a trademark of quality but i support this record. if you are german and want to sound like gary numan its a safe bet that i will support you. now i just have to find their four(!!) other 80s albums.

https://i.discogs.com/BVrrHhyhWWAg4F-rYaZiONr2JvYCRf9Hz5IeEIXNDss/rs:fit/g:sm/q:90/h:440/w:440/czM6Ly9kaXNjb2dz/LWRhdGFiYXNlLWlt/YWdlcy9SLTI0OTM4/Ny0xMTYxNDY3MzIz/LmpwZWc.jpeg

i bumped into the cassandra complex bloke a couple of times in leeds back in the day.
first time was in a synth/keyboard shop, and then he would always give me the nod after that.
always meant to pick up their 'hello america' album, but never got around to it.
in my head their stuff was in the same ballpark as 'drug free america',
but have never really dug around to confirm/deny this mental association due to forgetting about them both until scotts mention.

listening to Carole Davi$'s 1988 LP produced by Nile Rogers. she should have toured with Payola$. it's good! she collaborated with Prince and this would definitely fit on the paisley park roster but its on Warner. this is the kind of thing i usually play on CD. if i had the CD it would totally make my car's playlist. she doesn't have a great voice but the songs and production are cool. plus: surprise appearance by MC Shan!

https://i.discogs.com/4tiyu5nr_pMELZcmPqpAdco3VoX4hL8pQI9SfVIJdDw/rs:fit/g:sm/q:90/h:598/w:600/czM6Ly9kaXNjb2dz/LWRhdGFiYXNlLWlt/YWdlcy9SLTMxMjcw/OS0xNDI3NTYwMDE5/LTYxMjguanBlZw.jpeg

https://i.discogs.com/uqRq8-laQAfYvCZxg-7IjXw8Af404ovWEdgaLlElUB8/rs:fit/g:sm/q:90/h:600/w:596/czM6Ly9kaXNjb2dz/LWRhdGFiYXNlLWlt/YWdlcy9SLTMxMjcw/OS0xNDI3NTYwMDE5/LTUzOTYuanBlZw.jpeg

uh oh i've gone full ebm. set yer walkie-talkie vocals on stun. #lucvanacker

(could kinda listen to this stuff all day...)

https://i.discogs.com/C2Ocl6hvdCZjUpxd-6NGw92TlmHuhWjeWxr93aJL0Is/rs:fit/g:sm/q:90/h:600/w:600/czM6Ly9kaXNjb2dz/LWRhdGFiYXNlLWlt/YWdlcy9SLTk1NTc5/OS0xNjQ1OTgxNjE5/LTQwNTcuanBlZw.jpeg

i had to get rid of "monkey say monkey do" when i realised it was sampling iggy's godawful 'african man' *shudder*

did you guys see that the vinyl on demand guy is going to be selling all his tapes?

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Progress Report Tapes for Sale in May
Now done with Wave/Synth
Almost at 2000 Tapes now and still to go is
UK-Tapes
US-Tapes
Industrial/Noise/ Power Electronics Tapes
Sound Poetry/Avantgarde Tapes

I guess the first Sales-list will contain an equal amount of tapes as Vinyls (currently 3400 Vinyls)

So if all goes well I have a saleslist with round about 8500 medias
3400 Vinyl
3400 Tapes
1700 Books / Small Press / Magazines

Maybe I even manage to get 10,000 medias together which is then a reduction of my collection by 1/3 and that is really something great to finally let go on some

I will probably not sell more than 20-40% of them short to mid-term but still, the feeling to be able to let go on physical things is healing to me

oh yes, I've been following those posts

Moev - Took Out The Lace

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Q-6nSh-OyA

Does anybody remember the Rhythm Corps? In the late 80s they had a sorta-hit with Common Ground. The video is absurd in the ways only very earnest 80s bands can be.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=90Dt75MVtqw

Always thought if moev as a nettwerk skinny puppy industrial type band but got into an early single called cracked mirror which is lovely.

Came across Hilary via Christgau's 1983 A List -- which, y'know, whatever. Produced by Steven Hague. Of its era in a good way and def belongs in this thread.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0oXY544o1iI

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eZGYDxS_t-g

can anyone recommend more inept/chaotic/barely-together first-wave hardcore like this?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mME_veUxVq4

or this

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RyJIgNbPk5Y

fun song:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pfaoqm5QtEU
Cia Berg - Hjältar (1982)

that's a bop! wasn't she later in Whale?

Here's my current obsession.

Leisure Process - Love Cascade

I had a 12" from them years ago but sold it.

Picked this up when doing a discogs order and looking for cheap records to fill out the box.

A member of Positive Noise, who were an ok post-punk band with a few killer tracks, maybe I'll revisit.

This is produced by Martin Rushent, not long after Dare and Pete Shelley's Witness the Change, so it's along those lines. But with some rock guitars and sax (your mileage may vary).

I played it at a friends record store anniversary party and to the 4 people in the room, it sounded totally amazing.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BRlEv0GFGGo

Make way...here comes a love cascade.

that's a bop! wasn't she later in Whale?

oh well spotted! i hadn't made that connection but yes indeed she was

Leisure Process - Love Cascade

I had a 12" from them years ago but sold it.

Also had a Leisure Process 12" and then dumped it! Might even have been this one, think i probably bailed at the sax solo fearing that it would just be sax mania from that point onwards. That's a good tune though, will have to pick it up again :)

How strange - I absolutely rinsed “Love Cascade” when it was out but the copy in our house was my brother’s and he took it when he left home. So I haven’t heard it for 40 years, but when I pressed play I barely recognised it.

I realise that the version I know so well is the extended version from the 12”, which begins very differently though obviously the bones of the thing are the same.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gz-zeundlig

Feels quite Human League-but-with-real-instruments from this distance, I’d have laughed in derision at anyone saying that at the time.