On this day in history (February 25, 1992), Tori Amos released her debut solo album Little Earthquakes. The album was released one month earlier in the UK. Little Earthquakes features the singles Crucify, China, Silent All These Years, Winter and Me And A Gun.
On this day in history (February 22, 1980), OMD released their self-titled debut album featuring Electricity and Messages. This album was influenced by electronic pioneers Brian Eno, Neu! and Kraftwerk.
On this day in history (February 20, 1984), The Smiths released their self-titled debut album featuring the single What Difference Does It Make and This Charming Man. The sleeve for the album was designed by Morrissey and features American actor Joe Dallesandro in a cropped still from Andy Warhol’s 1968 film Flesh.
On this day in history (February 17, 1984), Thompson Twins released their fourth studio album Into The Gap featuring the singles Hold Me Now and Doctor Doctor. The was the bands most commercially successufull album featuring 3 singles that made the UK Top 5 singles chart.
On this day in history (February 15, 2000), The Cure released their 11th studio album Bloodflowers. While there were no commercial singles off this album, Out Of This World and Maybe Someday were released as promotional singles to radio stations.
On this day in history (February 5, 1980), The Cure released their first compilation album Boys Don’t Cry which contained tracks from the Three Imaginary Boys album (which had yet to be released in the US) plus additional songs from the band’s 1978-1979 era.
On this day in history (February 4, 1983), Echo & The Bunnymen released their third studio album Porcupine featuring the singles The Back Of Love and The Cutter
On this day in history (February 3, 1997), David Bowie released his 20th studio album Earthling featuring the singles Little Wonder, Dead Man Walking, Telling Lies and I’m Afraid Of Americans.
On this day in history (January 31, 1994), Tori Amos released her second studio album Under The Pink featuring the singles Pretty Good Year, God, Cornflake Girl and Past The Mission that featured backing vocals from Trent Reznor
On this day in history (January 30, 1989), New Order released their 5th studio album Technique featuring the singles Fine TIme, Round And Round and Run. This was the bands first album to reach #1 on the UK charts.
On this day in history (January 27, 2004), The Cure released the box set “Join The Dots: B-sides & rarities 1978-2001”. Many of us feel that this is the best collection of b-sides put out by any artist
On this day in history (January 26, 1983), Berlin released their second studio album Pleasure Victim featuring the singles Pleasure Victim, Sex (I’m A), The Metro and Masquerade.