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"Forgotten" 80s songs or hidden gems

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xsquared · 03/06/2019 17:58

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.

OP posts:
MadisonAvenue · 03/06/2019 22:15

Oblivious - Aztec Camera
Waiting For A Train - Flash and the Pan
I Travel - Simple Minds
Radio Africa - Latin Quarter
Wood Beez - Scritti Politti
War Baby - Tom Robinson
Driving Away From Home - It's Immaterial
Geno - Dexy's Midnight Runners
Whip It - Devo

Sparklingbrook · 03/06/2019 22:24

I'm not Scared-Eighth Wonder (Patsy Kensit)

A Good Heart -Feargal Sharkey
You Came-Kim Wilde
Love Changes Everything-Climie Fisher

AlecTrevelyan006 · 03/06/2019 22:24

The Blow Monkeys - Digging Your Scene

Cutting Crew - I've Been In Love Before

Sade - Paradise

AlecTrevelyan006 · 03/06/2019 22:36

not so much forgotten but never remembered by most in the first place

The Mood - Paris Is One Day Away

B-Movie - A Letter From Afar

Win - You've Got The Power

PrawnoftheShed · 03/06/2019 22:39

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LimitIsUp · 03/06/2019 22:43

Kiss them for me was 1991

xsquared · 03/06/2019 22:44

These are great, thanks.

I shall add:

Why can't I be you? - Cure
Space age love song - Flock of Seagulls
Voices carry - 'Til Tuesday

OP posts:
AlecTrevelyan006 · 03/06/2019 22:59

Ultravox - We Came To Dance

Depeche Mode - Dreaming of Me

The Cure - Let's Go To Bed

MorrisZapp · 03/06/2019 23:02

Tight Fit, Fantasy Island

Baltimora, Tarzan Boy

Knock on Wood, Aimee Stewart

BreconBeBuggered · 03/06/2019 23:08

The Bluebells - Falling
Robin Gibb - Juliet
Alphaville - Forever Young

Rodders92 · 03/06/2019 23:08

Scritti politics the sweetest girl
Prefab Sprout I remember that
Hue and Cry Ordinary Angel

TitchyP · 03/06/2019 23:18

I remember just about all that have been mentioned. Would like to add

Peter Cetera, Glory of Love
Angry Anderson, Suddenly

The height of romance when you're 17 Grin

IndieTara · 03/06/2019 23:37

@abbiecloud agreed my favourite ever song

IndieTara · 03/06/2019 23:43

Lloyd Cole and the Commotions - Lost Weekend

SwingoutSisterSledge · 03/06/2019 23:50

First Picture of You by The Lotus Eaters and Taste of your Tears by King

SwingoutSisterSledge · 03/06/2019 23:52

Sorry another one Invisable by Alyson Moyer

FrankiesKnuckle · 03/06/2019 23:55

Tune!

SwingoutSisterSledge · 03/06/2019 23:56

Moyet !!

FrankiesKnuckle · 03/06/2019 23:57

Great track!

FrankiesKnuckle · 03/06/2019 23:58
Blindspotfan · 03/06/2019 23:59

'Frankie, do you remember me?'

Who sang this? 🤔 know the tune but forgotten the rest of the lyrics

FrankiesKnuckle · 04/06/2019 00:00

And obviously my username is a clue - the legend himself Frankie Knuckles

FrankiesKnuckle · 04/06/2019 00:01

@Blindspotfan

InABigCountry · 04/06/2019 00:03

Blindspot- Sister Sledge. I have their greatest hits Grin

Blindspotfan · 04/06/2019 00:05

FrankisKnuckle thank you!
I used to love singing this with my friends on the way home from school