Samantha Fox is woefully written off, yes she started out as a glamour model, but she's proud of the fact it started her career, if people look past 'Touch Me' and delve deeper into her catalogue, there's tracks such as 'Out Of Our Hands' and 'Even In The Darkest Hours', she's all but forgotten and when she is remembered, it's negative!
Talk Talk. Totally brilliant yet so underrated. Also Propaganda and Bucks Fizz. With Bucks Fizz people these days only ever go on about their cheesy Eurovision song but they developed into a really good vocal group with a long string of excellent and very varied singles that were as far removed from Making Your Mind Up as was possible!
Scorned by the press for their glam image and pretensions, but made some truly individual and pioneering records when it would have been so tempting to go downmarket for the teeny-bopper dollar!
I'm not so sure that people use underrated in the context of appreciation by audience or critics of the time; possibly it's more a case of 'not discussed so much by Digital Spy users in 2015.
So, I'm going to go with exactly the same list I added to the 'Best bands of the eighties' thread as I think they are all excellent but rarely mentioned here:
Talk Talk. Totally brilliant yet so underrated. Also Propaganda and Bucks Fizz. With Bucks Fizz people these days only ever go on about their cheesy Eurovision song but they developed into a really good vocal group with a long string of excellent and very varied singles that were as far removed from Making Your Mind Up as was possible!
One hit wonders (Calling All The Heroes) maybe but I urge anyone who likes a bit of 80s style Pop/Prog/Metal to check out their album 'Once Around The World'
Culture Club. Colour by Numbers is a classic album that still sounds great today. And the key word here is band. Most people see CC as just Boy George, but the other members were great musicians and contributed a lot to the songwriting, but have been mostly forgotten and written out of history.
I guess they were more 70's but Split Enz released several albums in the 80's too but throughout their whole career they were virtually ignored in this country, bar one or two singles! They were a brilliantly inventive, off-the-wall and original band.
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No need to be sorry, she had a killer set of drums back in the day, so could easily be part of a band.
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The Associates
China Crisis
Orange Juice
Thompson Twins
Never heard of them before I heard 'Under the Milky Way' on the Donnie Darko sound track.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Sound_%28band%29
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The Time
The Comsat Angels
The Sugarcubes
The Birthday Party
Bauhaus
Anvil
Strawberry Switchblade
The Wedding Present
Scorned by the press for their glam image and pretensions, but made some truly individual and pioneering records when it would have been so tempting to go downmarket for the teeny-bopper dollar!
*cough*duran*cough*
So, I'm going to go with exactly the same list I added to the 'Best bands of the eighties' thread as I think they are all excellent but rarely mentioned here:
Trouble Funk
Cameo
Mtume
New York Skyy
S.O.S Band
Roots Radics
Public Enemy
Dead Kennedys
Firehose
Dinosaur Jr.
fully agree!
id add the adventures too
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_yBWf0rcddo
One hit wonders (Calling All The Heroes) maybe but I urge anyone who likes a bit of 80s style Pop/Prog/Metal to check out their album 'Once Around The World'
The Christians
Oh yes!
I agree with some of the bands already mentioned:
The Church,The Psychedelic Furs