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| A rapper and club DJ from London's East End, full name Derek Boland. After initial indie successes, he was signed to a major deal by PhonoGram. | |||
| Singles | |||
| GET DOWN (Music Of Life NOTE 007) | 5 | 20 | 26/9/87 |
| GOODGROOVE (Music Of Life 7NOTE 12) | 4 | 6 | 27/2/88 |
| BABY AMPHETAMINE | |||
| A tongue-in-cheek project by Creation label boss Alan McGee, in which he signed up a trio of counter assistants from the Virgin megastore in order to take a sideswipe at Bananarama. | |||
| Singles | |||
| CHERNOBYL BABY (Creation CRE 041) | 10 | 10 | 11/4/87 |
| NO RESPECT (Spectec SPEC 001) | 46 | 2 | 17/10/87 |
| BABY FORD | |||
| Peter "Baby" Ford, who played on the Manchester funk band scene in the early 80s, before moving to London to begin a songwriting career and eventually become a techno-house star. | |||
| Singles | |||
| OOCHY COOCHY (FU BABY YEAH YEAH) (Rhythm King 7 BFORD 1) | 3 | 8 | 17/9/88 |
| CHIKKI CIKKI AAH AAH (Rhythm King BFORD 2) | 5 | 8 | 24/12/88 |
| CHILDREN OF THE REVOLUTION (Rhythm King 7 BFORD 4) | 6 | 6 | 17/6/89 |
| Albums | |||
| FORD TRAX (Rhythm King BFORD 3) | 6 | 5 | 4/2/89 |
| BABY LEMONADE | |||
| Glasgow-based spiky guitar band who named themselves (presumably symbolically) after a Syd Barrett song. | |||
| Singles | |||
| THE SECRET GOLDFISH (Narodnik NRK 4) | 6 | 7 | 20/6/87 |
| BACHELOR PADPCs | |||
| Psychedelic quintet hailing from Strathbungo in Scotland, and consisting of Martin Cotter (Vocals & guitar), Tom Cherry (vocals & Guitar), David Harris (keyboards), Willie Bain (bass) and Graham Adam (drums). | |||
| Singles | |||
| THE ALBUMS OF JACK (Warholasound WS 003) | 24 | 4 | 1/8/87 |
| THE BAD BRAINS | |||
| A black American Rasta hardcore band from Washington, DC, forerunners of the US hardcore punk movement. | |||
| Singles | |||
| THE BAD BRAINS (EP) (Alternative Tentacles VIRUS 13) | 48 | 2 | 31/7/82 |
| BAALAM & THE ANGEL | |||
| Unusually taking their name from a Bible story (Numbers, Chap. 22-25), this trio was originally formed in Motherwell, Scotland by the brothers Morris (Mark on vocals & bass, Jim on guitar & keyboards, and Des on Drums). Moving to Cannock, Staffs, they added guitarist Ian McKean. Chapter 22 (which also signed the Mission) was their own label. | |||
| Singles | |||
| THE WORLD OF LIGHT (EP) (Chapter 22 22001) | 10 | 23 | 8/12/84 |
| LOVE ME (EP) (Chapter 22 22002) | 11 | 37 | 16/3/85 |
| DAY AND NIGHT (Chapter 22 CHAP 37) | 2 | 12 | 28/9/85 |
| Albums | |||
| SUN FAMILY (Chapter 22 CHAPLP 4) | 9 | 4 | 20/12/86 |
| BAM BAM (see also The SHAMEN Versus BAM BAM) | |||
| Singles | |||
| WHERE'S YOUR CHILD? (Desire WANT 7) | 9 | 3 | 12/11/88 |
| BAMBI SLAM | |||
| Experimental music band formed in 1986 by Canadian-raised guitarist Roy Feldon, who recruited avant-garde cellist Linda Miller and Drummer Nick Maynard. They supported the Cult on a UK tour. | |||
| Singles | |||
| RAMP BAMP (Product Inc. 2.7) | 11 | 15 | 14/2/87 |
| DON'T IT MAKE YOU FEEL (Product Inc. PROD 8) | 5 | 14 | 9/5/87 |
| HAPPY BIRTHDAY (YET ANOTHER!) (Product Inc. PROD 13) | 6 | 9 | 25/7/87 |
| THE BANANAMEN | |||
| A spoof band, thought to be - but never fully acknowledged as - the Cramps. The ostensible line-up was Exterior Dec (vocals), Poison Pick (guitar), Kongo Keith (bass) and AI Knocke (drums), while the song was an early 60s garage trash classic. | |||
| Singles | |||
| THE CRUSHER (Big Beat NS 88) | 5 | 12 | 3/9/83 |
| THE BAND OF HOLY JOY | |||
| A theatrically-inclined outfit who came from New Cross, South London, but were fronted by big-voiced Geordie vocalist Johnny Brown. | |||
| Singles | |||
| WHO SNATCHED THE BABY (Flim Flam HARP 4) | 25 | 5 | 15/11/86 |
| ROSEMARY SMITH (Flim Flam HARP 6) | 17 | 6 | 18/4/87 |
| Albums | |||
| MORE TALES FROM THE CITY (Flim Flam HARPLP 1) | 8 | 4 | 30/5/87 |
| MAGIC, MANIC & MAJESTIC (Rough Trade R 125) | 7 | 5 | 18/3/89 |
| BAND OF SUSANS | |||
| US mixed-sex guitar band whose line-up was prone to fluctuation but originally included three girls all named Susan - hence their name. Bruce Gilbert of Wire was once a temporary member on tour. | |||
| Albums | |||
| HOPE AGAINST HOPE (Further FU 005) | 11 | 4 | 4/6/88 |
| LOVE AGENDA (Blast First BFFP 43) | 6 | 5 | 29/4/89 |
| HONEY BANE | |||
| Originally a member of punk minimalists the Fatal Microbes, Honey (real name Donna) was an habitual teenage bad behaver, who lived at a youth treatment centre at the time of her early recordings. She later had a short-lived straight pop career on EMI, and did some acting. | |||
| Singles | |||
| YOU CAN BE YOU (GIRL ON THE RUN) (Crass 521984/1) | 3 | 52 | 19/1/80 |
| GUILTY (HB HB 946) | 9 | 12 | 6/12/80 |
| THE BARMY ARMY | |||
| Actually the Tackhead studio crew, with a typical cut-up and dub collage production conceived as a tribute to British football. | |||
| Singles | |||
| SHARP AS A NEEDLE (On-U Sound ONUD P 18) | 4 | 16 | 5/12/87 |
| BARNBACK | |||
| Band from Northern Ireland. | |||
| Singles | |||
| BELFAST (Homespun HS 092) | 32 | 8 | 16/3/85 |
| SYD BARRETT | |||
| The original frontman of Pink Floyd, eased out of that band in 1968 when his increasingly unpredictable behaviour made him too unreliable a musician. He enjoyed a short solo career in the early 70s before slipping into total seclusion at his Cambridge home. | |||
| Singles | |||
| THE PEEL SESSION (Strange Fruit SFPS 043) (12" only) | 11 | 4 | 27/2/88 |
| BASCZAX | |||
| Middlesborough-based band, formed in 1978 and comprising Alan Savage (vocals & guitar), John Hodgeson (vocals & keyboards), Geoff Foggarty (sax), Mick Todd (bass) and Alan Comforth (drums). | |||
| Singles | |||
| MADISON FALLOUT (Pipeline ICI 1) | 48 | 1 | 26/4/80 |
| THE BASEMANT 5 | |||
| Synth-driven reggae-rock band from South-East London, produced by Martin Hannett, who took a distinctly political lyrical stance. They split in 1981, and bassist Leo Williams later reappeared in Big Audio Dynamite. | |||
| Singles | |||
| SILICON CHIP (Island 10 WIP 6614 (10-inch single only) | 31 | 6 | 5/7/80 |
| THE BATFISH BOYS | |||
| Formed by former March Violets vocalist Simon D, these Boys (later just known as BATFISH) were a mutant hybrid of rockabilly, goth, and trash/comic rock. | |||
| Singles | |||
| SWAMP LIQUOR (Batfish BF 102) | 22 | 6 | 11/5/85 |
| JUSTINE (Batfish Incorporated LISS 107) | 16 | 9 | 3/12/86 |
| BOMB SONG (Batfish Incorporated LISS 108) | 18 | 11 | 4/4/87 |
| Albums | |||
| HEAD (Batfish Incorporated LISS 106) | 16 | 2 | 8/11/86 |
| BATHORY | |||
| Swedish death metal band, formed in Stockholm in 1983, led by the seemingly certifiable Quorton Seth, and named after the medieval Hungarian Countess Bathory, who tried to gain eternal youth by bathing in the blood of freshly-murdered virgins. | |||
| Albums | |||
| BLOOD FIRE DEATH (Under One Flag FLAG 26) | 17 | 1 | 26/11/88 |
| BAUHAUS | |||
| Britain's ultimate goth-rock ensemble, formed in Northampton in 1978, and comprising Peter Murphy (vocals), Daniel Ash (guitar & vocals), David Jay (bass & vocals) and Kevin Haskins (drums). They had a performing spot in the David Bowie vampire movie The Hunger, and Murphy later became a TV ad "face" before embarking on a solo career. | |||
| Singles | |||
| BELA LUGOSI'S DEAD (Small Wonder TEENY 2) | 8 | 131 | 26/1/80 |
| DARK ENTRIES (Axis A 3) | 17 | 6 | 16/2/80 |
| TERROR COUPLE KILL COLONEL (4AD AD 7) | 5 | 22 | 9/8/80 |
| TELEGRAM SAM (4AD AD 17) | 3 | 29 | 22/11/80 |
| 6-TRACK EP (4AD BAD 312) | 5 | 23 | 1/10/83 |
| Albums | |||
| IN THE FLAT FIELD (4AD CAD 13) | 1 | 105 | 15/11/80 |
| THE BEASTIE BOYS | |||
| Later to become international major label rap-rock superstars, MCA, Mike-D and King Ad Rock started their cartoonish vocal capers in similar bratty style to that in which they would continue. "Beastie" stands for Boys Entering Anarchistic States Towards Internal Excellence(!) | |||
| Singles | |||
| COOKY PUSS (Rat Cage MOR 26) | 17 | 20 | 20/6/87 |
| THE BEAT FARMERS | |||
| San Diego, Southern California, rock quartet led by vocalist/guitarist Joey Harris, backed by Jerry Raney, Rolle Love and Country Dick Montana. | |||
| Singles | |||
| BIGGER STONES (Demon D 1031) | 49 | 1 | 31/8/85 |
| Albums | |||
| TALES OF THE NEW WEST (Demon FIEND 39) | 16 | 2 | 13/7/85 |
| THE BEATMASTERS | |||
| (& The COOKIE CREW */featuring PP ARNOLD**/with MERLIN***/featuring BETTY BOO****) /featuring CLAUDIA FONTAINE*****) London-based studio production crew with a faultless talent for pinpointing the ideal guest star for the record in question. Most of their hits were house-based dance tracks, but thanks to the variety of vocalists, all sounded different. | |||
| Singles | |||
| ROK DA HOUSE* (Rhythm King LEFT 11) | 11 | 10 | 11/7/87 |
| BURN IT UP** (Rhythm King LEFT 27) | 4 | 11 | 24/9/88 |
| WHO'S IN THE HOUSE*** (Rhythm King LEFT 31) | 1 | 7 | 22/4/89 |
| HEY DJ / I CAN'T DANCE TO THAT MUSIC YOU'RE PLAYING (Rhythm King LEFT 34) | 1 | 11 | 12/8/89 |
| WARM LOVE**-** (Rhythm King LEFT 37) | 7 | 6 | 9/12/89 |
| Albums | |||
| ANYWAYAWANNA (Rhythm King LEFTLP 10) | 5 | 12 | 1/7/89 |
| THE BEATNIGS | |||
| A chainsaw-wielding, politically and musically extreme late-80s San Francisco band who split when their frontman Michael Franti moved on to form first the Disable Heroes Of Hiphoprisy and later Spearhead. | |||
| Singles | |||
| TELEVISION (Alternative Tentacles VIRUS 71) | 10 | 7 | 3/2/88 |
| THE BEDTIME BOYS | |||
| Spoof band whose single was a humorous parody of the Beastie Boys' No Sleep Till Brooklyn; their label name similarly being a piss-take of Def Jam. | |||
| Singles | |||
| NO SLEEP TILL BEDTIME (Deaf Jim SNOOZE 1) | 29 | 2 | 5/9/87 |
| THE BELOVED | |||
| Originally a London-based guitar-pop outfit, they slimmed down from a quartet to a duo of John Marsh (vocals & keyboards) and Steve Waddington (Guitar & keyboards) as they refined their musical vision towards ambient dance. | |||
| Singles | |||
| A HUNDRED WORDS (Flim Flam HARP 2) | 15 | 7 | 19/4/86 |
| THIS MEANS WAR (Flim Flam HARP 3) | 22 | 7 | 20/9/86 |
| HAPPY NOW (Flim Flam HARP 5T) (12" only) | 22 | 6 | 21/3/87 |
| FOREVER DANCING (Flim Flam HARP 7) | 15 | 6 | 11 /7/87 |
| BENNY PROFANE | |||
| Liverpool pop-rockers, named after a character in Thomas Pynchon's V. Dave Jackson (vocals), Becky Stringer (bass) and Peter Baker (keyboards) were all previously in the Room. Other members were Joseph McKechnie (guitar), Robin Surtees (guitar), and Frank Sparks (drums). | |||
| Albums | |||
| TRAPDOOR SWING (Playhard) | 17 | 1 | 29/7/89 |
| BET LYNCH'S LEGS | |||
| Manchester outfit who, like all the mysterious Absurd roster, took themselves less than seriously and still sold records. | |||
| Singles | |||
| RIDERS IN THE SKY (Absurd A 10) | 24 | 6 | 1/3/80 |
| SOME LIKE IT HOT (Absurd ASK 11) | 46 | 1 | 18/10/80 |
| THE BHUNDU BOYS | |||
| A sextet formed in 1980 in Harare, Zimbabwe, around leader Thomas Mapfumo who was also their vocalist. They supported Madonna at her July 1990 Wembley gig. | |||
| Albums | |||
| SHABINI (Discafrique AFRILP 02) | 2 | 31 | 1/11/86 |
| TSVIMBO DZE MOTO (Discafrique AFRILP 03) | 3 | 17 | 27/6/87 |
| JELLO BIAFRA | |||
| The leader and vocalist of the Dead Kennedys in solo spoken-word mode. | |||
| Albums | |||
| NO MORE COCOONS (Alternative Tentacles VIRUS 59) | 3 | 7 | 5/12/87 |
| THE BIBLE | |||
| Cambridge-based melodic pop/rock quartet who later signed to Chrysalis and very nearly made it big. Line-up was Boo Hewerdine (vocals & guitar), Tony Shepherd (keyboards & percussion - he formerly drummed for Freddie Starr), Leroy Lendor (bass) and Dave Larcombe (drums). | |||
| Singles | |||
| MAHALIA (Backs NCH 11) | 15 | 7 | 22/11/86 |
| Albums | |||
| WALKING THE GHOST BACK HOME (Backs NCHLP 8) | 10 | 10 | 20/9/86 |
| BIFF BANG POW! | |||
| Its name taken from a song by Cult 60s rockers the Creation, this part-time lightweight pop band makes sense when it is explained that it was the musical "hobby" of Creation label boss Alan McGee, abetted on guitar by his business partner Dick Green. | |||
| Singles | |||
| FIFTY YEARS OF FUN (Creation CRE 003) | 31 | 4 | 25/2/84 |
| LOVE'S GONE OUT OF FASHION (Creation CRE) | 6 | 9 | 19/4/86 |
| SOMEONE STOLE MY WHEELS (Creation CRE 034) | 31 | 4 | 15/11/86 |
| THE WORLD'S TURNING BROUCHARD (Creation CRE 038) | 26 | 3 | 28/2/87 |
| SHE HAUNTS (Creation CRE 051 T) (12" only) | 28 | 2 | 12/3/88 |
| BIG BLACK | |||
| A fast 'n' distorted guitar rock band from Chicago, featuring wild axemen Steve Albini and Santiago Durango, plus bassist Dave Riley and a drum machine. They split in August 1987 when Durango entered law school, and Albini formed first Rapeman and then Shellac, before going on to produce Nirvana's In Utero album. | |||
| Singles | |||
| HEADACHE (Blast First BFFP 14) | 3 | 20 | 20/6/87 |
| THE MODEL (Blast First BFFP 24) | 2 | 15 | 29/8/87 |
| Albums | |||
| ATOMISER (Blast First/Homestead BFFP 11) | 16 | 15 | 29/11/86 |
| HAMMER PARTY (Blast First/Homestead) | 11 | 9 | 20/12/86 |
| SOUND OF IMPACT (Official Bootleg NOT 2 BUT 1) | 7 | 5 | 4/7/86 |
| SONGS ABOUT FUCKING (Blast First BFFPT 9) | 1 | 15 | 19/9/87 |
| BIG LAME | |||
| Offbeat Manchester trio with a penchant for bending or ignoring conventional musical rules while making a highly stimulating racket. The line-up was Alan Brown (vocals & bass), Greg Keeffe (guitar) and Dil Green (drums). | |||
| Singles | |||
| DEBRA (Ron Johnson Z RON 3) | 22 | 4 | 23/3/85 |
| TOUGH (Ron Johnson Z RON 4) | 14 | 7 | 26/10/85 |
| WHY POP STARS CAN'T DANCE (Ron Johnson Z RON 7) | 13 | 7 | 17/5/86 |
| CUBIST POP MAIFESTO (Ron Johnson Z RON 13) | 9 | 8 | 17/1/87 |
| BIG GUN | |||
| Singles | |||
| HEARD ABOUT LOVE (Hi-Fibre ATOH 001) | 32 | 2 | 8/8/87 |
| BIG LOUIS | |||
| Dance act who scored with a simultaneous cover of the No.2 pop hit by US producer/artist Lil' Louis. | |||
| Singles | |||
| FRENCH KISS (Living Beat SCAM 1) | 13 | 3 | 26/8/89 |
| BIG STICK | |||
| A New Jersey duo, Trevor White and Yanna Trance, who formed in 1980 and seemed to have a permanent cars/speed fixation - which rebounded in tragic irony when White eventually died in a car crash after speeding while drunk. | |||
| Singles | |||
| DRAG RACING (EP) (Blast First BFFP 6) (12" only) | 7 | 6 | 5/7/86 |
| Albums | |||
| CRACK'N'DRAG (Blast First BFFP 25) | 17 | 2 | 6/8/88 |
| BIG SNAP | |||
| A one-off collaboration between members of the Bomb Party, the Janitors, the Cool Notes and Gaye Bykers On Acid, with producer/keyboardist Steve McIntosh, on a reworking of the Temptations' stoned soul epic from 1970. | |||
| Singles | |||
| PSYCHEDELIC SHACK (TI.M. MOT 7) | 8 | 6 | 25/7/87 |
| BIRDLAND | |||
| Singles | |||
| HOLLOW HEART (Lazy LAZY 13) | 2 | 10 | 8/4/89 |
| PARADISE (Lazy LAZY 14) | 2 | 7 | 8/7/89 |
| THE BIRTHDAY PARTY with LYDIA LUNCH* | |||
| An Aussie band, headed by vocalist Nick Cave, which originally came together in the mid 70s at school in Melbourne, and changed their name from the Boys Next Door to the Birthday Party in 1979 when they caught the punk bug. Worked in the UK, Berlin and Australia before splitting in 1983, Cave going solo. | |||
| Singles | |||
| MR. CLARINET (Missing Link MLS 18) | 43 | 2 | 2/8/80 |
| THE FIEND CATCHER (4AD AD 12) | 21 | 7 | 1/11/80 |
| RELEASE THE BATS/BLAST OFF (4AD AD 111) | 3 | 14 | 29/8/81 |
| MR. CLARINET (4AD AD 114) | 18 | 6 | 17/10/81 |
| THE BAD SEED (EP) (4AD BAD 301) | 3 | 29 | 19/2/83 |
| BIRTHDAY PARTY EP: RELEASE THE BATS (4AD BAD 307) | 8 | 17 | 9/7/83 |
| MUTINY 1983 (Mute MUTE 029) | 3 | 19 | 3/12/83 |
| THE PEEL SESSION (Strange Fruit SFPS 020) | 7 | 10 | 21/2/87 |
| THE PEEL SESSION, VOL.2 (Strange Fruit SFPS 058) | 11 | 1 | 5/11/88 |
| Albums | |||
| PRAYERS ON FIRE (4AD CAD 104) | 4 | 18 | 18/4/81 |
| DRUNK ON THE POPE'S BLOOD/THE AGONY IS THE ECSTACY* (4AD JAD 202) | 2 | 7 | 13/3/82 |
| JUNKYARD (4AD CAD 207) | 1 | 16 | 24/7/82 |
| THE BIRTHDAY PARTY ALIVE - IT'S STILL LIVING (Missing Link ING 009) | 19 | 4 | 13/4/85 |
| BLACK | |||
| Began as a trio in Liverpool, fronted by vocalist Colin Vearncome, who also favoured the name Black, and continued to use it as a soloist when signed by A&M after Wonderful Life was reissued and became a major national hit. | |||
| Singles | |||
| WONDERFUL LIFE (Ugly Man JACK 1) | 3 | 25 | 13/8/86 |
| BLACK AXE | |||
| Carlisle-based heavy metal quintet who later became Wolf. Line-up was Chris English (vocals), Simon Sparkes (guitar), Bill Kier (keyboards), Stewart Richardson (bass), and Mike Thorburn (drums). | |||
| Singles | |||
| HIGHWAY RIDER (Metal MELT 1) | 45 | 2 | 18/10/80 |
| BLACK FLAG | |||
| L.A. hardcore band, formed in 1977 in the vanguard of West Coast punk. The original lineup was Keith Morris (vocals), Greg Ginn (guitar), Chuck Dukowski (bass) and Brian Migdol (drums), but replacement vocalist Henry Rollins (later Rollins Band leader, novelist and poet) became their mast famous member. They owned SST Records. | |||
| Singles | |||
| SIX PACK (EP) (Alternative Tentacles VIRUS 9) | 16 | 12 | 16/1/82 |
| TV PARTY (SST) | 30 | 4 | 28/8/82 |
| Albums | |||
| MY WAR (SST SST 023) | 5 | 8 | 31/3/84 |
| SLIP IT IN (SST SST 029) | 8 | 5 | 29/9/84 |
| FAMILY MAN (SST ST 026) | 14 | 3 | 6/10/84 |
| BLACK LACE | |||
| Originally formed to represent the UK in the 1979 Eurovision Song Contest (where they bombed out), this group slimmed down to a duo with a novelty (often risque) musical act which was huge in chicken-in-a-basket clubs and (cleaned up) with kids. | |||
| Singles | |||
| SUPERMAN (GIOCA JOUER) (Flair FLA 105) | 2 | 9 | 1/10/83 |
| AGADOO (Flair FLA 107) | 1 | 12 | 11/8/84 |
| DO THE CONGA (Flair FLA 108) | 3 | 10 | 8/12/84 |
| BLACK ROOTS | |||
| A home-grown UK reggae band hailing from Bristol. | |||
| Singles | |||
| BRISTOL ROCK (Nubian NR 001 /81) | 45 | 2 | 13/6/81 |
| BLACK SABBATH | |||
| A major heavy metal band of the 1970s, with millions of album sales world-wide, Sabbath had an 80s indie chart career by default, via reissues of their successes from the previous decade which mostly featured original legendary vocalist Ozzy Osbourne. | |||
| Singles | |||
| PARANOID (NEVIS BSS 101) | 1 | 14 | 23/8/80 |
| PARANOID (reissue) (NEVIS International NE 1) | 15 | 7 | 18/9/82 |
| Albums | |||
| LIVE AT LAST (NEVIS BS 001) | 1 | 17 | 5/7/80 |
| PARANOID (NEVIS NEL 6003) | 6 | 8 | 18/10/80 |
| WE SOLD OUR SOULS FOR ROCK AND ROLL (NEVIS NELD 101) | 10 | 7 | 18/10/80 |
| GREATEST HITS (NEVIS NEL 6009) | 5 | 6 | 18/10/80 |
| SABBATH BLOODY SABBATH (NEVIS NEL 6017) | 7 | 3 | 25/10/80 |
| BLACK SABBATH (NEVIS NEL 6002) | 8 | 3 | 25/10/80 |
| SABOTAGE (NEVIS NEL 6018) | 9 | 5 | 25/10/80 |
| MASTER OF REALITY (NEVIS NEL 6004) | 12 | 2 | 25/10/80 |
| BLACK SABBATH VOLUME 4 (NEVIS NEL 6005) | 14 | 2 | 25/10/80 |
| BLACK UHURU | |||
| An early 1970s-formed Jamaican vocal quartet (later a trio) closely connected to producers/rhythm section Sly & Robbie. Michael Rose, now solo, was their lead singer during the early 80s, while another member, Sandra "Puma" Jones, died of cancer in 1990. | |||
| Albums | |||
| SHOWCASE (D-Roy) | 18 | 2 | 15/3/80 |
| BLACK SOUNDS OF FREEDOM (Grensleeves GREL 23) | 5 | 11 | 25/7/81 |
| BLITZ | |||
| From New Mills, Derbyshire, this punk quartet split in half after their first three Singles, with a splinter element forming Rose Of Victory, and the survivors changing gear into futurist keyboard rock on New Age. | |||
| Singles | |||
| ALL-OUT ATTACK (EP) (No Future 01 1) | 3 | 44 | 22/8/81 |
| NEVER SURRENDER (No Future 01 6) | 2 | 20 | 6/3/82 |
| WARRIORS (No Future 01 16) | 2 | 14 | 28/8/82 |
| NEW AGE (Future FS 1) | 4 | 12 | 5/2/83 |
| TELE-COMMUNICATION (EP) (Future FS 3) | 3 | 10 | 30/4/83 |
| Albums | |||
| VOICE OF A GENERATION (No Future PUNK 1) | 2 | 19 | 6/11/82 |
| SECOND EMPIRE JUSTICE (Future FL 1) | 5 | 7 | 4/6/83 |
| BLITZKRIEG | |||
| Southport-based punk quartet with a no-nonsense kill-'em-with-speed-and-sound approach as suggested by their name. The line-up was Gary Cumner, Chris Hynde, and the Gaul brothers, Phil and Mick. | |||
| Singles | |||
| LEST WE FORGET (EP) (No Future 018) | 11 | 8 | 24/4/82 |
| ANIMALS IN LIPSTICK (Sexual Phonograph SPH 3) | 30 | 4 | 4/6/83 |
| THE BLOOD | |||
| Outrage-punks from Charlton, London, led by somebody called The Cardinal, who took on the AntiNowhere League in the deliberately offensive horror comic lyrics game. It gained them notoriety but few friends and little longevity. | |||
| Singles | |||
| MEGLOMANIA (EP) (No Future 0122) | 6 | 10 | 23/4/83 |
| STARK RAVING NORMAL / MESRINE (Noise NOY 1) | 20 | 8 | 29/10/83 |
| Albums | |||
| FALSE GESTURES FOR A DEVIOUS PUBLIC (Noise NOYLP 1) | 5 | 10 | 10/12/83 |
| BLOOD & ROSES | |||
| Lyrically-volatile second-generation gothic punks. | |||
| Singles | |||
| LOVE UNDER WILL (Kamera ERA 018-12) | 4 | 13 | 26/3/83 |
| SOME LIKE IT HOT (Audiodrome ASSAULT 1) | 16 | 4 | 1/6/85 |
| BLOW UP | |||
| A quartet of Brighton rockers who made it on to Creation despite label owner Alan McGee's reported contention that they were "without doubt, the worst band I've ever signed"! | |||
| Singles | |||
| GOOD FOR ME (Creation CRE 045) | 37 | 4 | 20/6/87 |
| THE BLUE AEROPLANES | |||
| A large Bristol-based collective who attempted to fuse rock music gigs with poetry and dance performances, but still worked best as musicians, with material which drew on folk, jazz, jangly rock and pure experimentation. They supported REM on a UK tour in 1989. | |||
| Singles | |||
| LOVER AND CONFIDANTE PLUS OTHER STORIES OF TRAVEL (EP) | |||
| (Fire FIRE 8) (12" only) | 13 | 8 | 5/4/86 |
| Albums | |||
| TOLERANCE (Fire FIRELP 3) | 20 | 2 | 12/7/86 |
| SPITTING OUT MIRACLES (Fire FIRELP 10) | 11 | 9 | 14/11/87 |
| FRIENDLOVERPLANE (Fire FIRELP 15) | 20 | 1 | 17/12/88 |
| THE BLUE ORCHIDS | |||
| Manchester quartet formed in 1980 by ex-Fall couple Una Baines and Martin Bramah, whose ragged guitar and goth organ blend earned them comparisons to the Doors and Velvet Underground. | |||
| Singles | |||
| DISNEY BOYS/THE FLOOD (Rough Trade RT 056) | 36 | 8 | 27/12/80 |
| WORK (Rough Trade RT 067) | 21 | 7 | 4/4/81 |
| AGENTS OF CHANCE (EP) (Rough Trade PIT 117) | 12 | 9 | 27/11/82 |
| SLEEPY TOWN (Racket) | 22 | 4 | 29/6/85 |
| Albums | |||
| GREATEST HIT (Rough Trade ROUGH 36) | 5 | 18 | 5/6/82 |
| BLUES `N TROUBLE | |||
| Ubiquitous widely-gigging pub rock/blues outfit, comprising Tim Elliott (vocals & harmonica), John Bruce (guitar), Dave Neil (guitar), Alan Scott (bass) and Sean Scott (drums). | |||
| Albums | |||
| NO MINOR KEYS (Ammunition Communication BNT LP 2) | 20 | 2 | 14/6/86 |
| BLURT | |||
| A West Country-based trio comprising Pete Creese (guitar), Jake Milton (drums & vocals and dynamic vocalist/poet and sax player Ted Milton.) | |||
| Singles | |||
| GET/MY MOTHER WAS A FRIEND OF AN ENEMY OF THE PEOPLE(Test Pressing TP 1) | 12 | 11 | 16/8/80 |
| THE FISH NEEDS A BIKE (Armageddon AS 013) | 46 | 2 | 25/7/81 |
| Albums | |||
| IN BERLIN (Armageddon ARM 6) | 14 | 9 | 21/3/81 |
| BLYTH POWER | |||
| The name came from a railway locomotive scrapped in 1976, and the band were eccentric, history-aware electric folk-rockers, led by vocalist and drummer Josef Porta who had previously been with Zounds and the Mob. | |||
| Singles | |||
| CHEVY CHASE (All The Madmen MAD 009) | 11 | 12 | 5/10/85 |
| JUNCTION SIGNAL (All The Madmen MAD 012) | 18 | 6 | 14/6/86 |
| IXION (All The Madmen MAD 015) | 12 | 9 | 4/4/87 |
| Albums | |||
| WICKED MEN, WICKED WOMEN AND WICKET KEEPERS (All The Madmen MADLP 006) | 6 | 10 | 11/4/87 |
| THE BMX BANDITS | |||
| Scottish good-time pop band, sometimes compared to early Orange Juice, for whom dispensing positive vibrations (and occasionally chocolates) among the audience was the essence of their stage act. | |||
| Singles | |||
| SAD? / E 102 (53rd & 3rd AGARR 3) | 8 | 15 | 31/5/86 |
| THE CAR FROM OUTER SPACE (53rd & 3rd AGARR 312) (12" only) (The above was a 12" reissue of the previous single with three additional live tracks) | 38 | 3 | 8/11/86 |
| THE DAY BEFORE TOMORROW / WHAT A WONDERFUL WORLD (53rd & 3rd AGARR 6) | 13 | 10 | 3/1/87 |
| BOB | |||
| London-based guitar-pop quartet noted for their sharp songwriting, jointly fronted by vocalist/guitarists Richard Blackborow and Simon Armstrong, along with Jem Morris (bass) and Dean Leggett (drums). | |||
| Singles | |||
| KIRSTY (Sombrero OMBRER 2) (12" only) | 17 | 2 | 11/6/88 |
| ESMERELDA BROOKLYN (House Of Teeth HOT 003) | 12 | 2 | 28/10/89 |
| THE BODINES | |||
| A four-piece guitar band from Glossop, formed in 1984 with a name inspired by Jethro Bodine in TV's The Beverly Hillbillies. Line-up was Mike Ryan (guitar), Paul Brotherton (guitar), Tim Burtonwood (bass) and John Rowland (drums), and they were the youngest band ever to play Manchester's Hacienda Club. | |||
| Singles | |||
| GOD BLESS / PARADISE (Creation CRE 16) | 8 | 8 | 12/10/85 |
| THERESE (Creation CRE 28) | 4 | 16 | 1/3/86 |
| HEARD IT ALL (Creation CRE 30) | 4 | 8 | 30/8/86 |
| DECIDE (Play Hard DEC 18) (12" only) | 15 | 2 | 3/6/89 |
| BOGSHED | |||
| Rough-and-ready punk-poppers, whose gigs by all accounts sounded more like early rehearsals from before they'd learned (or written) the lyrics - a fact they shouted louder to disguise. | |||
| Singles | |||
| LET THEM EAT BOGSHED (Vinyl Drip DRIP 2) (12" only) | 8 | 24 | 23/11/85 |
| MORNING SIR (Shelfish SHELF 1) | 2 | 9 | 19/7/86 |
| TRIED AND TESTED PUBLIC SPEAKER (Shellfish SHELF 3) | 13 | 4 | 14/2/87 |
| EXCELLENT GIRL (Shellfish SHELF 6) | 30 | 6 | 5/12/87 |
| Albums | |||
| STEP ON IT (Shellfish SHELF 2) | 4 | 10 | 9/8/86 |
| BRUTAL (Shellfish SHELF 5) | 20 | 4 | 17/10/87 |
| BOK BOK | |||
| Singles | |||
| COME BACK TO ME (Bok Bok BOK 2) | 48 | 2 | 26/7/80 |
| MARC BOLAN (& T-REX*) | |||
| Bolan died in 1977, by which time T Rex's glam-rock glory days were already over in the charts, but throughout the 80s there came a steady stream of mostly newly-discovered material on mainly fan club-associated labels, some of it solo (including many tarted-up demos) and some featuring the band. | |||
| Singles | |||
| SONG ME A SONG (Ram MBFS 001) | 5 | 12 | 11/4/81 |
| YOU SCARE ME TO DEATH (Cherry Red CHERRY 29) | 4 | 9 | 19/9/81 |
| CAT BLACK (Cherry Red CHERRY 32) | 19 | 4 | 28/11/81 |
| MELLOW LOVE (Marc On Wax S BOLAN 13) | 14 | 6 | 27/2/82 |
| CHRISTMAS BOP (Marc On Wax S BOLAN 12) | 40 | 4 | 25/12/82 |
| THINK ZINC (Marc On Wax S BOLAN 14) | 6 | 9 | 23/7/83 |
| MEGAREX (medley)* (Marc On Wax TANX 1) | 4 | 14 | 20/4/85 |
| SUNKEN RAGS (Marc On Wax TANX 2) | 35 | 3 | 24/8/85 |
| THE PEEL SESSION- (Strange Fruit SFPS 031) | 16 | 6 | 15/8/87 |
| Albums | |||
| TREX IN CONCERT- (Marc On Wax A BOLAN 1) | 6 | 10 | 12/9/81 |
| YOU SCARE ME TO DEATH (Cherry Red E RED 20) | 8 | 8 | 31/10/81 |
| THE CHILDREN OF RARN (Marc On Wax A BOLAN 2) | 22 | 3 | 17/7/82 |
| BILLY SUPER DUPER (Marc On Wax A BOLAN 4) | 15 | 3 | 25/9/82 |
| DANCE IN THE MIDNIGHT (Marc On Wax MARCL 501) | 4 | 6 | 1/10/83 |
| A CROWN OF JEWELS (Dojo DOJOLP 12) | 10 | 3 | 3/8/85 |
| THE BOLLOCK BROTHERS | |||
| Publicity-conscious punk outfit fronted by "legendary" Jock McDonald, never tiring of such stunts as phoning the rock press to "admit" locking Malcolm McLaren in an EMI office. They actually released an album titled Never Mind The Bollocks. | |||
| Singles | |||
| THE BUNKER (Macdonald & Lydon BOLL 1) | 33 | 6 | 1/11/80 |
| THE ACT BECOMES REAL (Macdonald & Lydon BOLL 2) | 45 | 3 | 21/3/81 |
| THE BOLSHOI | |||
| Tail-end goths whose strong self-penned material lifted them out of the doom rut. The quartet's line-up was Trevor Tanner (vocals & guitar), Paul Clark (keyboards), Nick Chown (bass) and Jan Kalicki (drums). | |||
| Singles | |||
| HAPPY BOY (Situation 2 SIT 40) | 29 | 4 | 19/10/85 |
| Albums | |||
| GIANTS (Situation 2 SITUM 15) | 17 | 3 | 16/11/85 |
| THE BOMB PARTY | |||
| An offbeat Leicestershire band whose musical influences were drawn equally from the gothic rumble of the Doors and the cranked-up psychobilly of the Cramps. | |||
| Singles | |||
| RAY GUN (EP) (Abstract 12 ABS 032) (12" only) | 32 | 4 | 11/5/85 |
| THE NEW MESSIAH (EP) (Abstract 12 ABS 035) (12" only) | 30 | 6 | 17/8/85 |
| Albums | |||
| DRUGS (Abstract ABT 014) | 18 | 3 | 14/6/86 |
| BOMB THE BASS (FEAT. MAUREEN) | |||
| A studio project masterminded by studio mix 'n' masher Tim Simenon, who cut his chops as a club DJ and previously worked in a London Japanese restaurant. | |||
| Singles | |||
| BEAT DIS (Rhythm King DOOD 1) | 1 | 13 | 20/2/88 |
| MEGABLAST / DON'T MAKE ME WAIT (Rhythm King DOOD 2) | 2 | 10 | 27/8/88 |
| SAY A LITTLE PRAYER- (Rhythm King DOOD 3) | 1 | 10 | 26/11/88 |
| Albums | |||
| INTO THE DRAGON (Rhythm King DOODLP 1) | 3 | 11 | 22/10/88 |
| BEKI BONDAGE | |||
| Real name Rebecca Bond, Beki was the soloing former lead singer of Bristol punks Vice Squad, and a frequent punk pin-up in Sounds and other music papers. | |||
| Singles | |||
| DON'T TURN AWAY (Communique COMM 2) | 22 | 8 | 14/12/85 |
| BONE ORCHARD | |||
| Early 80s goth-rock outfit from Brighton, comprising Chrissy McGee ("the female Nick Cave" vocals), Mark Horse (guitar), Troy Tyro (guitar), Paul Henrickson (bass) and Mike Finch (drums). | |||
| Albums | |||
| JACK (Jungle FREUD 6) | 18 | 2 | 8/12/84 |
| BETTY BOO (see The BEATMASTERS featuring BETTY BOO) | |||
| BOOTS FOR DANCING | |||
| Power-pop quintet comprising Dave Carson (vocals), Michael Barclay (guitar), Jo Callis (guitar), Douglas Barrie (bass) and James Stewart (drums). Callis later joined the Human League for their hit-making years. | |||
| Singles | |||
| BOOTS FOR DANCING (EP) (Pop Aural POP 002) | 42 | 2 | 17/5/80 |
| DAVID BOWIE | |||
| Bowie crept on to the indie scene briefly and by default, thanks to this licensed-in set of mostly 1970s hit Singles compiled by an indie-distributed TV merchandiser. | |||
| Albums | |||
| THE VERY BEST OF DAVID BOWIE (K-Tel NE 1111) | 15 | 4 | 26/12/81 |
| THE BOX | |||
| Sheffield rock quintet who were formed from the remains of Clock DVA in late 1982, and fronted by the offbeat Captain Beefheart-ish vocals of Peter Hope, above Paul Widger's free-flowing guitar. | |||
| Singles | |||
| NO TIME FOR TALK (Go! Discs VFM 1) | 11 | 9 | 29/1/83 |
| OLD STYLE DROP DOWN (Go! Discs VFM 2) | 18 | 7 | 21/5/83 |
| Albums | |||
| SECRETS OUT (Go! Discs VFM 4) | 20 | 4 | 9/7/83 |
| BOX OF TOYS | |||
| Quartet comprising Brian Atherton (keyboards & vocals), Phil Martin (saxes), Roy Campbell (bass) and Andy Redhead (drums). | |||
| Singles | |||
| I'M THINKING OF YOU NOW (Inevitable INEV 13) | 38 | 4 | 3/9/83 |
| BOXCAR WILLIE | |||
| Real name Lecil Travis Martin, a Texas country singer whose hobo persona and old-time troubadour style (he was born in 1931) goes back to his acknowledged influences Hank Williams and Jimmie Rodgers. | |||
| Albums | |||
| DADDY WAS A RAILROAD MAN (Big R BR 1004) | 16 | 2 | 26/1/80 |
| THE BOY HAIRDRESSERS | |||
| Scottish laid-back psychedelicists from the Bellshill area of Lanark, fronted by Norman Blake, who also played part-time with the Pastels and would go on to form Teenage Fan-club. Musical hallmarks were use of a glockenspiel and the occasional eyebrow-raising off-colour lyric. | |||
| Singles | |||
| GOLDEN SHOWER (53rd & 3rd AGART 12) (12" only) | 25 | 3 | 23/1/88 |
| THE BOYS | |||
| London-based punk band from the original wave, never afraid to take a tongue-in-cheek view of it all, particularly when they became the Yobs on their annually-delivered Christmas records. Line-up was Duncan `Kid' Reid (vocals & bass), John Plain (guitar), Matt Dangerfield (guitar), Casino Steel (keyboards) and Jack Black (drums). | |||
| Singles | |||
| KAMIKAZE (Safari SAFE 21) | 9 | 3 | 19/1/80 |
| TERMINAL LOVE (Safari SAFE 23) | 32 | 3 | 1/3/80 |
| YOU BETTER MOVE ON (Safari SAFE 27) | 30 | 4 | 3/5/80 |
| Albums | |||
| TO HELL WITH THE BOYS (Safari 1-2 BOYS) | 4 | 6 | 19/1/80 |
| BOYS WONDER | |||
| Blackheath, South London-based quintet who played Sham 69-style punk/pop with Anthony Newley-like Cockney lead vocals. Signed to Sire at one point, the original line-up split in August 1988 just as their only successful single made the indie chart | |||
| Singles | |||
| GOODBYE JIMMY DEAN (Boys Wonder BW 1) | 10 | 2 | 13/8/88 |
| BRADFORD | |||
| Despite the name, this quintet were from Blackburn, Lancs., and began as a skinhead band. Discovered by Smiths producer Stephen Street, they were touted as Morrissey's favourite band. Vocalist Ian Hodgson later formed a group called Afterglow. | |||
| Singles | |||
| IN LIVERPOOL (Foundation TFL 1) | 12 | 5 | 22/7/89 |
| ADRIFT AGAIN (Foundation TFL 004T) (12" only) | 20 | 1 | 14/10/89 |
| BILLY BRAGG | |||
| A contemporary rock troubadour and songwriter from Barking, Essex, who plays as a new wave one-man band delivering sharp, left-wing political and social observations. | |||
| Singles | |||
| ST SWITHIN'S DAY (Go! Discs 10767 - import) | 2 | 14 | 19/1/85 |
| THE PEEL SESSION (Strange Fruit SFPS 027) | 4 | 13 | 13/6/87 |
| Albums | |||
| LIFE'S A RIOT WITH SPY VS SPY (Go! Discs/Utility UTIL 1) (excluded from the indie chart after 26 weeks when it gained major label distribution) | 1 | 26 | 10/12/83 |
| BRIAN BRAIN | |||
| Punk-orientated trio comprising Bobby Surgeoner (vocals & guitar), Pete Jones (vocals and bass) and Brian Brain himself - aka former PiL member Martin Atkins - (vocals & drums). | |||
| Singles | |||
| THEY'VE GOT ME IN THE BOTTLE (Secret SHH 101) | 39 | 3 | 10/5/80 |
| GLENN BRANCA | |||
| US guitarist and comer, formerly with Static, who led his own instrumental band comprising guitarists Ned Sublette, David Rosenbloom and Lee Renaldo (Sonic Youth), bassist Jeffrey Glenn and drummer Stephen Wischerth. | |||
| Albums | |||
| SYMPHONY NO. 6 (Blast First BFFP 39) | 17 | 9 | 29/4/89 |
| BREAK MACHINE | |||
| Dance-trained vocal trio of Jamaican birth but all raised in Queens, New York, who were moulded into shape as a breakdance recording act by hot NY disco producer Jacques Morali. | |||
| Singles | |||
| STREET DANCE (Record Shack SOHO 13) | 6 | 8 | 24/3/84 |
| BREAK DANCE PARTY (Record Shack SOHO 20) | 10 | 7 | 26/5/84 |
| ARE YOU READY (Record Shack SOHO 24) | 7 | 8 | 18/8/84 |
| BREATHLESS | |||
| A quartet led by Dominic Appleton, who guested on This Mortal Coil's Filigree And Shadow album. Tenor Vossa was their own label, and appropriately, they were big in Italy for a while. | |||
| Singles | |||
| AGELESS (Tenor Vossa BREATH 2) | 34 | 3 | 12/1/85 |
| THE BRIDEWELL TAXIS | |||
| A Leeds-based six-piece fronted by vocalist Mick Roberts and always compared closely with the Manchester "baggy" scene. They were formed in 1988, but claimed that they had previously all been at the same James gig in 1984 without knowing each other. | |||
| Singles | |||
| JUST GOOD FRIENDS (EP) (Stolen SLAG i) (12" only) | 18 | 1 | 30/9/89 |
| BRILLIANT | |||
| An amorphous ensemble originally assembled by ex-Killing Joke bassist Youth in 1982, whose sound and style varied as often as their line-up. | |||
| Singles | |||
| THAT'S WHAT GOOD FRIENDS ARE FOR (Limelight LIME 7001) | 22 | 10 | 20/11/82 |
| COLOURS (Risk/Rough Trade RTT 105) | 11 | 7 | 2/7/83 |
| SOUL MURDER (Food FOOD 1) | 14 | 5 | 30/6/84 |
| THE BRILLIANT CORNERS | |||
| A jangly rock/pop quintet from Bristol, who ran their own SS 20 Records label. | |||
| Singles | |||
| SHE'S GOT FEVER (SS 20 Records SS 21) | 43 | 3 | 3/3/84 |
| BIG HIP (SS 20 Records SS 22) | 16 | 6 | 23/6/84 |
| MY BABY IN BLACK (SS 20 Records SS 23T) | 14 | 8 | 1/12/84 |
| BRIAN RIX (SS 20 Records SS 27) | 11 | 13 | 25/4/87 |
| DELILAH SANDS (SS 20 Records SS 28) | 9 | 13 | 24/10/87 |
| TEENAGE (McQueen MCQ 1) | 9 | 6 | 19/3/88 |
| WHY DO YOU HAVE TO GO OUT WITH HIM, WHEN YOU COULD BE GOING OUT WITH ME? (McQueen MCQ 2) | 10 | 4 | 22/10/88 |
| Albums | |||
| GROWING UP ABROAD (SS 20 Records SS 20) | 26 | 2 | 16/11/85 |
| WHAT'S IN A WORD (SS 20 Records SS 24) | 8 | 18 | 6/12/86 |
| SOMEBODY UP THERE LIKES ME (McQueen MCQLP 1) | 6 | 7 | 14/5/88 |
| EVERYTHING I EVER WANTED (McQueen MCQLP 3) | 17 | 2 | 5/11/88 |
| JOY RIDE (McQueen MCQLP 4) | 6 | 4 | 3/6/89 |
| DAVE BROCK | |||
| The lead vocalist and guitarist of Hawkwind on a solo project. | |||
| Albums | |||
| EARTHED TO THE GROUND (Flicknife SHARP 108) | 17 | 4 | 26/5/84 |
| BROKEN BONES | |||
| From Stoke-On-Trent, this was a spin-off from Discharge, being formed by that band's former member Bones. Developed into an arresting punk-metal outfit, with a frequently shifting line-up. | |||
| Singles | |||
| DECAPITATED (Scarlet/Fall Out FALL 020) | 10 | 11 | 11/2/84 |
| CRUCIFIX (Fall Out FALL 025) | 12 | 14 | 19/5/84 |
| SEEING THROUGH MY EYES (Fall Out FALL 034) | 6 | 7 | 13/7/85 |
| NEVER SAY DIE (Fall Out 12 039) (12" only) | 23 | 2 | 23/8/86 |
| TRADERS IN DEATH (RFB RFBIN 4) | 21 | 9 | 11/7/87 |
| Albums | |||
| DEM' BONES (Fall Out FALLLP 28) | 5 | 11 | 28/7/84 |
| DECAPITATED (RFB) | 17 | 4 | 5/9/87 |
| MICHAEL BROOK | |||
| Toronto-born singer, songwriter/composer and producer, who, in 1997, has just released an album containing a duet between Michael Stipe and legendary 71-year-old torch singer Jimmy Scott. | |||
| Albums | |||
| HYBRID (Editions EG EGED 41) | 26 | 1 | 14/9/85 |
| MEL BROOKS | |||
| The celebrated US comedy director/actor/producer, rapping tongue-in-cheek over a dance track in a musical item from the soundtrack of his movie History Of The World, Part 1. The single was produced and co-written by Pete Wingfield. | |||
| Singles | |||
| IT'S GOOD TO BE THE KING RAP (PART 1) (Luggage 7LUG 02) | 8 | 7 | 31/10/81 |
| BROTHER D | |||
| A militant and radical New York rapper with a firm black political agenda. His real name is Darryl Aamaa Nubyahn. | |||
| Singles | |||
| CLAPPER'S POWER (Rough Trade RTT 209) (12" only) | 9 | 6 | 31/10/87 |
| CHUCK BROWN AND THE SOUL SEARCHERS | |||
| A dancefloor-oriented nine-member R&B band from Washington, DC. | |||
| Albums | |||
| LIVE: DC BUMPIN' Y'ALL (Rhythm King MELT LP 3) | 5 | 9 | 11/4/87 |
| DENNIS BROWN & GREGORY ISAACS | |||
| Two of the top British-based Jamaican reggae stars in non-confrontational duet. | |||
| Singles | |||
| LET OFF (Greensleeves GRED 181) (12" only) | 41 | 1 | 17/8/85 |
| RANDY BROWN | |||
| Memphis-born soul singer, brother of the Mad Lads' William Brown, who began recording in the 1970s, initially for for Stax and then for Parachute and Chocolate City. | |||
| Albums | |||
| WELCOME TO MY ROOM (Three Way RRL 1005) | 18 | 1 | 12/9/86 |
| BUBBLEGUM SPLASH | |||
| Swell Maps-influenced quintet from Salisbury, whose sole recorded effort seems to be this EP | |||
| Singles | |||
| THE SPLASHDOWN EP (EP) (Subway Organisation SUBWAY 13) | 15 | 9 | 15/8/87 |
| HAROLD BUDD, ELIZABETH FRASER, ROBIN GUTHRIE, SIMON RAYMONDE (see also The COCTEAU TWINS) | |||
| Albums | |||
| THE MOON AND THE MELODIES (4AD CAD 611) | 1 | 15 | 22/11/86 |
| JAKE BURNS AND THE BIG WHEEL | |||
| A short-lived project by the frontman of Stiff Little Fingers, following the first break-up of that band, Burns would later work in production for Radio 1, and eventually would re-form SLF. | |||
| Singles | |||
| SHE GREW UP (Survival SRD 3) | 36 | 4 | 12/4/86 |
| THE BUSH TETRAS | |||
| A largely female group (only their drummer was male) from New York City, formed in 1979. The quartet's UK recordings for Fetish were produced by Clash drummer Topper Headon. | |||
| Singles | |||
| BOOM (Fetish FET 007) | 43 | 4 | 4/7/81 |
| THE BUSINESS | |||
| Rock band fronted by the strong-voiced Mickey Fitz, with echoes of the good-time crowd pleasing style of Slade, despite their outwardly punky trimmings. Mark Brennan, noted punk historian and contributor to this book, was also a member. | |||
| Singles | |||
| HARRY MAY (Secret SHH 123) | 13 | 13 | 21/11/81 |
| SMASH THE DISCOS (EP) (Secret SHH 132) | 3 | 14 | 10/4/82 |
| DRINKING AND DRIVING (Diamond DIA 11) | 27 | 4 | 18/1/86 |
| Albums | |||
| THE BUSINESS 1980-1981 (Syndicate SYNLP 2) | 17 | 6 | 10/12/83 |
| LOUD, PROUD & PUNK (LIVE) (Syndicate SYNLP 6) | 22 | 1 | 13/10/84 |
| THE BUTTHOLE SURFERS | |||
| Texas-based heavy-guitar outrage-rockers originally known as the Ashtray Pay Heads. Their speciality was in-your-face lyrics designed both to amuse and appall according to(lack of) taste. | |||
| Singles | |||
| CREAMED CORN FROM THE SOCKET OF DAVID (Fundamental) | 9 | 12 | 9/11/85 |
| WIDOWERMAKER | 1 | 6 | 4/11/98 |
| Albums | |||
| THE BUTTHOLE SURFERS (Alternative Tentacles VIRUS 32) | 21 | 3 | 19/5/84 |
| PSYCHIC ...POWERLESS...ANOTHER MAN'S SAC (Fundamental SAVE 5) | 12 | 10 | 21/9/85 |
| REMBRANDT PUSSY HOUSE (Red Rhino Europe RRELP 2) | 9 | 10 | 17/5/86 |
| LOCUST ABORTION TECHNICIAN (Blast First BFFP 015) | 3 | 12 | 21/3/87 |
| HAIRWAY TO STEVEN (Blast First BFFP 029) | 6 | 10 | 7/5/88 |
| DOUBLE LIVE (Latino Bugger Veil) | 4 | 10 | 24/6/89 |
| THE BUZZCOCKS | |||
| The first great Manchester punk/pop band, who always had trouble just staying together. Their chart glory days were at the tail end of the 70s, when the line-up was Pete Shelley (vocals & guitar), Steve Diggle (guitar), Steve Garvey (bass) and John Maher (drums), but by 1981 they had split and Shelley was an active soloist. | |||
| Singles | |||
| THE PEEL SESSION (Strange Fruit SFPS 044) (12" only) | 8 | 4 | 27/2/88 |
Please note these tracks were compiled
for the Indie Hits book and are not
necessarily available to buy from Cherry Red Records.