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...something that you just don't hear talked about enough. Nothing too common but not necessarily ridiculously obscure either. Maybe you used to hear it back in the day but now it's inexplicably forgotten by most.

[i]It simply has to be GREAT in your opinion and you're itching to turn the rest of us on to it and share it.[/i]

I'll start with Killing Joke's "Follow the Leaders". When I first heard it on KROQ, I remember thinking it must have been a great new track by Adam and the Ants. It's far superior to their all-too-common "Eighties" and has a great creative construction, crunchy heavy drums, kiler bass line, and defiant energetic vocals. A classic IMHO from 1981's "what's THIS for...!":

<a href="http://home.comcast.net/~myirwin/Follow_the_Leaders.mp3">Follow the Leaders.mp3</a>

"Maxx Axe" by Roger Troutman (ZAPP, ROGER, Human Body). Fun and funky jam that few folks have heard, but it's not too hard to find. "The Many Facets of Roger" is still available on CD (as far as I know). Great stuff.(Don't let the goofy cover fool you - it's amazing stuff for the most part). I'll throw a vinyl rip on here, hopefully the Record Company God's won't look too poorly on me. If you like this song, you really should look into Roger's work.

Maxx Axe (ROGER) 1982
http://s50.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=3Q6J ... 9KT92XLPKA

http://electricdreams71.blogspot.com/

Dubh Chapter, Touch and Go. Really good, tight power pop.

I haven't been able to get much info on this band, and there stuff (to the best of my knowledge and research) hasn't been released on CD. This track courtesy of mario, aka mskremember.

http://s29.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=0EAR ... DHEFVKRK1C

Excellent idea, Blirmeister! [8D]

Like tiger_mn, I don't know a lot about the group Minicured Noise, other than they made a great song titled "Faith" in about 1980. Here is a bit about the group:

http://www.tangents.co.uk/tangents/main ... noise.html

and here is the song:


http://s64.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=2DBC ... HCWU4UFL42

<img src="http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v647/dbince/eight.gif"><img src="http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v647/dbince/number6.gif">

Shona Laing - 'Soviet Snow'

"Glad I'm not a Kennedy' is all anybody knows from her but this song is better...

http://s40.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=2HD5 ... HZCOA5IGGA

thanks to tiger for helping me do this...and to yousendit for having free tech support to undo tiger's help and show me the right way......

Good pick Waukena. Someone a while back posted that song here, with multiple versions of it. They all sounded terrific.

http://electricdreams71.blogspot.com/

Excellent topic Blir.

Cherry Vanilla never gets much recognition for her role in punk's early days, or her participation in the old early to mid-70's Max's Kansas City scene. She put out two lps in the late 70's, which have really grown on me. I ordered a double cd of the albums from her website & she even autographed the cover for me!

This track - Amanda, has a real Blondie sound to it. It's from her Venus D'vinyl album. The original cover had her decapitated head on a turn table watching the stylus draw ever closer. It was censored for a more generic cover of her on a motorcycle.

http://s54.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=3BEH ... AXJ23BMLCD

I hear that she's a publicist for Vangelis these days...

If I didn't know any better, I would have thought it WAS Blondie. Nice song.

http://electricdreams71.blogspot.com/

Excellent ! Thanx for "Maxx Axe" !

[quote][i]Originally posted by waukena[/i]
thanks to tiger for helping me do this...and to yousendit for having free tech support to undo tiger's help and show me the right way......
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Sorry - I need to brush up on speaking "moron"..........

Hey DjFredVal, if you're interested, I have Roger Troutmans's first album, it was a regional release, and never issued on cassette or cd (I scored it from Roger himself, it was still in the shrink wrap!). It's not as tight as his later work (More Bounce, Do Wah Ditty, etc.) but a good listen anyhoo. Let me know if you want me to share the love. Now that I think of it, I should post the album in it's entirety on my blog. The sleeve has no copyright notice, and Warner Brother's only released two of the songs off of it on a compilation. And I doubt that Roger Troutman would mind (he was actually a little embarrassed by it. Don't know why. It sounded good.) Useless trivia: Q: Guess who designed Zapp's touring brochures and posters during Roger's last set of shows? A: Me! My lucky ass was at the right place at the right time, and I got to know that incredible talented man, if only a little bit. I need to see if I can dig up some of those old posters.

http://electricdreams71.blogspot.com/

Axodry - You

One of my favorite late 80s Synthpop tracks...it's an early production of Talla 2XLC, now a Techno DJ who back then really made good music.

http://s45.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=0I7F ... 5Z3JX8UGEF

Great topic Blir!!

I may have posted this song before, but either way it's great.

Loose Joints - Tell You Today
http://s64.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=1IGM ... IJ94U9TQRL

Yep, you did, Marie, but last time it was the extended mix. It's nice to now have the single version.

http://electricdreams71.blogspot.com/

Data - Fever of love

http://s55.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=1AFB ... VV2A6Z4S8O

I know that's 2 great songs now for me, but I couldn't resist:-)
Great band, great song..always tried to get their best of called "Elegant Machinery", but it's almost impossible..

Wavedancer101