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GoogaMooga
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Post subject: Top 5 US and UK eighties rock bands  Posted: Thu Mar 20, 2008 1:56 am |
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1966 and all that
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Santana
Grateful Dead
Los Lobos
Talking Heads
Blondie
The Jam
Pretenders
Prefab Sprout
Jesus and Mary Chain
Vic Godard and Subway Sect
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"Don't you think the Beach Boys are boss?" - schoolgirl in the film "American Graffiti"
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Kid Bailey
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Post subject: Top 5 US and UK eighties rock bands Posted: Thu Mar 20, 2008 6:17 am |
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US wins this decade.
US:
The Replacements
Husker Du
The Minutemen
The Pixies
REM
UK:
XTC
U2
The Jesus and Mary Chain
The Smiths
Def Leppard
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"If there are no dogs in Heaven, then when I die I want to go where they went."
-Will Rogers
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GoogaMooga
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Post subject: Top 5 US and UK eighties rock bands Posted: Thu Mar 20, 2008 6:45 am |
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1966 and all that
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US wins for me too this decade.
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"Don't you think the Beach Boys are boss?" - schoolgirl in the film "American Graffiti"
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Charles Abercrombie
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Post subject: Top 5 US and UK eighties rock bands Posted: Thu Mar 20, 2008 6:59 am |
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Conformist
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US
REM
Talking Heads
The Replacements
Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers
X
UK
Pretenders
Pet Shop Boys (not exactly a band, but I'm still including them)
The Police
XTC
New Order
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Come on, 62!!!!!!
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Pip
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Post subject: Top 5 US and UK eighties rock bands Posted: Thu Mar 20, 2008 8:00 am |
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If Jimi Hendrix was the experience, Chrissie Hynde is the Pretenders and she's from Ohio.
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Jeff
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Post subject: Top 5 US and UK eighties rock bands Posted: Thu Mar 20, 2008 9:03 am |
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The Modfather; Wizard of WAN
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I just know I'm leaving someone big off for the US, but I can't think of who right now.
US
REM
Pixies
Talking Heads
The Replacements
Husker Du
UK
The Smiths
New Order
The Jesus and Mary Chain
Depeche Mode (yes, really!)
The Cure
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Charles Abercrombie
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Post subject: Top 5 US and UK eighties rock bands Posted: Thu Mar 20, 2008 9:13 am |
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Conformist
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Pip wrote: If Jimi Hendrix was the experience, Chrissie Hynde is the Pretenders and she's from Ohio. I just put them in the same place Googa did. I could just as easily list them under US. (Although Hynde does sing like she's British.  )
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Come on, 62!!!!!!
Last edited by Charles Abercrombie on Thu Mar 20, 2008 11:56 am, edited 1 time in total.
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Steve G
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Post subject: Top 5 US and UK eighties rock bands Posted: Thu Mar 20, 2008 10:38 am |
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U.S.
Sonic Youth
R.E.M.
Replacements
Husker Du
Dream Syndicate
Talking Heads
X
U.K.
U2
Simple Minds
Waterboys
New Order
Shriekback
The Cure
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Jimbo
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Post subject: Top 5 US and UK eighties rock bands Posted: Thu Mar 20, 2008 10:52 am |
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The Pope of Pop!
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US:
R.E.M.
Van Halen
Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers
Talking Heads
The Cars
UK:
New Order
U2
Eurythmics
Pet Shop Boys
The Clash
HYBRIDS:
Police
Pretenders
I really don't consider Bruce & the E-Streeters to be a "band" in this sense, otherwise they'd be #1 on the US list.
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"It's only rock & roll, but I like it!"
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Kid Bailey
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Post subject: Top 5 US and UK eighties rock bands Posted: Thu Mar 20, 2008 1:34 pm |
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Jimbo's post reminded me-the Clash should be on my list.I'll remove The Smiths.
I was considering removing Def Leppard, but they're just too much fun to listen to.
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"If there are no dogs in Heaven, then when I die I want to go where they went."
-Will Rogers
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Master Hare
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Post subject: Top 5 US and UK eighties rock bands Posted: Thu Mar 20, 2008 1:44 pm |
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Smokin' D'oh !
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Top 5 US
Talking Heads
Blondie
Van Halen
REM
The Cars
Top 5 UK
Talk Talk
ABC
The Cure
The Jam
Joy Division
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David Baker
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Post subject: Top 5 US and UK eighties rock bands Posted: Thu Mar 20, 2008 1:47 pm |
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Talk about a blowout: it's UK all the way in this decade. (For Police and Pretenders, I'll follow home of the singers.)
UK:
U2 (assume I can include Eire)
Pet Shop Boys
Squeeze
Eurythmics
Police
(collectively, my next five - ABC, Def Leppard, Duran Duran, New Order and Human League - would still beat the top five US)
US:
Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers
Pretenders
Heart
Go-Go's
Motels
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Jeff
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Post subject: Top 5 US and UK eighties rock bands Posted: Thu Mar 20, 2008 1:54 pm |
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The Modfather; Wizard of WAN
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I know the Clash made some of their best records into the 80s, but I still think of them as 70s, and did put them on that list. Removing the Smiths? This is a serious wrong, I don't know if I can stand it. 
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GoogaMooga
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Post subject: Top 5 US and UK eighties rock bands Posted: Thu Mar 20, 2008 3:59 pm |
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1966 and all that
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I hold Pet Shop Boys in high regard, but aren't they a vocal duo?
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Jimbo
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Post subject: Top 5 US and UK eighties rock bands Posted: Thu Mar 20, 2008 4:11 pm |
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The Pope of Pop!
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Pet Shop Boys: Neil Tennant (vocals), Chris Lowe (keyboards). Good enough for me.
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Invisible Pedestrian
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Post subject: Top 5 US and UK eighties rock bands Posted: Fri Mar 21, 2008 12:48 am |
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How are U2 British?
Anyway, the UK hby a landslide, in this, the best decade for music ever!
UK:
Echo & Bunnymen
The Cure
Marillion
Psychedelic Furs
Iron Maiden
(and sooooooooooo many more like Bauhaus, Simple Minds, Tears For Fears, Peter Gabriel, XTC, Ultravox, Motorhead, etc.)
US:
The Pretenders
X
Metallica
Van Halen
Journey
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Geff R.
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Post subject: Top 5 US and UK eighties rock bands Posted: Fri Mar 21, 2008 1:26 am |
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I love Music & hate brickwalled audio
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The no solo artist thing has been tough on me for each decade.
I changed my mind - US & UK are tied this decade.
UK
Marillion
Bow Wow Wow
Roxy Music
U2
Police
US
Prince & The Revolution
Dan Reed Network
Berlin
Grateful Dead
Lone Justice
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Last edited by Geff R. on Fri Mar 21, 2008 3:37 am, edited 1 time in total.
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GoogaMooga
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Post subject: Top 5 US and UK eighties rock bands Posted: Fri Mar 21, 2008 2:52 am |
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1966 and all that
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GoogaMooga wrote: The Jam
Pretenders
Prefab Sprout
Jesus and Mary Chain
Vic Godard and Subway Sect I'm revising my UK list to include Pet Shop Boys in first place: Pet Shop Boys The Jam Pretenders Prefab Sprout Jesus and Mary Chain
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Robert Meagher
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Post subject: Top 5 US and UK eighties rock bands Posted: Fri Mar 21, 2008 6:01 am |
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Zappateer
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Zappa/BestBand You Never Heard
Missing Persons
Blondie
Tom Petty & Heartbreakers
George Thorogood & the Destroyers
Kinks
Rolling Stones
???
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The Yankees win, THE YANKEES WINNNNN!!!!
Most people wouldn't know music if it came up and bit them on the ass. FZ
"Well, that kind of puts a damper on even a Yankee win."
-- Yankees announcer Phil Rizzuto after reading a bulletin that Pope Paul VI had died
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Bishop Hammer
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Post subject: Top 5 US and UK eighties rock bands Posted: Sat Mar 22, 2008 2:28 pm |
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Write your own destiny
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UK:
Iron Maiden.
Judas Priest.
The Smiths.
U2 and The Police are a tie in my book.
Def Leppard.
U.S.
Metallica
Van Halen.
Guns and Roses.
R.E.M.
Slayer and Megadeth are tied, as well, in my opinion.
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I'm forever blowing bubbles,
pretty bubbles in the air,
they fly so high,
nearly reach the sky,
then like my dreams,
they fade and die.
Fortune's always hiding,
I've looked everywhere,
I'm forever blowing bubbles,
pretty bubbles in the air.
UNITED! UNITED!
West Ham United fight song.
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