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Rush

BA: Joy Division and Siouxsee and the Banshees

BA2: Blondie

BA3: Licensed To Ill (ILL) - Beastie Boys

John Foxx

Front 242

The Gun Club

Hüsker Dü

Midnight Oil

Nash The Slash

Bill Nelson

Graham Parker

Ryuichi Sakamoto

Screaming Blue Messiahs

The Suburbs

Wall Of Voodoo

X

XTC

BQ: Dargaard & Love Is Colder Than Death

BQ2: James Chance and The Contortions

BQ3: Grandmaster Flash and The Furious Five - The Message

Wow, excluding metal and hair bands? I was going to say Mötley Crüe, but jeez, guess they're out of the picture. Billy Squier or Rush. Rush wasn't a hair band. If I had to choose between the two of them I think I'd pick Rush, though. If Aerosmith counted as an 80's band then I'd go with them, but they were formed in the 70's.

Black Flag.

BQ : Darkwave?

BQ2 : No Wave?

BQ3 : Criminal Minded by Boogie Down Productions.

Queen, Rush, The Clash, & The Ramones. All 70's bands that were still sucsessful in the 80's (even though it took Queen longer than the rest to go back to awesomeness)

The Violent Femmes

BQ: The Smiths or The Cure

BQ2: Not sure

BQ3: don't listen to hip hop at all

Pretenders

Pixies

Tom Petty

Guy Clark

Joan Jett

Dire Straits

Sisters of Mercy

Jesus and Mary Chain

Sonic Youth

Husker Du

Minutemen

Pixies

Butthole Surfers

Dinosaur Jr.

BQ: Not too familiar with the genre

BQ2: I'm torn between DNA and the Swans

BQ3: Paul's Boutique

Rush

Dire Straits

Talking Heads

The Cult

I'd say Scorpions but some of their stuff is metal.

BA: The Cure was considered Dark Wave

BA2: I'm not familiar enough to say.

BA3: Raising Hell - Run-D.M.C.

Stevie Ray Vaughan.