Ten Favorite Sire Records
(One of the labels I trusted wholeheartedly when I was fifteen or sixteen and began discovering music that fell outside the parameters of American top-forty radio. I remember zeroing in on those white spines with the red Sire logo whenever I went to the record store. The releases below are listed alphabetically by artist.)
Stray by Aztec Camera
Angel Food for Thought by Meryn Cadell
Japanese Whispers by The Cure
Violator by Depeche Mode
Ocean Rain by Echo & the Bunnymen
The Circus by Erasure
Stutter by James
After the Snow by Modern English
The Queen Is Dead by The Smiths
Upstairs at Eric’s by Yaz
— October 9, 2020