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Mick Carty
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Driving Instructor- Dundee United fan 🧡🖤🧡🖤🧡 - Scotland 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿
Author of the Célestiaá series: https://mybook.to/YBbE
Mildly average, with no particularly noticeable skills or insight!
Blondie - Parallel Lines 1978
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Oh, be still my aching teenage heart
February 28, 2025 at 9:02 AM
WAH! - The Story Of the Blues 7” single 1982
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How good was the music in the early 80s?
February 26, 2025 at 3:53 PM
Duran Duran - New Moon On Monday 12” single 1984
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February 12, 2025 at 4:20 PM
Associates - 18 Carat Love Affair 7” single 1982
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February 5, 2025 at 8:55 AM
Joan Armatrading - The Key 1983
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February 2, 2025 at 9:16 PM
Spandau Ballet - I’ll Fly For You 7” single 1984
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February 1, 2025 at 11:27 PM
Howard Jones - Hide & Seek 7” Single 1984
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Don’t think he got the love and appreciation he deserved
February 1, 2025 at 11:25 PM
Soft Cell - Say Hello Wave Goodbye 7” single 1982
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A synthpop work of art.
February 1, 2025 at 9:15 AM
Gerry Rafferty - Snakes And Ladders 1980
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The 2023 Abbey Road half-speed master. Beautiful!

Can’t believe this was only £12.99 from Assai Records. Absolute steal.
January 25, 2025 at 9:40 AM
Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark - History of Modern 2010
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Their first album since 1996, and the first to feature the classic four-piece OMD line-up since 1986's The Pacific Age.

A fantastic return to form.
January 25, 2025 at 9:39 AM
Heaven 17 - At The Height Of The Fighting 12” single 1981
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Absolute belter!
January 21, 2025 at 11:11 PM
Elton John - Too Low For Zero 1983
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Played this for the first time in what seems a lifetime, and had forgotten just how good an album this is.
January 19, 2025 at 12:43 PM
a-ha - I’ve Been Losing You 12” Single 1986
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First single from the second album, ‘Scoundrel Days’
January 16, 2025 at 12:57 PM
Chris Rea - Stainsby Girls 7” single 1985
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The 80s was just bursting with great songs
January 13, 2025 at 11:12 PM
Yup!
January 12, 2025 at 7:18 PM
Big Country - The Buffalo Skinners 1993
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Ten years after ‘The Crossing’, Big Country remind everyone they are not just a bagpipe-sounding flash in the pan.

This is a fantastic album that cranks the guitars up loud and proud.
January 12, 2025 at 6:37 PM
The Farmers Boys - Phew Wow! 7” Single 1984
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Another tongue-in-cheek single from the mid-eighties. Great stuff, but I never did win Stan’s Mini 😠
January 10, 2025 at 10:32 PM
Kirsty MacColl - Terry 7” Single 1984
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A brilliant voice, and a great sense of humour

Would love to have seen her collaborate with Paul Heaton
January 10, 2025 at 8:03 AM
Big Country - Chance 12” Single 1983
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🎶 From your father's hand
That always seemed like a fist
Reaching out to make you pay 🎶
January 8, 2025 at 12:17 AM
ABC - The Lexicon of Love 1982
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Bought this on cassette when it came out, then on CD

Ultimately succumbed to MP3, then streaming.

Now I finally own it on vinyl. Sounds as glorious as it looks.

Without question the best they ever made, with nothing that followed coming close.
January 5, 2025 at 11:14 AM
The Pretenders - Back On The Chain Gang 7” Single 1982
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My favourite Pretenders song
January 2, 2025 at 4:02 PM
Heaven 17 - How Men Are 1984
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Still a favourite of mine, getting regular spins
December 31, 2024 at 9:39 PM
Electric Light Orchestra - A New World Record 1976
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If ‘Out of the Blue’ was ELOs Opus Magnum, then ANWR was a more than fitting Overture.

Bristling with the classic ELO sound, this record is up there as one of the best.
December 27, 2024 at 9:25 PM
Jona Lewie - Stop The Cavalry 7” Single 1980
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The best Christmas single ever

I was 18, in the army, and out in a cold, snowy Duisburg when this came out ❤️
December 23, 2024 at 10:31 AM
Electric Light Orchestra - Secret Messages 1983
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The glory days had passed when this came along, but still a very decent record. Has, in my opinion, stood the test of time better than Discovery, which was a massive commercial success.
December 20, 2024 at 10:52 PM