Best 80's Bands

www.youtube.com/watch?v=UNZbP3ZVem4&feature=related

The Smithereens

Journey, Survivor, Duran Duran, and of course U2 come to mind.

Ah....................the 80's, the Golden Age of Muisc.

Kiss

AC/DC

Motley Crew

link isn't working but I wanna hear it.

I know it'll be good.

There are 2 "best of" CD's that I can play on almost a contuinuous loop that would get me high 5's whether I was in my car, a club, or wherever is:

1) The Pet Shop Boys: Discography

2) OMD: the best of OMD

Thanks for the link

Always been partial to the POLICE. Just love the sounds very much. Great Music.

So many great songs and bands and even some solo artists.

The 1980's will always be number ONE in my mind when it comes to music. Just the 80's One-Hit-Wonders alone could slam dunk on most of the more recent stuff.

1980's =

XTC
Metallica

Although I like the Police as my fav 80's band, the one song that always sticks out in my mind is "She Blinded Me With Science" by Thomas Dolby.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V83JR2IoI8k

Whenever I hear that song, I remember everything about the time I first heard it while in the Army. The memories of those times are so vivid. Takes me back completely like a mental time machine.

Talk about science. Ha,ha,ha.

The other thing that stick out in my mind is how much fun things were back then without the internet, cell-phones, emails, faxes and other scientific and technological breakthroughs available to the general public yet..

I saw a phone booth the other day... not just a pay phone... but a real honest to God entire phone booth in the open, inside the gates of a county owned recycle center. I guess it's safe there since they are always there and the place is secure at night. I stopped and stared at it for a minute while waiting to cash in a years worth of saved beer cans. I was amazed to see an actual phone booth outdoors and in working condition.

Maybe I'm a little old fashioned but It seemed like a better time. Collecting music on cassette tapes was my hobby. I still have em all along with my vinyl LP's and 45's. Don't have the boombox anymore though. Shit, I'm getting old...or maybe I should just admit that I already am old.

Cue the Beatles song... "Help!"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0ApstMKNEMI

...with an encore of "Yesterday."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ONXp-vpE9eU

I know these are not 80's but they are timeless and aprapo and like General Patton, I am somewhat of an anachronism.

To submit an 80's song that describle what these Beatles songs do, I'd have to say that I am not aware of one that clearly comes to mind for me.

Queensryche

Motley Crue

Ace Frehley

Faster Pussycat

LA Guns

Winger (Yes, they are quite talented)

Ratt

Stryper (Also talented)

Whitesnake

David Lee Roth (solo)