Good call! Love Secret Affair

I see the A-Team

I Ran by A Flock of Seagulls
(made no.9 in the U.S charts, never even got into the U.K top 40)

The Adventures- Broken Land

Heartbreak City - The Cars

Heartache Avenue- The Maisonettes is a good 80s track with a 60s vibe

Bourgeois Tagg - I Don't Mind at All

Black - Sweetest Smile

Wavelength -Hurry Home

fantastic track..

The eighties???

Abra abra cadabra.....I waana reach out and grab ya

A huge hit when it came out in '82 (Number 2 in the UK)

Not underrated

Max Carl - The Circle

The Tubes - Talk To Ya Later

Dead Milkmen - Dean's Dream

The Nails - The Things You Left Behind

Another one for the adventures broken land great track from 88 got to number 20 I think.

Other underrated/unplayed.

PhD I won't let you down 82.
Cock robin the promise you made 85
The Christians Hooverville. 87
China crisis black man ray. 84?
Supertramp it's raining again. 82
Simple minds glittering prize 82
Living in a box room in your heart 87

The Bangles - Going Down To Liverpool.

As far as I'm concerned, they were better pre-Prince, pre-let's make it all about Susanna Hoffs.

"All Over The Place" is a great album too fro 1984 I think.

As soon as I saw this thread two songs came to my head:

Wax - Bridge To Your Heart (mentioned already by the author of this thread - owen10)
Jane Wiedlin - Rush Hour

Wax had an earlier single which didn't chart too well - got to no 60 - but was a catchy song:

Wax - Right Between the Eyes

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

They certainly were. 'All Over The Place' is a gem.

'Different Light' is good too, but it's over-produced and the use of session musicians really annoys. They don't sound like the Bangles at times.

And yes, the record company's attempts at pushing Susanna was annoying. By the third album the cracks were obvious, and the break up soon followed.

Saying that, their early 00's comeback was great, and I got to see them in concert in 2003. Aside from not playing 'Dover Beach', they were brilliant!

this..... rated by (early) dance fans maybe (rightly so) but doesnt get the recognition this pioneering track should get, perhaps in part to the success of its remastered big hit version in the 90's

klf - what time is love (original 1988)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VT7lwdui4HY

http://www.mtv.co.uk/dexys-midnight-...at-shes-like-0

I don't know if it's been posted yet, but I've always loved 'Clouds Across the Moon' by The RAH Band..........

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V4R97AeM6IE

........even though my school friends ridiculed it. I generally like science fiction type pop songs, though (eg 'Spacer' by Sheila and B. Devotion is another particular favourite), and didn't care what they thought. I love the (obviously low budget) video, too.

That's one of their most famous songs, i think Down side up and Messages from the stars are a lot more underrated

This is a very underrated song from early 1982;

Trouble - Lindsey Buckingham.

https://youtu.be/CO1sQPs3U8k

Member of Fleetwood Mac only managed to get this superb track to No31 in late January 1982.

Let it Bee by Voice of the Beehive was one of the finest pop albums of the Eighties (and for that matter Honey Lingers was one of the finest of the Nineties); spent one week inside the Top 20. I Walk the Earth couldn't even make the Top 40 singles chart despite two attempts.

I'm not sure these are truly underrated but you don't hear them much these days.

The Dream Academy 'Life in a Northern Town' https://youtu.be/5UXnulANF8g
The Dream Academy 'Edge of Forever' https://youtu.be/biWQ14bJCvM (Ferris Bueller notwithstanding)

Different Light sure is good, and you know, I rather like "Everything" for the most part too. For me, there were far better tracks on both albums than the ones they released as singles (and probably the ones where Debbi or Vicki were singing lead....).

Lucky you, I assume Michael Steele was still with them at that time (2003). Ah Dover Beach. Talented ladies, all of them.

"Life in a Northern Town" was sampled for "Sunchime" by Dario G which was a big hit in the 90s.