Gruppo Sportivo — Mistakes
I have some duplicates in my collection, usually either because my wife also had a copy pre-marriage, or because I found another copy of something in better shape than my original. But in this...
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Gruppo Sportivo — Rare Tracks
Gruppo Sportivo released a pair of singles in 1976 and ’77, prior to the album “10 Mistakes” being released. After that and their second album came out, those singles and a bonus track were...
Gruppo Sportivo — 10 Mistakes
I should really hold my Gruppo Sportivo discovery story for “Mistakes,” a similarly titled album that was released with some different songs two years after this one. But the albums are similar, so perhaps...
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...
4 Out Of 5 Doctors — 4 Out Of 5 Doctors
This was one of those records that my roommate Danny brought back from a summer in Boston, a summer where he was suddenly exposed to a raft of cool music that we would never...
A Flock of Seagulls — Listen
Listen is exactly what I haven’t done, with regard to this album, in a very long time. This came out just a year after their first record, in April 1983 . . . the...
A Flock of Seagulls — A Flock of Seagulls
Spring of 1982. Junior year of college. We have an apartment of moderate squalor. We have an heirloom black and white cabinet TV. We have basic cable. We have MTV. So, yes, of course...
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