Top 5 favorite 70's - 80's bands.

[Brutal_Aeons]

It was an interesting time for music, and some of the greatest influences for modern waves and movements came from this time period.

Pick and scale your top 5 artists and attach a recommended album from each. Though your favorite is probably well known do try to add material that may be a little less well known, but essential at the same time. Oh and also add genre just for clean-up purposes. This can be about finding new music from a standpoint time in music history, or this could be another ****ing worship thread, it's really up to you.

On a scale from 1 being the best/most enjoyable to 5.

1. King Crimson - Lizard (prog rock)
2. Holy Terror - Mind Wars (thrash metal)
3. Psychotic Waltz - (prog/tech metal)
4. Poison Idea - Feel The Darkness (hardcore/punk)
5. Black Sabbath - Master of Reality (doom metal)

[Lolicat]

1. Patti Smith, and seeing as we're going for leftfield choices, I'll say Radio Ethiopia, which is a very strong album, but divisive for the track Abyssinia. (Punk)

2. Joni Mitchell, Mingus because it's awesome, but was critically derided at the time. (Folk/Jazz)

3. Crass, Penis Envy, because no-one likes feminism, esepcially from a bunch of Anarchists. (Anarcho-punk)

4. Swans, Cop, although my Swans albums are all mislabeled and stuff, but I think this is the best one bar Greed/Money (No Wave/Post-punk)

5. Betty Davis, They Say I'm Different. Betty Davis is one of the best funk artists ever, needs more respect for that and less confusion with a poor actress. (Funk/Soul)

[Runesmith]

1. Depeche Mode - Some Great Reward (Synth-pop)
2. Devo - Q: Are We Not Men? A: We Are Devo! (Punk)
3. Black Sabbath - Vol. 4 (Metal)
4. The Cure - The Head on the Door (Alternative)
5. David Bowie - Scary Monsters (Post-punk)

[Shredding_Gnome]

i will go with led zepelin black sabath ozzy ozborn metalica and i cant really think of a 5th lol

[franticfish]

1: The Who - Live at Leeds (Hard Rock)
2: Iron Maiden - Number of the Beast or Powerslave (NWOBHM)
3: Black Sabbath - Vol. 4 (Heavy Metal)
4: Yes - Close to the Edge
5: Deep Purple - In Rock or Machine Head (Hard Rock)

The usual suspects in my list but oh well...

[afterstasis]

joy division - unknown pleasures (post-punk)
husker du - new day rising (post-punk)
sonic youth - daydream nation (experimental rock)
darkthrone - transilvanian hunger (black metal)
neil young - harvest (rocky rolly)

[idiotec]

Tough to narrow it down....

The Smiths – The Smiths
Talking Heads – More Songs about Buildings and Food
Joy Division – Unknown Pleasures
Pixies – Surfer Rosa
Bauhaus - In the Flat Field

[Lolicat]

darkthrone - transilvanian hunger (black metal)

Wasn't that released in 1994?

[afterstasis]

Wasn't that released in 1994?

yes, but darkthrone started in '88.

i probably should've chosen the replacements, but my list demanded more spice.

[TheDMan]

70's: AC/DC (Bon Scott era)
Steve Miller Band
Black Sabbath
Alice Cooper
MotorHead

80's Mettalica
Megadeth
Judas Priest
AC/DC (Brian Johnson)
MotorHead