Jamie Principle - Baby Wants to Ride // early disco house electro acid with ecstatic and horny spoken vocals calculator melodies & one of the first of those heavy breathing / orgasmic sighs things that soon were everywhere #12inch80s #housemusic #acid https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=EzRBSWxOl0I

#TheButtholeSurfers - Widowermaker // Technically only a 10” in the UK but 12 in the US & this is one of their best releases: surreal, thumping, #psychedelic (possibly #ketamine), funny, even occasionally elegiac - no one else was releasing stuff like this. #12inch80s

Headhunter is fantastic obv but Welcome to Paradise on the b-side is at least as good: “Hey Poor; you don’t have to be poor anymore!” #12Inch80s #front242 #80smusic

Could hardly forget this one. #throbbinggristle - Discipline // perhaps has exaggerated import in the TG ‘canon’ but no denying it’s impact & influence & when I finally found it a decade later I was ecstatic #12Inch80s #80smusic #industrialmusic

#Swans - New Mind // a lightly crushing bridge from the slow primordial sludge of old Swans to the drone-folk to come - also great for singalong road trips in battered cars #12inch80s #80smusic

Bam Bam’s Where’s Your Child? was eerie af back in the day but now, when you play it out at 4am to old ravers & at least some of them have genuinely forgotten where their child is, it’s a whole new hellscape. #12inch80s #80smusic #acid

Gun Club - Sexbeat / Ghost on the Highway // not really a singles band but this is a stormer, even if it doesn’t have the lolloping & murderous sexgrace of Jack on Fire #12inch80s #80smusic

Ciccone Youth - Into the Groove(y) // #SonicYouth paen to #Madonna that understands perfectly that she is beyond parody, that she is a perfect empty, surface to project wishes, desires & misunderstandings #12inch80s #music #80smusic