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'80s

The Go-Go’s – Talk Show

November 15, 2020November 14, 2020 cjvinyl

The first two Go-Go’s albums fell right at the end of my college years, 1981 and 1982. Then they took a little break (by ’70s and ’80s standards), and their […]

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'80s

The Go-Go’s — Vacation

November 13, 2020November 13, 2020 cjvinyl

As with “Beauty and the Beat,” while I’ve had this album since it came out in 1982, I haven’t really listened to it in many, many years. Again, several of […]

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'80s

The Go-Go’s – Beauty and the Beat

November 12, 2020November 11, 2020 cjvinyl

There are truly very few songs for which I can absolutely remember the first time I ever heard them, but “Our Lips Are Sealed” is one. It was released in […]

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'80s

4 Out Of 5 Doctors — 4 Out Of 5 Doctors

October 19, 2020October 19, 2020 cjvinyl

This was one of those records that my roommate Danny brought back from a summer in Boston, a summer where he was suddenly exposed to a raft of cool music […]

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'80s

The First Things — A Nation of Employees

September 18, 2020September 17, 2020 cjvinyl

This has to be one of the more obscure records in my collection — obscure enough that I had to create its entry in Discogs. I mentioned a cool kid […]

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