Favorite 80's bands

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Keith Whitley


Chris Ledoux
Dwight Yoakum

If we count in-betweeners

[jhawks99]

Are we 6 pages into this thread an no one has mentioned The Ramones?

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Keith Whitley


Chris Ledoux
Dwight Yoakum

If we count in-betweeners

I listen to Dwight Yoakum a lot. Feel like he never gets enough credit.

And yes to The Clash, Echo & the Bunneymen and Queen (Three amazing British rock bands).

Anybody remember Flesh for Lulu? From the movie Some Kind of Wonderful.

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Are we 6 pages into this thread an no one has mentioned The Ramones?

Love their music now but didn't know much about them until I was probably in high school.

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Keith Whitley


Chris Ledoux
Dwight Yoakum

If we count in-betweeners

I listen to Dwight Yoakum a lot. Feel like he never gets enough credit.

And yes to The Clash, Echo & the Bunneymen and Queen (Three amazing British rock bands).

Anybody remember Flesh for Lulu? From the movie Some Kind of Wonderful.

Dwight Yoakum may be the most underrated artist of that era.

Love his stuff

[shindig]

His remake of Elvis' Suspicious Minds rocks! And I love the King.

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Yea thats good

Im partial to Streets of Bakersfield with Buck Owens....but he has a lot of good stuff out there and he is never mentioned with Alan Jackson or Randy Travis or even Travis Tritt....and i think he is every bit as good or better than them

[LosCondorAzule]

THIS SHIT ROCKS!
The Clash
Joy Division
New Order
Sepultura
Echo and the Bunnymen
KLF
Black Flag
Social Distortion
Beastie Boys
Sin City Disciplines
Homestead Grays

[Sparko]

Branford Marsalis Quartet, plus his time with Sting.
Michael Brecker/Randy
Supersax

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Branford Marsalis Quartet, plus his time with Sting.
Michael Brecker/Randy
Supersax

I'd add Lawrence's own Bobby Watson to this list. FWIW, I volunteered to shuttle musicians from the airport to the various venues during the 1994 Wichita Jazz Festival. Amongst those I had the pleasure to pick up we're the Brecker Brothers. Unlike the other musicians who were warm and conversational, the bros kept their noses buried in the NYT crossword for the entire trip. Dr. John and his close entourage were the most peculiar, Michael Stern is/was out of his mind crazy.

[JKLivin]

Forgot Motley Crue on my list.

Watched Bohemian Rhapsody the other night with the wife. She was a toddler when I was in high school, so knew next to nothing about Queen. She’s been talking about them and asking questions ever since. Been kind of fun.

[shindig]

Forgot Motley Crue on my list.

Watched Bohemian Rhapsody the other night with the wife. She was a toddler when I was in high school, so knew next to nothing about Queen. She’s been talking about them and asking questions ever since. Been kind of fun.

Yeah, same here. I knew of Queen but never really appreciated their music, or the extent of, until around the time Freddy died. Freddy Mercury had an amazing voice and their songs still resonate today.

And Motley Crue rocked. I was a huge fan of them along with Ratt, Quiet Riot and Billy Squier. Oh and Billy Idol.

[JKLivin]

Forgot Motley Crue on my list.

Watched Bohemian Rhapsody the other night with the wife. She was a toddler when I was in high school, so knew next to nothing about Queen. She’s been talking about them and asking questions ever since. Been kind of fun.

Yeah, same here. I knew of Queen but never really appreciated their music, or the extent of, until around the time Freddy died. Freddy Mercury had an amazing voice and their songs still resonate today.

And Motley Crue rocked. I was a huge fan of them along with Ratt, Quiet Riot and Billy Squier. Oh and Billy Idol.

LOl! I remember being an 8th grader, spiking up my hair, and standing in front of the mirror practicing my Billy Idol sneer.

[jhawks99]

Forgot Motley Crue on my list.

Watched Bohemian Rhapsody the other night with the wife. She was a toddler when I was in high school, so knew next to nothing about Queen. She’s been talking about them and asking questions ever since. Been kind of fun.

Yeah, same here. I knew of Queen but never really appreciated their music, or the extent of, until around the time Freddy died. Freddy Mercury had an amazing voice and their songs still resonate today.

And Motley Crue rocked. I was a huge fan of them along with Ratt, Quiet Riot and Billy Squier. Oh and Billy Idol.

More power to you shindig, but this is my nightmare. I can't say my musical taste was better or worse but that's a nightmare to me.

[JKLivin]

Forgot Motley Crue on my list.

Watched Bohemian Rhapsody the other night with the wife. She was a toddler when I was in high school, so knew next to nothing about Queen. She’s been talking about them and asking questions ever since. Been kind of fun.

Yeah, same here. I knew of Queen but never really appreciated their music, or the extent of, until around the time Freddy died. Freddy Mercury had an amazing voice and their songs still resonate today.

And Motley Crue rocked. I was a huge fan of them along with Ratt, Quiet Riot and Billy Squier. Oh and Billy Idol.

More power to you shindig, but this is my nightmare. I can't say my musical taste was better or worse but that's a nightmare to me.

There’s no accounting for taste. I think country music is an IQ-lowering aural parasite and that jazz is random noise pollution.

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My poor IQ suffers daily.

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[Cascadia]

Queen should be considered a 70’s band.

If you want to include them in the 80’s, then they’re easily #1. And it’s not close.

[JKLivin]

Queen should be considered a 70’s band.

If you want to include them in the 80’s, then they’re easily #1. And it’s not close.

Truth.

[jhawks99]

Was just upstairs in the "Man Room" listening to some Miles Davis. Inspired by WRFL, the local version of KJHK, recently playing some jazz from 1961. The set included Davis, Coltrane, Monk and Hancock. All of it good stuff.