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Damn You Discogs

…for once again showing me something I never knew existed and then making it so easy for me to spend money I really don’t have.

I’ve known of Just Blue—and have owned a copy of the Casablanca pressing on black vinyl since it came out in ’79 (one of those that survived the purge)—but I never knew there was also a blue vinyl pressing available on the Vogue label for the European market until a couple weeks ago. Damn you, discogs.com!

And if anyone cares, the music itself is early electronic Euro-disco…

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Blast From the Past

Certain things burn into your memory. This is an ad that appeared in the February 25th, 1978 issue of Billboard magazine. At the time I had just recently purchased Romeo & Juliet and had no idea who Alec R. Costandinos was beyond that and his work with Love and Kisses. But I loved those records, so I was determined to “collect the entire set.”

Even 40 years later I often found myself wondering if I had indeed succeeded in that endeavor. Finding this online I can confirm that yes, I have all of them in my collection—and then some—although when The Hunchback was finally released, it arrived with totally different artwork on the sleeve:

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Released 42 Years Ago Today

https://youtu.be/dsaif2nA4Yg

Boston: Boston (1976)

I could’ve sworn this came out my senior year in high school, but I guess if the interwebs are to be believed, it actually came out after I’d graduated. Like so many others, I played the hell out of it.

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Music for These Times

I discovered The Acid by way of HBO’s Sharp Objects and its use of some of their music in the soundtrack. Ambient, moody…it seems to be a perfect soundtrack for my life—and the entire country’s for that matter—these days.

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Summer of ’79

No doubt before a lot of my readers were even born, but there was a lot of really good dance music that came out that year, and specifically that summer. Ironically it also marked the death of the genre called disco, only to have it go underground for a bit and be reborn even stronger as “dance music” in the 80s, defining the sound of the entire decade.

At least that’s the way I remember it.

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Earworm

MAKE IT STOP! (Don’t get me wrong—I love this song, but it’s been on endless repeat in my head since yesterday afternoon!

Grace Jones: I’m Not Perfect (1986)

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