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From: "Miles Goosens" <outdoorminer@mindspring.com>
> Josh Chasin:
>> That record
>>defined summer '83 for me, even more so than Synchronicity or the 
>>Bowie
>>record with "Let's Dance."
>
> You mean LET'S DANCE? :)
>
> Summer '83 means one thing to me:  Talking Heads' SPEAKING IN 
> TONGUES, on cassette with all the extended mixes (like the Thomas 
> Dolby "extended" mixes on the BLINDED BY SCIENCE EP, they're not 
> remixes but truly the full versions of the tracks), on the Walkman.

I remember summer '83 mostly as a summer of singles: that June, my dad 
got transferred from Boulder, Colorado to Russell, Kansas: the culture 
shock alone was immense, but between moving to a town where I didn't 
know a soul (and moving there in summer to boot, which means I didn't 
actually meet anyone until September when the ninth grade started) and 
moving to a town where the nearest decent record store was 35 miles 
away in Hays meant that I spent most of my time on the living room 
couch watching MTV -- which was right at the height of its big 
mainstream breakthrough -- and most of my cash at my dad's store and 
at a half-record store/half-bookstore called New Expressions, which 
meant I mostly bought singles.  Probably the albums I most listened to 
were Bananarama's DEEP SEA SKIVING (still a hugely underrated album, 
far superior to anything they did after), PUNCH THE CLOCK (also a 
better album than many people give it credit for) and side one of 
MURMUR (didn't like side two as much ...still don't, actually), along 
with the other three previously mentioned.  But mostly, I think of 
summer '83 as the summer of singles like the Red Rockers' great 
"China" b/w "Voice of America," both sides of which I just played 
endlessly.

S