20 posts
Lost & Found
Elton John’s life troughed in the mid-80s, with a delinquent drug habit and a stodgy body of work. His 20th album, supposedly a milestone recording for him, remains the least…
Lost & Found: Nick Heyward – Postcards From Home
A doubt has always nagged about the British record-buying public that they took for granted one of the best writers of charming 80s pop, as Nick Heyward’s solo career only…
Lost & Found: Gatecrashing – Living In A Box
Living In A Box’s second album, released in 1989, is a much more polished, confident, layered follow-up to the eponymous debut that had gone unnoticed thanks to the total dominance…
Lost & Found: Trans – Neil Young
Even in the wildly disparate back catalogue of Neil Young, 1982’s Trans stands out like an electronic sore thumb. It was hugely controversial among his fans, as the Canadian singer-songwriter’s…
Lost & Found: Persuasion – Adam Ant
After the reissues and tours for the first two Adam And The Ants albums, Adam Ant’s next project is to be a brand new album to follow 2013’s Adam Ant…
Lost & Found: Mainframe – 5 Minutes
Purveyors of some of the finest cult electro-pop you may never have heard, Mainframe were notable in part for their use of (and their involvement in the development of) the…
Lost & Found: Your Kiss Is A Weapon – Engine Room
If you’d blinked then you would have missed this fantastic all-guns-blazing non-hit from 1985. It was the work of Richard Strange, who has since had more success as an actor…
Lost & Found: Espiritu – Conquistador
File this one under “Why On Earth Weren’t They Massive?”. Espiritu– in their best, early period –were a duo of singer Vanessa Quinones and instrumentalist Chris Taplin. When Quinones moved…
Lost & Found: Ring a Ding Ding – Perils Of Plastic
A definitive slice of mid-Eighties sophisti-pop, this and all of Perils Of Plastic’s singles remain absent from iTunes and even compilation CDs. A short-lived duo of some pedigree, they were,…
Lost & Found: Soul Mining by The The
When the musical history books are written, The The – Matt Johnson’s arthouse indie group – will largely be remembered for the album that introduced them to the masses, 1986…