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

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!

and then the vocals come in and it sounds just like... early fra lippo lippi!

i have this really good comp that i bought at the dark entries store of french new wave acts from the 1980s including this song by the band marquis de sade, it's from their second album which came out in 1981, shortly after which they broke up. one for magazine/howard devoto fans for sure

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BlCNMdOKUF8

i dig it. so many cool bands. kinda amazing.

in honor of dan selzer. i made the mistake of playing this so now i'm keeping it. i am the worst capitalist.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0vInU8VcV1I

oh shit, i'm not gonna post it here but the sleeve of that marquis de sade single is so fucking wrong and very NSFW:

https://www.discogs.com/release/1453428-Marquis-De-Sade-Wandas-Loving-Boy/image/SW1hZ2U6NjQyNzg5Nw==

yiiiikes i was not aware of that! the lyrics of that song are pretty vicious too tbh

Masterpiece is not quite my speed of italo.

if you want french new wave for Magazine fans you should go back to 1979 and check out the fantastic Edith Nylon

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2EX6jmlZd80

I mean really, this sounds like a Secondhand Daylight outtake

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YjO4uqrt6QU

"Masterpiece is not quite my speed of italo."

i think i like it better as synth-pop and to be honest i really like the instrumental version better.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d79oJq5vPQU

honestly, this is the best thing i've listened to in 400 years. sonic youth wish. how much art can you take?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1-0gdYAVo0E

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9_ya2VD4AZI

In 1987 I would buy anything that sounded like Sonic Youth or Swans, and these two tracks remain unforgotten by me at least

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B54G6HIYHMc

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ULPiv8sv-bs

Nice Strong Arm remains one of the loudest bands I have ever seen

That's the Nice Strong Arm song I played to death, it was the post-punk revival at least a decade too early

never heard of them. not to be confused with the jet black berries. the american Bolshoi?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IgmCAAZ_2UE

this is earlier. there is live vid on YT and it kinda looks like they wanted to be The Mission.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RCf2xUufpqg