Debbie Harry — Rockbird
So, after my disappointment in most things Blondie after “Parallel Lines,” and my extreme antipathy toward Deborah Harry’s 1981 solo outing “KooKoo,” I normally would have just been done – I tend to give...
Category: ’80s
Debbie Harry – KooKoo
This is an album. This was released by Deborah Harry (listed as “Debbie” still), a solo album in 1982, a year after Blondie’s “Autoamerican,” a few months before Blondie’s “The Hunter.” By then, Deborah...
Pearl Harbour — Don’t Follow Me, I’m Lost Too
To my taste, this second record from Pearl Harbour (who explains that her British label changed the spelling of her name) is much more enjoyable than her debut, settling much more comfortably into a...
Pearl Harbor and The Explosions – Pearl Harbor and The Explosions
My kid walked by this record in the “now playing” slot over by my turntable and stopped to say, “Can you imagine a band called 9/11?” With a name like that, I’d expect some...
Gruppo Sportivo – Design Moderne
When you’re on a record jaunt with some friends at a store that you won’t get to often and you run across an album by an old favorite band that you have never heard...
Gruppo Sportivo — Copy Copy
This release from 1980 features the most perfectly ’80s graphics of any album I own — this is precisely what the ’80s looked like, kids. Retro-futuristic and stylin’. It’s also a return to the...
The Go-Go’s – Talk Show
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 next album, “Talk Show,”...
The Go-Go’s — Vacation
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 the songs were on...
The Go-Go’s – Beauty and the Beat
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 July 1981, the summer...
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