The Big Dish - European Rain

Some classy pop from the late '80s. This lot had one top forty hit with Miss America in 1991 taken from their album Satellites. Satellites - Big Dish - do you see? Oh well.

Swimming With Sharks - Careless Love

Apparently this lot are very big in Germany, where they were called "Humpe & Humpe". When the single was released in the UK the band was renamed "Swimming With Sharks", which was also the title of their album. It still wasn't a hit.

The Cross - Heaven For Everyone

This lost '80s classic would probably have remained lost if The Cross's frontman Roger Taylor hadn't got his old mate Freddie Mercury to record a version of the song. The version with Freddie's vocals turned up on The Cross's album Shove It and was later recycled into a Queen single. This is The Cross's single version with Roger Taylor on vocals.

The Blow Monkeys - This Is Your Life

This is the original 1988 version, not the pointless dance remix which inexplicably was a much bigger hit the following year.

The Cure - Hot Hot Hot!!!

Here's Robert Smith on Stars In Their Eyes. "Tonight, Matthew, I'm going to be... Suggs!"

Stump - Charlton Heston

"Thou shalt not bonk thy neighbour's wife!" Ideally this should have been reissued a few months ago when Charlton Heston died, but never mind.

The Style Council - How She Threw It All Away

Just before the Style Council embraced house music (and really did throw it all away), they released this classy little number, which mysteriously didn't chart.