New Order – Blue Monday
This is just a 12″ single of another big song for New Order – which actually hit number 5 on the US dance charts, where nothing else they did previously ever made a mark....
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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...
Eartha Kitt — I Love Men
There is precious little dance music in my collection. That’s not to say I haven’t had some over the years – in the mid-’80s I picked up a bunch of dancey soul and r&b. Rock...
Debbie Harry — In Love With Love 12″
Okay, this is only a 12″ single from “Rockbird,” but I’m featuring it anyway because it’s ready to go and the next entry isn’t. As with most 12″ extended dance mixes from the ’80s,...
Bryan Ferry – Bête Noire
Everything I said in my last post about Bryan Ferry’s “Boys and Girls” also applies to “Bête Noire.” Released just two years later, in 1987, I played it a lot in those final years...
Bryan Ferry – Boys and Girls
I came to Roxy Music very late. I knew that they were popular, I knew that they were supposed to be sorta arty, I knew that 1974’s “Country Life” cover made all the boys...
Bananarama – The Greatest Hits Collection
This greatest hits collection came out in 1988, and it’s just what it says — the biggest hits from Banarama’s first four albums. They had big US hits with their cover of “Venus” and...
Altered Images – Bite
I’ve been trying to do these the way my records are stored — alphabetically, then chronologically. But my grownkid, a fan of “High Fidelity” and no slouch in the cataloging department, says it only...
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