Why oh why do I remain so infatuated with Throbbing Gristle? Why do I feel a visceral thrill when I run across one of their albums in the wild that I don’t have… and why can’t I resist the urge to buy it? Is it evidence of some underlying psychological or emotional problem buried deep […]
Tag: 1983
Def Leppard – “Pyromania” (1983)
Rise up, gather ’roundRock this place to the ground,Burn it up let’s go for broke,Watch the night go up in smoke. Rock on (rock on)… The 1980s were the apex of bands and artists singing about rock. Not being rock, per se, but singing about it. Singing about rock, and rocking, and how great it […]
SPK – “Auto-Da-Fé” (1983)
The Australian industrial band SPK took their name from the German Sozialistisches Patientenkollektiv. The German SPK was founded in 1970 by a group of psychiatric patients and Dr. Wolfgang Huber, a movement and collective who viewed mental illness as being caused by the capitalist system. The SPK believed the doctor class of psychiatrists needed to […]
Mötley Crüe – “Shout At The Devil” (1983)
I know there are a lot of people who don’t like blogs or reviews that contain a heavy dose of the writer’s personal experience. I get it – sometimes you just want the information. But Life In The Vinyl Lane is as much about my relationship to music as it is about the music itself. […]
Dio – “Holy Diver” (1983 – Japanese Pressing)
In a way Holy Diver informed my thinking about music without me having heard it. I was living in Columbia, South Carolina in 1983 when Dio released their debut, just discovering music for the first time thanks in large part to MTV and while not quite yet in high school already seeing how musical tastes […]