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AC/DC – You Shook Me All Night Long

[dillweed1236]

(1978) The Police - Hole in My Life

Live in Hamburg 1980

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Thompson Twins : Into The Gap

format: vinyl

released 1984

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1984 - All Paul 🎶

The McCartney collection on Columbia records and Cassettes Advert

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album covers where it's just a picture or a photograph in a frame and a pattern in the background >>>>>>

[music-addiction-disorder]

Last weeks poll ended with 16 votes, the winner (it was to be expected) was ZZ Top's 1983 "Eliminator" with 31,3%. It was a struggle for me aswell, but i ended up choosing "Afterburner" because it's the one that i keep going back to. It's must have something to do with that unique 80's sound...

The video for "Paranoid" was filmed in Belgium (1970), it was the first song i ever heard by Ozzy and Black Sabbath... i was hooked instantly! It's still my favorite Sabbath album to date, i mean... how can it not be with classics like "War Pigs", Paranoid", "Planet Caravan", "Iron Man" and "Fairies Wear Boots"?

Considered by many to be the first heavy metal band, Black Sabbath was formed in 1968 by Tony Iommi, Ozzy Osbourne, Geezer Butler and Bill Ward in Birmingham, UK. The band's original name was the Polka Tulk Blues Band (later shortened to Polka Tulk) and later on changed to Earth before becoming Black Sabbath inspired by an Italian horror movie of the same name. The original line-up lasted until 1979, after which Osbourne was fired and replaced by Ronnie James Dio. The line-up changes would continue, with no line-up remaining intact for consecutive studio releases. Throughout the changes, only Tony Iommi and keyboardist Geoff Nicholls, who also joined the band in 1979, would remain with Black Sabbath, although Nicholls would not always be credited as a full member. In 1997, Iommi, Butler, Ward, and Osbourne reunited, touring and releasing a live album in 1998, although a long-rumored studio release did not appear (the group attempted to record a new album in 2001 with producer Rick Rubin but the sessions were scrapped). After that, the group periodically reunited to tour with Ozzy's "Ozzfest" tour. In 2004, longtime keyboardist Geoff Nicholls was replaced by Adam Wakeman for an Ozzfest tour. No reason was given for the replacement. In 2006, the original line-up was inducted into the Rock 'n' Roll Hall Of Fame.

In 2007, Tony Iommi, Geezer Butler, Ronnie James Dio, and drummer Vinny Appice (who were featured on 1981's "Mob Rules" and 1992's "Dehumanizer") announced that they would tour together as Heaven & Hell (with Iommi, who owns the Black Sabbath name, deciding to keep the Black Sabbath name solely for the original line-up in light of their Rock 'n' Roll HOF induction) to support a Dio-era greatest hits release, which also featured 3 new Dio/Iommi compositions. A brand new live album was released under the Heaven & Hell name that same year, followed by a studio album in 2009.

In 2009, Osbourne sued Iommi over control of the Black Sabbath name. The lawsuit was settled the following year. In late 2011, it was announced that the original line-up would be recording and touring. Shortly, afterward, Bill Ward dropped out, stating he had been given a contract that was "unsignable". The three remaining members opted to continue without him. In 2013, the band released "13", their first studio album with Osbourne in 34 years. The band played their final live show in Birmingham, UK, on February 4, 2017. Although the band has announced that full-scale touring is done, Tony Iommi has stated that the door is still open for future music and possible live appearances.

Ps, if you vote please also reblog, the more people will do so the more this post will spread and the better the outcome and results will be. A big "thank you" in advance to anyone who will partake in this! Yours truly: @necro69mancer 🤘🍻

Oh, and also... suggestions for future polls are always welcome! 😎

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[newwavesailor]

Happy 40th to the Cars' Heartbeat City!

Hey all, just to put it out there, I will go back to posting about KOSA soon. I just wanted to take a moment to talk about one of my favorite albums, which is turning the big four-zero this year.

Everybody has that album. You know the one. The one that resonates with you, really hits you in a special place and makes you want to re-experience it over and over again.

For me, The Cars' 1984 offering Heartbeat City is that album.

The Cars are certainly a favorite of mine. In fact, they're probably my favorite full stop. Much of my look is based on that of Ric Ocasek and Benjamin Orr. That is, if I can dress like them, and more often than not I just pull what's clean.

Growing up with my mother's taste in music, I was exposed to a lot of 70's and 80's new wave music, and I loved it. (I think it's part of my username?) However, in a weird twist of events, I originally hated the Cars. I thought the song "My Best Friend's Girl" was one of the most annoying songs ever written. However, as time went on, and as I started actively listening to them, I grew to appreciate them immensely. My mom had a similar experience with Duran Duran.

One day at the record store, my dad (who knew I loved the Cars) plucked a scuffed-up copy of Heartbeat City from the racks. Though I was a little turned off by the rather risque-looking album cover (I wouldn't even touch a copy of Candy-O at the time) I eventually bit the bullet and bought it, as my first Cars album.

Yes, you read that correctly. While I had heard stand-alone songs from them in the past, including some from Heartbeat, this was my first full-length drive. And I was in love.

Being a synth pop fan, I swooned over this album. If I didn't know what album to listen to, I put this one on, and it always calmed my nerves. "Magic" was akin to a fairy-tale to me; listening to it felt like being whisked away to a magical place, a pool-party in the skies.

"You Might Think" was already a familiar to me, and was the album's big single. But not the biggest one -- That goes to "Drive", the album's signature ballad, and probably the second-most popular Cars song behind "Just What I Needed"

In a way, this album was just what I needed. It was what really kicked off my fascination with the Cars. People love to talk about their 1978 self-titled album like it was the stuff of legends, but in my personal opinion, Heartbeat City was a magnum opus that nothing afterwards could possibly measure up to.

Happy fortieth to Heartbeat, and happy twentieth to me real soon.

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AC/DC - Back In Black

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Reprise Vol. 2 - Shandi & I'll Fight Hell to Hold You

I like Shandi. And Unmasked. I think it was the last of a series of Kiss albums that I was influenced by as a very young person in 1980. Whether Hotter Than Hell, Destroyer, Alive I & II or Dynasty and Love Gun, or even Peter Criss' solo album, and finally Unmasked. That was all Kiss for me, without differentiating between the individual characteristics of albums or songs (1). I could easily add Music from The Elder, but that was a few years later, but the math would still be the same. For me everything was still simply music.

But such innocent child's perspectives change over the course of a lifetime, so let's take a big leap and go back to 1992, because that was the year I heard Crazy Nights for the first time as a youth. Unfortunately, after I had already been hooked by Revenge. At that time I started to devote more time to our favorite band again and gradually acquired their missed albums from the 80s. And of course Crazy Nights was among them. I'm sure you can guess where I'm going with this, as, of course, I found Crazy Nights more or less horrible, back then. And that was largely down to attitude and bias. Mea culpa, mea culpa. Literally, in fact. I had changed a little.

For me personally Unmasked and Crazy Nights, could hardly be further apart for this very reason, but luckily for me life always means change, which at least puts me back in a position to build a bridge between these two albums. Do I think I have also become a little more innocent as a result? Let's leave that question better open.

But speaking of bridges, why don't we take a closer look at the two bridges of Shandi and I'll Fight Hell to Hold You at last. Didn't Bruce Kulick mention somewhere, possibly on his old homepage, that the bridge in I'll Fight Hell to Hold You was in his responsibility? Whoever realizes first which song from Unmasked he must have listenend most to while composing it wins 100 points.

And maybe even a little bit of blissfulness, who knows?

Side Note:

(1) I could say something similar about Kenny Rogers, who my mother loved to listen to while driving, and so did I, since we lived in the country at the time and spent a lot of time in the car. Do you think I would have given a single thought to the stark differences between the psychedelic rock borrowing of Just Dropped In and the country pop of Lucille, which both played back-to-back on The Kenny Rogers Singles Album?

If bridges are just your thing, then you have no choice but to press play:

Shandi (1980)

I'll Fight Hell to Hold You (1987)

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[album-imagery]

The Cure : Close to Me

format: vinyl (45 inch single)

release date: 1985

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