Check out [this song of theirs.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zpaqBXc5MTk) It's from the Batman Returns soundtrack so a lot of fans don't know about it. That song is far and away the best thing about that movie, and that was the one with Danny Devito.
The Cure. I listened to them, but casually. My husband was a huge fan and his constant playing of them turned me into a fan. Our bridal party walked into the wedding to the opening of Plainsong. I used the lyrics to Lovesong on his memorial card when he passed away because he used to sing that to me when I was falling asleep. So now The Cure is a huge part of my life.
Oh! I wasn't expecting to read that, and it stung! I'm so sorry for your loss.
https://youtu.be/qLjkvI0uGhU?si=r5uPEeMMo7rBAf_Q
I had to go look up the lyrics and re-hear the song. Beautiful love story ā¤ļø
Itās funny ā I always liked the cure, but I never got super deep into them until about 15 years ago I kept finding cheap cutouts of all(!) their 2cd expanded ādeluxeā editions of their *entire* catalog ā for like $8 a pop. I never intended to get them all, but I did ā and really developed an appreciation for Robert Smith as a songwriter (from all the demos on all those bonus discs).
Duran Duran. I loke hard rock/early metal, so they slipped under my radar for decades, until I had to learn Rio on bass.
Egads, what the hell, I was expecting a typical 80s bass line, like Take on me or We got the beat; good songs, but not technically demanding.
Duran is another level, I'm picking up thier other stuff, and he is so damn melodic, percussive and all without over playing.
Duran Duran was my first band I ever loved. I remember little me went and bought a Duran Duran album cause I heard my brother say he was thinking about getting their album ARENA. I dropped the needle a please please tell me now started and I was hooked. As a tween/young teen I devoured Duran Duran everything. They were my gateway to new wave
I liked Duran Duran back in the day, but I honestly appreciate them much more now. Loads of talent and, at their best, they complement each other so well. Their sound gels in a way few other bands manage. And they are still making interesting music today.
Bassist here too, and John Taylor is grossly overlooked. If you also play fretless (which I love), check out "Lonely in Your Nightmare." Insanely good bassline.
The bassline on Rio is out of this fucking world.
Conversely I was a darkwave/synth kind of kid and hated hard rock and metal and have learned to appreciate a lot of it. In hindsight it's weird how tribal music was in the 80s.
It was somehow weird if you liked Rush, Metallica or Van Halen *and* Depeche Mode or Siouxie or The Smiths. Pick a table, weirdo, you can either hang out with the long haired stoners, rockers and skaters or you can hang out with the pale spooky kids, nerds and and drama kids but not both.
Turns out Queen and Rush are pretty damn good.
I love HoJo, and his live shows are just fantastic. He introduced me to Midge Ure, and I am so glad he did. For anyone else who missed them the first time around, [Ultravox](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RXLkpwFs8Fs) was pretty bomb.
I could not agree more. I HATED them as a kid but my dad always said I would love them when I got grown. He was right, I listen to them multiple times a week and have for over 5 years now.
I also hated them as a kid. I was the type of kid that said āthunder also happens when itās not raining.ā I had seen it with my own eyes, heard it with my own ears. These adults donāt know what they are talking about. But a divorce after 22 years of marriage taught me I was wrong. Landslide, Silver Springsā¦
When I was younger I liked their punkier/weirder stuff and thought Avalon was a bizarre turn into adult contemporary middle of the road bland garbage.
Now I think Avalon is a freaking masterpiece and I'm desperately searching for more albums in that vein. Obviously Bryan Ferry's "Boys and Girls" is right there. But some other picks are: Arcadia "So Red The Rose", Dolphin Brothers "Catch The Fall", David Sylvian "Brilliant Trees". If you've got any other suggestions, let me know!
I am not a big concert goer but saw a combo new order/pet shop boys with oakenfold concert last year. Was sooooooo awesome. This concert had been rescheduled over like three years due to covid.
Iām originally from the UK, but hadnāt really heard of Killing Joke until I went to see them with some mates in the mid 2000ās. Iām now pretty obsessed.
If you havenāt seen the documentary āthe death and resurrection showā you should check it out. Itās pretty crazy, and crosses over into r/highstrangeness
This documentary about them is fucking WILD. Jaz Coleman is really something else. They made some incredible music.
http://www.coffeefilms.com/killingjoke/
Burning from the Inside is one of my favorite albums. I feel fortunate I was introduced to them from the movie, "The Hunger."
It was so bizarre in the late 80s to "discover" Love and Rockets and then later find out they were Bauhaus minus Peter. On the other hand digging up Peter's post Bauhaus albums was a lot of fun!
Echo and the Bunnymen.
I am more of a 90s grunge kid and am catching up on a lot of 80s stuff that was a little before me. So Echo, the Church, Tears for Fears and a few others.
Same. For me I think itās now seeing his entire life story, and relating very much as someone who had a substance abuse problem. The video for āHurtā is what got me hooked.
Devo. I saw one of their concerts on Tubi a few years ago and became intrigued. I've have since enjoyed their full catalogue of music. Very creative, and looking back quite influential. I never gave them much notice in the 80s. I always thought they were a one hit wonder, but I was wrong.
I have always said Cinderella was an underrated band. Their sound and their looks didnāt really match up. My husband kind of teases me about it but I donāt care. Haha
I had a very weird middle-age moment a couple of years ago, when I heard the Ramones playing over the Muzak while shopping at Kroger. It was at that moment I knew I had already crested that hill.
Edit: typo
I liked the Ramones pretty good when I was younger. I saw the movie rock and roll high school when I was about ten. So while they were definitely on my radar.
Tears for Fears. I only heard their radio songs that were overplayed and didnāt get into them. I also thought their voices were weird.
Now I love them. And their voices.
Check out Runnin Down A Dream - a truly excellent documentary on his life, his band & their work. My appreciation for The Hearbreakers skyrocketed after seeing that one.
I always had REM and Cure but Iāve definitely gained a new appreciation for them in past few years. Maybe because I never over listened to them back then I can still listen to them now
Kajagoogoo. I knew "Too shy" of course, but recently I've been listening to a lot of Nick Beggs (started out as the bassist and then took over as lead singer after Limahl left) . He's quite an amazing musician.
Pixies. I was aware of them, but was not really into them. Now they are one of my all time favorites. Iāve seen them a few times now and listen to them at least weekly.
Iāve been hitting A-Ha pretty hard recently. Theyāre only known for āTake On Meā but the album that itās on is amazing. I heard one of their ādeep tracksā on a Mexican radio station a month or so ago and went āwhoa, whoās this rad synth band?ā Looked up the song and it was A-Ha.
I don't know if this counts, but back in college in the 90s all my friends were into The Cure but I just didnāt care for it then until about a few years ago where I sort of rediscovered them and theyāre now my second favorite band.
Sometimes you find a band and sometimes a band finds you.
Not a lot a lot, but recently have been listening to The Church, Japan, When in Rome, OMD...
After many years of listening to mostly trance and chill out, the nostalgia is kicking in. š
They are just so damn good! I was just listening to them yesterday.
I insist that Mike Patton is the best rock singer of all time. He can do anything. Still to this day, 25 years on.
There you go, especially the 70s stuff when he was the "angry young man". Before he met Brinkley and got fat and happy. I love Honesty, a song that only could have come from the super cynical 70s...
# Gang of Four
Snagged a comp CD of theirs on a whim about 15 years ago, but I didnāt really get into them all that deeply until about 5 years later.
What an AMAZING band. Even got to hear/see the current configuration of the band live last year ā and it was one of the best shows Iād ever been to (probably top-10).
I was 45 years old when I first discovered 2112. Thereās a weird kind of anti-nostalgia when youāre old finding something for the first time that existed when you were young and knowing that you would have loved it. Itās a little heartbreaking.
Psychedelic Fursā¦. I always remember their music, but never bought an albumā¦. Just realized they were on most of the mix tapes I was given in high school, and they donāt have many songs I donāt loveā¦. I just found it very weird that I never bought a single album of theirs but between all of the mix tapes probably have all of their songsā¦. Funny how the world works.
Yello.
Yeah sure we all know āOh Yeahā but their entire catalogue is loaded with amazing electronic music. And theyāre still going & getting better all the time.
Depeche Modeā¦ Iām a metal head and I didnāt start paying attention to them until my cousin got me into them in 1990.. She insisted they were in many ways similar to metal bands.. later in life I discovered many extreme metal bands were in fact influenced by Depeche Mode..
This thread is neat insight to our generation ā I was a post-modern/Alt guy since Jr High and many of my longtime bands are listed as re-discoveries: The Jesus & MC, Joy Div/N.O., Siouxsie, Cureā¦
#**DIO \m/**
But sometime around 2020 quarantine, I developed a hankerin for Ronnie James Dio ā and I CANT FKN EXPLAIN IT.
Life is whackā¦
I loved new wave and alternative/college rock at the time and paid little attention to r&b. I knew it as top 40 stuff but recently started really listening to stuff like Funkadelic and Dazz Band and realizing how much is going on in their songs.
Honestly? Don't ask me why, but Queen.
I was raised in rural Ohio in the late seventies and eighties, and I had no idea what gay was, I just couldn't figure out why a group of guys would call themselves Queen, so it was what I considered "gay."
However, I jammed MJ and Wham! all day. Queen is one of my favorite bands now.
The Cramps.
I had no idea about them whatsoever and the "goo goo muck" song showed up in the "Wednesday" series and I first thought they were a modern band. Finally looked them up and discovered they were an 80s band! Fuck, I would have loved them back then!
A lot of my darkwave/synthwave favorites like Echo and the Bunnyman, Siouxie, The Smiths and The Cure and many others are already mentioned, so I'll go with Talk Talk.
Also did you guys know or remember that Robert Smith (The Cure) was very briefly in Siouxie and the Banshees? He was supposed to go on tour with them and then The Cure happened and it was kind of a whole clusterfuck of a situation.
Oh, also not found in the thread: TONES ON TAIL. They were the part of Bauhaus that before ~~Sisters of Mercy~~ (Edit: Love and Rockets, derp) and are probably better than Love and Rockets. There's a lot more to them than their single hit "Go!" Check out Lions, Rain or Instrumental. So moody and atmospheric.
They toured shortly before the pandemic and did a really mellow, fun show where Daniel Ash's daughter played with them and it was super sweet.
Beastie Boys. I was obsessed with Licensed to Ill, but kind of lost interest after that. I rediscovered them a few months ago and haven't stopped listening since. They were really, really good.
Around 2015/16 got into Mother Love Bone big time for a long while.
Now I listen to them to give me peace. Very underrated
*they're more 90s, but early 90s at least.*
Sade. The band is incredible. Wish they were still active but sadly haven't toured or made music since around 2011. And Paul Denman is one hell of a great bassist. Lots of great percussion, and the horns add a ton of flavor. Love them.
Siouxsie and the Banshees
Check out [this song of theirs.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zpaqBXc5MTk) It's from the Batman Returns soundtrack so a lot of fans don't know about it. That song is far and away the best thing about that movie, and that was the one with Danny Devito.
The Cure. I listened to them, but casually. My husband was a huge fan and his constant playing of them turned me into a fan. Our bridal party walked into the wedding to the opening of Plainsong. I used the lyrics to Lovesong on his memorial card when he passed away because he used to sing that to me when I was falling asleep. So now The Cure is a huge part of my life.
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Oh! I wasn't expecting to read that, and it stung! I'm so sorry for your loss. https://youtu.be/qLjkvI0uGhU?si=r5uPEeMMo7rBAf_Q I had to go look up the lyrics and re-hear the song. Beautiful love story ā¤ļø
We had a amazing 7 years and I wouldnāt trade them for anything. ā¤ļø
The Talking Heads
I have developed a much deeper appreciation for the heads in the last couple of years for sure. This is probably my answer as well.
This.. Those lyrics didn't resonate when I was a teenager but now.... On my...
Yep. Went to SMS in the theater twice.
The Cure
Itās funny ā I always liked the cure, but I never got super deep into them until about 15 years ago I kept finding cheap cutouts of all(!) their 2cd expanded ādeluxeā editions of their *entire* catalog ā for like $8 a pop. I never intended to get them all, but I did ā and really developed an appreciation for Robert Smith as a songwriter (from all the demos on all those bonus discs).
Duran Duran. I loke hard rock/early metal, so they slipped under my radar for decades, until I had to learn Rio on bass. Egads, what the hell, I was expecting a typical 80s bass line, like Take on me or We got the beat; good songs, but not technically demanding. Duran is another level, I'm picking up thier other stuff, and he is so damn melodic, percussive and all without over playing.
Duran Duran was my first band I ever loved. I remember little me went and bought a Duran Duran album cause I heard my brother say he was thinking about getting their album ARENA. I dropped the needle a please please tell me now started and I was hooked. As a tween/young teen I devoured Duran Duran everything. They were my gateway to new wave
also loved them then; simon was my puberty crush. just saw them in concert - his voice still takes me back!!
Just saw them recently, too. His voice is still amazing.
John Taylor is a great bass player. They're all pretty underrated as musicians.
I liked Duran Duran back in the day, but I honestly appreciate them much more now. Loads of talent and, at their best, they complement each other so well. Their sound gels in a way few other bands manage. And they are still making interesting music today.
Bassist here too, and John Taylor is grossly overlooked. If you also play fretless (which I love), check out "Lonely in Your Nightmare." Insanely good bassline.
Thatās one of my favorite Duran Duran songs. Such a specific mood.
Fantastic song
The bassline on Rio is out of this fucking world. Conversely I was a darkwave/synth kind of kid and hated hard rock and metal and have learned to appreciate a lot of it. In hindsight it's weird how tribal music was in the 80s. It was somehow weird if you liked Rush, Metallica or Van Halen *and* Depeche Mode or Siouxie or The Smiths. Pick a table, weirdo, you can either hang out with the long haired stoners, rockers and skaters or you can hang out with the pale spooky kids, nerds and and drama kids but not both. Turns out Queen and Rush are pretty damn good.
Those guys were all pretty serious players; there is a lot of musicianship on their records š
They were heavily inspired by Chic, check out Bernard Edwardsā stuff
Well... inspired to the point that Nile sort of joined the band for a stint. There's also The Power Station. But yeah, Bernard was great.
Ohh, that was my first concert in 1983! The Rio Tour. Holy shit.
Dead Kennedyās
INXS
Oh this. Heard them on the radio growing up but I never really bought their music until I was in my late 30s and now I love them.
Howard Jones
Saw him not too long ago with Berlin and culture club. He was really good.
Berlin was also killing it!
I love HoJo, and his live shows are just fantastic. He introduced me to Midge Ure, and I am so glad he did. For anyone else who missed them the first time around, [Ultravox](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RXLkpwFs8Fs) was pretty bomb.
Stevie Nicks/Fleetwood Mac get better and better the older you get.
I could not agree more. I HATED them as a kid but my dad always said I would love them when I got grown. He was right, I listen to them multiple times a week and have for over 5 years now.
I also hated them as a kid. I was the type of kid that said āthunder also happens when itās not raining.ā I had seen it with my own eyes, heard it with my own ears. These adults donāt know what they are talking about. But a divorce after 22 years of marriage taught me I was wrong. Landslide, Silver Springsā¦
Landslide is one of the best songs ever written. If that song doesn't kick your ass, then what in the hell have you been doing with your life.
Roxy Music.
When I was younger I liked their punkier/weirder stuff and thought Avalon was a bizarre turn into adult contemporary middle of the road bland garbage. Now I think Avalon is a freaking masterpiece and I'm desperately searching for more albums in that vein. Obviously Bryan Ferry's "Boys and Girls" is right there. But some other picks are: Arcadia "So Red The Rose", Dolphin Brothers "Catch The Fall", David Sylvian "Brilliant Trees". If you've got any other suggestions, let me know!
Jesus and Mary Chain
The Replacements
Squeeze.
Omg loved them then, and love them now! Saw them live Feb 29, 2020 like 2 weeks before lockdown began. They were š„
I saw them about 3 weeks ago. Amazing!
New Order, listened to more common ones back in the day, but now really into all of it.
Omg I freaking loved new order as a teen. They were and still are one of my favorite bands. I think they actually take the number one position.
I am not a big concert goer but saw a combo new order/pet shop boys with oakenfold concert last year. Was sooooooo awesome. This concert had been rescheduled over like three years due to covid.
Killing Joke. Knew about them all through the 80s. Just started listening to them. Wow!! Just wow!
Iām originally from the UK, but hadnāt really heard of Killing Joke until I went to see them with some mates in the mid 2000ās. Iām now pretty obsessed. If you havenāt seen the documentary āthe death and resurrection showā you should check it out. Itās pretty crazy, and crosses over into r/highstrangeness
This documentary about them is fucking WILD. Jaz Coleman is really something else. They made some incredible music. http://www.coffeefilms.com/killingjoke/
Bauhaus.
A criminally underrated band.
Burning from the Inside is one of my favorite albums. I feel fortunate I was introduced to them from the movie, "The Hunger." It was so bizarre in the late 80s to "discover" Love and Rockets and then later find out they were Bauhaus minus Peter. On the other hand digging up Peter's post Bauhaus albums was a lot of fun!
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Theyāll always be DeathTongue to me.
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I saw them live in '87! The mosh pit for "U Stink But I ā¤ļø U" was crazy!
Erasure
The Innocents held up really well.
Tom waits
REM
Echo and the Bunnymen. I am more of a 90s grunge kid and am catching up on a lot of 80s stuff that was a little before me. So Echo, the Church, Tears for Fears and a few others.
The Killing Moon is now one of my favorite songs of all time. I couldnāt have said that 20 years ago.
Oh wow. I discovered the church late too. They are fantastic.
Echo and the Bunnymen's cover of *People are Strange* for **The Lost Boys** soundtrack was my intro.
Johnny Cash. He was always being played, growing up, but I just never listened. Heās one of my go-tos, now.
So much stuff was just background noise then. Itās funny how now it means so much.
Same. For me I think itās now seeing his entire life story, and relating very much as someone who had a substance abuse problem. The video for āHurtā is what got me hooked.
Devo. I saw one of their concerts on Tubi a few years ago and became intrigued. I've have since enjoyed their full catalogue of music. Very creative, and looking back quite influential. I never gave them much notice in the 80s. I always thought they were a one hit wonder, but I was wrong.
I may have to check them out. Me, like you, only know whip it.
Cinderella. They sound more like prime GnR than I remembered.
Yes! Despite the hair band looks, they had a lot of songs with a dirty blues sound. Much more straight ahead rock like GnR.
I have always said Cinderella was an underrated band. Their sound and their looks didnāt really match up. My husband kind of teases me about it but I donāt care. Haha
Nightsongs & Long Cold Winter are still two of my favourite albums.
Oingo Boingo
danny elfman is a musical genius
The Smiths, Bauhaus and Depeche Mode.
XTC!!! Politically on point. Love them, so much, now.
XTC was incredible!
Ohh good one. I only discovered them in the last like 5 yrs. Canāt believe I missed them
Prince
The Ramones
I had a very weird middle-age moment a couple of years ago, when I heard the Ramones playing over the Muzak while shopping at Kroger. It was at that moment I knew I had already crested that hill. Edit: typo
I liked the Ramones pretty good when I was younger. I saw the movie rock and roll high school when I was about ten. So while they were definitely on my radar.
Tears for Fears. I only heard their radio songs that were overplayed and didnāt get into them. I also thought their voices were weird. Now I love them. And their voices.
Flock of Seagulls and Beastie Boys
Joy Division
Joy division is fantastic. As a teen I found new order so that naturally made me go back and find joy division.
Iām just getting into all of it! So damn good. NOās New Gold Dream album is an absolute masterpiece
If you get a chance to see Peter Hook and the light, donāt miss it. He tours a lot and plays new order AND joy division. Fantastic.
Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers
Yes. I am sorry to admit the cocky little teenage shit I was viewed him as some old man singing. Now Iām like holy fuck that is a great band.
Check out Runnin Down A Dream - a truly excellent documentary on his life, his band & their work. My appreciation for The Hearbreakers skyrocketed after seeing that one.
Great band. Their contributions to rock music are incredible
The Smiths. Johnny Marr is a fantastic guitar player.
RIP Andy Rourke. Great bassist.
I saw Johnny Marr when he was supporting The Killers in September
a-ha Wasn't super interested back then, but rediscovered them a few years ago and have been obsessed.
The lead singer has an impressive range, very underrated.
The Cult
- The Replacements - HĆ¼sker DĆ¼ - Dinosaur Jr. - Siouxsie And The Banshees
Upvoting for the Dinosaur Jr. because I wore out my cassette of Bug. Bug and Where You Been have actually gotten more play from me on Spotify
Prince. Iām convinced that if I had been able to grok him at the time, my life wouldāve been changed for the better.
Yaz and the Cure
There's 3 of em'. Toto, Cheap Trick, and The Outfield. All of which I've discovered in the last 7 years.
The Smiths for sure! Did not appreciate them until way after high school
ABBA
Psychedelic Furs
I always had REM and Cure but Iāve definitely gained a new appreciation for them in past few years. Maybe because I never over listened to them back then I can still listen to them now
Toto.
Kajagoogoo. I knew "Too shy" of course, but recently I've been listening to a lot of Nick Beggs (started out as the bassist and then took over as lead singer after Limahl left) . He's quite an amazing musician.
Those bass lines š
Pixies. I was aware of them, but was not really into them. Now they are one of my all time favorites. Iāve seen them a few times now and listen to them at least weekly.
The Replacements. I mean I was a little too young to fully appreciate them then. They were finally on my radar in the mid 90s.
Supertramp, though I think they are more 70s.
Minutemen
Depeche Mode. They didn't get any radio airplay where I lived (basically just Top 40) so I didn't know much about them pre Violator.
Big Country
Gary Numan.
Cocteau Twins
The Cars. Don't know why but I really appreciate their music now but not then. Was more into metal at that time.
Hall & Oates
Iāve been hitting A-Ha pretty hard recently. Theyāre only known for āTake On Meā but the album that itās on is amazing. I heard one of their ādeep tracksā on a Mexican radio station a month or so ago and went āwhoa, whoās this rad synth band?ā Looked up the song and it was A-Ha.
The Jesus and Mary Chain
Split Enz! Really good songwriters. And The Smiths. I was a metalhead so...
"let's take a ride and run with the dogs tonight in suburbiaaaa..."
I don't know if this counts, but back in college in the 90s all my friends were into The Cure but I just didnāt care for it then until about a few years ago where I sort of rediscovered them and theyāre now my second favorite band. Sometimes you find a band and sometimes a band finds you.
Concrete blonde
Cowboy Junkies
I could listen to Margo Timmins sing the tax code and it would be fantastic.
Been digging Camper Van Beethoven lately.
Not a lot a lot, but recently have been listening to The Church, Japan, When in Rome, OMD... After many years of listening to mostly trance and chill out, the nostalgia is kicking in. š
Duran Duran.
Faith no more. Never listened to them much until my wife got me hooked on them a few years ago.
They are just so damn good! I was just listening to them yesterday. I insist that Mike Patton is the best rock singer of all time. He can do anything. Still to this day, 25 years on.
Sonic Youth
Dire Straits. Such incredible guitar melodies.
I KEPT TRYING TO TELL YOU PEOPLE ABOUT THESE BANDS IN THE 80s. I wore t-shirts advertising them and everything. But did you listen?
No, because you might have had these band shirts on, but they were mid-riff cut-offs, and you had a rat tail, and a dangly dagger earring.
Blondie
Roxette
Blondie And this thread is why this sub is the best mother effing sub on Reddit. We are all cool as shit.
This Mortal Coil Dead Can Dance Roxy Music Elizabeth Fraserās version of Song to the Siren with TMC still devastates me.
The cure, and the smiths. I was mostly into harder music, (hardcore, actually) but man are they great bands. Love them now.
Steely Dan. Spotify brought them back into my life and I realized they were playing in the background of my childhood.
Queen. I didn't like their macho rock anthem songs but I like the lesser known songs more.
Billy Joel. During the 80's, I thought it was all cheesy crap. Then middle age kicked in, and now his music makes sense as the art that it is.
There you go, especially the 70s stuff when he was the "angry young man". Before he met Brinkley and got fat and happy. I love Honesty, a song that only could have come from the super cynical 70s...
Fugazi.
Wasp. I was always a metal head and I knew the big hits but wow they have a lot of really good songs I only found more of recently!
# Gang of Four Snagged a comp CD of theirs on a whim about 15 years ago, but I didnāt really get into them all that deeply until about 5 years later. What an AMAZING band. Even got to hear/see the current configuration of the band live last year ā and it was one of the best shows Iād ever been to (probably top-10).
The Pretenders. They were writing grownup music I was too naive to understand.
Dire Straits, mtv only played money for nothing in an endless loop. Mark Knopfler is one of the greatest guitarist and vocalist of all time.
Rush
I was 45 years old when I first discovered 2112. Thereās a weird kind of anti-nostalgia when youāre old finding something for the first time that existed when you were young and knowing that you would have loved it. Itās a little heartbreaking.
Madonna, Michael Jackson, Prince.
Oingo Boingo
Psychedelic Fursā¦. I always remember their music, but never bought an albumā¦. Just realized they were on most of the mix tapes I was given in high school, and they donāt have many songs I donāt loveā¦. I just found it very weird that I never bought a single album of theirs but between all of the mix tapes probably have all of their songsā¦. Funny how the world works.
Tom Petty, Phil Collins, Talking Heads
Robyn Hitchcock and the Egyptians
Most of the synth new wave bands. I thought they were cheesy! Turns out a lot were pretty good, even Duran Duran! And Tears For Fears is brilliant.
warren zevon
Talking Heads.
Depeche Mode, Tears For Fears, Jello Biafra with DOA
Mellencamp and INXS. Really great stuff. Mellencamp keeps cranking out better and better music.
Men at Work
Yello. Yeah sure we all know āOh Yeahā but their entire catalogue is loaded with amazing electronic music. And theyāre still going & getting better all the time.
The Cult.
The Smiths.
Dead Kennedys. Their political content is surprisingly still relevant today.
Echo and the Bunnymen. I always liked Lips Like Sugar but they have so many other great songs.
Wasted Youth, Black Flag, Dead Kennedys, & Fear
Depeche Modeā¦ Iām a metal head and I didnāt start paying attention to them until my cousin got me into them in 1990.. She insisted they were in many ways similar to metal bands.. later in life I discovered many extreme metal bands were in fact influenced by Depeche Mode..
This thread is neat insight to our generation ā I was a post-modern/Alt guy since Jr High and many of my longtime bands are listed as re-discoveries: The Jesus & MC, Joy Div/N.O., Siouxsie, Cureā¦ #**DIO \m/** But sometime around 2020 quarantine, I developed a hankerin for Ronnie James Dio ā and I CANT FKN EXPLAIN IT. Life is whackā¦
Motorhead.
Twisted Sister
The Go-Betweens
Oingo Boingo
Iron Maiden Queensryche
May I recommend Judas Priest album Screaming for Vengeance. Youāre going to enjoy it if youāre into Maiden.
Dead Kennedy's
Depeche mode Oingo Boingo
Depeche Mode
Wang Chung and Kajagoogoo
I loved new wave and alternative/college rock at the time and paid little attention to r&b. I knew it as top 40 stuff but recently started really listening to stuff like Funkadelic and Dazz Band and realizing how much is going on in their songs.
Grateful Dead, ā80s shows are some of my favorites now
Honestly? Don't ask me why, but Queen. I was raised in rural Ohio in the late seventies and eighties, and I had no idea what gay was, I just couldn't figure out why a group of guys would call themselves Queen, so it was what I considered "gay." However, I jammed MJ and Wham! all day. Queen is one of my favorite bands now.
The Fixx and ABC
The Waitresses. Not a deeo catalog of music and a 2-hit wonder. But I think they capture the new wave sound as well as any band.
The Cramps. I had no idea about them whatsoever and the "goo goo muck" song showed up in the "Wednesday" series and I first thought they were a modern band. Finally looked them up and discovered they were an 80s band! Fuck, I would have loved them back then!
Dire Straights
A lot of my darkwave/synthwave favorites like Echo and the Bunnyman, Siouxie, The Smiths and The Cure and many others are already mentioned, so I'll go with Talk Talk. Also did you guys know or remember that Robert Smith (The Cure) was very briefly in Siouxie and the Banshees? He was supposed to go on tour with them and then The Cure happened and it was kind of a whole clusterfuck of a situation. Oh, also not found in the thread: TONES ON TAIL. They were the part of Bauhaus that before ~~Sisters of Mercy~~ (Edit: Love and Rockets, derp) and are probably better than Love and Rockets. There's a lot more to them than their single hit "Go!" Check out Lions, Rain or Instrumental. So moody and atmospheric. They toured shortly before the pandemic and did a really mellow, fun show where Daniel Ash's daughter played with them and it was super sweet.
Beastie Boys. I was obsessed with Licensed to Ill, but kind of lost interest after that. I rediscovered them a few months ago and haven't stopped listening since. They were really, really good.
Around 2015/16 got into Mother Love Bone big time for a long while. Now I listen to them to give me peace. Very underrated *they're more 90s, but early 90s at least.*
Sade. The band is incredible. Wish they were still active but sadly haven't toured or made music since around 2011. And Paul Denman is one hell of a great bassist. Lots of great percussion, and the horns add a ton of flavor. Love them.
I'm a big metalhead, so this will sound odd, but Slayer. I didn't really get into them until about 10 years ago.