Hey anyone here an 80's fan if so who's your favorate band or artist of the 80's?

Answer 1

true 80s 1:japan (underground to most)
2 duran duran (videos at the time the nuts )
3culture club (songs will live on)
4 who sang gold??? with wats his name in the band classic

Answer 2

Favourite Artist: Kate Bush

While still attending St. Joseph's Convent Grammar school in Abbey Wood, South East London where she studied the piano and violin, Bush caught the attention of David Gilmour of Pink Floyd, who helped fund her first demo sessions. She signed a contract with EMI when she was 16. However, in the first two years of her contract, Bush did not release an album, but instead completed her time at school through to her mock A-Levels and took lessons in dancing, mime, and music. She left school with 10 O-Level qualifications.
In 2005, Bush stated in an interview with Mark Radcliffe on BBC Radio Two that she felt that EMI did not let her release an album until later not so that she could hone her talents, as they would later state, but rather in order that no other record company could offer her a contract. Nonetheless, EMI did forward her a sizeable amount of start-up money which she used to enroll in Lindsey Kemp's interpretive dance classes.
During this time, Bush wrote and made demos of close to 200 songs, which today can be found on bootleg recordings (some of the demos are often known as the Phoenix Recordings). She also performed at various small venues in and near London under the name KT Bush Band.
Her first album, The Kick Inside, was released in 1978, and featured songs she had written during the previous several years, including the single "Wuthering Heights", which topped the UK and Australian charts and became an international hit. In doing so, Bush became the first woman to reach Number 1 in the UK with a self-penned song. A period of intense work followed.


Favourite Band: The Cult

The Cult are an English rock band. In the mid-1980s, the Cult was one of England's leading heavy metal revivalists, a hard rock band with slight psychedelic flourishes, influenced primarily by the Native American mysticism of The Doors, the hard guitar rock Led Zeppelin and AC/DC. The band also touched upon post-punk goth rock, a relatively new style at the time.

The Cult had hits in Britain in the mid-1980s, such as "She Sells Sanctuary”, and in the late 1980s, the Cult broke into the American heavy metal market with the song, "Love Removal Machine". Although 1989's Sonic Temple was the band's most successful album from a sales point of view, the band was fraying behind the scenes, due to alcohol abuse and off-stage tensions; by 1995, the Cult had split up.

Between 1999 and 2002, the band reformed to record the album Beyond Good and Evil and in 2006, the band reformed to perform a series of worldwide tours. The band are set to record new material starting in February of 2007, however, so far the band has not played any new material during concerts. John Tempesta has confirmed on his website that in early 2007, The Cult will be recording a new record, to be released later in the year, followed by another world tour

Answer 3

Favorite 80s band?

That is a tall order, but based on amount of music owned from that particular artist, that belongs to Talking Heads (sorry, Eurythmics)

Answer 4

Yep, I was def an 80's fan, as it was my era lol.

Cant give a fav band, as I liked so many, but Duran Duran, Depeche Mode, Nik Kershaw and Prince were probably the ones I liked the most :) ..............

............but then I discovered Metallica, and Ive been a rock chick ever since lol (but dont tell anyone that I still occasionally listen to Depeche Mode :p).

Answer 5

I am a huge fan, however there is a contradiction, i was born in 1987, even so i grew up listening to:

The Sos Band
Chaka Khan,
Hue and Cry,
Five Star,
Michael Jackson,
Alexander Oneal,
Bobby Brown,
Anita Baker,
De Barge,

and loads more...the 80s? id love to travel to that Era, to see what the hype was all about...

Answer 6

Bryan Adams
Journey
Cher
Bon Jovi
Foreigner
Loverboy

Answer 7

It's a toss up between the Smiths and New Order! At a push I'd say the Smiths. Although I do own a Visage compilation CD too! Yikes!!!

Answer 8

There are so many to list!!

The SMiths
Level 42
Duran Duran
New Order
The Cure
THe Cult
Simple Minds
Altered Images
Scritti Politti
Cocteau Twins

Answer 9

The Psychadelic Furs!

Answer 10

Ian Dury and the Blockheads,
Queen, Dire Straits, Eddy Grant, Gladys Knight, Helen Reddy, Bruce Springstien, Blondie...scraping the barrel now but good times remembered....may come back and edit this one when I put my brain into gear.....