To '80's Music Fans: Which band today ...

[Iggy]

Most 80's music was uninteresting, bland, over-hyped etc, but there was some different stuff about. Try these for starters:

Wire-
Propaganda-
Magazine-

Siouxsie And The Banshees-

[TJT]

Wire was an interesting band. Started out as straight-up punk in the mid-70's.(Maybe the first "Queercore" band?) and on into electronica in the early 80's.

The Banshees I never got,but a lot of my friends loved them. I was into the Psych Furs and 2-Tone Ska by then.

I know I've got something by Magazine around here somewhere,but I haven't listened to it in 20 years.

The same with Propaganda. They were on/distributed Enigma for a short while,I believe? I used to get samplers from that label.

[Marinus]

The best I can come up with is:

but you could also check out:
Sisters Of Mercy ( )
The Mission ( )
Fields Of The Nephilim
The Sound (a bit like Joy Division, but more positive)
Killing Joke
(early) Simple Minds
New Model Army
Cabaret Voltaire
The God Machine (early 90's band, but with a great sound)

[jimjamcan]

seen Bunnymen many times in 80's, crystal days gig was best...
a great memory...
was a big siouxsie fan too....
cabaret voltaire, x mal deutschland too many to mention.....

"you had to be there, durin' the 80's 'cos if not you was one of those squares!!!"

[Mista Bone]

i was metal fan in the 80's , Metallica was the best , and i had a soft spot for Kiss !

Same here!

[Mista Bone]

I was a metal fan in the 80's, am now, and will always be. Many of the old geezers are still rockin'. In the last couple of years, I've bought great DVD performances of Heaven And Hell(Black Sabbath w/Dio), Motorhead, Judas Priest, and Iron Maiden. I went to go see Heaven And Hell live when they were in LA and they were almost as good as when I saw them during the Mob Rules Tour back in 1981.

As far as newer, but definitely not new, bands go, I like Black Label Society and Down.

Bleed It!!!

[Quiet Reflections]

Dragon Force

[melissacarter]

Does anyone remember Bongwater?

[lupinIII]

Warning! Cheesy as fuck, 80s inspired electronica music.





Also, I think these guys sound very much like they wish they were London Calling/Sandinista era Clash.

[Bob's Tgirls]

Some of my favorite 80s bands that started then would be The Police, U2, G&R, Metallica, Berlin. But other of my fave 80s bands started before such as Rush (my all time fave band), Scorpions, Heart, Ozzy, Blue Oyster Cult, Jethro Tull, Genesis, Jefferson Starship, ZZ Top, Judas Priest, Van Halen and others I can't think of now.