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Posted by: The Snake 31st January 2018, 11:07 PM
I decided to start this thread based on the 90s forgotten smashes thread as I discovered this largely forgotten i think, #5 hit from 1982
A stunning imo, very dark ballad that went top 5, very different to anything else around at the time it seems. Doesn't get played much on the radio I don't think any more sadly.
Any more largely forgotten 80s tracks?
Posted by: Suedehead2 31st January 2018, 11:24 PM
Ghosts is a fabulous song. It was good to see a lot of love for it on Twitter when it featured on the TOTP repeats, including from some who didn't know the song.
Posted by: Steve201 1st February 2018, 01:04 AM
Yeh me included an ingenious track - how has it been forgotten??
Posted by: pmachinery 3rd February 2018, 02:08 PM
Stunning!!!
Posted by: pmachinery 3rd February 2018, 02:09 PM
I was totally blown away when I first heard this one!
Posted by: Suedehead2 3rd February 2018, 03:16 PM
It's ages since I heard that Blow Monkeys song 
It is indeed rather good.
Posted by: The Snake 3rd February 2018, 04:09 PM
This early Depeche Mode song made #6, but has been completely overshadowed by the inferior imo 'Just Can't Get Enough'.
Posted by: Suedehead2 3rd February 2018, 07:51 PM
The Vince Clarke-era Depeche Mode released some great singles (as did the band after he left). That includes their rather wondrful debut which ws a bit of a random purchase for me after I liked their track on the Some Bizzare compilation album.
Posted by: dandy* 3rd February 2018, 08:12 PM
Love a bit of DM... these would be my favourites from the 80s:
Posted by: The Snake 3rd February 2018, 09:07 PM
From Depeche Mode, I do like Master and Servant, not for the lyrics but for the production, which sounds very modern for 1984.
Its Called A Heart is great too, also because of the interesting production
Posted by: Doctor Blind 3rd February 2018, 09:07 PM
I'm SHOCKED that Snake did not mention the classic “Living On Video” by Trans-X. #9 in August 1985. Hopefully we'll see it on TOTP / BBC 4 later this year!
Posted by: The Snake 3rd February 2018, 09:19 PM
You know its one of my faves 
The 1985 version was slightly different and not as dancey, I prefer the 1982 version.
Anyway the instrumental of the 1982 version does sound a bit like early 90s eurodance (the likes of Maxx particularly for example) without so much of a hard beat!
I wouldn't really call 'Living On Video' forgotten though!
Posted by: Doctor Blind 3rd February 2018, 09:42 PM
One of the earliest commercially successful house tracks in early 1988. It got to #5!
Following this, only the next few weeks this followed it into the Top 10 to make #2. “Winter In July” is also forgotten and pretty great, but that's from 1991.
Howard Jones is remembered - but I wonder how many people remember “Things Can Only Get Better” (not by D:Ream) which got to #6 in February 1985?
I only know of it because of the sample used for Eric Prydz's “And Do You Feel Scared?”
This was never a hit I don't think, so it can't be forgotten as it was never known in the first place. But I do love it!
Posted by: The Snake 3rd February 2018, 09:52 PM
I prefer this early house track (as it is probably the most powerful sounding of the early house tracks with its epic sounding drop), making #6 in early 1988,
And also in 80s dance music, I don't think this song is remembered much now, released in late 1985 and made #3 in early 1986. Definitely seems to have took Hi-NRG to a new energetic extreme with the production! Sounds very dancey for late 1985 I think, and doesn't sound as poppy or cheesy as most 80s Hi-NRG imo.
Posted by: dandy* 3rd February 2018, 09:54 PM
This is one of my all time favourite rock songs, absolutely adore it 
Posted by: Shia LeMuffQueef 3rd February 2018, 10:34 PM
Centipede - Rebbie Jackson.
Forgotten, but a massive bop, with Michael on backing vocals!
Posted by: The Snake 4th February 2018, 12:49 AM
A #12 hit in 1984, this has a sort of epic operatic style, it kind of reminds me of dream trance a bit!
Posted by: The Snake 4th February 2018, 07:37 PM
This is one of my favourite New Wave songs of the 80s
#17 in early 1984
Posted by: Queef's Throne 30th March 2018, 11:48 PM
This is one of my favourite tracks of 1982
Posted by: Tawdry Hepburn 4th April 2018, 07:48 PM
Posted by: WhoOdyssey 9th April 2018, 04:25 PM
One of Kiss' most underrated songs, and definitely my favourite of there's:
Posted by: The Snake 🐍 17th April 2018, 01:06 PM
This was apparently the other A side to 'So Macho', 'Cruising' is far superior imo and much less cheesy sounding. Should definitely have been the main one promoted and not So Macho from that double A side imo.
Also in the Hi-NRG genre, this great tune, made #29 in 1986, but should have done better in the charts!
Posted by: lovejoy 10th May 2018, 07:25 PM
Posted by: The Snake 🐍 10th May 2018, 08:22 PM
Messages is brilliant! 
Here's an amazing indie tune I voted for in the Now That's What Buzzjack Calls Music 1-10.
Posted by: Hadji 10th May 2018, 09:00 PM
Posted by: WhoOdyssey 10th May 2018, 09:34 PM
This may have been their biggest hit, but Kajagoogoo as a whole seem to have been forgotten now.
Posted by: DalekTurret32 11th May 2018, 11:14 AM
Blue Zoo - Cry Boy Cry
Posted by: Steve201 11th May 2018, 07:32 PM
This may have been their biggest hit, but Kajagoogoo as a whole seem to have been forgotten now.
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Fairly typical brit funk of the time, similar to Imagination. By the time they had a come back the scene had changed a lot. Loved Too Shy on totp on bbc4, got to no1!
Posted by: The Snake 🐍 11th May 2018, 08:15 PM
Fairly typical brit funk of the time, similar to Imagination. By the time they had a come back the scene had changed a lot. Loved Too Shy on totp on bbc4, got to no1!
Also a bit like Spandau's Chant no 1 (I Don't Need This Pressure On) in style.
'Too Shy' is defined as new wave by wikipedia but quite a few early 80s new wave songs do seem to have funk influences.
Posted by: Suedehead2 11th May 2018, 10:29 PM
Here's an amazing indie tune I voted for in the Now That's What Buzzjack Calls Music 1-10.
Almost everything OMD have ever recorded is brilliant
Furniture also recorded some wonderful songs but never got the success they deserved.
Posted by: Popchartfreak 12th May 2018, 09:15 AM
Furniture also recorded some wonderful songs but never got the success they deserved.
So true OMD, and you must be out of your brill-i-ant mind...yes I liked that one too.
Posted by: Queef Of Peas 1st June 2018, 08:10 PM
I recently discovered this fab #23 hit from 1982. Great dancey electronic bop which sounds amazing for its time.
'Today' (#14, 1982), another high energy tune from them is also very good.
Posted by: Steve201 2nd June 2018, 03:55 PM
'Too Shy' is defined as new wave by wikipedia but quite a few early 80s new wave songs do seem to have funk influences.
The genre basically covers everything post the Sex Pistols - think totp said that Boomtown Rats first single in 1977 was he first ever New Wave single playlisted by radio 1?!
Posted by: Steve201 4th June 2018, 01:16 AM
This was the Christmas no1 song in 1983, a cover of the YAzoo classic - I absolutely love it. Possibly one of the best songs of the decade (both versions)!
Posted by: Queef Of Peas 4th June 2018, 10:42 AM
Speaking of Yazoo....
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