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"Semi Final A
Depeche mode
Duran Duran
New Order
Simple Minds
Write the bands you would vote for
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That is so difficult.
I would have said at the time Depeche mode as used to listen to them most in the 80s and went to see them about 4-5 times.
Now though, looking back I would say simple minds especially after seeing them a couple of years back and realising just what I had not appreciated so much back then.
Duran Duran were my guilty secret at the time lol.
New order just brilliant.
So - as it's now - simple minds.
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"Dire straights
ZZ top
ZZ top are surely a 70s band.
What constitutes an 80s band? They started in the 80s? Had hits in the 80s? "
ZZ Top actually formed 1969.
But your right what actually constitutes an 80,s band ?
ZZ Top would say its called "payin your dues" twenty years to become an overnight sensation. |
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So many with some having only ever one or two hit singles.
OMD had some great tracks
Echo and the Bunnymen had some cracking ones ~ Nothing Lasts Forever
Just a great era for music really
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"Dire straights
ZZ top
ZZ top are surely a 70s band.
What constitutes an 80s band? They started in the 80s? Had hits in the 80s? "
A conundrum.
I would stick my neck out and go for any band that had a hit in the '80s (might be controversial because then do you include re-releases from a different decade...?).
Amend that to an original hit that hadn't been a hit for the same group in previous decades.
Amend hit to release. Doesn't have to have been a hit.
And what about solo artists - why just bands?
We really need more details in these questions so we can make a clear and informed desicion...  |
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"Japan
Sisters of Mercy
The Mission
Levellers
Hothouse Flowers
Hipsway
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I think you might find Levellers are more considered a '90s band even though they formed in 1988 (bit of controversy)  |
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"Semi Final A
Depeche mode
Duran Duran
New Order
Simple Minds
Write the bands you would vote for
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The only band I saw on that list was Simple Minds, at the height of their career, and I’m afraid they were dull and boring, a real disappointment.
Off the top of my head, and ignoring groups from the 70s that matured in the 80s, the best “80s” band I saw was probably the Funboy Three. |
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"Visage
Ultravox"
Totally agree with Jennie .... I was a complete new romantic .... maybe it was the opportunity to wear make up that did it ... though I did look like a demented Panda and my mum used to go mad at me nicking her Mascara.
Is also add
Human League
Heaven 17
R xxxx |
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"Well I'm an original Duranie but I will also say
OMD
ULTRAVOX
TEARS FOR FEARS
DEPECHE MODE.
A HA."
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"The Higsons
The Larks
Echo and The Bunnymen
The Cure
The Smiths
Technically some of these were in existence at the end of the 70's "
Good shout .... the last 3 in particular |
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"Visage
Ultravox
Totally agree with Jennie .... I was a complete new romantic .... maybe it was the opportunity to wear make up that did it ... though I did look like a demented Panda and my mum used to go mad at me nicking her Mascara.
Is also add
Human League
Heaven 17
R xxxx"
Saw the (original line-up) Human League supporting Siouxsie & The Banshees in 1978. |
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"The Higsons
The Larks
Echo and The Bunnymen
The Cure
The Smiths
Technically some of these were in existence at the end of the 70's
Good shout .... the last 3 in particular"
Saw The Cure in 1978 supporting Generation X. My God, The Cure were terrible, then! |
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"Dire straights
ZZ top
ZZ top are surely a 70s band.
What constitutes an 80s band? They started in the 80s? Had hits in the 80s?
ZZ Top actually formed 1969.
But your right what actually constitutes an 80,s band ?
ZZ Top would say its called "payin your dues" twenty years to become an overnight sensation. "
Exactly ! Formed in '69, but first record in '71, so what do we class them as?! 
Back on the topic, I'd say Metallica and Guns n Roses. I'd say they're comfortably 80s. |
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"The Higsons
The Larks
Echo and The Bunnymen
The Cure
The Smiths
Technically some of these were in existence at the end of the 70's
Good shout .... the last 3 in particular
Saw The Cure in 1978 supporting Generation X. My God, The Cure were terrible, then!"
Everyone could be terrible in the 70's |
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"The Higsons
The Larks
Echo and The Bunnymen
The Cure
The Smiths
Technically some of these were in existence at the end of the 70's
Good shout .... the last 3 in particular"
The first two have a special significant meaning to me so they always have to be in my 80's line up. |
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"The Higsons
The Larks
Echo and The Bunnymen
The Cure
The Smiths
Technically some of these were in existence at the end of the 70's
Good shout .... the last 3 in particular
Saw The Cure in 1978 supporting Generation X. My God, The Cure were terrible, then!
Everyone could be terrible in the 70's "
Lol, believe me, I saw most punk bands and some terrible support acts who’s names I didn’t remember - but The Cure stuck in our heads as they really were awful! Just shows what can happen if you persevere with a (plastic) passion. |
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"The Higsons
The Larks
Echo and The Bunnymen
The Cure
The Smiths
Technically some of these were in existence at the end of the 70's
Good shout .... the last 3 in particular
Saw The Cure in 1978 supporting Generation X. My God, The Cure were terrible, then!
Everyone could be terrible in the 70's
Lol, believe me, I saw most punk bands and some terrible support acts who’s names I didn’t remember - but The Cure stuck in our heads as they really were awful! Just shows what can happen if you persevere with a (plastic) passion."
Very good lyrical reference there |
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"Japan
Sisters of Mercy
The Mission
Levellers
Hothouse Flowers
Hipsway
I think you might find Levellers are more considered a '90s band even though they formed in 1988 (bit of controversy) "
That’s fine. I liked them in the 90s too |
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By *emini ManMan
over a year ago
There and to the left a bit |
Of the OPs list - New Order or Simple Minds
Neither would make my Top 10 bands of the 80s though which would look something like:
Madness
The Jam
The Specials
The Beat
The Housemartins
The Redskins
Prefab Sprout
Fine Young Cannibals
The Style Council
ABC |
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"Of the OPs list - New Order or Simple Minds
Neither would make my Top 10 bands of the 80s though which would look something like:
Madness
The Jam
The Specials
The Beat
The Housemartins
The Redskins
Prefab Sprout
Fine Young Cannibals
The Style Council
ABC"
Useless trivia for you GM, The Housemartins were signed to a record company when playing support for The Larks. |
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By *emini ManMan
over a year ago
There and to the left a bit |
"Of the OPs list - New Order or Simple Minds
Neither would make my Top 10 bands of the 80s though which would look something like:
Madness
The Jam
The Specials
The Beat
The Housemartins
The Redskins
Prefab Sprout
Fine Young Cannibals
The Style Council
ABC
Useless trivia for you GM, The Housemartins were signed to a record company when playing support for The Larks. "
I'll see your useless Housemartins trivia and raise you Phil Jupitus makes a cameo appearance in the video to Happy Hour |
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"Of the OPs list - New Order or Simple Minds
Neither would make my Top 10 bands of the 80s though which would look something like:
Madness
The Jam
The Specials
The Beat
The Housemartins
The Redskins
Prefab Sprout
Fine Young Cannibals
The Style Council
ABC
Useless trivia for you GM, The Housemartins were signed to a record company when playing support for The Larks.
I'll see your useless Housemartins trivia and raise you Phil Jupitus makes a cameo appearance in the video to Happy Hour "
I love Phil Jupitus |
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By *eedeeseTV/TS
over a year ago
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Butthole Surfers
Voivod
Loop
Faith No More
Godflesh
Slayer
Mudhoney
Metallica
Skinny Puppy
Swans
Guns n Roses
New Order
the Jesus and Mary Chain
Adam and the Ants
the Smiths
Celtic Frost
...bands from the 80s that I actually listened to in the actual 80s... |
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By *eedeeseTV/TS
over a year ago
glasgow |
"Butthole Surfers
Voivod
Loop
Faith No More
Godflesh
Slayer
Mudhoney
Metallica
Skinny Puppy
Swans
Guns n Roses
New Order
the Jesus and Mary Chain
Adam and the Ants
the Smiths
Celtic Frost
...bands from the 80s that I actually listened to in the actual 80s..."
shoulda went for - 80 bands that I actually listened to in the actual 80s! .. |
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"The Higsons
The Larks
Echo and The Bunnymen
The Cure
The Smiths
Technically some of these were in existence at the end of the 70's
Good shout .... the last 3 in particular
Saw The Cure in 1978 supporting Generation X. My God, The Cure were terrible, then!"
Now we're talking... The cure... Killing an Arab got boo'd off stage... Gen x though... Such energy. Ahhh miss those gigs... The pirates... The damned.... The Clash.... Aswad... Steel pulse... Pil... Gang of four |
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"Of the OPs list - New Order or Simple Minds
Neither would make my Top 10 bands of the 80s though which would look something like:
Madness
The Jam
The Specials
The Beat
The Housemartins
The Redskins
Prefab Sprout
Fine Young Cannibals
The Style Council
ABC"
That saves me writing a list... what he said!  |
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"So many with some having only ever one or two hit singles.
OMD had some great tracks
Echo and the Bunnymen had some cracking ones ~ Nothing Lasts Forever
Just a great era for music really
"
Nothing Lasts forever was 90s |
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"Semi Final A
Depeche mode
Duran Duran
New Order
Simple Minds
Write the bands you would vote for
The only band I saw on that list was Simple Minds, at the height of their career, and I’m afraid they were dull and boring, a real disappointment.
Off the top of my head, and ignoring groups from the 70s that matured in the 80s, the best “80s” band I saw was probably the Funboy Three."
So, simple minds then |
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"Butthole Surfers
Voivod
Loop
Faith No More
Godflesh
Slayer
Mudhoney
Metallica
Skinny Puppy
Swans
Guns n Roses
New Order
the Jesus and Mary Chain
Adam and the Ants
the Smiths
Celtic Frost
...bands from the 80s that I actually listened to in the actual 80s...
shoulda went for - 80 bands that I actually listened to in the actual 80s! .. "
No, just those four or I would have asked..what 80s bands do you like
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"The Higsons
The Larks
Echo and The Bunnymen
The Cure
The Smiths
Technically some of these were in existence at the end of the 70's
Good shout .... the last 3 in particular
Saw The Cure in 1978 supporting Generation X. My God, The Cure were terrible, then!
Now we're talking... The cure... Killing an Arab got boo'd off stage... Gen x though... Such energy. Ahhh miss those gigs... The pirates... The damned.... The Clash.... Aswad... Steel pulse... Pil... Gang of four"
just those four or I would have asked..what 80s bands do you like |
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"Dire straights
ZZ top
ZZ top are surely a 70s band.
What constitutes an 80s band? They started in the 80s? Had hits in the 80s?
ZZ Top actually formed 1969.
But your right what actually constitutes an 80,s band ?
ZZ Top would say its called "payin your dues" twenty years to become an overnight sensation.
Exactly ! Formed in '69, but first record in '71, so what do we class them as?!
Back on the topic, I'd say Metallica and Guns n Roses. I'd say they're comfortably 80s. "
How about, just those four or I would have asked..what 80s bands do you like |
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Too many too mention.
Cure, smiths, new order, joy division, simply red- (guitarist taught me music), m people, James..Happy mondays-(had a curry with shaun) Stone Roses....
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"Can't believe nobody has said Go West incredible band. We've seen these live at Clumber Park on two occasions and even now they are absolutely fantastic live. "
Absolutely agree love Go West the song Innocence on the Album Go West is a personal favourite.
Propaganda - totally underrated band, brilliant albums.
Cameo
Aha
Everything but the Girl
ABC
Ultravox
Add Chaka Khan to any 80s list  |
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By *mmmMaybeCouple
over a year ago
West Wales |
"Butthole Surfers
Voivod
Loop
Faith No More
Godflesh
Slayer
Mudhoney
Metallica
Skinny Puppy
Swans
Guns n Roses
New Order
the Jesus and Mary Chain
Adam and the Ants
the Smiths
Celtic Frost
...bands from the 80s that I actually listened to in the actual 80s..."
Saw Faith No More at the Brixton Academy. Awesome night
S |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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FYI.
Friday evenings Radio 2 sounds of the 80s with Gary Davies.Each week you get a master mix of a topic/group.
Huge Facebook group to chat in on Friday evenings. |
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By *eedeeseTV/TS
over a year ago
glasgow |
"Butthole Surfers
Voivod
Loop
Faith No More
Godflesh
Slayer
Mudhoney
Metallica
Skinny Puppy
Swans
Guns n Roses
New Order
the Jesus and Mary Chain
Adam and the Ants
the Smiths
Celtic Frost
...bands from the 80s that I actually listened to in the actual 80s...
Saw Faith No More at the Brixton Academy. Awesome night
S"
yeah I saw them in Irvine ( or was it Ayr maybe?ah think it was ) on the Real Thing tour n we went n met them afterwards ...backstage as it were ....first rock stars ah had met ( ah was a teenager then) n they were really sweet n welcoming |
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