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ninety albums

A. C./ D. C. - For Those About to Rock (We Salute You)

The Adolescents

Agent Orange - Living in Darkness

The Au Pairs - Playing with a Different Sex

Bauhaus - Mask

Black Flag - Damaged

Black Sabbath - Mob Rules

Black Uhuru - Red

The Blasters

Blue Öyster Cult - Fire of Unknown Origin

Bow Wow Wow - See Jungle! See Jungle! Go Join Your Gang Yeah, City All Over! Go Ape Crazy!

Clarence Gatemouth Brown - Alright Again!

Cabaret Voltaire - Red Mecca

The Cars - Shake It Up

Rosanne Cash - Seven Year Ache

The Comsat Angels - Sleep No More

Kid Creole and the Coconuts - Fresh Fruit in Foreign Places

The Cure - Faith

Holger Czukay - On the Way to the Peak of Normal

The dB's - Stands for Decibels

Def Leppard - High 'n' Dry

Deutsch-Amerikanische Freundschaft - Alles Ist Gut

D. O. A. - Hardcore '81

Kevin Dunn and the Regiment of Women - The Judgement of Paris

Duran Duran

Echo and the Bunnymen - Heaven Up Here

Einstürzende Neubauten - Kollaps

Brian Eno/ David Byrne - My Life in the Bush of Ghosts

The Fall - Slates [10-L. P.]

The Flesh Eaters - A Minute to Pray, a Second to Die

Dan Fogelberg - The Innocent Age

Foreigner - 4

The Go-Go's - Beauty and the Beat

The Gun Club - Fire of Love

Daryl Hall/ John Oates - Private Eyes

Heaven 17 - Penthouse and Pavement

The Human League - Dare

Inner Life

Rick James - Street Songs

Japan - Tin Drum

Joan Jett and the Blackhearts - I Love Rock-n-Roll

Grace Jones - Nightclubbing

Journey - Escape

King Crimson - Discipline

Kraftwerk - Computer World

The Lounge Lizards

Teena Marie - It Must Be Magic

The Marine Girls - Beach Party

Martha and the Muffins - This Is the Ice Age

Massacre - Killing Time

Material - Memory Serves

Men at Work - Business as Usual

The Method Actors - Little Figures

Motörhead - No Sleep 'til Hammersmith

The Neville Brothers - Fiyo on the Bayou

New Order - Movement

Stevie Nicks - Bella Donna

Klaus Nomi

Eiichi Ohtaki - A Long Vacation

Yoko Ono - Season of Glass

Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark - Architecture and Morality

Ozzy Osbourne - Diary of a Madman

Tav Falco's Panther Burns - Behind the Magnolia Curtain

The Plimsouls

The Police - Ghost in the Machine

The Psychedelic Furs - Talk Talk Talk

The Raincoats - Odyshape

The Red Crayola with Art and Language - Kangaroo?

The Replacements - Sorry Ma, Forgot to Take Out the Trash

Riot - Fire Down Under

Rip Rig and Panic - God

The Rolling Stones - Tattoo You

Rush - Moving Pictures

Siouxsie and the Banshees - Juju

Soft Cell - Non-Stop Erotic Cabaret

Squeeze - East Side Story

Billy Squier - Don't Say No

The Stray Cats

Yukihiro Takahashi - Neuromantic

The Television Personalities - And Don't the Kids Just Love It

This Heat - Deceit

T. S. O. L. - Dance with Me

The Tubes - The Completion Backward Principle

Univers Zero - Ceux de Dehors

U2 - October

Luther Vandross - Never Too Much

Van Halen - Fair Warning

Was (Not Was)

X - Wild Gift

Yellow Magic Orchestra - Technodelic

forty-nine singles and deep cuts

Aneka - 'Japanese Boy', Aneka

Adam Ant - 'Stand and Deliver', Prince Charming

Toni Basil - 'Mickey', Word of Mouth

Black Flag - Six Pack [E. P.]

Black Flag - 'Louie Louie'

Kim Carnes - 'Bette Davis Eyes', Mistaken Indentity

The Clean - 'Tally Ho!'

The Clean - Boodle Boodle Boodle [E. P.]

Phil Collins - 'In the Air Tonight', Face Value

Patrick Cowley - 'Megatron Man', Megatron Man

Patrick Cowley - 'Menergy', Menergy

Randy Crawford - 'You Might Need Somebody', Secret Combination

The Dead Kennedys - 'Too Drunk to Fuck', Give Me Convenience or Give Me Death [1987]

The Dead Kennedys - 'Nazi Punks Fuck Off'; new version, In God We Trust, Inc. [E. P.]

The Descendents - Fat E.P.

Earth, Wind and Fire - 'Let's Groove', Raise!

E. S. G. [E. P.]

Falco - 'Der Kommissar', Einzelhaft [1982]

Taana Gardner - 'Heartbeat'

The J Geils Band - 'Centerfold', Freeze Frame

Genesis - 'No Reply', Abacab

Government Issue - Legless Bull E. P.

Billy Idol - 'Dancing with Myself', Don't Stop [E. P.]

Judas Priest - 'Heading Out to the Highway', Point of Entry

Loverboy - 'Working for the Weekend', Get Lucky

The Minutemen - The Punch Line [E. P.]

The Misfits - 3 Hits from Hell [E. P.]

The Misfits - 'Halloween'

Mission of Burma - Signals, Calls, and Marches [E.P.]

Mötley Crüe - 'Live Wire', Too Fast for Love

New Order - 'Ceremony'; new version, Substance [1987]

Olivia Newton-John - 'Physical', Physical

Juice Newton - 'Queen of Hearts', Juice

Yoko Ono - 'Walking on Thin Ice'

Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers - 'The Waiting', Hard Promises

Prince - 'Controversy', Controversy

Queen/ David Bowie - 'Under Pressure', [Queen] Hot Space [1982]

Diana Ross/ Lionel Richie - 'Endless Love', [Various artists] Endless Love: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack

Romeo Void - 'Never Say Never', Benefactor [1982]

Pete Shelley - 'Homosapien', Homosapien

Sparks - 'Tips for Teens', Whomp That Sucker

The Specials - 'Ghost Town'

Rick Springfield - 'Jessie's Girl', Working Class Dog

38 Special - 'Hold On Loosely', Wild-Eyed Southern Boys

Tommy Tutone - '867-5309/ Jenny', Tommy Tutone 2

Tom Tom Club - 'Wordy Rappinghood', Tom Tom Club

Tom Tom Club - 'Genius of Love', Tom Tom Club

Unlimited Touch - 'I Hear Music in the Streets', Unlimited Touch

Kim Wilde - 'Kids in America', Kim Wilde

three archival and compilation albums

C81

Frank Zappa - Shut Up and Play Yer Guitar [box-set version containing three L. P.s, each also released separately]

Métal Urbain - Les Hommes Morts Sont Dangereux