My friend made a couple of compilations called The Lost 80s which were full of this kind of thing.
Coincidentally was just going to say I feel like there’s a lot of this sort of thing on the Gary Crowley’s Lost ‘80s comps that came out a few years ago.
― early rejecter, Saturday, 27 May 2023 13:06 (ten months ago) link
the siddleys - my wet wednesday afternoon (1987)https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xXPD1S1BXPA
― brimstead, Sunday, 28 May 2023 02:24 (ten months ago) link
YES. That song threatens to make me weep for reasons I can't explain. I feel like the Siddeleys might be even more conspicuously related to the 'tradition' in question when the guitars are wispy and they add horns lol.
― Nag! Nag! Nag!, Sunday, 28 May 2023 06:07 (ten months ago) link
Fairground Attraction - "Perfect" (1988)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=txapREGWHp0
― underwater as a compliment (Eazy), Wednesday, 31 May 2023 21:28 (ten months ago) link
Speaking of Scots, how about Danny Wilson?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7hqgC3W9GUI
― a man often referred to in the news media as the Duke of Saxony (tipsy mothra), Wednesday, 31 May 2023 22:31 (ten months ago) link
Danny Wilson are great, some brilliant hidden gems on the first album
― ClimbingThieves, Sunday, 4 June 2023 19:45 (ten months ago) link
I think it's funny that the band members ended up mad that people thought they were a guy named Danny Wilson rather than a band. Like, what did you think would happen? But yeah, both albums are good.
― a man often referred to in the news media as the Duke of Saxony (tipsy mothra), Sunday, 4 June 2023 19:56 (ten months ago) link
I gave my tape copy of Bebop Moptop, which I had purchased for 99¢, as a farewell gift to a guy I knew whose actual name was Danny Wilson; he was unusually grateful.
― Halfway there but for you, Tuesday, 6 June 2023 14:35 (ten months ago) link