1980s Music Posts

Shabooh Shoobah
INXS
nobody's favorite INXS album

Synchronicity
The Police
for the Jung at heart

Feudalist Tarts
Alex Chilton
I'm in love with that song

Juju Music
King Sunny Ade
keep on the sunny side

Big Daddy
John Mellencamp
Let It All Hang Out

Reconciled
The Call
The best 80s album nobody's heard of

Invisible Touch
Genesis
tonight, tonight, tonight

One Down
Material
all is laswell

Kick
INXS
sometimes you get kicked

13 Songs
Fugazi
Nobody was more independent

Diesel and Dust
Midnight Oil
REM with less jangle and more slap

The End Of The Innocence
Don Henley
a nostalgia record for someone older than me

Knowledge Is King
Kool Moe Dee
in which our protagonist goes to work

Whitesnake
Whitesnake
The one with 'Here I Go Again'

Once Upon A Time
Simple Minds
Don't You forget about it

Ninety
808 State
highly acidic

Núbia Axum Etiópia
Olodum
Afro-Brazilian percussion

Live In Montreal July 7, 1983
Miles Davis
the final evolution of a master

Spontaneous Inventions
Bobby McFerrin
nothing else like him in the world

Making History
Linton Kwesi Johnson
political reggae from London

Power Corruption And Lies
New Order
transition from punk to dance rock

Big Circumstance
Bruce Cockburn
If the white savior narrative was a person, and could shred on guitar

Dreams Of Flight
Edgar Meyer
An early record from a one-of-a-kind polymath

Around The World In A Day
Prince
Purple in its natural habitat

16 Lovers Lane
The Go Betweens
I'm sure someone will think this isn't boring...

Utakata No Hibi
Mariah
an interesting find

Oh Mercy
Bob Dylan
The *first* late-era classic