Show Notes
THE CHAMELEONS – Nostalgia (What Does Anything…) 1985 THE DAMNED – In Dulce Decorum (Anything) 1986 GENE LOVES JEZEBEL – Desire (Discover) 1986 EASTERHOUSE – To Live Like This (Contenders) 1986 ICICLE WORKS – Love is a Wonderful Colour (single) 1983 THE LUCY SHOW – A Million Things (Mania) 1986 BIG COUNTRY – Angle Park (Wonderland) 1984 ULTRAVOX – Dancing With Tears in My Eyes (Lament) 1984 BLANCMANGE – Living on the Ceiling (Happy Families) 1982 HEAVEN 17 – Play to Win (Penthouse & Pavement) 1982 GANG OF FOUR – Call Me Up (Songs of the Free) 1982 SCREAMING BLUE MESSIAHS – Holiday Head (Gun Shy) 1986 THE GODFATHERS – She Gives Me Love (single) 1989 MIDNIGHT OIL – U.S. Forces (10-1) 1982 DRAMARAMA – Wonderamaland (Stuck In Wonderamaland) 1989 THE SMITHEREENS – Green Thoughts (Green Thoughts) 1988 WIRE TRAIN – I Forget it All (In a Chamber) 1983 THE THREE O’CLOCK – Jetfighter (16 Tambourines) 1983 GAME THEORY – Room For One More, Honey (Two Steps From the Middle Ages) 1988 VOICE OF THE BEEHIVE – I Say Nothing (Let it Bee) 1988 THE SUGARCUBES – Motorcrash (Life’s Too Good) 1988 MIGHTY LEMON DROPS – Inside Out (World Without End) 1988 THE PRIMITIVES – I’ll Stick With You (Lovely) 1988 THE FLATMATES – I Could Be in Heaven (7” single) 1986 THE WONDERSTUFF – Unbearable (Eight Legged Groove Machine) 1988 MONSOON – Tomorrow Never Knows (Third Eye) 1983 PALE SAINTS – Sight of You (Barging into the Presence of God) 1989 RAILWAY CHILDREN – Over and Over (Recurrence) 1988 THE BLUEBELLS – Cath (Sisters) 1984
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The 80s Underground Facebook page got hacked...and as such, I've lost a decade of playlists. The Podcasts however, are still accessible and will be for eternity. Here's a replay from October 14, 2015....counting down the Top Singles of the decade.
U2 - Two Hears Beat As One (War) 1983 BIG COUNTRY - Tall Ships Go (Steeltown) 1984 CHAMELEONS UK - One Flesh (What Does Anything...) 1985 ULTRAVOX - Hymn (Singles) 1982 THE REPLACEMENTS - Left of the Dial (Tim) 1985 R.E.M. - Cuyahoga (Life's Rich Pageant) 1986 THE CHURCH - Dropping Names (Remote Luxury) 1984 **INTERVIEW w/ writer Lori Majewski** ECHO & THE BUNNYMEN - The Killing Moon (Ocean Rain) 1984 THE SNAKE CORPS - Look East for Eden (Flesh on Flesh) 1986 THE PARACHUTE MEN - Sometimes in Vain (The Innocents) 1988 DUMPTRUCK - Carefree (For the Country) 1987 TRANSLATOR - Heaven By a String (s/t) 1985 JULIAN COPE - Trampolene (St. Julian) 1987 CONCRETE BLONDE - Happy Birthday (Free) 1989 THE GO-BETWEENS - I Just Get Caught Out (Tallulah) 1987 DREAMS SO REAL - Maybe I'll Go Today (Father's House) 1986 THE 77's - Do It For Love (s/t) 1987 MICHAEL PENN - This & That (March) 1989 GAME THEORY - Rolling With the Moody Girls (Two Steps From the Middle Ages) 1988 THE FLESHTONES - Right Side of a Good Thing (Hexbreaker) 1983 THE NILS - Young Man in Transit (s/t) 1987 THE TRUTH - Playground (Playground) 1985
SIOUXSIE & THE BANSHEES – Song From the Edge of the World (single) 1987 LOVE & ROCKETS – All in My Mind (Express) 1986 THE OPPOSITION – A Day In The Future (Intimacy) 1983 COCTEAU TWINS – Aloysius (Treasure) 1984 CLAN OF XYMOX – Agonised by Love (Medusa) 1986 LOWLIFE – Reflections of I (Rain) 1985 NEW ORDER – Sunrise (Low Life) 1985 THE CURE – The Hanging Garden (Pornography) 1982 AND ALSO THE TREES – Shaletown (single) 1987 ECHO & THE BUNNYMEN – Lost & Found (s/t) 1987 THE SMITHS – Some Girls Are Bigger Than Others (Queen Is Dead) 1986 OCEAN BLUE – Myron (s/t) 1989 FOR AGAINST – Get On With it (Echelons) 1987 THE DARROWS – Is It You (Cellar Into Eaves) 1986 SGT ARMS – Walking on the Roof (single) 1982 RED ROCKERS – Til it All Falls Down (Good As Gold) 1983 ROMEO VOID – Say No (Instincts) 1984 CONCRETE BLONDE – True (s/t) 1986 THE RAVE-UPS – These Wishes (Book of Your Regrets) 1988 SCRUFFY THE CAT – My Baby She’s Alright (Tiny Days) 1987 R.E.M. – Pretty Persuasion (Reckoning) 1984 X – Surprise Surprise (See How We Are) 1987 THE REPLACEMENTS – Color Me Impressed (Hootenanny) 1983 THE DICKIES – Rosemary (Stukas Over Disneyland) 1988 BIG DRILL CAR – 5 Year Itch (Small Block EP) 1987 DIE KREUZEN – Slow (Century Days) 1988 MEAT PUPPETS – Mirage (Mirage) 1987 THELONIOUS MONSTER – So What if I Did (single) 1989 fIREHOSE – For the Singer of R.E.M. (Sometimes, Almost Always) 1988
MIGHTY LEMON DROPS - One By One (World Without End) 1988 ECHO & THE BUNNYMEN - Lost & Found (s/t) 1987 XMAL DEUTSCHLAND - Matador (single) 1986 PETER MURPHY - His Circle & Hers Meet (Love Hysteria) 1988 CABARET VOLTAIRE - Just Fascination (The Crackdown) 1983 GARY NUMAN - Remind Me to Smile (Telekon) 1980 FRONT 242 - Operating Tracks (Geography) 1982 MINISTRY - Here We Go (With Sympathy) 1983 THE BOLSHOI - Someone's Daughter (Friends) 1986 MEN WITHOUT HATS - I Got the Message (Rhythm of Youth) 1982 HUMAN LEAGUE - Seconds (Dare) 1981 MODELS - I Hear Motion (Out of Mind Out of Sight) 1985 SHRIEKBACK - Under The Light (Jam Science) 1984 KATE BUSH - Violin (Never For Ever) 1980 THE FALL - Hit The North (The Frenz Experiment) 1987 AZTEC CAMERA - Still on Fire (Knife) 1984 THE JAZZ BUTCHER - Southern Mark Smith (A Scandal in Bohemia) 1984 THE STRANGLERS - Souls (Aural Sculpture) 1985 SQUEEZE - Hits of the Year (Cosi Fan Tutti Frutti) 1985 SPLIT ENZ - Take a Walk (Time & Tide) 1982 MARSHALL CRENSHAW - Cynical Girl (s/t) 1982 HOODOO GURUS - In the Middle of the Land (Blow Your Cool) 1987 GUADALCANAL DIARY - Pray For Rain (Jamboree) 1986 R.E.M. - Box Cars/Carnival of Sorts (Chronic Town EP) 1982 RAIN PARADE - Mystic Green (Crashing Dream) 1986 THE CHILLS - Wet Blanket (Brave Words) 1987
This specialty show (originally broadcast in February 2015) counts down the Top 25 albums of 1986.