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Killing Joke
Siouxsie and the Banshees
The Screaming Blue Messiahs
The Ramones (ok they started in the 70’s)
English Beat
Talking Heads
U2
Shakin Pyramids
54 40
Xmal Deutschland (Rascal, remember them?)
Amen…
Cheap Trick
Juluka
Steve Hackett
10cc
Supertramp
Men at Work
Tears for Fears
The Church
Lake (not of ELP fame)
Peter Gabriel
ZZ Top
Roxy Music
The Smiths
Ultravox
Midge Ure
…there are a few to start
Most of the more popular are here but i’d add:
REM
Brian Eno/David Byrne (My life in the bush of ghosts . . . Respeck!)
Joy Division (ok, but it’s not really New Order)
Billy Bragg
and on.
Found myself singing that Husker Du song “Sorry somehow” the other day. Can’t have been feeling particularly loving. God knows where it burbled up from.
HG
Does anyone like Toto, Mr. Mister and Asia?
Or Hall and Oates?
A few faves from the 80’s…
The Cure
Cocteau Twins
The Pixies
Sonic Youth
Jane’s Addiction
The Buzzcocks (technically late 70’s but I listened to them a lot in the 80’s!)
Sade
10,000 maniacs
Cowboy Junkies
Dead Milkmen
Fine Young Cannibals
Level 42
UB40
The Replacements
Husker Du
The Pixies
R.E.M.
Marshall Crenshaw
Game Theory
The Db’s
X
House of Freaks
The Cure
U2
Black Flag
Mission of Burma
Midnight Oil
Gang of Four
Camper Van Beethoven
Lloyd Cole
The Dream Syndicate
The Dead Kennedys
The Descendents
The Go-Betweens
The Psychedelic Furs
The Pretenders
The Smithereens
Joy Division/New Order
Prince
The Police/Sting
The Smiths
The Church
Dwight Yokum
Cocteau Twins, my favorite band of all time. They stopped making music together in the mid-90’s, but they really flourished in the 80’s.
On another note: Erhu, where were you when I was still in Taiwan? Us Cocteau Twins fans need to stick together. 
Yes! I like Mr. Mister! Kyrie Eleison down the road that you must travel, Erica.
Nobody’s mentioned “Heart” yet. And how about Cindy Lauper? She was almost as big as Madonna at one point.
To me, it’s this melodic stuff that I remember best about the '80’s, and it seems to be mostly gone. They couldn’t do a soundtrack like “Footloose” again–which means that Kevin Bacon would never have become famous, and nobody would be interconnected with anybody else. The horror!
Speaking of twins, the Thompson Twins were not really twins.
[quote=“Erhu”]A few faves from the 80’s…
The Cure
Cocteau Twins
The Pixies
Sonic Youth
Jane’s Addiction
The Buzzcocks (technically late 70’s but I listened to them a lot in the 80’s!)
Sade
10,000 maniacs
Cowboy Junkies
Dead Milkmen[/quote]
I like Sade and Natalie Merchant… her Tigerlilly album is nice. I guess NM is more 90s.
Never heard of any of the other bands you listed.
…crack that whip…
…will you stand above me, look my way or walk on by, rain keeps fallin’…
…and you may find yourself living in a shotgun shack…
…and that’s all I gotta say 'bout that. 
The Cure
New Order
Depeche Mode
The Human League
Talking Heads
Psychedelic Furs
Violent Femmes
Eurythmics
Yaz
Sinead O’Connor
Suzanne Vega
Pet Shop Boys 
Cyndi Lauper
Jocko Homo
Are we not men?
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God made man
But he used the monkey to do it
…and don’t forget Fripp…
Do you mean King Crimson? That’s soooo 70s.
Don’t think I ever quite left the 80’s behind…
The Cure
Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds
Einsturzende Neubaten
Swans
Sisters of Mercy
Bauhaus
Joy Division
Wolfsheim
Ministry
Laibach
AHA
twonavels - I’m with ya there. I still listen to most of this stuff! EVEN Richardm’s mention of Dwight Yoakum (But only This Time, and I thought that was from the early 90’s…my how time slips away! 
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And I pretty much refuse to go to a nightclub unless they are revisiting the 80’s or 70’s. 
Needless to say I don’t go out dancing much!
Ha, yep Screaming Jesus, that’s my song when I’m driving.
Cyndi Lauper is great, I love her “true color”.
My old time favorite → A-HA. Since my junior high year…