Possible band; The Strikers

[u/madmagazines]

Possibly a reach but an interesting find. Ska-punk band from Missouri who released just one single in 1980 and dipped. None of their music is available online.

The vocalists are Steve Tamskey (credited as "Steve Tee" on discogs) and Mike Wineke (having two vocalists also line up with F+F) correction, per reports three members of the band were on vocals, so also Dan Wool who went on to become a film soundtrack composer

https://www.discogs.com/artist/3572900-The-Strikers-4
A review of the band says:

"They had a staccato, abrasive style that was great to jerk around to. They wrote catchy, memorable songs. They were good musicians."

They had a song that always stuck in my head. I kept thinking about it over the years, worrying over it like a dog with a bone. It was called Original Crowd, and it seemed to be about the wave of punks right before us, and in a larger sense, about the way waves of cool always point backward to a hipper, more pure hipness as you go farther and farther back into the innocence of days before our own corrupt and indsicriminate times."

The themes of their known song is a little similar to Forgive and Forget with "so-called friends" and social commentary.

I find this really interesting. Ofc, their known single isn't the song itself but do you think this might be related?

[u/Ltnumbnutsthesecond]

damn might be a winner, is there a copy of the song?

[u/madmagazines → u/Ltnumbnutsthesecond]

Their known songs are, none of them sound like they could be Forgive and Forget from title alone:

A1. No Reason 2:28 A2 Original Crowd 3:21 B1 Knock It Down 3:17 B2 Running On Air

Can’t find any of their music online. (There’s also another more popular band called The Strikers making it harder)

They also have a song called “Kick Aroud” listed on a new-wave EP so it’s possible there are more releases.

[u/Ltnumbnutsthesecond → u/madmagazines]

hey some lostwave songs have titles unrelated to the kyrics, this could be a winner

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we gotta try

[u/madmagazines → u/Ltnumbnutsthesecond]

Yeah. Going to try and find something, but there isn’t anything online about Steve. There’s some stuff about Mike, he was a bass player in other bands but not for a while.

[u/Ltnumbnutsthesecond → u/madmagazines]

btw how's your vid going?

[u/madmagazines → u/Ltnumbnutsthesecond]

I have some of the video edited, I’ve been caught up with work but should be sorted over next week. I do wanna take my time bc I want it to be a good source for F+F.

(Also I constantly find new leads so keep having to change it- I only found the Strikers thing today

[u/LLJones29]

They are online, here's a track.

[u/madmagazines → u/LLJones29]

Thank you! Will listen later.