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Subject: Name your Top 5 favorite groups of the 80s.
Written By: bj26 on 06/25/04 at 9:35 am
These come to mined right off, but not necessarily in this order 8)
Haircut 100
Oingo Boingo
Marshall Crenshaw
Spandau Ballet
The Romantics ;)
Subject: Re: Name your Top 5 favorite groups of the 80s.
Written By: ladybug316 on 06/25/04 at 9:47 am
These come to mined right off, but not necessarily in this order 8)
Haircut 100
Oingo Boingo
Marshall Crenshaw
Spandau Ballet
The Romantics ;)
In no particular order,
Oingo Boingo
Adam and the Ants
Duran Duran
The Cars
The Police
Subject: Re: Name your Top 5 favorite groups of the 80s.
Written By: PoPCultureGirl on 06/25/04 at 9:50 am
The Cure
Billy Idol/Generation X
Suicidal Tendencies
Prince
Duran Duran
Subject: Re: Name your Top 5 favorite groups of the 80s.
Written By: MaxwellSmart on 06/25/04 at 10:06 am
The Smiths
Depeche Mode
A Flock of Seagulls
The Cure
New Order
Runners-up:
Ultravox
OMD
Psychedelic Furs
Top five among these eight now:
The Smiths
Depeche Mode
OMD
Ultravox
The Cure
Subject: Re: Name your Top 5 favorite groups of the 80s.
Written By: Absolutely Vile on 06/25/04 at 10:46 am
My Top 5 favourite 80's groups/artists ever*:
Ultravox
Depeche Mode
John Foxx
The Smiths
Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark
*Any of these choices are subject to change at any time (though not in the immediate future), but this is currently what I listen to a lot of.
Absolutely Vile
Subject: Re: Name your Top 5 favorite groups of the 80s.
Written By: redhead007 on 06/25/04 at 12:02 pm
No particular order
Depeche Mode
Smiths
The Fixx
Blanket of Secrecy <----obscure band
The Rain Parade
Honorable Mentions:
Duran Duran
Berlin (esp. early Berlin)
Blondie
A Drop In The Gray <----obscure band
Subject: Re: Name your Top 5 favorite groups of the 80s.
Written By: Rio_Rhodes on 06/25/04 at 12:29 pm
OK! Well, here are my top five bands of the 80s:
Duran Duran
Depeche Mode
Blondie
The Police
And of course!.......
Adam and the Ants!!!!
Well, I think I'm starting to be predictable now, but OH WELL!
Rio
Subject: Re: Name your Top 5 favorite groups of the 80s.
Written By: RockFaerie on 06/25/04 at 1:12 pm
Depeche Mode
The Smiths
A Flock Of Seagulls
The Cure
Duran Duran
Subject: Re: Name your Top 5 favorite groups of the 80s.
Written By: woops on 06/25/04 at 1:55 pm
Out of many...
Def Leppard
Duran Duran
INXS
Bon Jovi
The Cure
Subject: Re: Name your Top 5 favorite groups of the 80s.
Written By: DJ Midas on 06/25/04 at 3:05 pm
Depeche Mode
Duran Duran
New Order
Pet Shop Boys
Prince
Subject: Re: Name your Top 5 favorite groups of the 80s.
Written By: Atari on 06/26/04 at 12:55 am
Journey
Triumph
Kiss (yes, I liked 80s Kiss)
Dokken
Whitesnake
Subject: Re: Name your Top 5 favorite groups of the 80s.
Written By: JohnTaylorsHeart on 06/26/04 at 8:12 am
Duran Duran
Hall and Oates
A-ah
Subject: Re: Name your Top 5 favorite groups of the 80s.
Written By: pennsygirl on 06/26/04 at 4:18 pm
Journey
Hall & Oates
Pat Benatar
The Police
The Cars
Subject: Re: Name your Top 5 favorite groups of the 80s.
Written By: Todd on 06/26/04 at 7:45 pm
The Go-Go's,  Oingo Boingo,  Siouxie and the Banshees,  B-52's,  New Order
Subject: Re: Name your Top 5 favorite groups of the 80s.
Written By: CeramicsFanatic on 06/26/04 at 8:51 pm
Def Leppard
Journey
Bryan Adams
Hall & Oates
Billy Idol
...but there are tons of others that I really like! :)
Subject: Re: Name your Top 5 favorite groups of the 80s.
Written By: RockandRollFan on 06/26/04 at 8:54 pm
1. Def Leppard
2. Loverboy
3. Van HAGAR
4. Journey
5. Van Halen
Subject: Re: Name your Top 5 favorite groups of the 80s.
Written By: Hairspray on 06/26/04 at 9:50 pm
Duran Duran
Chicago
Human League
The Police
Def Leppard
Subject: Re: Name your Top 5 favorite groups of the 80s.
Written By: MaxwellSmart on 06/27/04 at 1:04 am
Midnight Oil
Midnight Oil didn't quite make my list, but it's up there. Great band! Especially the albums
10,9,8,7,6,5,4,3,2,1*
Red Sails in the Sunset
Diesel and Dust
Blue Sky Mining
*terrific album, terrible title!
Duran Duran
Human League
The Police
More awesome choices, IMHO.
Subject: Re: Name your Top 5 favorite groups of the 80s.
Written By: Lennox_626 on 06/27/04 at 11:38 am
Mine are:
Adam & The Ants
Queen
Fleetwood Mac
Roxette
And the one & only....................
EURYTHMICS!!!!
Subject: Re: Name your Top 5 favorite groups of the 80s.
Written By: IWannaBeAGoonie on 06/27/04 at 5:29 pm
Oh, jeez--well, for me, I would have to separate from the early 80's and he late 80's.
In the earlier 80's, my votes for my favorites would go to:
a-ha
Wham!
Culture Club
Journey
Starship (yes, I liked them then..then got back into some of the JEFFERSON Starship and really liked that too)
Late 80's was all about hair bands, give or take, for me.
Bon Jovi
Def Leppard
Slaughter (And VVI before that)
Warrant
Skid Row
And again, actually this is just a "sampling" of my preferred choices for that era. 8)
Subject: Re: Name your Top 5 favorite groups of the 80s.
Written By: NbC on 06/28/04 at 2:25 am
U2
Scorpions
Def Leppard
Depeche Mode
Journey
Subject: Re: Name your Top 5 favorite groups of the 80s.
Written By: Eve Orzabal Smith on 06/28/04 at 3:01 pm
1.-Tears for Fears
2.-Bon Jovi
3.-Spandau Ballet
4.-Pet Shop Boys
5.-Depeche Mode
Subject: Re: Name your Top 5 favorite groups of the 80s.
Written By: Eve Orzabal Smith on 06/28/04 at 3:10 pm
........ and the rest
6.-The Go Go's
7.-Duran Duran
8.-Suzi Quatro
9.-The Cure
10.-Eurythmics
Subject: Re: Name your Top 5 favorite groups of the 80s.
Written By: resinchaser on 06/28/04 at 3:39 pm
Prince
Suicidal Tendencies
Iron Maiden
The Misfits
The Cure
Subject: Re: Name your Top 5 favorite groups of the 80s.
Written By: Richie on 06/28/04 at 11:52 pm
Motley Crue (first two albums only)
Ratt
Dokken
Iron Maiden
Judas Priest
Honorable Mention The Smiths
Subject: Re: Name your Top 5 favorite groups of the 80s.
Written By: Tony20fan4ever on 06/30/04 at 5:02 am
I cannot name just five so here goes:
Iron Maiden
Metallica
Megadeth
Def Leppard
Motley Crue
Dio
Twisted Sister
The Cult(not BOC)
U2
The Hooters
Judas Priest
REM
B52s
Joan Jett and the Blackhearts
Subject: Re: Name your Top 5 favorite groups of the 80s.
Written By: Gis on 06/30/04 at 6:29 am
Hmm I don't think I could name just five either and I'd also have to seperate the 80's into early and late as my musical tastes changed alot to say the least.
Early would be
Ultravox
U2
Madness
OMD
Paul Young
Tears for fears
Later would be
Electric Angels
Saigon Kick
Dogs D'amour
Lillian Axe
Jesus Jones
Guns and Roses
Bon Jovi
Hanoi Rocks
Anthrax
Metallica
The Almighty
Subject: Re: Name your Top 5 favorite groups of the 80s.
Written By: migi on 07/08/04 at 2:15 am
Easy...
Bon Jovi
Mötley Crüe
Duran Duran
U2
Bruce Springsteen & E-street band
Subject: Re: Name your Top 5 favorite groups of the 80s.
Written By: Tim Kramar on 07/08/04 at 3:11 am
Van Halen (with David Lee Roth!)
Billy Squier
Rush
Led Zeppelin
Lynyrd Skynard (spelling?)
Okay, so the last two didn't really perform in the 80's, but their music was on the radio. So here's another, to make up for those: George Thorogood.
Subject: Re: Name your Top 5 favorite groups of the 80s.
Written By: whistledog on 06/16/06 at 11:29 pm
I am updating my list to exclude solo artists
In alphabetical order ...
* ABC
* China Crisis
* Doug and the Slugs
* One to One
* UB40
Subject: Re: Name your Top 5 favorite groups of the 80s.
Written By: robby76 on 06/17/06 at 6:59 am
The main ones...
1. Five Star
2. The Jets
At a push I'd say...
3. Debarge
4. Atlantic Starr
5. Bananarama
Notable mentions:- Culture Club, Go West
Subject: Re: Name your Top 5 favorite groups of the 80s.
Written By: _adam_ on 06/17/06 at 12:47 pm
I Can`t choose only five
Def Leppard
Scorpions
Van Halen
38 Special
Night Ranger
Loverboy
Heart
Bon Jovi
Motley Crue
Cinderella
Guns`n`roses
Ratt
Poison
Police
INXS
Madonna
Living Colour
Red Hot chili peppers
Run DMC
Subject: Re: Name your Top 5 favorite groups of the 80s.
Written By: Tia on 06/17/06 at 12:54 pm
can i do van halen? yes, they were founded in the late 70s but they were pretty much the 80s in a nutshell.
i'll probably go with
van halen
metallica
slayer
gogos
the police
blondie
okkay, that's six. but blondie probably hit their heyday in the late 70s so take it with a grain of salt.
Subject: Re: Name your Top 5 favorite groups of the 80s.
Written By: Criz on 06/17/06 at 4:49 pm
It's a toughie...
1. The Smiths
2. REM
3. The Go Go's
4. Blondie
5. Madonna ( I know not a group-but others have mentioned artists!!)
honourable mention to the Clash and the Jam as they are amongst my favs but where crossover 70s-80s bands - although blondie was too, but the mjority of their popular stuff was post-789 so I've included them!
Subject: Re: Name your Top 5 favorite groups of the 80s.
Written By: loki 13 on 06/17/06 at 5:08 pm
Queensryche
Iron Maiden
Siouxsie And The Banshees
XTC
Dead Milkmen
Subject: Re: Name your Top 5 favorite groups of the 80s.
Written By: HawkTheSlayer on 06/17/06 at 6:57 pm
Hawk, the Slayer's Top 5 '80s Faves:
5. Adam & The Ants
4. Styx
3. Information Society
2. Y&T
AND! The Hawk's All-Time '80s Fave:
1. The Tubes
Top 5 Honorable Mentions:
5. The Police
4. Journey
3. Duran Duran
2. Whitesnake
1. Mucky Pup (more obscure their biggest hit was "U Make Me Sick )
Subject: Re: Name your Top 5 favorite groups of the 80s.
Written By: Trimac20 on 06/18/06 at 5:47 am
1. The Smiths
2. The Pixies
3. XTC
4. R.E.M
5. INXS/The Go Go's
Subject: Re: Name your Top 5 favorite groups of the 80s.
Written By: 80sTrivMeister on 06/18/06 at 5:54 am
Duran Duran
Depeche Mode
The Eurythmics
Icehouse
Erasure
Def Leppard
Subject: Re: Name your Top 5 favorite groups of the 80s.
Written By: wndysbg on 06/18/06 at 5:16 pm
Huey Lewis and the News - I loved my Huey!!!
OMD
Bon Jovi
Aerosmith/Def Leppard
Journey
Subject: Re: Name your Top 5 favorite groups of the 80s.
Written By: wndysbg on 06/18/06 at 5:18 pm
Huey Lewis and the News - I loved my Huey!!!
OMD
Bon Jovi
Aerosmith/Def Leppard
Journey
I forgot to mention Prince - who cassette tapes I listened to constantly in th '80's and .38 Special
Subject: Re: Name your Top 5 favorite groups of the 80s.
Written By: Sister Morphine on 06/18/06 at 5:23 pm
1. Bon Jovi
2. Journey
3. AC/DC
4. Duran Duran
5. The Bangles
Subject: Re: Name your Top 5 favorite groups of the 80s.
Written By: Davester on 06/19/06 at 6:25 am
Oh, let's see...
Probably something like:
Van Halen
Men At Work
AC/DC
The Cars
M
Subject: Re: Name your Top 5 favorite groups of the 80s.
Written By: searching1980s on 06/19/06 at 10:56 am
Is it unusual to have lots of bands you like just one or two songs (or one album) from, and very few that you like in general? I think that's more likely in a very experimental era like the 80s. Anyway, Bands that I like A LOT of their stuff from the 80s:
Talking Heads
Peter Gabriel
Elvis Costello
Prince (the B-sides primarily)
the Pretenders
5 Favorite "one hit wonders" with the hits being from my hit list:
When Problems Arise - Fishbone
New Toy - Lene Lovitch
a tie: Universal Radio & Born in Xixax - Nina Hagen
Dead Man's Party - Oingo Boingo
Wild Vocals/Bass Drum ma Bass Drum (two versions) - George Kranz
Yes, I like weirdness. One of the greatest things about 80s music to me was the self-aware, overblown theatricality of it. Can anyone suggest more of that kind of weirdness to me?
Subject: Re: Name your Top 5 favorite groups of the 80s.
Written By: Kryllith on 06/19/06 at 12:03 pm
Limiting to five...
a-ha
Duran Duran
Depeche Mode
OMD
Asia
Subject: Re: Name your Top 5 favorite groups of the 80s.
Written By: GoodRedShirt on 06/19/06 at 9:27 pm
The Cars
Crowded House
INXS
Iron Maiden
REM
Notable Mentions:
Pixies
Split Enz
U2
early days of Tragically Hip
DLR days of Van Halen
UB40
Midnight Oil
Dire Straits
AC/DC
Subject: Re: Name your Top 5 favorite groups of the 80s.
Written By: airsupplyairhead on 06/28/06 at 9:48 am
1 Air Supply(my fave forever)
2 Alan Parsons Project
3 Chicago
4 Journey
5 REO Speedwagon
Subject: Re: Name your Top 5 favorite groups of the 80s.
Written By: dr mabuse on 06/28/06 at 10:17 pm
Not the most original list but hey...
Bananarama
Depeche Mode
Madonna
New Order
Pet Shop Boys
Subject: Re: Name your Top 5 favorite groups of the 80s.
Written By: whistledog on 06/29/06 at 1:20 am
Not the most original list but hey...
Bananarama
Depeche Mode
Madonna
New Order
Pet Shop Boys
Given your user name, I was expecting to see Propaganda in your list :\'( :P
Subject: Re: Name your Top 5 favorite groups of the 80s.
Written By: dr mabuse on 06/29/06 at 9:52 am
Given your user name, I was expecting to see Propaganda in your list :\'( :P
If I were to do a Top 10 the other five would look like this
Erasure
Ministry
Shannon
The Cure
and Propaganda ;)
Subject: Re: Name your Top 5 favorite groups of the 80s.
Written By: dr mabuse on 06/29/06 at 10:03 am
I am updating my list to exclude solo artists
In alphabetical order ...
* ABC
* China Crisis
* Doug and the Slugs
* One to One
* UB40
I don't know much about the group One to One but their single "Angel in My Pocket" is one of the best of the '80s, period. Such a sweet song with a great, driving mid-80s beat. I would sometimes confuse them with One 2 Many and their equally forgotten yet just as great song "Downtown."
Subject: Re: Name your Top 5 favorite groups of the 80s.
Written By: whistledog on 06/29/06 at 10:42 am
I don't know much about the group One to One but their single "Angel in My Pocket" is one of the best of the '80s, period. Such a sweet song with a great, driving mid-80s beat. I would sometimes confuse them with One 2 Many and their equally forgotten yet just as great song "Downtown."
One to One had big success in Canada, but sadly never became a big success in America
http://www.inthe00s.com/index.php/topic,20531.0.html
Subject: Re: Name your Top 5 favorite groups of the 80s.
Written By: Julia on 08/02/06 at 12:27 am
1. Duran Duran.
2. The Police.
3. Billy Idol.
4. Blondie.
5. Tears for Fears.
Subject: Re: Name your Top 5 favorite groups of the 80s.
Written By: Doc Brown on 08/02/06 at 5:38 pm
I hope I'm just fashionably late for this, but here are mine:
1. Huey Lewis & The News
best song: I Want A New Drug
2. Genesis
best song: Land Of Confusion
3. Journey
best song: Send Her My Love
4. Police
best song: Every Little Thing She Does...
5. Talking Heads
best song: Life During Wartime(live)
Your Pal,
Doc
8)
Subject: Re: Name your Top 5 favorite groups of the 80s.
Written By: Dave79 on 08/02/06 at 9:19 pm
Ok these are not in order at all. But here are some of my top picks.
Hall and Oates
a-ha
The Police
The Cars
Madonna
So many more then that, but there.. thats 5..
--
Dave.
Subject: Re: Name your Top 5 favorite groups of the 80s.
Written By: johnny5alive on 02/25/08 at 9:27 pm
the cars
the thompson twins
the flirts
bananarama
steve miller band
Subject: Re: Name your Top 5 favorite groups of the 80s.
Written By: midnite1 on 02/26/08 at 12:06 am
1 The Police
2 Aha (every one of their 80s songs are great!) Very underrated in the U.S.
3 The Cure
4 Rush (put out ALOT of stuff in the 80s)
5 REM
Subject: Re: Name your Top 5 favorite groups of the 80s.
Written By: Atari on 02/26/08 at 2:29 am
1. Killing Joke
2. Journey
3. Rush
4. The Police
5. Steve Winwood
Subject: Re: Name your Top 5 favorite groups of the 80s.
Written By: cinnabon on 02/26/08 at 5:25 pm
it's hard to narrow it down to just 5, but I will try:
1. Motley Crue
2. a close tie with Crowded House and Split Enz
3. Bon Jovi
4. The Alarm
5. so as not to forget the talented female groups - Expose
honorable mention to The Wild Swans
Subject: Re: Name your Top 5 favorite groups of the 80s.
Written By: star80 on 02/28/08 at 3:56 pm
Def Lepard
The Motels
Bon Jovi
The Police
Guns N Roses
Subject: Re: Name your Top 5 favorite groups of the 80s.
Written By: Zoso on 03/03/08 at 6:22 pm
The Time
The Cure
The Police
AC/DC
U2
Subject: Re: Name your Top 5 favorite groups of the 80s.
Written By: ninny on 03/03/08 at 6:30 pm
The Police
Def Lepard
REO Speedwagon
Bon Jovi
Culture Club-don't laugh
Subject: Re: Name your Top 5 favorite groups of the 80s.
Written By: coqueta83 on 03/03/08 at 8:09 pm
I have so many favorites, but I'll pick five from random-
Journey
The Police
Bon Jovi
Bananarama
Expose
Subject: Re: Name your Top 5 favorite groups of the 80s.
Written By: DeutscherGirl on 03/05/08 at 4:54 pm
OK! Well, here are my top five bands of the 80s:
Duran Duran
Depeche Mode
Blondie
The Police
And of course!.......
Adam and the Ants!!!!
Well, I think I'm starting to be predictable now, but OH WELL!
Rio
I could probably modify this one now, its been awhile....
Depeche Mode
Siouxsie and the Banshees
The Cure
Duran Duran
and Adam and the Ants are still number one!!!!!!!!
Baby
Subject: Re: Name your Top 5 favorite groups of the 80s.
Written By: johnny5alive on 03/05/08 at 8:55 pm
Don't put another dime in the jukebox, I don't want to hear that song no more...
.............. one of my favorite songs from the flirts!...........................
Subject: Re: Name your Top 5 favorite groups of the 80s.
Written By: DeutscherGirl on 03/06/08 at 11:56 pm
Don't put another dime in the jukebox, I don't want to hear that song no more...
.............. one of my favorite songs from the flirts!...........................
Its great, I love that one. Its almost always stuck in my head too.
Baby
Subject: Re: Name your Top 5 favorite groups of the 80s.
Written By: Marty McFly on 03/07/08 at 10:36 am
I'll do it two different ways since picking this stuff is always so hard (since I like so much, lol).
1. Favorites in terms of the general amount of songs I like by them:
Huey Lewis
Lionel Richie
Paula Abdul
The Police
that period's Weird Al Yankovic
That's not totally an accurate idea of all my tastes, because for instance I love alot of new wave, hair metal, dance and soft rock songs, but I wouldn't necesarilly call alot of the artists in general "favorites".
Subject: Re: Name your Top 5 favorite groups of the 80s.
Written By: robby76 on 03/07/08 at 10:49 am
Just to nitpick - shouldn't we be naming actual groups rather than solo artists... ie Madonna etc?