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Another suggestion
Bagatelle - Summer In Dublin https://youtu.be/MMhWll_mfGk a few of my suggestions : Love Is A Wonderful Colour - Icicle Works Life in The City - After the Fire Tunnel of Love - Fun Boy Three Under Your Thumb - Godley and Creme Swamp - That Petrol Emotion LA - The Fall Could You Be The One - Husker Du Oblivious - Aztec Camera (always overlooked by Somewhere in My Heart) Way Out - The Las (see above but There She Goes) |
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OK, shove this random playlist in your ears!
The The - Slow Train To Dawn https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TfzvFKO1ud8 The Fountainhead - Someone Like You https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=844oGkGqD_o Thomas Dolby - The Flat Earth https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZO4rtBzN6vo Wax - In Some Other World https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LmF1yDii6kg Paul Haig - The Only Truth https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AETHjjYXkYg Paul Haig - Heaven Sent https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fu-vWhtMyNs Scritti Politti: Boom! There She Was https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mbCsMigGiLM Cousin Rachel - You give me so much https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3kw7enI0wdQ |
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Underrated eighties can mean different things to different people. Some will say that a single that didn't hit the top 40 is underrated. Some might even say 'underrated' if the record in question didn't go top five. Or maybe a track that hit big at the time but doesn't get much airplay now in 2016.
I'll go with some records I rate hugely which I had on regular rotation at the time of release and which weren't ignored within their intended markets but (to the best of my knowledge) didn't crossover to the pop charts. Debby Blackwell - Once You Got Me Going (1986) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iC1cD65M0qs Fatback - Is This the Future? (1983) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WCG926aQJcc Bobbi Humphrey - No Way (1986) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7KcrP1MGtuI R.J.'s Latest Arrival - Shackles (1984) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=clt7VrJHuhA Octavia - 2 The Limit (1986) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r1k69r-SA9I Jerome 'Secret Weapon' Prister - Say You'll Be (1985) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mxtx8KX-taU Kreamcicle - No News Is News (1983) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PJeaTk9BkuM Modernique Feat. Larry Wu - Loves Gonna Get You (1987) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V6N5HkWjM1E Brother D - How We Gonna Make the Black Nation Rise? (1980) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S-HQR2-s1J4 Spoonie Gee - The Godfather (1987) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OEWTaMSe64w J.V.C. Force - Strong Island (1988) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=05pcczvmrjc Lakim Shabazz - Pure Righteousness (1988) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=flNUA1cHjgQ True Mathematics - After Dark (1987) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kQlsah88H4E Sugar Bear - Don't Scandalize Mine (1988) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3I6suxtyN3s Tyree Cooper - Turn Up The Bass (1989) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=skmkWiAhSko Cultural Vibe - Ma Foom Bey (Love Chant Version) (1986) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U90t5NaX9JA Dhar Braxton - Jump Back (Set Me Free) (1986) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4KeTX6zgjBU Lachandra - Just Started (1988) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bbqF7DJUbPY |
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Colourbox - The Moon Is Blue
Scritti Politti - Faithless |
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The Bangles - Going Down To Liverpool.
This thread will certainly make a great Spotify List My suggestions Kissing the Pink - Last Film I ever saw https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hFX5Ca36kOk Trance Dance - Gonna Get It - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JMz13qUZ2zA Probably out of the sphere of underappreciated but Hanoi Rocks - Don't You Ever Leave Me - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HFiABo45GQQ |
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I don't know if it's been posted yet, but I've always loved 'Clouds Across the Moon' by The RAH Band..........
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True Mathematics - After Dark (1987)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kQlsah88H4E And thanks Pitman, the Chameleons - Up the Down Escalator is a good one. Apart from that, there's a reason why many of these are 'underrated'
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Quote: Originally Posted by scrilla True Mathematics - After Dark (1987) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kQlsah88H4E Quote:
Thanks for that. I'm not all that taken with most of the suggestions on this thread (the ones I haven't heard before) but I'm liking that.
And thanks Pitman, the Chameleons - Up the Down Escalator is a good one. Apart from that, there's a reason why many of these are 'underrated' ![]() |
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The Outfield were the very definition of an underated 80's band. They were unusual in the sense that they were a British band who had sucess in America but remained relatively unknown here. My two favorite songs are Your Love and Say It Is'nt So. Classic 80's !
https://youtu.be/4N1iwQxiHrs https://youtu.be/tU2HybDGJHQ |
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The Outfield were the very definition of an underated 80's band. They were unusual in the sense that they were a British band who had sucess in America but remained relatively unknown here. My two favorite songs are Your Love and Say It Is'nt So. Classic 80's !
https://youtu.be/4N1iwQxiHrs https://youtu.be/tU2HybDGJHQ |
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I guess it was big at the time, so maybe doesn't qualify, but I never hear mentioned now was The Kane Gang - Closest Thing to Heaven. Lovely blue-eyed soul record.
Also loved DC Lee's - See the Day Never heard much about it until it was covered by whoever - Girls Aloud? I agree with the Lotus Eaters shout - great pop song. Someone mentioned China in Your Hand - Gary Barlow was right on that one! |
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I guess it was big at the time, so maybe doesn't qualify, but I never hear mentioned now was The Kane Gang - Closest Thing to Heaven. Lovely blue-eyed soul record.
Also loved DC Lee's - See the Day Never heard much about it until it was covered by whoever - Girls Aloud? I agree with the Lotus Eaters shout - great pop song. Someone mentioned China in Your Hand - Gary Barlow was right on that one! See The Day was Top 3 so hardly underrated either. |
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Not exactly underrated, they both reached No.3 in the UK chart.
This only got to No.19 but thought it deserved better: Kissing The Pink - Last Film. |
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Gary Barlow said that the second biggest selling single of 1987 was underrated? Always hated that song. Heart and Soul was a much better record.
See The Day was Top 3 so hardly underrated either. A few years ago someone covered it on X-Factor and GB made a jokey comment that it was nice to hear the song sung in tune. Carol Decker got angry and there was big fuss in the media. She made a big fuss and said she had perfect music (I personally find that hard to believe, and I taught music for years, but there we go!). |
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Eastern Bloc - Wait Too Long
The Outfield - No Surrender Kate Bush - And Dream of Sheep Strangeways - Talk to Me Fleetwood Mac - Isn't It Midnight The Human League - Jam Stevie Nicks - Ooh My Love Heart - There's the Girl Eddie Money - Endless Nights Belinda Carlisle - Nobody Owns Me Cyndi Lauper - Calm Inside the Storm Scandal - The Warrior Blue Oyster Cult - Burnin' for You Tina Turner - Look Me in the Heart |
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The Cover Girls - My Heart Skips A Beat
Tina Turner - Foreign Affair |
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TS Monk - Candidate For Love.
Passed most people by and seems to have only come to prominence in the last couple of years due to Dave Lee giving it the Joey Negro treatment |
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Tenpole Tudor - Wunderbar
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Eastern Bloc - Wait Too Long
The Outfield - No Surrender Kate Bush - And Dream of Sheep Strangeways - Talk to Me Fleetwood Mac - Isn't It Midnight The Human League - Jam Stevie Nicks - Ooh My Love Heart - There's the Girl Eddie Money - Endless Nights Belinda Carlisle - Nobody Owns Me Cyndi Lauper - Calm Inside the Storm Scandal - The Warrior Blue Oyster Cult - Burnin' for You Tina Turner - Look Me in the Heart Eddie Money - I Wanna Go Back https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o0JqC2UDpoE He is practically unknown in UK, love that Scandal song as well |
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Gary Barlow said that the second biggest selling single of 1987 was underrated? Always hated that song.
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Wow someone else outside US who knows Eddie Money
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Wow someone else outside US who knows Eddie Money, I loved his mid 80s hits the one you mention is good but nothing beats this one for me.
Eddie Money - I Wanna Go Back https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o0JqC2UDpoE He is practically unknown in UK, love that Scandal song as well |
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classic prince production
vanity 6 - nasty girl https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mzqBzCU_zpw 80s indie rock The Feelies - Loveless Love https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3fg_s9NKd_0 great 80s alt psychedelic rock The Cleaners From Venus - Only a Shadow https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P4xeT7phuog hucknall without the soul lite schmaltz Frantic Elevators - Holding Back The Years https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wzg33hSnBwI if you like the smiths you will like this another sunny day - you should all be murdered https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5AkXC5m8ueA Berlin - Metro https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_UXtort76gY The Chills - Pink Frost https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pjW3MT8D9RY |
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Huh. I didn't know Eddie Money isn't known much outside the US. I'd put him alongside artists like Bruce Hornsby and Joe Jackson.. both of which have done well in the UK.
. But even Bruce Hornsby is a one hit wonder in the UK although his albums have done well. And Joe Jackson he is ours anyway as he was a leading light in UK nu-wave.
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Caravan Of Love by Isley Jasper Isley....the original and best version of the song. Mad this wasnt a hit
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. But even Bruce Hornsby is a one hit wonder in the UK although his albums have done well. And Joe Jackson he is ours anyway as he was a leading light in UK nu-wave.