A few I'd like to see... * Will Powers - Dancing for Mental Health * Coati Mundi - The Former 12 Year Old Genius * Bill Spooner - First Chud
Deborah Allen's Telepathy and Cheat The Night have never been on CD although the latter (the EP with Baby I Lied) is available at download retailers in lossless form (Acoustic Sounds, HDTracks, etc.) and lossy at the usual lossy download retailers and most of the tracks from the latter are on the Renaissance Records "Anthology." Country singer Sylvia's Drifter album is not on legitimate CD but it is on bootleg CD on eBay.
Natasha's Captured is digitally out in deluxe format and all the original tracks are on her compilation CD Back From The Mists Of Time. Great remastering. My 2nd favourite LP of all time. Her new album, Somehow, is excellent. The Firm I reckon is a 'band' dispute. They ran their own label, parted ways, and now getting anything on Bark Records seems to be an issue.
There’s 80’s covers of “Build Me Up Buttercup” and “Sugar Pie Honey Bunch” which to me, are the definitive versions, and I can’t find those on discs!
Modern Romance - Burn It (although I compiled the expanded digital release) and Party Tonight Sue Wilkinson - Looking For Cover Ca Va Ca Va - Japanese album Steve Arrington - Dancing In The Key Of Life
Rob Hegel's self-titled LP from 1980. It has "Tommy, Judy And Me," which was a Bubbling Under hit. Gerard McMahon's No Looking Back from '83, which has a great song called "No Sweat (It's Alright)." The Nighthawks' self-titled 1980 album. I'm also pretty sure a bunch of the old Voxx Records garage revival stuff never made it to CD, like The Things' Coloured Heaven and The Wombats' Zontar Must Die!
This 1983 album was finally released on CD in 2016, but it's on an apparently semi-illegal label. The jury's still out.
Ben Mink - Foreign Exchange Second electric violin dude from FM, he's really good. Too bad the original presses are the only ones, I do remember a version being on iTunes though.
R. Crutchfield's Dark Day - Exterminating Angel (1980) & Window (1982). They got vinyl reissues in recent years, though.
One I'd like to get on CD is the 1983 SSQ album "Playback", which featured Stacey Q who went on to some success with more commercial pop. Never been released on CD, though there was a 2014 lossy mp3 release. Video for the track Sythicide here: SSQ - Synthicide
"The Wild Life" soundtrack from 1984. Notable for containing a rare Eddie Van Halen solo recording ("Donut City") as well as rarities by Ron Wood, Andy Summers, and Bananarama, along with a track by a band called What Is This (precursor to the Red Hot Chili Peppers).
Just in case anybody’s interested, you can actually get that first Nighthawks album from the band’s web site, either the Mercury masters reverted to them or they worked out a deal, it’s the original art and everything: The Nighthawks, Legendary Blues and Roots Rock Music I’m just posting this because I’m a huge fan of these guys, saw them many times back in the day and it took me a while to find this CD, their web site is great and I ordered a bunch of stuff, got a quick order acknowledgement and got the goods in short order. Just an FYI for you guys.
Rob Jungklas– Closer To The Flame Apparently a radio promo cd version exists but never released commercially
