King Kurt Pop Will Eat Itself The Wonderstuff Zodiac Mindwarp and the Love Reaction Alien Sex Fiend Bananarama (Keren the one with the dark hair, ooooft!)
The Jam, Madness, The Specials, Depeche Mode, New Order, Beastie Boys, The Smiths, Happy Mondays, Stone Roses.
Thompson Twins Tears For Fears Elton John's most seminal output was during the 80s. There is no apostrophe in 80s.
Was into Guns n Roses but then Nirvana came along so went with the grunge!I'm more of a 90s man myself but if I had to name three bands of 80s it would be rem(brilliant in their early days,crap at the end),stone roses(seem them live last week,brilliant stuff) and the smiths.
I like them but when I saw them live, it was a room full of "wacky students" if you know what I mean, put me off a bit. It was a different crowd to what I was used to mixing with. A similarly cult band who really should have been much bigger are The Cardiacs, incredible musicians.