Sandra Cross ‘The MMs Bar Recordings’ (Trunk, 2011)

bySpenser Tomson
November 10, 2022

As someone who writes about a lot of weird music, I can get desensitised to it. The soundtrack to an imaginary film about school dinners? Meh.

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Luc Van Acker ‘Taking Snapshots’ (Self-Released, 1982)

byRyan Walker

“These track names were created by the people who bought the album in 1982”

BBuried Treasure

2 minute read

Love And Rockets ‘Hot Trip To Heaven’ (Beggars Banquet / American, 1994)

byClaire Francis

For some reason, at the tail end of last year, the song ‘So Alive’ got lodged in my head.

BBuried Treasure

2 minute read

Rational Youth ‘Cold War Night Life’ (YUL, 1982)

byMat Smith

The accepted history of electronic pop music that I was spoon-fed, via compilation cassettes and CDs, ran a well-worn patch cable back to 1981.

BBuried Treasure

2 minute read

They were called Vidéo Aventures. They were French, they had links to the extreme Rock In Opposition movement, and in 1981 they released ‘Musique Pour Garçons Et Filles’, a superb example of underground electropop weirdosity

BBuried Treasure

2 minute read

Bill Nelson ‘Chimera’ (Mercury, 1983)

byJoe Silva

Say what you will about the rise of algorithms, but on occasion they do get it right.

BBuried Treasure

2 minute read

4,000,000 Telephones ‘4,000,000 Telephones’ (Bunker, 1985)

byJames Thornhill

“You have to play this album,” says Vincent, a fellow record dealer in Lincoln where my secondhand vinyl store lives.

Sandra Cross ‘The MMs Bar Recordings’ (Trunk, 2011)

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Spenser Tomson

Luc Van Acker ‘Taking Snapshots’ (Self-Released, 1982)

Love And Rockets ‘Hot Trip To Heaven’ (Beggars Banquet / American, 1994)

Rational Youth ‘Cold War Night Life’ (YUL, 1982)

Vidéo Aventures

Bill Nelson ‘Chimera’ (Mercury, 1983)

4,000,000 Telephones ‘4,000,000 Telephones’ (Bunker, 1985)

A Certain Ratio ‘Shack Up’

Alan Rankine ‘Party Fears Two’

Eddy Grant ‘Electric Avenue’

Banco De Gaia: Banco Account

Ron Geesin: Da Doo Ron Ron

Krautrock: 10 Definitive Albums

Hi-NRG Heaven

4DSound: Spatial Delivery

Sandra Cross ‘The MMs Bar Recordings’ (Trunk, 2011)

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