This is me in round about 1980 with four of my best friends. From left that's Garth, Andreas, Ben, (RIP Ben,) myself below and Eddie. I was fourteen then fifteen, awkward and shy, not really quite myself yet. Music helped me very much to become myself in the next few years, certainly as much as anything else..
I probably only bought the XTC album in the actual calendar year. I also wasn't listening to much of this at the time, I've accumulated all thirty albums since. This is a fabulous list of records, mostly white and guitar driven, but I'd say that reflects generally what the best albums that year were. We were so spoilt for great stuff that year that excellent records by The Clash, UB40, The Human League, Adam & the Ants and Grace Jones among many others didn't make my list
- Talking Heads - Remain In Light
- Dexys Midnight Runners - Searching for the Young Soul Rebels
- The Cure - Seventeen Seconds
- The Beat - I Just Can't Stop It
- The Feelies - Crazy Rhythms
- David Bowie - Scary Monsters
- The Teardrop Explodes - Kilimanjaro
- Prince - Dirty Mind
- Joy Division - Closer
- The Jam - Sound Affects
- Young Marble Giants - Colossal Youth
- XTC - Black Sea
- Suicide - The Second Album
- Soft Boys - Underwater Moonlight
- Echo & the Bunnymen - Crocodiles
- Specials - More Specials
- Magazine - The Correct Use of Soap
- Japan - Gentlemen Take Polaroids
- Pylon - Gyrate
- The B52's - Wild Planet
- Pretenders - Pretenders
- Tom Waits - Heartattack & Vine
- The Undertones - Hypnotised
- Simple Minds - Empires & Dance
- Blondie - AutoAmerican
- The Psychedelic Furs - The Psychedelic Furs
- The Monochrome Set - Strange Boutique
- The Selecter - Too Much Pressure
- Peter Gabriel - III
- The Passions - Michael & Miranda
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