Enjoy the music Part 2, original from old Stereo2go site

Oh man, can't believe I missed this one by a couple days, Michigan's own Madonna released her first album 40 years ago! As a young music listener, 1978 to 1988 was non-stop great music in every genre, it was hard for me not to switch between 10+ radio stations without finding something great. I don't remember this song when it came out, but Holiday and Borderline were on big rotation on MTV after these two came out.




This had a little more airplay

 

In 1987 Triumph released Surveillance on July 27th kicking off with Never Say Never.

 

July 27th, 1978, AC/DC released Highway to Hell and unleashed the kraken in the USA. I'm pretty sure this was the first song I heard on a boombox, walking around our ice rink mezzanine, this was blasting from this huge tape deck with speakers coming around the corner. Shortly after, every locker room had one, sometimes two or more boomers.

 

One more from July 27th, 1984, how can we forget Metallica Ride the Lightning was released this day. Here's a great video, just wish there were more camera angles.

 

Autoreverser just played this album in the album thread, little does he know this was released 45 years ago this week! I consider 1978 to be one the beginning of a huge wall of music, bands like The Cars, Devo, AC/DC, Van Halen, etc were coming from everwhere!

 

I was out working in the neighborhood where Prince's Purple Rain House is, the photo is from Google Maps, props to the photo taker.





Prince would never let his videos be posted on YouTube, over the last few years we've seen some great content, here' a full concert at our local "world famous" First Avenue, this club is as dirty and gritty as it looks but 22 oz beer bombers in glass bottles makes the place swing!

 

I forgot about that Commodores Song, awesome 80's song that has all the cool 80's gadgets giving it the ethereal sound.

Some of our Yacht Rock Channels are doing deeper dives into the smaller hits, I like it!