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

Rexy

Rexy got a hip reissue a few years back.

90 but how do we feel about Warrior Soul? I remember liking them. Kind of anthemic alternative metal.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zT-DBDhEBCE

more metal than I remember. My memory has them more like a Janes Addiction or something.

My friend was in a band supporting Trouble when Kory Clarke was in them. Apparently he was this brash cowboy hat dude who'd be all like "Hey Stockholm, I hear there's some good pussy in this town!" etc on stage.

i can't remember if chuck eddy was a warrior soul fan. seems like he might have been. i can hear jane's addiction in the vocals. i never listened to them. i mean i was aware of them in the same way that i was aware of king's x and circus of power. but i didn't listen to them.

Oh man I'm lucky I picked up that Rexy reissue when it was cheap!

This is one of the coolest albums I've ever heard in my life. Fred Frith produced it. Dark, angular, funky, experimental shit from Japan.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6SBhcToq17E

there was such a huge amount of amazing metal qua metal coming out in 1990 that i didn't really pay too much attention to MTV stuff. or cowboy stuff. or post-hair roots grunge. i think i just put seasons in the abyss in the tape deck and left it there.

this is cool. i don't know how to describe it. new wave with a quirky art rock side. a side of art rock if you will. not on Youtube.

https://i.discogs.com/sNfq9ajvq0wusc5V7QyaRIrB2tIesj06vKVgL_A4rww/rs:fit/g:sm/q:90/h:600/w:600/czM6Ly9kaXNjb2dz/LWRhdGFiYXNlLWlt/YWdlcy9SLTE5MTMy/NzMyLTE2MjM2Mjkz/MjgtMzQxMy5qcGVn.jpeg

one of the guys from Dreamhouse was in this band and this is from 1979 but its cool and you should hear it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ojt2V6tD37g

i actually saw Warrior Soul in 1989, they supported Metallica on the ...And Justice For All tour in the UK

that Dreamhouse is from 1986 btw. on Domino Records. but not that Domino Records. California label that put out a Steve Roach album.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZjfqTH5iayc

https://i.discogs.com/VQ6A9gCAiFIdikIkPyBa03XaauFTVMkLerrLn2YdYjk/rs:fit/g:sm/q:90/h:600/w:269/czM6Ly9kaXNjb2dz/LWRhdGFiYXNlLWlt/YWdlcy9BLTM3NDc2/Ny0xNDY4NTI5NDUw/LTE4OTkuanBlZw.jpeg

love!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XlG1JZGtqiU

mesmerized by this little old new york hypno-club track from Queens. i love all 4 versions on the 12-inch too. hard to pick a clear fave. the club version is pretty solid though.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=97lzaPTR_3o

i posted this on the thread devoted to him but i will put the link here too because there is a lot that fits here. 173 track Jean-Pierre Massiera playlist that i made. of his own stuff, outside production/engineering/songwriting/etc.

http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLE1-7P1reTFjoEh4WfakzrEGo153ogYu4

i needed something new to work to...

this is a perplexing one for me. i like it but i'm not sure why. the song itself confuses me.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YCsD9usYs4w

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BOVoRgsyn9w

when they put stuff like that out at Atlantic records...what they thinking? were they going for that market of people who loved the short circuit theme "who's johnny"? its bewildering.

hadn't heard that before. fred frith on guitar! kinde reminds me of dave howard:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dwCHi3KbsMQ

this is kinda the best song. love the complete ripping off of "Gloria". Chuck Eddy had to have written about this one at some point.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZfcYcxyMp7o

that is very funny but now i can never hear gloria again without breakdancing

that's a chinn/chapman song that suzi quatro did, apparently.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DAPfFfsrzm0

aha. makes even more sense now. shows how much i know about suzi and chinichap!

i like this video - EZEE POSSE FEATURING DR. MOUTHQUAKE - because it came out in 1989 and you can actually see the 90s being born before your eyes.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xM6AXGWfklw

meanwhile, back in the 80s...(andre 3000 wishes...)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pm3FTukBeA8

keeping this single! i love homemade acid.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m4xcGBnijo8

Ah Play House Records. I'm actually trying to interview the owner of that label for a potential book on the history of italo-disco and its influence in American and on House music. It was the follow-up label to Let's Dance, which had some chicago-based proto/early house tracks that were heavily italo-disco influenced and a big influence on the birth of house music.

This is 1984:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UJs7OqlcSZY

And 1985:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OuE8JNAPeiI

chicago guys going to the clubs and listening to italo-disco imports, madonna, electro and early freestyle, new wave, all feeding into what became house music.

love it, thanks Dan

i can't remember if i posted a link to my hardcore punk playlist on youtube. 1980 to 1984 only. 228 videos. if you need to put a little pep in your step.

http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLE1-7P1reTFgTJcv2kWOAoUr3t4distfZ

and in case you missed it, my Volume playlist. over 2500 tracks/albums. some from the 70s though. more than a few from the 70s. its a quirky book.

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

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dt0CqAeyqzE

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lAq75yyPfos

dug up the rolling stone "best albums of the 80s" article that was pretty big for me when i read it as a 16 year old kansas dork and gosh, these reviews are so long. anyway the one on was not was mentioned one of them slumming during their off years, "producing 'sexual deviants' like transvestite singer Marilyn" and my interest was piqued. I wasn't super into their clanger-winstanly hit from '83 or the Don Was produced tracks from '85, but misfiled on their spotify page was this unrelated LA-based "Marilyn and the Movie Stars" record from 1981 that is pretty great:

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

looking at this other marilyn's discogs history, her first record was a 1979 trash-synth cover of the 60s nugget talk talk, while in a band called kongress, which at one time included australian performer Geoff Krozier, a.k.a. Krozier the Great, who was a sort of punk magic-act performer at Max's in the 70s. I had never heard of this guy but the videos of him performing tickle my firesign theatre / forbidden zone / bongwater funny-weird bone. he died young after cutting a private press record in 1981 and it is maybe more oingo boingo than forbidden zone but you should check it out:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0sa3GZPRcSs

Tommy Victor from Prong/Danzig plays on that Marilyn record. She still posts stuff online last time I checked.

the 80s were really real for me.

https://scontent-lga3-2.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t1.18169-9/1926834_10152890372112137_546564131_n.jpg?_nc_cat=100&ccb=1-7&_nc_sid=9b3078&_nc_ohc=s8kFN7p1b0QAX_U9hoE&_nc_ht=scontent-lga3-2.xx&oh=00_AfCBePCEkhs0iB07Jx_blRh4wE0GN_CYzIESfCW5_8P7Qw&oe=66055B72

i am totally listening to the first Easterhouse album in my store right now very loudly. it is 8:56 AM. thank you very much.

An article about an 80s song that has either been forgotten or cannot be identified:

Everyone Knows That: can you identify the lost 80s hit baffling the internet?

I found this 1981 comp in the wild on Tuesday, and it's great:
https://i.discogs.com/W1CyAarXyIPO-n8vcAx2vCkaLX1j08zpLj9y4HdlQu8/rs:fit/g:sm/q:90/h:596/w:590/czM6Ly9kaXNjb2dz/LWRhdGFiYXNlLWlt/YWdlcy9SLTM2MTg3/NC0xMzAwNjYyNTAy/LmpwZWc.jpeg

Mostly draws from the woozier end of New Romantic... it looks like one song is by the Blitz Club DJ. And another has a guy yelling about Deutschland over some proto-industrial bass. It's fun.

Though it seems like EMI tried to intentionally bury it by naming it "(Silly Not To) Terpsichore". I almost passed it up because of the air-brushed Yanni-assed cover art, but I'm glad I didn't.

Great comp, love that Logic System tune!

great cover

maxfield parrish's new age van art

Singer sounds like Kate Bush if she had Eurodisco earworms.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uCLsfJ7OrV0

i love this so much. i have her album and its not all disco. its interesting. but this is by far the best thing on it. the label is a recording studio in hartford, ct. she was from springfield, ma.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cQre3aOpBpg

That Plustwo track wasn’t doing much for me and I was about to hit skip, and then the Kate Bush-y vocal kicked in. Fun. xp

oh man i want one! just came out. sounds awesome even on my computer speakers on Youtube Music so that's a good sign. love them. well, i mean, the first album and first singles are all-time for me. but i dig the rest as well. the underrated/underheard (never came out in the U.S.) 2nd album is awesome. even comes with one of those probably superfluous 5th discs that you might listen to once.

https://www.discogs.com/release/29958979-Kissing-The-Pink-Anthology-1982-2024