Marc Almond – Stories of Johnny
Well, this one is a little unsatisfying. The next album in Marc Almond’s oeuvre is “Stories of Johnny.” Of all his solo post-Mambas work, it is my absolute favorite. It came out in 1985,...
Category: ’80s
Marc Almond (and The Willing Sinners) – Vermin in Ermine
Well, the last couple of Marc Almond albums were dark as dark can be. But with the next one up in my collection, “Vermin in Ermine,” Marc Almond and the Willing Sinners (with many...
Marc and the Mambas – Torment and Toreros
Well, if “Untitled” by Marc and the Mambas was the album for my dark night of the soul, then their follow-up “Torment and Toreros” was a dark fortnight. Dark, dark, dark. I mean, read...
Marc and the Mambas – Untitled
With Marc Almond, I’m going to run into my first series of serious problems with doing this project in alphabetical order. (Or any order, for that matter). First, there’s the problem of an artist...
ABC – When Smokey Sings and One Better World 12″ singles
Well, I’m anxious to at least get a little further into the ‘A’ section of my collection than ABC, so maybe I’m a little glad that I don’t actually have the album this one...
ABC – How To Be A Zillionaire!
Still doing this alphabetically — and we’re still in ABC. Although “Beauty Stab” was a disappointing second album, it still did quite well on the charts, meaning a third album was likely. With another...
ABC – Beauty Stab
As a huge fan of ABC’s “The Lexicon of Love,” I was thoroughly pre-disposed to love “Beauty Stab,” their sophomore effort that came just a year later in 1983. But for anyone who wanted...
ABC – Lexicon of Love 12″ Singles
In the ’80s, even though the sale of 7″ 45s was on the decline, suddenly 12″ singles became the thing. Every big or moderately big or not big at all artist was putting out...
ABC – The Lexicon of Love
Moving down the alphabet but not moving out of pop. I was playing a video from this album last night, and my grownkid said of ’80s music generally that maybe you had to be...
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