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The best 80s album was released by a mysterious man that no one knows about...
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What are the criteria?
Bobs Big Boy
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TheKaeptain
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Lol I knew Ed would be the dude that shot the cover. He did so many covers in the 80's and 90's. If you guys ever get a chance to meet him I say do it. Really nice man.
Admiral Bone to Pick
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I'd be a little more generous towards this album if you didn't claim it was the greatest album of the 1980s. But it's honestly somewhat boring. When I was listening to the song in the OP all I could think of was albums that were way better.
shoplifter
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I bought it, it's better than Bon Iver
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All these years later I still chuckle at what a fucking moron that guy is.
Uh, OP, that was some guy mumbling over church piano music. That was not good man. That's actually really, really bad.
One should probably begin with it being good.
Now we're getting somewhere, what else have you got?
One should probably begin with it being good.
Now we're getting somewhere, what else have you got?
kaiju
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I uploaded a few more songs that weren't on youtube, check them out:
Paris France Transit - Ego
Xynn - Space/Dreaming Again
Check out the Daft Punk sound at 5:00.
More Xynn: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r0LszL8c6I8
And if you like 70's Space-Funk, this is a must: Automatic Man - My Pearl
This is a great spacey instrumental, almost a crime it wasn't on youtube previously:
To Neto - Zuzu
And another instrumental I uploaded - Richard Vimal - Septentrion
One more: Laza Ristovski - Domina II
Sorry to derail thread, we might just need an obscure vinyl thread up in here!
Alcoholikaust
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As others have said: Thriller or London Calling are deserving as Album of the 80's
This is ok-but just ok. The other albums are fantastic.
This is ok-but just ok. The other albums are fantastic.
iscipline,_King_Crimson.jpgShineALight
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Nice post, looking forward to going through these when I'm in front of the computer.
Been listening to Lewis for almost a year now and it never occurred to me that there may be some hoaxing going on here. Regardless, great album and glad to see it finding a wider audience.
teruterubozu
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It's funny cuz in the 80s this would have been the Windham Hill shit your aunt listened to, but today this guy's an ambient indie master.
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All these years later I still chuckle at what a fucking moron that guy is.
It seems you've got the material to start one, sounds like a good idea.
Woahhhh wait, if this is legit where did you get this?
Edit: googled it, besides the cover, i didnt see the above pic but other photos of him in black and white. Interesting.
TheKaeptain
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probably from Edward Colver.
kaiju
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Ok I'll get on it. I'll post it once I have assembled an extensive list of albums.
Angry Grimace
Two cannibals are eating a clown. One turns to the other and says "does something taste funny to you?"
Its the internet, so this is probably just marketing bullshit.
Its probably just some regular album recorded fairly recently that they pushed as "by a mysterious dude from the 80s no one can find" to add hype to it on Pitchfork and such.
Its probably just some regular album recorded fairly recently that they pushed as "by a mysterious dude from the 80s no one can find" to add hype to it on Pitchfork and such.
Admiral Bone to Pick
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Gonna have to disagree with you on best 80s album there OP:
Their early work was a little too new wave for my tastes, but when Sports came out in '83, I think they really came into their own, commercially and artistically. The whole album has a clear, crisp sound, and a new sheen of consummate professionalism that really gives the songs a big boost. He's been compared to Elvis Costello, but I think Huey has a far more bitter, cynical sense of humor.
Their early work was a little too new wave for my tastes, but when Sports came out in '83, I think they really came into their own, commercially and artistically. The whole album has a clear, crisp sound, and a new sheen of consummate professionalism that really gives the songs a big boost. He's been compared to Elvis Costello, but I think Huey has a far more bitter, cynical sense of humor.
kaiju
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I see where your coming from, but you're wrong on this one. I saw this album in record store bins as far back as the 90's. It's legit.
Ignatz Mouse
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Gonna have to disagree with you on best 80s album there OP:
Their early work was a little too new wave for my tastes, but when Sports came out in '83, I think they really came into their own, commercially and artistically. The whole album has a clear, crisp sound, and a new sheen of consummate professionalism that really gives the songs a big boost. He's been compared to Elvis Costello, but I think Huey has a far more bitter, cynical sense of humor.
Well done, sir.
The earliest I can find of this album on the internet is someone saying they owned it back in 2010, predating the youtube uploads by a few months, the user has regularly used the site since 2008 and has taken the time to list almost 4,000 albums as being in their collection
If the whole thing is a hoax, thats commitment.
Aspects to the story do sound fishy as hell though. "He went and recorded more music under a different name... that we wont tell you for some reason!"
If the whole thing is a hoax, thats commitment.
Aspects to the story do sound fishy as hell though. "He went and recorded more music under a different name... that we wont tell you for some reason!"
Machine
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If it's real, it sounds like it was a vanity pressing. Probably not more than a couple hundred in existence. Seems a little obscure to be seeing in record store bins on even an infrequent basis.
Giant Robot
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Gonna have to disagree with you on best 80s album there OP:
Their early work was a little too new wave for my tastes, but when Sports came out in '83, I think they really came into their own, commercially and artistically. The whole album has a clear, crisp sound, and a new sheen of consummate professionalism that really gives the songs a big boost. He's been compared to Elvis Costello, but I think Huey has a far more bitter, cynical sense of humor.
sixteen-bit
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I remember this coming up in the Stuck in the Past - a 33 RPM thread for vinyl listeners and collectors
Admiral Bone to Pick
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In '87, Huey released this, "Fore!": their most accomplished album. I think their undisputed masterpiece is "Hip to be Square"; a song so catchy, most people probably don't listen to the lyrics. But they should, because it's not just about the pleasures of conformity and the importance of trends, it's also a personal statement about the band itself!
Cosmic Bus
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This isn't Pitchfork, it's been a project the dudes at Light in the Attic and Numero worked on for years - which, for what it's worth, are probably the two most respected labels who deal almost exclusively with rescuing lost/rare music and giving these artists well-deserved recognition decades after the fact.
The backstory isn't exactly comprised of anything that unusual for the time period - it's pretty perfect, really - but even if it's not entirely factual, who cares? It'd be very out of character for this label, for one thing, but at the end of the day it's just some interesting copy. The important part is that they're getting music into the hands of people (me included!) who've been interested in having it for a while now without having to drop hundreds on an OG copy on ebay.
Inherent internet cynicism is the only "thing" that's worth griping about here.
Angry Grimace
Two cannibals are eating a clown. One turns to the other and says "does something taste funny to you?"
You saw it in record store bins, yet nobody know what it was until like three months ago? Still guessing its some kind of marketing ploy.
The fact that the second one shows up right after the first one comes out is one hell of a coincidence. If it's actually a modern guy making this music that would be awesome.
ShineALight
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BravesCountry
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Wow this shit is good. People, don't skip this
That's some straight up John Carpenter synth on the first snippet.
crazyrabbits
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I listened to the YT videos of half the songs from L'Amour - utterly amazing stuff.
AAAnonymous
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1983? So this thing should be on cassette...
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