80s Underground Rankdown (completed)

[Butterflies & Hurricanes]

OK, all of you 80s music junkies, I'm digging deep for obscure one-hit (or often NO-hit) wonders from my favorite decade.  This is the music you might've heard if you were to go to a US goth club in the 80s, it's new wave dance night & the DJ refuses to play anything on the charts.  Well, NOT EVERYTHING here is goth or even new wave or dance music, but most are a variation of this sound.  Don't be scared that you don't recognize these artists - it just means that you have a plethora of great discoveries ahead of you.


INSTRUCTIONS:  Rank 'em down from 1 to 50 & then message me the list...you've done this a 100x, so you know the drill


DEADLINE:  I'm thinking I'll leave this open for now, probably sometime in January early February.  That'll give everyone plenty of time to listen to the list a few times.


SONGS:
Fire To Ice - Associates
Flaming Desire - Bill Nelson
Don't Tell Me - Blancmange
UFO - Caution
American Soviets - CCCP
Will You Be There? - Celebrate The Nun
Shack Up - Certain Ratio
Hot Doggie - Colourbox
Clear - Cybotron
Alone Again Or - Damned
* Say It Again - Danse Society
Dominatrix Sleeps Tonight - Dominatrix
* Land Of Hunger - Earons
AEIOU Sometimes Y - Ebn-Ozn
Bring Me Edelweiss - Edelweiss
Collapsing New People - Fad Gadget
Fanatic - Felony
No Stars - Figures On A Beach
Din Daa Daa - George Kranz
Al-Naafyish - Hashim
* Baby Judy - Hawaiian Pups
Shiny Shiny - Haysi Fantayzee
Burning Car - John Foxx
Fire - Lizzy Mercier Descloux
Don Quichotte - Magazine 60
New York - Micro Chip League
Computer Games - Mi-Sex
88 Lines About 44 Women - Nails
White Coats - New Model Army
Warm Leatherette - Normal
Lawnchairs - Our Daughters Wedding
Like Dust - Passion Puppets
Papa's Got A Brand New Pig Bag - Pig Bag
Dr Mabuse - Propaganda
Broken Heart - Red Flag
Escalator Of Life - Robert Hazard
Cowpunk - Scott Goddard
Sex Beat - Sex Beat
Kiss Kiss Bang Bang - Specimen
Synthicide - SSQ
Moskow Diskow - Telex
Wunderbar - Tenpole Tudor
* Swear - Tim Scott
Kiss Me - Tin Tin (Stephen Duffy)
I Eat Cannibals - Toto Coelo
Nellie The Elephant - Toy Dolls
Living On Video - Trans-X
Heaven - Until December
Cccan't You See? - Vicious Pink
* Daddy's Coming Home - Walk The Moon


PARTICIPANTS:

[Butterflies & Hurricanes]

* there are 5 songs not available on Spotify:

[singingrulebritannia]

I'm obviously interested, but my submission will probably come closer to the deadline than usual. No offense, but I want to wait and make sure you actually follow through on hosting this ;)

[Deleted]

i absolutely love 80s goth and new wave club culture so i'm in

[Albie]

American Soviets, Don Quichotte, Sex Beat, Burning Car, Clear, Din Daa Daa, Wunderbar, Don't Tell Me, 88 Lines About 44 Women! Yas!

I mean and those are just the ones I recognize by name. I'm IN!

[Butterflies & Hurricanes]

so much for my attempt to get as obscure as possible...but glad you like Albie

[Doc Indie Party Rock]

If you grew up with KROQ(back when KROQ was cool) then the list should pull you in. You might know my fav from this list if you been following my 80's posts since I first joined.  I say I only not know a handful of these songs. Count me in for 80's support.

[Butterflies & Hurricanes]

Nov 23, 2019 18:23:22 GMT -5 singingrulebritannia said:

I'm obviously interested, but my submission will probably come closer to the deadline than usual. No offense, but I want to wait and make sure you actually follow through on hosting this

i quickly learned not to provoke the wrath of Az Paynter ... maybe i'll resurrect that Alt Aussie rankdown again someday, assuming i can win him over

but THIS rankdown is going full-steam ahead ... my mistake before was making too many changes after i posted the song list, this time, the songs are locked in...anything i forgot will have to wait for the sequel rankdown

[newpower]

Count me in. That Colourbox song was in the Lonely is an Eyesore compilation from the 4AD label. It was my introduction to Clan of Xymox, This Mortal Coil and so many others.

[campbellssoup]

I’d like to participate. I’m always looking for new stuff from the 80s!

[Butterflies & Hurricanes]

Tentative due date for this is Friday, February 8th, 2020

not in the tags but want to be added, just let me know &/or go ahead and submit

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[Butterflies & Hurricanes]

we have our 1st submission!

there are still 7 weeks before the deadline...obviously this can be a very busy time of the year for most of us, but if you find some time then there's no reason to wait until the last minute...start listening now!

"Let's hear some music! - we got us some goodies"

[Deleted]

I started working on this today, expect my list soon

[Butterflies & Hurricanes]

3 lists in so far...not bad considering the deadline is about 6 weeks out

[Butterflies & Hurricanes]

hey guys, thanks for those who submitted early for this...there are so many rankdowns going on & my life is swamped with work & preparing for vacation, so i'm open to extending the deadline if that should become necessary...in the meantime...


(slightly less than) THREE WEEK NOTICE!


not in the tags but want to be added, just let me know or go ahead and submit

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Albie   Alex1901   American Idiot   Az Paynter   Daryl the Beryl   Beno   campbellssoup   Cody Wants Out...   tim   craziaskowboi   Unhinged   Doc Indie Party Rock   @gatesofseattle  gonecountry   newpower   @humanshazam   Sambalada   janinho   Juanca   peacebone   Lordef†ones   lyhom   mamooshka   Red   rgreen0625   samo🦕   @slipperyslope   Web   Mirago   wheatsquares33

[janinho]

Bring Me Edelweiss - Edelweiss....holy s***. How do you know this.

Just as good as their second big hit in Germany. 90s Trash at it's peak.

[Butterflies & Hurricanes]

Jan 14, 2020 18:12:20 GMT -5 janinho said:

Bring Me Edelweiss - Edelweiss....holy s***. How do you know this.

we played it on my college radio station...could NOT find a CD of it for years...finally a boyfriend bought the import CD-single for me as a birthday present in '98 (yes kids, there was a time BEFORE spotify & even BEFORE napster where you actually had to go to a brick & mortar record store to buy music)

...btw, that "Starship Edelweiss" was a first time listen...LOL, i was smiling the whole way thru the video

[newpower]

I have the Bring Me Edelweiss 12” vinyl. The song was popular in Argentina/Uruguay back then.

[janinho]

Jan 14, 2020 18:19:28 GMT -5 Butterflies & Hurricanes said:

Jan 14, 2020 18:12:20 GMT -5 janinho said:

Bring Me Edelweiss - Edelweiss....holy s***. How do you know this.

...btw, that "Starship Edelweiss" was a first time listen...LOL, i was smiling the whole way thru the video

When I first heard the song a few years ago I completely lost it when the gibberish rapping Aliens appeared in the video. 90s Eurodance brought us some hilarious stuff.

[Doc Indie Party Rock]

'Mi Sex - Computer Games'
If you have this on vinyl you are welcome to come with me when I'm done building my back to the 80's time machine.

[craziaskowboi]

This is a maybe for me. If I do this, then it'll be toward the end of this month or the beginning of next.

[Butterflies & Hurricanes]

Jan 15, 2020 16:04:32 GMT -5 craziaskowboi said:

This is a maybe for me. If I do this, then it'll be toward the end of this month or the beginning of next.

you won't regret it...some fun stuff to discover here

[Doc Indie Party Rock]

Those enjoying this list of songs might want to check out this youtube page on my playlists. Most of these were played on KROQ (back when KROQ was cool)

[Butterflies & Hurricanes]

Doc Indie Party Rock - where is your list???

[Doc Indie Party Rock]

Jan 22, 2020 10:05:02 GMT -5 Butterflies & Hurricanes said:

Doc Indie Party Rock - where is your list???

Yesterday I went off track and decided to listen to more of Fad Gadget. I've been doing this a lot with other acts from your list. but It's coming I have time. ;)

[Deleted]

This "Din Daa Daa" song sounds as if it served as an inspiration for Man's Not Hot

[Butterflies & Hurricanes]

Jan 23, 2020 9:45:24 GMT -5 Geometrical said:

This "Din Daa Daa" song sounds as if it served as an inspiration for Man's Not Hot

i took a listen but don't really hear the connection...but i do think that The Art Of Noise sampled this for some of their songs in the mid 80s

[Deleted]

Jan 24, 2020 16:14:08 GMT -5 Butterflies & Hurricanes said:

Jan 23, 2020 9:45:24 GMT -5 Geometrical said:

This "Din Daa Daa" song sounds as if it served as an inspiration for Man's Not Hot

i took a listen but don't really hear the connection...but i do think that The Art Of Noise sampled this for some of their songs in the mid 80s

My comment was more tongue in cheek than anything - I was mainly referring to the shouted onomatopoeia in both songs.

[Deleted]

Alright I’ll try to do this but more than 90 percent of these would probably be first listens.

[Butterflies & Hurricanes]

Jan 24, 2020 17:44:51 GMT -5 @slipperyslope said:

Alright I’ll try to do this but more than 90 percent of these would probably be first listens.

you're about to enter the realm of weird obscure 80s...& you're gonna love it!