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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

THE CHURCH "Volumes" from Remote Luxury 1984 CLEANERS FROM VENUS "Julie Profumo" from Going to England 1987 SPOONS "Arias & Symphonies" from Arias & Symphonies 1982 THE BUGGLES "Clean, Clean" from The Age of Plastic 1999 PETER SCHILLING "Lone Survivor" from Things To Come 1985 A FLOCK OF SEAGULLS "The Traveller" from Listen 1983 MODERN ENGLISH "Breaking Away" from Stop Start 1986 WIRE TRAIN "Everything Is Turning Up Down Again" from In a Chamber 1983 SIOUXSIE & THE BANSHEES "Partys Fall" from Tinderbox 1986 SNAKE CORPS "Victory Parade" from Single 1986 CLAN OF XYMOX "Agonised By Love" from Medusa 1986 VISAGE "The Damned Don't Cry" from Single 1982 PAUL HARDCASTLE "Nineteen" from Single 1985 AFTER THIS "Fields" from 7" single 1986 O.M.D. "Radio Waves" from Dazzle Ships 1983 THE TOURISTS "All Life's Tragedies" from Reality Effect 1979 COWBOY MOUTH "Long Hot Ride" from Cowboys and Indians 1986 THE RAVE-UPS "Right Now" from Class Tramp EP 1983 SWIMMING POOL Qs "The Bells Ring" from Swimming Pool Qs 1984 THE DB'S "Dynamite" from Stands for Decibels 1981 LOVE TRACTOR "Chilly Damn Willy" from Love Tractor 1982 THE PRIMITONS "Happy All the Time" from Don't Go Away: Collected Works 1987 THE FURLONGS "Bed She Made" from 2300 Ward 1988 GAME THEORY "Shark Pretty" from Distortion - EP 1984 THE THREE O'CLOCK "Stupid Einstein" from Sixteen Tambourines 1983 SPLIT ENZ "Missing Person" from True Colours 1980 XTC "No Thugs in Our House" from English Settlement 1982

OINGO BOINGO – Who Do You Want To Be? (Good For Your Soul) 1983 B-52’s – Part Out of Bounds (Wild Planet) 1980 DEVO – Theme From Dr. Detroit (12” single) 1983 THE WAITRESSES – I Know What Boys Like (Best Of) 1981 ALTERED IMAGES – Don’t Talk to Me About Love (Bite) 1983 THE PAYOLA$ - Eyes of a Stranger (No Stranger to Danger) 1982 GLEAMING SPIRES – Are You Ready for the Sex Girl? (single) 1983 SPARKS – Tips For Teens (Whomp That Sucker) 1981 THE STRANGLERS – Two Sunspots (Meninblack) 1981 THE NAILS – Things You Left Behind (Dangerous Dreams) 1986 WALL OF VOODOO – Far Side of Crazy (Seven Days in Sammystown) 1985 SCREAMING BLUE MESSIAHS – I Wanna Be a Flintstone (Bikini Red) 1987 CAPTAIN SENSIBLE – Wot (A Day in the Life Of…) 1984 *request* MADNESS – Baggy Trousers (Absolutely) 1980 *request* THE CRAMPS – Can Your P***y Do The Dog (10” single) 1985 *request* LENE LOVICH – Lucky Number (single) 1980 ENGLISH BEAT – Two Swords (I Just can’t Stop It) 1980 ROCKPILE – Teacher Teacher (s/t) 1980 SIMPLE MINDS – I Travel (Empires & Dance) 1981 O.M.D. – Radio Waves (Dazzle Ships) 1983 ROBERT HAZARD – Escalator of Life (single) 1983 OUR DAUGHTERS WEDDING – Auto Music (s/t) 1982 LAVVI EBBEL – Much Ado About Nothing (7” single) 1982 PROPAGANDA – The Chase (A Secret Wish) 1985 COWBOY MOUTH – Long Hot Ride (Cowboys & Indians) 1986 LET’S ACTIVE – Waters Part (Cypress) 1984 SQUEEZE – If I Didn’t Love You (Argybargy) 1980 THE PROOF – That’s That (s/t) 1980 REPLACEMENTS – Kids Don’t Follow (Stink EP) 1982 JET BLACK BERRIES – Fatherly Advice (Desperate Fires) 1985

THE CHAMELEONS – Nostalgia (What Does Anything…) 1985 THE DAMNED – In Dulce Decorum (Anything) 1986 GENE LOVES JEZEBEL – Desire (Discover) 1986 EASTERHOUSE – To Live Like This (Contenders) 1986 ICICLE WORKS – Love is a Wonderful Colour (single) 1983 THE LUCY SHOW – A Million Things (Mania) 1986 BIG COUNTRY – Angle Park (Wonderland) 1984 ULTRAVOX – Dancing With Tears in My Eyes (Lament) 1984 BLANCMANGE – Living on the Ceiling (Happy Families) 1982 HEAVEN 17 – Play to Win (Penthouse & Pavement) 1982 GANG OF FOUR – Call Me Up (Songs of the Free) 1982 SCREAMING BLUE MESSIAHS – Holiday Head (Gun Shy) 1986 THE GODFATHERS – She Gives Me Love (single) 1989 MIDNIGHT OIL – U.S. Forces (10-1) 1982 DRAMARAMA – Wonderamaland (Stuck In Wonderamaland) 1989 THE SMITHEREENS – Green Thoughts (Green Thoughts) 1988 WIRE TRAIN – I Forget it All (In a Chamber) 1983 THE THREE O’CLOCK – Jetfighter (16 Tambourines) 1983 GAME THEORY – Room For One More, Honey (Two Steps From the Middle Ages) 1988 VOICE OF THE BEEHIVE – I Say Nothing (Let it Bee) 1988 THE SUGARCUBES – Motorcrash (Life’s Too Good) 1988 MIGHTY LEMON DROPS – Inside Out (World Without End) 1988 THE PRIMITIVES – I’ll Stick With You (Lovely) 1988 THE FLATMATES – I Could Be in Heaven (7” single) 1986 THE WONDERSTUFF – Unbearable (Eight Legged Groove Machine) 1988 MONSOON – Tomorrow Never Knows (Third Eye) 1983 PALE SAINTS – Sight of You (Barging into the Presence of God) 1989 RAILWAY CHILDREN – Over and Over (Recurrence) 1988 THE BLUEBELLS – Cath (Sisters) 1984

FAD GADGET - Ricky's Hand (single) 1980 GARY NUMAN - Warriors (Warriors) 1983 MARY GOES ROUND - The Promised Land (Sunset) 1989 GHOST DANCE - When I Call (Word to the Wise EP) 1987 GENE LOVES JEZEBEL - The Cow (single) 1986 CHAMELEONS UK - One Flesh (What Does Anything...) 1985 WIRE - Ahead (The Ideal Copy) 1987 TELEX - Exercise is Good For You (Sex) 1981 DEPECHE MODE - In Your Memory (People Are People b-side) 1984 HUMAN LEAGUE - The Lebanon (Hysteria) 1984 SPANDAU BALLET - Instinction (single) 1982 PINK INDUSTRY - Pain Of Pride (New Beginnings) 1985 REAL LIFE - No Shame (Flame) 1985 D'ARC - The Letter (single) 1982 THE STRANGLERS - Skin Deep (Aural Sculpture) 1985 *request* I.Q. - Universe In Time (s/t) 1983 ULTRAVOX - All Stood Still (single) 1981 UPS & DOWNS - Out of the Darkness (single) 1986 CORN DOLLIES - Map of the World (Wrecked) 1989 CLOSE LOBSTERS - Just Too Bloody Stupid (Foxheads Stalk This Land) 1987 THE BRILLIANT CORNERS - Why Do You Have to Be...(single) 1988 AN EMOTIONAL FISH - Celebrate (single) 1989 THE PIXIES - Debaser (Doolittle) 1989 BUFFALO TOM - Sunflower Suit (s/t) 1989 JESUS & MARY CHAIN - Kill Surf City (Barbed Wire Kisses) 1988 SONIC YOUTH - Teenage Riot (Daydream Nation) 1988 DIE KREUZEN - Slow (Century Days) 1988 MEAT PUPPETS - She's Hot (Out My Way) 1986 BUTTHOLE SURFERS - Sea Ferring (Rembrandt Pussyhorse) 1986

THE REPLACEMENTS – I.O.U. (Pleased to Meet Me) 1987 SOUL ASYLUM – Tied to the Tracks (Made to be Broken) 1986 THE MICE – Not Proud of the USA (For Almost Ever EP) 1985 HUSKER DU – Pink Turns to Blue (Zen Arcade) 1983 THE NEIGHBORHOODS – Real Stories (The High Hard One) 1986 DUMPTRUCK – Wire (For The Country) UNGLE GREEN – He’s The Man (You) 1989 DRIVIN N CRYIN – House For Sale (Mystery Road) 1989 R.E.M. – Ages of You (Dead Letter Office) 1987 THE BEAT FARMERS – Bigger Stones (Tales of the New West) 1985 JASON & THE SCORCHERS – Absolutely Sweet Marie (Fervor) 1983 THE PRIMITONS – Don’t Go Away (Don’t Go Away) 1987 FLYING COLOR – Dear Friend (s/t) 1987 DREAMS SO REAL – Everywhere Girl (single) 1985 DREAM SYNDICATE – Out of the Grey (Out of the Grey) 1986 LETS ACTIVE – In Little Ways (Big Plans for Everybody) 1986 GUADALCANAL DIARY – Winds of Change (2x4) 1987 MARHSAL FIELDS – Come a Little Closer (s/t) 1986 FLESH FOR LULU – Sooner or Later (Long Live the New Flesh) 1987 THE WILD FLOWERS – Things Have Changed (Joy of it All) 1984 COCTEAU TWINS – Lorelei (Treasure) 1984 RAILWAY CHILDREN – Listen On (Reunion Wilderness) 1987 THE SMITHS – Boy With a Thorn in His Side (The Queen is Dead) 1986 THE PARACHUTE MEN – Goodbye (The Innocents) 1988 THE BAMBI SLAM – Happy Birthday (single) 1987 MIGHTY LEMON DROPS – My Biggest Thrill (Happy Head) 1987 THE FIELD MICE – Sensitive (single) 1989 STONE ROSES – She Bangs the Drums (s/t) 1989 NEW ORDER – All Day Long (Brotherhood) 1986 THE CHAMELEONS – Singing Rule Britannia (single) 1985 THE CURE – Fascination Street (Disintegration) 1989