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For Christmas, I got Rod Argent's 1988 album Red House.
There's a hole punch in the liner note booklet, but otherwise it's in really good condition, considering its age. It's mostly an instrumental album, and it's pretty synth-heavy (not surprising for the '80s, I guess), neither of which I was expecting, so I don't quite know what to think about it yet.
I was kind of surprised to find that I already know three of the songs - "A 4th Gymnopedie," which also appears on Classically Speaking from a decade later, "Helpless," and "Baby Don't You Cry," both of which appear on Rod Argent & Colin Blunstone's Out of the Shadows from 2001 (although on Out of the Shadows, "Baby Don't You Cry" appears as "Baby Don't You Cry No More").
Also, in looking up the release dates, I've discovered that both Red House and Out of the Shadows came out in the U.S. years after they came out in the U.K. Red House came out in 1988 in the U.K. but in 1991 in the U.S.; and Out of the Shadows came out in 2001 in the U.K. but in 2003 in the U.S.
