The rumors are true. On January 30, 1985, Hüsker Dü recorded a peak high performance to 24 track tape at Minneapolis’s Firat Avenue club in front of their hometown massive. This performance was supposed to come out as a live album later that year, but the band’s rapid upward trajectory caused priorities to shift. The tapes were shelved – thought to be possibly lost in the same 2011 house fire that consumed a precious portion of the Hüsker Dü archive. Nearly 40 years later, these tapes have been rescued from the abyss, and we’ve tasked the team at Steve Albini’s Electrical Audio on the transferring and Beau Sorensen at Tiny Telephone for the mixdowns.

Motivation was a short-lived band formed in Manchester, England by bassist and probably leader Steve Garvey, guitarist Dave Rowbotham, drummer Snuff and vocalist Dave Price.

In 1981, Byther Smith finally found the opportunity to record his first full-length album for producer Kehn Bacon and his Grits label.

L’album ‘La vita è adesso, il sogno è sempre’, pubblicato nel 1985, ha segnato un’epoca di musica e di costume, incarnando i giorni e le speranze degli anni 80. Il suo successo ineguagliato lo rende ancora oggi il disco più venduto di sempre nel nostro Paese. Questo remake celebra il 40° anniversario, reinterpretando gli undici brani con sonorità e stili attuali, senza tradirne l’essenza originale e il senso artistico. Ogni traccia è stata risuonata e cantata in studio dal vivo, con rinnovati arrangiamenti e con la presenza contemporanea di tutti i musicisti e i cantanti in sala come a creare un filo narrativo diretto tra il progetto di allora e l’idea di oggi.

Things to Come is the second English album by German singer Peter Schilling and is the English counterpart to the German album 120 Grad.

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Landmark Debut Changed Music and Introduced Once-in-a-Generation Vocalist: 14-Times-Platinum Whitney Houston Includes "How Will I Know," "Greatest Love of All," and "Saving All My Love" Sourced from the Original Master Tapes and Limited to 3,000 Numbered Copies: Mobile Fidelity's Hybrid SACD Presents 1985 Blockbuster in Audiophile Sound, Plays with Exceptional Clarity.

One of the world’s best-selling albums, Dire Straits’ Brothers In Arms, celebrates its 40th anniversary with an exquisite 3CD deluxe edition. The 3CD deluxe box features the full studio album and a previously unreleased full-length live concert from the band’s Municipal Auditorium, San Antonio tour stop in 1985. Housed in a digi-sleeve with a 28-page booklet featuring new liner notes, following new interviews with band members Mark Knopfler, John Illsley and Guy Fletcher.

Listen Like Thieves may not have been INXS's biggest album—that honor would certainly belong to its world-conquering follow-up, 1987's Kick—but it is arguably the band's best album. Its predecessor, 1984's The Swing, found INXS working out how to fuse their innate "modern-rock" edge with their growing affinity for rhythmic intensity, while Kick was the sound of a band that had buffed all of their quirkier edges away in pursuit of becoming a highly optimized hit-single machine. Right in the middle was Listen Like Thieves, the very definition of a "pivotal" album, not just for what it meant for INXS, but also for a rapidly maturing "alternative" music scene. They always had aspirations of chart dominance, but were also always highly unique in their execution, merging guitar-forward rockisms, serpentine rhythms, vocal swagger, and unconventional arrangements in a way that made them instantly identifiable and a formidable live presence.

“Open Vocal Phrases, Where Songs Come In and Out” offers an intimate unedited solo live performance recorded at Phill Niblock’s Experimental Intermedia Foundation in Downtown NYC on 12/20/85. Phill curated and produced with Arthur two concerts at EI that would become an integral part of the foundation for the final World of Echo album. Arthur titled this performance “Open Vocal Phrases, Where Songs Come In and Out”. This extraordinary performance was recorded by Steve Cellum and overseen by Phill and Arthur. Arthur would later edit sections from this performance merging it with studio material recorded at Battery Sound to finalize the World of Echo album released in 1986. “Some of it sounds so pure and clear and I am picturing him huddled around all that gear, simply magical. In my memory he didn’t play “for” the audience but was rather trying to perfect these various permutations of sound within himself…and a few of us just happened to be present” – Tom Lee

Although they're becoming less dissonant and more direct than they were on their eye-opening, self-titled mini-LP debut, and truth be told, they sounded more interesting as an all-female Boston trio before they added a (male) second guitar (the economy of Judy Grunwald's simple parts seemed to fit Beth Kaplan's lead bass parts much better), this is still the hoped-for overwhelming success fans believed was possible. The main strengths are the feminine harmonies, floating between the two ladies named above among superb melodies and fragile, haunting lyrics. Few bands could ever lay their emotions on the table with the degree of alarming frequency as we see in "Carry a Torch" (the really worrisome question to ask a lover about an ex: "Does she still carry at torch for you?" – and if the answer is yes, well, how about you too?). "Across the Sea" carries a similar but very different ache of separation, one common to bands that tour too much perhaps, and "Playground" seems fraught with concern more than any childlike romp. And good to see they finally recorded their longstanding cover of Wire's modest Pink Flag pop single masterpiece, "Fragile." An experience as much as an excellent record.

A 1985 live performance from the Velvet Underground’s cult icon! Nico’s doom-laden contralto voice, the bizarre choice of a harmonium for accompaniment, and the sheer eeriness and other-worldliness of her repertoire mark Nico as one of the most extraordinarily original performers of the rock era. On translucent blue vinyl!

30 Greatest Hits zeroes in on Aretha Franklin's prime recording period for Atlantic, from her breakout in 1967 with 'I Never Loved a Man (The Way I Love You)' through the end of 1974, during which the Queen of Soul truly reigned over the charts she averaged over one pop hit every two months. This two-disc set delivers all of her classics ('Respect,' 'Do Right Woman, Do Right Man,' '(You Make Me Feel Like) A Natural Woman,' 'Chain of Fools,' 'Think,' 'Spanish Harlem,' 'Rock Steady'), plus much more excellent material for those who won't recognize much more than the songs (and there are quite a few) that have entered the cultural consciousness ('I Say a Little Prayer,' 'The Weight,' 'Spirit in the Dark,' 'Day Dreaming'). It's a great foundation to any collection that has yet to be equaled by a pair of Rhino sets, the two-volume Very Best of Aretha Franklin from 1994 and Aretha's Best from 2001.

The album paired the group with music producer Jimmy Iovine. He had worked with artists featuring an aggressive guitar-based sound, including singer-songwriters Bruce Springsteen and Stevie Nicks, and he brought that approach to the band. Iovine particularly pushed frontman Jim Kerr, aiming for more energetic vocals.

Songs from the Big Chair is the second studio album by English pop rock band Tears for Fears, released on 25 February 1985 by Phonogram Records.

Rud's career as a jazz musician began in the 1960s in Oslo. He played in Ditlef Eckhoff's Quintet in 1965 and worked with Svein Finnerud from 1967 to 1974, with whom he recorded three LPs.