Who Is Your Favorite 80s Band/Singer?

[naughty]

*smacks forehead for not thinking about Eurythmics/Annie Lennox*

Great list, Naughty. Anyone remember Sheila E? I loved her.

YES! OMG how could we forget Prince or the Time? Then there is RUn DMC and the beginnings of the Fresh Prince himself and Jazzy Jeff. Or Kid and Play! Kurtis Blow oh the list is endless.... Adam Ant! THe Police, SPandau Ballet....

 

[B_NineInchCock_160IQ]

Nine Inch Nails

 

[ZOS23xy]

I guess I like Elvis Costello
Sheila Chandra
Devo
Lena Lovitch
...hmmm...I think I also spent the 80's being obsessed with older rock and roll and collected up some odd garage bands...Roky Ericson anyone?

 

[B_ScaredLittleBoy]

Prince

 

[Nelly Gay]

Prince

Prince and ... Cyndi Lauper !

 

[SteveHd]

*Speaking softly...*

Boston.

*Before anyone reads this, I'll abscond and hide.*
:wall:

 

[B_Bette]

*Speaking softly...*
Boston.*Before anyone reads this, I'll abscond and hide.*

LOL Good idea.

 

[monstro]

The bands I listened to most in the 80's were (in no particular order):

Squeeze
REM
Talking Heads
XTC
Husker Du
Minutemen
This Mortal Coil
Sonic Youth
Camper Van Beethoven

I also listened back then to a lot of Nick Drake, Leonard Cohen, Van Morrison, and Bob Dylan!

 

[Meniscus]

Berlin gets my top vote.

My other favorites bands were, in roughly chronological order:

Duran Duran
Madonna
Cyndi Lauper
Culture Club
Prince
Sheila E
Siouxsie and The Banshees
Suzanne Vega
​

Some 80s artists I didn't discover until I was in college (early 90s) were:

Laurie Anderson
This Mortail Coil
The Cocteau Twins
Blondie
Kate Bush
Concrete Blonde
Violent Femmes
Throwing Muses
​

 

[BruiserMN]

Huey Lewis & The News.

 

[simcha]

1. The Cure - Robert Smith
2. Echo and The Bunnymen
3. New Order
4. Bauhaus
5. The The
6. Erasure
7. The Eurythmics - Annie Lennox
8. The Mighty Lemondrops
9. The Dead Milkmen - Bitchin' Camaro
8. Social Distortion - Mommy's Little Monster

 

[huw ginnit]

Culture Club for me... oh how amazing were they?

 

[xxnineinchxx]

Big Country