Recommend me some 80's bands!

Hall & Oates for 80s Soft Rock! Try "Out of Touch" and "She's Gone" at first to get a good feel of the range of music you can expect.

The Scorpions is good for 80s rock as well. "No One Like You" and "Winds of Change" are some of there more popular songs, while "Still Loving You" and "Lady Starlight" are in my top 10 scorpions songs. 

Gang Of Four is a really good new wave band their first album Entertainment! is amazing. If you don't want to listen to the whole album Damaged Goods and At Home He's A Tourist are my favorite songs also To Hell With Poverty it's not the album. 

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i definitely agree! gang of four is great!!

my favorites are depeche mode, the police, inxs, and talking heads when it comes to new wave, but when it comes to more rock, i love the pixies, violent femmes, the smiths, and the cramps!

great taste in music! have you ever listened to the police? they’re a popular ass band so i’m sure you have but i reccomend checking more of their stuff out if your into it. :)

new order, devo, echo and the bunny men, and oingo boingo are great bands to check out :)

BUCK-TICK, my fav band <3 they've been active since 1983, and their sound has changed a lot over the years. i'd start off with listening to one of their most popular songs, dress (ドレス). i could talk about them forever lol so feel free to ask for recommendations 

Depeche Mode is probably the best new wave artist of all time, so you should definitely check them out if you haven't.  Black Celebration or Violator are good starts.  If you like it, I would also recommend Ministry's first album, With Sympathy.  It's got a much more new wave/synthpop sound.

Check out these pages for band lists:

TV Tropes - New Wave

TV Tropes - Hair Metal

TV Tropes - Thrash Metal

coming in a year too late, haha!

i would, firstly, suggest "Soft Cell"! their debut album "Non-Stop Erotic Cabaret" is a banger. love at first sight, really!

obviously, "Depeche Mode" is a staple. i would recommend "Some Great Reward" (especially the song "Master and Servant") and "Songs of Faith and Devotion", although it is not an 80s album.

i also suggest "Orchestral Manoeuvres at Dark" (OMD for short), "New Order", "Talk Talk", and "Tears for Fears"!

totally check out Ratt and Tourniquet!

thats easy: ASIA

Billy idol kinda blew up in popularity back in like 2023-ish I think with “eyes without a face” but holy shit he’s got many bangers. Some other 80s things that you might like could be skid row, Adam ant and guns n roses (even if it’s a little basic). Thin Lizzy is good too and another Irish band from the time that i personally like would be the Pogues, they’re more Celtic punk so not quite the genres that you listed but they’re good. And I’d recommend Väin Wild, they’re not 80s but they’re a modern band trying to bring back 80s music and doing so pretty well :D

Warrant is a great glam metal band, I really enjoy Peter Gabriel, Van Halen, Heart, Def Lepppard, and U2