What were you doing in the 80s ?

[Lindaloo]

OMGOSH!! LOL!! I remember all of those.

[JenBayles]

Boy do I ever remember those!

[coriolis]

Black Flag and The Cure are awesome and Echo and Bunneymen's 'The Killing Moon" is amazing :p

ps : Lindaloo,In my opinion 'rap' can't even be called music not then not now (Although of late is has no message at all) and what you think is 'goth' is probably really not,since somewhere things got twisted and goth between big long haired metal heads who wear black.And don't worry,if there is a genre that is a 'joke' it is the pop of the 80s with everyone looking like clowns.

Yah, Black Flag, The Cure, E/BM good good good.

I did like New Wave and don't know where you drew the line with Alternative, etc. Easier to just name some of the bands I like


Alphaville
Art of Noise
Bevis Frond
Bronski Beat
Dream Snydicate
New Order
REM (early)
Siouxsie & Banshees
Stranglers
The Replacements
Young Fresh Fellows
Chris Isaak
English Beat
Devo
Gene Loves Jezebel
Generation X
Howard Jones
Iggy Pop
Laurie Anderson
Lolyd Cole & the Commotions
Mojo Nixon
Offspring
Pere Ubu
Romeo Void
The Alarm
The Chameleons UK
The Cure
The Cramps
The Nails
The Rave Ups
The Ramones
The Slickee Boys
The Vipers
Ultravox
Violent Femmes
XTC
Yello

Music has never been the same since!

[Meso]

New Wave is good..New Wave/Darkwave/EBM/Darksynth/Synthpop/Deathrock and punk are all good =) Ahhh,Love Siouxsie And The Banshees...Gene Loves Jezebel is also amazing :p

And indeed it has not been the same,it's the worst thing,when you love a band so much and realize that you can't exactly await a new album since they broke up 20 odd years ago