Friday 12 June 2015

LIST 160 - 12/06/15 (1985 special, part one)

Hello again,

Inevitable at some point, I suppose, that I'd get round to compiling some 10, 20 and 30 years ago, etc. Lists for 2015, if only for the gasps of incredulity that they inspire when uploaded.  "Was that really 30 years ago?!?  I feel old..." - you know, that sort of thing.

So, get ready to feel old all over again! 

I avoided the temptation to fill the first of these 1985 Lists with nothing else other than the sort of stuff that would eventually grace the C86 compilation, though tracks from the respective first ever singles by C86ers The Shop Assistants, The Wedding Present and Primal Scream are indeed included.  

A less obvious debut, perhaps, but a very timely one to include given the recent reactivation of rural psychedelia figureheads Flying Saucer Attack, is a single by a four-piece by the name of Ha Ha Ha who could count among their number FSA frontman Dave Pearce - at least until, by his own account, he did a Syd Barrett and got himself sacked.  Ha Ha Ha's loss, our gain, etc.

J xx





REM – Driver 8

HA HA HA – Up and Down

RUN DMC – King of Rock

THE DURUTTI COLUMN – The Room

THE FALL – L.A

THE WEDDING PRESENT – Go Out and Get ‘Em Boy

PROPAGANDA – P-Machinery

THE PALE FOUNTAINS – From Across the Kitchen Table

THE POGUES - Sally MacLennane

THE JESUS AND MARY CHAIN – Never Understand

CYBOTRON – R-9

THE SHOP ASSISTANTS – All Day Long

ROBERT WYATT – Gharbzadegi

THE WAKE – Of The Matter

THE SISTERS OF MERCY – Walk Away

BIG AUDIO DYNAMITE – E=MC2

PRIMAL SCREAM – It Happens

HELEN AND THE HORNS – Lonesome Country Boy

DEAD CAN DANCE – De Profundis
 

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