The 80's had some awesome music, but it had some horrible trends as well. And although the bands below may have had some catchy tunes, some I might have even liked, I still would never buy any of their albums, nor ever go see them live, these bands that produced silly-rock!
I liked alternative 80's rock, that was dark, loud, dreary and for the most part serious. So I had no tolerance for pop bands that wanted to be cute and funny...
Silly Rock (in no particular order):
Devo
The Cars
Oingo Boingo
B52's
Talking Heads
Weird Al Yankonthis
Am I leaving any bands out????
The lone exceptions I can think of are Madness, but they were not pop, they were ska, and somehow the zany-ness worked for them. And the Ramones got pretty crazy, but they were punk and I loved both of these bands...
Thoughts? or blast me, I don't mind...
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