1 Brickmuppet just got hugely spammed.

2 Yuck.  Fortunately, all from the one source, so cleanup was easy.

3 Yeah, I have a lot of those songs. Maybe the person who made the playlist was a little young at the time, and didn't realize just how many of those songs were in heavy rotation on radio and MTV, making them far from obscure. Seriously, Twilight Zone obscure? Everybody have fun tonight? Bond soundtrack For your eyes only?

-j

4 Nik Kershaw and Blancmage didn't exist in the US, much like Falco's original version of Der Kommissar.  ("Wouldn't It Be Good" didn't crack the top 40 here, and I don't ever recall seeing it on MTV).  There's some other stuff on that list I'd genuinely consider obscure, at least US-wise, but there's also a lot of stuff that AFAIK was a massive hit everywhere like "West End Girls" (now being introduced to under-35s by GTA V).

5 Nik Kershaw most definitely was available in the US in the 80s. There was an awful cover of Wouldn't It Be Good in some Molly Ringwold-style movie or other, and I remember buying the album Human Racing and probably at least one other.  The cover might be why you don't remember seeing anything on MTV--it might have poisoned the well, and there might not even have been a video of that version.
Pixy's right--all of those bands were at least moderately well-known at the time (well, I don't recall Blancmange or Icehouse, so I can't speak to those two), and some were very popular, so "obscure" is a very poor description.  Nobody who lived through the 80s could call Depeche Mode or INXS obscure, for example.

6 BTW, I just found a video for Wouldn't It Be Good on Youtube.  I'd definitely have remembered having seen that, so I guess it didn't get much, if any, airtime.

7 If a nobody kid in a nowhere town in Nebraska heard these songs at the time, and I did, then obscure was the LAST thing they were.

8 This word "obscure"... it does not mean what he thinks it means.