TheBig3KilledMyRainDog

Well the 80's were the worst decade for music I can hear. Im sure the Black Plauge years in europe turned out some ****ty tunes, but the 80's was a decade full of novelty. Forgive me if I glance over that entire abboration in taste.

Secondly, I agree with REM being bigger, I think U2 was bigger as well, and im sure there was another one im forgetting.

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Sweet Jane

I'd invest in a hearing aid. The 80s were amazing.

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TheBig3KilledMyRainDog

great use of backing facts to support some random statement.

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Stu

the pixies
the smiths
the cure
new order
REM
jesus and mary chain
dire straights
the specials
madness
the clash
ultravox
ozzy
siouxie & the banshees
queen

80 had some good indie, electro-rock going on. i liked the 2-tone movement aswell. but ive always said, the hair metal scene always tarnishes my view of the 80s, i tend to forget about the pluses. good bands though.

TheBig3KilledMyRainDog

Fair enough, but its not just hair metal, I wasn't speaking blindly when i said there were novelty acts abound. The hard part is making an argument when you can't remember their names. Aside from my own rememberence of what horrors existed then, if you've ever caught "I love the 80's" on VH1, then you would know what I meant. Songs about convoys and something with donald duck, im sure there was a packman song. Micky you're so fine, whatever the Knack wrote.

As I've said, I can't conjure every crap song that they dished out then, but the fact is that the 80's was inundated with garbage.

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“The night falls gracefully for those who have a love to call their own. But alas, for those to whom love has turned a blind eye – love, it falls like a guillotine”

“No more waiting for fate to befall me, no. I have my dreamboat, and together we will find our destiny, choose our ladder to the sky” - Markus Pierson

Urban Hatemonger

The Chameleons
Japan
Wire
Mission Of Burma
The Gun Club
Echo & The Bunnymen
The Fall
Public Enemy
The Birthday Party
Spacemen 3
Human League
Husker Du
P.I.L.

Just thought I`d add a few more

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Stu

id agree with 3/4 of those bands being good. husker du barely make the standard needed to be seen as acceptable in my view.

Urban Hatemonger

WTF?

You had Dire f-ing Straits in your list

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Stu

whats wrong with dire straights i ask?

Urban Hatemonger

Whats right with them

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