Cocteau Twins - Pearly Dewdrops Drops

The first chart success for Grangemouth's finest export (except for petrol from the BP refinery)...

The Farmers Boys - Phew Wow

How did such a handsome bunch of guys never manage to have a hit?

Robbie Nevil - Dominoes

Great song, but get a haircut!

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.

Drum Theatre - Eldorado

Have you got anything a bit more '80s?

Stan Ridgway - The Big Heat

Yes, there was always more to Stan Ridgway than novelty songs about ghost soldiers...

Terry, Blair & Anouchka - Missing

A modern blues from Terry Hall - ex-Specials, ex-Fun Boy Three, ex-Colour Field and then solo artist!

The video for the follow-up single Ultra Modern Nursery Rhyme is here - it's from 1990 so not strictly a forgotten '80s classic, but it's another great song and the video has Jerry Sadowitz in it...