Forgotten Bands from the 80s
 

Interesting thread topic and it might give me some ideas for songs to add to my mp3 collection. Bands you would expect noone who didn't live through the 80s to know about, like

Night Ranger
Santers
Y&T
Loverboy
Pat Benatar
The Romantics

lol, Y&T they had like two songs and only one was really good.

what about


Thompson Twins
Midnight Oil
Boz Scaggs

Summertime Girls (which was GREAT, BTW)
Meanstreak

They were a really good power rock band with some very good musicians that, for whatever reason, never really caught on. Sometimes it makes you wonder when bands like Y&T and Santers don't hit it big and TOTAL CRAP BOY BANDS like the Beastie Boys do.

A-HA
Technotronic

Rockwell
Pretty Poison
A Taste Of Honey

Falco !!!

"Rock Me, Amadeus"

I have a list of the firsts 70s, possibly the most creative years of the modern music. Most of these bands (and most of the other ones) decline in the middle of this decade to turn into a more commercial and simple model that continue at the 80s with melancolic and disco styles:

Camel
Deep Purple
Dixie Dregs
Emerson Lake and Palmer
Focus
Frank Zappa
Genesis
Jethro Tull
John Lennon
Morgenstein
Queen
Rush
Supertramp
Yes
I have a list of 130 more but i prefer to list only the best ones.

The 80's have some very good pieces as the 90s , but i think that if i want to continue being happy with new music i should look for 30 years ago archives.

damn pelcito.. you listed some good ones..

:winkwink:

what the fuck are the 80's old man:1orglaugh

Some of these bands are still pretty popular today. Also, I think I'd put Purple, ELP, Lennon, Queen, and Tull in the category of 70s bands.

The decade you were born in, probably.

Asia
Clash
Modern English
Thompson Twins
Cure
Men At Work
Men Without Hats
The Buggles
Squeeze
Cory Hart
Depeche Mode
Devo
Modern English
Bad English
Outfield
Duran Duran
Culture Club
Dr Hook
Bangles
The Police
Cutting Crew
Billy Idol
Talking Heads
Def Leppard
Eurythmics
Human League
Damn Yankees
Aldo Nova
Survivor
Robert Palmer
Tears for Fears
Simple Minds
INXS
Pet Shop Boys
Bon Jovi
Mr Mister
REO Speedwagon
Berlin
Quiet Riot
Scorpions
Krokus
Cinderella
Rat
Poison
Motley Crue
Whitesnake
A-Ha
Toto
Dire Straits
Cheap Trick
Van Halen
Sammy Hagar
Skid Rowe
The Cars
Kinks
Pretenders
Sisters of Mercy
Joy Division
Split Ends
Berlin
Til Tuesday
Tubes
Level 42
OMD
Hall and Oates
Pixies
Bow Wow Wow
Stranglers
Psychadelic Furs
Loverboy
Donny Iris
J Geils Band
U2
Echo and the Bunnymen
Madness

Bros

nope:)

Yes, that's true too. Some of them has been improving their music qualities and with the time and the new multimedia technology their music sounds more "clear".

But unlike now, the artists don't use all their potential and energies in new discs. They know that they still selling and the producers demands new disks. Old stars are very good business for producers and economic stability for artists too.

But in the 70's the music turn into the top of the complexity and variety.

For example, "Close to the edge" from the Close to the edge disc (1972, Yes) it's a very good example of that.

Try to listen to it, it's a long song but a lot of people catalog it as the best and more complex song of the 70's

Stray Cats
Stiff Little Fingers

:2 cents:

Correct term for that would be a "One Hitter Quiter" :1orglaugh

Depeche Mode and U2 forgotten? You sure about that?

I cut some parts of the best band i ever listen to it. These parts are all instrumental and full of complex, melody, armony and energy.

They're from 1976 to 1978 from "La Maquina de hacer Pajaros", an Argentinan band. Don't underestimate a spanish band or another langugage music. This, particulary is a very good example of four virtuosos musicans, that if they were born on USA sure that will raise into the top ranks.

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Ruta Perdedora: 2,80 Mb
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Yes in the 70's was definitely complex and very creative, not to mention their lyrics were somewhat mystique. If you ever get a chance to do mushrooms and listen to Yes I highly recommend it, it will make complete sense.

Another example of why we need someone to check ID's at the door.

Today I am going to festival where will play Motorhead:thumbsup

Many are only forgotten until someone covers their song and makes it a hit again!

Not forgotten maybe, but I just started rambling off 80s songs :)

I saw someone at the Warped Tour the other day with a Bad Engligh shirt on.

I think he might have confused them with Bad Religion was actually played at the show. :1orglaugh

Pat Benetar played a county park for 4th of July blowout - it was supposed to have been HUGE.

Night Ranger can still rock in America oh yeah!

Some ones you probably never heard of :

Aldo Nova
Black N Blue
Dangerous Toys
DAD (Disneyland after Dark)
Dogs Damour
Dirty Looks
Faster Pussycat
Hericane Alice
Johnny Crash
Kix
Keel
McQueen Street
Tora Tora

If anyone has these on mp3
let me know:)

How about

ABC

English Beat

Dexys Midnight Runners

Eddy Grant

Nobody mentioned Tyketto or Pretty Boy Floyd did they?

age of chance, anyone else remember them by chance? good stuff..

The Hooters....

Classic band!!

I love Pretty Boy Floyd's song "I Wanna Be With You" :)

Drunkspringbreakgirls, I've heard of most of those. :tongue:

Call me an idiot but I don't know NOTHING about any of thoses bands ... I suck

I love this band, but very few have ever heard of them...
I want to make a movie around their song "Rim Of Hell"

"You can tell by the smell
They throw the best damn parties
At the rim of hell
You can hear 'em yell
They throw the best damn parties
At the rim of hell"