JeffDaviscography. Here's a couple of musical thoughts, followed by the list of tapes that I gathered during the 80's. Interspersed are a few "precursor" records that helped to lead the way out of the gloom in the late 70's. From "The Eighties - A Retrospective", by I. Seymoure Klerely (Hunter Douglas 1998) page 56:
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My All Time
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Aldo Nova, 1982 | ||
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Forever Young, 1984 | ||
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The Art of Noise
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Visible Silence, 1986 |
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Asia, 1982 Alpha, 1983 |
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This is Big Audio Dynamite, 1985 | |
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Let's Dance (pronounced "Donce"), 1983 | ||
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The Cars, 1978 Candy-O, 1979 Panorama, 1980 Heartbeat City, 1984 Door to Door, 1987 |
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Cure Standing on a Beach, circa 1982 |
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Dead or Alive Mad, Bad and Dangerous to Know, 1986 |
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Depeche
Mode Behind the Wheel, 1987 |
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Stolen
by Andrew J. Davis, C 1999, title to be determined when he returns it |
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The Fixx
Walkabout, 1986 |
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Welcome to the Pleasure Dome, 1984 | ||
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Doot-Doot, 1983 "What a great name for a song, let's go have a drink, we've earned our pay for the day." |
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Howard
Jones Human's Lib, 1984 Dream Into Action, 1985 Action Replay, 1996 |
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Fascination,
1983 |
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Kick. 1987 | ||
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Freeze-Frame.
1981 Not exactly new wave, but not old wave either |
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Pump up the Volume, 1987 "Marrs needs women" - Understatement of the Decade |
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Twelve
Inch Sincles, 1988 "May be too intense for some listeners" |
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Only a Lad, C 1981 | ||
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Planet P, 1983 "We had 'King for a Day' before those other guys" |
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Shaken & Stirred, 1985 | ||
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Zenyatta Mondatta, 1980 Ghost in the Machine, 1981 |
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Psychedelic Furs |
Went to their concerts, didn't buy their tapes | ||
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Cupid & Psyche 85, 1985 | ||
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Once Upon a Time, 1985 | ||
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Rank, 1986 "Is it really
possible to do a whole album with only two notes?" |
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Tears for Fears
Songs from the Big Chair, 1985 |
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Fan Site) U2
The Joshua Tree, 1987 |
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day after I say "Ferris Bueller's Day Off", I searched every record store in the phonebook for the soundtrack. Finally somebody told me "they didn't make a soundtrack, but I know the band you are looking for, the "Oh, Yeah" band, right? It's called Yello!" |
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90125, 1983 | ||
