"Forgotten" 80s songs or hidden gems

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Are there any songs from the 80s that you miss not hearing anymore or that never get played on Radio 2 or other nostalgia type music programmes?

I've put together an 80s quiz and one of them is a music round.Given that there will participants born after 1989, I didn't want to make it too ageist. I have however added International Rescue by Fuzzbox, as the obscure one in the list.

Laurajjj - Sara was released 79

i'm not a huge fan of Fleetwood Mac but that is my favourite song of theirs - very underated

Ah I thought it was on the cusp of the turn of the decade. Couldn't remember which side it was on. Its the only song of their's I like. It reminds me of an old school friend.

just checked - it was on their 1979 album Tusk and then released as a single in december 1979 and peaked at number 37 in January 1980

so we can include it :)

Hey Mickey!

Great thread!

Word Up - Cameo
Spirit in The Sky - Doctor and The Medics
Na Na Hey Hey - Bananrama
The Only Way Is Up - Yazz and the Plastic Population
Kids In America - Kim Wilde

@claptomania - The Promise by When In Rome

!! I've always like that but never knew who it was. I think i thought it was OMD. Sounds a tiny bit like them ...

@laiste it does! I think it’s a bit of a one hit wonder (in fact not sure it was even a hit, exactly)

All about Eve - Martha's Harbour

I'd forgotten about this - beautiful song.

Such a great thread, I remember so many of these songs.

What's the best radio station for 80s tunes please?

Has anyone mentioned Pure by the Lightning Seeds?

A Little Peace - Nicole

@librarymiss I loved Marlene on the Wall by Suzanne Vega

Fast Car by Tracy Chapman

@twosoups1972 Absolute 80's is a digital radio station playing just 80's music (with adverts if you don't mind them). Otherwise radio 2 have an 80's programme on a Saturday evening.

To Be or Not To Be - BA Robertson
The Lunatics are Taking Over The Asylum - Fun Boy Three
Is She Really Going Out With Him - Joe Jackson
Geno - Dexys Midnight Runners

For America - Red Box

Yes! Great song.

Transvision Vamp - Revolution Baby

Thank you @woolly

@twosoups1972 I listen to Soubds of the 80s on Radio 2 on Friday nights at 10 but you can get it anytime after that for about a month, I think, online.

Radio 2 also hosts Pick of the Pops on Saturday afternoon, which is a 2 hour programme on hits from 2 years, usually a 70s and 80s one.

Severina - The Mission

Just another day - Jon Secada

Broken Land by The Adventures.

Modern Romance by Modern Romance

Head over heels - tears for fears
Personal Jesus - Depeche Mode (and pretty much all of their music)
The riddle - Nic Kershaw
Where is my mind - pixies (one of my favourite songs ever)
Hold me now - Thompson twins

Any of BA Robertson's songs - Kool in the Kaftan or Knocked it Off, as well as the one mentioned by AndNone above.

Just heard Martha's Harbour again on a TOTP retrospective tonight, also Crash by the Primitives.

So many fantastic songs can I add Fun Boy Three - our lips our sealed.

Martin Kemp did a fantastic New Romantics show on Radio 2 over the bank holiday weekend.

I also love the Friday night “Sounds of the 80s” show - usually listen on catch up whilst in the kitchen over the weekend - it’s guaranteed to make the kids run and hide...

Closest thing to Heaven - the Kane Gang
History - Mai Tai
Maria Magdalena - Sandra
One Step Further - Bardo
A Little Peace - Nicole
Alone Without You - King
What’s another Year - Johnny Logan
Goodbye Stranger, Can’t give me Love and Surrender - Pepsi and Shirlie (anyone remember their range of puffball prom dresses they did for Dorothy Perkins? I soooo wanted one!)

Clime Fisher - Love Changes Everything

The Blow Monkeys - It Doesn't Have To Be This Way

Prefab Sprout - When Love Breaks Down