Nor me yours, sweetcakes :)

I'd probably look to include bands who were out in the 80s.

Hope that helps.

Damian

Let's stop beating around the bush. Wanna fuck?:winkwink:

The danger of this process is I get caught listening to music for far to long.

Like, I haven't listened to the band ABC is years. I saw them live by accident a couple years back as part of another show and was sort of stunned by the power of Martin Fry's voice so many years on.

Then today, I get caught listening to a show they did at London's Albert Hall last year when they played the whole of Lexicon Of Love with the BBC Orchestra.

Okay, this is a crappy fan video recording but that album came out how many years ago and his voice is still that strong even with having been through serious illness. Plus, the song is so much better without the normal video!

the cure
blondie
bowie
joy division
love and rockets
etc

I totally agree with you o that list!

I don't know if you name them already but here are some bands that rock the 80s...

Ramones
U2
Aerosmith
Judas Priest
Motley Crue
Stevie Ray Vaughan
Joe Satriani
Michael Jackson
Misfits
Megadeth
Metallica
The Cult
Guns N' Roses
Dire Straits
Motörhead
Pixies
Men At Work
Madness
The Cure
Roxette
Def Leppard
Neil Young
Skid Row
The B-52s
Culture Club
Depeche Mode
Europe
Duran Duran
Spandau Ballet

def leppard, john cougar mellencamp

lol

a friend of mine had the whole Asia discography when we were kids, I guess someone used to send it to him from abroad - he was the king having CD's

http://www.omodern.com/kult/images/gertjonnys.jpg

http://www.gamlavykort.nu/artiklar/d...an-werners.JPG

1980s ...not 1880s

All bands named after places suck. Kansas, Boston and Chicago are some more good examples.

More Than A Feeling gives Boston a somewhat pass.

When Chicago was the Chicago Transit Authority they were really good, before the guitarist blew his brains out in a game of russian roulette. They put out their first record,a two record set and did not copyright it, and further went on to explain why they did not want to copyright it on the inside of the cover.

I am not this old, but my oldest brother had that album in his collection.

Yeah, they weren't horrible at that stage.

Isn't anyone going to stick up for Kansas?

fuck, how could i forget Yaz

iron maiden for sure

Which is always a confusing one for British audiences because the bands Americans call Yaz was called Yazoo over here and there was another (amazonian sized) female singer that went by Yazz.

dang, for some reason i thought all those were the same, the female being alison moyet.

lolz!

Alison Moyet is indeed the singer in Yazoo (who for some reason changed to Yaz for the American market.

Yazz is this woman:



Alison has a fantastic voice though.

gotcha!

i keep wanting to add art of noise and herbie hancock to this list, whilst not superachievers in record sales their style is quintessential 80's alt and both are big contributions to the music world, imo.

Strange Advance
Cutting Crew
Ice House
Level 42

For us Canadians the 80's were all about Streetheart (from which spawned Loverboy), Harlequin, Prism, Trooper, Triumph, Goddo, Toronto, The Kings, Sniff 'n the Tears, Saga, Honeymoon Suite, Platinum Blonde, Payolas, RUSH, April Wine,
and later in the decade Jeff Healy, Colin James, The Pursuite of Happiness, Tragically Hip, Grapes of Wrath, Blue Rodeo.

Yeah, you can't go into British 80's music without Madness.