'Top 5' 1980s rock bands.

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Ok, this thread is to list you picks for the top 5 bands from the late '70s all thoughout the '80s and even the very early '90s. Along with your top 5 picks, please give your top 5 songs. List the bands and their songs in the order of which you like the best...#1 being your most favorite.

Now, the word 'Rock' is so general. I'm looking specificly for "Big hair bands", heavy metal, and "Glam rock". If these terms mean noting to you, then you shouldn't be posting here.

My top 5 bands are:

#1: Metallica
1 - And Justice for All
2 - Battery
3 - Master of Puppets
4 - Eye of The Beholder
5 - For Whome The Bell Tolls

#2: Guns N' Roses
1 - Civil War
2 - Sweet Child O' Mine
3 - Patience
3 - Welcome to the Jungle
4 - November Rain

#3: Van Halen
1 - When It's Love
2 - Why Can't This Be Love
3 - Right Now
4 - Jump
5 - Dreams

#4: Ozzy Osbourne
1 - No More Tears
2 - Mama I'm Coming Home
3 - Crazy Train
4 - Goodbye to Romance
5 - Flying High Again

#5 - Def Leppard
1 - Pour Some Sugar On Me
2 - Love Bites
3 - Photograph
4 - Foolin'
5 - Animal

*Honorable mentions*
Scropions
Led Zepplein
AC/DC
Bon Jovi (nothing after 1990)

Your list?

 

Motley Crue

• Too Young to Fall in Love
• Looks That Kill
• Wild Side
• Live Wire
• Piece of Your Action

Def Leppard

• Photograph
• Rock of Ages
• Stagefright
• Foolin'
• Rocket

Van Halen

• Unchained
• Janie's Cryin'
• Hot For Teacher
• Panama
• Jump

Aerosmith

• Sweet Emotion
• Walk This Way
• Love in an Elevator
• Dream On
• Back in the Saddle

Queen

• Fat Bottomed Girls
• Bohemian Rhapsody
• Under Pressure
• Another One Bites the Dust
• We Are the Champions

I'm making six - so sue me.

Kiss

• I Love It Loud
• Detroit Rock City
• Unholy
• God Gave Rock n' Roll To You
• Deuce

All songs are in roughly descending order, but not the bands. Saying I love one more than another just seems...sinful.

 

Manowar
1.Bridge of death
2.Gloves of metal
3.Thor
4.Dark Avenger
5.Blood of my enemies

Twisted Sister
1.Under the blade
2.You can't stop rock 'n' roll
3.The beast
4.Run for your life
5.Burn in hell

Accept
1.Princess of the dawn
2.Fast as a shark
3.I'm a rebel
4.Balls to the wall
5.Losers and winners

W.A.S.P.
1.The headless children
2.Widowmaker
3.Animal (**** like a beast)
4.School daze
5.Harder faster

Iron Maiden
1.Aces high
2.Hallowed be thy name
3.Run to the hills
4.Alexander the great
5.Remember tommorow

 

Metallica
1. Orion
2. Fade to Black
3. The call of Ktulu
4. Ride the Lighning
5. Master of Pupets

Iron Maiden

1. Hallowed be thy Name
2. Rime of the Antient Mariner
3. Iron Maiden
4. Phantom of the Opera
5. The Trooper

King Diamond/Mercyful Fate

1. Evil
2. Dengerous Meeting
3. Mansion in Darkness
4. Charon
5. Arrival

Slayer

1. Angel of Death
2. South of Heaven
3. Seasons in the Abyss
4. Hell Awaits
5. Raining blood

Death

1. Leprosy
2. Pull the plug
3. Forgotten past
4. Evil Dead
5. Living Monstrosity

Other bands worth mentioning
Testament
Judas Priest
Saxon
Running Wild
Candlemass

 

Excellent thread

Iron Maiden:

Murders in the Rue Morgue
Phantom of the Opera
Flash of the Blade
Moonchild

Mercyful Fate:

Into the coven
Curse of the Pharoah
Melissa
Evil
Black Funeral

Satan:

All tracks from 'Court in the Act'

Venom:

Buried Alive
Warhead
Redlight Fever
Countess Bathory
Teachers Pet (love the 'chanted' bit)

Scorpions:

Virgin Killer
Holiday
Big City Nights
Rhythm of Love
In Trance

Other bands:

Sodom
Kreator
Destruction
Testament
Metallica
Slayer
Candlemass
Angel Witch
etc

 

Great thread Kitrax!

#1. Guns'n'Roses

• Bad Obsession (feat. Mike Monroe )
• Bad Apples
• Nightrain
• Locomotive
• Rocket Queen

#2. Warrant

• Heaven
• Down Boys
• Cherry Pie
• 32 Pennies
• The Hole in My Wall

#3. Aerosmith

• Mama Kin
• Dream On
• Last Child
• Love in an Elevator
• Eat the Rich

#4. Kiss (Dynasty to Revenge)

• Crazy, Crazy Nights
• 2000 Man
• Lick it Up
• Heaven's on Fire
• Burn Bitch Burn

#5. Poison

• I want Action
• Unskinny Bop
• Nothin' but a Good Time
• Fallen Angel
• Every Rose

Others include: Cheap Trick, AC/DC, Mötley Crüe, Twister Sister, Wasp, Vinnie Vincent Invasion...

 

#1 KISS
- Beth
- Rock 'n Roll All Night
- Black Diamond
- Strutter
- I Was Made for Lovin' You
- Calling Dr. Love
(I know that's 6 but c'mon!)

#2 Poison
- Talk Dirty to Me
- Unskinny Bop
- Every Rose Has It's Thorn
- I Want Action
- Back on the Rockin' Horse (edit: got the name)

#3 Aerosmith
- Walk This Way
- Livin' on the Edge
- Angel
- Sweet Emotion
- Dream On

#4 Motley Crue
- Girls, Girls, Girls
- Smokin' in the Boys Room
- Shout at the Devil
- Don't Go Away Mad (Just Go Away)
- Home Sweet Home

#5 AC/DC
- T.N.T.
- Shook Me All Night Long
- Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap
- Whole Lotta Rosie
- Highway to Hell

Honorable mentions - Judas Priest, Iron Maiden, Black Sabbath, Deep Purple and Megadeth. I had to speak up for the ladies out there and, yes, I know my 'street cred' probably hit bottom when I mentioned Poison.

EDIT: I can't believe I forgot the hard rock band of the late 70s/early 80s! SPINAL TAP - anything by this incredible British export with revolving drummers is worth listening to!

[ October 05, 2005, 16:16: Message edited by: kuemper ]

 

What's wrong with Poison? They ROCK!

 

Kitrax? I *loathe* you - how DARE you make me try to quantify my beloved genre with terms like 'best' or 'favourite'?!?

Gaaaaahh; I think I'm gonna have a stroke.

anyway, this is the best I can limit myself to after about an hour of scribbling, crossing out, changing of mind, and MUCH wasted paper:

#5 Van Halen
5 - Right Now
4 - Jump
3 - Panama
2 - Hot For Teacher
1 - Runnin' With The Devil

#4 Aerosmith
5 - What It Takes
4 - Eat The Rich
3 - Sweet Emotion
2 - Livin' On The Edge
1 - Walk This Way

#3 KISS
5 - Strutter
4 - Love Gun
3 - Detroit Rock City
2 - Domino
1 - Rock And Roll All Nite

#2 Queen
5 - Who Wants To Live Forever
4 - Stone Cold Crazy
3 - We Will Rock You/We Are The Champions (if you play one, you gotta play the other )
2 - Princes Of The Universe
1 - One Vision

#1 AC/DC
5 - Chase The Ace
4 - Ride On
3 - Hail Caesar
2 - Thunderstruck
1 - Highway To Hell

EDIT LVII: Okay, I THINK I got them finalized...for at least another ten minutes until I change my mind AGAIN (Have I said how much I *hate* you, Kit? May you end up in the circle of he77 that plays Barry Manilow and The Carpenters 24/7!

Honourable Mentions: Metallica, Ozzy & Sabbath, Crue, Poison, Def Leppard, Motorhead, Maiden, Billy Idol, GnR (before Axl got all primo don on us), Twisted Sister, The Scorpions, Bon Jovi, Dokken, Quiet Riot, ad nauseam...

Now I'm gonna ignore this thread, lest I get the urge to revise my list for the umpteenth time...

[ October 04, 2005, 18:59: Message edited by: apathetic empath ]

 

Aerosmith - Dream On
Bon Jovi - Dead or Alive
Guns n Roses - November Rain
Queen - Bohemian Rhapsody (not really 80s but )
Led Zeppelin - Battle of Evermore (not really 80s but )

No way do I have time to try and work out the 5 best songs from each of them.

 

Angel Witch

• Atlantis
  White Witch
  Sorcerers
  Gorgon
  Baphomet

Cirith Ungol

• Frost and Fire
  I'm Alive
  Master of the Pit
  King of the Dead
  Nadsokor

Holocaust

• Death or Glory
  Mavrock
  Heavy Metal Mania
  Only As Young As You Feel
  Long the Bell Will Toll

Warlord

• Deliver Us From Evil
  Winter Tears
  Mrs Victoria
  Child of the Damned
  Lucifers Hammer

Witchfynde

• Give 'Em Hell
  Unto the Ages of the Ages
  Stagefright
  Moon Magic
  Cloak and Dagger

 

@apathetic empath: Just crank up some Van Halen and you'll get over it.

I think this is becoming the best thread to ever grace the BoM.

No one listed Rush or Queensryche huh? I heard a song from each of them today and I said to myself, "Wow...I haven't heard that song in a very long time!"

 

I don't think Rush and Queensryche fit the criteria, do they?

 

Why not? People have posted a large variety of bands from hard rock to death metal.

 

I thought you mentioned in a previous thread, that you never even heard of Rush Harbourboy?

 

Iron Maiden
- Hallowed Be Thy Name
- Where Eagles Dare
- Powerslave
- Alexander The Great
- Infinite Dreams

King Diamond
- Sleepless Nights
- The Family Ghost
- The Invisible Guests
- The Candle (i love the intro)
- Tea

Mercyful Fate
- Evil
- Melissa
- Satan's Fall
- Desecration Of Souls
- Come To The Sabbath

Death
- Pull The Plug
- Living Monstrosity
- Spiritual Healing
- Together As One
- Lack Of Comprehension

Candlemass
- Solitude
- Under The Oak
- The Well Of Souls
- Mirror Mirror
- Crystal Ball

and the list could go on and on...

 

For those who don't know, Here is where HB showed his Rush ignorance. It's about halfway down the page.

This is a good thread, Kitrax.

 

I think that many of the groups, which are posted don't fit to the "late 70s" criterion because they released their first album in early or in middle 70s (Rush, Queen, Aerosmith, Kiss, Scorpions, AC/DC) but since this is Kitrax's thread and he is happy with it, I don't think that it really matters.

 

Yeah, I would've said Rush was neither metal, nor hair, nor glam. Queen would be a bit of a stretch but for the glam (I tend to put that in a different category than metal and hair [which is - for me - a subset of metal] but *shrug*)

And HB was ignorant of Rush - we have educated him on them; and maybe created a fan?

Queensryche is definitely metal, though getting a little gloomy and grungy - rather dark like NIN and Soundgarden.

And aye, VERY interesting thread Kit...even though I'm sorely tempted to edit my list AGAIN....

 

Everything is in no particular order, because it's all so good...Sorry, no big hair here. But all the following bands are "Rock Bands from the 1980s."

1. The Police - King of Pain, Wrapped Around Your Finger, Sycronicity, Spirits in the Material World, Don't Stand so Close to Me.

2. The Cure - Lovesong, Friday I'm in Love, Pictures of You, Fascination Street, Close to Me.

3. U2 - New Year's Day, Pride (In the Name of Love), One, Who's Gonna Ride Your Wild Horses, Sunday, Bloody Sunday.

4. R.E.M. - It's the End of the World, Radio Free Europe, Fall on Me, The One I Love, Man on the Moon.

5. Tears for Fears - Sowing the Seeds of Love, Everybody Wants to Rule the World, Shout, Listen, Change.