80's Underground Podcasts

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.

Who made the cut? Listen and find out...

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.

Who made the cut? ...listen and find out!

SIOUXSIE & THE BANSHEES - Dear Prudence (Hyaena) 1984

THE VEIL - Surrender (Surrender) 1984

CHAMELEONS UK - Pleasure & Pain (12" single) 1985

THE THOUGHT - Every Single Day (s/t) 1985

THE THREE JOHNS - World By Storm (World By Storm) 1986

THE DAMNED - Generals (Strawberries) 1982

XTC - Rocket From a Bottle (The Black Sea) 1980

PETE SHELLEY - Telephone Operator (XL-1) 1983

JOE JACKSON (mostly) - Right & Wrong (Big World) 1986

LORDS OF THE NEW CHURCH - Open Your Eyes (s/t) 1982

CLAN OF XYMOX - Louise (Medusa) 1986

SPANDAU BALLET - The Freeze (Singles) 1981

ECHO & THE BUNNYMEN - Villiers Terrace (Play at Home EP) 1984

RAILWAY CHILDREN - A Gentle Sound (Reunion Wilderness) 1987

THE WEDDING PRESENT - My Favourite Dress (George Best) 1987

THE SMITHS - Hand In Glove (Singles) 1984

THE SERVANTS - Meredith (single) 1985

STONE ROSES - Made of Stone (s/t) 1989

THE REPLACEMENTS - Left of the Dial (Tim) 1985

X - The Once Over Twice (Wild Gift) 1981

THE YANKS - Run (Made in the States EP) 1983

DREAM SYNDICATE - Forest for the Trees (Out of the Grey) 1986

DUMPTRUCK - Walk Into Mirrors (Positively Dumptruck) 1986

ABECEDARIANS - Dinner (Resin) 1987

TWICE A MAN - Sense (single) 1982

THE BOLSHOI - Someone's Daughter (Friends) 1986

MODELS - King of Kings (Out of Mind Out of Sight) 1985

LENE LOVICH - Bird Song (single) 1980

Another very early archive from the broadcast radio days at KSCU!

This episode features: Easterhouse, Comsat Angels, Chameleons UK, XTC, The Damned, X, Lazy Cowgirls, Red Lorry Yellow Lorry, Fad Gadget...and a whole lot more!

This one here...from August 2007 features: Psychedelic Furs, Wall of Voodoo, Hunters & Collectors, Gary Numan, Robyn Hitchcock, Let's Active, Game Theory, True West...and a whole lot more!

LOVE & ROCKETS - No New Tale To Tell (Earth.Sun.Moon) 1987

THE DAMNED - Gigolo (single) 1987

OMD - Women III (Crush) 1984

PSYCHEDELIC FURS - Goodbye (Forever Now) 1982

MODERN ENGLISH - Someone's Calling (After The Snow) 1982

COMSAT ANGELS - Island Heart (Land) 1983

ENGLISH BEAT - Sole Salvation (Special Beat Service) 1982

B-52s - Ain't It a Shame (Bouncing Off The Satellites) 1986

SPARKS - Pretending to Be Drunk (Pulling Rabbits From a Hat) 1984

DANNY ELFMAN - Gratitude (So-Lo) 1984

BIG COUNTRY - Wonderland - 12" single (1984)

RED ROCKERS - Just Like You (Schizophrenic Circus) 1984

EASTERHOUSE - Come Out Fighting (Waiting For the Redbird) 1989

CIRCUSx3 - Butcher Bitches (single) 1986

BLUE AEROPLANES - Warhol's Fifteen (Friendloverplane) 1988

THE DOWNSIDERS - My Only Reply (s/t) 1987

DOWNY MILDEW - Purple Parlor (Broomtree) 1987

THE FEELIES - Let's Go (The Good Earth) 1986

THE FIELD MICE - Sensitive (single) 1989

CORN DOLLIES - Nothing Of You (Wrecked) 1989

THE WOODENTOPS - Move Me (12" single) 1985

FIRST MAN OVER - It's Happening (s/t) 1986

CATERWAUL - A Flower & a Stone (Nature of Things) 1987

THE PIXIES - Here Comes Your Man (Doolittle) 1989

PYLON - Recent Title (Gyrate) 1980

R.E.M. - Moral Kiosk (Murmur) 1983

GRAPES OF WRATH - O Lucky Man (Treehouse) 1987

GUADALCANAL DIARY - Michael Rockefeller (Jamboree) 1986

ENGLISH BEAT - Save It For Later (Special Beat Service) 1982

BOW WOW WOW - Do You Wanna Hold Me (single) 1983

U2 - Wire (Unforgettable Fire) 1984

PSYCHEDELIC FURS - Heaven (Mirror Moves) 1984

ICICLE WORKS - Whisper to a Scream (s/t) 1984

MODERN ENGLISH - Rainbow's End (Ricochet Days) 1984 *request*

THE LUCY SHOW - A Million Things (Mania) 1986

SPLIT ENZ - One Step Ahead (Waiata) 1981

DANIELLE DAX - Big Hollow Man (Dark Adapted Edge) 1980 *request*

WALL OF VOODOO - Far Side of Crazy (Seven Days in Sammystown) 1985

HOODOO GURUS - I Want You Back (Stoneage Romeos) 1982

THE REPLACEMENTS - Alex Chilton (Pleased to Meet Me) 1987

HUSKER DU - I Don't Know For Sure (Candy Apple Grey) 1986

DEVO - Freedom of Choice (Freedom of Choice) 1980

B-52's - Wig (Bouncing Off the Satellites) 1986

THE FIXX - Are We Ourselves (Greatest Hits) 1984

OINGO BOINGO - We Close Our Eyes (single) 1987

JOE JACKSON - I'm The Man (Greatest Hits) 1979

THE PLIMSOULS - Zero Hour (s/t) 1981

INXS - Here Comes (Shabooh Shoobah) 1982

GENERAL PUBLIC - Hot You're Cool (All The Rage) 1984

GENE LOVES JEZABEL - Desire (12" single) 1986

WIRE TRAIN - Everything is Turning Up Down Again (In a Chamber) 1983

THE CHURCH - Dropping Names (Seance) 1983

ECHO & THE BUNNYMEN - Never Stop (Songs to Learn & Sing) 1984

THE SMITHS - Some Girls Are Bigger Than Others (Queen is Dead) 1986

THE HOUSEMARTINS - Anxious (London O Hull 4) 1986

THE MICE - Not Proud of the USA (For Almost Ever EP) 1985

LAZY COWGIRLS - Rock of Gibraltar (s/t) 1985

ALICE DONUT - Lydia's Black Lung (Bucketfulls of Sickness & Horror) 1989

fIREHOSE - Brave Captain (Ragin Full On) 1987