Spinning Today - What Are You Listening To Right Now? (Part 4)

[Alex_UK]

January Came Close
Cardinal Black
2022

Another new one on me, first track good so far!

Voice reminds me a bit of Teddy Swims (though that should be the other way round!)

[Alex_UK]

Thomas Dolby - The Flat Earth (1984)



Another one I should really be playing my vinyl copy of. Sounds fab streaming, though - “I Scare Myself” is his best track in my opinion, sounds great.


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[Alex_UK]

Sticking with the same year, still have the vinyl copy I bought back then of this one too, though pretty worn I guess! Loved it the and still do.

Howard Jones - Humans Lib (1984)




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[Barry]

Couldn't Stand The Weather
Stevie Ray Vaughan & Double Trouble

Good one Tim!

[Alex_UK]

Well 15 year old me wouldn’t have left this one on the shelf…

Frankie Gies to Hollywood- Welcome to the Pleasuredome (1984)



Frankie Say: Nostalgia isn’t what it used to be.

[Tim]

Another new one on me, first track good so far!

Voice reminds me a bit of Teddy Swims (though that should be the other way round!)

Local Welsh band Alex - their lead guitar, Chris Buck is very good, well I think he is.

[Alex_UK]

I enjoyed it, will definitely play it again and check out their other stuff.

[Tim]

Purple Rain Deluxe
Prince

[Alex_UK]

Looks like I’m ending with another from 1984.

Tina Turner - Private Dancer



Another anecdote alert: about 11 or 12 years ago when Tamzin was 5 or 6 I introduced her to my vinyl albums, and for some reason she loved Tina Turner, and this one in particular. One morning she came running into the room “Daddy, Tina Turner’s cat is in our garden!” And it was! (Well if it wasn’t, I couldn’t tell the difference either.)

[Alex_UK]

I actually can’t time travel back to 1984 without including this one.

Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark - Junk Culture (1984)



This album holds a unique honour in my collection - it is the only one I have bought new in 3 different formats. Originally I bought it on cassette - possibly the only album I have ever bought when it came out on tape, for the sole reason that we were about to go on a school geography trip for a week to the Lake District.

Even then I couldn’t face the thought of a week without music! I couldn’t afford a Sony Walkman so made do with a Sansui knock off and bought this album. I also made some copies of other albums and compilations using my dad’s Ferguson sound system, so looking back I don’t know why I didn’t buy it on vinyl and copy it, but there you go.

I did subsequently acquire a vinyl copy, and then when I finally accepted CDs were “the future” this was one of the hundreds of albums that got an “upgrade”.

The school trip to the Lakes was fairly uneventful except I was the one who was picked to go into an off licence in Kendal to buy Woodpecker cider and fags as I looked one of the oldest of our motley crew of 15 year olds. Illicit goods were acquired without a hitch or question, and maybe my heroics was what attracted Amanda to me, who I subsequently “got off” with - but don’t worry, no baked beans or other canned goods were harmed in the making of that brief relationship!