The most thoughtful retro recyclers turn temporal distance into aesthetic achievement. Back! 4) Sacrifyx from The Gate (1987)Though the members of the band are all deceased and you never see them perform on screen, they DO orchestrate the subterranean takeover of the Earth from beyond, which is pretty hard work.
No indie chart of the mid-80s was complete without a track from left-wing Leeds icons The Three Johns. You might not be hugely familiar with the Wolverhampton grebo-psychers, but you’ll have indelible memories of lead singer Jas Mann who left in the early 90s to pull stupid acid casualty faces as Babylon Zoo. A former Blitz kid and member of Theatre Of Hate, Kirk Brandon found his own vehicle in Spear Of Destiny but he never quite got to grips with the pop thing. Yes, you read that right – Robert Smith of the Cure covering John Martyn’s majestic ambi-pop opus (on this tribute album). French pop in the 1980s wasn’t all Johnny Hallyday and inexplicably long stays at the top of the charts for Supertramp. And if Hornsby is getting re-evaluated, there is surely no corner of the 80s that is off limits. Popular Quizzes Today. Rob Smith and Ray Mighty are rarely mentioned catalysts of the Bristol trip-hop scene that wormed its tendrils everywhere in the 90s. They called out South African “bastards” and Russian despots to the sound of sweet rhythm ‘n’ blues, and ended up brilliantly wasting thousands of Virgin Records pounds. If anyone’s thinking about industrial funk crew 23 Skidoo these days, it’s because their ‘Coup’ was sampled by The Chemical Brothers for 1997 No.1 ‘Block Rockin’ Beats’. Spinal Tap, one of England's loudest bands, is chronicled by film director Marty DiBergi on what proves to be a fateful tour. Jive Bunny next? Readers of a certain age may find titles like ‘Let The Beat Hit ‘Em’ and ‘I Wonder If I Take You Home’ ring a bell, because 80s hipsters managed to nudge this freestyle/hip-hop amalgam of a band into the charts. 2) Sammi Curr from Trick or Treat (1986)Backwards masking: the danger is REAL. Paisley shamblers Close Lobsters never quite threatened a-ha’s mid-80s chart hegemony, but their crisp psychedelia found common ground with other Byrdsian acolytes of the age and there was enough residual affection for the band to justify a reunion 25 years on.
No, there was room too for crazy baroque rockers Les Negresses Vertes, one of the few Gallic exports at the time to make any kind of impact over here. It will be interesting to see how ‘that difficult second album’ sounds now that synthperv Ally Young has left the band. Never was a remix so aptly named. “We feel we’re totally happening just now,” guitarist Gareth Sager told NME in 1982. Singer Ian Masters left in 1993, ringing the death knell for the band.
The whole album (Bloom) is similar and well worth checking out. ‘But you didn’t have to CUUUT me off…’ That soaraway Stinglike vocal on ‘Somebody that I used to know’ made it clear that we were in the presence of a master of the 80s. But while this pulse-pounding cinematic warhead languished in obscurity for decades without a proper release, there were plenty of mythical megagroups to actually debut during the '80s. Jon Langford, John Hyatt and Phillip “John” (you guessed it) Brennan were “probably the best band in the world right now” according to, um, them.
Music press and John Peel Festive 50 mainstays in the mid-80s, Japanese duo The Frank Chickens (Kazuko Hohki and Kazumi Taguchi) actually had some sort of mainstream breakthrough at the end of the decade when they hosted short-lived karaoke show Kazuko’s Karaoke Klub on Channel 4. Dolly Mixture. The indie-goths never quite made it (best known song ‘Sweetest Thing’ made No.75) but they’ve carried on, now split into two versions, each led by a twin. Discs in 1987, they went for chirpy, post-Housemartins indie-pop and resolutely failed to match their forebears’ success. Endure the extended opening solo. Give your well-worn copy of Now 5 a rest and check this lot out. Easily the best track for running I’ve ever heard. Written by Zack Carlson, author of DESTROY ALL MOVIES: The Complete Guide To Punks On Film, The '80s marked a major cultural shift towards a wider appreciation of the finer things, like breakfast cereal, ninjas, VHS, and Mr. T. We stood in the first rays of an MTV-tinted dawn and absorbed all the action and electricity that the entertainment industry could crank out. We’ve Got A Fuzzbox And We’re Gonna Use It!!.
Impassioned Scots rockers Goodbye Mr. Mackenzie are “famous” for two things: minor hit ‘The Rattler’ that sounds so much bigger than it ever was, and being the launchpad for Garbage singer Shirley Manson. Kane.
Apposite and plausible. Gene Loves Jezebel. Presumably. ‘Quirk Out’ is the indie chart legend but ‘Charlton Heston’ featured the line “Charlton Heston put his vest on” which is inspired pop gold. Everyone knows Floy Joy, of course. The Pale Fountains. Will Young is a revelation, playing the ‘SA gay vocalist’ role originated by Jimmy Somerville to perfection.
Les Negresses Vertes. In the States though, they were huge.
In the blue haze of late night cable, they were as true as life itself, and a thousand times more fun, so let's take a gander at the Top 10, 10) The Hard Rock Zombies from Hard Rock Zombies (1985)A van-load of hairy-chested rock wildmen stop off in a semi-abandoned town and end up in a Nazi occult plot to reanimate the dead, 9) Solid Gold from Blood Tracks (1985)Real life Swedish glam goons Easy Action portray Solid Gold, whose snowbound music video shoot lands them in the sights of mountain-dwelling cannibals. If you picked up any of the inkies around 1986, you’d have been guaranteed to see luscious, pouting twin brothers Jay and Michael Aston staring back at you. Here’s to you, Ol’ Blue Eyeses.
Like all the Conchords’ parodies, this is clearly done with love. Debut album ‘Mlah’ flirted with the top 100 before we lost interest again. You’ll have heard of her.
Nuneaton’s finest, Eyeless In Gaza were named after an Aldous Huxley novel that was named after a John Milton line, because that’s what people did in the early 80s. Having dealt its cards, the track breaks down to a one-note coda that just doesn’t ever need to end (but does). Occupying the more experimental end of the indie spectrum, they drew on influences like Berlin-era Bowie and Kraftwerk to really nail down that slot on the John Peel Show. Chakk got together in Sheffield, pulled there by The Human League and Cabaret Voltaire, and ground themselves to dust trying to make an album for MCA. To be read in conjunction with Top 20 real 80s tracks. 23 Skidoo. Yet another 80s band that’s reappeared recently to milk those nostalgia quids, the Brummie ladies were a (vaguely) slick precursor to Riot Grrrl and enjoyed four whole top 40 hits. From the director of Russian Terminator, 8) The Clowns from Terror On Tour (1980)Teens across the nation are going wild for these AM radio rockers in Bozo wigs. If Holy Ghost! Rate 5 stars Rate 4 stars Rate 3 stars Rate 2 stars Rate 1 star . The Sound. Now they’re back! Front 242. Borland committed suicide in 1999, 11 years after the band split.
Few are out-and-out 80s pastiches, but they all (to my mind) have something of the mood or style of pop’s greatest decade about them. Can you pick the '80s band names from the fake ones? A pleasingly lo-fi piano intro gives way to a remorseless electro beat, rather like a perkier Gary Numan, topped off with Yuksek’s charmingly French-accented vocals. The Monochrome Set. Love the 80s, but feel embarrassed by your addiction to oldies stations? The Sandkings. Roman Holiday. Heavily entwined with Scots indie godfathers The Pastels, their debut single was produced by Stephen Pastel and Assistant David Keegan eventually joined his band. The Adventures. Hipsway.
To my ears, Beach House’s music falls somewhere between Cocteau Twins and Galaxie 500: indie pop to float away to. The kids of today share your tastes, and they’ve made plenty of music to match. The Men They Couldn’t Hang are still here.
He saves the best for last with this melancholy track, which sounds a bit like Bowie riffing on Godley & Creme’s ‘Cry’. Wee Papa Girl Rappers. Chakk. Retro synth pop is a tricky business, requiring the artist to tread a fine line between homage and camp. Floy Joy.
Taekwondo-themed rock band Dragon Sound from the lost-and-recently-found late '80s masterpiece Miami Connection may just be the most powerful faux rock band … That minor 1986 hit was the highpoint of a promising career. You can feel love for the 80s in every beat. Named after a 1950s TV puppet series, The Woodentops were (indeed still are) a London ramshackle rock band with a sliver of potential. Presumably there was a need for one of those. ), but this track has more surprises in store. This is so bright-white it borders on the fascistic. If your cover makes me want to bail out halfway through and listen to the original, you’ve failed. They’re back now. Another band who’ve somehow contrived to carry on in the face of nigh-on zero interest, Leicester’s Diesel Park West can still be pegged to 1989, when debut album ‘Shakespeare Alabama’ was released.
I guess what goes around comes around – or something. The arty Hornsey fourpiece have stuck around in various formations (with the odd 10-year gap) ever since, but never troubled the scorers again. Cold, industrial funk played by skinny white boys, in the mould of Manchester’s A Certain Ratio. It’s just cannon fodder,” Brandon told Melody Maker in 1984. Not to worry. Eyeless In Gaza. Hired by corporate giant DISNEYLAND to headline their biggest event on New Years Eve and vetted by our military playing Langley Air Force Base in … The whole of Twin Shadow’s debut is worth a listen – if nothing else, for its remarkable assortment of basslines. Their 1982 track ‘Pump Me Up’ that really lives on, sampled by M/A/R/R/S, Public Enemy, George Clinton, EPMD, Kurtis Blow, Squarepusher, Run-DMC, Will Smith, Vanilla Ice…, The Woodentops. Not entirely defunct yet, Tackhead’s fame was still pretty much confined to the 80s, when US rhythm kings Skip McDonald, Doug Wimbish and Keith Leblanc hooked up with London mixmaster Adrian Sherwood to create a fearsome soundsystem.
Classic Supremes single. An utterly aseptic, glittering cathedral of synthpop in the fine tradition of OMD. can add chorus-writing to their formidable production skills, their next album should be a corker. Use our generator to create random band names using our extensive database of hand-selected words. A late foray into shoegaze put the kybosh on any lingering hopes and they split in 1993. A robust collection of heartfelt Big Music that also drew heavily on The Byrds and Buffalo Springfield, it disappeared beneath the Madchester wave. Obviously. Close Lobsters. Maybe Manson has better things to do. Smith & Mighty. Sneaking in at the tail end of the decade, Leeds’ Pale Saints lit up the indie charts with 1989 EP ‘Barging Into The Presence Of God’, their fuzzy dream-pop sitting comfortably alongside fare from Cocteau Twins and A.R. The 1980s were wedged with hepcats – soul boys and jazzateers with nothing to do but flick their hair, slip on moccasins and wear trousers at half-mast. Still, ‘The Honeythief’ – a clipped slice of Scots disco funk – made the UK top 20 and, well, that’s about it. The rest of the track doesn’t disappoint, as vocalist Shannon Funchess declaims the lyric in the manner of an even grumpier Skin or Joan Armatrading. Also, French lyrics are pretty 80s (‘Games without Frontiers’, ‘Fade to Grey’ etc). Few are out-and-out 80s pastiches, but they all (to my mind) have something of the mood or style of pop’s greatest decade about them. Our tool is useful for coming up with band names for rock, punk, emo or other musical styles. “We’re trying to focus on very specific things,” singer Robert Poss told Melody Maker’s Simon Reynolds.
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