New Order – 1981-Factus 8-1982
My New Order records were all (as far as I can remember) a gift from my friend, former roommate and companion on our five-year musical journey, after he had moved across the country. I...
Category: ’80s
Napoleon Solo – How To Steal The World
A few years back, I wandering around the local “punk rock flea market,” looking through the bins of some vendors I knew, and one of them had an amount of ska. At that moment,...
The Moody Blues — Long Distance Voyager
Despite my dedication to The Moody Blues described with the last entry, I was barely aware they had an album in 1978, “Octave.” Their first album since 1972’s “Seventh Sojourn,” it had two singles,...
Missing Persons — Spring Session M
From 1982, the exact moment that MTV exploded and bands like Missing Persons were able to break through a very tired soundscape. New Wave and synth bands were suddenly everywhere, with bright music, bright...
Missing Persons — Missing Persons
Missing Persons was one of those bands that suddenly made a splash thanks to MTV – otherwise I likely never would have heard of them. Their video for “Words” was in heavy rotation in...
Christine McVie — Christine McVie
Following the alphabetization I learned in elementary school, Christine McVie should have come before Manfred Mann. But . . . that’s not what I did, so here she is. In the course of my...
Madonna — Like A Virgin
This one came out in the fall of 1984, right around the time we were transitioning from that first post-college, just-married apartment into the second. (I wrote about that time a little bit when...
Madonna — Madonna
Well, of course I have the first Madonna album. I did live through 1984, after all. It’s currently hard to imagine, but there was a time when Madonna was completely fresh and new, and...
Nick Lowe — The Abominable Showman
The third of the pile of Nick Lowe albums I picked up all at the same time, around 1990 or ’91, for next to nothing at Last Vestige Records in Albany. Last Vestige opened...
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