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Post-punk
Post-punk is a popular musical movement with its roots in the late 1970s, following on the heels of the initial punk rock explosion of the mid-1970s. The genre retains its roots in the punk movement but is more introverted, complex and experimental. Post-punk laid the groundwork for alternative...
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T.M.I. 015 - A Compilation
A 1982 compilation of indie punk, post-punk, new wave and no wave bands from Indiana, Ohio & Pennsylvania - assembled by T.M.I. Products of Pittsburgh, PA. Long out of print, copies have been seen on eBay for approx. US$50 (as of July 2009).
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Three Imaginary Boys
Three Imaginary Boys is English rock band The Cure's debut album, released in May 1979 by Fiction Records. It was later released in the United States with a slightly different song line-up as Boys Don't Cry.
"Foxy Lady", a soundcheck with vocals...
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- May 11, 1979
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Closer
Closer is the second and final album by post-punk band Joy Division, released July 18, 1980 (1980-07-18), two months following the suicide of lead singer Ian Curtis. The album was originally scheduled to be released on May 8, 1980 (1980-05-08). The...
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- Jul 18, 1980
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- 2,665.133 s (44.41888 min )
Head over Heels
Head over Heels is an album by Scottish musical group Cocteau Twins. The album was released in October 1983, and was their first album as a duo.
The original United Kingdom and Canadian cassette and CD versions of Head over Heels included the EP...
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- Oct 31, 1983
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- 2,221.4 s (37.023 min )
More Songs about Buildings and Food
More Songs About Buildings and Food is Talking Heads' second album, the first of a string of three coproduced by Brian Eno. The album was significantly more popular than their first, Talking Heads: 77. The band's blend of funky bass, bubblegum,...
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- Jul 14, 1978
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- 2,508.2 s (41.803 min )
The B-52's
The B-52's is an eponymous New Wave album by Athens, Georgia-based rock band The B-52's. The kitschy lyrics and mood, and the hook-laden harmonies helped establish a fanbase for the band, who would go on to release several chart-topping singles....
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- Jul 6, 1979
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- 2,376.093 s (39.60155 min )
Nocturne
Nocturne is a live double-album by Siouxsie & the Banshees, released in 1983 and remastered in 2009, which features performances recorded at two shows at the Royal Albert Hall on September 30 and October 1, 1983, featuring Robert Smith (of The Cure)...
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- Nov 25, 1983
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- 4,607.76 s (76.796 min )
Ghost in the Machine
Ghost in the Machine is the fourth album by The Police, released in 1981 (see 1981 in music). Much of the material in this album was inspired by Arthur Koestler's The Ghost in the Machine, which also provided the title.
The cover art for Ghost in...
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- Oct 2, 1981
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- 2,468.2 s (41.137 min )
Remain in Light
Remain in Light is the fourth studio album by American New Wave band Talking Heads, released on 8 October 1980 on Sire Records. It was recorded at locations in the Bahamas and the United States between July and August 1980 and was produced by the...
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- Oct 8, 1980
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- 2,410.827 s (40.18045 min )
Cough/Cool
"Cough/Cool" is the first single released by the horror punk band the Misfits. It was released in August 1977 on singer Glenn Danzig's label Blank Records. 500 copies were produced on black 7" vinyl. Both songs from the single were re-recorded and...
Boy
Boy is the debut album from Irish rock band U2, released October 20, 1980. Produced by Steve Lillywhite, the album received generally positive reviews. Common themes among the album's songs are the thoughts and frustrations of adolescence. The album...
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- Oct 20, 1980
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- 2,539.067 s (42.31778 min )
Substance
Substance (also known as Substance 1987 to distinguish it from the Joy Division compilation of the same name) is a 1987 compilation album by New Order, consisting of all of the band's singles at that point in their 12-inch versions, together with...
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- Aug 17, 1987
Box Set
The Samhain Box Set was released in 2000, more than 13 years after Samhain effectively ceased recording and performing. The set's five CDs and one VHS tape compile nearly all of the band's original catalogue, newly remastered for the original...
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- Sep 5, 2000
Fear of Music
Fear of Music is the third studio album by American New Wave band Talking Heads, released on 3 August 1979 on Sire Records. It was recorded at locations in New York City between April and May 1979 and was produced by the quartet and Brian Eno. The...
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- Aug 3, 1979
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- 2,442.533 s (40.70888 min )
Sandinista!
This article is about the punk album. For information about the political organisation see, Sandinista National Liberation Front.
Sandinista! is the fourth studio album by the punk rock band The Clash. It was released in 1980 as a triple album...
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- Dec 12, 1980
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- 8,668 s (144.5 min )
Imperial Bedroom
Imperial Bedroom is a 1982 album by Elvis Costello and the Attractions. It was the second Costello album, along with Almost Blue, not produced by Nick Lowe, the production duties handled by Beatles engineer Geoff Emerick. "I wanted to try a few...
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- Jul 2, 1982
Kiss Me, Kiss Me, Kiss Me
Kiss Me, Kiss Me, Kiss Me is the seventh studio album by British alternative rock band The Cure. Released in 1987, this album helped put The Cure into the American mainstream, becoming their first album to reach the Billboard Top 40.
It was...
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- May 5, 1987
Floodland
Floodland is the second album by The Sisters of Mercy, released in 1987. Composed and produced by Andrew Eldritch, it marked a change of direction from guitar-oriented rock towards synthesizer-based productions. The record peaked at #9 in UK album...
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- Nov 13, 1987
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- 3,647.467 s (60.79112 min )
First and Last and Always
First and Last and Always, the debut album by UK band The Sisters of Mercy was released as a vinyl record on March 11, 1985, on band's own label Merciful Release under distribution contract with Eastwest/WEA. It has been described by songwriter and...
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- Mar 1985
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- 2,811.267 s (46.85445 min )
Greatest Hits
Greatest Hits is a 2001 album by The Cure. The band's relationship with longtime label Fiction Records came to a close, and The Cure were obliged to release one final album for the label. Robert Smith agreed to release a greatest hits album under...
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- Nov 21, 2001
Garlands
Garlands is the 1982 debut album of Cocteau Twins. It is the only album with original bassist Will Heggie.
All songs composed by the Cocteau Twins. *The title printed on the sleeve reads, Shallow Then Hallo [sic].
The original British cassette...
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- Sep 1, 1982
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- 2,127.627 s (35.46045 min )
Join the Dots: B-Sides and Rarities, 1978-2001
Join the Dots: B-sides & Rarities is a box set of The Cure, released in January 27, 2004 by their former record label Fiction (Elektra in North America). This box set is a four-disc compilation of b-sides and rarities, digitally remastered from...
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- Jan 27, 2004
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- 17,698 s (294.97 min )
Abattoir Blues/The Lyre of Orpheus
Abattoir Blues/The Lyre of Orpheus is the 13th studio album released by Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds. It is a double CD, with 17 songs (9 on Abattoir Blues and 8 on The Lyre of Orpheus), and was released on the 20th of September 2004.
The double...
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- Sep 20, 2004
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The Firstborn Is Dead
The Firstborn Is Dead is the second studio album released by the post-punk band Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds. It was first released in 1985. On this record, singer Nick Cave continued his fascination with the American South, with its references to...
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- Jun 3, 1985
Jenny
Jenny was an EP album released September 15, 2003 by Stellastarr, an American Indie rock band based in New York City.
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- Sep 15, 2003
Superstition
Superstition is the tenth studio album by Siouxsie & the Banshees, released in 1991. The first single, "Kiss Them for Me" gave the band its first top-forty Billboard Hot 100 hit in the United States, peaking at number 23. The band widened their...
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- Jun 10, 1991
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- 2,901.6 s (48.36 min )
C86
C86 is a cassette compilation released by the British music magazine New Musical Express (NME) in 1986, featuring new bands licensed from independent labels of the time. As a phrase, C86 quickly evolved into shorthand for a guitar-based musical...
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- 1986
Half Mute
Half Mute, released in 1980, was Californian post-punk group Tuxedomoon's first full–length album, after two EPs, 1978's No Tears and 1979's Scream with a View. The album was rereleased on CD in 1997, bundled together with Scream with a View. Cover...
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- 1980
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Standing on a Beach
Standing on a Beach (titled Staring at the Sea in CD format) is a singles compilation released by the British rock band The Cure in May, 1986, marking a decade since the band's founding in 1976. The title is taken from the opening lyrics of The Cure...
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- May 13, 1986
The Best of Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds
The Best of Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds is a compilation album from Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds. It was released in 1998, following The Boatman's Call (1997).
In order to decide the track listing, Cave asked each of the Bad Seeds, past and present,...
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- Mar 26, 1998
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No New York
No New York is a compilation album released in 1978 by Antilles Records under the curation of producer Brian Eno. Although it only contained songs by four different artists, it is considered by many to be the definitive single album documenting New...
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- 1978
Scary Monsters
Scary Monsters (and Super Creeps) is an album by David Bowie, released in September 1980 by RCA Records. It was Bowie's final studio album for the label and his first following the 'Berlin Trilogy' of Low, "Heroes" and Lodger (1977-1979). Though...
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- Sep 1980
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- 2,740.693 s (45.67822 min )
Concert
Concert: The Cure Live is the first live album of the English rock band The Cure. It was recorded in 1984 at the Hammersmith Odeon in London and in Oxford. Its cassette tape edition featured on the B-side a twin album of anomalies, entitled...
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- Oct 16, 1984
Ha!-Ha!-Ha!
Ha!-Ha!-Ha! was the second album by British pop group Ultravox, at that time formally known as "Ultravox!", with an exclamation mark, as a nod to Neu!. Although the group would later achieve fame and commercial success with lead singer Midge Ure ...
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- Oct 14, 1977
Replicas
Replicas is an album by Gary Numan and Tubeway Army, released in 1979. It was the second and final Tubeway Army LP, following a self-titled debut the previous year. It was also the first album of what Numan later termed the "machine" phase of his...
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- Apr 1979
An Ideal for Living
An Ideal for Living is the debut EP released by Joy Division in 1978, shortly after changing their name from Warsaw.
All tracks were recorded at the Pennine Sound Studios, Oldham, on December 14, 1977. A 7" version was released in June on the band's...
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- Jun 1978
First Issue
First Issue (also Public Image) is a post punk album by Public Image Ltd. released in 1978 by Virgin Records.
The album was recorded between July and November 1978 at different studios. The song "Public Image" was recorded first (the backing track...
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- Dec 8, 1978
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A Bell Is a Cup...Until It Is Struck
A Bell Is a Cup ... Until It Is Struck is the fifth studio album album by the British post-punk group Wire.
In 1989, the Trouser Press Record Guide described the album as "a stylized set of dreamscapes and consciousness streams.... It's arguably...
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- May 1988
Grosse Pointe Blank
Grosse Pointe Blank is a 1997 American comedy film, directed by George Armitage, and starring John Cusack and Minnie Driver.
In 2000, readers of Total Film magazine voted Grosse Pointe Blank the 21st greatest comedy film of all time. The film's...
Love Will Tear Us Apart
"Love Will Tear Us Apart" is a song by the British post-punk band Joy Division. "Love Will Tear Us Apart" was written in August and September 1979 and was debuted when the band supported Buzzcocks on their UK tour in September and October 1979, and...
Substance
Substance is a 1988 Joy Division singles compilation released by Factory Records. It is a companion to New Order's Substance.
The album features Wim Crouwel's New Alphabet type. However, the word on the cover reads "Substamce" rather than the...
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- Jul 11, 1988
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Tin Drum
Tin Drum is the fifth and final studio album produced by the British band Japan. Released in the U.K. in late-November 1981, the album continued their now developed use of electronic elements coupled with traditional instrumentation, but leans far...
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- Sep 1981
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- 2,286.427 s (38.10712 min )
Mayday
Mayday is a live album by Hugh Cornwell. It was a live show recorded at Sankey's Soap in Manchester on 1 May 1998, hence the title.
Along with Hugh Cornwell are Mike Polson (guitar and backing vocals), Michelle Marti (bass and backing vocals) and...
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- Oct 7, 2002
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Sonic Youth
Sonic Youth is the debut album by Sonic Youth. It was recorded in 1981 at Radio City Music Hall, New York City and released on Glenn Branca's Neutral label in 1982. It is the only recording featuring the early Sonic Youth line-up with Richard Edson...
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- Mar 1982
B-Sides & Rarities
B-Sides & Rarities is a 3CD compilation by Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, released in March 2005. It features over 20 years of the band's B-sides and previously unreleased tracks, including tracks performed with Shane MacGowan and acoustic versions of...
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- Mar 22, 2005
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Three
Three, also known as U2 3, is the first release by rock band U2. A three-song EP recorded and released in 1979, it was produced by the band with Chas de Whalley and available in Ireland when released.
Three was produced as a 12-inch and subsequently...
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- Sep 1979
Banquet
Bloc Party is an EP compilation of Bloc Party's first two UK-only singles: "She's Hearing Voices" and "Banquet/Staying Fat". Released on 24 May 2004, it was Bloc Party's first V2 Records EP. It was released later in Japan in August 2004, and then in...
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- May 24, 2004
Hefty Fine
Hefty Fine is The Bloodhound Gang's fourth album, originally due for release on September 13, 2005, then September 20, 2005 and was finally officially released on September 27, 2005, although it had been leaked on September 14, 2005. It is also...
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- Sep 27, 2005
Say Hello to Sunshine
Say Hello to Sunshine is the second studio album by American rock band Finch, released on June 7, 2005. This album signaled a sharp departure from the band's last release, What It Is to Burn. Say Hello to Sunshine introduced a harder, gritty sound,...
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Gentlemen Take Polaroids
Gentlemen Take Polaroids is the fourth studio album by the British band Japan. Released in 1980, it was the band's first album for the Virgin label. It continued in the vein of their previous album, Quiet Life, utilising a combination of electronic...
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- Sep 1980
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- 2,794.333 s (46.57222 min )
Obscure Alternatives
Obscure Alternatives is a 1978 album by Japan, the follow-up to their debut Adolescent Sex. Lead singer David Sylvian has gone on record saying that this should have been their debut album. The final track, "The Tenant", a piano based instrumental,...
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- Oct 1978
Oil on Canvas
Oil on Canvas is a live album by the British band Japan, released in 1983 by Virgin Records. Although it is a live recording of their established material, the album also contains three new studio tracks ("Oil on Canvas", "Voices Raised in Welcome,...
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- Jun 1983
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- 4,323.133 s (72.05222 min )
Question: Are We Not Men? Answer: We Are Devo!
Q: Are We Not Men? A: We Are Devo! is the debut album by the American new wave band Devo. Produced by Brian Eno, it was primarily recorded in Cologne, Germany and released in the U.S. on Warner Bros. Records in 1978.
The album received somewhat...
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- Jul 1978
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- 2,088.133 s (34.80222 min )
Live at the Witch Trials
Live at the Witch Trials is the debut album by The Fall, first released on 16 March 1979. It is not, despite its title, a live album, but was recorded in the studio in one day and mixed by producer Bob Sargeant the next. In 2004, bassist Marc Riley...
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- Mar 16, 1979
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Totale's Turns
Totale's Turns (It's Now or Never) is an album by The Fall, first released May 5, 1980. It was mostly recorded at gigs in the north of England, but the track "New Puritan" was recorded at Mark E. Smith's home and "That Man" is a studio recording, an...
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- May 5, 1980
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Live
Live (X Cert) is a live album by the The Stranglers released in 1979. It contains tracks recorded at "The Roundhouse" in June and November 1977 and at Battersea Park in September 1978.
It captures the raw punk sound of the band prior to the more...
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- Feb 21, 1979
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Shiny Beast
Shiny Beast (Bat Chain Puller) is the tenth studio album by Captain Beefheart and The Magic Band. Originally released in 1978, it is considered to be Beefheart's comeback album following 1974's poorly received efforts, Unconditionally Guaranteed and...
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- Jan 1978
Heart and Soul
Heart and Soul is a Joy Division box set containing nearly every track the band recorded. The first two discs contain their entire studio output, including the albums Unknown Pleasures and Closer, along with singles and compilation appearances....
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Once Upon a Time: The Singles
Once Upon a Time: The Singles is Siouxsie & the Banshees's 1981 compilation album featuring the band's U.K. single releases to date. The album featured several songs that had been released as singles yet had not appeared on any of the Banshees' four...
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- Dec 1981
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- 1,955.467 s (32.59112 min )
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The Whitey Album
The Whitey Album is a 1988 album by Ciccone Youth, a side project of Sonic Youth. The album is a tongue-in-cheek tribute to Madonna and 80s pop in general. Beatbox and samplers/sequencers are the foundation of the recording but Sonic Youth...
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- Mar 1, 1988
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- 3,236.04 s (53.934 min )
