Best 80s alternative bands...

[Nazgul35]

Not neccesarily in the order shown :evilgrin:

Alternative:

1) New Order
2) The Cure
3) The Tubes
4) Eco and the Bunnymen
5) Hubu guru

[boxster]

1. The Tubes - Talk to Ya Later!

It's been six months. She hasn't shut up once!"

Hehe. I love that song.

[vi5]

2. Did you mean the Hudu Gurus?

Odd seeing them on that list. New ORder, Echo, The Cure all were always closely alligned. The Tubes had their hit and a few good songs other than that one. And Hudu Gurus were good but kind of a minor, minor, MINOR footnote in alternative rock.

[FlashHarry]

4. Hoodoo Gurus.

Great band. Add The Pixies, The Replacements, Big Dipper, Buffalo Tom, REM, The Windbreakers, Sonic Youth, Husker Du, Soul Asylum, Trip Shakespeare, Dumptruck, The Fluid, etc, etc.

[CanuckAmok]

3. Best?

I'm gonna have to say Killing Joke above all else.

XTC.

Also Joy Division, New Order up to about the Lowlife LP, Echo and the Bunnymen, Psychic TV before they went all technodisco, Gang of Four, and Coil.

[Jack The Tab]

18. I actually like the Psychic TV dance stuff..

more than the early noisy output. Actually, my screen name is one of their album titles.

[liberalmuse]

5. Echo and the Bunnymen

And The Cult.

[Screaming Lord Byron]

15. Seconding Bunnymen. Plus Jesus and Mary Chain, Cocteaus

[Fenris]

6. In particular order

1)The Smiths
2)Joy Division/early New Order
3)The Cure
4)The Pixies
5)Sonic Youth (fuck you, they count!)

[MercutioATC]

8. Nice list!

Except #5. (Fuck you, they don't!)


:silly:

[poppabear36]

7. Meat Puppets

Not sure they don't belong in a category of their own.
Pure alternative:
Echo and the Bunneymen
The Cure

[FlashHarry]

9. Man, those guys smoked a ton of weed!

A friend of mine played 2nd guitar with them for a while. I did sound for them a couple of times, too. Too high to die, indeed...

[Nazgul35]

10. My wife says...

I gotta add the pouges, pill, cruela deville, blue nile....

[mitchum]

11. PIL, REM, Bunnymen, New Order, Gun Club, New Order, Pylon...

Lets Active, Killing Joke, Meat Puppets, Dream Syndicate, Green on Red

[Jack The Tab]

20. Still love the "Big Plans.." album from Lets Active..n/t

nt

[solinvictus]

12. Skinny Puppy

was the best. Period.

[rucky]

13. The Replacements

Love & Rockets
Stone Roses
Split Enz
Pere Ubu
The Smiths
Dramarama
Jesus & Mary Chain
The Pixies
Lemonheads
The Three O'Clock
Echo & the Bunnymen
The Posies
Jesus Lizard

edit: Cant believe i forgot Flaming Lips & Sonic Youth

[AmandaRuth]

14. Add

the blasters Rank N File

[Kolesar]

16. Wall of Voodoo

The Tubes were a band with an incredibly loyal following. They had great album production and they out-rocked their contemporaries (such as AC/DC, etc.) The Tubes broke out nicely on early MTV with "She's a Beauty" and "Talk to ya' Later".

I don't see them as "Alternative" though.

[Brewman_Jax]

17. Art of Noise

n/t

[Jack The Tab]

19. Big Black, Sonic Youth, Butthole Surfers, Big Dipper, ...

All the old Homestead and SST bands bands..

too many to list..

[Whitacre D_WI]

21. Pixies, Pixies, Pixies...

And why has nobody mentioned the strangest and most frightening of them all: THE FALL?

[DBoon]

22. Tubes were more a late '70s band

Minutemen
Replacements
Husker Du
Fugazi
Foetus
Einstuzende Neubaten

My votes

[devilgrrl]

23. A lot of great bands!!!! :-)

Now there's one thing I miss about the 80's... the music. Especially the alternative stuff. What was great about it was that the masses h-a-t-e-d it! :evilgrin: Then Nirvana went and ruined everything. :evilfrown:

[soleft]

24. The Bush Tetras

[mitchum]

27. They were great!

[ACK]

25. The Master List -- do not taunt the Happy Fun Ball list

Not in order damn you!

1) The Pixies
2) The Pogues
3) 10K Maniacs
4) The Replacements
5) Firehose
6) The Minutemen
7) Husker Du
8) REM (Yes, they were alternative at this time)
9) U2 (ditto see above)
10) The Smiths

[rene moon]

26. my list

1) The Smiths
2) The Cure
3) Siouxsie and the Banshees
4) The Pixies
5) Dead Can Dance
6) Bauhaus