we listen so fast: forgotten/unkown/unloved 80s we are listening to.

In 1980 Dominique Wood, Mark Tyme, Lorraine Whitmarsh, Carol Fletcher, Lyndsey Ward, Donna Fielding, Lee Black, left to set up Sponooch.

https://i.discogs.com/9EFGmISp9WfR_y9e9jf_V2PFiLpVOWqESdUqNmhitIo/rs:fit/g:sm/q:90/h:370/w:600/czM6Ly9kaXNjb2dz/LWRhdGFiYXNlLWlt/YWdlcy9BLTIwMjA2/NC0xMjY0MzE1MTEy/LmpwZWc.jpeg

most groups wouldn't recover if SEVEN of their members left, but Hot Gossip soldiered on.

1979 so not thread-appropriate but i think i have found my very favorite hot gossip spin-off of all time in the 20th century....

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sx20qVIX5dI

did bucks fizz have any decent songs? or any good remixes/dub versions/night mixes? i just bypass their albums when i get them in. another group that never made it here. i mean i'm sure they have some pleasant abba-esque numbers just wondering if they had a secret cool b-side-only burner.

https://i.discogs.com/UKWOFQxXtBuI5sWmGmC1z78QK_6t7C2hRYpks8tRHEQ/rs:fit/g:sm/q:90/h:598/w:600/czM6Ly9kaXNjb2dz/LWRhdGFiYXNlLWlt/YWdlcy9BLTE3MjQw/OC0xNDY1MDY0ODY5/LTY2OTYuanBlZw.jpeg

amazing photo of them! yeah they do have some pleasant tunes (i think there's a general agreement that 'my camera never lies' is their best), but haven't heard anything like you're asking about. i know they did do a cover of the romantics 'talking in your sleep' (which is obviously fucking great) but they completely murder it to death, its awful. interesting question though!

you might find more luck with the thompson twins who have a whole bunch of secret weird shit, like the cassette version of 'into the gap' has a whole raft of weird dubs on side 2:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r6fU6Ol_rHw

i'm definitely down with the thompson twins from 1981 to 1984. they did have that first weird post-punk album too.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2gvG0qMO2wY

make that 1980 to 1984.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=buUmp5ujmzs

this has chuck eddy written all over it. i could go on a serious Play It Again Sam Records bender right about now.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7njy42ihpEs

i'm actually cleaning a double A-side 12-inch and this is the non-Borghesia side:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mEbR1kDfn80

Click CLick were good!

Click Click!

https://i.discogs.com/8_UBHr1uYGCDlFCBxgL-YLW2Rxkz_cwXrkx4GrVTC5o/rs:fit/g:sm/q:90/h:324/w:600/czM6Ly9kaXNjb2dz/LWRhdGFiYXNlLWlt/YWdlcy9BLTMyNjMw/LTE0ODkwNjkxNzQt/NjQ1Ny5qcGVn.jpeg

https://i.discogs.com/cfbTYB0r80gciQ3mf6SkeA8YOyPwkYOAe4_ZSCw9yPE/rs:fit/g:sm/q:90/h:355/w:600/czM6Ly9kaXNjb2dz/LWRhdGFiYXNlLWlt/YWdlcy9BLTMyNjMw/LTE0NjMxNDk0OTYt/Njk1OC5qcGVn.jpeg

i want click click's party hate on vinyl.

cuz i hate parties too. i only party on the inside.

1982 click click is good for this thread:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bYFwCoWUb-c

back to polyrock hmm listened to first one from here, it's good+ wave/pp, outta curiosity i then listened their second album and it's quite good++. what a weird miss in my lived-thru 80s wave/pp knowledge, i don't even remember their name. awful lot of hyper instrumentals and theyre pretty damn fun, but i can see how those missed the charts.

just catching up with the thread. enjoyed that fra lippo lippi, will pick up their first couple of records one day (if i ever see them!). the album after those was their breakthrough one on Virgin, and maybe a bit too commercial for some people but i do love some of the tracks on it ('shouldn't have to be like that' is very drippy and yet so lovely). You probably already know that one of the main guys in the band is the guy behind the Rune Grammafon label (Supersilent, Arve Henrikson, motorpsycho etc).

oh, and that De Press track and the Ashwin Batish are both fantastic too, very nice indeed!

hadn't heard click click before, that guitar makes them sound like gang of four gone goth, like a more beat-driven bauhaus

that first wire train album should go on that good bargain record thread. its cool and it is always a dollar. speaking of 415 Records, i like the first Translator album even more. as much as i love their college radio smash "everywhere that i'm not" the rest of the record is weirder. so good.

this is cool. early stuff from the guy who did lemon kittens with danielle dax. it came out on vinyl in 1983. a public plea: i would totally pay $24.99 for a two-disc set of those two lemon kittens albums and the two singles. can someone get on that? that stuff is wild and should be heard by more young folk.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uQ_hTZfJOm8

(but i will pay you to take these danielle dax 90s promo 12-inches from me...that was mean. sorry. but nobody will ever want them.)

love love love all that stuff

his other band was Shock Headed Peters iirc

I don't love the 90's Danielle Dax so much, it's true. the 80's stuff is great, all of it, Lemon Kittens and Shock Headed Peters and Dax and Blake solo, plus The Underneath, Evil Twin (maybe 90s), and prob another Karl Blake band I forget now

ah yes The Reflections

i love this from his discogs page:

"He then went on to contributing vocals, guitar, bass and drums to such bands as Kneeswand, Orange Jelly Baby And The Six White Chocolate Mice, Sedusa, Chrome Toad, and Maggots. None of these outfits produced much more than a handful of gigs, rehearsals and jam sessions."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8xNLp9dr9RI

quite the performance.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kzz-gxGAtLE

Are you guys down with Rexy?? This album is so sick. Eurythmics adjacent.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DzEmOTYquio

Legal Reins never released music video! Filmed the first week of June 1989, The Reins found themselves making the video for Wait For Fire Burning that Arista refused to make, but they were nearly thrown in jail in the process. Xanadu at Pan Pacific Park, long an architectural and cultural icon in Los Angeles, burned to the ground May 24, 1989. Arson was suspected. A week later, Legal Reins began shooting their non Arista sanctioned video when they stumbled on a burned out building surrounded by police tape. Being a San Francisco band, they knew little of the storied building or its demise. Tell it to the cops who showed up mid shoot and saw the band as interfering with an ongoing arson investigation! Their fast talking manager Kathy Cook was the only thing that kept them out of jail.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FXAGqVHLBzw

that rexy album is real collector bait, even the reissue from 2016 goes for about fifty quid now. cool record though!

just so you know, the 1982 album by former Toto dude Joseph Williams - son of John Williams of Ewok fame - is really big with AOR fans.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pYYceKfNW7Q

just in case you need something to talk about at a cocktail party.

save us, nirvana! swoop down on flannel wings and spare us this late-80s thing that was a thing. you can probably blame inxs. though i love inxs.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S4NFBda6md0

Roxy owns. “Do you want to be alien too”?

Rexy

Rexy got a hip reissue a few years back.

90 but how do we feel about Warrior Soul? I remember liking them. Kind of anthemic alternative metal.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zT-DBDhEBCE

more metal than I remember. My memory has them more like a Janes Addiction or something.

My friend was in a band supporting Trouble when Kory Clarke was in them. Apparently he was this brash cowboy hat dude who'd be all like "Hey Stockholm, I hear there's some good pussy in this town!" etc on stage.

i can't remember if chuck eddy was a warrior soul fan. seems like he might have been. i can hear jane's addiction in the vocals. i never listened to them. i mean i was aware of them in the same way that i was aware of king's x and circus of power. but i didn't listen to them.

Oh man I'm lucky I picked up that Rexy reissue when it was cheap!

This is one of the coolest albums I've ever heard in my life. Fred Frith produced it. Dark, angular, funky, experimental shit from Japan.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6SBhcToq17E

there was such a huge amount of amazing metal qua metal coming out in 1990 that i didn't really pay too much attention to MTV stuff. or cowboy stuff. or post-hair roots grunge. i think i just put seasons in the abyss in the tape deck and left it there.

this is cool. i don't know how to describe it. new wave with a quirky art rock side. a side of art rock if you will. not on Youtube.

https://i.discogs.com/sNfq9ajvq0wusc5V7QyaRIrB2tIesj06vKVgL_A4rww/rs:fit/g:sm/q:90/h:600/w:600/czM6Ly9kaXNjb2dz/LWRhdGFiYXNlLWlt/YWdlcy9SLTE5MTMy/NzMyLTE2MjM2Mjkz/MjgtMzQxMy5qcGVn.jpeg

one of the guys from Dreamhouse was in this band and this is from 1979 but its cool and you should hear it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ojt2V6tD37g

i actually saw Warrior Soul in 1989, they supported Metallica on the ...And Justice For All tour in the UK

that Dreamhouse is from 1986 btw. on Domino Records. but not that Domino Records. California label that put out a Steve Roach album.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZjfqTH5iayc

https://i.discogs.com/VQ6A9gCAiFIdikIkPyBa03XaauFTVMkLerrLn2YdYjk/rs:fit/g:sm/q:90/h:600/w:269/czM6Ly9kaXNjb2dz/LWRhdGFiYXNlLWlt/YWdlcy9BLTM3NDc2/Ny0xNDY4NTI5NDUw/LTE4OTkuanBlZw.jpeg