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  • #16
    I'm not sure if I should include Iron Maiden.... they sold millions, had big tours and there was't a single movie where you didn't see some kid with Maiden shirt or Maiden's poster on some teenagers wall.... but I think the radios didn't played their songs so much until you puked.
    "There is nothing more fearful than imagination without taste" - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

    "To be stupid, selfish and have good health are three requirements for happiness, though if stupidity is lacking, all is lost" - Gustave Flaubert

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    • #17
      Originally posted by FusionFarmer View Post
      crap, you had the whole new wave movement and hair metal, all started and pretty much faded out in the 80s,
      Duran Duran, ugh,
      new wave... oh yes.... kinda weird when punk bands start using synthesizers New Romantic stuff was cool though... I love Duran Duran... Rio is one of the greatest albums ever... the title song is fucking great... John Taylor does some sick jazz/fusion bass wanking durning the whole song

      Originally posted by Guitardude86 View Post
      Biggest in the 80's eh? I think it would be hard to beat Michael Jackson in terms of album sales and popularity back then.
      MJ definetly sold the most... I mean Thriller is a fucking benchmark album... look who played on that album... fucking all star team.... MJ of course wrote the songs and sang (amazing writer), Quincy Jones himself produced the whole thing... and then the musicians... Jeff fucking Porcaro played the drums... fucking groove master numero uno durning that time... his bro Steve played the keys.... then they got the sickest funk/slap bass player Louis Johnson.... Steve Lukather did the guitars.... and off course Eddie Van Halen.... the solo on Beat It.
      There's not a single weak moment on that album. Hell, even Miles Davis covered "Human Nature"

      Prince's Purple Rain was also a monster hit album.... but I dig his older stuff more though.

      That being said VH was the definite 80's bands... they were the biggest influence on the pop culture and the music of the 80's (from pop to metal, from synth-wave-dance to contemporary jazz etc.). The 80's started with VH. Eddie Van Halen invented the 80's music chord progressions.
      Last edited by Endrik; 06-20-2007, 12:11 PM.
      "There is nothing more fearful than imagination without taste" - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

      "To be stupid, selfish and have good health are three requirements for happiness, though if stupidity is lacking, all is lost" - Gustave Flaubert

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      • #18
        Considering "Back In Black" sold 21M copies alone (5th most in HISTORY), i'd have to say AC/DC deserves huge props as a big 80's band.

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        • #19
          Ozzy Osbourne
          tears for fears
          Sam

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          • #20
            Dont forget Lionel Ritchie and Phil Collins

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            • #21
              ..and everyone who partisipated in "we are the world"

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              • #22
                I'm desperately trying to remember that far back!
                Fwopping, you know you want to!

                VI VI VI: the editor of the Beast!

                There are 10 kinds of people who understand binary. Those who do and those who don't.

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                • #23
                  One of my all time favorite bands to this day!

                  STRYPER!

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                  • #24
                    Originally posted by xsentrick View Post
                    One of my all time favorite bands to this day!

                    STRYPER!
                    They were just a great fuckin' band.

                    Hard pressed to think of any filler songs on any of their records*.

                    They were consistently great, and really good live too.



                    * With the exception of the last piece of trash "Reborn" they put out a year or so ago, god that was horrible...

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                    • #25
                      Originally posted by Endrik View Post
                      not really, popular but not THAT big.... they didn't headlined a single tour if I remember correctly


                      Poor them.
                      I wish my hair-color was EDS :/

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                      • #26
                        Originally posted by Jason1212 View Post
                        Injustice and MoP were both multi platinum not to mention MTV ran One into the ground. I think that would qualify Metallica as big in the 80's.
                        What's Injustice? Never heard of it.
                        I feel my soul go cold... only the dead are smiling.

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                        • #27
                          Hey look! toejam's in dickhead mode!! Nice to have you back buddy.
                          Tarbaby Fraser.

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                          • #28
                            LOL What's up there, nutty?
                            I feel my soul go cold... only the dead are smiling.

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                            • #29
                              "nutty" nice one. :ROTF:
                              Tarbaby Fraser.

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                              • #30
                                I think all the really biggies have been mentioned, but, Micheal Jackson, Bon Jovi, Def Leppard, and Guns and Roses probably lead the pack, and BTW Queen goes back to the mid 70s
                                I say the boy ain't right!

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