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Scorpions: Love at First Sting

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On March 27, 1984, “Harvest” label released “Love at First Sting”, the ninth Scorpions studio album. It was recorded 1983 – 1984, at “Dierks Studios” in Stommeln, Germany, and was produced by Dieter Dierks.

Personnel:

  • Klaus Meine – lead and backing vocals
  • Rudolf Schenker – lead and rhythm guitar backing vocals
  • Matthias Jabs – lead and rhythm guitar, backing vocals
  • Francis Buchholz – bass, Moog Taurus, backing vocals
  • Herman Rarebell – drums, backing vocals
  • Gerd Rautenbach – engineer, mastering
  • Dieter Dierks – mixing
  • Kochlowski/Missmahl/Pieczulski – design

Track listing:

All lyrics by Klaus Meine, except where noted; all music  by Rudolf Schenker.

  1. Bad Boys Running Wild – lyrics by Klaus Meine, Herman Rarebell
  2. Rock You Like a Hurricane – lyrics by Klaus Meine, Herman Rarebell
  3. I’m Leaving You
  4. Coming Home
  5. The Same Thrill
  6. Big City Nights
  7. As Soon as the Good Times Roll
  8. Crossfire
  9. Still Loving You

The Pale Fountains: Pacific Street

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On February 27, 1984, “Virgin” label released “Pacific Street”, the debut Pale Fountains (The) studio album. It was recorded in 1983, at “Village Way Studios”, “The Manor” in Shipton-on-Cherwell, “Ridge Farm Studios” in Capel, Dorking, “Nova Sound Studios” in London, and was produced by Howard Gray, Mick Head, John Head, Chris McCaffrey, Thomas Whelan and Andy Diagram. 

Personnel:

  • Mick Head – vocals, guitar
  • John Head – lead guitar
  • Chris McCaffrey – bass, percussion
  • Thomas Whelan – drums, percussion
  • Andy Diagram – trumpet, keyboards
  • Marc L’Etarjet – cello
  • Trixi – keyboards
  • Julie Andrews – flute
  • Howard Gray – engineer
  • Town & Country Planning – sleeve
  • Mario De Biasis – photography
  • Mark Baker – photography

Track listing:

All tracks by Michael Head.

  1. Reach
  2. Something on My Mind
  3. Unless
  4. Southbound Excursion
  5. Natural
  6. Faithful Pillow (pt. 1)
  7. (Don’t Let Your Love) Start a War
  8. Beyond Friday’s Field
  9. Abergele Next Time
  10. Crazier
  11. Faithful Pillow (pt. 2)

The Raincoats: Moving

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On January 27, 1984, “Rough Trade” label released “Moving”, the third Raincoats (The) studio album. It was recorded October – November 1982, August – September 1983, at “Berry Street Studios” and “Regents Park Studios” in London, and was produced by Adam Kidron and Brad Grisdale.

Personnel:

  • Vicki Aspinall – vocals, organ, bass, piano, violin
  • Gina Birch – vocals, bass, guitar, vibraphone
  • Ana da Silva – vocals, guitar, percussion
  • Mgotse Mothie – double bass
  • Michael McEvoy – synthesizer bass, horn arrangements
  • Paddy O’Connell – bass, tenor saxophone, penny whistle
  • Derek Goddard – percussion, bongos, conga, drums
  • Richard Dudanski – percussion, drums, balafon
  • Roger Freeman – percussion
  • Chris “C.P.” Lee – trumpet
  • Harry Beckett – trumpet, flugelhorn

Track listing:

  1. Ooh Ooh La La La
  2. Dreaming in the Past
  3. Mouth of a Story
  4. Honey Mad Woman
  5. Rainstorm
  6. Dance of Hopping Mad
  7. Balloon
  8. I Saw a Hill
  9. Overheard
  10. The Body
  11. Avidoso
  12. Animal Rhapsody

Butthole Surfers: Psychic…Powerless…Another Man’s Sac

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In December 1984, “Touch and Go” label released “Psychic… Powerless… Another Man’s Sac”, the debut Butthole Surfers studio album. It was recorded in 1984, and was produced by Gibby Haynes, Paul Leary, Bill Jolly, King Coffey and Teresa Nervosa.

Personnel:

  • Gibby Haynes – lead vocals, saxophone
  • Paul Leary – vocals, guitar
  • Bill Jolly – bass
  • King Coffey – drums
  • Teresa Nervosa (Teresa Taylor) – drums

Track listing:

All tracks by Gibby Haynes, Paul Leary, Bill Jolly, King Coffey and Teresa Nervosa.

  1. Concubine
  2. Eye of the Chicken
  3. Dum Dum
  4. Woly Holy
  5. Negro Observer
  6. Butthole Surfer
  7. Lady Sniff
  8. Cherub
  9. Mexican Caravan
  10. Cowboy Bob
  11. Gary Floyd

Skinny Puppy: Remission

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In December 1984, “Nettwerk” label released “Remission”, the debut Skinny Puppy EP. It was recorded in 1984, at “Mushroom Studios” in Vancouver, Canada, and was produced by cEvin Key and Dave Ogilvie.

Personnel:

  • Nivek Ogre – vocals, keyboards, synthesizer, percussion, spooky horn
  • cEvin Key – vocals, synthesizer, drums, percussion, tapes, treatments
  • Dave Ogilvie – engineer
  • Wilhelm Schroeder (Bill Leeb) – bass synth
  • D. Plevin – fretless bass 
  • Steven R. Gilmore – cover art
  • Greg Sykes – typography

Track listing:

  1. Smothered Hope
  2. Glass Houses
  3. Far Too Frail
  4. Solvent
  5. Sleeping Beast
  6. Brap…

Reo Speedwagon: Wheels Are Turnin’

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On November 5, 1984, “Epic” label released “Wheels Are Turnin’”, the eleventh REO Speedwagon studio album. It was recorded January – August 1984, at “Rumbo Recorders” in Los Angeles, and was produced by Kevin Cronin, Gary Richrath and Alan Gratzer.

Personnel:

  • Kevin Cronin – lead and backing vocals, guitars, arrangements
  • Gary Richrath – electric guitar
  • Neal Doughty – piano, organ, synthesizers
  • Bruce Hall – bass
  • Alan Gratzer – drums
  • Steve Forman – percussions
  • Tommy Funderburk – backing vocals
  • Tom Kelly – backing vocals
  • Richard Page – backing vocals
  • David DeVore – engineer, producer assistant
  • Julian Stoll – engineer assistant
  • Steve Hall – mastering
  • John Kosh – art direction, design
  • Ron Larson – art direction, design
  • Randee St. Nicholas – photography

Track listing:

  1. I Do’ Wanna Know – Kevin Cronin
  2. One Lonely Night – Neal Doughty
  3. Thru the Window – Bruce Hall, Jeffery B. Hall
  4. Rock ’n’ Roll Star – Kevin Cronin, Tom Kelly, Gary Richrath
  5. Live Every Moment – Kevin Cronin
  6. Can’t Fight This Feeling – Kevin Cronin
  7. Gotta Feel More – Kevin Cronin, Tom Kelly, Gary Richrath
  8. Break His Spell – Gary Richrath
  9. Wheels Are Turnin’ – Kevin Cronin

Big Country: Steeltown

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On October 19, 1984, “Mercury” label released “Steeltown”, the second Big Country studio album. It was recorded in 1984, at “Polar Studios” in Stockholm, “RAK Studios” in London, and was produced by Steve Lillywhite.

Personnel:

  • Stuart Adamson – vocals, guitar, piano
  • Bruce Watson – vocals, guitar, mandolin, sitar
  • Tony Butler – vocals, bass
  • Mark Brzezicki – vocals, drums, percussion

Track listing:

All tracks written by Stuart Adamson, Mark Brzezicki, Tony Butler, and Bruce Watson except where noted.

  1. Flame of the West
  2. East of Eden
  3. Steeltown
  4. Where the Rose Is Sown
  5. Come Back to Me
  6. Tall Ships Go
  7. Girl with Grey Eyes
  8. Rain Dance
  9. The Great Divide
  10. Just a Shadow

J. Geils Band: You’re Gettin’ Even While I’m Gettin’ Odd

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On October 5, 1984, “EMI” label released “You’re Gettin’ Even While I’m Gettin’ Odd”, the eleventh and final J. Geils Band studio album. It was recorded in 1983, at “Long View Farm” in Brookfield, Massachusetts, and was produced by Seth Justman.

Personnel:

  • Seth Justman – lead and backing vocals, spoken word, keyboards, horns arrangements
  • J. Geils – guitars
  • Magic Dick – harmonicas, soprano saxophone, backing vocals
  • Danny Klein – bass guitar, “flex bass”
  • Stephen Jo Bladd – lead and backing vocals, drums

The Uptown Horns

  • Crispin Cioe – alto and baritone saxophones
  • Arno Hecht – tenor saxophone
  • Paul Litteral – trumpet
  • Phoebe Snow – backing vocals
  • Cookie Watkins, Fonda Rae, Judith Spears – backing vocals
  • The Institutional Radio Choir (directed by Carl Williams, Jr.) – backing vocals
  • Jim Donnelly – backing vocals

Track listing:

All lyrics by Seth Justman and Paul Justman, all music by Seth Justman.

  1. Concealed Weapons
  2. Heavy Petting
  3. Wasted Young
  4. Eenie, Meenie, Minie, Moe
  5. Tell ‘Em Jonesy
  6. You’re Getting’ Even While I’m Getting’ Old
  7. The Bite from Inside
  8. Californication
  9. I Will Carry You Home

Jimmy Barnes: 30:30 Hindsight

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On August 29, 2015, “Liberation Music”, label released “30:30 Hindsight”, the fifteenth Jimmy Barnes studio album. The album contains 17 new recordings and 13 classic Jimmy Barnes tracks spanning his solo career. It was recorded 1984 – 2014, at “Freight Train Studios”, “Revolver Studios”, “Addiction Sound”, “Studio at the Palms” and “Studio Guillaume Tell”, and was produced by David Kalmusky, Jonathan Cain, Kevin Shirley, Steven Van Zandt and Bernard Fanning.

Personnel:

  • Jimmy Barnes – lead and backing vocals
  • Mahalia Barnes – lead and backing vocals
  • Bernard Fanning – vocal, acoustic guitar
  • Steve Sheehan – acoustic guitar
  • Steven van Zandt – guitar, backing vocals
  • Ian Moss – guitar
  • Ben Rodgers – guitar
  • Chris Cheney – guitar, backing vocals
  • Danny Spencer – guitar
  • Dave Leslie – guitar
  • Davey Lane – guitar
  • Franco Raggatt – guitar
  • Joe Bonamassa – guitar, slide guitar
  • Jon Toogood – guitar
  • Keith Urban – vocal, guitar
  • Mark Lizotte – guitar
  • Neal Schon – guitar
  • Phil Knight – guitar
  • Stuart Fraser – guitar
  • Tom Bukovac – guitar
  • Jon Stevens – vocal, steel guitar
  • Brad Whitford – rhythm guitar
  • Jimmy Mantingly – mandolin
  • Jonathan Cain – piano, keyboards
  • Lachian Doley – piano, keyboards
  • Arian Schierbaum – keyboards
  • Howard Duck – Hammond organ
  • Ben Rodgers – bass
  • Dario Bortolin – bass
  • John Dymond – bass
  • Karl Kippenberger – bass
  • Michael Hegerty – bass
  • Michael Menell – bass
  • Michael Rhodes – bass
  • Scott Owen – bass
  • Jackie Barnes – drums, backing vocals
  • Andy Strachan – drums
  • Anton Fig – drums
  • Tom Larkin – drums
  • Mick Skelton – drums
  • Greg Morrow – drums
  • Dave Hibbard – drums
  • Charley Drayton – drums
  • Lenny Castro – percussion
  • Charlie Owen – dobro
  • David Woodford – saxophone
  • Lee Thornburg – trumpet
  • David Campbell – vocal
  • Jon Toogood – vocal
  • Matk Lizotte – vocal
  • Suze Demarchi – vocal
  • Tina Arena – vocal
  • Troy Cassar Daley – vocal
  • Doug Henthorn, Eliza Jane Barnes, Jane Barnes, Elly May Barnes, Gary Pinto, Jade MacRae, Juanita Tippins, Ruby Rogers, Scot Hull – backing vocals
  • Jeff Bova – orchestration
  • David Nicholas – engineer
  • Jared Kvitka – engineer
  • Jean Paul Fung – engineer
  • Mark Gray – engineer
  • Nick Didia – engineer
  • Dennis Caribaux – engineer
  • James Freeman – engineer
  • Nick Kallstrom – engineer
  • Pal Thrall – engineer
  • Ethan Berrette – engineer
  • Sean Astill – engineer
  • Zachary Miller – engineer

Track listing:

  1. Lay Down Your Guns – featuring The Living End
  2. Time Will Tell – featuring Baby Animals
  3. Good Times – featuring Keith Urban
  4. Ride the Night Away – featuring Steven Van Zandt
  5. Stand Up – featuring Mahalia Barnes and the Soul Mates
  6. I’d Die to Be with You Tonight – featuring Diesel
  7. Stone Cold – featuring Tina Arena and Joe Bonamassa
  8. Working Class Man – featuring Jonathan Cain and Ian Moss
  9. Going Down Alone – featuring Jonathan Cain, Joe Bonamassa and Meal Schon
  10. Love and Hate – featuring Shihad
  11. No Second Prize – featuring The Family Choir
  12. I’d Rather Be Blind – featuring Jon Stevens
  13. When Your Love is Gone – featuring Ruby Rodgers and The Tin Lids
  14. Too Much Ain’t Enough Love – featuring Joe Bonamassa
  15. I’m Still on Your Side – featuring Bernard Fanning
  16. Walk On – featuring David Campbell
  17. The Other Kind – Troy Cassar Daley

1984 – 2010

  1. No Second Prize
  2. Daylight
  3. Working Class Man
  4. Driving Wheels
  5. Let’s Make It Last All Night
  6. Love Is Enough
  7. When Something Is Wrong with My Baby – featuring John Farnham
  8. The Weight – featuring The Badloves
  9. Change of Heart
  10. Lover Lover
  11. Out in the Blue
  12. Red Hot
  13. Large Pier Hotel

Steve Hackett: Till We Have Faces

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In August 1984, “Lamborghini Records” label released “Till We Have Faces”, the eighth Steve Hackett album. It was recorded 1983 – 1984, and was produced by Steve Hackett.

Personnel:

  • Steve Hackett – vocals, guitars, guitar synth, koto, rainstick, Etruscan guitar, marimba, percussion, harmonica
  • Nick Magnus – keyboards, percussion, drum programming
  • Fernando Moura – Rhodes piano
  • Clive Stevens – wind synthesizer
  • Ronaldo Diamante – bass
  • Rui Mota – drums
  • Sérgio Lima – drums
  • Ian Mosley – drums, percussion
  • Waldemar Falcão – flute, percussion
  • The Brazilian Percussionists – Sidinho Moreira, Junior Homrich, Jaburu, Peninha, Zizinho, Baca
  • Kim Poor – Japanese voice

Track listing:

All tracks by Steve Hackett, except where noted.

  1. Duel
  2. Matilda Smith-Williams Home for the Aged – Steve Hackett, Nick Magnus
  3. Let Me Count the Ways
  4. A Doll That’s Made in Japan
  5. Myopia – Steve Hackett, Nick Magnus
  6. What’s My Name – Steve Hackett, Nick Magnus
  7. The Rio Connection
  8. Taking the Easy Way Out
  9. When You Wish Upon a Star – Ned Washington, Leigh Harline