Ah yes. It landed at #20 in Christgau's Pazz & Jop for the year, above Closer (??) and immediately below Scary Monsters. The top five were London Calling, The River, Remain In Light, Pretenders and the US version of PiL's second album. UB40 didn't make the list at all, although a Specials album did ("Ska is/was a reactionary fad in England--white kids turning on to the black music of a time safely past"), as did a bunch of other great albums -- Off the Wall, Making Movies, Get Happy, Dirty Minds, and Peter Gabriel III.
It was a good year for music. But I'll never miss high school.
1980 was the year I left Wagner College's music program for the Queens College music program (to my everlasting regret, but I could no longer afford Wagner and my violin teacher had retired from teaching). It was the year before my first "nervous breakdown" (later I discovered it was a "psychotic break" but nobody knew about these things back in 1981).
Now that I'm older, and my life is much better and more stable and healthy, I can look back on those years without pain, and I'm enjoying listening to music from that period - Blondie, Elvis Costello and the Attractions, the Ramones, Joy Division and The Clash, among others.
You're going to make me spend money on Amazon! Oy! And good for you for having a turntable that still works!
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And the Stones had released Emotional Rescue!
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It was a good year for music. But I'll never miss high school.
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Now that I'm older, and my life is much better and more stable and healthy, I can look back on those years without pain, and I'm enjoying listening to music from that period - Blondie, Elvis Costello and the Attractions, the Ramones, Joy Division and The Clash, among others.
You're going to make me spend money on Amazon! Oy! And good for you for having a turntable that still works!
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Tis great music. But like I said, this deluxe version doesn't seem to be available on Amazon. Email me. :-)
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