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eighty-five albums

A. B. C. - Lexicon of Love

Alabama - Mountain Music

Laurie Anderson - Big Science

The Angry Samoans - Back from Samoa

Art Zoyd - Phase IV

Asia

The Associates - Sulk

Aswad - A New Chapter of Dub

Bad Brains

The Beat - Special Beat Service

Pat Benatar - Get Nervous

The Birthday Party - Junkyard

Alpha Blondy and the Natty Rebels - Jah Glory!

Kate Bush - The Dreaming

Cabaret Voltaire - 2 x 45

John Cale - Music for a New Society

The Church - The Blurred Crusade

The Clash - Combat Rock

George Clinton - Computer Games

Phil Collins - Hello, I Must Be Going

Elvis Costello and the Attractions - Imperial Bedroom

Marshall Crenshaw

The Cure - Pornography

The Dead Kennedys - Plastic Surgery Disasters

The Descendents - Milo Goes to College

Dexys Midnight Runners - Too-Rye-Ay

Dinosaur L - 24-24 Music

Thomas Dolby - The Golden Age of Wireless

The Dream Syndicate - The Days of Wine and Roses

D Train - D Train [You're the One for Me]

Duran Duran - Rio

Donald Fagen - The Nightfly

The Fall - Hex Enduction Hour

Fear - The Record

Fleetwood Mac - Mirage

The Fleshtones - Roman Gods

Flipper - Album Generic Flipper

Fun Boy Three

Peter Gabriel[ 4] [Security]

The Gap Band IV

Marvin Gaye - Midnight Love

Daryl Hall/ John Oates - H2O

Hunters & Collectors

Icehouse - Primitive Man

Iron Maiden - The Number of the Beast

Gregory Isaacs - Night Nurse

Michael Jackson - Thriller

Judas Priest - Screaming for Vengeance

King Crimson - Beat

Kiss - Creatures of the Night

Led Zeppelin - Coda

Legal Weapon - Death of Innocence

Love Tractor

Madness Presents the Rise and Fall

M. D. C. - Millions of Dead Cops

The Misfits - Walk among Us

Mission of Burma - Vs.

The Mortal Micronotz

The Alan Parsons Project - Eye in the Sky

Prince - 1999

Psychic T. V. - Force the Hand of Chance

Raven - Wiped Out

Lou Reed - The Blue Mask

Roxy Music - Avalon

Scritti Politti - Songs to Remember

Shalamar - Friends

Bim Sherman - Across the Red Sea

Simple Minds - New Gold Dreams (81/ 82/ 83/ 84)

Siouxsie and the Banshees - Kiss in the Dreamhouse

Ricky Skaggs - Highways & Heartaches

Bruce Springsteen - Nebraska

George Strait - Strait from the Heart

Talking Heads - The Name of This Band Is Talking Heads

Tears for Fears - The Hurting

Richard and Linda Thompson - Shoot Out the Lights

Toto IV

Trouble Funk - Drop the Bomb

23 Skidoo - Seven Songs

Ultravox - Quartet

Venom - Black Metal

Virgin Prunes - ...If I Die, I Die

XTC - English Settlement

Tatsuro Yamashita - For You

Yaz - Upstairs at Eric's

Yellowman - Mister Yellowman

fifty-three songs

Adam Ant - 'Goody Two Shoes', Friend or Foe

Patti Austin/ James Ingram 'Baby, Come to Me', [Patti Austin] Every Home Should Have One

Berlin - 'Pleasure Victim', Pleasure Victim

The Big Boys - Fun, Fun, Fun... [E. P.]

Bow Wow Wow - 'I Want Candy', The Last of the Mohicans

Laura Branigan - 'Gloria', Branigan

Chicago - 'Hard to Say I'm Sorry', Chicago 16

Joe Cocker/ Jennifer Warnes - 'Up Where We Belong', [Various artists] An Officer and a Gentleman

John Cougar - 'Jack and Diane', American Fool

The Culture Club - 'Do You Really Want to Hurt Me', Kissing to Be Clever

The Cure - 'Let's Go to Bed'

The Dazz Band - 'Let It Whip', Keep It Live

Thomas Dolby - 'She Blinded Me with Science'

The Fastbacks Play Five of Their Favorites [E. P.]

Fat Larry's Band - 'Act Like You Know', Breakin' Out

Fat Larry's Band - 'Zoom', Breakin' Out

A Flock of Seagulls - 'I Ran (So Far Away)', A Flock of Seagulls

The Go-Go's - 'Vacation', Vacation

Golden Earring - 'Twilight Zone', Cut

Eddy Grant - 'Electric Avenue', Killer on the Rampage

Haircut One Hundred - 'Love Plus One', Pelican West

Don Henley - 'Dirty Laundry', I Can't Stand Still

Billy Idol - 'White Wedding', Billy Idol

Indeep - 'Last Night a D. J. Saved My Life', Last Night a D. J. Saved My Life

INXS - 'Don't Change', Shabooh Shabooh

Joe Jackson - 'Steppin' Out', Night and Day

Billy Joel - 'Pressure', The Nylon Curtain

K. C. and the Sunshine Band - 'Give It Up', All in a Night's Work

Klein and M. B. O. - 'Dirty Talk', De-Ja-Vu

Men without Hats - 'The Safety Dance', Rhythm of Youth

Modern English - 'I Melt with You', After the Snow

Musical Youth - 'Pass the Dutchie', The Youth of Today

Negative Approach [E. P.]

Willie Nelson - 'Always on My Mind', Always on My Mind

New Order - 'Everything's Gone Green', Substance [1987]

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

One Way - 'Cutie Pie', Who's Foolin' Who

The Peech Boys - 'Don't Make Me Wait', Life Is Something Special [1983]

Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers - 'You Got Lucky', Long after Dark

The Pin Group Go to Town

The Plimsouls - 'A Million Miles Away', Everywhere at Once [1983]

The Pointer Sisters - 'I'm So Excited', So Excited

The Psychedelic Furs - 'Love My Way', Forever Now

R. E. M. - Chronic Town [E. P.]

Scandal - 'Goodbye to You', Scandal

The Scorpions - 'No One like You', Blackout

Sparks - 'I Predict', Angst in My Pants

Survivor - 'Eye of the Tiger', Eye of the Tiger

George Thorogood and the Destroyers - 'Bad to the Bone', Bad to the Bone

Trio - 'Da Da Da'

U. K. Decay - Rising from the Dread [E. P.]

The Waitresses - 'I Know What Boys Like', Wasn't Tomorrow Wonderful?

The Weather Girls - 'It's Raining Men', Success [1983]

six archival and compilation albums

Flex Your Head

[The Faith// Void] - The Faith/ Void

The Bongos - Drums along the Hudson

Hanoi Rocks - Self Destruction Blues

George Jones - Anniversary: Ten Years of Hits

Robert Wyatt - Nothing Can Stop Us