"Well I find myself in reverie....." (80's nostalgia)

[Don Corleone]

about what we might have had and what we might have been...

I was out cutting the grass today listening to my Ipod and maybe it was revisiting highschool activities (though it was a walkwman back then), I started mentally playing a bunch of 'lost albums' in my head. Now I'm burning up a fortune on Apple's store buying albums that time, and until today I forgot.

The thread title, beyond being apros pos, is the opening lyric from one of the signature songs of a band I LOVED.... listened till the heads of my Walkman demagnatized the tape.... the Alarm. The song is Spririt of 76. Funny, until today, I don't think I've thought about them in close to 15 years. So, I decided to start a thread to resurrect all those 80's treasures we've forgotten about... an album list all us old fogeys have grown old and forgotten but need to get back to.... please, no Clash, no U2 or anything else you hear on 'Classic Rock' weekends... just the stuff that was awesome but got left behind. Here's a few to start with:

The Alarm -Strength
Iron Maiden -Power Slave
Robert Cray -Strong Persuader
Black Flag -Slip it In
Dead Kennedys -Frankenchrist, -In God We Trust, or just about anything else they did...

Go ahead, search the memory banks and come up with a few of your own...