The Long Lost EIGHTIES Irish Pop Thread

STB.

Searched but cant find one for the 80s.



I'll start it off. This is gem from Cork Band Microdisney- Town to Town. (1987) Played a lot on radio, especially the pirates.

STB.

Steve Belton plays with the reformed Cry Before Dawn these days. But back in 1988 he was with a band called The Fountainhead. This is a class tune.



The Fountainhead - Someone Like You

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AtyYy3G4ahY

Welsh Megaman

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZLv2Zyj6g6M

NewbridgeIR

More Wexford.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lH-HRmDruIU

NewbridgeIR

This might also be of interest - The Last Bus Home

gammygils

Brilliant Thread this!
I loved this one from my Inter Cert year

gammygils

Another forgotten classic from early 80's - The Last Resort by Stepaside

The Princess Bride

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TWIJX9LQjXA

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YI0np17OB5k

It's great having YouTube now to look up songs.

Not able to find The Memories and Oh Maryann

NewbridgeIR

The single mix of Last Of The Sun is way better than the version on Witness For The World. I put it on You Tube a few years ago. Sadly they didn't include it on their Best Of - I asked them why on the Cry Before Dawn Facebook page but got no response. Hate when bands / labels include album versions on compilations instead of the radio edits - really lazy approach.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uLLQJUwyF6Y

gammygils

"My Friend John" - Sligo band Those Nervous Animals 1984

Declan A Walsh

gammygils wrote: »

"My Friend John" - Sligo band Those Nervous Animals 1984

I love that song.

STB.

Hugely under rated South Dublin band.


A House - I'll always be grateful. (1988)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o4AQMOMOx8M

STB.

Another big radio song on the pirates in Ireland.....from Belfast.



The Adventures - Broken Land (1988)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JN2m15xg920

STB.

The Donnycarney massive.... At one stage I believe that Frank Kearns was lined up to be U2 guitarist. They all went to Mount Temple. Urban Beaches is a fantastic album that you should check out. Amazing searing guitar.



Producer on this song, not surprisingly Bono.

Cactus World News - The Bridge (1985)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uphk7B_pHdk

STB.

I swear I'm not going to hog the thread. Another Northsider band.



Despite this being regarded as a 1990 song, it was released and was a Top 10 song in Ireland in 1989 (it spent 4 months in the Irish Charts). Then Atlantic records signed them and re-released this song.


The Drummer Martin Murphy, sadly passed away last year.


An Emotional Fish - Celebrate (1989)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jeg4mQMVGNg

The Princess Bride

The Lookalikes.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IjJdOfK25sU

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xZyFn0rdBsI

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2DxM_HqiTJ4

gammygils

Fermanagh band Mama's Boys with "Needle In The Groove" from 1982 I love this

And Dublin band Berlin "Over 21" from 1980

loyatemu

Cork (via London) band Stump were flavour of the month in the English music magazines for a brief period, I'm not sure if you can describe this as "pop" though...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e-PmQ3dFQvs

bullpost

Swinging Swine from late 80s. Great live band.

bullpost

These were tipped to make it big in pre-U2 days.

BOSTIK

"Needle in the Groove" is a mighty tune.

Remember this?

gammygils

Auto Da Fe - November November

Anyone remember this outfit - Toy With Rhythm (Flo McSweeney, Ed Darragh & a few more?)

Teacher0101

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rm4jb0nqkdU

Joe Rooney on vocals.

sparksfly

gammygils wrote: »

Another forgotten classic from early 80's - The Last Resort by Stepaside

Rip Paul.

sparksfly

NewbridgeIR wrote: »

The single mix of Last Of The Sun is way better than the version on Witness For The World. I put it on You Tube a few years ago. Sadly they didn't include it on their Best Of - I asked them why on the Cry Before Dawn Facebook page but got no response. Hate when bands / labels include album versions on compilations instead of the radio edits - really lazy approach.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uLLQJUwyF6Y

Truly brilliant.

trashcan

BOSTIK wrote: »

"Needle in the Groove" is a mighty tune.

Remember this?

Remember it well. Great single with "Maxi Joy" on the other siðe. I saw them play a gig upstairs in the old Virgin Megastore back in the day. Classy band.

Teacher0101

'Maxi Joy' is the better song for my money.

Ursus Horribilis

Stars of Heaven - 28

roroliam

Auto da fe. "All is Yellow, Hot Hot Hot" . Someone throw it up.

NewbridgeIR

roroliam wrote: »

Auto da fe. "All is Yellow, Hot Hot Hot" . Someone throw it up.

Here's the 12".
The song has never made it to CD in any version.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=al7H2oHtfEM

MikeyTaylor

Nope, not the Aslan song.

trashcan

Ursus Horribilis wrote: »

Stars of Heaven - 28

Now you're talking. Best Irish band ever. Stephen Ryan is working on a new album I hear. Great news.

gammygils

Galway band "The Fuze" from 1981 with It's a Sunday Mornin'

And Tuam reggae band "Too Much For The Whiteman" with their 1988 Top 30 hit "Put Your Mind At Ease"

The sound quality on these is not great but both these bands were absolutely brilliant live! Believe me

NIMAN

Good to hear 'Needle in the Groove' again after all these years;)

Also had the CD single of their version of Higher Ground too.

Great call on the Cry Before Dawn 'Last of the Sun'. They had a few belting tracks out in the 80s.

STB.

Somebody earlier posted a Stepaside song. The late Paul Ashford had a brilliant 80s solo song called "One in Every Town" and its up on youtube, but the quality is crackily and not good, so I wont post the link. Its a track to this day that was never released digitally, unfortunately.


Anyhow here's a great track from 1989 from The Fat Lady Sings - Arclight.



Frontman Nick Kelly went on to become a commercial (the Guiness adverts with Fassbender) and film director.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hlcSZotpAhE

STB.

Early 80s this.

Ringsend (or Raytown) band, The Blades (Paul & Lar Cleary and Pat Larkin). Lar sadly died earlier this year. Coincidentally I bumped into his brother Paul in a pub in Templeogue a few weeks back!

AAAAnyway, The Blades - Ghost of a Chance (1981)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6oYdWobDi_U

STB.

I could post so many Something Happens songs like Beach, Burn Clear or anything from Been There, Seen That, Done That.



There's an incredibly cringe like video of my fav Something Happens from 1989 at the "National Entertainment Awards" but the sound quality is crap. Worth looking at to see the out of touch public service like production alone that only Ireland could do for music awards.

Something Happens - Forget Georgia (1988).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AdTG9iW8PP8

NewbridgeIR

I always wondered why that YouTube uploader used the Bedlam A GoGo sleeve for Forget Georgia.

NewbridgeIR

STB. wrote: »

Somebody earlier posted a Stepaside song. The late Paul Ashford had a brilliant 80s solo song called "One in Every Town" and its up on youtube, but the quality is crackily and not good, so I wont post the link. Its a track to this day that was never released digitally, unfortunately.
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Love One In Every Town. Have the 7". Gerry Ryan used play it on his brilliant 10 - 12pm show. Used listen in bed.

Loads of Irish stuff is MIA on CD. The likes of the Tom Dunne's compilations only scratch the surface. This is one of the earliest Irish compilations I can remember coming out on CD - 1992 - which was very late considering. https://www.discogs.com/Various-Irish-A-Z-Of-Rock/release/6477966
To be fair, it's probably the best one and gets serious kudos for including the fair superior single version of Love Don't Work This Way.

NIMAN

Have In Tua Nua had a mention yet?

Gen.Zhukov

bullpost wrote: »

These were tipped to make it big in pre-U2 days.

They really were a great band and should have done way better. I still have one of their so called 'red tapes' (which were grey). Shockin bad sound quality though.


This was a great song.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6zP53ECPaFs

NewbridgeIR

Minor Detail - Canvas Of Life

Video has great footage of Dublin 1983.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HvGi1x1gapg

Short piece about it here.

STB.

NewbridgeIR wrote: »

Love One In Every Town. Have the 7". Gerry Ryan used play it on his brilliant 10 - 12pm show. Used listen in bed.

Loads of Irish stuff is MIA on CD.

Paul came in for a radio interview in the late 2000's. He was amazed (and thrilled!) that we had a perfect single version of One in Every Town as it was never released digitally as he hadn't got around to it. And sadly he died not long after.


Surprised this song wasn't posted.

A very young Darren Wharton on Piano. Ronan Dooney plays the piccolo trumpet (went on to do same on The Commitments soundtrack).

I don't believe this charted in Ireland or the UK which must be one of the music mysteries of Irish Music in the 80s. Pub Quiz - Where is the pub @ 1.39.


1982 Phil Lynott - Oldtown

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d2OcIqwmSaY

STB.

Technically.....its Mark Knopfler.


I always associate it with Ireland though as its so celtic. The uilleann pipes played by Liam O'Flynn and Paul Brady on mandolin/tin whistle.

It was part of the score to an Irish film in the 1984 directed by Pat O'Connor called "Cal". There is also another track on the soundtrack called Irish Boy which is equally as good.

Mark Knopfler - The Long Road

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zqHdzatTBhA

STB.

The infamous Rum, Sodomy & The Lash has so many great songs on it.


The Pogues - Sally McLennane (1985)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tlxXzXvdYg4

NewbridgeIR

STB. wrote: »

Surprised this song wasn't posted.

A very young Darren Wharton on Piano. Ronan Dooney plays the piccolo trumpet (went on to do same on The Commitments soundtrack).

I don't believe this charted in Ireland or the UK which must be one of the music mysteries of Irish Music in the 80s. Pub Quiz - Where is the pub @ 1.39.

The Long Hall.
Had my first date with my now wife there.

The Princess Bride

Found this today.
Cry Before Dawn will be there one of the days.
Looks impressive.


http://i68.tinypic.com/334nr7r.jpg

gammygils

The Blades - Downmarket. Great track

4Ad

bullpost wrote: »

Swinging Swine from late 80s. Great live band.

One of my favourite bands of all time !
Joannes voice ( and glare)
Luckily seen them loads of times...

BOSTIK

Some great memories posted above, the 2 Blades tracks and "Forget Georgia"are brilliant.

And I totally agree about the single version of "Love Don't Work This Way", the album version is ana abomination by comparison.

Here's Phil Lynott's last single release just before his death, reached no. 76 in the UK Singles Charts. Coincidentally produced by Paul Hardcastle.

Sinéad O'Connor & Shane MacGowan - Haunted

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C8oyxrrEk58

Ah...wrong decade. This was recorded in 1995. The Cait O'Riordan version was recorded in the eighties.....

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OLpcyHVhM4U