Synthpop's Second Tier

There's no better way to trumpet a post than to diminish its importance in the title. Here, a few hits sampled from throughout the 80s, from a few bands who didn't achieve the fame of, say, your Depeche Modes or your OMDs or Pet Shop Boys or Erasures or whatever. Exclusively by virtue of their minor chart success, I'd call them B-Listers. Blisters. But they'll always occupy a place at the top of my heart's A-List.

Candy and cheese time.

Two smash hits from London, ca. 1981.
Visage - Fade to Grey
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Ultravox - Vienna
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One from Berlin, ca. 1984.
Alphaville - Big in Japan
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Liverpool ca. 1986.
Dead or Alive - Brand New Lover
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Frankfurt, ca. 1987.
Camouflage - The Great Commandment
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Manchester (!) ca. 1989.
When in Rome - The Promise
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