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Berlin - Love Life

Ah, the 80s. Right about '84 things were hitting the sweet spot for me musically. I remember a buddy playing me a mix tape that had "No More Words" on it and I asked "Who is that?" I like synth pop with the big guitars and all that but I never got around to getting this album. Of course a couple years later after Top Gun came out every one knew "Take My Breath Away" a song that put the band in the upper echelons for a little while. Sadly, it was also a song written for the band by Giorgio Moroder who had a killer touch on soundtracks in particular, and it pretty much overshadowed anything they did before, and after. The other day I'm bin rummaging and there in between the ever present badly scratched Rod Stewart albums (I think people do it on purpose) was a decent looking copy of Berlin's Love Life . "Ooooh." I said to myself. I took out the vinyl, and it was just dusty and covered in finger prints but otherwise looked salvageable. T...