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


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