Best Band of 80′s?
Time for the 80′s best band vote! Woopee! This is the second of our “Best Band by Decade” series. The 80′s was sure an interesting time in music, right? Many people seem to make fun of it and hate on it. This may have something to do with all the metal poser hair bands at the time. I happen to enjoy a few of them.
But the eighties appeared to be the decade with the most varied forms of rock/popular music. You had everything from the SST punk/experimental side of Sonic Youth and Husker Du to Sub Pop’s Nirvana and Soundgarden grunge to the ethereal 4AD stable with Cocteau Twins and the Pixes to the diverse IRS with REM and Wall of Voodoo i.e. Not to mention all the hits on the radio. You had acts as diverse as Culture Club, Men at Work, Gary Numan, the Knack, the Pretenders et. Those are far more original acts than that of today at least. Nowadays, popular radio doesn’t hold a candle to the 80′s.
