Track Record by Joan Armatrading. Joan is in a running race starting position on top of a piano. The LP is to the right on the turntable.

Joan Armatrading
Track Record
A&M 1983

Ok. One more. I just flipped this one in the rack and had to play it. The As seem to be very 80s heavy I must say. ‘Drop The Pilot’ is a perfect pop song I think.

Anyway, the last A. I’ll move on to Bs, but not tonight.

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A-ha, Hunting High And Low, the cover is on the hifi and the record is on the turntable to the right.

The inner sleeve. The band looking moody to the right of the lyrics.

a-ha
Hunting High And Low
WB 1985

Ok, so I’ve had this for years. Decades. And I always thought it was ok, a snapshot of the time. And *that* groundbreaking video of course. But the recent Record Store Day re-release made me have a re-listen.

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Laurie Anderson’s Big Science LP cover on the hifi with the red vinyl LP to the right on the turntable. The cover features Anderson in a white suit with short cropped hair and sunglasses, arms outstretched.

Laurie Anderson
Big Science
Nonesuch 2021 repress

From The Art Of Noise, to the queen of avante garde. One of those rare records where I always start on side 2. I wish I had seen her perform these pieces live as by all accounts they were incredible.

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The front cover of The Art Of Noise album, Who’s Afraid Of….the cover is leaning on top of the CD player which is on top of the hifi stack. To the right the LP itself is spinning on the turntable. The cover features two masks, comedy and tragedy.

The Art Of Noise
Who’s Afraid Of…!
ZTT (Island) 1984

If I remember rightly this was something like 25p many years ago. Side 1 has some *very* small paint blobs on, hence the low price, which I haven’t had the energy to try and remove, but the rest of it plays well.

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Amyl And The Sniffers
Rough Trade 2019

Bought this on the strength of the great Cartoon Darkness. It sounds like a debut too. It has the energy of The Jam’s debut and other mid 70s punk records. It’s early days but I think I prefer this over Cartoon Darkness.

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Adam And The Ants
Kings Of The Wild Frontier
CBS 1980

This album along with Prince Charming and the earlier Dirk Wears White Sox are essential new wave / post-punk listening I think.

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