Albums: Randy Meisner
Episode: Season 3, Episode 17, "Secrets of Dayton Heights"
Original air date: Sunday, February 28, 1981
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Saturday, July 6, 2024
Promo posters as seen on "WKRP in Cincinnati" #91
Albums: Randy Meisner
Episode: Season 3, Episode 17, "Secrets of Dayton Heights"
Original air date: Sunday, February 28, 1981
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Wednesday, January 10, 2024
Bugatti & Musker - The Dukes (1982)
| Released: 1982 (Atlantic) Produced by: Arif Mardin Peak on the US Billboard 200: Did not chart |
| Side One | Side Two |
|---|---|
| Mystery Girl Survivor Thank You for the Party Memories Excitement of the New |
Love Dance Soul Mates So Much in Love Fate Nite Music |
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| Billboard, August 12, 1982, p. 65 |
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| CashBox, August 12, 1982, p. 10 |
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| Smash Hits, September 16, 1982, p. 25 |
Monday, March 20, 2023
Top Albums of March 20, 1982
Let's take a look at what was topping various album charts on March 20, 1982.
Billboard
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CashBox
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Rolling Stone
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1
| Beauty and the Beat
The Go-Go's | Beauty and the Beat
The Go-Go's | Freeze-Frame The J. Geils Band |
2
| Freeze-Frame
The J. Geils Band | Freeze-Frame
The J. Geils Band |
Ghost in the Machine The Police |
3
| I Love Rock 'n' Roll
Joan Jett & The Blackhearts | I Love Rock 'n' Roll
Joan Jett & The Blackhearts |
Beauty and the Beat The Go-Go's |
4
| 4 Foreigner | Escape Journey |
Tattoo You Rolling Stones |
5
| Escape Journey | Ghost in the Machine
The Police |
4 Foreigner |
6
| Chariots of Fire
Vangelis | Physical Olivia Newton-John |
Private Eyes Daryl Hall & John Oates |
7
| Ghost in the Machine
The Police | Hooked on Classics Royal Phil. Orch. |
Quarterflash
Quarterflash |
8
| Physical Olivia Newton-John | Chariots of Fire
Vangelis |
Escape Journey |
9 | Great White North
Bob & Doug McKenzie | Private Eyes
Daryl Hall & John Oates |
Shake It Up The Cars |
10
| Get Lucky Loverboy | 4 Foreigner |
Hooked on Classics Royal Phil. Orch. |
Exclusive MFD meta-analysis of the above charts:
- (tie) Beauty and the Beat and Freeze-Frame (28 points)
- Ghost in the Machine (19 pts)
- (tie) I Love Rock 'n' Roll and Escape (16 pts)
- 4 (14 pts)
- (tie) Chariots of Fire and Physical (8 pts)
- (tie) Private Eyes and Tattoo You (7 pts)
- Hooked On Classics (5 pts)
- Quarterflash (4 pts)
- (tie) Great White North and Shake It Up (2 pts)
- Get Lucky (1 pt)
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Tuesday, March 14, 2023
MFD Random Five #56
In which I shuffle through some music files and listen to the first five songs from the years 1976-85 that randomly pop up.
- "I Will Follow" by U2 (1983, Island)
I'm treated to the live version from the Under A Blood Red Sky mini-LP. It was released as a single and peaked at #81. So much energy and passion. I really dig these live cuts and they remind me what a great band these guys were in the early '80s, hungry for success and striving to get there. For many years, I thought the lyrics were, like many early U2 tunes, based in Christian teachings and this was a call to follow Christ. I've since discovered I was wrong about that. Nevertheless, that opening riff is so powerful, simple, and aggressive that you can't help but pay attention. - "Follow Me" by Chicago (1982, Full Moon/Warner Bros.)
Two "follow" songs shuffle around consecutively! What are the odds? This tune is immediately recognizable to me as the opening track to side 2 of my old Chicago 16 cassette. An obvious David Foster composition with soulful vocals from Bill Champlin. The icing on the cake are the horn parts from James Pankow, et. al. Then there's the guitar solo coda - that's gotta be Lukather, right? - "Tanque-Ray" by Nick Lowe (1983, Columbia)
Filler track from the 1983 album, The Abominable Showman. Goes to show even great musicians can have an off day just like the rest of us. - "I Zimbra" by Talking Heads (1982, Sire)
Another live track, this time from the brilliant The Name of this Band is Talking Heads. Eno and Byrne were in their African ripoff phase so the chanting is kinda obvious and kinda awesome. The extra percussion in the expanded ten-piece group is perfect and Adrian Belew tears off a tasty solo. I'll take this as a sign to spin the entire album today. - "Do You Really Want To Hurt Me" by Culture Club (1982, Epic)
Pseudo-reggae meets pseudo-soul and dadgummit this thing is still as catchy as it is disposable. I hate it, I love it, I love to hate it, I hate to love it, I hate that I love it, etc. I got issues. Maybe The Name of this Band... will fix 'em.
Monday, January 9, 2023
Radio & Records Jazz Radio National Airplay Chart: May 1982
On May 21, 1982, Radio & Records magazine introduced their "Jazz Radio National Airplay Chart," a weekly 30 position chart of jazz albums:
- WYRS (now WARW) - jazz format 1980-90
- KSAX (now KHVN) - jazz format 1979-85
- WDBS (now WFXC) - free-form format 1971-84
- KTWN (now KQQL) - jazz format 1978-83
- WXFM (now WCFS) - jazz format early '80s
- KJAZ (now KREV) - jazz format 1959-94
- KJZZ (now KXPA) - jazz format 1981-84
Radio & Records had previously been publishing a 10 position "Jazz on AOR" chart and continued to do so. That first Radio National Airplay chart:
Because the chart was based solely on airplay instead of sales, it varied greatly from the jazz albums charts appearing that week in issues of Billboard and CashBox:
Album
| R&R
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BB
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CB
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It's a Fact
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1
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5
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6
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Old Songs For The New Depression
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2
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-
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-
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Live at The Savoy
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3
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18
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20
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Straight from the Heart
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4
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-
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-
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Fathers and Sons
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5
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21
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21
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Mystical Adventures
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6
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1
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4
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Dan Siegel
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7
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30
|
29
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Brotherly Love
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8
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35
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-
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Hollywood
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9
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15
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10
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Come Morning
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10
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3
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7
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Ride Like the Wind
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11
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46
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19
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Rio
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12
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11
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12
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Dream On
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13
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9
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13
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Objects of Desire
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14
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7
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14
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Silk
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15
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34
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22
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Chariots of Fire
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16
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1
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4
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Dan Siegel
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17
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19
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27
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Weather Report
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18
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17
|
18
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Earland's Jam
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19
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32
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24
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No Problem
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20
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27
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-
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We Want Miles
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21
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10
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2
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Nights in Brazil
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22
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42
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-
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Taurus
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23
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-
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-
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Telecommunication
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24
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12
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8
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Breakin' Away
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25
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2
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1
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Crazy for You
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26
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16
|
16
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George Benson Collection
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27
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6
|
5
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Offramp
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28
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-
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11
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Griffith Park Collection
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29
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41
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-
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Free & Easy
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30
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-
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-
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The chart lasted through the end of 1987. In January 1988, the magazine expanded its jazz charts offerings:
Complete chart information from May 1982 - December 1987 is freely available to peruse and download over at one of our sister websites: albumcharts.wordpress.com/
Sunday, December 25, 2022
Wednesday, December 21, 2022
Rolling Stone magazine's Top 100 albums of 1982
And if you're interested in my ranking of the top 82 albums released in 1982, just click on the image below:
Looks like that album list is getting a bit long in the tooth. Perhaps a new, updated ranking is in order? Or maybe 83 of '83?
Thursday, November 10, 2022
Roadrunner Album Reviews 1982-83
Roadrunner was a rock magazine published in Adelaide, Australia between 1978-83. Its founding editors were Stuart Coupe and Donald Robertson. Though primarily focused on Australian and overseas rock music, it also covered areas of the burgeoning counterculture and issues such as punk. The final edition of December 1982 / January 1983 was published in Sydney.
Full issues are currently archived at the University of Wollongong. Here's the album reviews available in each issue of 1982-3.
| Issue | Date | Artist | Album |
|---|---|---|---|
| 5(1) | February 1982 | The Human League | Dare |
| David Byrne | The Catherine Wheel | ||
| Igniters | EP | ||
| Stray Cats | Gonna Ball! | ||
| The Cure | Three Imaginary Boys | ||
| Madness | 7 | ||
| The Cuban Heels | Work Our Way to Heaven | ||
| Mi-Sex | Shanghaied | ||
| Various Artists | A Selection | ||
| U2 | October | ||
| The Cars | Shake It Up | ||
| The Sound | From the Lion's Mouth | ||
| Bow Wow Wow | See Jungle! See Jungle!... | ||
| Jerry Harrison | The Red and the Black | ||
| Tom Tom Club | Tom Tom Club | ||
| Crackajacks | Little Heart Attacks | ||
| Devo | Be Stiff | ||
| Echo and the Bunnymen | Shine So Hard | ||
| Cabaret Voltaire | Red Mecca | ||
| Eikichi Yazawa | Yazawa | ||
| Johnny Warman | Walking Into Mirrors | ||
| 5(2) | March 1982 | Redgum | Brown Rice and Kerosine |
| Simon & Garfunkel | The Central Park Concert | ||
| Godley & Creme | Ismism | ||
| Was (Not Was) | Was (Not Was) | ||
| Frank Zappa | Shut Up and Play Yer Guitar | ||
| The B-52's | Mesopotamia | ||
| Blam Blam Blam | Blam Blam Blam | ||
| Rod Eather | Spirit of St. Louis | ||
| Dave Edmunds | Best of | ||
| Booker T | I Want You | ||
| Johnny Guitar Watson | The Very Best of... | ||
| Steeleye Span | Recollections | ||
| Sally Oldfield | Playing in the Flame | ||
| Garland Jeffreys | Rock 'N' Roll Adult | ||
| Mark Gillespie | Sweet Nothing | ||
| The Triffids | The Triffids | ||
| Various Artists | Fast Foward MAgazine 008/009 | ||
| 5(3) | April 1982 | ||
| New Order | Movement | ||
| Gary U.S. Bonds | Certified Soul | ||
| Can | Incandescence | ||
| The Lines | Therapy | ||
| The New York Dolls | Lipstick Killers - The Mercer Street Sessions | ||
| Richard Clapton | The Very Best of... | ||
| Cold Chisel | Circus Animals | ||
| Toyah | Sheep Farming in Barnet/The Blue Meaning | ||
| Hazel O'Connor | Cover Plus | ||
| Donovan | Love is Only Feeling | ||
| 5(4) | May 1982 | Aural Indifference | The Sound of Indifference |
| Laughing Clowns | Mr Uddich Scmuddich Goes to Town | ||
| Japan | Tin Drum | ||
| Van Morrison | Beautiful Vision | ||
| Equal Local | Madagascar | ||
| Jah Wobble, Holder Czukay, Jaki Leibezet | E.P. | ||
| Hunters and Collectors | E.P. | ||
| Bauhaus | JIn the Flat Field | ||
| The Birthday Party | Drunk on the Pope's Blood | ||
| Lydia Lunch | The Agony is the Ecstacy | ||
| 23 Skidoo | Seven Songs | ||
| Cheetah | Rock'n'Roll Women | ||
| Various Artists | Storm Riders | ||
| Jon English | Beating the Boards | ||
| The Fall | Hex Enduction Hour | ||
| Morrissey Mullen | Badness | ||
| The Stranglers | La Folie | ||
| Various Artists | Life in the European Theatre | ||
| Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft | Gold Und Leibe | ||
| 5(5) | July 1982 | Talking Heads | The Name of This Band is Talking Heads |
| Sunnyboys | Individuals | ||
| Paul McCartney | Tug of War | ||
| The Jam | The Gift | ||
| The Nolans | Portrait | ||
| Peak | Ebondazzar | ||
| Abba | The Magic of Abba | ||
| Various Artists | James Bond - Greatest Hits | ||
| Klaus Schulze | Trancefer | ||
| Dieter Schutz | Transvision | ||
| Lorry | Be Careful, Too | ||
| Ideal | Ideal | ||
| Sparks | Angst in My Pants | ||
| The Cure | Pornography | ||
| Gary Young & The Rocking Emus | Gary Young & The Rocking Emus | ||
| Lou Reed | The Blue Mask | ||
| British Electric Foundation | Music of Quality and Distinction, Vol. 1 |
| Issue | Date | Artist | Album | Rating |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 6(1) | January 1983 | Jo Jo Zep | Cha | ★★★★ |
| Flash 'N' The Pan | Headlines | ★★★ | ||
| The Sports | All Sports | ★★★★★ | ||
| Hunters and Collectors | Hunters and Collectors | ★★★ | ||
| Australian Crawl | Sons of Beaches | ★★ | ||
| The Eurogliders | The Eurogliders | ★★ | ||
| Little Heroes | Play by Numbers | ★★★★ | ||
| Various Artists | The Mushroom Evolution Concert | ★ | ||
| Saints | Casablanca | ★★★★ | ||
| Cheetah | Rock'n'Roll Women | ★★★ | ||
| Rupert-B | Rupert-B | ★★ | ||
| Billy Field | Try Biology | ★★★ | ||
| Gonna | Spirit of Place | ★★★ | ||
| Paul Madigan | Paul Madigan | ★★★★★ | ||
| Original Cast | "Dingo Girl" Soundtrack | ★★ | ||
| Essendon Airport | Palimpest | ★★ | ||
| Ward 13 | Too Much Talk | ★ | ||
| The Reels | Beautiful | ★★★★★ | ||
| Monitors | Back from Our Recent Illness | ★ | ||
| Un Tabu | Un Tabu EP | ★ | ||
| Mark Gillespie | Sweet Nothing | ★ | ||
| Igniters | EP | ★★ | ||
| Jon English | Beating the Boards | ★★ | ||
| Gary Young & The Rocking Emus | Gary Young & The Rocking Emus | ★★ | ||
| Sunnyboys | Individuals | ★★★★ | ||
| The Sherbs | Shaping Up | ★ | ||
| The Kevins | Club Rome | ★★ | ||
| The Hitmen | It Is What It Is | ★★★ | ||
| Do-Re-Mi | Do-Re-Mi | ★★★★ | ||
| Silent Movies | Silent Movies | ★ | ||
| Mother Goose | This is the Life | ★ | ||
| Rock Doctors | Now Hear This | ★★ | ||
| DD Smash | Cool Bananas | ★ | ||
| Rose Tattoo | Scarred for Life | ★★★★ | ||
| Jimmy And The Boys | In Hell With You Mother | ★ | ||
| Tactis | The Bones of Barry Harrison | ★ | ||
| Richard Clapton | The Great Escape | ★★★ | ||
| Jewel Blanch | Send All the Ghosts Away | ★★ | ||
| Heaven | Twilight of Mischief | ★ | ||
| Midnight Oil | 10-9-8-7-6-5-4-3-2-1 | ★★★★★ | ||
| The Church | Blurred Crusade | ★★★★★ | ||
| Don Walker | Freedom | ★★★★ | ||
| Split Enz | Time and Tide | ★★★★★ | ||
| Richard Clapton | The Very Best of... | ★★★ | ||
| Mike Rudd & The Heaters | The Unrealist | ★★ | ||
| INXS | Shaboo Shoobah | ★★★★★ | ||
| Pel Mel | Out of Reason | ★★★★ | ||
| New Race | The First and the Last | ★★ | ||
| Mondo Rock | Nuovo Mondo | ★★★ | ||
| Mighty Guys | Be Cool Be Smart | ★★ | ||
| Crackajacks | Little Heart Attacks | ★★★ | ||
| Gotham City | Radioactive | ★★ | ||
| Xero | Lust in the Dust | ★★★ | ||
| The Clean | Boodle Boodle Boodle | ★★★★ | ||
| Go-Betweens | Send Me a Lullaby | ★★★ | ||
| Blam Blam Blam | Blam Blam Blam | ★★★ | ||
| Lisa Bade | Suspicion | ★ | ||
| No Fixed Address | From My Eyes | ★★★★ | ||
| Laughing Clowns | Mr Uddich Goes to Town | ★★★★ | ||
| Wildlife Documentaries | Wildlife Documentaries | ★★★ | ||
| Jo Kennedy and Cast | Starstruck | ★★ | ||
| Various Artists | Rockin' Australia Live | ★★ | ||
| Hunters and Collectors | Payload | ★★★★ | ||
| Boys | Inside the Cage | ★★ | ||
| Zoo | Cowboys and Engines | ★★★★ | ||
| Redgum | Cut to the Quick | ★★★ | ||
| Swannee | This Time It's Different | ★★★★ | ||
| Divinyls | Monkey Grip | ★★★★ | ||
| Deckchairs Overboard | Deckchairs Overboard | ★★★★ | ||
| Cold Chisel | Circus Animals | ★★★★ | ||
| Dynamic Hepnotics | Strange Land | ★★★ | ||
| Paul Kelly & The Dots | Manila | ★★★★ | ||
| Numbers | 39.51 | ★★★ | ||
| Icehouse | Primitive Man | ★★★★ | ||
| Scattered Order | PRAT Culture | ★★★ | ||
| Dugites | No Money | ★★★ | ||
| Serious Young Insects | Housebreaking | ★★★ | ||
| Young Homebuyers | Young Homebuyers | ★★★ | ||
| Wendy and The Rocketts | Live | ★★★ | ||
| Meo 245 | Rites of Passage | ★★★ |
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