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Ok gang....a friend has challenged me to an 80's contest. He thinks he knows more about 80's music than i do....we have challenged each other to put together the top 20 songs we think noone else knows about and then see which one of us can identify more of the others list. This led me to thinking what a great topic this would be.....so......question:

WHAT ARE YOUR TOP 20 SONGS FROM THE 80'S YOU THINK NOONE ELSE KNOWS ABOUT??

Have fun with this one group!

Sleeping Lions "Sound Of My Heart"
Matchmakers "Topless On The Beach"
Nine Ways To Win "Painting Over Cracks"
Real Life "Exploding Bullets"
Divinyls "Siren"
Men Without Hats "I Know Their Name"
Ignatius Jones "Seductive Ways"
A Flock Of Seagulls "The Last Flight Of Yuri Gagarin"
Skafish "Wild Night Tonight"
Gleaming Spires "A Christian Girls Problem"
Mari Wilson "(Beware) Boyfriend"
November Group "Pictures Of The Homeland"
Blue Murder "Talk Talk Talk"
Male Model "Model Noise"
Karen Lawrence & The Pinz "Girl's Night Out"
Spoons "Romantic Traffic"
Neon "If I Were A King"
T-Venus "Draggin' The Bottom"
Nobodys "I Scratch"
Little Girls "How To Pick Up Girls"

Thanks, Justin/DevoManiac101

Prima Volta - Allright Allright
Prima Volta - Headline News
Prima Volta - Fiction
Prima Volta - Show the World
Prima Volta - Out in the Street
Tirez Tirez - Razorblade

I have the 5 Prima Volta mp3's on my server if anyone wants them, just email me and I'll send you the urls

"The Bells Ring" - The Swimming Pool Q's
"Just Friends" - Beat Rodeo
"Carry The Torch" - Firetown
"Electric Lash" - The Church
"I Was a Kamikaze Pilot" - Hoodoo Gurus
"We're Living In Violent Times" - The Barracudas
There Must Be a Better Life" - Biff Bang Pow!
"Sugar Bridge" or "I'm Falling" - The Bluebells
"Tiger Nights" - The Bongos
"Oh" - Brilliant Corners
"Even Now" - The Call
"Perfume Garden" - The Chameleons
"Rolling Moon" - The Chills
"I Walked Away" - Choir Invisible
"Seven" - The Connells
"Strawberries Are Growing In My Garden" - The Dentists
"Out of the Grey" - The Dream Syndicate
"Seven Days" - The Fastbacks
"Heaven Knows" - The Flatmates
"Baby Hurricane" - Flesh For Lulu
"Erica's Word" - Game Theory
"Bachelor Kisses" - The Go-Betweens
"How Long" - The Grapes of Wrath
"Fear of God" - Guadalcanal Diary
"Shine On" - The House of Love
"Pink Turns To Blue" - Husker Du
"Waters Part" - Let's Active
"My Favorite Room" - Lime Spiders
"Return to Yesteday" - The Lilac Time
"Charlotte Street" - Lloyd Cole & The Commotions
"And She Rides" - The Long Ryders
"Live It Up" - Mental as Anything
"My Biggest Thrill" - The Mighty Lemon Drops
"Reach" - The Pale Fountains
"A Gentle Sound" - The Railway Children
"What She's Done to Your Mind" - The Rain Parade
"I Heard You the First Time" - The Razorcuts
"Blood From a Stone" - Red Rockers
"Alex Chilton" - The Replacements
"Head Gone Astray" - Soup Dragons
"At First Sight" - The Stems
"And So We Run" - The Three O'Clock
"Gravity" - Translator
"Hollywood Holiday" - True West
"A Trick of the Light" - The Triffids
"My Favorite Dress" - The Wedding Present
"Last Perfect Thing" - Wire Train

Ooops, there's more than 20, sorry![:I]

No need to apologize....this is fun

There's not a prayer that I can put up something no one here knows about. Here's some obscure favorites anyway. I mean, someone has to have heard it right for it to be kind of a "top 20"? Had to stretch to it 25, in order by artist...

Alternative TV - Action Time Vision
Armoury Show - Castles in Spain
The Bangles - The Real World
Black Flag - Six Pack
The Blasters - Marie Marie
Caution - UFO
D-Day - Right to Know
The Durutti Column - Sketch for Dawn 1
The Go-Betweens - Streets of Your Town
Human Sexual Response - Pound
Joy Division - Wilderness
Little Girls - The Earthquake Song
The Marbles - Red Lights
Humans - I Live in the City
The Monochrome Set - Eine Symphonie Des Grauens
The Nerves - When You Find Out
New Order - Turn
The Plimsouls - In This Town
The Polecats - Red Ready Amber
The Pop Group - She is Beyond Good and Evil
Suburban Lawns - Flying Saucer Safari
The Tan - We're Hangin' Out
UB40 - I've Got Mine
V - 1926
Yellow Magic Orchestra - Tighten Up

Doctors of Madness-''Mainlines'' and ''Sons of Survival''
TV Smith's Explorers-I'm your servant
Atlantics-One last night
Dirty Looks-Let go
Elton Motello-Nightsister

Doctors of Madness-''Mainlines'' and ''Sons of Survival''
TV Smith's Explorers-I'm your servant
Atlantics-One last night
Dirty Looks-Lie to me
Elton Motello-Nightsister
Yachts-Now i'm spoken for
Brains-Money changes everything(before Cindy Lauper)
Shirts-Teenage crutch
Elevators-Stickball kids
Neo-Transister
Laughing Dogs-Not What i used to be
Bram Tchaikovsky-Lady fro the USA
Single Bullet Theory-Keep it tight
Reds-Victims
A's-Woman's got the power
B-girls-Fun on the beach
Stiv Bators-Million miles away
Fast-Jack is a jock
Human League-Blind youth
Dalek i love you-Dad on fire
Secret-Weather Station
Shrink-The Doll
Joe Jackson-I don't wanna be like that
Phd-little Suzie's in the up
Wazmo Nariz-Checking out the check out girl
Debris-One way spit
The Know-I like girls
The Damned-There ain't no sanity clause
Bates motel-I'm gonna live among the dancers
Sparks-Sports
Trevor White-Crazy kids
Tubes-Baby your face mutated
Splodgessabounds-tough shit wilson.

Dan,

I have a 12" by the band Tirez Tirez and it's from 1986

Thanks, Justin/DevoManiac101

Tommy Chase - Killer Joe (right cross)
Small Ads - Small Ads
Cravats - Terminus
Aces - One Way Street
The Naughtiest Girl in School was a Monitor - Front
Cats UK - Luton Airport
Driver 67 - Car 67
Not-Sensibles - I Make a Balls of Everything I Do
Final Program - Trains
Serious Drinking - Hangover
Nick Straker Band - A Walk in the Park
Timerider - Cocoon
Pinkees - Gonna Be Lonely Again
Rebecca Storm - The Show
H.E.X. - Be Like Me
Star Turn (on 45 pints) - Are You Affiliated?
The Truth - (Confusion) Hits Us Everytime
Chain of Command - Some Aspects
Wonder Dog - Ruff Mix
Heebeegeebees - Too Depressed To Commit Suicide


PS Firefall, that, and an excellent cover of "Ghost in my House" are the only decent tracks on the Yachts' second LP

1. phd - Little Suzy's on the Up
2. Clash - Straight to Hell
3. China Crisis - African and White
4. Adverts - Gary Gilmore's Eyes
5. Yello - She's got a Gun
6. GBH - Malice in Wonderland
7. Shona Laing - Soviet Snow
8. Agent Orange - Everything Turns Grey
9. Boomtown Rats - She's so Modern
10. Dead Boys - Sonic Reducer
11. 999 - Black Flowers to the Bride
12. Graham Parker and the Rumour - Mercury Poisoning
13. Monochrome Set - Jet Set Junta
14. Gary Numan - Down in the Park
15. Golant Pistons - Friday on my Mind
16. The A's - After Last Night
17. The Slits - Man Next Door
18. The Fixx - Less Cities More Moving People
19. The The - Armageddon Days
20. The Only Ones - Another Girl Another Planet

ok, some of these are from the late 70's...what the hell...

Gee-zuz,
I thought I knew obscure 80s new wave, but you guys amaze me, as always. Until waukena's list, I've not heard of ANY of your guys' songs ! Wow! I bet they are great, though.
Waukena: I LOVE that Clash song, and that Agent Orange song is my favourite by them. And I also love that Fixx song!

Do I smell a KILLER trading theme?!!! Who's interesting in getting a CD of my stuff? I'd love a reciprocation from the others. Email me if interested.

I'm interested in trading.

A few songs I forgot as well (ok, I mentioned Razorblade in the above post):

Tirez Tirez - Razorblade
Tirez Tirez - Set The Timer 12"
Tirez Tirez - Uptight
Our Daughter's Wedding - Lawnchairs
Our Daughter's Wedding - She Was Someone
[quote][i]Originally posted by DevoManiac101[/i]
<br>Dan,

I have a 12" by the band Tirez Tirez and it's from 1986

Thanks, Justin/DevoManiac101
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I have an mp3 of it as well -- I think the bass player had it or Uptight (I don't remember which) posted to his web site several years ago and I was scouring the web for information on the band and found it there -- awesome song.

[quote][i]Originally posted by Blir[/i]
<br>Do I smell a KILLER trading theme?!!! Who's interesting in getting a CD of my stuff? I'd love a reciprocation from the others. Email me if interested.
[/quote]

I'm up for it, but I can easily get most of your stuff, but thanks for the offer Blir. [:)] [;)]