Best band of the 80's?

Best band of the 80's?
My vote goes to The Smiths

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I agree

Mekons
Bruce Springsteen
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds

Personal top 3

Obviously Sonic Youth

Top 3 are Kate Bush, MBV and Husker Du

My vote goes to Slam Bamboo
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The Cure

the cure, the replacements, or the cocteau twins

Swans

R.E.M.

U2
Talking Heads
The Smiths
in that order

lol

yup

sonic youth
swans
the cure
talking heads
joy division
bauhaus
big black
misfits
rudimentary peni
the soft boys.
black flag
xtc
oingo boingo

all incredible bands

My vote goes to The Smiths

no one released more consistently great singles and LPs

>Trent wearing all black
My sides

Spacemen 3

husker du

Clearly the butthole surfers

Or Pixies

OR Minutemen

tom waits

why the FUCK has no one said The Fall yet

public enemy

the police

if we're talking about aggregate acclaim + popularity
smiths > cure > depeche mode > cocteau twins > new order > police

i think we're talking about which ones we ourselves consider the best

New Order.

Pink Floyd

Fucking Seconded!

Billy Bragg wasn't a band.

Wow this is the best answer someone with taste gg

good choice

Yuck

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the beatles

You guys meant to say Minutemen, right?

i've never understood the appeal of minutemen. and this is coming from a huge fan of sst and 80s alt punk in general.

they just sound like goofy funk rock

No I meant the Mekons. Most underrated alt-rock band D E S U

I disagree. The Police should've dominated the eighties like the Beatles did in the 60's. They knocked off Thriller at its peak 10 years before Cobain and Co. would defeat a much weaker Jackson album and be proclaimed the band of the decade. If they stuck together for another amazing album or two, us Police-fags would be as vocal as the Beatle-fags. As it is, we have one of pop's most consistently good discographies.

Kate Bush
The Cure
and The Smiths
In that order

Idk where I'd put Joy Division since they started in the 70s but Closer is the best album of the 80s to me.

Yeah, but you posted the wrong one

Cocteau Twins
The Smiths
New Order

New Order are neck and neck with The Smiths for me, especially their earlier post-punk material.

U2 is fucking gay

it's unique in the genre but you gotta focus on the gnarly rhythm sections. Try Jesus and Tequila again

Wall of Voodoo

Pixies
Stone Roses
Swell Maps

>Try Jesus and Tequila again
i'm still not loving it but holy shit i just realized that primus owe their entire career to these guys. specifically that song

I love Stewart Copeland. I think sting is trash without the police

Holy shit. What a completely stupid and just embarasing thing to say. You might want to think about deleting that post.
Seriously.

Big black flag
When

Agreed. I think they had one more very good album left in them. Sting could still write good chunks of great songs, but he missed the other two to fill in the weaker portions. The Police really were more than the sum of their parts

not soon enough

Hard pick but i'd have to say The Chameleons

U2 ruled the 80's by a long shot.
REM for second place

another one takes the U2 pill

come by the /u2/ general tomorrow brother

U2
The Smiths
The Cure

The holy 80s trinity

REM
The Smiths
Cocteau Twins
Talking Heads

The Fall
Sonic Youth
The Smiths

wrong, everyone knows the holy trinity is
Talking Heads
Pixies
Sonic Youth

nope not everyone.

third

Meat Puppets

Mission to Burma

THATS WHEN I REACH FOR MY REVOLVER

THATS WHEN IT ALL GETS BLOWN AWAY

>what is talking heads

yep

80s talking heads suck ril is pleb album

obviously

the fall