80's Underground Podcasts

Jeff Shelton

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  • 1 hour 59 minutes
    Episode 250: 80s Underground Replay: Feb 7, 2017

    SUGARCUBES - Motorcrash (Life's Too Good) 1988

    ENGLISH BEAT - Dream Home in New Zealand (Wha'ppen) 1981

    SPLIT ENZ - Missing Person (True Colours) 1980

    XTC - Burning With Optimism's Flames (The Black Sea) 1980

    HORIZONTAL BRIAN - Playing With The Babies (Vertical) 1983 *request*

    ADAM ANT - Strip (single) 1983

    BIG COUNTRY - Harvest Home (The Crossing) 1983

    THE DAMNED - Is It a Dream (Phantasmagoria) 1985

    THE CHURCH - Dropping Names (Seance) 1983

    THE CHAMELEONS - Inside Out (Strange Times) 1986

    THE CORN DOLLIES - People Gone (Map Of The World EP) 1988

    THE HOUSEMARTINS - Sitting On a Fence (London O Hull 4) 1986

    NEW ORDER - All Day Long (Brotherhood) 1986

    PURE JOY - Turmoil (Unsung) 1988

    SKELETAL FAMILY - Streetlight (Futile Combat) 1985

    MODERN DANCE - The Victim (It's All Just To Dance) 1985

    SIOUXSIE & THE BANSHEES - Candyman (Tinderbox) 1986

    GENE LOVES JEZEBEL - Desire (12" single) 1986

    GARY NUMAN - Berzerker (Berzerker) 1984

    WORLD PARTY - All Comes True (Private Revolution) 1986

    CONCRETE BLONDE - Happy Birthday (Free) 1989

    UV PROM - Mobile Home Murder (Field Of Vision EP) 1985

    THE REDS - Laughing (Shake Appeal EP) 1984

    THE REPLACEMENTS - Black Diamond (Let It Be) 1984

    THE VANDALS - Mohawk Town (When in Rome) 1984

    THE MINUTEMEN - Viet-Nam (Double Nickels on the Dime) 1984

    ADOLESCENTS - Wrecking Crew (S/t) 1981

    LAZY COWGIRLS - Time (s/t) 1985

    THE REDUCERS - Let's Go (Let's Go) 1984

    X - Breathless (single) 1983

    HOODOO GURUS - In The Wild (Mars Needs Guitars) 1985

    5 February 2025, 2:01 am
  • 1 hour 57 minutes
    Episode 249: 80s Underground Replay: Jan 28, 2015

    THE SMITHS - How Soon Is Now (Meat Is Murder) 1985

    THE CHURCH - For a Moment We're Strangers (s/t) 1982

    FOR AGAINST - Clandestine High Holy (December) 1988

    WIRE - Ahead (The A-List-singles) 1987

    MINISTRY - Overkill (single) 1981

    NEW MODEL ARMY - White Coats (Great Expectations) 1987

    P.I.L. - Rise (Album) 1985

    GANG OF FOUR - Is It Love (single) 1983

    U2 - In God's Country (The Joshua Tree) 1987

    THE RAMONES - Too Tough to Die (Too Tough to Die) 1984 *request*

    ROSE OF AVALANCHE - Dreamland (In Rock) 1988

    CORPS DIPLOMATIQUE - Solider (This Can't Be Heaven) 1987

    ULTRAVOX - White China (Lament) 1982

    OMD - So In Love (Crush) 1985

    HUMAN LEAGUE - Open Your Heart (Dare) 1981

    OINGO BOINGO - Good For Your Soul (Good For Your Soul) 1983

    NICK LOWE - Rose of England (Rose of England) 1985

    RIVER ROSES - Through the Storm (Each and All) 1988

    R.E.M. - Sitting Still (Murmur) 1983

    LOVE TRACTOR - Sixty Degrees Below (s/t) 1982

    THE LYRES - Help You Ann (Lyres on Fire) 1984

    THE MINUTEMEN - Political Song for Michael Jackson to Sing (Double Nickels on the Dime) 1984

    HUSKER DU - Flip Your Wig (Flip Your Wig) 1985

    SOUL ASYLUM - Tied to the Tracks (Made to Be Broken) 1986

    BIG DRILL CAR - No Need (Album Type Thing) 1989

    SCRUFFY THE CAT - My Baby She's Alright (Tiny Days) 1987

    DRIVIN N' CRYIN - House For Sale (Mystery Road) 1989

    THE NEIGHBORHOODS - Real Stories (The High Hard One) 1986

    THE REPLACEMENTS - Valentine (Pleased to Meet Me) 1987

    29 January 2025, 4:14 am
  • 1 hour 58 minutes
    Episode 248: 80s Underground Replay: Tribute to 1983

    WIRE TRAIN "Everything is Turning Up Down Again" from In a Chamber  

    THE CHURCH "One Day" from Seance (Remastered)  

    NEW ORDER "Age of Consent" from Power, Corruption & Lies  

    ECHO & THE BUNNYMEN "Clay" from Porcupine  

    THE CHAMELEONS "Up the Down Escalator" from Script of the Bridge  

    LORDS OF THE NEW CHURCH "Dance With Me" from Is Nothing Sacred  

    PETE SHELLEY "Telephone Operator" from XL-1  

    KILLING JOKE "Let's All Go (To the Fire Dances)" from Fire Dances  

    COMSAT ANGELS "Island Heart" from Land  

    RE-FLEX "Something About You" from Politics of Dancing  

    THE FIXX "Running" from Reach the Beach  

    BIG COUNTRY "Fields of Fire" from The Crossing  

    U2 "Like a Song..." from War  

    RED ROCKERS "(Come On Into) My House" from Good As Gold  

    THE THREE O'CLOCK "Jetfighter" from Sixteen Tambourines  

    I.Q. "Universe in Time" from I.Q. EP  

    SPARKS "All You Ever Think About Is Sex" from In Outer Space  

    OINGO BOINGO "Pictures of You" from Good For Your Soul  

    B-52s "Whammy Kiss" from Whammy!  

    O.M.D. "Telegraph" from Dazzle Ships  

    ALTERED IMAGES "Don't Talk to me About Love" from Bite  

    BOW WOW WOW "Aphrodisiac" from Love, Peace & Harmony: The Best of Bow Wow Wow  

    THE POLECATS "Make A Circuit With Me" from The Best Of Polecats  

    ADAM ANT “Strip" from Strip  

    LET'S ACTIVE "Room With a View" from Room With a View - Single  

    R.E.M. "Sitting Still" from Murmur  

    GO BETWEENS "Cattle and Cane" from Single  

    THE SMITHEREENS "Beauty And Sadness" from Beauty And Sadness - EP

    22 January 2025, 1:50 am
  • 1 hour 57 minutes
    Episode 247: 80s Underground Replay: Jan 15, 2014

    THE DAMNED - Shadow Of Love (Phantasmagoria) 1985

    UNTIL DECEMBER - Forgive & Forget (s/t) 1986

    GENE LOVES JEZEBEL - Drowning Crazy (House of Dolls) 1987

    LORDS OF THE NEW CHURCH - Livin on Livin (s/t) 1982

    THE STRANGLERS - All Roads Lead to Rome (Feline) 1982

    KON KAN - I Beg Your Pardon (single) 1988 *request*

    NEW ORDER - Sunrise (Low Life) 1985

    FLESH FOR LULU - So Strange (s/t) 1984

    DRAMARAMA - Scenario (Cinema Verite) 1985

    THAT PETROL EMOTION - Big Decision (Babble) 1987

    WANG CHUNG - Fire in the Twilight (Breakfast Club soundtrack) 1984 *request*

    THE MEMBERS - Working Girl (s/t) 1982

    ENGLISH BEAT - Two Swords (I Just Can't Stop It) 1980

    MADNESS - Missing You/Mrs. Hutchinson (Madness 7) 1981

    CAMPER VAN BEETHOVEN - Good Guys & Bad Guys (s/t) 1986

    GALAXIE 500 - Parking Lot (Today) 1988

    YO LA TENGO - Clunk (New Wave Hot Dogs) 1987

    THE FELIES - Away (Only Life) 1988

    28th DAY - Burnsite (s/t) 1985

    THE OPPOSUMS - My Thing (Marsupial Eruptus) 1989

    LET'S ACTIVE - Easy Does (Cypress) 1984

    WIRE TRAIN - Love Against Me (In a Chamber) 1983

    PURE JOY - Standing on a Bridge (Unsung) 1988

    GRAPES OF WRATH - Stay (Now & Again) 1989

    WINTER HOURS - Hyacinth Girl (Wait Til the Morning EP) 1986

    O POSITIVE - With You (Only Breathing EP) 1985

    THE SPLIFFS - Never Say Goodbye (House of Seven) 1987

    THE REDUCERS - Let's Go (Let's Go) 1984

    16 January 2025, 4:10 am
  • 1 hour 57 minutes
    Episode 246: 80s Underground Replay: Sept 5, 2017

    SIOUXSIE & THE BANSHEES - Shooting Sun (Wheels on Fire single) 1987

    THE CURE - The Caterpillar (Singles) 1984

    CHAMELEONS UK - Up The Down Escalator (Script of the Bridge) 1983

    THE CUT - I Wish it Was Simple (Shadow Talk) 1982

    OMD - Goddess Of Love (The Pacific Age) 1986

    TALK TALK - Serious (s/t) 1982

    DEPECHE MODE - But Not Tonight (Black Celebration) 1986

    NAKED EYES - Burning Bridges (s/t)

    DANNY ELFMAN - Gratitude (So-Lo) 1984

    MIDNIGHT OIL - Power & The Passion (10-1) 1983

    INXS - Doctor (s/t)

    ENGLISH BEAT - Hands Off, She's Mine (I Just Can't Stop It) 1980

    BIG AUDIO DYNAMITE - The Bottom Line (This Is B.A.D.) 1985

    THE FIXX - Red Skies (Shuttered Room) 1982

    SHRINKING VIOLETS - She Said (Everything b-side) 1988

    GAME THEORY - You Drive (Two Steps From The Middle Ages) 1988

    DOLCE VITA - Beginning All Over (s/t EP) 1984

    SERIOUS YOUNG INSECTS - Be Patient (Housebreaking) 1982

    SPLIT ENZ - Six Months in a Leaky Boat (Time & Tide) 1982

    DUKES OF STRATOSPHEAR - Vanishing Girl (Psonic Psunspot) 1987

    JAZZ BUTCHER - Hard (Grooving in the Bus Lane EP) 1986

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

    POLYROCK - Broken China (Above the Fruited Plain EP) 1982

    THE FEELIES - It's Only Life (Only Life) 1988

    GALAXIE 500 - Parking Lot (Today) 1988

    THE LONG RYDERS - Ivory Tower (Native Sons) 1984

    THE PLAYMATES - Remember (Long Sweet Dreams) 1986

    R.E.M. - Ages Of You (Dead Letter Office) 1987

    8 January 2025, 4:08 am
  • 2 hours 2 minutes
    Episode 245: 80s Underground Replay: Dec 18, 2018

    PSYCHEDELIC FURS “All That Money Wants” from All of This and Nothing (1986) 

    LOVE & ROCKETS “Here On Earth” from Earth Sun Moon (1987) 

    FIGURES ON A BEACH “Decay” from Swimming EP (1983) 

    RHYTHM CORPS “Broken Haloes” from Paquet de Cinq - EP (1982) 

    PETER MURPHY “Indigo Eyes” from Love Hysteria (1988) 

    TOOLS OF ROMANCE “I Won't Wait” from Tools of Romance EP (1985) 

    SOFT CELL “Heat” from The Art of Falling Apart (1983) 

    CCCP “American-Soviets” from American-Soviets - Single (1986) 

    THE FALL “Hit the North” from The Frenz Experiment (1988) 

    BLUE ORCHIDS “Agents of Change” from The Greatest Hit (1982) 

    MEKONS “Fantastic Voyage” from So Good It Hurts (1988) 

    GO-BETWEENS “Cattle and Cane” from Before Hollywood (1983) 

    THE VERLAINES “Doomsday” from Juvenilia (1987) 

    THE WEDDING PRESENT “What Did Your Last Servant Die Of ?” from George Best Plus (1987) 

    THE PROOF “It's Safe” from It's Safe (1980) 

    THE PLIMSOULS “How Long Will It Take?” from Everywhere at Once (1983) 

    THE SMITHEREENS “Yesterday Girl” from 11 (1989) 

    X “You” from See How We Are (Deluxe) (1987) 

    THE RAVE UPS “When the End Comes Before” from The Book of Your Regrets (1988) 

    GREEN ON RED “Easy Way Out” from Gas Food Lodging (1985) 

    THE WILD FLOWERS “Head of Nothing” from Sometime Soon (1988) 

    SCREAMING TRIBESMEN “I've Got a Feeling” from Bones + Flowers (1987) 

    LIONS & GHOSTS “Love & Kisses From the Gutter” from Velvet Kiss, Lick of the Lime (1987) 

    DRIVIN N CRYIN “The Whisper Tames the Lion” from Whisper Tames the Lion (1988) 

    MARY MY HOPE “Wildman Childman” from Museum (1989) 

    REDD KROSS “Lovedoll Superstar” from V/A Lovedolls Superstar (1987) 

    BLACK FLAG “Kicking n Sticking” from V/A Lovedolls Superstar (1987)

    19 December 2024, 12:26 am
  • 1 hour 57 minutes
    Episode 244: 80s Underground Replay: Dec. 10, 2019

    THE CURE "A Short Term Effect" from Pornography 1982

    SIOUXSIE & THE BANSHEES "Cities In Dust" from Tinderbox 1986

    DANSE SOCIETY "Belief" from Seduction - The Society Collection 1981

    RED LORRY YELLOW LORRY "Hollow Eyes" from Talk About the Weather 1985

    SECOND COMING "Scare Crows" from Single 1985

    GHOST DANCE "When I Call" from A Word to the Wise EP 1987

    NEW MODEL ARMY "Brave New World" from Great Expectations 1985

    SNAKE CORPS "Victory Parade" from Single 1986

    LORDS OF THE NEW CHURCH "New Church" from The Lords of the New Church 1982

    BLUE IN HEAVEN "Julie Cries" from Single 1984

    GENE LOVES JEZEBEL "Treasure" from The House of Dolls 1987

    THE SOUND "Total Recall" from Heads and Hearts 1985

    ULTRAVOX "The Voice (Single Version)" from The Voice - EP 

    LOVE AND ROCKETS "Lucifer Sam" from single 1986

    MY DAD IS DEAD "Baby's Got a Problem" from Let's Skip the Details

    BITCH MAGNET "Motor" from Umber 1989

    LOOP "Collision" from Collision EP 1988

    KITCHENS OF DISTINCTION "Margaret's Injection" from Elephantine EP 1989

    SUDDEN AFTERNOON "Acid Rain" from Acid Rain - EP 1986

    CATERWAUL "Nevertheless" from Beholden - EP 1988

    BIG DIPPER "Meet The Witch" from Craps 1988

    THE PIXIES "Where Is My Mind?" from Surferrosa 1988

    DUMPTRUCK "Secrets" from Positively Dumptruck 1986

    THE PRIMITONS "All My Friends" from Don't Go Away1985

    LOVE TRACTOR "Buy Me a Million Dollars" from Love Tractor 1982

    GIANT SAND "Bloodstone" from Long Stem Rant 1989

    DAS DAMEN "Noon Daylight" from Mousetrap 1989

    THE FEELIES "It's Only Life" from Only Life 1988

    GUADALCANAL DIARY "Ghost On the Road" from Walking In the Shadow of the Big Man 1985

    11 December 2024, 2:34 am
  • 1 hour 58 minutes
    Episode 243: 80s Underground Replay: Dec. 12, 2018

    SAD LOVERS & GIANTS “Imagination” from Epic Garden Music (1982) 

    GANG OF FOUR “What We All Want” from Solid Gold (1981) 

    JESUS & MARY CHAIN “April Skies” from Darklands (1987) 

    FRONT 242 “Operating Tracks” from Geography (2004) [Re-mastered] (1982) 

    SKINNY PUPPY “Dead Lines” from Bites (1985) 

    GARY NUMAN “My Dying Machine” from Berserker (1984) 

    CRASH COURSE IN SCIENCE “It Costs to Be Austere” from Single (1981) 

    RE-FLEX “Something About You” from The Politics of Dancing (1983) 

    NEW ORDER “Dreams Never End” from Movement (1981) 

    THE TEARDROP EXPLODES “Bent Out of Shape” from Wilder (1981) 

    ALTERED IMAGES “Don't Talk to Me About Love” from Bite (1983) 

    PETER GODWIN “Images of Heaven” from Images of Heaven (1982) 

    DEPECHE MODE “A Question of Time” from Black Celebration (1986) 

    EIGHT SECONDS “Commissioner Street” from Almacantar (1986) 

    PYLON “Recent Title” from Gyrate (1980) 

    TRANSLATOR “Everywhere That I'm Not” from Heartbeats and Triggers (1982)

    THE GO-BETWEENS “Spring Rain” from Liberty Belle and the Black Diamond Express (1986) 

    LLOYD COLE & THE COMMOTIONS “Charlotte Street” from Rattlesnakes (1984) 

    CLOSE LOBSTERS “Just Too Bloody Stupid” from Foxheads Stalk This Land (1987) 

    R.E.M. “What If We Give It Away?” from Life's Rich Pageant (1986) 

    WIRE TRAIN “Skills of Summer” from Between Two Words (1985) 

    GUADALCANAL DIARY “Always Saturday” from Flip-Flop (1989) 

    DUMPTRUCK “Going Nowhere” from For the Country (1987) 

    HUXTON CREEPERS “Autumn Leaves” from 12 Days To Paris (1986) 

    HOODOO GURUS “The Other Side of Paradise” from Mars Needs Guitars! (1985) 

    UPS AND DOWNS “Lit by the Fuse” from Underneath the Watchful Eye (1988) 

    BOOM CRASH OPERA “The Best Thing” from These Here Are Crazy Times (1989)

    6 December 2024, 1:56 am
  • 2 hours 9 seconds
    Episode 242: Podcast Replay: Deep Cuts Edition (11/26/19)

    CHALK CIRCLE "This Mourning" from Mending Wall 1987

    CHAT SHOW "Red Skies" from 12" Single 1986

    QUITE SIMPLE "Victims" from Single 1987

    PLAY DEAD "Pale Fire" from Sacrosanct B-side 1985

    BREEDING GROUND "Reunion" from Single 1982

    CORN DOLLIES "Nothing of You" from Wrecked 1989

    THE PARACHUTE MEN "The Innocents" from The Innocents 1988

    THE ZIMMERMEN "Happy Heart (feat. John Dowler)" from Rivers of Corn 1986

    THE WIND "Wake Up" from Living in a New World 1986

    AFTER ALL "Bullets" from How High The Moon 1988

    KINGDOMS "Heartland" from Single 1984

    EVENING LEGIONS "Your Dimension" from Your Dimension 1985

    PRIMARY COLORS "Talking In My Sleep" from Paint Love Blue EP 1985

    ARMS OF SOMEONE NEW "Hollywood" from Promise 1988

    ASYLUM PARTY "Play Alone" from Borderline 1989

    PARTY DAY "Let Us Shine" from Single 1986

    THE RED "Promises" from The Red EP 1986

    KISS THE BLADE "Young Soldier" from 12" Single 1987

    BALAAM & THE ANGEL "She Knows" from The Greatest Story Ever Told 1987

    ZERO LE CRECHE "Last Year's Wife" from 12" Single 1984

    WHITE CHINA "Real World" from Single 1984

    LAVVI EBBEL "Much Ado About Nothing" from Albu Meth EP 1982

    BUSH TETRAS "Too Many Creeps" from Too Many Creeps 7" - Single 1980

    TWICE A MAN "Sense" from Single 1982

    UV PROM "Mobile Home Murder" from Field of Vision EP 1985

    THE DOWNSIDERS "My Only Reply" from The Downsiders 1987

    26 November 2024, 11:14 pm
  • 1 hour 59 minutes
    Episode 241: 80s Underground Replay: Nov 16, 2016

    SIOUXSIE & THE BANSHEES - She's a Carnival (A Kiss in the Dreamhouse) 1982

    CHAMELEONS UK - One Flesh (What Does Anything...) 1985

    ABECEDARIANS - Dinner (Resin) 1987

    JOY DIVISION - Dead Souls (Still) 1981

    DANSE SOCIETY - Hide (Seductions) 1982

    THE CURE - A Hundred Years (Pornography) 1982

    CS ANGELS - Under The Influence (Chasing Shadows) 1987

    SHRIEKBACK - Nemesis (Oil & Gold) 1985

    JESUS & MARY CHAIN - Blues From a Gun (Automatic) 1989

    BAND OF SUSANS - You Were an Optimist (Hope Against Hope) 1988

    THE PRIMITONS - All My Friends (s/t EP) 1985

    DEEP SIX - Something/Nothing (s/t) 1986

    NOT SHAKESPEARE - Turnaround (s/t EP) 1986

    GO-BETWEENS - Love Goes On (16 Lovers Lane) 1988

    GRAPES OF WRATH - O Lucky Man (Treehouse) 1987

    THE DOWNSIDERS - I Wanna Drive (All My Friends are Fish) 1988

    THE LONG RYDERS - Prairie Fire (Two Fisted Tales) 1987

    RAIN PARADE - This Can't Be Today (Emergency Third Rail Power Trip) 1983

    THE FEELIES - Away (only Life) 1988

    THE NEIGHBORHOODS - W.U.S.A. (The High Hard One) 1986

    THE DANGTRIPPERS - Masquerade (Days Between Stations) 1989

    R.E.M. - Cuyahoga (Life's Rich Pageant) 1986

    GUADALCANAL DIARY - Winds of Change (2x4)

    THE 77's - Do It For Love (s/t) 1987

    DARLING BUDS - Uptight (Pop Said) 1988

    HOUSE OF LOVE - Christine (s/t) 1988

    THE WEDDING PRESENT - Your Favourite Dress (George Best Plus) 1987

    WEATHER PROPHETS - Almost Prayed (Mayflower) 1987

    20 November 2024, 2:22 am
  • 1 hour 57 minutes
    Episode 240: 80s Underground Replay: Nov 12, 2019

    ENGLISH BEAT "Best Friend" from I Just Can't Stop It 1980

    OINGO BOINGO "Little Guns" from Good For Your Soul 1983

    THE B-52s "Wig" from Bouncing Off the Satellites 1986

    THE WAITRESSES "I Know What Boys Like" from The Best Of ... 1981

    THE STRANGLERS "Skin Deep" from Aural Sculpture 1985

    THE PAYOLA$ "Soldier" from Eyes of a Stranger - Single 1982

    TALK TALK "Dum Dum Girl" from It's My Life 1984

    THE CURE "A Forest" from Seventeen Seconds 1980

    PETE SHELLEY "Yesterday's Not Here" from Homosapien 1981

    LORDS OF THE NEW CHURCH "Open Your Eyes" from s/t 1982

    ICICLE WORKS "Waterline" from Icicle Works 1984

    THE WATERBOYS "It Should Have Been You" from The Waterboys 1983

    BIG COUNTRY "The Great Divide" from Steeltown 1984

    RED ROCKERS "Fanfare for Metropolis" from Good As Gold 1983

    THE CHURCH "A Fire Burns" from The Blurred Crusade 1982

    LLOYD COLE & THE COMMOTIONS "Perfect Skin" from Rattlesnakes 1984

    PREFAB SPROUT "The Golden Calf" from From Langley Park to Memphis 1988

    THE FOUNTAINHEAD "Someone Like You" from Voice of Reason 1988

    XMAL DEUTSCHLAND "I'll Be Near You" from Devils 1989

    ETERNAL TRIANGLE "Nothing But a Friend" from Touch and Let Go 1984

    THE CHILLS "House With a Hundred Rooms" from 12" single 1987

    THE SERVANTS "Meredith" from The Sun a Small Star 1986

    THE WEDDING PRESENT "My Favourite Dress" from George Best Plus 1987

    THE MIGHTY LEMON DROPS "My Biggest Thrill" from Happy Head 1986

    O POSITIVE "With You" from Only Breathing EP 1985

    PURE JOY "Ocean" from Single 1986

    THE GO-BETWEENS "In the Core of a Flame" from Liberty Belle and the Black Diamond Express 1985

    12 November 2024, 8:25 pm
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