80s music

Dean wrote: Not all 80s metal was hair metal. In my list I only gave one metal band (Head of David) but the 80s was the birth of all extreme metal. Napalm Death, Voivod, Cathedral, Metallica, Megadeth, Venom, Savatage, Dream Theater, Mayhem and Celtic Frost were all active in the 80s.

Cathedral released their debut album in 1991 if i remember right, but there was Candlemass that were great and Trouble (as far as doom goes).
A lot of metal bands were great in the 80s, you mentioned a few, a lot of great thrash metal bands, German metal was nice (Helloween, Accept, Blind Guardian, Warlock to name a few), some US power (beside Savatage, there were Helstar and Jag Panzer that I know and like).
I enjoy a little bit of hair-metal (Motley Crue, Ratt, Dokken, Cinderella, Great White, WASP).

Dio, Judas Priest, Motorhead, Iron Maiden, Diamond Head, Def Leppard, mercyful Fate and King Diamond, Fates Warning, Queensryche, Saxon, Ozzy, so many great bands...

Toto and Foreigner contiunued making nice music, plus Survivor and Night Ranger, Journey.

As far as pop goes, A-ha and Depeche Mode were great, also Ultravox put out some nice music.
Duran Duran started really well, their debut album was great but they went downhill after that, some uneven albums, with some good songs and some cringe-worthy stuff. Their 1984 live album Arena was quite good though.
Simple Minds deserves a mention, I've always preferred them to the overrated U2 (some uneven albums, at least for me).
Talk Talk obviously.

there was neo-prog.

So yeah, I like 80s music.

Have we mentioned Propaganda? 

I'm going to have to remove Gina X Performance from my list.  I see the album came out in 1978.

in the 80s I was into those Steve Lilywhite bands ..

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Guy Guden wrote: Thank you Walton Street for the Nash the Slash fave.  Sorry we lost him this past year. I agree with you about Steve Lilywhite.  I would pick up albums based on who produced them.  Siouxsie & the Banshess is another example.  When I met Mike and Paul of A Flock of Seagulls, I told them I would never have discovered their music if Bill Nelson hadn't been involved.  Same with The Police, if they hadn't performed on Eberhard Schoener's LP.  Or Strontium 90.

Guy Guden wrote:  Walton Street wrote:   it was a shame about Nash. I'd gotten to know him a little personally. I interviewed him, shot one of his last live performances, had beers with him one night. an interesting guy steeped in the history of the Canadian music scene.  I was a fan since his first album and have most everything he put out or worked on (except that tough to find live album)   I did get some great photos of him - he was fun to shoot on stage   Very cool.  Thank you for the information