40 years ago today, May 3, 1986, Malchak & Rucker debuted at #82 on Billboard’s Hot Country Singles chart with “Let Me Down Easy”. It went on to peak at #67 and spent a total of 5 weeks on the chart.

It’s been my hobby to collect 45 RPM singles. This is one I rescued from the garbage at 650 AM KYAK in early 1987 when I was an intern there at the station.

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38 years ago today, April 23, 1988, Libby Hurley debuted at #86 on Billboard’s Hot Country Singles chart with “Don’t Talk to Me”. It went on to peak at #59 and spent a total of 8 weeks on the chart.

I don't believe we even added this song to our music rotation. I remember that we played her previous single, “You Just Watch Me” quite a bit on AM 650 KYAK even after it peaked at a not very successful #43.

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ROBERT SCHROEDER
Mosaique
1981 Germany pressing
@ #45rpm

An excellent chapter from the book of Berlin-School electronics.

The third Schroeder album (produced by Klaus Schulze), it utilizes the brand-new-at-the-time PPG WAVE 2, a German built #synthesizer that gained such notoriety, that literally everybody started using them. It is an endless list of who’s who when it comes to early #80s synth music (Depeche Mode, Gary Numan, Tangerine Dream and David Bowie to name just a few).

Here, Schroeder blends the PPG with guitar, bass and drum flawlessly. The album sounds incredible, and creates quite the atmosphere.

I’ve mentioned on here before about my penchant for records that are great for playing whilst pursuing other creative endeavours like drawing, painting, etc, and this one fits that bill perfectly.

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SLINT
Untitled (Albini Rough Mixes)
2026 RSD Ltd. Edition
@ #45rpm
Grey Matter vinyl

Diving into the last few pieces of the #rsd titles, and this was a pleasant surprise.

A wonderful sounding reissue of the ‘94 release.

Albini was a great champion for Slint from the beginning, and when a different band booked recording time with him and DIDNT show up, Steve invited Slint into the studio, and recorded these songs instead.

Touch And Go eventually acquiesced and signed the band, after originally rejecting Tweez, and telling the band AND Albini that they weren’t interested.

What came following was a little album called Spiderland.

It was also very heartwarming to open up the open cardboard and see that picture of Steve.

A lovely tribute, and an incredible sounding pair of songs.

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WEEN
Europe 90
2026 U.S. 3xLP Ltd. Edition RSD
@ #45rpm

It pays to know people.

Got ALL of my RSD stuff early, with THIS being the crown jewel.

Some of the “brownest” Ween ever, and for ANY disciple of Gene, Dean AND Boognish, this is pure gold.
Pure. BROWN. Gold.

For me, it’s worth having for the long lost studio sessions recorded in Eindhoven, which has an incredible “Albino Sunburn Girl” and a dope version of “Push th’ Little Daisies”.

According to Dean, the “Live in Basel 1990” portion of this is the best Ween show of all time.
They played in front of one person (their manager) for the majority of the gig, and by the end, there were five.

That’s progress, bro.

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Bill Evans, At The Montreux Jazz Festival, 1968 on Verve

Second 1968 Bill Evans performance I’ve posted this week, this one has the trio (again with Eddie Gomez and Jack DeJohnette) at Casino de Montreux in Switzerland, and was recorded by the technical department of Radio Suisse Romande.

My copy (via a private sale) is the 2020 Analogue Productions reissue on two 45rpm 200g records, cut by Matthew Lutthans at The Mastering Lab. Sounds fantastic, though I can’t say I like having to change the platter twice as often.

Gino Vannelli "I Just Wanna Stop" US A&M 1978

Some CanCon from Montreal. After Vannelli released *Pauper In Paradise* which featuring a 15 minute title track suite, A&M warned him to make something more commercial. Next album featured this, his biggest hit; #1 in Canada, Top 5 in the US and on the Canadian and US Adult Contemporary (Easy Listening) chart.

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FUGAZI
Fugazi
2022 U.S. reissue @ #45rpm
Red vinyl

I wait
I wait
I wait
I wait…

Seven classic songs for a Saturday afternoon.

As a kid, this was the #1 “play it again” tape I owned.

As soon as it was over, you just flipped it over and did it again.
Every one of these songs are etched on my 14 year old brain forever.

“Waiting Room” is clearly brilliant, but growing up, it was “Bad Mouth” for me.
THAT song was one of the first handful of songs that my first band and I ever learned.
We’d play it at birthday parties or whatever drunken “my parents are out of town” fiesta, and people thought it was our tune. 😂
Kids are so stupid. 😂

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Neil Sedaka "Breaking Up Is Hard To Do" US Rocket/MCA 1975

We recently lost Neil Sedaka, one of the great singer/songwriters. This is his redo of his 1962 smash, this time done as a slow ballad (starting with a snippet of the original). While didn't get back to #1 like his hits "Laughter In The Rain" or "Bad Blood", it did go Top 10 on the pop chart in the US and #1 on the AC chart. On Elton John's Rocket label, named after an early locomotive.

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