LP# 1329
Al Di Meola ~ Orange and Blue ~ 1994, (22 RE), Optimal Media GmbH
▪︎Paradisio
▪︎Orange and Blue
▪︎This Way Before
▪︎Casmir
▪︎Ta'alina Chant
▪︎Summer Country Song
▪︎Chilean Pipe Song
▪︎Theme of the Mother Ship 451
▪︎If We Meet Again Pt. 1 & 2
▪︎On My Own
▪︎Precious Little You
Now THAT’S hospitality.
All the comforts of home.
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LP# 1300
Kim Wilde ~ Close ~ 1988,
Pinckneyville Pressing ◈-P-◈
Love In The Natural Way
Hey Mister Heartache
You Came
European Soul
Stone
Lucky Guy
Never Trust A Stranger
You'll Be The One Who'll Lose
Love's A No
Four Letter Word
Bauhaus, Mask, 1981 on Beggars Banquet
Second studio album from Bauhaus and their first on Beggars Banquet (In The Flat Field was on 4AD), with a cover drawn by Daniel Ash, across a gatefold and on the labels.
The first five Bauhaus records are are perfect – as is the singles collection 1979-1983 and most of the bands that followed in the Bauhaus diaspora (Dali’s Car, Love and Rockets, and Tones on Tail).
My copy—via A1 Records in NYC—is the 2023 reissue pressed at GZ Media.
#1980s #1981 #A1Records #Bauhaus #BeggarsBanquet #DanielAsh #DavidJay #GZMedia #KevinHaskins #NYC #PeterMurphy #Reissue #vinyl #vinylcollection #vinylfinds
Well that’s a bag o’ shite. I go through these things so you don’t have to.
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The Police - Gateshead 1982
Ref. the pink vinyl, solidified the notion that you can put lipstick on a pig but it’s still a pig
Do yourself a favour and watch U2 as support instead https://youtu.be/Fr2pGoINsxo?si=96KtKlNTHbiRiZ7r
ZZ Top, Fandango!, 1975 on London Records
Fourth release from Texas blues band ZZ Top, Fandango! included an A side with live songs (from The Warehouse, in New Orleans) and a B side of new studio recordings.
A Fandango is a dance originating in Spain and Portugal – which wikipedia tells me “is used as a synonym for ‘a quarrel’, ‘a big fuss’ or ‘a foolish or pretentious act'” – not sure which one ZZ Top were after here.
I think their first eight albums (yes, I include Eliminator) are fantastic though I’d argue after that it is downhill – but the live releases that have continued to come out from earlier days are great.
My copy—via a record fair at Mill No. 5 in Lowell, MA—is a later 1979 Winchester Pressing on Warner Bros. labels.
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Various Artists, The Best of Music and Rhythm, 1983 on PVC Records
Shortened single-LP version (there’s a 2xLP version as well, PVC 201) of a record released to commemorate and benefit the WOMAD festival (World of Music and Dance). Peter Gabriel founded WOMAD as an organization in 1980 and the 1982 festival was the first.
The festival for which this LP serves as a benefit was held at the Royal Bath and West Showground, near Shepton Mallet in Somerset, from Friday, July 16th, until Sunday, July 18th, 1982. The W.O.M.A.D. festival intended to focus wider public attention upon the traditional and contemporary arts of non-west cultures, as practiced in the U.K. and throughout the world.
Wonderful eclectic compilation including Gabriel, XTC, David Byrne, and the English Beat (credited as “The Beat” on the label, but “The English Beat” on the cover- it is a US pressing), along with Mighty Sparrow, Ekome, Prince Nico Mbarga, and Rico.
My copy via a record fair at Mill No. 5 in Lowell MA.
#DavidByrne #Ekome #LowellMA #MightySparrow #MillNo5 #PeterGabriel #PVCRecords #Rico #TheEnglishBeat #variousArtists #vinyl #vinylcollection #vinylfinds #WOMAD #WorldMusic #XTC
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