80's songs you never hear on the radio these days

[amethyst]

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2 great songs from 1983
Jump-Van Halen
Big Log-Robert Plant

[big kid]

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i eat cannibals - toto coelo
19 and wizard - paul hardcastle
any of the songs by bad manners

[Richard1978]

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I was watching TOTP from 1983 the other day, one song featured was one I remember hearing but couldn't out a name to.

It was Dolce Vita by Ryan Paris, I had assumed for years it was by Howard Jones or one of the other "keyboard wizards" from the early - mid 1980s.

It wasn't surprising to find Ryan Paris was a one hit wonder, but I was surprised to find he was Italian, especially as some of his singing was in a cockneyish accent.

[big kid]

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life in one day - howard jones

i want candy - bow wow wow

love missile f1-11 - sigue sigue sputnik

everybody have fun tonight - wang chung

funky town - lipps inc

mickey - toni basil

futures so bright, i gotta wear shades - timbuck 3

house nation - the house master boys

[amethyst]

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I would have said Stepping Out-Joe Jackson but lately have heard this song quite a few times,even heard it being played in Boots yesterday great song

[EddyP]

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Angel In The Centerfold - J Geils Band

[big kid]

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Centerfold - J Geils Band

j geils passed away about two weeks back.

[EddyP]

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j geils passed away about two weeks back.

What?!?! I didn't see it reported anywhere...what a crying shame...

[spuggybridge]

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Haven't heard I Cant wait by Nu Shooz on the radio in ages

[Richard1978]

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I was quite surprised to be woken up by Holly Johnson's Americanos on Radio 2 jusr before 7am.

My first thoughts were he had succumbed to something AIDS related, but there was no mention on the news that followed.

Chris Evans must have pulled some strings to get it played, I've not heard it on the radio since the Berlin Wall came down.

[George 1978]

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I was quite surprised to be woken up by Holly Johnson's Americanos on Radio 2 jusr before 7am.

When I hear that song, I often think of 1989 and things such as Bermuda shorts, as I mentioned in my fashion thread.

[George 1978]

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I am listening to BBC Radio Gloucestershire online, and they have played Brown Girl in the Ring by Boney M - the B-side to Rivers of Babylon - I can't remember the last time when any radio station played that.

The story goes that back in 1978 a DJ was supposed to play Rivers of Babylon, but had played the B side by mistake, and the listeners loved the song so much that it was lusted as a double A side and the song shot right back up the charts and remained there until the end of the year, a total of 40 weeks.

Yesterday, I was listening to another radio station online, and they had played this week's chart from 1980, including Embarrassment by Madness and Banana Republic by the Boomtown Rats.

[Richard1978]

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When I hear that song, I often think of 1989 and things such as Bermuda shorts, as I mentioned in my fashion thread.

Yes same here, I remember it well because I was finishing at primary school.

[George 1978]

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Just realised that it says 1980s songs - never mind.

[80sChav]

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Doctor!, Doctor!, by The Thompson Twins is one I heard on Thursday and it bugged me for ages until establishing it was The Thompson Twins

Hearing this song really, really took me back a long, long time I freely admit to - no doubts!!

80sChav