What's your favorite 80s band?

[Amaya]

I don't have one. Do you?

[PittPoliSci]

1. The Pogues, Iron Maiden, and The Queers.

Very diverse selection, but they are my top three from the 80s.

[nine23]

2. The Smiths. There were no others.

[Amaya]

16. Ok, I liked them... a lot!

there were no others. period. :)

[Maddy McCall]

3. The Cult

[Dr Fate]

9. I really dig "Electric" big time, but little else. n/t

n/t

[sundog]

4. Talking Heads

[Dr Fate]

5. XTC & REM...

Whats up with "initial" bands in the 80's???

[NewYorkerfromMass]

14. INXS! nt

[NightTrain]

6. The Stray Cats, baby!

We're gonna rock this town, rock it inside out!
We're gonna rock this town, make 'em scream and shout!

[koneko]

18. Good choice

I saw them live in Japan in 1992. Got brought to front row with my friend. We were the only caucasians in the audience, so the staff thought we were with the band.

It was a tiny venue. AWESOME show!

[Amaya]

19. OMG!

Nice Hair.

[RandomKoolzip]

7. Husker Du, The Minutemen, Mission of Burma, Public Enemy.....

Black Flag
Minor Threat
Bad Brains
76% Uncertain
Squirrel Bait
ISM
The Fall
Glass Eye
Y. Bhekhirst
The Replacements


and about 6000 others, too tired to list.

[maveric]

8. Asia

Only two albums but they rocked.

[NightTrain]

22. Don't cry now that I've found/Don't cry, take a look around you.

:hi:

[hfojvt]

59. I swear I have sung that to half a dozen crying babies

and they stop crying every time. Probably thinking "what the heck is that awful noise?"

[MrSlayer]

10. Slayer

Jane's Addiction is my favorite non-Metal band from the 80's

[RagingInMiami]

15. I consider Jane's Addiction more of a 90s band

[MrSlayer]

77. Well you can do that but they are from the 80's.

X was out in 87
Nothing's Shocking in 88
Ritual came out in 90

They're an 80's band even if the mainstream didn't notice them for a few years.

[NewYorkerfromMass]

11. Clash, XTC, Police, Talking Heads....

ahh... decisions, decisions. There's just too many. I can't decide. It was all too good.

[outraged2]

12. REM

... is the first that comes to mind. The others I really liked were sprt of 'local' bands, never big time - Indecision and Wide Spread Panic (before they hit the radio) They used to play at my boarding school mixers and also college events.

[RagingInMiami]

13. I hated music in the 80s

Until I heard Guns N Roses, followed by the Beastie Boys.

[Kat45]

17. Cats In Boots.

And Guns'N'Roses. I loved a lot of hard rock bands in the eighties.

[devilgrrl]

20. Simple Minds, Siouxsie, Talking Heads...

Kate Bush, Cocteau Twins, Sisters of Mercy, Love & Rockets, Bauhaus, and A LOT MORE...

[loudestchick]

39. I saw Simple Minds in concert with a "younger guy" I was trying to seduce!

What a night!:evilgrin:

[devilgrrl]

72. I saw them in 1984 at Massey Hall in Toronto

China Crisis opened for them.

[tk2kewl]

21. The Style Council

[Maddy McCall]

23. And I loved Billy Idol and Adam Ant...

But mostly because I thought they were hot. :loveya: :-)

[Amaya]

26. I was totally in love with Adam Ant!

[Maddy McCall]

42. I saw him in concert at the Saenger in New Orleans...

I think it was 1986. Anyway, I still have his tee-shirt hidden away somewhere. He took his sweaty tee off and gave it to me. God the man was awesome fine. :-)

[Amaya]

55. You've got his sweaty tee shirt!

I remember wearing buttons of him when I was in the 5th grade. He was just dreamy!!

Can I come over and touch 'the shirt'? :D

[Maddy McCall]

60. For some reason, his guys ushered my gal friend and I to the...

orchestral pit. We had regular tickets, but they put us in the orchestral pit. He sang to me all night long, and at the end, ripped his own tee shirt off and handed it to me. Yes, I still have it somewhere...I think it's in a wooden box in my office with other things I kept, like my "tease" (side rat tail) when I finally cut it off.

Sure, come touch the relic of Adam Ant days past! LOL! :D

[truthseeker1]

45. I used to wear a little Billy Idol pin on my jean jacket lapel!

I'm not sure why I thought he was hot....

[NightTrain]

24. And my 2nd-favorite '80s band? Prince & The Revolution!

[Bok_Tukalo]

25. R.E.M. The greatest American rock and roll band of all time

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[NightTrain]

31. Better than Buddy Holly & The Crickets? I don't think so!

[Bok_Tukalo]

50. Who?

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[sundog]

27. What?? No love for The Cure???

c'mon admit it... you TOO were a poseur once upon a time :P

[Amaya]

37. The Cure got me through some bad times

Love um!

[sundog]

41. I've beeen looking so loooong at these pictures of you

sundog locked in a room with all the lights out

*brood*

[Amaya]

65. Pictures of You

i've been looking so long at these pictures of
you that i almost belive that they're real i've
been living so long with my pictures of you that
i almost believe that the pictures are all i can
feel

remembering you standing quiet in the rain as
i ran to your heart to be near and we kissed as
the sky fell in holding you close how i always
held close in your fear remembering you
running soft through the night you were bigger
and brighter than the snow and
screamed at the make-believe screamed at the
sky and you finally found all your courage to
let it all go

remembering you fallen into my arms crying
for the death of your heart you were stone
white so delicate lost in the cold you were
always so lost in the dark remembering you
how you used to be slow drowned you were
angels so much more than everything oh hold
for the last time then slip away quietly open
my eyes but i never see anything

if only i had thought of the right words i could
have hold on to your heart if only i'd thought of
the right words i wouldn't be breaking apart all
my pictures of you

Looking So long at these pictures of you but i
never hold on to your heart looking so long for
the words to be true but always just breaking
apart my pictures of you

there was nothing in the world that i ever
wanted more than to feel you deep in my heart
there was nothing in the world that i ever
wanted more than to never feel the breaking
apart all my pictures of you

[koneko]

68. Hell ya!

Disintegration was the best album!

Then again, all their albums are good, but Disintegration kicked ass for mellowing & sitting in the dark. . .

[loudestchick]

28. Depeche Mode!

[NewYorkerfromMass]

35. Pet Shop Boys, Erasure

yes there is a great musical lineage in the techno-pop.

[loudestchick]

40. Depeche Mode and Erasure shared the same lead singer if I recall.

[sundog]

44. Erasure!!!

:7

[koneko]

29. Do I hafta choose?

Not only can't I choose, but it's an eclectic mix to boot!

The Cure
Tears for Fears
Howard Jones
Cheap Trick
Depeche Mode
U2
The Smithereens
Violent Femmes
Prince & The Revolution
The Smiths
and, yes, as a teenybopper girl back then, I am not ashamed to admit that I LOVE Duran Duran!

[loudestchick]

32. Those bands bring up sooooo many memories!

[koneko]

69. They do, don't they?

I even forgot some. . .

Marillion
The Pixies
Psychedelic Furs

. . . I am so wishing it wasn't midnight here. I have to go to sleep, and now I want to burn a CD!!!

[kodi]

30. frankie goes to holywood. great music

they did what i think is the definitive "born to run," light years ahead of springsteen's own 1975 version.

welcome to the pleasuredome is simply a fantastic album.

[truthseeker1]

33. Peter Murphy, Depeche Mode, The Smiths, REM, Pet Shop Boys

B52s, The Cure.....there were SO many!

edit: I forgot Midnight Oil, The Church, Oingo Boingo

There are tons of one-hit wonders too...

[sundog]

34. and yet no one has mentioned Echo & the Bunnymen either

c'mon... c'mon!!!!

get those fried brain cells back in order!

[ZoCrowes]

36. The Smiths, Stone Roses etc

Style Council, Stone Roses, Guns N Roses, The Jam, The Cure and The Smiths

[sundog]

38. I consider Stone Roses 90's

cause their debut was released at the tail end of '89... I lump it with all that was happening in the early 1990's

One of the best albums ever btw

[ZoCrowes]

75. True

But I really consider them a product of the 80s Acidhouse scene in the UK. I pretty much consider anything that is pre-Nirvana part of the greater 80s scene ya know. Of course I was only 5 in 89 so what the fuck do I know lol

That is one album I can listen to over and over and over

[Maddy McCall]

43. And I loved OMD.

[bloodyjack]

46. No mention of the Dead Milkmen?

God, you people suck

[sundog]

48. you'll dance to anything by naked truth

[bloodyjack]

51. You'll dance to anything by Depeck-uh Mode

A-A-A-ARTFAG ARTFAG ARTFAG

[sundog]

54. you'll dance to anything by public image limited

[Maddy McCall]

70. Hard to dance to "Black rubber bag, black rubber bag, black rubber...

baaaaagggg!" LOL!

[Maddy McCall]

49. or the Dead Kennedys :-)

[bloodyjack]

57. And another very surprising omission

Throwing Muses

wtf???!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Maddy McCall]

62. Black Flag?

Can't forget Black Flag either. :-)

[Maddy McCall]

47. And I loved Stevie Ray Vaughan, Ratt, Cinderella...

although Ratt and Cinderella should never be mentioned in the same sentence with the god Stevie Ray Vaughan. :-)

[hfojvt]

52. Almost all of them

What can I say, I am pre-occupied with 1985.

[chaska]

53. Mr. Mister, and I don't care who knows it.

[chaska]

56. Ooh, Cindy Lauper!

[NewYorkerfromMass]

66. Kate Bush

wow, someone named Bush I like!

[Forkboy]

58. Dead Kennedys or The Minutemen

[Gothic Sponge]

61. The Pixies

[Wapsie B]

63. The Tubes.

Although they started in the 70's.

[Maddy McCall]

64. I loved them!

[Wapsie B]

67. They're still around too!

http://www.the-tubes.com/news.htm

Yeah, they rock!

:headbang:

[artv28]

71. REM - Camper Van Beethoven - The Feelies n/t

[sundog]

73. The Feelies! Excellent choice :)

[u4ic]

74. Icicle Works

Pet Shop Boys
U2
Tears for Fears

[ariesgem]

76. Was more into funk & rap

My short list:

Zap
The Gap Band
The Time
Run DMC
Grand Master Flash
Public Enemy

The Police. I know they don't not fall into the "funk or rap" category, but I loved them.