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Oh well now, let’s go 4 the Scottish bands. The land of the best bands basically

(Yeah so many gr8 artists come from this land)

Let’s begin with 2 indie pop bands of that era, Aztec Camera and Orange Juice. Aztec Camera had a bunch of hits during the 80s, and their biggest hit was “Somewhere In My Heart”, whilst Orange Juice had only 1 hit during the 80s called “Rip It Up” which was a synth-funk song basically, and not very similar in the style of most of their songs…Orange Juice’s singer Edwyn Collins would score a big hit again in the mid-90s with his song “A Girl Like You"

My personal fav would be “Love” by AC among the list,.. it was actually different than their first 2 albums, closer 2 the pop/blue-eyed soul style similar with bands like Breathe or Brother Beyond. “Working In A Goldmine” gotta b my fav song of the album.,.. and of course the classic “Somewhere In My Heart”

https://www. youtube. com/watch? v=e9PldrFGnNU

All of them were Irish pop-rock bands active during the late 80s and had some moderate success around their area basically

Interestingly though Hothouse Flowers managed to achieve some success in America as well with their songs “Don’t Go” and “I’m sorry” both charting at a good spot in both US modern rock/mainstream rock charts

(“Don’t go” reached #7 and #16 in US modern rock/mainstream rock charts respectively,and “I’m Sorry” reached #12 and #23)

And The Adventures’ song “Broken Land” was the most played song on BBC Radio 1 in 1988 basically

Although there were some differences according to musical styles within each band,but all of them were branded as “pop-rock”

The Adventures were closer to the post-punk/new wave sound especially in their first album “Theodore and Friends”

Cry Before Dawn were more “alternative rock”

Hothouse Flowers had soul influences (that explains their success in America probably)

and In Tua Nua had more Irish Folk influences.



My personal favorite would be “The Sea Of Love” by The Adventures basically….besides their hit “Broken Land” this album had some other nice ballads like “Drowning In The Sea Of Love” or “Heaven Knows Which Way”

Also their other album “Theodore And Friends”



https://www.YouTube.com/watch?v=s2vUUPedwiA



https://www.YouTube.com/watch?v=_GYCvS_2CL4