"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.

Brilliant Mind by Furniture

lots of good ones already mentioned - here's some more

Halo James - Could Have Told You So

Jo Boxers - Just Got Lucky

The Dream Academy - Life In A Northern Town

Go West Call me.
Prefab Sprout The King of Rock and Roll

New Order Temptation.

Tenderness - general public

Haircut 100 Favourite Shirts

Was also going to mention Kiss Me, Stephen Tin Tin Duffy but was beaten to it. Hearing this, which is rare, takes me straight back to a particular place and time of which I have lots of very fond memories.

Also Rip It Up, Orange Juice

and by Slade by Voice of the Beehive.

China Crisis - Wishful Thinking

The Kane Gang - Motortown

Scritti Politti - Oh Patti

Rip It Up

Am loving all of these

Owner of a Lonely Heart - Yes.

Heard it on the radio yesterday. Brilliant song.

my 22 yr old son is the spitting image of Edwyn Collins in that orange juice vid - right down to the haircut and clothes

The Alarm - 68 guns
m.youtube.com/watch?v=gLK3k_0GHrg

Shiny shiny - Haysi Fantayzee
Tunnel of Love - Fun Boy Three
Play To Win - Heaven 17
Passionate Friend - Teardrop Explodes
Homo Sapien 2 - Pete Shelley

Personally I think Self is the better Fuzzbox track

Then Jericho - the motive
When in Rome - the promise
The Alarm - Sold me down the river

Siouxie and the Banshees - Spellbound and Christine. At lot of 80's music played by my local radio station but never Siouxie

Totally brilliant suggestions. Even the names of the songs take me back...…….

Sinead O'Connor - Nothing compares 2U
(Don't like her but I really like that song)

A couple more I've just remembered

Then Jericho - Sugarbox
The Cult - She Sells Sanctuary

Split Enz...obscure... they were incredible; if they'd been a (UK) band they'd have been world famous. (Aussie here, who grew up with their music!).

Anything by Del Amitri.

That’s a super cool look your dc’s has Alec

Anything by Aztec Camera - sometimes to be heard on the radio but not often

Split Enz - I Got You

Icehouse - Hey Little Girl

The Thompson Twins - In The Name Of Love

I didn't know this in the 80s but it was released in 82 in Germany. Major Tom by Peter Schilling. I got to know it recently because it's the theme tune to Deutschland 83 and 86. Fantastic chorus!

Wonderful series if anyone hasn't seen them. Probably still available on More4.

Swing Out Sister - Break Out!
Immediately makes me feel happy and carefree. I was at school when that came out . Can't believe it was so long ago

We don't have to take our clothes off to have a good time.. Uh huh... We could dance at parties.. all night and drink some cherry wine... Uh huh

Oh, and if you want obscure 80s let me just put this one here:
www.youtube.com/user/80musicchannelsongs