Category: 80s/New Wave

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It’s A Sin

Pet Shop Boys – Actually (1987)

I remember listening to this on my bicycle one evening as I was heading home down Market Street from downtown. Funny how that particular memory is burnt into my memory, but the actual year this happened (91? 92?) or why I had been downtown on my bike after dark remains lost to time. All I know is that this disk was part of a trilogy of recordings I’d actuired and had on heavy rotation at the time. The other two were George Michael’s Listen Without Prejudice and Bette Midler’s Some People’s Lives—not that either of those help me pinpoint a specific year.

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A Fun Afternoon Soundtrack

Various Artists – Dancing Queens (2001)

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Afternoon Dance Party

Disco Discharge – European Connection (2010)

I had never heard this track before (weird, I know, right?) but I absolutely love it. It plays me.

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Early Afternoon Listening

Alan Parsons Project: Ammonia Avenue (1984)

While this wasn’t the first album I bought on CD, it was among the first half dozen for sure and was the one I most vividly remember playing the fuck out of after I got it.  Don’t Answer Me and Pipeline at angelic, make-your-ears-bleed volume. That front-and-center sax riff in Pipeline…chef’s kiss. That’s all I can say.

One of these days I need to make a compilation Minidisc of nothing but the instrumental cuts from APP’s albums.

Pet Shop Boys: Please (1986)

The soundtrack of my life for the first few months I lived in San Francisco.

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