Your favorite 80's band?

[sixtyten]

Re: Your favorite 80's band?

the band that did "Reward"

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[Elbmek]

Re: Your favorite 80's band?

Difficult. It was more the song, not the singer that caught my ear in those days. I was only in the UK 82-84 during the main part of the 80s, so probably missed a lot. Pet Shop Boys, the band that did "Reward", not a major musical part of my life the 80s, I sort of stopped at around '72 and stayed there

[Taylor Sinclair]

Re: Your favorite 80's band?

Was and always will be Def Leppard.

[kazwtg]

Re: Your favorite 80's band?

well i have loads that i thought were good
1,Duran Duran
2,Talk Talk
3,Cutting Crew
4,LeveL 42
5,UB40
6,Johnny Hates Jazz
7,Tears For Fears
8,Bros LOL
9,Howard Jones
10,Nick Kershaw

[batman]

Re: Your favorite 80's band?

I used to love Tears for Fears, and I would play their songs endlessly for hours at a time. I used to think they were the coolest band ever. Bigger than the Beatles, even.

Dad does not like them, but I do. I don't like them as much as I did 4 or 5 years ago, but their most awesome songs were on their second album. I started out getting their Greatest Hits, and eventually they released a DVD that featured most (but not all) of their videos.

When I heard they were reforming, I was really into their music then, so that was totally special to me. I was hoping they'd make it all the way up to the top ten. Turns out their short lived reunion only produced one top 40 hit, and while I loved the track, I wish they had got to number one.

T4F reaching number one in this era is way too much to ask for, so Kanye West just had to sample them on his latest album.

[suzannewozere2]

Re: Your favorite 80's band?

A few years later, I put that aside for a while whilst I entered into my shame phase of metal (complete with mullet and cheap leather jacket), such as Metallica, Alice Cooper, Helloween, Maiden and the like.

I must admit, whilst I never really took to the pop side of the decade, I did think that The London Boys' '12 Commandments of Dance' album was superb. I picked it up cheap from eBay a couple of years ago, and it's still fresh and uplifting. Don't tell anybody I shared that with you

Nothing shameful about metal !
Saw the London boys supporting Bryan Ferry on the Bette Noire tour if I remember rightly.

[Mulletino]

Re: Your favorite 80's band?

Public Enemy - i'm also going to see them play here on New Year's Day at BBQ Beats!

[batman]

Re: Your favorite 80's band?

OMD. I like most of their songs. I also like the band, The Wild Swans.

[stevieoneda]

Re: Your favorite 80's band?

Hmmm a tough one for me,

probably between Fleetwood Mac and Prefab Sprout

[Arf a chip!]

Re: Your favorite 80's band?

Couldn't beat a bit of Prince, Bon Jovi, Human League but don't laugh - me and my sisters were brought up on lots of Elvis,

[childofthe80's]

Re: Your favorite 80's band?

Probably Tears For Fears and Erasure

[Woffski]

Re: Your favorite 80's band?

Poison !!!!!!!!

[batman]

Re: Your favorite 80's band?

Used to be Tears For Fears. Now I'm rokken with Dokken, haha! @:

[jorge]

Re: Your favorite 80's band?

i loved frankie goes to hollywood my bedroom was full of poster of them,also liked madness,human league,culture club,bros,liked abit of the 2tone stuff- whenever people talk about music they say the 80's was the best.

[Austin 1100]

Re: Your favorite 80's band?

New Musik
OMD
Ultravox
Blondie