we listen so fast: forgotten/unkown/unloved 80s we are listening to.

* reminds me of gym class that winter as the teacher tried to get us to properly rotate nine-person vollyball teams.

"when our love passed out on the clash"

that american albums list is some serious 8th grade flashback stuff. its a lot of what kids were listening to where i was. i had bought kings of the wild frontier in 1980 so i was already well on my way to becoming whatever the hell i became. new wave/punk/metal fan of the 80s.

1980 was that weird year where my favorite bands were judas priest, the kinks, and adam & the ants.

yeah the american lists are so "what i talk about when i am talking about the 80s."

it was utterly immersive omnipresent and hard to avoid. there's like 20 other charts posted above and there were like 8 ppl hearing that lol.

Great post, Scott. Kinda wild that the Geordie cover of Ike and Tina would end up being an AC/DC audition around this same time. Wild to see the Misunderstood archival album in the indie chart.

cherry red and john peel were misunderstood super fans.

this is certainly handy to have online.

https://peel.fandom.com/wiki/Misunderstood

i actually read that book-length story of the Misunderstood that Mike Stax wrote for Ugly Things magazine. it could be a slog but the Peel stuff was always interesting.

Weird thing was that IIRC there was still one last part of that story to go about what happened after the band fell apart and I don't think that ever got published?

i don't remember. i thought it went on to Juicy Lucy and the move to England and all that and someone dropping out and going to India...? its all a blur. that thing was very very long.

i was a teenage Shop Assistants and Fuzzbox fan but i didn't know about Chin-Chin!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1nBX1qVGDd4

chilly!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FlUx5cPLAM0

do i need to listen to Will & The Bushmen or The Windbreakers?

Trouser Press was hot on the Windbreakers, but the one record I bought never warranted a second listen.
I think I mentally file them with Dwight Twilley: meat and potatoes, straight ahead, workmanlike rock that I don't get what the big deal is.

this one's for you, ILM.

https://i.discogs.com/Di3DC6jffrS6iEmPzXDzXRa7ZXwH2X_3G8EVGHB19lY/rs:fit/g:sm/q:90/h:594/w:376/czM6Ly9kaXNjb2dz/LWRhdGFiYXNlLWlt/YWdlcy9SLTE1MjA5/MTE1LTE1ODgxMzA2/OTUtMTM3MS5wbmc.jpeg

https://i.discogs.com/T0vLIOZvEiwjHeOvBOqoQdpr5bkeoVystZ6raP8mNwI/rs:fit/g:sm/q:90/h:598/w:374/czM6Ly9kaXNjb2dz/LWRhdGFiYXNlLWlt/YWdlcy9SLTE1MjA5/MTE1LTE1ODgxMzA2/OTctMjE3NC5wbmc.jpeg

original title. because, yes, there are have to be different versions.

https://i.discogs.com/ghpzI7-ZFgy-3Rs1vLUqURdtneGvCEoErn8SrTBDK0c/rs:fit/g:sm/q:90/h:585/w:600/czM6Ly9kaXNjb2dz/LWRhdGFiYXNlLWlt/YWdlcy9SLTEwMjY5/Nzg1LTE1MDA3OTMw/MjctMTI0Ni5qcGVn.jpeg

https://i.discogs.com/EGS_ezCzE-pe1msJqEJbXFS_JAoN65rQOcnNCugHwkk/rs:fit/g:sm/q:90/h:587/w:600/czM6Ly9kaXNjb2dz/LWRhdGFiYXNlLWlt/YWdlcy9SLTEwMjY5/Nzg1LTE1MDA3OTMw/MzEtMTg1OC5qcGVn.jpeg