Protoplasts 1983

Billy Bragg - Best of Billy Bragg at the BBC 1983 - 2019 (2019) {Cooking Vinyl, Fully Remastered}
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© 2019 Billy Bragg / Cooking Vinyl Limited
Alternative Folk / Folk / Folk Rock / Singer/Songwriter / Urban Folk / Anti-Folk

Billy Bragg releases a new album Best of Billy Bragg at the BBC 1983-2019. The 38-track collection is ‘fully remastered’ and features 38 tracks compiled from the BBC archive spanning 1983 – 2019. It includes selected highlights from sessions for John Peel, David Jensen, Janice Long, Phill Jupitus, Bob Harris, Tom Robinson and more. Many are previously unreleased. The collection draws from all corners of Billy’s catalogue and features, among many gems, his signature song A New England (later covered to huge acclaim by Kirsty MacColl), Levi Stubbs’ Tears, and his workers’ anthem There Is Power In A Union, with a couple of atypical covers thrown in, namely John Cale’s Fear Is A Man’s Best Friend and A13, his personal psycho-geography take on Route 66.

John Foxx - The Golden Section Tour & The Omnidelic Exotour (2002) {2CD Edsel Records MEDCD 725 rec 1983, 1997}
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© 1983, 1997, 2002 Metamatic Records / Edsel Records / Demon Music | MEDCD 725
Synth-Pop / New Wave / Electronic

Full title - The Golden Section Tour + The Omnidelic Exotour with Louis Gordon. Rare live release for the Ultravox founder. Mastered from Foxes own tapes, disc one was recorded during the Golden Section Tour at The Dominion & Lyceum Theatres in London in October & December 1983, while disc two 'The Omnidelic Exotour', performed with Louis Gordon, was recorded 'live' in Ancoats, Manchester at A Certain Ratio's Warehouse & at Metamatic Studio, Manchester. 1997. The 1983 recordings are previously unreleased in any form. Gatefold digipak.

After playing a major role in five positively classic heavy metal albums of the late '70s and early '80s (three with Ritchie Blackmore's Rainbow and two with Black Sabbath), it seemed that singer Ronnie James Dio could truly do no wrong. So it wasn't all that surprising – impressive, but not surprising – when he struck gold yet again when launching his solo vehicle, Dio, via 1983's terrific Holy Diver album. Much like those two, hallowed Sabbath LPs, Heaven and Hell and Mob Rules, Holy Diver opened at full metallic throttle with the frenetic "Stand Up and Shout," before settling into a dark, deliberate, and hypnotic groove for the timelessly epic title track – a worthy successor to glorious triumphs past like Rainbow's "Stargazer" and the Sabs' "Sign of the Southern Cross."

1983's Passionworks marked the end of an era for Heart; it was the last album that the Wilson sisters recorded for Epic, where they had recorded late-'70s classics like Little Queen and Dog & Butterfly. Unfortunately, Heart's relationship with Epic had turned sour by 1983; in a 1987 interview, Ann Wilson asserted that Epic didn't do nearly enough to promote either Passionworks or 1982's Private Audition…