80s Bands

[dd74]

Ding! Ding! Ding! Yes: Corey Hart: every girl I knew (which totalled about 3 in those days -- sheesh ) loved that guy until they saw him walk. He was more bow-legged than a Tijuana...well...you know.

Another one-hit-wonder:

Men Without Hats

[ted]

80s were good times for music, these should activate some dormant brain cells. Yes I cheated, had to google a few of these.

XTC Dear God, Ball and Chain, 5 senses..melt the guns
English Beat
Squeeze, Black Coffee in bed, Tempted
Oingo Boingo at a Halloween concert Dead Man's Party,

Police
Clash, Train in vain.
Depeche mode, Just Can't Get Enough
Erasure, Chains of Love
DEVO, Canery in a coal mine
Boomtown Rats "I Don't Like Mondays"
Modern English "I Melt With You"

Gary Numan "Cars"
Soft Cell "Tainted Love"
Tommy Tutone "867-5309/Jenny"
Vapors "Turning Japanese"
Wall of Voodoo "Mexican Radio"
Simple Minds. Alive and Kicking,
Roxy Music, Avalon
The Pretenders, Back On The Chain Gang
Echo and the Bunnymen, The Cutter,
Ultravox, Dancing with tears in my eyes,
Yazoo (Yaz). Don't Go
Human League, Don't You Want Me
Psychedelic Furs, Love My Way

Fine Young Cannibals (FYC), Good Thing
Split Enz, History Never Repeats
Modern English, I Melt With You
REM, It's The End of the World as We Know it
The Cure, Just Like Heaven
B-52's, Rock Lobster,
Wall of Voodoo, Mexican Radio
Dk's Police truck,

Nina Hagen, New York New York
Berlin, No More Words
The Motels, Only the lonely
The Cult, She Sells Sanctuary, Fire Woman, Sun King
Kraftwerk, Trans-Europe Express
Missing Persons, Words, Nobody drives in LA

[vash]

jesus and mary chain
shriekback
smiths
cars
blue oyster cult
phyc furs
rush
there is alot.....

[BlueSkyJaunte]

GWAR!!!

[Overpaid Slacker]

Wang Chung a "One Hit Wonder"?! Dang.
I've got two too many of their albums then.

Now Scritti Politti was a one hit wonder.

Listening to ABC's "When Smokey Sings (Miami Remix) right now.

Hmmm. How old do you have to be to still refer to them as "albums" if they're compact discs?

JP

[Shuie]

I was a big Faith No More fan, but not until the Angel Dust album was released in the mid 90's

I can't believe I forgot the Nirvana 'Bleach' album, the early White Zombie stuff, the two Ozzy albums with Randy Rhoads playing guitar ('Blizzard of Ozz' and 'Diary of a Madman'). I think AC/DC remade the same album half a dozen times in the 80s, but I always liked whatever they were calling it.

[island911]

Lots of great stuff thru the 80's.
Elvis Costello.
Devo or Herbie Hancock may have been ahead of their time, but . . .

Originally posted by Sonic dB
Hall and Oats....dont laugh...in their hey day, they were the best pop writers since Lennon and McCartney.

I can't go for that. . .No -- No can do.

[vash]

yesterday howard stern played some van halen (david lee roth VH) and that stuff rocks! hot for teacher!

[esther]

memories!!! this seems ages ago!

siouxie and the banshees, sugar cubes/bjork, concrete blonde
front 242, nitzer ebb, skinny puppy, jesus and mary chain
love & rockets, ministry, primus, sisters of mercy, sonic youth

[cstreit]

BlueSky.... GWAR!? Har har...

I remember when I first got out of college I was working my first Corporate job, suits, ties, financial corporation that was very "stuffy".

Well I was still in my "rebel' phase and I went to a GWAR concert one weekend. I was in the first row, and if you've ever been to a Gwar concert you know the fake (?) bodily fluids are sprayed all over the audience. They stain hair.

So I show up at the office on Monday with red and yellow splotches in my hair... No one asked me why though.

[dd74]

The Fixx
Flock of Seagulls
Big Country
Crowded House

[Hockey fan]

Here's a few more fond memories of the 80's....

Hoodoo Gurus - Aussie band
Lime Spiders - more Aussie
Dramarama
Flesh for Lulu
The Godfathers
Gene Loves Jezebel
Screaming Trees - late 80's
The Pursuit of Happiness
The Alarm
Agent Orange
The Descendents
TSOL
B-52's
The Church
The Cramps

Time to get the turntable out!

[dd74]

Adam and the Ants
The Call

[dd74]

I think most of the songs were good and a small percentage were bad. Punk has lasted pretty well. Other indie stuff has lasted.

Duran Duran's still around. REM and Beastie Boys too, naming only a few of the top of my head...

Bryan Ferry was in concert at the Universal not too long ago.

[350HP930]

LOL, you guys are giving me flashbacks to my teenage years.

I grew up in Daytona Beach back when they were still the spring break capitol of the world so I got to see a lot of those bands live at the bandshell when I was still a high schooler.

I <3 The 80s . . .

[Sonic dB]

How bout Annie Lennox and the Eurythmics... some good tunes there. Midnight Oil...Men at Work...Greg Kinn Band (our loves in jeopardy)...Huey Lewis and the News...Morris Day and the Time...etc. etc.

Geeze 80s music rocked! Music today just SUCKS...no comparison to the big 80ss

[surflvr911sc]

OK, I'm right there w/ you guys on practically every band listed but I have to say...

Morrissey is a whiny little B!tch! They Smiths could have been a great band if not for that pansy. Makes me want to puke!

[dd74]

Originally posted by surflvr911sc

Morrissey is a whiny little B!tch! They Smiths could have been a great band if not for that pansy. Makes me want to puke!

LOL, Ryan!

C'mon, man. He's a poet!

[surflvr911sc]

Some other “poets” that I’m ashamed I ever listened to:

Depeche Mode – Taken a ride w/ my best friend in his ‘79 Camaro b/c we are young, stupid, and don’t know any better.

Tears for Fears – Shout, and give each other a friggin’ hug already!

Soft Cell – Hell yes it’s tainted, and isn’t it about time we admit it’s tainted b/c it’s a guy!

God I love Bombay Sapphire!

[Cornpanzer]

Anyone remember a band called Tubeway Army. Brit punk/synth band from late 70s and early 80s. Gary Numan was thier lead singer before becoming completely synth. I listened to a lot of that in high school. Loved the Police, Cars and a lot of other stuff that I am too embarrassed to admit to!