80s pop bands you'd forgotten you liked
 

I heard some Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark on the radio the other day, and it was fantastic to hear. I'd forgotten that I used to quite like them.

Who else from the 80s do you think I should make the effort to rediscover?

First coupla Ultravox albums! I guess technically these may have been from the late 70s, but with John Foxx at the helm they were radically different and ruled.

Also:
FELT.
Love that band, wimpy though they may be. Maurice Deebank is a godlike guitarist.

dead or alive.




just kidding.

I had sort of forgotten about the Beasties, believe it or not, until just recently. Or that is just hadn't played them in a loonnng time. I love Paul's Boutique and Check Your Head. And I have to get Licensed to Ill.

Dead or alive were a good band at one point.
As someone mentioned Felt,that made me think of Denim wich i have been listening to a bit recently.
China Crisis
Fiction Factory
Lotus Eaters
Art of noise

Dream Syndicate. Love that Days of Wine and Roses album.

Also, Gun Club - Fire of Love & Miami are great albums.

Wow Dream Syndicate were excellent.
Does anyone remember the british Dream Syndicate?
(note:there is also obviously the La Monte Young combo as well)

youuuuu spin me right round baby right round
like a record, baby...

i actually sort of like that song. but pete burns is rank.

Yes darling but apart from that song have you actually listened to a whole album of theirs?Pete Burns is a very funny man(erm....?).He has a big mouth on him but he can be entertaining.

Days Of Wine and Roses is a stone psychedelic classic.

Emergency Third Rail Power Trip by Rain Parade rules as well.

Also, for you Dream Syndicate aficionados, try the 10" "Guild Of Temporal Adventurers" by Kendra Smith if you don't have it already. Excellent stuff! Contains Kendra's great cover of Can's "She Brings The Rain" as well as "Earth Same Breath," a great drone/psych/folk number that really resonates with me. I have covered it both solo and with one of my bands. Great EP!!

i have. it was pretty okay for what it was.

Style Council's 'Our favourite shop' has its moments
The The
Thomas Dolby had his moments too.
One band that i've always disliked was They Might Be Giants.Gosh,they were irritating college crap.
XTC

Mission were another band that had their moments.

Style Council is a tough one for me. Later Jam is even hard for me(why did they feel the need to add horns, for god's sake?). I love a lot of the Jam, though.

TMBG are annoying as fuck and always were to my ears.
The The...most definitely had some awesome stuff, as did XTC.

One thing that i've never understood is my tolerance to Beatles-influenced bands(XTC,Husker Du etc) and my dislike of the Beatles themselves.The Jam were excellent in their prime.Someone whose records i don't always enjoy is Adam and the Ants.It must be the Panto side of him that puts me off.

I know what you mean! A lot of the XTC stuff I like isn't the super-Beatlesy stuff, but I like a lot of that too. I think it comes maybe from beaing totally saturated with Beatles music involuntarily all the damn time; I never feel the need to listen to the Beatles on my home stereo, as I hear it all the time out in the world.
Being able to throw on an XTC LP from the 80s, however, is nice.

I don't know about you but this is one my favourite of theirs:

Oh I forgot all about them. They are splendid.

And my,did i use to fancy this bloke as a kid:

I'm more of an English Settlement/Black Sea/Big Express/Skylarking guy when it comes to XTC.

English Settlement is another excellent one of theirs.This guy's hair was most certainly scary but he could churn out a few good tunes on a good day:

And he had a mime on stage with him(apart from a fortress made of 56.000 synths)

I saw him when I was 14.
Lots of costumes.
Dear god...
That music has dated badly.

And what happened to the mime?

There is nothing sadder than an unemployed mime.

I'm not Courtney Love's greatest fan but i laughed my head off when i read that she toured with Jane's Addiction and on a soundcheck she lost it to one the mimes employed by Farrell and co. and she kicked him in the butt.

Human League's 'Dare' is an album that i'll always have time for.

Mission of Burma?

Love them.

Now why would a well mannered girl like her do a silly thing like that?

Just the butt, not the balls? That's pretty lame.

Psychadelic Furs

Nope.Mission.

Oh. Don't know em.

Some might say it's for the best.

The Church
Echo & the Bunnymen
The Cure
New Order
The B-52's
Depeche Mode

That one song by Yello, from Ferris Bueller. That was the 80's.

And Money For Nothing.

Hey, there's some good stuff here that I'm going to have to go and revisit. Especially XTC - I keep meaning to buy one of their singles albums, but the X section is such a long way through the store and I get distracted.

As for Dream Syndicate, if I've said it once on this forum, I've said it a thousand times, I wish to God someone would rerelease Medicine Show on CD. And thanks for the heads up on the Kendra Smith 10", Savage Clone. Sounds good, I'll keep an eye out for that. Good call on early Ultravox too - have you heard their live 7"? Excellent stuff.

As for you Porkie.... Did you ever see The Mission live (we are talking about Wayne Hussey and chums aren't we?). Complete overblown drivel. And don't get me started on the fucking Eskimos and their human towers... I forgive you though, as you're a supa-dupa guy and the rest of the bands you mentioned are class.

New Model Army

only kidding