1980's

[Borry]

U2
Midnight Oil
Cold Chisel/Jimmy Barnes
Hunters and Collectives
REM
Duran Duran
INXS
ACDC
Dire Straits
Genesis/Phil Collins
Split Enz/Crowded House
Divinyls
Jon Bon Jovi
Icehouse (Great Southern Land)
Ganggajang
The Cure
Men At Work
Dragon
The Police
Hoodoo Gurus
Pseudo Echo
The Choir Boys (Run To Paradise)
New Order
Rick Springfield (Jesse's Girl)
Australian Crawl
etc, etc,...

all great artists of the 80's

 

[HorseHead]

probaly the era filled with the best guitarists

Give ma a guitar solo over some moron rapping any day.

 

[Drummond]

[
Do you rate any of these bands?

Icehouse, RUBBISH
Huey Lewis & The News, TOTAL RUBBISH
Journey, PURE RUBBISH
A Flock of Seagulls. Even MORE RUBBISHY THEN THE ABOVE

Someone needs a trip to the crazy house

 

[Van Der Zeevalk]

Midnight Oil

i wish to raise a protest........
Well, isn't that all these w ankers did?

 

[- PC -]

UK ruled the 80s..

depeche mode
duran duran

Have to agree ..some good ..some not so good.

Human League
Blancmange
Big Country
Spandau Ballet

etc

Samantha Fox

 

[- PC -]

St. Elmo's Fire- wasn't too bad, however I agree, The Breakfast Club is a classic, one of the greats!

I want a song about Molly Ringwald... we had one about Madonna ..why not Molly

I wanna do it with Molly... ohh I guess thats why

 

[melbournemartin]

Metallica were kings of the 80s

 

[CURVE]

LOVE the 80's, probably my favourite musical era. Early to Mid 80's particular.

Blondie
Kate Bush
Mi Sex
Siouxsie & The Banshees
Bananarama
Laura Branigan
Duran Duran
Tears for Fears
Berlin
The Cars
Devo
Dexy's Midnight Runners
The Divinyls
The Eurogliders
Icehouse
Wall Of Voodoo
Models

 

[Mobbs]

Blondie yay
Kate Bush YAY
Mi Sex yay
Siouxsie & The Banshees yay
Bananarama yay
Laura Branigan shrug
Duran Duran yay
Tears for Fears yay
Berlin yay
The Cars YAY
Devo YAY
Dexy's Midnight Runners shrug
The Divinyls YAY
The Eurogliders YAYAYAYA(Y)
Icehouse yay
Wall Of Voodoo yay
Models YAYAYAYAYAYAYAYAAYAYAYAYAYAY

I like you Devo, no matter what you say about Johnny Farnham!

 

[CURVE]

I like you Devo, no matter what you say about Johnny Farnham!

You have Johnny Farnham, I have Laura Branigan. Nobody is perfect, but Laura was definately better than Johnny.

 

[hotpie]

The Smiths
REM
The Violent Femmes
The Cure

.........all the rest pale into insignificance.