80's Rock bands
 

I was watching Scuzz the other day and I only noticed that they barely had any 80's rock. I don't know about you but I thought the eighties were as prosperous for rock as it was for slashers but now by most people in my generation, they're almost forgotten. I play Black Sabbath, Motley Crue, motorhead, alice cooper, kiss, van halen etc. on my iPod at school and nearly nobody know who they were. So, since I wasn't born in the eighties, I can't judge them all too well but I am interested in your opinions. What do you think of eighties rock bands and what were your favourites? I've made the connection of horror to rock so hopefully a lot of you are also into that.

Also, which brand of rock do you prefer most? Metal, soft, pop (shudder), basic eighties, Emo or any others?

Bon Jovi and Def Leppard were my faves. :p

I like punk, psychobilly, rockabilly, and hardcore punk mostly.

add classic honkey-tonk and some 70s glam and that's my taste

I forgot about the honkey tonk, I love Hank Sr and Patsy Cline.Have you heard of the Nedwrecks?Check them out, great stuff.

I went to Motely crue..G.N.R and Poisons concerts when they came to NZ
and Bros..
I have over 5000 70/80/90's music.

\m/ Slayer \m/

Great 80's bands:


Minor Threat
Black Flag
GG Allin
The Flaming Lips(i know they are still around but started in the early 80's)
The Cure
Depeche Mode
Social Distortion
Guns n Roses
The Meatmen

I'm a big fan of some of Dollar's early 80's work, their Trevor Horn singles mostly. I love that song "Give Me Back My Heart," it's so damn sweet.

http://i102.photobucket.com/albums/m...ix/dollar2.jpg

Guns N' fuckin' Roses. 'Nuff said. They were THE rock band of the 80s.

I usually think of G'n'R as more of a 90's band. Appetite For Destruction was definately one of the best albums of the 80's, though.

As far as bands that define the decade for me:
Judas Priest
Iron Maiden
Megadeth
Metallica
Ratt
Cinderella
Twisted Sister
Motley Crue
Van Halen
Ozzy

I always thought of Kiss & Cooper as 70's bands.

I suppose you have a point there, but I guess Appetite was really the only album of theirs I ever got into big time and since that was late 80s, that's the decade I equate them with. You're right though. Most of their albums came out in the 90s.

Well the 80's give me a lot of good groups:

The Cult

Motley Crue

Sisters of Mercy

bauhaus

I know that maybe 60's and 70's were better for rock but I preffer to listen to groups from the 80's than things like emo, new metal and all that kind of music

All these are great bands. TO tell the truth I mainly made this thread because I have room to fill on my iPod. Do you lot like slade, atomic rooster, status quo and thin lizzy? They're pretty cool. What about rock music in films? What do you guys think? There should be a whole section on HDC about rock! Do any of you guys think steve tyler has a very thin face and odd mouth? But he does rule.

Naked Eyes - Always Something There To Remind Me
B Movie - Nowhere Girl

The 80's produced an amazing heap of creative music. It was another musical renaissance I tell ya!

A bunch of 80's music geeks...hah! The mind gobbles.

oh hell..
everybody knows milli vanilli.. :p
I was more into Rick Astley
Aswad..Shalamar..Time Bandits..Tavares...gosh..Tony..Toni..Tone
'giggles'..New Edition.

OH! oh. And, uh, people, people. Let us not forget, EBN-OZN and their wonderful song "AEIOU Sometimes Y."

That video was on MTV all the time and I remember we used to laugh and laugh whenever it came on because it was so goddamn weird.

Ah true..

and ooh what about..'i should be so lucky..lucky lukcy lucky..'..one of kylies 1st songs.

Or Olivia getting physical..
I always thought it weird when she said..'let me hear your body talk..your body talk'..i always thought she referring to 'farting'..

But hey..Bob Dylan..he released a song in the 80's..amd for the life of me..i cannot remember it.
I know i played the damn thing so many times.

I can't believe I forgot Dio! What's 80's metal without songs about dragons & wizards?

Oh, and of course, the greatest band to ever exist.....
KROKUS!

IT'S THE FINAL COUNTDOWN! DO DO DOOO DOOOOOOO, DO DO DOO DO DOOOOO, DO DO DOO DOOOOOO, DO DO DO DO DO DO DOOOOO, DO DO DOO DOOOOOO DO DO DO DO DO DOOOOOO DO DO DOOO DOOOO IT'S THE FINAL COUNTDOWN! FINAL COUNTDOWN!

Is it just me or does that guy in europe look like a girl?

The guy from Europe and Brett Michaels looked very feminine back in the day.

I sing that at school whenever a teacher's walking towards someone to have a go at them. It's pretty funny when you're there, especially when the teacher seems to be walking to the beat.

What about Wham and Culture Club? Lol.

If you're talking 80s Dylan, Death is Not the End got a bunch of airplay, didn't it?

I like New Wave bands a lot.

Def Leppard

Quiet Riot
AC/DC
White Snake


Those were the only ones I could think of that weren't mentioned yet...But, I didn't think on it that hard...There are LOTS more


Flayed named most of mine

Yeah, Flayed named most of mine as well...I'd just add Tesla and Spinal Tap.

HaHa...Spinal Tap...Does that count?

Inxs...........

Oh yeah...love Spinal Tap :o

Ooh...I didn't notice if someone had already mentioned, but Slayer, Megadeth and Anthrax.

i mentioned this in the music section, but I realize that it fits here too.

The Pixies!

These guys were insanely good and by and far one of the most influential bands of all time, yet not a lot of people seem to know of them! Kurt Cobain said flat out that the Pixies were his main inspiration to get into music...Meanwhile Nirvana fucking blew up while the Pixies remained fairly obsolete. "Where is My Mind" is probably one of the catchiest songs of all time. I've introduced tons of people to The Pixies and I've created a lot of fans.

oooooh!!
boyz to men 'sways in her chair'

Thunder, deep purple, motorhead, nazareth!

Flayed, i think it's time for one of your famous HDC top 100 threads!

Boys to Men were 90's and they fucking suck.

troll got attitude

Anything but EMO, the biggest waste of garbage on the planet.

Gerard way + Bullet to head = happy ferret