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

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.

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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

I love Nice Strong Arm so much. Their other two classics are Amnesia and Cloud Machine

cool single. expensive too.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e1Dax8hMkGw

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i9VoliGdNBE

I do not know nice string arm but now must hear more ha, that was cool

strong string

this one:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EQ-AgrKaKiI

50s retro 80s prince cover from raincoats members that people have been hiding from me...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N4iTnk7orSw

whoa

"Former Raincoats members and Red Crayola collaborators formed Dorothy to release a series of dance influenced 12 inches and record an album worth of material that was never released."

b-side

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yl7anm2QXC4

this makes it even more baffling to me that Vicky didn't want to do the reunion

and there were two other singles. and some demo/promo tape only tracks. enough for a CD anyway.

its that hot New Beat group sweeping Rotterdam.

https://i.discogs.com/R4A_sZm_KGz8QWCcdn5JE3mURSg9uWXBj-bPPNNyNXE/rs:fit/g:sm/q:90/h:599/w:600/czM6Ly9kaXNjb2dz/LWRhdGFiYXNlLWlt/YWdlcy9SLTk5MTc0/LTExNjI3MzIyOTYu/anBlZw.jpeg

the rutless?

my kid is looking for a new band name. i'm gonna suggest The Rutless Attack.

Dorothy sounds like a digital version of Moving.

this Bernard Edwards AOR band in search of a Kevin Bacon movie is not my thing.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zo97TDxPmq0

Listening to the World Saxophone Quartet's Plays Duke Ellington this morning. It doesn't sound particularly '80s, but it's from 1986. On Nonesuch.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qRzdLk0W1is

i had this on tape in 1987. because i was a beatnik. #DolbyHXPro

https://i.discogs.com/zh3Pm-0KJSZtlBqbdCDAGFcC_FF-PVUUGz-b7rm9qYw/rs:fit/g:sm/q:90/h:600/w:594/czM6Ly9kaXNjb2dz/LWRhdGFiYXNlLWlt/YWdlcy9SLTEwNzA1/MjU1LTE1MDI3NTM5/MjItNDI0My5qcGVn.jpeg

i dig this mix because the intro is 3 minutes long. they shouldn't have even bothered with vocals. make it all intro. though the vocals are more of a dub effect then they are the original song.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xb3QOHSYCaM

this is that guy who did music with madonna in germany before she hit it big. and he was in liquid sky. i saw liquid sky in the movie theatre in nyc in the 80s. that's how hip i was.

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

how many songs can i listen to that sound like this? a LOT apparently. she was the singer in Tapps if you are a Canadian Tapps fan.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l5D8AoN5j_k

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_mdRBa0p6lU

speaking of great moments in canadian history...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gbYDUrvYQ7U