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Wed May 9, 2012, 03:01 AM

Its 1979, what album are you trying to wear out?

This one maybe

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Reply Its 1979, what album are you trying to wear out? (Original post)
BootinUp May 2012 OP
Joe Shlabotnik May 2012 #1
BootinUp May 2012 #2
Joe Shlabotnik May 2012 #3
surrealAmerican May 2012 #4
LynneSin May 2012 #5
CBGLuthier May 2012 #6
mikeSchmuckabee May 2012 #7
zanana1 May 2012 #8
dr.strangelove May 2012 #9
pink-o May 2012 #10
dana_b May 2012 #25
hifiguy May 2012 #11
lastlib May 2012 #12
TrogL May 2012 #13
HopeHoops May 2012 #14
davsand May 2012 #15
Iggo May 2012 #16
geardaddy May 2012 #17
MadrasT May 2012 #18
ArnoldLayne May 2012 #19
ArnoldLayne May 2012 #20
opiate69 May 2012 #21
bluedigger May 2012 #22
Bertha Venation May 2012 #23
Doc_Technical May 2012 #27
dana_b May 2012 #24
hobbit709 May 2012 #26
kwassa May 2012 #28
bluesbassman May 2012 #29
kwassa May 2012 #30

Response to BootinUp (Original post)

Wed May 9, 2012, 03:16 AM

1. Most of my 1979 records were used for impromptu skeet practice.

Dark times for quality rock and roll LPs. Yet a useful and deserving end for overpriced vinyl schlock.

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Response to Joe Shlabotnik (Reply #1)

Wed May 9, 2012, 03:55 AM

2. hmmm

Cheap Trick, Van Halen, The Police, its wasn't all that bad...The dark times were the 90's and now.

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Response to BootinUp (Reply #2)

Wed May 9, 2012, 04:05 AM

3. Ok... Old Van halen passed the test, and few cheap trick songs survived to mixed audio tapes.

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That was a generalization on my part. But sorry, for the 100 million Lp's that got printed those years....99% were shit. The music industry was/is no different then with turning out 'hits', ahem 'shits'

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Response to BootinUp (Original post)

Wed May 9, 2012, 07:45 AM

4. probably the Kinks

"Low Budget" was released in 1979.

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Response to BootinUp (Original post)

Wed May 9, 2012, 07:57 AM

5. I kid you not! I wrote a school report back in '79 that said the Knack was the next great Supergroup

I think overtime I could ultimately prove that my thesis was indeed correct.

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Response to BootinUp (Original post)

Wed May 9, 2012, 08:02 AM

6. December 1979 it was this one




I remember listening to it while happily soldering away on my PAIA synthesizer.

As for the Knack I had the album and the 45 which had the most wonderful sleeve.




I think they were a good band but the record company screwed up and used every great song they wrote on their first album. Oh well, Prince came along a few years later and showed just how to be really dirty in the lyrics.

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Response to BootinUp (Original post)

Wed May 9, 2012, 08:12 AM

7. Pure Pop For Now People-Nick Lowe

Still wearing it out.

And Armed Forces by Elvis Costello and the Attractions.

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Response to BootinUp (Original post)

Wed May 9, 2012, 08:19 AM

8. The latest David Bowie album, of course. nt

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Response to BootinUp (Original post)

Wed May 9, 2012, 09:02 AM

9. My very first album



The rare Green Record was my favorite, but that one was hard to find.

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Response to BootinUp (Original post)

Wed May 9, 2012, 09:29 AM

10. In 1979 I loved:

The Clash
The Dammed
The Stranglers
The Jam
Nick Lowe
Elvis Costello
Dave Edmunds

and the old stalwart bands:

The Stones
The Kinks
The Who

So it wasn't all so bad, right?

And hey: whoever upthread said the 90s sucked--so not true! I love anything that sets the established bands on their ears. Happened in the 70s with Punk/New Wave and in the 90s with Grunge.

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Response to pink-o (Reply #10)

Wed May 9, 2012, 04:48 PM

25. I love your taste in music

the 90s were actually my favorite with the Seattle bands.

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Response to BootinUp (Original post)

Wed May 9, 2012, 09:52 AM

11. "The Wall" and Blondie's

"Parallel Lines."

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Response to BootinUp (Original post)

Wed May 9, 2012, 09:53 AM

12. "Hemispheres" (Rush)

(I know it came out before that, but that's when I got it--I was "on a Low Budget"! what with trying to pay for college.) But I played that album into the ground!

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Response to BootinUp (Original post)

Wed May 9, 2012, 10:05 AM

13. Pink Floyd - The Wall

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Response to BootinUp (Original post)

Wed May 9, 2012, 10:07 AM

14. I was probably on my second copy of "The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway" by then.

 

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Response to BootinUp (Original post)

Wed May 9, 2012, 01:52 PM

15. For sure The Wall. The Last Waltz or maybe Excitable Boy.

Also we played the heck outta The Clash, The B-52's, and Rickie Lee Jones.

XTC, Talking Heads, and Ramones had albums playing that year too...


Laura

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Response to BootinUp (Original post)

Wed May 9, 2012, 02:07 PM

16. The Wall. Low Budget. Dream Police.

And like that.

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Response to BootinUp (Original post)

Wed May 9, 2012, 02:11 PM

17. This one

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Response to BootinUp (Original post)

Wed May 9, 2012, 02:49 PM

18. The Cars, Candy-O

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Response to BootinUp (Original post)

Wed May 9, 2012, 03:45 PM

19. The Wall, Breakfast in America and The Knack.

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Response to BootinUp (Original post)

Wed May 9, 2012, 03:51 PM

20. Oh I forgot London Calling and Candy O.

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Response to BootinUp (Original post)

Wed May 9, 2012, 04:24 PM

21. I was heavily into KISS back then (hey, I was 10 in 79)

so probably Detroit Rock City and Hotter than Hell

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Response to BootinUp (Original post)

Wed May 9, 2012, 04:28 PM

22. "This ain't no party, this ain't no disco."



From Fear of Music.

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Response to BootinUp (Original post)

Wed May 9, 2012, 04:41 PM

23. In '79 I was still working on Court & Spark

In fact, if I could find it, it would rarely leave the car.

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Response to Bertha Venation (Reply #23)

Wed May 9, 2012, 08:46 PM

27. Arguably her best album.

n/t

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Response to BootinUp (Original post)

Wed May 9, 2012, 04:47 PM

24. Lots of good ones but "London Calling"

was my favorite. I played it for months.

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Response to BootinUp (Original post)

Wed May 9, 2012, 07:27 PM

26. Broken English-Marianne Faithfull



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Response to BootinUp (Original post)

Wed May 9, 2012, 09:25 PM

28. "Fear of Music" the Talking Heads

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my art school classmates.

Life During Wartime



Heaven



I Zimbra

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Response to BootinUp (Original post)

Wed May 9, 2012, 09:41 PM

29. Cheap Trick - At Budokan

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edit for better video.

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Response to BootinUp (Original post)

Wed May 9, 2012, 09:44 PM

30. The B52s first album, including Rock Lobster and Planet Claire





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