Your Favourite Bands of The 80s

[thehattrickrabbit]

Mine is Dire Straits (love the work of Mark Knopfler, possibly one the best guitarists in the world)

i also dont mind, Mental as Anything, Midnight Oil and John Farnham

thoughts and opinions ???

 

[Samwise]

Pixies, The Cure, Joy Division, New Order, Happy Mondays, Ramones, The Clash, Guns N Roses, beastie boys, public enemy, Bob Marley and the wailers, REM, Echo and the bunnymen.

Some of these are more 70's or 90's but still had releases in the 80's so I included them.

 

[Red Bear]

Dead Kennedys, Operation Ivy, Bad Religion, NoFX(altho their best stuff was in the 90's) etc etc

 

[Generalzod]

Iron Maiden

 

[Red Bear]

oh and 80's Metallica was the bomb

 

[newtownbluebags]

Talking Heads among many, many others!

 

[hineyrulz]

the gunners,metallica,the cure,dire straights all great 80's bands.

 

[Phillips]

AC/DC (Bon Scott)
Australian Crawl
Bachman Turner Overdrive
Black Sabbath
Bob Marley
Bruce Springsteen
The Clash
Cold Chisel
Cream
Crowded House
The Cure
David Bowie
Deep Purple
Def Leppard
The Doobie Brothers
Dragon
Elton John
Eric Clapton
Eurythmics
Icehouse
INXS
Jimi Hendrix
Joy Division
Led Zeppelin
Lynard Skynard
Madness
Men at Work
Metallica
Midnight Oil
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark
The Police
Queen
Rainbow
The Small Faces
Toto
Steppenwolf
Supertramp
Talking Heads
Thin Lizzy
Van Halen
Genesis
Free
America
Bob Dylan

probably a few ive forgotten

 

[Thomo.]

Pseudo Echo!

 

[newtownbluebags]

Bob Seger & the Silver Bullet Band

Stray Cats

Huey Lewis & the News

Toto

Men Without Hats :lol:

 

[LESStar58]

Social Distortion, The Clash, Blondie, Living Colour, Public Enemy, Run DMC, Operation Ivy, The Ramones, The Cure, New Order, ELvis Costello, Fishbone, Stray Cats.... all artists that I like that enjoyed success in the 80s.

 

[Ron Jeremy]

Van Halen
Gunners
WASP
Poison
Ratt
Skid Row
Def Lep
Dokken
Motely Crue
Idol

btw

Phillips, Hendrix was 60's lol, and thank f**k he was.

 

[Collateral]

Cypress Hill!!!!!!

Hendrix was awesome. I wish he was still around to play lol.

 

[newtownbluebags]

REO Speedwagon!

 

[nöyd]

Bucks Fizz

 

[newtownbluebags]

B-52s

 

[CC_Eagle]

Knopfler is incredibly underrated imo..Those who doubt me just try playing some Straits or solo material.

The Cure
Joy Division
Talking Heads
Midnight Oil
Crowded House

The only decent things to emerge out of 80's music....

 

[Phillips]

btw

Phillips, Hendrix was 60's lol, and thank f**k he was.

*loses respect for RJ* :x

 

[alien]

metallica r the best ever

 

[newtownbluebags]

Dire Straits.............