"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.

Imagination by Belouis Some
Party Fears Two by The Associates (mentioned earlier)

Let's get serious by Jermaine Jackson (1980, only just squeaks in there!)
Party Fears Two by The Associates

Helena, it dawned on me when Richard Osman made a comment on either a song or film in the 80s was closer to the end of World War 2 than it is to now!

Big Audio Dynamite’s E = mc2. Mick Jones formed the band in the 80’s after the Clash split and I’d forgotten what fun they were.

I have some mad 12” of e=mc2 and it has about 50 verses. no idea how he remembered it all

If we're going with Howard Jones then surely Hide And Seek needs a mention!

Also Kim Wilde - Cambodia.

House Arrest by Krush for an obscure one. My DD went crazy when it came on when watching TOtP 1987, also the cheesy ones like Who’s Leaving Who by Hazel Dean and Big Fun by Inner City. Early Stone Roses to restore the cool.

The The. Uncertain Smile.

Oh, and Steppin’ Out by Joe Jackson. Lovely!

YY xsquared. A few years ago i had to explain to my niece what a 12 inch was

Maid of Orleans - OMD
Waiting for a Train - Flash and the Pan
Moonlight Shadow - Mike Oldfield
Rush Hour - Jane Wiedlin
Duel - Propaganda
I Got You - Split Enz

Enola Gay - OMD

Jellybean ft Adele Bertei

Just a Mirage.

Don't Talk To Me About Love. Altered Images. (Kerchanski!)

Love and Pride - King

Roachford - Cuddly Toy

Kon Kan I Beg Your Pardon.

John Foxx Underpass

50 verses might be a bit too much of a good thing, Ilovetolurk. When I looked them up on YouTube, the snaggly teeth were transfixing.

Strawberry Switchblade- Since yesterday

Mental as Anything- Live it Up

Club Country by The Associates is one of my favourite songs and never ever gets played, whereas Party Fears Two does.
Heaven 17 also did some brilliant songs and Temptation is the only one that occasionally gets played.

Words - FR David
Bardot - One step closer ( Eurovision entry the year after Buck’s Fizz)
The first picture of you - lotus eaters
Fast car - Tracy chapman
Kayleigh - Marillion
Eloise - The damned

Midnight Oil- Beds are burning

Icehouse- Hey little girl

Steven Tin Tin Duffy- icing on the cake

Thomas Lang- Happy man

Hipsway
anything by them!

Lonnie Hill (think that's his name) Galveston Bay- one of the most gorgeous records EVERRRRRRRRRRR.

Paul McCartney- once upon a long ago -saw it on TOTP last week- Id forgotten that, how could I ?????

Van Halen'- living in paradise (think that's what its called)

BTW theres a 'NOW' cd out called forgotten 80's.

Anything by china Crisis and the Christians.

Anything by King.

so many more......

The First Picture of You - The Lotus Eaters
Come Live With Me - Heaven 17
Everybody's Got to Learn Sometime - The Korgis
If Only I Could - Sydney Youngblood

Apparently the biggest dance single of 1988 was ‘I want to be your property” by Blue Mercedes. I’d completely forgotten about it till it popped up TOTP repeat the other night.