Links

• Operation: Mindcrime, by Queensrÿche
• Sad Wings of Destiny, by Judas Priest
• Resist, by Within Temptation
• Blind, by Corrosion of Conformity

• Pretty Hate Machine, by Nine Inch Nails
• Concentration, by Machines of Loving Grace
• Metropolis, by Sister Machine Gun
• 21st Century Boys, by Sigue Sigue Sputnik
• This is the Day… This is the Hour… This is This!, by Pop Will Eat Itself
• Live Code, by Front 242
• Geography, by Front 242

Inspired by a fediverse conversation about how '80s the '80s were (more '80s than you can believe):

• Maybe It's Live, by Robert Palmer: Lot of great rock/dance/almost bluesy songs.
• Notorious, by Duran Duran: Rio was good pop, but Notorious is the one that actually impressed me. They could rock out when they had to.
• Miami Vice, by Jan Hammer: The sound of the '80s.
• The Power Station: 1985, Robert Palmer, the rock half of Duran Duran, and a Chic ("le freak") made an awesome video and a whole album of rock/synth.
• Riptide, by Robert Palmer: His breakout, with of course the video.
• Airwolf: The greatest TV show of all time. There is apparently an entire album of Airwolf Themes but I can't find it anywhere convenient.
• Harold F, by Harold Faltermeyer: Axel F, the Beverly Hills Cop song. But he scored everything else, too, like Fletch Lives.
• Living in Fear, by The Power Station: A decade later, they reunited. I barely know this album at all, '90s I was too much into metal & industrial to still like my '80s pop.

And then looking this up, I discovered Robert Palmer died in 2003, age 54. Nobody told me! guardian obituary

• Welcome Oblivion, by How to Destroy Angels: Trent Reznor, Mariqueen Maandig, Atticus Ross.
• SoundDiv EP, by Icon of Coil
• Seren EP, by Icon of Coil
• Dark Passenger, by Decoded Feedback
• The Blinding Dark, by Covenant
• Below the City, by Thyx
• All Good Things, by Machines

Some mechanical music, mostly more optimistic than usual. Got a long week ahead, try to make it thru.

• Automatic, by VNV Nation
• Futureperfect, by VNV Nation
• Nein Danke, by Apoptygma Berzerk
• Rocket Science, by Apoptygma Berzerk
• Tanzomat, by And One
• Fragment (deluxe), by Project Pitchfork
• Contact, by UFO

We had some good machines
But they don't work no more
I loved you once
Don't love you anymore
—Shriekback, Faded Flowers

• Faded Flowers, by Shriekback: SUPER annoying, album Oil & Gold isn't on any streaming site now. But you should get it, by raising the black flag & slitting throats if necessary.
• Intro & Nemesis, by Shriekback: Everybody happy as the dead come home.
• Sacred City, by Shriekback: And fucking iTunes^W "native" Apple Music today isn't giving me share links, so I had to find them on the web version. NOTHING WORKS.
• Machines of Loving Grace
• Savage (songs from a broken world), by Gary Numan
• Intruder, by Gary Numan
• Initial Command, by Front Line Assembly