I know there prob wont be any posts in reply, but I can hope, right, well can't i??

Anyway I like to listen to Guns and Roses as well as Bon Jovi and U2. These bands hit their prime in the 80's and made some pretty kick a55 music. Songes like

Livin On a Prayer
Sleep When I'm Dead
Always
Wanted Dead or Alive

November Rain
Paradise City
Sweet Child O Mine
Patience

She Moves in Mysterious Ways
Sunday Bloody Sunday
With or Without You

These songs have all stood the test of time and Bon jovi and U2 are still going hard.

Who is your fav 80's band?

Ouuu most definately the Pet Shop Boys with 'West End Girls'!!

Scorpions
Van Halen
Judas Priest
Pat Benetar
(the band that did "Africa")
Also whoever did "The Land Down Under."

MAN I loved the 80's
Just can't seem to recall many parts of it!

Edit: JOURNEY!

Land down under was Men at Work. Gotta Love Van Halen also.

Journey! At least until that new lead singer took over...

I had a thing for Duran Duran....The Cure....Poison...Van Halen....Bon Jovi...Loverboy...Whitesnake...GNR....Metallica...Scorpions....ahhh..nostalgia....

Love your choices

Ya know Nyx, there really hasn't been anything to come along since the 80's that really hits me.
Phil Collins.

Listening to an 80's station now, lying here in my arms....

Phil Collins....dang.....REO Speedwagon...Chicago....Motley Crue...Ratt.....

Tesla was an awesome hair band that isn't given the credit it deserves as well!


P.S.

Toto sang 'Africa'!!

Queen, Pink Floyd, Chicago, A Flock of Seagulls, Gary Numan, Journey, Styx, AC/DC, Kiss, Whitesnake, Alice Cooper, Scorpions, Yes, Rush, Ozzy Osbourne. More of course, but thats close enough.

Yeah, Toto was Africa, Joan Jett!
Nyx, Chicago still can make me cry on command. One of their tunes was a wedding song for me. Now divorced, but it still nails me.

Did we forget the Eagles?

Men at work
and not a band or music, but remember Max Headroom?

How can I forget, Queen or ACDC

I like kiss as well but not all their stuff

omfg..all the hair bands!

Listening to "With or Without You" right now. Reminds me of that episode of friends, which was of course 90's, but the song was 80's.

I just remeber such great music from the 80's.
It was awesome. I can't stand the (IMO) crap of today.

The Fixx

Huey Luis
"I Wanta New Drug"

Stolen for Ghost Busters!

The Fixx! yeah! Forgot about them.....Mr. Mister~Kyrie....

Were not forgeting Skid Row or Winger now are we?

Or what about Warrent? I'm sure everyone remembers 'Cherry Pie'?

Depeche Mode
The Cure
Faith No More
Living Colour
Talking Heads

*keeps thinking*

Oh Sherrie, all alone....

The Eurythmics...Heart.....anyone remember Vixen?

all the concerts i went to in the 80's rocked

Aerosmith - saw them twice

Dokken - even if only for In My Dreams

George Thurogood

KISS - Hot In The Shade Tour........no make-up but worth every penny

Bon Jovi

Def Leppard

David Lee Roth

Steve Miller

Tesla

Black Crows

White Snake with Steve Vai

Cinderella

Extreme - More Then Words was cool

ZZ Top

Motley Crue

most of these i saw outdoors at Old Orchard Beach Ballpark, a truly great venue

Oh man...... those are all awesome...can't believe I didn't think of some of them.....

lol i guess many would say i wasted the 80's

or was wasted in the 80's

LOL.....a lot of my memories are quite....umm...hazy...as well...

AC/DC and Metallica. I wouldn't really say Floyd or Queen, because they really reached their best in the '70s.

Def. Motley Crue, Metallica and Guns n' Roses

That songs from 1991...


For me it's Metallica and U2.

I don't care if I get made fun of. I like Depeche Mode, Eurythmics, Madonna, Talking Heads (in fact I sang "Once in a Lifetime" at a karaoke once with my best friend), Gary Numan, Aerosmith, the list goes on...My mind totally blanked...

Dire Straits...

Still love the Talking Heads, Depeche Mode... & Whitesnake, Guns & Roses Quiet Riot (Come on feel the noise...) Still listen to The Tubes... I had (and have) very varied musical tastes.

... I need to find a good 80s station near me -- all good music I grew up with.

wanna be preceise ?

Original Release Date: August 7, 1990

source

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White Punks on Dope


Ah...retro...gotta love it!

Spit Enz

Eddy Money

Devo

The Sex Pistols

The Violent Femmes

I think the Police had the most original sound of all the 80's bands. The early Police albums anyway.

YES I love The Police. Most 80's stuff is great. Dire Straits, Beastie Boys, 80's Bowie....

...my little China Girl....

Did you know Stevie Ray Vaughn played on that?

Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers

The Pretenders

....

Violent Femmes -- that brings back memories.

Ah the 80's........ I knew them well. Here's my list:

1980: Blondie, Pink Floyd, Queen, AC/DC,Ozzy
1981: John Lennon, Rick Springfield, Hall & Oates, Phil Collins, Foreigner, Ozzy
1982: Survivor, Joan Jett, J Geils Band, Hall & Oates, Men at Work, Journey, Duran Duran
1983: Police, Men at Work, Duran Duran, Prince, Toto, Ozzy, Asia, ZZ Top, Def Lepard
1984: Prince, Tina Turner, Van Halen, Phil Collins, The Cars, Queen, Huey Lewis, Scorpions
1985: Foreigner; REO; Starship, Simple Minds, Madonna, Phil Collins, Huey Lewis
1986: Mr. Mister, Survivor, Robert Palmer, Van Halen, The Bangles, Judas Priest, Bon Jovi
1987: Heart, Whitesnake, Bon Jovi, Europe, U2
1988: Guns & Roses, Def Lepard, Poison, INXS, Whitesnake
1989: Warrant, The Bangles, Great White, Motley Crue, Madonna, Judas Priest

Really? SRV is the sh**.

What about Tears for Fears or Dead Or Alive?
The 80's rocked.

Yeah, he actually toured with Bowie for awhile but got tired of the whole thing and dropped out.

REM, U2 and Talking Heads have to be my top favorite music makers of the eighties. But there's tons of others I like.

By the way, Truthseeker, "Mysterious Ways" was released in the early 90's.

Yeah.....Bowie gave him the studio time for the Texas Flood sessions I believe.

David Bowie and Queen collabarating on Under Pressure
Greatest song ever

Duran Duran! *starts singing hungry like the wolf*
seriously though i have a soft spot in my heart for U2. josua tree was one of my favourite albums ever, and i believe them to be one of the greatest bands of the last few decades

Guns n Roses and Motley Crue, yo!

I think you mean "Toto"?

The 80's; gotta love the music. My favourites were:

*Duran Duran
*Bon Jovi
*Ah-ha
*Dead or Alive
*Level 42
*Madness
*Metallica
*Guns 'n' Roses
*Midnight Oil (Beds Are Burnin')
*Frankie Goes to Hollywood
*Men at Work
*Police
*AD/DC

Erm ... damn! I can't think under pressure. (I'll edit later, lol.)

EDIT: Oops! I forgot Spandau Ballet.

In no particular order: New Order, X, Black Flag, Husker Du, Frankie Goes To Hollywood, REM, 10,000 Maniacs, Camper Van Beethoven, Meat Puppets, Echo & The Bunnymen, Squeeze, Split Endz, U2, Dire Straits & Sting ("Money for Nothing"), Sonic Youth, The Cure, Siouxie & Banshees, Public Enemy, The Smiths, Rob Base, Violent Femmes, Galaxy 500, Minutemen, The The, The Communards, Los Lobos, Replacements, Sugar Hill Gang, Dead Kennedys, and I'll stop here.

^ Oops! I forgot New Order, and Echo & the Bunnymen.

There was a little known band called "XYZ" who were GREAT in the 80's. Too bad they never got the backing they deserved. They wrote some great stuff.

I have become friends with their singer, Terry Ilous, over the past several years and he is still going strong.

You can check out their newer stuff, as well as listen to all the old greats at their official website:

http://www.xyzmusic.com