"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.

Don Henley - Boys of summer.

Loving flicking through these!

RainbowCake I love that song.

Odyssey Use it up and Wear it out

Dire Straits - Romeo and Juliet
(The most beautiful song ever)

Belouis Some - Imagination

God I love that song as much now as I did then.

It's Different For Girls - Joe Jackson

99 Red Balloons - Nena. Always sounded quite Blondie-ish to me and I am a huge Blondie fan

Romeo and Juliet - Dire Straits

Swords Of A Thousand Men - Tenpole Tudor.

Hearing Kiss Me (and seeing the video) takes me right back to first meeting my DH who was the spitting image of Stephen Duffy - very beautiful!

xpost abbiecloud I quite agree.

Philip Dick ( elec dreams )

Oh. How could I forget the late great Steve Strange with Fade To Grey?!

Wayfarers on, baby .....

Some great songs on here! I've got some serious earworms tonight. Now do a forgotten 80's, you say? I was going to suggest a couple more but they are all on that Now forgotten 80's!

Jozen me too!
It's on my 'totally random mix that make the kids go 🤨but love these songs' playlist.
Along with
Deniece William's-lets hear it for the boy

Gambler - Madonna, never hear this and never released on any of her albums.

For America - Red Box

Blow the House Down - Living in a Box

If I Was - Midge Ure

Camouflage - Stan Ridgeway

Mirror In The Bathroom - The Beat

Love fade to grey

So many of the ones already mentioned. I was obsessed with Hasi Fantayzee, I so wanted to be Kate Garner!

Blancmange - Blind Vision
Echo and the Bunnymen - The Killing Moon
Cocteau Twins - Song to the Siren
808 State - Pacific State (was especially good at sunrise)
Prodigy - Your Love
Patti Day - Right Before My Eyes
De-lite - Wild Times
Frankie Knuckles - Your Love
Roxanne Shante - Live on Stage
Dreams of Santa Ana - Orange Lemon
Renegade Soundwave - The Phantom and Ozone breakdown
Moby - Go

God raving was just the best thing ever.
Doug Lazy - Let It Roll

Juice Newton - Just Call me Angel of the Morning

'I want to wake up with you' Boris Gardiner
'Lady in Red' Chris de Burgh
'I don't need a Lover' Texas

And how could I forget Snaps - I've got the Power.

"Here you go:

<a class="break-all" href="http://go.mumsnet.com/?xs=1&id=470X1554755&url=forgotten80s.blogspot.com/?m=1" target="_blank">Forgotten 80s blog

It's a list of music played on the Forgotten 80s show on Absolute 80s radio."

Just the type of thing I was going to suggest

"Doing the doo - Betty Boo" there's always one! 🙄 that's 90's 😉

S express - theme from is rarely played now

Placemarking to create a "forgotten 80's" playlist later

Ah, I used to love Joe Jackson songs!

Also loved really massive kitsch 80s songs like:

Maria Magdalena (Sandra)
When the rain begins to fall (Jermain Jackson and Pia Zadora)

Both have fab bombastic 80s intros

Not sure they were ever big in the UK though?!

One more and that's it I promise!

Bomb the bass - Megablast

overlooked songs by successful bands

Instinction - Spandau Ballet

Love Comes Quickly - Pet Shop Boys

The Night You Murdered Love - ABC

Oh yes Joe Jackson, forgotten about him.

Also loved a bit of Kid Creole & the Coconuts. Dsis 'nicked' something of mine, can't for the life of me remember what, so I retaliated by taking her Kid Creole album