The very best band/artist of the 80s. PERIOD.

[scottcsmith]

Poll question: The very best band/artist of the 80s. PERIOD.

This is the poll to end all polls. A difficult question.
Name the very best band/artist of the 1980s.

[DS1]

1. Other - Is this some kind of sick joke?

[scottcsmith]

10. What? Me? Post a sick joke?

I'm hurt!

[BurtWorm]

16. You had me scared there for a minute...

:scared:

[scucci]

2. Where is U2? n/t

[HuckleB]

55. U2 sucks!

What are you thinking?

:silly:

[-..__...]

68. Sucks is a bit extreme.

I'd say more like mediocre.

[HuckleB]

70. No way, DUDE!

Compared to the bands in this poll, they SUCK!

:silly:

[BigMcLargehuge]

3. I had the GTR tape... LOL

MAN did it suck.

[scucci]

8. What is GTR?

I've never heard of them.

[NightTrain]

12. One-hit wonders from 1986.

"When The Heart Rules The Mind" reached #14 that summer. A thoroughly forgettable song!

[shawmut]

25. they weren't just any band

they were a "Super Group" made up of members of Genesis, Yes and Asia! :o

[NightTrain]

49. Ah! Well, that explains their musical mediocrity.

Put enough prog-rockers together in a studio, and the result is bound to be emotionless and dull!

[Rabrrrrrr]

4. None of 'em. Not a single legitimate musician in that batch.

[Fenris]

5. You are one sick mofo.

[bif]

6. None. They were all horrible.

It was just a bad era. Okay. A lot of the 4AD stuff was pretty good.

[NightTrain]

7. Prince and the Revolution/New Power Generation!

I Wanna Be Your Lover
Controversy
1999
Little Red Corvette
Delirious
Let's Pretend We're Married
When Doves Cry
Let's Go Crazy
Purple Rain
I Would Die 4 U
Raspberry Beret
Pop Life
Kiss
Sign 'O' The Times
U Got The Look
I Could Never Take The Place Of Your Man
Alphabet St.
Batdance
Partyman

'Nuff said! :headbang:

[scucci]

9. YAY! I love Prince too!

[jus_the_facts]

15. OH YEAH....how could the PURPLE one slip me mind...he's my OTHER fave.....

....was a fan o'his looooong before my metal days!! ;-)

You forgot...SOFT'n'WET oooooh ooooooh oooooooh!!! :o :o :o

[jus_the_facts]

11. Guns'n'fuckin'Roses maaaaaan....

.....we been dancin' with...MR. BROWNSTONE....he's been knockin'...he won't leave me alone....naw naw naaaaw...:headbang:

[Skip Intro]

13. lol

I'm actually torn, at this very moment, between the B52s and Iron Maiden.

Oh, and the Cars. And Pat Benetar. And Judas Priest.

And Pink Floyd.

but Rockwell?

[greendog]

14. Elvis Costello

n/t

[MissMillie]

33. Gets my vote! (n/t)

.

[Droopy]

17. Metallica

They aren't so great now-a-days, but back then they really kicked ass.

[jus_the_facts]

18. Defintely.....they round off my top three....Fade To Black.....

....my most favorite song by them EVER!!! :headbang:

[kissmeimcajun]

19. SURVIVOR!!! STYKS!!!! JOURNEY!!!! REO SPEEDWAGON

Come on now, how can you not like: "Eye of the Tiger," "Burning Heart", "The Search is Over"?

"Lady" "Come Sail Away"?

"Open Arms", "Faithfully"?

[scucci]

20. I actually like Journey's greatest hits.

I'm a giant dork, I guess.

[kissmeimcajun]

22. Dude

Man..I went watch Journey, Styks, and Survivor at the Woodlands this past summer, one of the best concerts I've ever been to, with the exception of Charlie Daniels and Lynyrd Skynyrd.

[kissmeimcajun]

27. Yeah, agreed

Yeah, me and my girlfriend both agreed, Journey just isn't the same, nor as good, without Steve Perry.

[NashVegas]

36. General Clark!

great to have you here

[shawmut]

23. Steve Perry has an amazing voice

[shawmut]

21. Air Supply and Christopher Cross

You knew the 80's was going to be a thrilling decade for popular music when these two acts burst on to the scene in 1980. Giants in soft rock, they set the tone for the 80's.

[King of New Orleans]

24. I demand Night Ranger be added

to the list. What a freakin disgrace.

[camero]

26. The Ramones

Where is your head at? :)

[Feanorcurufinwe]

28. Are these really the best choices?

:wtf:

[Az]

29. Art of Noise

Yello
Thomas Dolby
Eurythmics

[Go Eagles]

30. as a whole it was lousy but there was some good stuff

I grew up in that period, hated most of the music and was drawn more to the stuff of the 60's/70's. There were a few gems. U2, REM, The Replacements, The Talking Heads, The Police, Prince, Metallica and The Clash. Rap music including RUN DMC, Public Enemey and Ice T was probably some of the most innovative stuff. I despised most of the sappy, synthesized New Wave music but found The Cure tolerable.

[Guaranteed]

31. And no Genesis. nt

[YellowRubberDuckie]

32. Cindy Lauper...

And I loved Richard Marx. I was into that quirky stuff when I was a kid...and when I was older, Richard Marx was hot(not anymore), and his ballads were so great. I have his greatest hits CD that I still listen to.
Duckie

[regularguy]

34. Pink Slip Daddy

.

[Bertha Venation]

35. "best band/artist of the 80s" -- isn't that

an oxymoron? ;)

[PVnRT]

37. Toto

n/t

[ulysses]

42. oh HELL yeah

It's gonna take a lot to drag me away from you
There's nothing that a hundred men or more could ever do
I bless the rains down in Africa
Gonna take some time to do the things we never had

:)

[geniph]

38. Please, make it GO AWAY!

Ick ick ick ick ick!

<shudder!>

[Adenoid_Hynkel]

39. Where's Falco?!?

or Kajagoogoo?

[absyntheNsugar]

40. No Talking Heads? No Police? No King Crimson?

WTF???

[sweetheart]

41. and no B-52's

I agree.

Talking heads, king crimson and B52's.!!!

[HuckleB]

67. Dude, it's 'Cause They All SUCK!

:silly:

[Whitacre D_WI]

43. Philip Bailey AND Phil Collins

There is no better song in the world than "Easy Lover."

[Catholic Sensation]

44. Queen

hands down

[Demonaut]

52. sorry they were 70's

mostly

[Catholic Sensation]

98. what kind of math did you use?

they were around from like 1973 to 1991. Aerosmith isn't considered a seventies band, though they started at the same time as Queen (with the difference being the lead singer of Queen is dead, while Steve Tyler continues to ruin his reputation as a rock star).

By my "fuzzy math" they spent more time in the eighties than the seventies, and released far more songs in the eighties than the seventies.

[SheWhoMustBeObeyed]

45. R.E.M. n/t

[AlCzervik]

46. Asia??? 2 good songs does not make a great act

Sorry, dont want to be mean, i like Asia and some of the other groups but C'mon, what about The Smith's? How about the Cure?

[MAlibdem]

47. THE CLASH

[theoceansnerves]

48. the cure nm

[MrSlayer]

50. SLAYER!!!!!! They crush everyone from the 80's.

No one even close.

[Demonaut]

51. these bands are mediocre at best

The Police

[HuckleB]

56. What are you talking about?

The Police SUCK!

:silly:

[Demonaut]

57. and you like?

[HuckleB]

58. Dude, Kenny G rocks, for one.

Twisted Sister and Ted Nugent for another. Wait. Make that two anothers. And then there's Oasis, Celine Dion, Vanilla Ice, Micheal Jackson, Huey Lewis and the News, Bryan Adams, Michael Bolton, David Lee Roth, Heart, Hootie and the Blowfish, Garth Brooks...

Just to name a few of the GREATS!

[Demonaut]

59. lol, ted is an ass, twisted sister were a show with no talent, vanilla ice

well lets not go there, michael bolton was a hair band of one, but the rest had talent..........the police ROCKED!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!so there!

[HuckleB]

60. No way, dude! Get a clue, man! Go hardcore!

Forget about those pantywaist Police.

The Sister, The Nuge and The Ice Man could kick their petite little asses any day of the week!

ROCK AND ROLL!

:silly:

[Demonaut]

62. lol, I hated hair bands give good old european new wave

Alison Moyet, OMD, Oingo Boingo even Flock of Seagulls

[HuckleB]

64. Dude! OMD really does SUCK!

So does anything New Wave, except for Air Supply, of course.

[Demonaut]

69. wtf, you have no taste whatsoever

Air supply and Twisted Sister? The 80's were about New Wave, Air Supply is Muzak and they were a 70's band

[HuckleB]

71. Air Supply Rocks the House! The Sister Totally RULES!

I bet you haven't even heard them. There's no way you could 'dis them if you had actually heard them.

Sheesh.

:silly:

[Demonaut]

73. of course I've heard of them, look up 70's catagory bands

[HuckleB]

75. That's IMPOSSIBLE!

If you had heard them, you would know how AWESOME THEY ARE!

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[Demonaut]

84. lol, its the wrong catagory, and if you've been in an elevator

youve heard air supply

[HuckleB]

86. DUDE! You don't read very thoroughly, do you?

Air Supply was played in the '80s, man! At every dance bar in this proud land! It's '80s music! And paired with the Sister, there's no way that one could have a better night!











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[Demonaut]

92. missed your sig line...............been had

[HuckleB]

93. Sorry, I couldn't stop myself.

Please forgive me, but I was having too much fun!

Cheers!

:toast:

[Demonaut]

95. dude I was imagining long hair and lime green Tough Skins

[HuckleB]

96. LOL!

[Mayberry Machiavelli]

53. The Pretenders

[HuckleB]

54. What, no Falco? No Def Leppard? No Judas Priest? No Mike & the Mechanics?

What kind of poll is this?

Sheesh.

;)

[Zorra]

61. The Police started in the late 70's

But I'd say the Police, Pretenders, Cars, Tom Petty, Dire Straits,
Metallica, and Ozzie w/Randy Rhodes.

[HuckleB]

66. The last two you mention are AWESOME, DUDE!

The others all SUCK! SUCK! SUCK!

:silly:

[Zorra]

80. Well,

Different strokes, I guess. (And I'm not a dude, dude).

I forgot Mother Love Bone and Primus.

[HuckleB]

82. OK, then! Dudette!

And Mother Love Bone sucks big time! Just like the sappy band that came out of it.

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[mvd]

72. Good choices

I love all of the 5 you mentioned first. :thumbsup:

[HuckleB]

76. WHAT? Those are the ones that SUCK!

:silly:

[POed_Ex_Repub]

63. MEGADETH

What?!... Stop looking at me like that... ;-)

[Zorra]

83. The guitar player for Megadeth,

Dave Mustaine, is an excellent player.

[mvd]

65. The Bangles and R.E.M. are tied

Sorry about that. :shrug: U2 and Bruce Springsteen are VERY close behind.

[HuckleB]

78. Oh PUHLEEAZZZE!

REM? The Boss?

It doesn't get anymore hackneyed than that.

THEY SUCK!

:silly:

[mvd]

85. I hope you are just being silly

:silly:

[HuckleB]

87. Oh, I am most serious! DUDE!

:silly:









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[SmileyBoy]

74. "The best bands of the 80's" is akin to saying...

..."The best smelling turd in the bowl".

[mvd]

77. Much of it was over-synthesized and there was too much..

cheesy metal, but I'd still take much of that over some of the hip-hop and pop of today. There are quite a few favorites from the 80s. JMO.

[HuckleB]

81. Over-synthesized? Cheesy metal? No way, MAN! No WAY!

It's impossible to over-synthesize great music. And it's impossible to make metal cheesy.

Sheesh!

:silly:

[mvd]

89. LOL

:hi:

[HuckleB]

90. Hey, now. This is no laughing matter.

;)

:toast:

[ChavezSpeakstheTruth]

79. Missing Persons - Dale and TERRY Bozzio

[solinvictus]

88. Skinny Puppy

They're the best. Period.

[Penndems]

91. Bruce Springsteen, Robert Palmer, Hall and Oates, Culture Club

N/T

[ButterflyBlood]

94. THE REPLACEMENTS

no contest.

[LSdemocrat]

97. I'm not afraid to say that I think Madonna is great.

But then again I love late 70's-80's commercial pop.