80's Underground Podcasts

Jeff Shelton
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Truly a lost genre of radio programming until now...the 80’s Underground resurrects the best in 80’s indie, college, punk, post-punk, new wave, and modern rock every week. No other Podcast devotes such a concentrated two hours to the best in completely underground 80’s rock.

  1. Sep 9

    80s Underground Replay: Sep 10, 2014

    U2 - Two Hears Beat As One (War) 1983 BIG COUNTRY - Tall Ships Go (Steeltown) 1984 CHAMELEONS UK - One Flesh (What Does Anything...) 1985 ULTRAVOX - Hymn (Singles) 1982 THE REPLACEMENTS - Left of the Dial (Tim) 1985 R.E.M. - Cuyahoga (Life's Rich Pageant) 1986 THE CHURCH - Dropping Names (Remote Luxury) 1984 **INTERVIEW w/ writer Lori Majewski** ECHO & THE BUNNYMEN - The Killing Moon (Ocean Rain) 1984 THE SNAKE CORPS - Look East for Eden (Flesh on Flesh) 1986 THE PARACHUTE MEN - Sometimes in Vain (The Innocents) 1988 DUMPTRUCK - Carefree (For the Country) 1987 TRANSLATOR - Heaven By a String (s/t) 1985 JULIAN COPE - Trampolene (St. Julian) 1987 CONCRETE BLONDE - Happy Birthday (Free) 1989 THE GO-BETWEENS - I Just Get Caught Out (Tallulah) 1987 DREAMS SO REAL - Maybe I'll Go Today (Father's House) 1986 THE 77's - Do It For Love (s/t) 1987 MICHAEL PENN - This & That (March) 1989 GAME THEORY - Rolling With the Moody Girls (Two Steps From the Middle Ages) 1988 THE FLESHTONES - Right Side of a Good Thing (Hexbreaker) 1983 THE NILS - Young Man in Transit (s/t) 1987 THE TRUTH - Playground (Playground) 1985

  2. Sep 1

    80s Underground Replay: Sep 1, 2020

    SIOUXSIE & THE BANSHEES – Song From the Edge of the World (single) 1987 LOVE & ROCKETS – All in My Mind (Express) 1986 THE OPPOSITION – A Day In The Future (Intimacy) 1983 COCTEAU TWINS – Aloysius (Treasure) 1984 CLAN OF XYMOX – Agonised by Love (Medusa) 1986 LOWLIFE – Reflections of I (Rain) 1985 NEW ORDER – Sunrise (Low Life) 1985 THE CURE – The Hanging Garden (Pornography) 1982 AND ALSO THE TREES – Shaletown (single) 1987 ECHO & THE BUNNYMEN – Lost & Found (s/t) 1987 THE SMITHS – Some Girls Are Bigger Than Others (Queen Is Dead) 1986 OCEAN BLUE – Myron (s/t) 1989 FOR AGAINST – Get On With it (Echelons) 1987 THE DARROWS – Is It You (Cellar Into Eaves) 1986 SGT ARMS – Walking on the Roof (single) 1982 RED ROCKERS – Til it All Falls Down (Good As Gold) 1983 ROMEO VOID – Say No (Instincts) 1984 CONCRETE BLONDE – True (s/t) 1986 THE RAVE-UPS – These Wishes (Book of Your Regrets) 1988 SCRUFFY THE CAT – My Baby She’s Alright (Tiny Days) 1987 R.E.M. – Pretty Persuasion (Reckoning) 1984 X – Surprise Surprise (See How We Are) 1987 THE REPLACEMENTS – Color Me Impressed (Hootenanny) 1983 THE DICKIES – Rosemary (Stukas Over Disneyland) 1988 BIG DRILL CAR – 5 Year Itch (Small Block EP) 1987 DIE KREUZEN – Slow (Century Days) 1988 MEAT PUPPETS – Mirage (Mirage) 1987 THELONIOUS MONSTER – So What if I Did (single) 1989 fIREHOSE – For the Singer of R.E.M. (Sometimes, Almost Always) 1988

  3. Aug 26

    80s Underground Replay: Aug 27, 2014

    MIGHTY LEMON DROPS - One By One (World Without End) 1988 ECHO & THE BUNNYMEN - Lost & Found (s/t) 1987 XMAL DEUTSCHLAND - Matador (single) 1986 PETER MURPHY - His Circle & Hers Meet (Love Hysteria) 1988 CABARET VOLTAIRE - Just Fascination (The Crackdown) 1983 GARY NUMAN - Remind Me to Smile (Telekon) 1980 FRONT 242 - Operating Tracks (Geography) 1982 MINISTRY - Here We Go (With Sympathy) 1983 THE BOLSHOI - Someone's Daughter (Friends) 1986 MEN WITHOUT HATS - I Got the Message (Rhythm of Youth) 1982 HUMAN LEAGUE - Seconds (Dare) 1981 MODELS - I Hear Motion (Out of Mind Out of Sight) 1985 SHRIEKBACK - Under The Light (Jam Science) 1984 KATE BUSH - Violin (Never For Ever) 1980 THE FALL - Hit The North (The Frenz Experiment) 1987 AZTEC CAMERA - Still on Fire (Knife) 1984 THE JAZZ BUTCHER - Southern Mark Smith (A Scandal in Bohemia) 1984 THE STRANGLERS - Souls (Aural Sculpture) 1985 SQUEEZE - Hits of the Year (Cosi Fan Tutti Frutti) 1985 SPLIT ENZ - Take a Walk (Time & Tide) 1982 MARSHALL CRENSHAW - Cynical Girl (s/t) 1982 HOODOO GURUS - In the Middle of the Land (Blow Your Cool) 1987 GUADALCANAL DIARY - Pray For Rain (Jamboree) 1986 R.E.M. - Box Cars/Carnival of Sorts (Chronic Town EP) 1982 RAIN PARADE - Mystic Green (Crashing Dream) 1986 THE CHILLS - Wet Blanket (Brave Words) 1987

  4. Aug 19

    80s Underground Replay: BEST OF 1986!

    This specialty show (originally broadcast in February 2015) counts down the Top 25 albums of 1986.Who made the cut? ...listen and find out!

    80s Underground Replay: BEST OF 1986!

  5. Aug 12

    80s Underground Replay: August 12, 2015

    SIOUXSIE & THE BANSHEES - Dear Prudence (Hyaena) 1984 THE VEIL - Surrender (Surrender) 1984 CHAMELEONS UK - Pleasure & Pain (12" single) 1985 THE THOUGHT - Every Single Day (s/t) 1985 THE THREE JOHNS - World By Storm (World By Storm) 1986 THE DAMNED - Generals (Strawberries) 1982 XTC - Rocket From a Bottle (The Black Sea) 1980 PETE SHELLEY - Telephone Operator (XL-1) 1983 JOE JACKSON (mostly) - Right & Wrong (Big World) 1986 LORDS OF THE NEW CHURCH - Open Your Eyes (s/t) 1982 CLAN OF XYMOX - Louise (Medusa) 1986 SPANDAU BALLET - The Freeze (Singles) 1981 ECHO & THE BUNNYMEN - Villiers Terrace (Play at Home EP) 1984 RAILWAY CHILDREN - A Gentle Sound (Reunion Wilderness) 1987 THE WEDDING PRESENT - My Favourite Dress (George Best) 1987 THE SMITHS - Hand In Glove (Singles) 1984 THE SERVANTS - Meredith (single) 1985 STONE ROSES - Made of Stone (s/t) 1989 THE REPLACEMENTS - Left of the Dial (Tim) 1985 X - The Once Over Twice (Wild Gift) 1981 THE YANKS - Run (Made in the States EP) 1983 DREAM SYNDICATE - Forest for the Trees (Out of the Grey) 1986 DUMPTRUCK - Walk Into Mirrors (Positively Dumptruck) 1986 ABECEDARIANS - Dinner (Resin) 1987 TWICE A MAN - Sense (single) 1982 THE BOLSHOI - Someone's Daughter (Friends) 1986 MODELS - King of Kings (Out of Mind Out of Sight) 1985 LENE LOVICH - Bird Song (single) 1980

  6. Aug 5

    80s Underground Replay: August 8, 2007

    Another very early archive from the broadcast radio days at KSCU!This episode features: Easterhouse, Comsat Angels, Chameleons UK, XTC, The Damned, X, Lazy Cowgirls, Red Lorry Yellow Lorry, Fad Gadget...and a whole lot more!

  7. Jul 30

    80s Underground Replay: August 1, 2007

    This one here...from August 2007 features: Psychedelic Furs, Wall of Voodoo, Hunters & Collectors, Gary Numan, Robyn Hitchcock, Let's Active, Game Theory, True West...and a whole lot more!

  8. Jul 15

    80s Underground Replay: August 14, 2018

    LOVE & ROCKETS - No New Tale To Tell (Earth.Sun.Moon) 1987 THE DAMNED - Gigolo (single) 1987 OMD - Women III (Crush) 1984 PSYCHEDELIC FURS - Goodbye (Forever Now) 1982 MODERN ENGLISH - Someone's Calling (After The Snow) 1982 COMSAT ANGELS - Island Heart (Land) 1983 ENGLISH BEAT - Sole Salvation (Special Beat Service) 1982 B-52s - Ain't It a Shame (Bouncing Off The Satellites) 1986 SPARKS - Pretending to Be Drunk (Pulling Rabbits From a Hat) 1984 DANNY ELFMAN - Gratitude (So-Lo) 1984 BIG COUNTRY - Wonderland - 12" single (1984) RED ROCKERS - Just Like You (Schizophrenic Circus) 1984 EASTERHOUSE - Come Out Fighting (Waiting For the Redbird) 1989 CIRCUSx3 - Butcher Bitches (single) 1986 BLUE AEROPLANES - Warhol's Fifteen (Friendloverplane) 1988 THE DOWNSIDERS - My Only Reply (s/t) 1987 DOWNY MILDEW - Purple Parlor (Broomtree) 1987 THE FEELIES - Let's Go (The Good Earth) 1986 THE FIELD MICE - Sensitive (single) 1989 CORN DOLLIES - Nothing Of You (Wrecked) 1989 THE WOODENTOPS - Move Me (12" single) 1985 FIRST MAN OVER - It's Happening (s/t) 1986 CATERWAUL - A Flower & a Stone (Nature of Things) 1987 THE PIXIES - Here Comes Your Man (Doolittle) 1989 PYLON - Recent Title (Gyrate) 1980 R.E.M. - Moral Kiosk (Murmur) 1983 GRAPES OF WRATH - O Lucky Man (Treehouse) 1987 GUADALCANAL DIARY - Michael Rockefeller (Jamboree) 1986

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Truly a lost genre of radio programming until now...the 80’s Underground resurrects the best in 80’s indie, college, punk, post-punk, new wave, and modern rock every week. No other Podcast devotes such a concentrated two hours to the best in completely underground 80’s rock.

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  • Creator
    Jeff Shelton
  • Years Active
    2019 - 2026
  • Episodes
    55
  • Rating
    Explicit
  • Copyright
    © Copyright 2026 Jeff Shelton
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    80's Underground Podcasts

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