1. Tenpole Tudor - strange, boisterous pub-rock/new wave band from the UK.
2. Orange Juice - Scottish band featuring Edwyn Collins (he had that solo hit: "A Girl Like You' a few years ago). Their first album "Can't Hide Your Love Forever" is fab.
3. Dolly Mixture - All-girl sort of twi-post-punk UK band. Rough but sweet.
4. Fun Boy Three - Most people know their song "Our Lips Are Sealed" (made famous by the Go-Gos) but their two full length albums are swell.
5. The Names - These guys were kind of the Belgian Joy Division - they got pretty experimental with dischordant guitar sounds n stuff.
Bonus: Mathematiques Modernes - Either French or Belgian duo who had this fantastic single called "Rough-Disco" (which Stereolab "borrowed" from on one of the songs on "Emperor Tomato Ketchup")
Opinions? Additions?
(P.S. I'm new here so I hope I'm not being redundant)
2. Orange Juice - Scottish band featuring Edwyn Collins (he had that solo hit: "A Girl Like You' a few years ago). Their first album "Can't Hide Your Love Forever" is fab.
3. Dolly Mixture - All-girl sort of twi-post-punk UK band. Rough but sweet.
4. Fun Boy Three - Most people know their song "Our Lips Are Sealed" (made famous by the Go-Gos) but their two full length albums are swell.
5. The Names - These guys were kind of the Belgian Joy Division - they got pretty experimental with dischordant guitar sounds n stuff.
Bonus: Mathematiques Modernes - Either French or Belgian duo who had this fantastic single called "Rough-Disco" (which Stereolab "borrowed" from on one of the songs on "Emperor Tomato Ketchup")
Opinions? Additions?
(P.S. I'm new here so I hope I'm not being redundant)
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Re: Top 5 Underappreciated Bands of the 80's
Wed, February 25, 2004 - 10:38 PMEdwyn Collins 'A Girl Like You' rocks! I hadn't heard it in years when I heard it on the new station the other day. I thought it was a Bowie at first!
Fad Gadget
Cabaret Voltaire
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Re: Top 5 Underappreciated Bands of the 80's
Wed, February 25, 2004 - 10:48 PMDexy's Midnite Runners
The Selecter
Hazel O' Connor
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Wed, February 25, 2004 - 11:16 PMOh yeah........Toyah (at least on this side of the pond).
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Re: Top 5 Underappreciated Bands of the 80's
Thu, February 26, 2004 - 4:26 AMThe Selector is not that underappreciated. Just check out the ska tribe or any ska web site and you'll find plaenty of references to the old Two-Tone ska bands from the UK- The Specials, Madness, Bad Manners, The Selector, etc...
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Thu, February 26, 2004 - 4:48 PMI think Selector got overshadowed by The Specials, Madness and the English Beat in the 80's. The only song I knew of theirs was "Too Much Pressure" (which is a mighty good one). -
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Sat, March 27, 2004 - 3:26 PMI think though they (The Selector) are pretty well known by people who appreciate ska, they didn't get as much credit as a lot of the more commercial ska bands of the time. And they were by far a much better band than the majority of them. -
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Wed, March 23, 2005 - 2:18 AM"The Boiler" was a pretty grim song...
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Fri, March 19, 2004 - 9:34 AMHazel O'Connor is highly underrated!!!!!!
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Mon, February 13, 2006 - 11:52 AMFive ????Yes-- Selector Ultravox Gruppo Sportivo Plastique Bertrand the Undertones Lene Lovich Joe Jackson (who broke his foot when he jumped off the piano at a Houston show 78 i think) X ray Specs...etc etc and I know they were appreciated but I was in Houston at the time (not in NYC, only here since 1979, where I saw them too) and seeing the Ramones there many times was so great in the middle of urban cowboy country a big shout to my ex- Bruce from the Record Rack who was dj-ing at numbers and could eat a gallon of breyer's mint chocolate chip ice cream with me after a night at numbers
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Wed, March 23, 2005 - 6:57 AMgood fucking selection!!!
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Re: Top 5 Underappreciated Bands of the 80's
Thu, February 26, 2004 - 5:06 AMHahha... Could you have and underappreciated band in the 80s? The begining of the age of hype?
Oh well, I'll give it a whirl:
Mojo Nixon & Skid Roper
Fleshtones (Maybe that's more 70s...Still they're one of the best bands ever)
Los Lobos (Just because everybody only knows about "La Bamba")
Holly & the Italians/Nikki & The Corvettes tie for the last place as the greta under appreciated girl bands.
Honorable mention to "Big Daddy" for doing a doo wop version of EYe of The Tiger and to Weird Al for being the measuring stick of fame. (If Weird Al spoofs you, you're in, baby!) -
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Thu, February 26, 2004 - 8:28 AMI agree with Los Lobos. They were experiamental and very cool
The Blow monkeys, although I only remember "Digging Your Scene" but it was lounge-y and cool. Also a great catch phrase. "How do you like the party I invited you to?" "I was digging your scene." -
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Thu, February 26, 2004 - 12:21 PMThe Blow Monkeys are one of the best bands ever. They were doing something no one else was or is doing, totally unique. Their later stuff wasn't quite as mind blowing as that first album, but from start to finish that whole album still blows me out of the water. Brilliant. Dr. Robert made me swoon. Am I gushing? I'll shut up now.
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Mon, February 7, 2005 - 11:46 PMIf I am not mistaken....R&B artist Rahsaan Patterson covered "Digging Your Scene" two or three years back....
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Fri, February 3, 2006 - 4:53 PMI loved digging your scene!!
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Thu, February 26, 2004 - 10:09 AMI agree with you on the Fleshtones. Another that has been mentioned before, but I must say agin has to be The Chameleons. Another one I really liked back in the 80's but sounds pretty dated now was The Silencers. -
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Thu, February 26, 2004 - 12:43 PMOh, and The Three O'Clock! I've met 2 people in my entire life who'd ever even heard of them. And Voice Of The Beehive. That Petrol Emotion. Oh geez,help me, who was that UK neo psychedelia band from the 80s who had that song Over My Head? I remeber the singer was really skinny and had a bad haircut. I'm going insane trying to remember their name and I've got them on cassettes, but those are at home. I even saw them in concert, but I have gone completely blank. -
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Thu, February 26, 2004 - 2:19 PMno...good guess tho. How ridiculous is this, I have 2 of their albums, saw them in concert, bought a damn t shirt that I wore to a rag in high school. Can't remember their name. Guess that truly makes them underappreciated! -
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Thu, February 26, 2004 - 2:48 PMModern English? -
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Thu, February 26, 2004 - 3:51 PMnope. they were very psychedelia and never really had any big hit. Their biggest song was one called Over My Head. -
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Thu, February 26, 2004 - 4:18 PMThe Mighty Lemon Drops. That's who they were. I just shouted it out loud at work like somebody with music related Tourettes. So I hereby nominate The Mighty Lemon Drops. And the lyric was out of my hand, not over my head. I feel better now. -
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Re: Top 5 Underappreciated Bands of the 80's
Thu, February 26, 2004 - 4:42 PMare u sure the name of the song was "Over My Head"? i know they had songs "Happy Head", "On My Mind" and "Out of Hand" but don't remember a "Over My Head"? -
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Thu, February 26, 2004 - 6:05 PMYeah, like I said, I realized after it popped completely into the old noggin that my brain had screwed up the lyrics. It was actually trying to remember the lyrics to that song that made the band name come back from the ether of my mental fog.
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Sat, January 28, 2006 - 8:24 PMStill have a Mighty Lemondrops T-shirt (from when they opened for Love & Rockets in Berkeley back in like 86 or so). Every once in a while someone will comment on it, but damn rare.
Gotta admit, I snickered at "He was skinny and had a bad haircut." That describes, oh, just about every singer I liked in the 80s . . . um and every boy I dated . . .
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Sat, February 4, 2006 - 3:59 PMi love aztec camera's "another lost weekend........." -
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Sun, February 5, 2006 - 8:54 AMOOPS! it was by WALL OF VOODOO!!! -
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Sun, February 5, 2006 - 8:56 AMwhat about the PLIMSOULS??? i used to really love them when i was in h.s.
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Sat, March 6, 2004 - 6:57 AMYes!! The Three O'Clock, & that Petrol Emotion.. I remember these things.
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Tue, September 21, 2004 - 5:51 PMYay! The Three O'Clock! That whole Paisley Punk scene was very cool, including Game Theory.
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Mon, February 7, 2005 - 11:49 PMPerhaps you were referring to The Chameleons who did "Over My Head"....
(I may be wrong)
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Thu, June 7, 2007 - 11:57 AMI LOVE the Three O'Clock. Have several of their alblums and saw them live! My ex was really into them too.
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Sun, March 28, 2004 - 5:22 PMTotally agree with you on The Chameleons.
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Urge Overkill
Style Council
TinTin
American Music Club (OK this is a SF thang)
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Fri, March 25, 2005 - 5:25 AMIn no particular order
Icehouse
That Petrol Emotion
The Associates
Scritti Politti
Jack Rubies
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Sun, April 9, 2006 - 11:59 PMYeah, TinTin.
I hear he collabo'd with British pop uberstar Robbie Williams
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Thu, February 26, 2004 - 8:15 PMLOVE me some Mojo Nixon!
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Thu, February 26, 2004 - 4:14 PMi second that on the orange juice. f*cking brilliant stuff!
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Thu, February 26, 2004 - 4:15 PMbig country
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Thu, February 26, 2004 - 6:32 PMGo West
Living in a Box
Venetians
Age of Chance
Sigue Sigue Sputnik
Shriekback
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Thu, February 26, 2004 - 6:32 PMOh yeah... AND...
Kaja (Kajagoogoo after Lamahl - so much better)
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Thu, February 26, 2004 - 8:14 PMAnd before they were the Three O'Clock they were the Salvation Army. They were good then, too.
How about Rank and File? Or 20/20 or the db's? And the Plimsouls should have been bigger than they were.
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Sat, January 28, 2006 - 8:26 PMYes!!! To Shriekback. Everyone knows "Nemesis," and nothing else. Burned a CD of everything I could fit for a friend who'd heard "Building Up a New Home" in a party mix and been curious. He's been listening to it nonstop ever since. -
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Sat, January 28, 2006 - 9:35 PM"My Spine is the Bass Line" is one of my all time favorite songs.
Barry Andrews is my hero!!!
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Fri, February 27, 2004 - 8:25 AMWay back in the day, Icehouse was really cool. Before the commercial zenith of Man of Colours. After that, all has been pretty sucky mainstream with the exception of "Berlin" which ranks high still on my playlist. -
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Sat, February 28, 2004 - 6:11 PMI am pleased to see that someone else out there appreciated Icehouse. I saw them in concert when I was travelling through Australia many years ago, when they were at the height of their commercial zenith. I still enjoyed though.
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