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

great cover

maxfield parrish's new age van art

Singer sounds like Kate Bush if she had Eurodisco earworms.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uCLsfJ7OrV0

i love this so much. i have her album and its not all disco. its interesting. but this is by far the best thing on it. the label is a recording studio in hartford, ct. she was from springfield, ma.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cQre3aOpBpg

That Plustwo track wasn’t doing much for me and I was about to hit skip, and then the Kate Bush-y vocal kicked in. Fun. xp

oh man i want one! just came out. sounds awesome even on my computer speakers on Youtube Music so that's a good sign. love them. well, i mean, the first album and first singles are all-time for me. but i dig the rest as well. the underrated/underheard (never came out in the U.S.) 2nd album is awesome. even comes with one of those probably superfluous 5th discs that you might listen to once.

https://www.discogs.com/release/29958979-Kissing-The-Pink-Anthology-1982-2024

I realize I don't even know the second album...probably because it never came out here, while the first and third are both relatively common and had some impact on dance scenes, american or otherwise (the first album's Big Man Restless is a sort of balearic/cosmic fave and the third album's Certain Things Are Likely, I don't know if it was an american hit in the clubs, but that's what they were going for, with it's "Garage" mix)

i never say this. i will say this. i think their first album is perfect. i love every song. every song sounds different. everything fits on every song. there. i said it.

i don't like to say that something is perfect because it offends god. but fuck that doofus. the cover is perfect too.

And, Dan, you would really like the 2nd album!

i'm actually excited for you to hear it. i remember finding a copy in the 90s and initially i thought it was an obscure 1st album that i didn't know about! its a new wave gem.

this might be my fave track from that album. if i had to choose.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AOmfJGR9JZA

just shy of and too arty for "sophistipop". John Cale fronting Blue Nile?

a picture of my mom - she's on the right - as a teenager in the early 1950s. she looks like she's ready to start a post-punk band in Berlin.

https://scontent-bos5-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t39.30808-6/430824659_10161743960937137_1011600804641060223_n.jpg?_nc_cat=100&ccb=1-7&_nc_sid=5f2048&_nc_ohc=nOvwrMpLeO4AX9IQXW0&_nc_ht=scontent-bos5-1.xx&oh=00_AfDl4FtJ7R2LAqxMEJ9jQgMUUx7Eq6UfDjzq9d0jRg-2qg&oe=65ECA47F

Excellent.

that is wonderful, thx

you could remix the hell out of this.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0_ata4-rT_g

and it goes a little something like this. hit it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jZ-0a3lvxPY

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6f9_3Dn5TGg

I don’t know if I shared this one before. Heard it on a dj set a couple of years ago and everytime I play it with friends everyone asks which song is it. It’s probably one of my most played songs of the 80’s at this point:

Cube - Concert Boy

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kF_z1CsYJCY

that totally would have been on my hit parade in the 80s if i had known about it.

Trivia: produced by Mauro Malavasi who was one of the founding members and main writers of Change and supposedly the one who invited Luther Vandross to sing two of his songs on their debut album.

Oh yeah also co-written by him.

wow. i love Change.

Oh that Jaffa Cakes song is great!

you may well know this already, but one of my favourite things along the same lines as change is high fashion who were another petrus project. first album is half malavasi tunes and half kashif ones and it is glorious:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XNdyZmN0ZGE
High Fashion - Feelin' Lucky Lately

I did not know that and it sounds great!

Never heard/heard of Innocence in Danger. Guitar by Carlos Alomar and Jimmy Rip. Produced by Ivan Ivan. Cool.

Cube is known in italo/italo-adjacent circles.

i just listened to three woodentops 12-inch singles in a row. getting all this 80s stuff has reminded me why i liked a lot of stuff way back when. not everything they did worked and their production was insanely in your face loud in a way that doesn't always sound pleasant. uh, so i turn it down. but when they get their thing going like the side-long 12-inch version of "well well well" and some of their other rhythms-and-acoustic guitar-driven stuff they were on to something! some of their b-sides were right fucked up as well. "Cold Inside" is a good example. i couldn't find the studio version on Youtube. anyway, "move me" still moves me. their third album was a live album. not everybody does something like that.

Fabulous band, they have a BBC Sessions album that kills.

hi just wanna add to the Woodentops love, when they were on they were ON

I f’in love this edit of woodentops giant by Tom of England (aka Thomas bullock)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l6OXb3EyLOk

nobody ever told me about Endgames. my kinda synth-pop! u.s. cover and u.k. cover of their debut. take your pick.

https://i.discogs.com/Qcr2Qz0lC568pu25SqVuu54zcjZv6isrx7UYCDVE99M/rs:fit/g:sm/q:90/h:591/w:600/czM6Ly9kaXNjb2dz/LWRhdGFiYXNlLWlt/YWdlcy9SLTEzNDYz/NjQtMTM5NTE3OTc4/MC04ODAwLmpwZWc.jpeg

https://i.discogs.com/fAcKpA4VzonCE8zdz4gnWcwjfMvu6XBeTBksxh59l5c/rs:fit/g:sm/q:90/h:500/w:500/czM6Ly9kaXNjb2dz/LWRhdGFiYXNlLWlt/YWdlcy9SLTExNjEw/NzctMTY1OTUyNDA5/Ny0zMDMxLmpwZWc.jpeg

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wDVXqq9tJIA

and they were spawned from another band that i've never heard and now i need to hear them...

https://i.discogs.com/jJIz9RXqow-lq40sZcjd0TAc58kCrpgh32Ig5baCTzY/rs:fit/g:sm/q:90/h:600/w:600/czM6Ly9kaXNjb2dz/LWRhdGFiYXNlLWlt/YWdlcy9SLTgzOTcz/OS0xMTk3ODM3MjIx/LmpwZWc.jpeg

more gary numan and more 1980.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=du202YLeYXM

whoa that album cover is so of its time its way beyond it

i meant the berlin blondes one.

the endgames ones are endlessly trapped in the venus flytrap of their times, as they are slowly digested

bad metaphor theater is closed for the day

This instrumental mix is a new wave/italo-adjacent proto house club classic.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M9gGfL79fTs

"UK "resistance rock" duo formed after their former band, Swan's Way, split after disagreements with their record company."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5FcJRoJKBzQ

what the hell is "resistance rock"? they don't mean RIO do they?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e__TQPfVbI4

you may well know this already, but one of my favourite things along the same lines as change is high fashion who were another petrus project. first album is half malavasi tunes and half kashif ones and it is glorious:

yeah this tune has been in my head for years, also "High Fashion" is the most blatant Chic ripoff band name ever lol

one of my "guilty pleasures" is the 2nd album by Freur - I think people here may know the first one because of "Doot Doot", and of course we all know this band later became Underworld, but few know about their 2nd one, which is pure cornball 80s bliss. I mean, come on

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=brjwdQrtKe8

of course we all know this band later became Underworld

waht

i've tried to go beyond doot doot before - which i love i mean everyone loves it - but i never got far. despite loving underworld.

Dig Vis Drill - I'm Hip, I'm Vain!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2C-JQaBzNU0

Scarlett and Black were a pop duo from the UK, whose birth names were Robin Hild and Sue West. Robin Hild was previously the keyboard player for the Big Supreme; Sue West was a former backing vocalist for Doctor and the Medics. They released a self-titled album on Virgin Records in 1987, which proved to be a minor success in the U.S., peaking at No. 107 on the Billboard Top 200 in 1988. The single "You Don't Know" was a hit record that same year, peaking at No. 20 on the Billboard Hot 100 and appearing on the Adult Contemporary (No. 13) and Dance (No. 32 Hot Dance/Club Play, No. 41 Hot Dance Singles) charts.

Scarlett And Black - City Of Dreams (The Last Frontier)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uNxi7TtlHwI

best Swans Way tune is still this wonderful thing, best tune to come out of that whole love affair with 40s/50s jazz that UK pop went through in the mid 80s:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f45JrV-YdRQ

digging that scarlett and black. posted the dig vis drill because...just because.

the "best tune to come out of that whole love affair with 40s/50s jazz that UK pop went through in the mid 80s" is this right here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r4hk3rTPumM