80's bands that get no recognition.

[Buoy]

Heard "Let's Go" by the Cars on the radio yesterday and got me thinking...
What bands are out there from the 80's that are nearly forgotten, but had great songs, and rarely get played today.

Cheap Trick also comes to mind. I think I saw them in concert 3 or 4 times.

What else ya got?

[MOBILEMERCMAN]

Talking Heads comes to mind first for me. Tom Tom Club, The The.....This could be a long list... The Clash... Bob Seger...

[MOBILEMERCMAN]

Bad Company. Fog Hat...BTO...

[Buoy]

Talking Heads - good one Jim! "Psycho Killer", "And she was", and of course "Burning down the House".

This is what I'm talking about - the bands that you don't think of very often, but when you hear just one song from them it reminds you of half a dozen others.

[Bobcat]

Honeymoon Suite, Donnie Iris, April Wine (of course)

[Edward R. Cozzi]

Argent
Ace
Hamilton, Joe, Frank & Reynolds
Level 42

[Bobcat]

Corey Hart! Mike & the Mechanics.

[poncho]

Corey Hart, April Wine, Honeymoon Suite? What are you a closet Canadian?

Dire Straits

Doug and the Slugs

Chilliwack "watch gonna do"

Glass Tiger

Loverboy

Men Without Hats "The Safety Dance" (you don't get more 1980's then that song!)

The Cult

[Dude! Sweet!]

Donnie Iris! I can't even read that name without doing so in a Pittsburghers accent! And also without saying "... And Joe Grschecki and the House Rockers!"

Ok, so how about Triumph? Thinking of groups that were huge and have dropped off the face of the earth anyhow. Can think of a ton more that were marginal (Yngve Malmstein anyone) and forgotten.

I was listening to the Cult on the plane yesterday. And Tim you know this was coming, I've seen Cheap Trick several times as well!

[Bobcat]

Corey Hart, April Wine, Honeymoon Suite? What are you a closet Canadian?

Dire Straits

Doug and the Slugs

Chilliwack "watch gonna do"

Glass Tiger

Loverboy

Men Without Hats "The Safety Dance" (you don't get more 1980's then that song!)

The Cult

[Bobcat]

The Cult still gets some air time on the radio, as does Cheap Trick. Bad Co. was more of a 70's group that broke up in the early 80's and became Powerstation.

Starting to hear some UFO now too, and ASIA.

I've gotta go jam out to some Aldo Nova man!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[t500hps]

I really need my wife's Ipod to answer this one........

Men at work
Journey
Pat Benetar

[Big Time]

Styx and Journey (until the Sapranos finale) and most def D.I.O. No love for DIO.

[Wrinkleface]

the REO boyz R hang'n in there! will C them at Soaring Eagle Casino in Feb!!!!

[Bobcat]

I still hear a lot of Journey and Styx(the bad stuff) down here.

[MOBILEMERCMAN]

Stevie Ray Vaughn surfaced in the early 80's. That is also when I first heard Robert Cray.

[rchevelle71]

Scorpions

[Bobcat]

MSG

[MOBILEMERCMAN]

Peter Gabriel

[Bobcat]

Wang Chung