Brenda 'BT'Taylor - You Can't Have Your Cake And Eat It Too (1982)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k4K0QCAEPWI

Take Three - Can't Get Enough (Reggae Mix) (1985)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AiwdbG16RVY

Take Three - Can't Get Enough (Soul Mix) (1985)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HDHiEmez5Ho

Chuck Jackson - Waiting In Vain (1980)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EzEHSo6zJDw

Jamaica Girls - Somebody New (Larry Levan Mix) (1983)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QnIV2pZEQJg

Osiris - War On The Bullshit (1986)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8VntbbVmgJs

Konk - Your Life (Party Mix) (1984)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WFCXNgydM-8

Tilt - Arkade Funk (1983)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sjc42OKxz5A

Shango - Shango Message (1984)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JpBtb0Jq-3g

Kool Chip featuring Toni Smith - Jazz It Up (1987)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3dLoPcrD8kI

There was some half decent reggae in the 80s as well.

Junior Khadaffy - Rampers Music
https://youtu.be/VTX7Y9T--Lg

Echo Minott - Come Again
https://youtu.be/fMDm0Lfy-lA

Sophia George - Girlie Girlie
https://youtu.be/OLyE0N_wi08

Yellowman - Zungguzungguguzungguzeng
https://youtu.be/HV46OGU7ksE

Chalice - I'm Trying
https://youtu.be/Cp1Dl596PRA

Steel Pulse - Chant a Psalm
https://youtu.be/OH1zO2xI8KA

This great song didn't quite chart in 1985, though getting lots of airplay that summer, but was the nearest to a hit the group had.

Mainframe-Five Minutes

eh?.... what tracks have i posted on the rare 60's classics thread that 'arent rare'?

why do you insist on carrying on with this pointless bickering? THATS why i suggest you 'get a life' .

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yK5V7czvpXE

NYC Peech Boys - Don't Make Me Wait

Saw his on Top Of The Pops on BBC4 last night. brilliant nonsense
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=licNLUzYpo0

why isn't anyone smiling when dances past though?

What you post are indeed rare, as in totally unknown, but they are not classics

I would say that i have known approx 95% of the songs on this thread. Some of the rare ones have bought a smile to my face as i remember the song when i start listening, i cannot say that about the songs you post on the 60s thread

....... and still you go on, despite being asked no to , and despite a definition being provided that does warrant them being referred to as 'classics'.

and I get called a troll.....

Fan The Flame - Barbara Pennington - Could the video be any more 80's?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eSQXg_aImlU

Jump Back - Dhar Braxton

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=goxJYg3TthA

Set Fire To Me - Willie Colon

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nQqKfStWKY0

Just Call - Sherrick

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vFZNPRSmyns

Lover Turn Me On - Kashif

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n8K7ShUcVO8

I've Been Missing You - Kashif

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZK7RyxD1fnA

.............. and?....

Seems appropriate to post this today

Colonel Abrams - Music Is The Answer

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sVyHW2iSPew

Love every one of those. Great picks.
And R.I.P to the Colonel while I'm here.

I am going to go ahead and list the rest of what went to radio during this decade from my late beautiful precious Billy Joe Royal because in my opinion some of the material is some of his best.

"(How Do I Like To Dance) Slowly" (I love to hear him sing this ballad!)
"He'll Have To Go" (This song was done first by Jim Reeves, but to me, Billy Joe is the one who owns it.)
"(Who Is Like You) Sweet America"
"You Really Got A Hold On Me"
"Wasted Time"
"Board Walk Angel" (This song should have gone all the way in my opinion, but sadly it stalled at #41.)
"I Miss You Already"
"Old Bridges Burn Slow" (The legendary Joe South wrote this one.)
"It Keeps Right On Hurtin'"

God bless you and his family always!!!

Holly

robert plant - big log - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FxSsol3Zd7k

sandie shaw/smiths - hand in glove - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FxSsol3Zd7k

chill fac torr - twist (round and round) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LB2SwqEEj6U

freestyle - don't stop the rock
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qcQexz1iU5M
art of noise - beat box
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KcOxyQehbiI
arthur baker - breakers revenge
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EQlExCmEjp8
the jonzun crew - pack jam
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qa8v0Dff1X8
mc chill - MC story
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e-CpDMQt46I
allem ft leroy burgess - confusion
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TNjprlqjvjk
sir mix - a - lot - square dance rap
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6mDo7ILBW48
wrecks n effect - new jack swing
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BVaU4JFqanY
keith sweat - i want her
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7YJc80Xgubk
digital underground - doowutchyalike
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eS328g08utI
donna allen - serious
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HRpTmBAnkp0
shannon - my hearts divided
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g-LGD1sfQSg

I love that Sherrick track. Apparently it came out in '87. Sounds older than that.

Anyone remember Nitro Deluxe - This Brutal House. Quite an early House track
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=flhuep_2vWk

Rosie Vela - Magic Smile
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cwaiZL51H6I

I remember Nitro Deluxe very well. My mate was convinced the lyric was 'Grooving with Penelope'

Not rare but the song that changed everything for me and set me on the musical road I've never veered from. Still fills the dance floor to this day

Joe Smooth - Promised Land

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V09x2y9MHbA

A band I'd totally forgotten about "Vaya Con Dios" who had a couple of hits during that brief Jazz revival

Don't Cry For Louie https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tgUyDhwDFdU

Just a Friend of Mine https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H38Qk0V2tl4

&

Working Week's "Venceremopus We Wiil Win" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XG2KypGn3Q4

I always thought they were part of the same movement but Working Week seem to have been 4 years earlier

On a different Vibe, SPK's "Metal Dance"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MPBpYIZC9PM

Don't troll; don't get called one.

Don't be hypocritical towards others and I bet no one will say a word. If you tell people not to do what you are doing yourself, expect attention.

You've been told which records you posted that aren't rare already. Do I care that you post records that aren't rare as 'rare'? No. Do I care that you do it and then tell others off for it. Definitely.

Time to let it go and move on.

Hopefully.

Rare, expensive and little known. (Fortunately available on a repress 12" about six years ago)


The Loni Gamble Band featuring Lisa Warrington - I Like The Way You Do It (1984)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RchmuOdVt-k

Great record. I have the follow up 'Illusions' too. Dardanella's late mother Byrdie Green was a great singer as well.


Great tracks you've posted. R.I.P. Kashif and Sherrick.

There's a musical connection between these two artists but I'll leave that to someone else...

Bet you've not heard this for a while:

Landscape - Normal Bates