Category: ’80s

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Dead Kennedys — Bedtime for Democracy

I actually got this one before I got “Frankenchrist,” though probably not by much. It came out in November 1986, and I’m remembering I got it right around when it came out. I was...

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Dead Kennedys — Frankenchrist

So, as I was saying during “Too Drunk To Fuck,” while I loved that single, it didn’t send me off in a punk direction and I didn’t pay much more attention to Dead Kennedys...

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Dead Kennedys — Too Drunk To Fuck

Let’s just look at this one as an anomaly, as this is one of the very few singles I’m going to feature. There’s a good chance I became aware of Dead Kennedys through Trouser...

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Marshall Crenshaw – Downtown

This one’s brand spanking new. To me, that is. The album itself came out in 1985, and despite another change in production and direction, it didn’t do very much. If I even noticed that...

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Marshall Crenshaw — Field Day

Last time, I simply gushed about my love for Marshall Crenshaw. That first album of his was one of the absolutely definitive albums of my final college year, a ray of new, happy music...

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Marshall Crenshaw – Marshall Crenshaw

Wow. What is there to say about this album? In 1982, things were happening, musically. There was change, opportunity, an explosion of creativity. “New” sounds were breaking in everywhere, although many of them were...

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The Creeps — Enjoy The Creeps

This was actually the first record by the Creeps, from 1986. After discovering “Now Dig This!” back in February, I knew I had seen another Creeps record in that magical bin of ’80s wonders...

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The Creeps — Now Dig This!

A rare case where I’m going to take a pair of records out of chronological order because this is the one that first caught my eye and turned me on to the wonderful oddness...