Vinyl Distractions

Ramblings about My Records

Category: New Wave

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'80s / New Wave / Pop

Eurythmics — We Too Are One

Wow, this came out at an interesting time: September, 1989. I am super surprised that I even own this, for a whole bunch of reasons. First, I hadn’t loved the previous record, Savage, even...

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'80s / New Wave / Pop

Eurythmics — Savage

Just about a year and a half after “Revenge,” Eurythmics came out with “Savage” in November 1987. Counting myself as a Eurythmics fan based on their previous two albums, I must have bought this...

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'80s / New Wave / Pop

Eurythmics — Revenge

This came out in 1986, just about a year after “Be Yourself Tonight,” and I counted myself such a fan of the previous album that I probably bought this as soon as it came...

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'80s / New Wave / Pop

Eurythmics — Be Yourself Tonight

I took a pass on the initial excitement around Eurythmics. While I liked the video imagery of “Sweet Dreams (Are Made of This)” and yes of course I thought Annie Lennox had an amazing...

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'80s / Funk / New Wave

Thomas Dolby — Aliens Ate My Buick

No one could accuse Thomas Dolby of doing the same thing over and over again. Starting with the weird Euro-atmosphere of “The Golden Age of Wireless,” moving into the very spare and beautiful “The...

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'80s / New Wave

Thomas Dolby — The Flat Earth

This came out in February 1984, right in the midst of our transition from wild college students into semi-stable married couple. My love of Dolby already established by “The Golden Age of Wireless,” I...

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'80s / New Wave / Power Pop

Marshall Crenshaw – Marshall Crenshaw

Wow. What is there to say about this album? In 1982, things were happening, musically. There was change, opportunity, an explosion of creativity. “New” sounds were breaking in everywhere, although many of them were...