What Did You Listen To In The 80's?

[Sox]

The early 80's any Hard/Heavy/Blues rock or NWOBHM I could lay my hands on (including my older brothers records) old juke box singles etc .. by the mid to late 80's I had started a bit of a Purer Blues collection going as well. Oh and one or two classic prog albums.

 

[trevortjes]

I was a kid so I listened to what my mom and dad listened to:

Def Leppard
Bon Jovi
Madonna
Judas Priest
Ozzy Osbourne
Black Sabbath

I wish I had parents like that :O

 

[TheWhalerfan]

Back then we only had one FM station, and it had to cover everything from The Beatles to Ozzy. Was pretty good actually, I heard a ton of great music, especially in 1983-84..if you were a hard rock fan at that time there was so much good stuff it was hard to keep up. In the early 80s I spent my allowance (Hey, I was a kid) buying albums like 1984, Rebel Yell, Pyromania, Number of the Beast, etc. By 1988 I was wondering what the deal was with the synth explosion and why all these hard rock/metal bands were going so soft.

By far my favorite metal band from the 80s was RATT..I used to love that band. At some point I just became tired of them and now I can't even stand to hear a single song..very weird.

 

[Lynch]

I wish I had parents like that :O

My kids' dad listens to stuff like that!

 

[stepcousin]

As a child of the 70's I grew up listening to hard rock albums, FM radio and AM radio. Those 3 mediums pretty much covered all of the 70's music. In February 1980 I was 12 and I met a dude who had Judas Preist, Iron Maiden, Scorpions, Triumph, and other heavy rock/metal. I continued in this dierction and started seeing concerts of bands like that. In 1983 I was introduced to Metallica, Slayer, and Metal Blade Records Compilations so I started going the thrash metal direction, leaving rock in the dust. By '87 I was buying CD's of the thrash metal movement up until about 1993, when metal and rock were taken over by grunge and alternative and I wanted no part of it.
Now I'm into alot of the radio rock from the 80's as well as rock and metal from the 80's. Love the 80's.

 

[WHITE LION]

Queen
White Lion
Bon Jovi
Europe
Van Halen
Whitesnake
Vandenberg

 

[Mr. Bob Dobolina]

the 60s and 70s

 

[CrazyConnie]

Great White
Whitesnake
Ac/Dc
Van Halen
Bon Jovi
Motley Crue
Tesla
Dokken

Also alot more which would take forever to list.

 

[Lynch]

Great White
Whitesnake
Ac/Dc
Van Halen
Bon Jovi
Motley Crue
Tesla
Dokken

Also alot more which would take forever to list.

Great list. I'm STILL a big fan of every band on that list!

 

[wormwood]

Stryper. Dokken. Telsa. Van Halen. King's X. Daniel Amos.