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

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

that song makes me want to cry! in a good way. so beautiful.

yeah that is lovely tbh

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.

― scott seward, Friday, March 22, 2024 10:13 AM (twenty-four minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

the two Freur albums are pretty fun. the B-sides are even more interesting, because you can hear the seeds of what became the UW sound. I remember this appearing online and everyone assuming it was some early Underworld thing when it turned out to be recorded nearly a decade earlier!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pbFaA7W6h8A

doot doot is just so perfect. it sets a high bar.

i've never heard anyone say anything nice about Positive Noise, but i do love this one song that sits somewhere between Teardrop Explodes, the Psychedelic Furs and early Talk Talk:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6u51qpkuhpI

that sounds good to me.

this falls outside of the scope of this thread but now that i am a superfan of all 80s recordings by the German group Camouflage does anyone know if their post-80s stuff is cool? i think they are actually still a group even now! they put out a lot in the 90s. maybe i should just dig in.

doot doot is just so perfect. it sets a high bar.

― scott seward, Friday, March 22, 2024 10:41 AM (sixteen minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

I've told this story in another thread but one of the prog dudes I know was really into the first Freur album. he knew of Underworld but hadn't actually heard any of their music, not even "Born Slippy". we talked about them and he was convinced that Karl Hyde had died. I puzzled over that one for a while until the next time I saw him and was like "wait, you're not talking about the guy from The Prodigy are you?" and he said "oh yeah, I knew it was one of them"

a one-track time capsule.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n0aOAZDdpps

doesn't sound like Devo but I'll take it!

Earlier Positive Noise killer in the post-Joy Division sweepstakes

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M5VHuopWF6A

this has just got reissued but this is one of the greatest 80s obscurities i've heard in a long, long time, weird and sleazy canadian synthpop and a chorus that'll be stuck in my head for years :

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C79UPNVGuds
Time Capsule - Sexual Desire

xp cool - thanks dan!

that starts off just like the sundays - can't be sure!