Top...or, should I say Bottom...5 80's Albums I bought used reminding me that my BS Detector was running perfect when they were released.
1) Stop Start - Modern English
After one fine Pop album, there was Ricochet Days...and then there was this.
2) Folk of the 80's (Part III) - Men Without Hats
Liked the Part 2, no problem there, but most of the songs here sounded like repetitive left overs.
3) Ever After - The Three O'clock
Got this in the Cut Out bin about two years after the release. The tape is no longer in the collection, but the stench from this is still lingering. They used to be pretty good, but everything was buried in ill-fitting production by then.
4) Big Thing - Duran Duran
Wanting to try out at least one Post-Notorious LP just before "The Wedding Album" re-invigorated their career for a year, I heard a reason why some albums dropped into the Cut Outs by The 90's. One good song, "All She Wants," and that's all.
5) Sensible Singles - Captain Sensible
I had some high hopes for some hidden treasure getting the LP used dirt cheap. Seriously. I thought being from The Damned may have had SOME effect on his A&M-released solo work moving into the Commercial stew as his taste in music clearly can move into some tasty Garage and Psych. Well...No. OK, maybe a couple of sides, including "One Christmas Catalogue," but that's about it, and the cheesy cover of Pink Floyd's "It Would Be So Nice" (already cheesy enough as it was!) is not one of them. (Already aware of the singles from The Damned's Anything, one of them a very over-produced cover of "Alone Again Or," I decided not to even survive their Bad 80's album)
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