80s alternative music

[senyetse]

I was in std 6 (grade 8) when I first discovered Barney Simon's evening alternative music show on Radio 5 (as it was then called). Barney introduced me to what to me was a new type of music - up to then I had been listening to Micheal Jackson, Tears for Fears, Howard Jones, Duran Duran etc. At the time you could only get this music at Look and Listen in Hillbrow on import. I still listen to a lot of that music today (a lot on LP) and it greatly influences a lot of current rock bands.

Here's a list of bands from that era. See if you can add anything:

The Cure
The Smiths
Echo and the Bunnymen
The Jesus and Mary Chain
Gene Loves Jezebel
Bauhaus
Love and Rockets
The Clash
The Dead Kennedeys
The Sisters of Mercy
The Mission
Souixsie and the Banshees
The Psychadelic Furs
Joy Division
Alien Sex Fiend
Big Audio Dynamite
New Order
The Church
The Cramps
The Cult
Dead Can Dance
Nina Hagen
Husker Du
New Model Army
Prefab Sprout
Public Image Limited
Violent Femmes
Fields of the Nephilim

 

[Grant]

The The
Lene Lovich
Orange Juice
The Jam
Sex Pistols

 

[Johnone]

Don't know if they are alternative, but the classic rock band, Journey, is one of my favourites from that era. They tend to be underrated but had a huge influence on other bands emerging from that era, like Bon Jovi.

 

[Happy Camper]

Revolting cocks
The Mighty Lemon Drops

 

[Grant]

Gaye Bykers on Acid

 

[Happy Camper]

Sheep on Drugs
Talking Heads
World Party

 

[AstroTurf]

The pale

Sisters of mercy.

 

[raind33r]

Classix Nouveaux

 

[Crowley]

Sheep on drugs

Here is a link to the Doors Nightclub's CD on LastFM

http://www.last.fm/music/Various+Artists/The+Doors+Nightclub

 

[saturnz]

a huge ommission from that list is the Pixies and Joy Division didn't really release anything in the 80's

 

[Roo!]

a huge ommission from that list is the Pixies and Joy Division didn't really release anything in the 80's

Joy Division recorded and release Closer in 1980, just before Curtis topped himself.

 

[senyetse]

Sheep on drugs

Here is a link to the Doors Nightclub's CD on LastFM

http://www.last.fm/music/Various+Artists/The+Doors+Nightclub

Was that the original Doors?

Depeche Mode were also on this list in the 80s - Some Great Reward, Black Celebration and Music for the Masses
REM also

The Fall
Pixies
Cocteau Twins
Jane's Addiction
The Pogues
Cowboy Junkies
The Stone Roses

 

[senyetse]

a huge ommission from that list is the Pixies and Joy Division didn't really release anything in the 80's

Yup, I've added Pixies. Joy Division's Closer was released in 1980.

What's a few years before and after the 80s? The music of this era is of more significance.

 

[MisterFiftySomething]

Laibach
Front 242
Skinny Puppy
Frontline Assembly
Einstürzende Neubauten
Sigue Sigue Sputnik
This Mortal Coil
Psychic TV
Kraftwerk
NIИ

 

[Compton_effect]

Pop will eat itself - Gave us the awesomeness of Clint Mansell
This mortal coil

Damn! There were some good bands!

 

[senyetse]

The Cure - Disintegration (brilliant album) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ggP5YDziMSY

The Smiths - A rush and a push and the land is ours http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y1kdDd2jMdY

Sisters of Mercy - Lucretia, My Reflection http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IuezNswtRfo

The Mission - Wasteland http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-2up4WUQod0

The Cult - Revolution http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P9px-vKZMLU

Siouxsie and the Banshees - Kiss them for me http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hzvsucgTxsg

Echo and the Bunnymen - The killing Moon http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aX1PwkgwsG0 - this song was in Donnie Darko

 

[GreGorGy]

Here's a list of bands from that era. See if you can add anything:

So, that whole list and your location, as listed on MyBB, is planet claire. And that list EXCLUDES the B52s?

Shame on you...

 

[Compton_effect]

So, that whole list and your location, as listed on MyBB, is planet claire. And that list EXCLUDES the B52s?

Shame on you...

Wow. Good eye.

 

[senyetse]

So, that whole list and your location, as listed on MyBB, is planet claire. And that list EXCLUDES the B52s?

Shame on you...

Sheesh attention to detail...
I hang my head in shame

 

[satanboy]

Red Lorry Yellow Lorry
Half Man Half Biscuit
Gang of Four
The Style Council
Killing Joke
Happy Mondays
Soup Dragons
Primal Scream
The Smiths
James
Yello
Toyah
Kalahari Surfers
Crass