Your forgotten/lesser-known 80s favourites

[Montysavestheday]

As above. I'll kick off with this:

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Never troubled our top 40. Became more known via the sample/cover by Uniting Nations 20 or so years later.

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[blue monday]

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A big hit all over Europe but not in the UK

 

[Montysavestheday]

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Love this but drums mixed too weakly! But the verse bassline, starting on the 3rd of the F chord, finishing on the flattened 3rd of the A (for us music bores) is lush.

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A big hit all over Europe but not in the UK

Yeah, I was gonna put this is myself!

 

[Sunlun79]

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[Montysavestheday]

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[Shandy drinker]

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Love this but drums mixed too weakly! But the verse bassline, starting on the 3rd of the F chord, finishing on the flattened 3rd of the A (for us music bores) is lush.



Yeah, I was gonna put this is myself!

Big in Japan too

 

[A Teenstone]

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[EchoMan]

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[blue monday]

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It’s probably 40 years since I last heard that song!

 

[humbug]

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[Logan5]

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[THE CLOCKSTAND CLOCK]

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[Select coaches]

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[blue monday]

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[Son of Stan]

Only reached 71 in the charts in 1983.

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[THE CLOCKSTAND CLOCK]

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[Logan5]

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[Lawrenceslongthrowin]

Alphaville and when in Rome both from napoleon dynamite I both recently discovered

 

[daventry cat]

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[Montysavestheday]

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Was gonna put this in too as my biggestnWorld Cup 86 song reminder!