Let's go

I was looking on ebay for my two favorite Bauhaus albums on vinyl, "Burning from the Inside," and "The Sky's Gone Out."  These were key albums in my teen years, and through them I discovered Love and Rockets, Tones On Tail, and the solo work of Peter Murphy and Daniel Ash.  I also had a cassette of David J's called "Songs From Another Season," which I never really got into.  Having found music that I felt was uniquely mine amongst my friends, I wanted to be a completionist, so I worked on getting every Bauhaus album, every Love and Rockets album, and all the solo work and side projects.  Being very poor, and also this was before the internet was a place where you could at least listen to music if not download it easily, I did not succeed in my quest.

Now that I enjoy getting things on vinyl, I'm interested in gathering some of my favorite albums from that time of my life.

A side effect of shopping for one or two records is that many people on ebay are selling lots of records.  So naturally I take a look at what they've got for sale to see if there's anything else I could add to my potential purchase and save on shipping.

I spotted a copy of "The Sky's Gone Out" for sale, and checked the sellers other offerings, and located a couple albums by bands I'd never heard of, but which turned out to be pretty good.  One of those was "The Reducers," from the mid-80s and the other was "The Shocking Blue" from around 1969.

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