#Matty’s🎼Obscurity
Tying in with #ArtistFave80s, this 1980 duet featuring Sharon O’Neill and Jon Stevens - who later found fame with the band Noiseworks in Aus in the later 1980s - both were big in their native NZ in the 70s/80s. youtu.be/aNI38J7VS0k?...

#Matty’s🎼Obscurity
A sidebar to #ArtistFave80s pick Sharon O’ Neill; this 1979 track saw her album retitled to match this single in Aus. yet somehow it wasn’t a big hit stalling at #57; a year outside the 80s but kinda grateful as so many great 80s tunes, love this one too

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Enjoying bookending the #ArtistFave80s ; a 1990 track from Sharon’s last solo album “Edge of Winter”, “Satin Sheets” had a country flavour but only a #106 peak sadly. Written with long term partner Alan Mansfield, keyboardist and songwriter from Dragon. youtu.be/z_45M-cSIXc?...

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Dave Hemingway and Briana Corrigan spar with delight on this Beautiful South ditty, don’t hear it much anymore

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Let it Ride by Linda Clifford was a 1981 release from the 70s Disco Diva. It was a dance chart hit but deserved more crossover love with her soaring vocals and Pointer Sisters style sass.

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Famous for “stimulation” and “sugar free”, Australian 80s band Wa Wa Nee also had this frenetic quasi-dance obscurity

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Courting controversy by choosing a Duran Duran song - ‘as if’ i hear a chorus in Reflex style in response to obscurity - but this 1990 tune was considered a flop everywhere by DD standards, bar Italy #2 and Netherlands #12. One of my quirky faves youtu.be/lshDXc-2mes?...

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A quirky pop funk track from 1995 by Swoop was a #9 Aus chart hit and also big in Japan; conjuring a mix of 70s psychedelia, 90s alternative pop and 80s rap funk. Rarely played now, lineup changes in the late 90s led to the group ceasing in 1998.
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Toni Childs was born in the USA and became an Australian citizen in 2022; in the 80s and 90s her popularity in Australia was unique; limited only by her Graves disease diagnosis & recovery. This 1988 track was a fave; #17 hit in Australia, #12 NZ youtu.be/S00HHzXZUrg?...

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Another Sharon O’Neill tune, this from 1987, exploring her 3 year legal saga. Some powerful lyrics:
“She danced in the fire
Wearing a frozen glance
And sailed on down a river of stone…
The lawyers, love and litigation
Had cut her down to size…” youtu.be/NIQm1c9O_Go?...