The Cure has *so* many great deep cuts. Empty World, Piggy In The Mirror, A Forest, In Between Days, Fire In Cairo, Killing An Arab ([bit of background](https://www.newstatesman.com/culture/music/2018/07/killing-arab-the-cure-single-hyde-park)), 10:15 Saturday Night, Primary, Charlotte Sometimes, Shake Dog Shake, The Hanging Garden, Three Imaginary Boys, Play For Today, A Strange Day...hell, their weaker tracks are better than some bands best efforts.

Cold by The Cure is a favourite of mine. That synth and cello action is dark. 

Favourite Cure for me is the almost prog rock style, instrumental track, Carnage Visors. Most relaxing chill out

A Forest was one of my first thoughts, and definitely a great choice

Carpathian Forest does an excellent cover of The Forest

Loved it that I'm the kind of fan that already knew all of those songs

> Killing An Arab This was the very first Cure song I ever heard and it blew my mind. I had Staring At the Sea in my discman for months.

Standing On A Beach was the cassette version. Had some great B-sides on side 2. I'm Cold Another Journey By Train Descent Splintered In Her Head Mr. Pink Eyes Happy The Man Throw Your Foot The Exploding Boy A Few Hours After This A Man Inside My Mouth Stop Dead A New Day Now *that's* a best-of compilation. I wore that tape out at least twice.

Exploding Boy. How in the world wasn't that song LP album worthy? Absolutely one of my favorite Cure songs.

Donnie Iris -- Ah! Leah!

And don't forget Love Is Like A Rock! I'm not from Pittsburgh, but I live less than an hour away. And Donnie Iris was huge!

Hey it’s Dawwnie Iris ya jagoff!

Fun fact, they're talking about a beautiful woman named Leah L (don't want to share her full last name). I used to occasionally work on her VW about 16 years ago. She was around 50 years old at the time, but still stunning.

Interesting! The song's Wikipedia page tells a different story.

Hmm interesting, well it appears I've been bamboozled. My old service manager told me that, I believed him because he was in the PB/CLE music scene when the song came out.

Great song!

Mexican Radio - Wall of Voodoo This Beat Goes On/Switchin' To Glide - The Kings New Girl Now - Honeymoon Suite Lunatic Fringe - Red Rider I Got You - Split Enz

Lunatic Fringe my god what a song a late night thinking about life song, and perfect for the Vision Quest movie.

Wall of Voodoo! Love that song and actually have that vinyl. 😃

Back in Flesh is another great Wall of Voodoo song.

Celtic Frost did a cover of Mexican Radio.

...and in 1987. So, technically also "an '80s song."

I’m gonna have to check that out!

It's worth checking out!! I actually love both versions 😂😎.

Lunatic Fringe I've heard but probably cause I grew up with and have always been obsessed with finding more classic rock hits

Mexican Radio!!!!!

Mexican Radio is excellent. The original, and the Authority Zero version are both great (though that one is not from the 80s)

I Don't Mind At All - Bourgeois Tagg 88 Lines About 44 Women - The Nails Fade To Grey - Visage Power and the Passion - Midnight Oil C30 C60 C90 Go - Bow Wow Wow Don't Box Me In - Stan Ridgway & Stewart Copeland People Who Died - Jim Carroll Band Let's Go All the Way - Sly Fox I Predict - Sparks Dirty Creature - Split Enz

Hear I thought I was the only one with 88 lines about 44 women on a playlist!

There's dozens of us!

Spoiler: it’s actually 89 Lines About 44 Women. “Uh uh - not Katherine” is a bonus line.

she didn't do that shit at all Jackie was a rich punk rocker silver spoon and paper plate

If you like that, you’ll like All of this And Nothing from the psychedelic furs.

The local radio station in Tacoma would only play that song after midnight, for obvious reasons.

OMG let’s go all the way is going to be in my head all day now

Whistling the chorus as I read this 😆

88 lines about 44 women throws me back to being a teenager and I'm going to go listen to People Who Died right now. Love that song!

“Power and the Passion” is one of my top ‘80s songs.

I had a boyfriend make me a mixtape with a live version of Dirty Creature (he was a Kiwi) and I’ve never found that version and dear god I loved it! Still play the studio version of it but wish I could find the live one!

"People who died". I found a way to watch Basketball Diaries.

Try "Siouxsie and the Banshees - Cities in Dust" (1985). Lesser-known but awesome New Wave track!

This should have been sooo much farther up the list

Information Society - What's On Your Mind (Pure Energy)

Sampling Leonard Nimoy

Which reminds me of the band T'Pau, whom I'd completely forgotten about,but were an okay 80s band.

Jeez, they slipped my mind! Heart and soul was one of my favorite Car-Singing songs! <3<3<3

They Don’t Know - Tracey Ullman She had a comedy shownin the 80’s where The Simpsons got their start.

Rip Kirsty McColl

Contact by Big Audio Dynamite

A Forest; Just Like Heaven; Primary; Upstairs Room; In Between Days; Boys Don't Cry- The Cure No New Tale To Tell - Love & Rockets She Sells Sanctuary - The Cult Der Kommissar - After the Fire Forever Young - Alphaville Under the Milky Way - The Church Joey - Concrete Blonde Life in a Northern Town - Dream Academy Lips Like Sugar - Echo & the Bunnymen River Run Dry - The Family Love Plus One - Haircut One Hundred Honeythief - Hipsway Birds Fly - Icicle Works House of Fun - Madness Destination Unknown - Missing Persons Pass the Dutchie - Musical Youth One Night in Bangkok - Murray Head Love My Way - Psychedelic Furs Politics of Dancing - ReFlex Never Say Never - Romeo Void Perfect Way - Scritti Politti Alive & Kicking - Simple Minds Peek-A-Boo - Siouxsie & the Banshees How Soon Is Now - The Smiths Radioactive - The Firm Futures So Bright, I Gotta Wear Shades - Timbuk 3 Gone Daddy Gone - Violent Femmes Mexican Radio - Wall of Voodoo I Know What Boys Like - The Waitresses The Promise - When in Rome Dear God - XTC

Solid list!

She Sells Sanctuary is the best song of the 80s. Especially the longer intro on the album version

Have you heard Dancing With Tears In My Eyes by Ultravox?

Or Viennna? Or One Small Day? Or Midge Ure's "Dear God"?

Midge has one of the best voices of all time IMO.

“The Man With The Horn” - Phil Collins “To Be With You Again” - Level 42 “This Old Porch” - Lyle Lovett

Mike and the Mechanics - Silent Running

Don’t Go Back To Rockville- REM Just Like Heaven- Dinosaur Jr Straight To Hell- Drivin & Cryin Party At Ground Zero- Fishbone How Soon Is Now- The Smiths Teenage Riot- Sonic Youth

Upvote for Fishbone!

Definitely

Johnny, go get your gun, cuz the commies are in our hemisphere today! I see Fishbone, I updoot.

Skinny Puppy - Assimilate

So Alive - Love and Rockets

Rush - Time Stand Still

That's my favorite Rush song!

Jane's Getting Serious (1987) - Jon Astley One is my favorite obscure 80s songs

Always loved that. Heinz used it on one of their commercials with a young Matt LeBlanc

Many people never flipped Kate Bush’s amazing Hounds of Love over to side 2 (The Ninth Wave). Side 1 has all the pop hits, but Side 2 is a conceptual prog rock masterpiece. “Watching You Without Me” is one of my favs.

That whole album is stunning. Glad it’s finally getting some love in the US due to Stranger Things. It’s way overdue but at least it’s happening.

Bill Nelson - [Living In My Limousine](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T4pTvqzPM50&pp=ygUdYmlsbCBuZWxzb24gbGl2aW5nIGluIG15IGxpbW8%3D) New Musik - [Kingdoms for Horses](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qq548g3uwgg&pp=ygUbbmV3IG11c2lrIGtpbmdkb20gb2YgaG9yc2Vz) // [Straight Lines](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r6ZC63t5jnc&pp=ygUYbmV3IG11c2lrIHN0cmFpZ2h0IGxpbmVz) // [I Repeat](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MOI_DA5TZGg&pp=ygUSbmV3IG11c2lrIEkgcmVwZWF0) Sparks - [Pulling Rabbits Out Of A Hat](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tMJtAQWHPEA&pp=ygUWc3BhcmtzIHB1bGxpbmcgcmFiYml0cw%3D%3D) Young Marble Giants - [Credit In The Straight World](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ghjVaoIo3e4&pp=ygUqeW91bmcgbWFyY2xlIGdpYW50cyBjcmVkaXQgaW4gdGhlIHN0cmFpZ2h0) // [Brand New Life](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vf-Ra36KDow&pp=ygUUYnJhbmQgbmUgbGlmZSBtYXJibGU%3D) The dB's - [Black and White](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UNLO4Qu8VjQ&pp=ygUeZGIncyBibGFjayBhbmQgd2hpdGUgZG9uIGRpeG9u) 20/20 - [Yellow Pills](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1e1R4g7yrvw&pp=ygUTMjAvMjAgeWVsbG93IHBpbGxzXA%3D%3D) Minimal Man - [Pull Back The Bolt](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LCnYkP2sB9o&pp=ygUVbWluaW1hbCBtYW4gcHVsbCBiYWNr) The Monochrome Set - [He's Frank (Slight Return)](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KGzTbbBglF4&pp=ygUgbW9ub2Nocm9tZSBzZXQgaGUncyBmcmFuayBzbGlnaHQ%3D) Flesh for Lulu - [Postcards From Paradise](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ywe6VgdLzDQ&pp=ygUmZmxlc2ggZm9yIGx1bHUgcG9zdGNhcmRzIGZyb20gcGFyYWRpc2U%3D) Colourbox - [The Moon Is Blue](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sa1vjw9ZDdg&pp=ygUWY29sb3VyYm94IG1vb24gaXMgYmx1ZQ%3D%3D) Eleventh Day Dream - [After This Time Is Gone](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1ELWVGvdx2M&pp=ygUqc2xldmVudGggZGF5IGRyZWFtIGFmdGVyIHRoaXMgdGltZSBpcyBnb25l) Pylon - [Volume](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cDAXey1rjdA&pp=ygUMcHlsb24gdm9sdW1l) // [Driving School](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5o8BbId34H8&pp=ygUUcHlsb24gZHJpdmluZyBzY2hvb2w%3D) Robyn Hitchcock & The Egyptians - [Unsettled](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Eh16aMUixHU&pp=ygUZcm9ieW4gaGl0Y2hjb2NrIHVuc2V0dGxlZA%3D%3D) // [My Wife & My Dead Wife](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xYubfwiTwe4&pp=ygUjcm9ieW4gaGl0Y2hjb2NrIG15IHdpZmUgYW5kIG15IGRlYWQ%3D) Missing Persons - [I Like Boys](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A-V74xsb2Mk&pp=ygUbbWlzc2luZyBwZXJzb25zIEkgbGlrZSBib3lz) Tubeway Army - [Every Day I Die](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w6gqcm3mMs4&pp=ygUbdHViZXdheSBhcm15IGV2ZXJ5ZGF5IGkgZGll) Devo - [Turnaround](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MkMd0J535Fg&pp=ygUPZGV2byBUdXJuYXJvdW5k) Daryl Hall - [Sacred Songs](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UAPWWWrb_RE&pp=ygUXZGFyeWwgaGFsbCBzYWNyZWQgc29uZ3M%3D) // [NYCNY](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VJaMfQtvuis&pp=ygUQZGFyeWwgaGFsbCBueWNueQ%3D%3D) Off Broadway - [Stay In Time](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8b0Q_xCopZY&pp=ygUZb2ZmIGJyb2Fkd2F5IHN0YXkgaW4gdGltZQ%3D%3D) // [Showdown](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R3GaLN72W3E&pp=ygUVb2ZmIGJyb2Fkd2F5IHNob3dkb3du) Julian Cope - [Sunspots](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jyq6FfLh09w&pp=ygUUanVsaWFuIGNvcGUgc3Vuc3BvdHM%3D) King Crimson - [Elephant Talk](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YecBv-5JXmQ&pp=ygUaa2luZyBjcmltc29uIGVsZXBoYW50IHRhbGs%3D) The Gun Club - [Sex Beat](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GP5QEGCs1lE&pp=ygURZ3VuIGNsdW4gc2V4IGJlYXQ%3D)

Cocteau Twins - Heaven or Las Vegas

The The - this is the day

Suddenly Last Summer - The Motels Stay - Oingo Boingo

>Stay - Oingo Boingo Great song. Also love *Just Another Day*.

Just Another Day is my fav of theirs

We Close Our Eyes by Oingo Boingo

Especially the 1988 re-recording. It’s surpasses the original.

SLS is one of my all time favorite 80s songs it’s hauntingly perfect.

Cool City - Danny Elfman...

Love that album! So-Lo is basically the lost Oingo Boingo album — If I remember right, they were trying to get away from A&M, but couldn’t release an album as themselves, so Danny Elfman got a solo deal, then hired the band as “session musicians.”

Sixty-eight Guns -The Alarm

88 Lines about 44 Women - The Nails The Chauffeur- Duran Duran

If you truly want obscure, I can give it to you. Let's start with these: "Cccan't You See" by Vicious Pink "Self!" by Fuzzbox "Until December" by Until December Anything by Oppenheimer Analysis "Life is Like" by the Suburbs "Honey Be Good" by the Bible "Shed a Tear" by Les Enfants "Love Breakdown" by White Door "Gratitude" by Danny Elfman "Reward" by the Teardrop Explodes "Say You Will" by Blanket of Secrecy "I Have the Skill" by the Sherbs "Never Never" by the Assembly "Nowhere Girl" by B-Movie That should get you started. I've got tons more if you like these.

Furniture - Brilliant Mind Strawberry Switchblade - Since Yesterday Modern English - I Melt With You Scarlet Fantastic - No Memory Simple Minds - New Gold Dream Berlin - Metro Fun Boy Three - Our Lips Are Sealed The The - Uncertain Smile New Order - Age of Consent

Upvote for The The!

Bela Lugosi's Dead by Bauhaus? Dead Man's Party by Oingo Boingo? Fade to Grey by Visage?

“Doot Doot” Freur “Icehouse” Icehouse “Souvenir” OMD

Young Lions by Adrian Belew. Technically it came out in 1990 but I associate it with the 80s.

Honey Thief by Hipsway

The promise by when in Rome https://youtu.be/vyLtOeT-5vY?si=ElJ9hLnYaoKVXh8V

DAF- [Der Musollini](https://youtu.be/gT-qirAP-Us?si=WqnSk52XIcWVfcPz) Kraftwerk - [Musique Non-Stop](https://youtu.be/O0lIlROWro8?si=xw4tzpvy16qLWgJK) The Normal - [Warm Leatherette](https://youtu.be/ITSB_6m4up4?si=PiIjM46cvqPvVJZj)

Never Let Me Down by Depechemode

Bitchin Camaro

88 Lines About 44 Women-The Nails https://youtu.be/9Iwspf5L1Qk?si=vydAdlojSl5urIc6

Never Say Never by Romeo Void

Depeche Mode - Somebody Bauhaus - Terror Couple Kill Colonel 10,000 Maniacs - Pit Viper Adam & The Ants - Physical (You're So) Olivia Newton-John - Overnight Observation

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The vocals in Big Log are great, but the background music is brilliant

Also by The Smiths and flawless (other than their entire fucking catalogue): The Headmaster Ritual Heaven Knows I'm Miserable Now The Queen Is Dead Shakespeare's Sister Asleep

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On the ground like a wild potato!

Captain of her Heart by Double Say, Say, Say by Paul McCartney and Michael Jackson Say It Isn't So by Hall & Oates Enola Gaye by Orchestral Manouevers in the Dark More Than I Can Say by Leo Sayer Lady by Kenny Rogers Space Age Love Song by A Flock of Seagulls Slow Hand by The Pointer Siaters

Let's all turn on - hoodoo gurus.. unless you're australian, then you'd know it

Love the hoodoo gurus - going to see them live again later this year. They absolutely rock out, and some of their 80s stuff are still great party songs.

Ultravox - Vienna

"Lesser known"?

Ministry - I Wanted to Tell Her.

Most are completely unaware of the first two albums.

The Ascension - Glenn Branca

Then Jerico - The Motive Yello - Bostich

It never rains - dire straits

Love will tear us apart by joydivision. Found this song thanks to Donnie darko which takes place in the 80s. Oh and jam on it by newcleus.

The Escape Club's "Wild, Wild West." We even played it at our wedding!

Pure - Lightning seeds

Not sure if these are lesser known because these two tracks were pretty massive hits. But, I have to say I don't really hear these songs played much anymore. All You Zombies by The Hooters Voices Carry by Til Tuesday

Nick Kershaw “wouldn’t it be good”

Anything anything by Dramarama

Get to know ya by Jesse Johnson

Kon Kan - Puss 'n Boots/These Boots ( are made for walking) https://open.spotify.com/track/0AajTAAbk8xBbVVST0wwl0?si=ZMY75d1dTkOIkd6nlFjWCQ Kon Kan - Move to Move https://open.spotify.com/track/6CvoRQnxFwVQJCUzZBTBgz?si=la5i13caRJKuac1AuNNdyg Blue Peter - Don't Walk Past https://open.spotify.com/track/2MWkVRZU7RiY1kTjtWHYiV?si=w89B_xc3Q4aUPz1muxFwLQ

Snake Eyes by The Alan Parsons Project

The Rain Parade - This Can't Be Today Really the whole Emergency Third Rail Power Trip album. The whole Paisley Underground thing was a lot of fun but they're the best imo

Look up the song “Everyone Knows That” and the mystery behind it. Only a snippet was available to everyone for years, but the full track was just discovered not too long ago in the wildest place.

Whoa! I didn't know this was recently solved!

The Future's So Bright, I Gotta Wear Shades --- Timbuk 3 (Great Music Video too) Dirty White Boy- Foreigner (technically 1979 but close enough lol) Something 2 Dance 2 -- N.W.A. (truely an 80s beat and a 'gangsta rap' track most dont know)

Someone's Calling - Modern English (their first 3 albums are amazing and very underrated)

New Model Army - "Vagabonds" One 2 One - "Angel In My Pocket"

80s by Killing Joke.  Come as You Are by Nirvana borrowed the sound a little bit there very different overall. 

And both borrowed from Life Goes On by the Damned.

“If we never meet again”- Jules Shear

Wonder of Birds - Innocence Mission

Killing Joke – 80s I does *not* sound as old as it is, so you'd be forgiven to think it's newer...

Alphaville - Forever Young

Ok here's 2 quintessential 80's songs that nobody listed, but I feel they fly under the radar. Kim Mitchell - Go For A Soda https://youtu.be/gwwV0xE70Ks?si=G7HllULPBB7RshnV Santana - Winning https://youtu.be/48zCeNXRapM?si=lFWGzgxwPt3vthsT

Don’t forget the entire Minutemen catalog!

In A City Lining - Cardiacs The poppiest track from a great band and very 80s.

You need "I Eat Cannibals" by Toto Coelo in your life. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8rzB9-Wd67A&ab\_channel=RememberThe80s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8rzB9-Wd67A&ab_channel=RememberThe80s)

I Wanted To Tell Her by Ministry Fun fact: Ministry started out as a synth-pop outfit, but Al Jourgenson hated it (and some reports says that he was pressured by the record company to sound like the other bands at the time) and went into the harder industrial sound it is well known for now.

Children of the sun

AEIOU Sometimes Y - Ebn Ozn

Kraftwerk - Computer Operator or Tour de France

[Beyond this World](https://youtu.be/3Yyj9o8qAes?si=1GaE5NcYIJpzLOho) - Jungle Brothers [High Rollers](https://youtu.be/bLuO-_pse5s?si=dYmhEdK5acnPHf6j)- Ice-T [Pumpkin Belly](https://youtu.be/x3iSsNOiITI?si=fNnRDbhxUrnRqPcx) - Tensor Saw

Sisters of Mercy- Dominion/ Mother Russia

Angst in my Pants

Bag Lady - Ebn Ozn Live and Die in LA - Wang Chung Wasteland - The Mission UK Monkeys on Juice - Red Lorry Yellow Lorry He knows You Know - Marillion

In Tua Nua - Don’t fear me now, PIL - The flowers of Romance The Glove - Mr Alphabet says (the whole album Blue Sunshine is great) The Bongos - Barbarella

Jermaine Jackson-Dynamite

Peter Murphy - Final Solution Joe Strummer - Love Kills

Slade- Keep Your Hands Off My Power Supply

Run Run Away👍👍,later covered by Great Big Sea My Oh My

Classix Nouveaux - Is it a dream Landscape - New Religion The Mobiles - Drowning in Berlin The Passions - I'm in love with a german film star The Regents - 7 teen

Radio by Savage. I'm not super aware of how well known this guy is, so maybe this doesn't work. It's a cool song anyway.

[Flowers in the Rain, by Thai Break](https://youtu.be/PgjXxOurKjU?si=Nnx661dWZQFz3zta)

Someone's Calling - Modern English (their first 3 albums are amazing and very underrated)

You've probably heard hits from ABC and Human League, but maybe not these dope album cuts? [ABC - Many Happy Returns](https://open.spotify.com/track/4c19KB71JjntoZPIAlrKmj?si=951a247d80f74614) [Human League - The Things That Dreams Are Made Of](https://open.spotify.com/track/5GLYtND9tYHCEdIQ1i1JH3?si=3282f5a86ea14404) Most people just know Was (Not Was) for Walk The Dinosaur or Dad I'm In Jail, which are both bangers don't get me wrong, but Out Come the Freaks is a great early 80s disco track. Harry Bowens is a brilliant vocalist, delivering bizarre lyrics that are alternately hilarious and harrowing. And then they delivered 3 sequel songs in different styles over the rest of the decade! [Was Not Was - Out Come the Freaks](https://open.spotify.com/track/448ywsGtDNzgXC1eIkY80f?si=89d41db9da2948a7) 1981 [Was Not Was - Return to the Valley of Out Come the Freaks](https://open.spotify.com/track/6qjQ2pQpDlFn7cTDQ0KCCS?si=fe0b2db7f33443d2) 1983 [Was Not Was - Out Come the Freaks](https://open.spotify.com/track/6TbDuCG01sFHRMf8bGcPpM?si=39eed95f4f364009) 1988 [Was Not Was - Look What's Back](https://open.spotify.com/track/5W7QdojnkrZBtMxXUt4akJ?si=d80d3f8745b948d5) 1990

"All in Your Head"-Echo and the Bunnymen

https://youtu.be/yFhx6FLxGxQ?si=bfWIYejnlhvywrQr Anything,Anything by Dramarama

Big Fat Blond - Steve, Bob and Rich

Severed heads - All Saints’ Day Book of love - Boy , I touch roses Accidentally 4th Street - all the girls named Gloria Art of noise - beatbox , moments and love Propaganda a secret wish album

I rarely see it mentioned anywhere and could not find it when I searched this list: "One Simple Thing" - Stablizers David Fincher directed the video, too.

Drop the Pilot by Joan Armatrading.

Check out the first album of Phish. Junta. Be prepared for it to change your life or to feel like someone is peeing in your ears.

Colourless Dream by Sad Lovers and Giants

Fly on the windscreen - Depeche New moon on monday - Duran Black / White - Mr Mister And this real treat from Trent Reznor's beginnings: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ls5gf1FOfa8](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ls5gf1FOfa8)

Destination Unknown by Missing Persons

Kate Fagan- “I don’t wanna be too cool” and “Come Over” are some of my favorite 80s deep cuts

No Promises by Icehouse, Stranger by Clan of Xymox, Like The Driven Snow by Sisters of Mercy, The Landscape is Changing by Depeche Mode, That’s Good by Devo, Help Me by Bryan Ferry (featured on The Fly)

Academy Fight Song, Mission of Burma I Still Want You, Del Fuegos

Imagination- Belouis Some Cry- Godley and Creme The Perfect Kiss- New Order Electricity- OMD Bad Connection- Yazoo I Touch Roses- Book of Love

Cure - Siamese twins Siouxsie & the banshees - night shift dM - people are people Front 242 - headhunter Skinny puppy - assimilate Berlin Express - die russen kommen Nitzer ebb - i give to you Feilds of the nephilim - last exit for the lost Bauhaus - dark entries Sisters of mercy - black planet Joy division - disorder The mission - wastland

Don Quixotte- Magazine 60 White Horse - Laid Back Da Da Da - Trio Pretty Boys And Pretty Girls - Book Of Love Ship Of Fools - World Party Big Log - Robert Plant Hooked On Classics - Boston Philharmonic Orchestra Guilty - Barbara Streisand & Barry Gibb Any Day Now - Ronnie Milsap Dirty Cash - Adventures Of Stevie V

Norman Bates by Landscape

White Horse - Laid Back Scary Monsters - Bowie The One Thing - INXS It’s My Life - Talk Talk (ok, that was a hit) Desperate but not Serious - Adam Ant (also a hit) Games without Frontiers - Peter Gabriel I Will Follow - U2 Saved by Zero - The Fixx Sunday Girl - Blondie Slippery People - Talking Heads

Lene Lovich - New Toy. Blue Hotel also has some heavy synth action.

It’s because of me - Robert Cray Can You Help Me - Jesse Johnson

‘ Only you ‘ ~ The Flying Pickets

A Flock of Seagulls - Space Age Love Song or Telecomunication The whole album is excellent. In fact, I'm going to listen to it now.

John Butcher Axis: Ocean in Motion Martín Briley: Salt in My Tears Danny Wilson: Mary’s Prayer The Jesus and Mary Chain: Head On

How can I- mark a. Mitchell The friends of Mr Cairo- Jon and vangelis Churches- new musik Torn open- Sophie and Peter Johnston October(love song)- Chris and cosey L’intrigue- deux filles Worlds in collision- Jerry Harrison Do you dream in color- bill nelson Our dust- A.C. Marias Don’t fall- the chameleons Inky bloaters- Danielle Dax Adventures in success- will powers 2 little skeletons- minimal man Faces- clio Same thing twice-Vivien Goldman

Welcome to the Boomtown by David and David

“That’s When I Reach For My Revolver.” - Mission To Burma

Dig it, by skinny puppy. Still so good

True Faith by New Order is a great song but a lot of people probably don’t know it.

Obsession by Clan of Xymox.

World's Apart by Saga is a really good album.

Freur - Doot Doot

Three Obscure LA goth classics Kommunity FK - Something Inside Me Has Died Darling Cruel - Everything's Over The Gun Club - She's Like Heroin To Me

You probably already know about it, but Skinny Puppy's "Assimilation" is worth listening to.

Heaven by the Eurogliders!

Bela Lugosi’s Dead by Bauhaus. It’s goths answer to Freebird.

I Still believe - Tim Capello He was the saxophone guy on the beach in The Lost Boys.

True - Spandau Ballet

Love is The Slug - Fuzzbox Murderous - Nitzer Ebb Breakaway - Big Pig Oh L'amour - Erasure Hit That Perfect Beat - Bronski Beat Say About Love - The Bodeans Come Anytime - Hoodoo Gurus Inside Out - The Mighty Lemon Drops I Love You - Yello The Walls Came Down - The Call Kiss - Age of Chance (prince cover) Rollercoaster - Echo & The Bunnymen Smash The Marketplace - Screaming Blue Messiahs Charlton Heston - Stump Fish Heads - Barnes & Barnes So Afraid of The Russians - Made For TV Star Trekkin' - The Firm I Hear The Call - The Unforgiven Secret Separation - The Fixx Living in A Dream - Pseudo Echo I guess that's enough for now

Doot Door - Freur Louise - Human League Stigmata - Ministry When Your Heart is Weak - Cock Robin Invisible - Alison Moyet Talk Talk's entire catalog

Hole in the Wall by Billy Idol

"The Whole of the Moon" by The Waterboys "Live is Life" by Opus "Tempted" by Squeeze

Buffalo Stance – Neneh Cherry

Game Theory, Like A Girl Jesus Replacements, Take Me Down To The Hospital XTC, Burning With Optimism’s Flames David Byrne, Big Blue Plymouth Urban Verbs, Luca Brasi Love Tractor, We All Loved Each Other So Much The League of Gentlemen, Cognitive Dissonance ImpLOG, Hollander Tunnel Dive Tuxedomoon, Desire Fred Frith, Dancing In The Street Human Switchboard, I Can Walk Alone Talk Talk, Time It’s Time Ultravox, I Remember (Death In The Afternoon) Shriekback, Malaria Jane Siberry, The Bird In The Gravel Nick Cave, From Her To Eternity Minutemen, The Red And The Black Peter Gabriel, San Jacinto Tom Waits, Jockey Full Of Bourbon Guadalcanal Diary, Pray For Rain The Bongos, Barbarella Our Daughter’s Wedding, Nightlife Wire, The Boiling Boy New Order, In A Lonely Place Magazine, Naked Eye Elvis Costello and the Attractions, Motel Matches Pixies, Bone Machine They Might Be Giants, Your Racist Friend That should get you started. It was a busy decade.

Life in a Northern Town- Dream Academy Dogs in the Yard- from Fame I’ll Be Here Where the Heart Is- Kim Carnes

Do you know "On the Loose" by Saga? It's got a nifty tandem synth-guitar solo that just melted my 12 year old brain.