...Cuz it's the ONLY way to know who you would've been friends with in highschool.

Smiths
Cure
Echo & the Bunnymen
Robyn Hitchcock
Siouxsie/Banshees
Clash
Bauhaus
Bowie
Stooges
Pixies
The Church
Redd Kross
Oingo Boingo
P. Furs
The DB's
De La Soul
Elvis Costello
INXS
Midnight Oil
Matthew Sweet
Morphine
New Order
PIL
Police
Pretenders
Prince
Roxy Music
Sade
Television
Ramones
X
REM
Replacements
Big Star
Stevie Ray Vaughn
Smithereeens
Laurie Andersen
Gang of Four
XTC
Cramps
Big Black
Bad Brains
Camper van Beethoven
Steel Pulse
English Beat
Specials
Gap Band
Posies
Jane's Addiction
Pell Mell
Jason & the Scorchers
Hoodoo Gurus
Love and Rockets

Joy Division, The Misfits, Culture Club, The Police, Duran Duran, PIL, Smiths, Roxy Music, Gang of Four, B Movie, Richard Hell, The Jam, the Clash, Buzzcocks, Missing Persons, Blondie, Berlin, Siouxsie and the Banshees, Grace Jones, Madonna, Beastie Boys, Thompson Twins, Belouious Some, the Blow Monkeys, Bananrama, Minor Threat, Laibach, Swans, Front242, Echo and the Bunnymen, Pink Floyd, Judas Priest, Wasp, Accept, Overkill, Iron Maiden, Erik B and Rakhim, Run DMC, 2Live Crew, Schooly D, Kurtis Blow, Public Enemy, Melle Mel, Prince, Sheila E, Klymaxx, Dazz Band, Mary Jane Girls, Rick James, Vanity6, Morris Day and the Time, Pet Shop Boys, Bronski Beat, Erasure, S Express, Bauhaus, Tones on Tail, Love and Rockets.

Yaz/Yazoo

^^^ yes! Loved 'Only You'

Thomas Dolby, Spandau Ballet, the Cure, the Unforgiven, the Cult, Motorhead, Venom, Slayer, Metallica, Quiet Riot, Vandenberg, Europe, Living Color, Prince, Satan, Grim Reaper, Mercyful Fate/ King Diamond, Widow, Bitch, Headpins, Stryper, Styx, Overkill, Priest, Rush, Ozzy, Iron Maiden, Van Halen, KISS, Modern English, Virgin Steel/ Jack Starr, Warlock, Metal Church, Mace, Manowar, TAD, Testament, Rail, Marillion, Big Country, Outfield, Men at Work, Queensryche, Misfits/ Glenn Danzig, Pogues, Mr. Mister, Great White, Jackyl, Rossington- Collins Band, Scorpions/ Michael Schenker Group/ UFO, Accept, Rainbow, Dio, Black Sabbath, Thin Lizzy, Krokus, Armored Saint, Anthrax, Smithereens.

Damn. I forgot Megadeth, Slayer, and Big Country.

Asia.

Oh yeah, and the best album of that decade.............

Thriller- Michael Jackson

Other mainstream things I like/liked at the time:
Steely Dan
Little Feat
Lucky Star by Madonna
Joni Mitchell- Don Juan's and Hejira
Go-Go's
Bangles
Concrete Blonde
Zappa
Return to Forever
Brand X

Years later I came to love 80s hip-hop, but at the time I didn't hear much of it.

I was picking up Megadeth albums at the time, but I was a Team Metallica guy. Looking back comparing apples and oranges total body of work...consistent quality over the years...Lars and James may have won the "success" battle, but Uncle Dave wins the war. Metallica's body of work, after ...and Justice for All, has been pretty spotty.

But for the paucity of punk,I damn near agree with everything on this list.

Except for the Smithereens. I fucking hated those guys. Something about their sound didn't sit well in my brain.


Kind of like that guy who had seizures every time he heard Mary Harts' voice.

AC/DC, The Clash, Police, Van Halen, Missing Persons, ZZ Top, The Cult, Guns'n'Roses, SRV, Georgia Satellites, Fabulous Thunderbirds, Cinderella, Rank and File, Lone Justice, The Rainmakers, Rush, Triumph, Saga, John Cougar Melloncamp, Bruce Springsteen, Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers, Travelling Wilburys, Grateful Dead, Dire Straits, John Fogerty, Gap Band, Dwight Yoakem, Talking Heads, U2, .38 Special, Jeff Healey Band, Rainbow, Billy Idol, INXS, Pat Benatar, Joan Jett & the Blackhearts, Warren Zevon, Hindu Love Gods, Alan Parsons Project, Robbie Robertson, Keith Richards & the Expensive Winos, The Fixx, Los Lobos, Night Ranger

Here's a curve for the thread. Acts or songs you would have never admitted to liking back then but later became favs. Guilty pleasures:

For me, it's Hall and Oates- I Can't Go For That.

The Cars
The Killer Whales
Seconds Flat
Missing Persons
The Rolling Stones
John Prine
Warren Zevon
The Police
R.E.M.
Paul Simon
Roxy Music
Lou Reed
John Fogerty for Centerfield
hated Springsteen because...people from New Jersey
Laurie Anderson
The Vaselines
Tracy Chapman
John Lee Hooker
DEVO
Talking Heads

Some of these I still listen too, others sound like nails on a chalkboard to me now. Mostly due to associations.

I like this cover version better:

Interesting. They seem to be doing a cover of a cover.

The Bird and The Bee is a successful group featuring Inara George, daughter of Little Feat's Lowell George.
They have a full album of Hall and Oates covers that is fucking awesome.



They also have a kiler cover of Bee Gee's How Deep is Your Love

Violent Femmes

Good call.


We don't want no killing Lord
I don't wanna see my brother die
We don't want no killing Lord
I don't wanna to see my sister cry
I don't wanna see
I don't wanna see I I I I I...

Huey Lewis and the News
Flock of Seagulls
Men Without Hats

Total Eclipse of the Heart!
and
Family Man - Hall & Oates

I liked Bruce in the 80s, but hate him now because of Yuppies.

Billy Idol
Dead Kennedys
Sex Pistols
Billy Joel
Beastie Boys
Charlie Daniels
The Kinks
Huey Lewis
David Lee Roth

I was in elementary school and those were the only cassettes and albums I had. Rebel Yell was the first cassette I owned, David Lee Roth Eat em and Smile the first one I bought on my own, but I got sick of it quickly.

SLF,The Jam ,Style Council , The Damned ,Husker Du , Motorhead, PIL, X , Dead Kennedys ,Billy Bragg, The Redskins, Bauhaus, The Cult (just the shit off Electric,) Skrewdriver, The 4Skins ,The Business ,The Oppressed, Jason and the Scorchers, The The , RHCP, Big Country, New Order, The Smiths, Yellowman, Minor Threat, Violent Femmes,The Pogues, The Ramones. Eric B. & Rakim ,BDP ,The Smithereens ,ABC, Duran Duran, Adam and the Ants, Devo,Frankie, The first WHAM! record, Yazoo,Erasure, , LL Cool J,
FYC ,Sade ,Level 42 All my teenage years were in the 80's, tastes kind of changed over time....

I have almost all of these bands on Pandora. No Hall & Oates though. Always hated those fuckers.

I hate I forgot to list the violent femmes. "Good Feeling" was a personal anthem for my college years.

The only thing about getting older I like is being able to publicly broaden my musical tastes without judgments or recriminations bothering me. I set winamp to random and the music cycles from phish to AC/DC to Erik Satie piano music to Harry Chapin to Billy Joel and I don't give a fuck what anyone else thinks even if they decide to comment.

Not too long after Touch of Grey came out I started working a job where several of my co-workers were serious Deadheads. I tried like hell to get into them in the early 1990s but couldn't even though I liked In the Dark. Yesterday I got my 66th live Grateful Dead CD set in the mail. 62 of them I have bought in the last three years.

I tried several times to get into the Grateful Dead over the years but just couldn't. It was "Freaks and Geeks" that did it. A teacher in that series recommended "American Beauty" and listening to that album made it click for me.

Tons. A lot of hair metal bands. Skid Row and Motley Crue. Not Slaughter, LA Guns or Keel.

A lot of Top 40 stuff. Springsteen.

I agree it's easier as you get older to be open to more stuff because there's not the pressure from your friends to like or not like whatever act. And I was one of the horse's asses who dogged on people for liking lame shit.

Can we throw in 80s Movies worth revisiting or leave that to another thread?
I don't want to hijack this one.

Repo Man- fits both categories

That movie is great to watch while tweaking or dropping acid.

Stranglers
Buzzcocks
Stiff Little Fingers
Devo
Magazine
Fad Gadget
Crass
Subhumans
Discharge
The Exploited
Plasmatics
Ramones
Vice Squad
999

Wendy O. Williams was a national treasure.

I lived through the 80's. There were performers who made some questionable artistic choices. But, for the love of God... I don't know how this happened.

Toto - Rosanna

Loved Men at Work.

they were my first concert. inxs opened up.

Ha. My first concert was the Go Gos.

INXS opened for them as well. Had never heard of the "inks" before that. They were pretty good though.

My first was the Bay City Rollers at Paramount Theater in Seattle.

My first concert was Sha Na Na in NOLA. Then years later saw mid 80s Kiss.

Willie Nelson was the grand opening artist at the local sports arena back in the 80's. People were smoking so much weed that there was a blue cloud over the arena floor. I remember the harmonica player wound up being the star of the show.

My first was Pat Benatar. Billy Squier opened up for her. Squier blew Benatar away. He killed it while Benatar was just going through the motions.

My first concert was George Thorogood and the Destroyers/ZZ Top. We got lost on our way to the Spectrum in Philly and missed about 90% of Thorogood.

My first concert was AC/DC, Blow up Your Video tour in '88.

It just came out that AC/DC is scrapping their plans for an album & 40th anniversary tour. Seems Malcolm Young had a stroke a few weeks ago and he can play, just not play how he needs to.

I found this band on youtube and apparently they were huge. The holocaust was bad, but we should have fucking killed every single german for this shit. It's amazing; I guess these guys were stars and then broke up. Their solo vids are even worse. And fuck Europe.

To call these guys fucking faggots is an insult to gay guys. Their songs are just 'cool' sounding english words shoved together. I hope both these guys got AIDS. I was gonna post this in the hatred of Steve Holmes thread.