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• This Year's Model, by Elvis Costello & the Attractions
• The Fine Art of Surfacing, by The Boomtown Rats
• Parallel Lines, by Blondie

• Beautiful Life, by Rick Astley
• The Very Best of Johnny Hates Jazz
• Four Winds, by Tangier: Switching to more bluesy here.
• Freeways, by Bachman-Turner Overdrive

What always amuses me about the Rick Roll is I grew up with Rick Astley's music, he's a really good R&B-pop singer. "Never Gonna Give You Up" isn't my favorite of his songs, but he also sang way too much about love and romance and sometimes "god" (whatever that nonsense is), not my favorite subjects. Anyway, haven't heard his new album, post 50.

• Flamingo Drive-In, by Quixotic
• Stray, by Diskette Park
• Trackpoint, by Diskette Park
• PS-EXE.exe, by System ST91
• VaporDisk, by System ST91
• Better Than Reality, by LukHash
• Akuma II, by Alex & Tokyo Rose

Several of these /via xtheo, which is a fantastic synthwave & '80s tumbleblog/moodboard.

Note with Soundcloud, you need to hit the hamburger menu at the bottom right of the page, and turn off "Autoplay Station" or it'll randomly insert other artists. Which might be what you want other times, but not when listening to one artist. Bandcamp works like a sane thing.

• Dark Side of the Moon, by Pink Floyd
• Wish You Were Here, by Pink Floyd
• The Wall, by Pink Floyd
• Tales from Topographic Oceans (Deluxe Edition), by Yes

• Technocracy, by Corrosion of Conformity
• Blind, by Corrosion of Conformity
• Sonic Brew, by Black Label Society
• Stronger than Death, by Black Label Society
• Pleasant Screams, by The Queers: I always loved "Generation of Swine" (and the Hunter S. Thompson book)

• "All I Really Need", by Machines of Loving Grace
• Machines of Loving Grace
• Concentration, by Machines of Loving Grace
• Metropolis, by Sister Machine Gun
• Future Unformed, by Sister Machine Gun
• Maschine Zeit, by Funker Vogt
• Machines Are Us, by Icon of Coil
• Diskonnekt, by Decoded Feedback
• Dark Passenger, by Decoded Feedback
• XX, by Rage Against the Machine

• Roxy Music
• For Your Pleasure, by Roxy Music
• The Man Who Sold the World, by David Bowie
• The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars, by David Bowie
• Rio, by Duran Duran
• Notorious, by Duran Duran

• A Kind of Magic, by Queen
• The Game, by Queen
• Shades of Deep Purple, by Deep Purple
• The Book of Taliesyn, by Deep Purple

• Killer, by Alice Cooper: Really just listen to "Under My Wheels", "Desperado", and "Killer".
• School's Out
• Billion Dollar Babies
• Muscle of Love: End of the original band
• Welcome to My Nightmare: First of his solo act
• Goes to Hell, by Alice Cooper

Vincent Damon Furnier's journey from glam-pop Bowie-wannabe into the "Alice Cooper" character and Sabbath-style heavy metal is these transitional albums.