because i came across that early martin fry thing in my travels today. right before he became our next-favorite bryan ferry:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0OMio7fGtkU
so, stuff like that. and stuff like pete burns before he spun us around so much:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FQY8LOVpZ5I
― scott seward, Wednesday, 21 June 2017 18:20 (six years ago) link
i will pretty much watch/listen to anything like that. always interesting/entertaining/sometimes awesome.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pS9cdiYCjrM
― scott seward, Wednesday, 21 June 2017 18:21 (six years ago) link
idk if this is little known enough, but I dig mk 1 Thompson Twins
https://youtu.be/d7wWfoR18V4
― soref, Wednesday, 21 June 2017 18:28 (six years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wYhaBApV8GU
― sleeve, Wednesday, 21 June 2017 18:29 (six years ago) link
Fear Machine by Art Nouveau (pre Limahl Kajagoogoo)
https://youtu.be/8efCl0tCmBQ
― soref, Wednesday, 21 June 2017 18:34 (six years ago) link
Simple Minds, as were...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LAi1dnJwuXk
― Duncan Disorderly (Tom D.), Wednesday, 21 June 2017 18:37 (six years ago) link
Nik Kershaw's pre-fame funk act Fusion
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KoWKeUoco3I
― soref, Wednesday, 21 June 2017 18:41 (six years ago) link
Dieter Meier, the punk years...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Aqj7fc-XNmA
― Duncan Disorderly (Tom D.), Wednesday, 21 June 2017 18:45 (six years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=frjp7W0h4Ag
― The Anti-Climax Blues Band (Turrican), Wednesday, 21 June 2017 18:47 (six years ago) link
absolutely love the original version of Numan's "Bombers", before he'd really discovered synthshttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=INEXNs0nzgI
― frogbs, Wednesday, 21 June 2017 18:47 (six years ago) link
i was listening to an early 80's INXS vinyl comp today and it has stuff from their first two albums and single tracks and now "We Are The Vegetables" is my new favorite song. i don't really know pre-shabooh stuff at all. it's really good. better late than never.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qCoeTsXN9Gg
― scott seward, Wednesday, 21 June 2017 18:48 (six years ago) link
Strawberry Switchblade when they sounded kind of like the Marine Girls
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dqEgkxGC6-o
― soref, Wednesday, 21 June 2017 18:58 (six years ago) link
What had no idea Nightmares on Wax used to do weirdo disco
― dance cum rituals (Moka), Wednesday, 21 June 2017 19:00 (six years ago) link
Wait is Nightmares On Wax and Nightmares In Wax the same people or am I confused?
― dance cum rituals (Moka), Wednesday, 21 June 2017 19:01 (six years ago) link
^ not foolproof but Wikipedia, Allmusic and Dicogs suggesting not the same
― the article don, Wednesday, 21 June 2017 19:15 (six years ago) link
nightmares in wax turned into dead or alive. nightmares on wax was a later thing.
― scott seward, Wednesday, 21 June 2017 19:20 (six years ago) link
a few of those songs, I have on these comps I got 25 yrs ago (?), called unfortunately the 1978 Indie Scene and the 1980 Indie Scene, respectively -- most of the tracks are like these.
― sarahell, Wednesday, 21 June 2017 19:50 (six years ago) link
Discovered this a little while back, better than I thought it would be.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EVrVERNeCPE
― Camaraderie at Arms Length, Wednesday, 21 June 2017 20:01 (six years ago) link
Frantic Elevators single the best example.
― dan selzer, Wednesday, 21 June 2017 20:10 (six years ago) link
Vini Reilly in Ed Banger and the Nosebleeds.
― dan selzer, Wednesday, 21 June 2017 20:11 (six years ago) link
Dieter Bohlen before his big 120-million-selling break as Modern Talking:
Sunday - Hale Hay Louise
https://youtu.be/BloWYm1gqU4
― Siegbran, Wednesday, 21 June 2017 20:24 (six years ago) link
Roland and Curt from Tears for Fears were apparently in this band with the the guys who would go on to form Naked Eyes:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F-kZtR-G2BM
Roland and Curt also in this band:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7oUqRXz9KkA
― soref, Wednesday, 21 June 2017 20:45 (six years ago) link
Not exactly what the question was asking for, but I always loved the clips Ricky Gervais from 80's synthpop brush with fame:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZxV5b60mI_k
― enochroot, Thursday, 22 June 2017 01:18 (six years ago) link
wow, i never knew about Graduate! they could have been a thing all on their own.
― scott seward, Thursday, 22 June 2017 01:28 (six years ago) link
Midge Ure, Slik, "Requiem", 1976,
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=roY9hYL6sBA
― Duncan Disorderly (Tom D.), Thursday, 22 June 2017 09:37 (six years ago) link
Dave Stewart, Longdancer, "Too Much Too Soon", 1973,
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sVVqhdh3RWk
― Duncan Disorderly (Tom D.), Thursday, 22 June 2017 09:42 (six years ago) link
John Foxx/Ultravox, 1975
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=65XA5o1qGck
― Duncan Disorderly (Tom D.), Thursday, 22 June 2017 09:52 (six years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cp20n8Wdg9w
Before they were Daft Punk, yet after the (quite frankly) dreadful Cindy So Loud 7" which gave them their new name, this one is alright.
― Le Bateau Ivre, Thursday, 22 June 2017 10:09 (six years ago) link
Gary Numan's Bombers was mentioned upthread, there's a few other little-known gems on the compilation The Plan such as "The Monday Troop" and "Crime of Passion".
― heaven parker (anagram), Thursday, 22 June 2017 12:29 (six years ago) link
Midge Ure, Thin Lizzy 1979
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tqAh7EGFev4
― Mud... Jam... Failure... (aldo), Thursday, 22 June 2017 13:30 (six years ago) link
Not really little known, but I do love the song.
Annie Lennox/Dave Stewart, The Tourists, Blind Among The Flowers, 1979
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cPafOcZQbTc
― Mud... Jam... Failure... (aldo), Thursday, 22 June 2017 13:40 (six years ago) link
Not a little-known record, but I never knew Stephen Luscombe (later of Blancmange) played in the Portsmouth Sinfonia. He also seems to be on one of the Spontaneous Music Orchestra albums.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nDZZEfrRbdw
― めんどくさかった (Matt #2), Thursday, 22 June 2017 13:57 (six years ago) link
99% sure this is footage of Alan Wilder of Depeche Mode on keys, who was a floating member of The Korgis at this time:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PnIInWCFsC4
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L2TYc-sX64A
― Mud... Jam... Failure... (aldo), Thursday, 22 June 2017 14:18 (six years ago) link
John Linnell from They Might Be Giants played keyboards in this new wave band called the Mundanes
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KcmPPQGkDrA
― soref, Thursday, 22 June 2017 16:46 (six years ago) link
xp The Korgis themselves were pretty much Stackridge with a skinny-tie makeoverhttp://www.stackridge.net/images/bandhi1.jpg
Not sure how little-known this is but a decade before "Pop Muzik" Robin Scott was being a psych-folker, his LP has its moments
https://youtu.be/dD3ttebZMkc
― Tim, Sunday, 25 June 2017 08:31 (six years ago) link