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Following on from the 90's music.

Who are your fave artists from the 80's?

Mine are:
The style Council
Duran Duran ( How predictable eh!)
Depeche Mode
Billy Idol
Howard Jones
Last but not least The Pet Shop Boys.

I loved Duran Duran (especially Roger Taylor (the drummer)).

Music was better in the 80's. It really was.

For me my favourites of the 80's have to be....

The Pet Shop Boys
Tears For Fears
Frankie Goes To Hollywood
Madness
Blondie


..I'm sure there's more, though they sound really cheesy, they've all produced some damn good tracks.

True story...
I remember walking past a branch of NatWest about 3 years ago and seeing a display of 80's record covers in the window. "Throw out your 80's musical crap and get £50 (or whatever) of HMV vouchers to spend on decent stuff from today!" it said, or something like that... you get the idea. What annoyed me was that some of the bands in the window were still going and still releasing good far better than any R&B rap crap from today. Worse, Pet Shop Boys seemed to be represented by 75% of the covers and pictures in the window, the remaining 25% being stuff like Tiffany and Falco! I've been a PSB fan since I was 10 so I was having none of this. I could have gone into the branch and asked them what they were playing at but nope, I had a better idea. One quick email to the webmaster of the offical PSB site and the covers were taken down 2 days later. Neil and Chris apparently thanked me for "bringing this to their attention!"

Other faves of mine...
New Order
Depeche Mode
Human League (pre-1981)
OMD

Brad wrote:True story...

I don't believe you

It is true. And not *that* interesting after all that.

Always prefered 'synth/electronica' stuff rather than New Romantics.

How i forgot to add Prince and Inxs to my list i'll never know.

I never really liked 80s music, but...

Frankie Goes To Hollywood matched their brilliant image making with truly superb music.
a-ha had real talent, but I feel were incorrectly marketed as a boy-band

And that's about it. Other than the odd hit like "Pump Up The Volume", the 80s never really did it for me.

Queen, my favourite band, went through an awful creative lull in the 80s. The 70s were definitely their hayday.

johnnyboy wrote: a-ha had real talent, but I feel were incorrectly marketed as a boy-band

Oh they were good. I had those leather laces on my wrists just like Morten Harkett. When I went in the bath they would leak tannin and make my body orange coloured.

I never got the impression they were, "boy band". They had that love thang in the, "Take On Me" video, did a Bond theme and all round seemed quite sophisti-ma-cated.

Not yet mentioned (except they probably have been and I've forgotten):

Propaganda
Nik Kershaw
The Specials
Spandau Ballet
Dead Or Alive (and not just "You Spin Me Round" either - the follow-up "Love Come Back To Me" is simply fantastic.)
T'Pau (yes, even "Sex Talk")

T'Pau! Ha! Hated China In Your Hand but their other tracks were great. Valentine and I Will Be With You. Got thier album somewhere! Anyone heard Ricky Gervais' 80's band 'Seona Dancing'? The track they always play to embarrass him on chat shows is actually quite good. Probably in my fevered brain only!