* Alien ( band ), a 1980s Swedish rock group

* Blitz ( Brazilian band ), a new wave Brazilian band from the 1980s

* Balance ( band ), a 1980s pop – rock group

Love initially began several music projects in the 1980s, first forming Sugar Babydoll, and then having a brief stint as a singer in Faith No More after " demanding " them to let her be in their band.

The Commodores is an American funk / soul band of the 1970s and 1980s.

* Cyan was a British progressive rock band from the 1980s and 1990s.

* The 1980s band LaHost's track on the 1985 EMI compilation album ' Fire in Harmony ' was ' Blood and Roses ' - the lyrics of which are loosely based on the Roger Corman film version of Carmilla.

The heavy metal band King Diamond gained cult status during the 1980s releasing mostly all concept albums.

The band became part of the American hardcore punk movement of the early 1980s.

Biafra further criticized them for advertising shows using his own image taken from the original 1980s incarnation of the band, which he labeled as false advertising.

The semi-theatrical music and comedy troupe transformed into a ska-influenced new wave band in 1979, and then changed again towards a more guitar-oriented rock sound, in the late 1980s.

* Elements ( band ), 1980s – 90s American jazz ensemble

* The Enemy ( UK punk band ), a 1980s punk band from Derby, England

* Freestyle ( American band ), Pretty Tony's electro band of the 1980s

In the late 1980s the upside down Martini glass that was the tag for punk band Missing Foundation was the most ubiquitous graffito in lower Manhattan, and copied by hard core punk fans throughout the U. S. and West Germany.

One early example includes the anarcho-punk band Crass, who conducted a campaign of stenciling anti-war, anarchist, feminist and anti-consumerist messages around the London Underground system during the late 1970s and early 1980s.

Its nascent form was pioneered in the late 1980s in the music of hardcore punk band Infest, who mixed youth crew hardcore elements with noisier, sludgier qualities of Lärm and Siege.

* Hex, a late 1980s band consisting of Steve Kilbey and Donnette Thayer

Irish band Clannad featured the harp heavily in their music during the 1970s and 1980s.

In the early 1980s, Jarmusch was part of a revolving lineup of musicians in Robin Crutchfield's Dark Day project, and later became the keyboardist and one of two vocalists for The Del-Byzanteens, a No Wave band whose sole LP Lies to Live By was a minor underground hit in the United States and Britain in 1982.

** The Limit, a 1980s band

Along with the fellow Washington, D. C. hardcore band Bad Brains and California band Black Flag, Minor Threat set the standard for many hardcore punk bands in the 1980s and 1990s.

However, it was not until the 1980s that Appleton composed his best works for this digital synthesizer and on which he gave concerts of his own music for the following decade.

Throughout the 1980s Tangerine Dream composed scores for more than twenty films.

Shortly after Reagan's death in 2004, the Maximumrocknroll Radio Show composed an episode made up of anti-Reagan songs from the 1980s including material by Dead Kennedys, Government Issue, DRI, Youth Brigade, Crucifucks, Wasted Youth, Dayglo Abortions, Reagan Youth, T. S. O. L., The Fartz and others.

From the late 1970s and into the 1980s, Smith composed some of The Cure's songs on a Hammond organ with a built-in tape recorder, including a complete demo of the song " 10: 15 Saturday Night ".

By the 1980s the beach at Seaford had all but vanished, the shoreline becoming steep, narrow and largely composed of small boulders.

Following the band's dissolution, frontman Danny Elfman turned full-time to writing film scores, having composed several scores through the 1980s and early 1990s while the band was active.

Since the 1980s, however, riddims started to be originally composed by producers / beatmakers, who give the riddims original names and, typically, contract artists to " voice " over them.

In the early 1970s both Black Sabbath and Pentagram ( also as side band Bedemon ) composed and performed this heavy and dark music, which would in the 1980s begin to be known and referred to as doom metal by subsequent musicians, critics and fans.

During the 1980s, the term came into popular usage to describe poetry written or composed for performance rather than print distribution.

The couple composed and performed the theme tune to Button Moon, a children's programme broadcast in the 1980s.

The film score was composed by Elmer Bernstein, and is notable for its use of ondes Martenot ( a staple of Bernstein's 1980s work ) and also the Yamaha DX-7 synthesizer.

She has composed for many Koei games released during the late 1980s to early 1990s and for Napple Tale, a Dreamcast game.

Infrared observations of these peaks during the 1980s determined that they were primarily composed of the mafic form of olivine.

A civil war raged during the 1980s opposing the government's Kampuchean People's Revolutionary Armed Forces against the Coalition Government of Democratic Kampuchea, a government in exile composed of three Cambodian political factions: Prince Norodom Sihanouk's Funcinpec party, the Party of Democratic Kampuchea ( often referred to as the Khmer Rouge ) and the Khmer People's National Liberation Front ( KPNLF ).

TIE Fighter and subsequent Star Wars games took music composed by John Williams for the Star Wars films of the 1970s and 1980s and used it for the game soundtracks.

In the 1980s Shaun Davey composed The Brendan Voyage, a mix of classical orchestral and Irish traditional styles with the uilleann piper Liam O ' Flynn as the soloist.

Originally, in the 1960s through the 1980s, the organic food industry was composed of mainly small, independent farmers, selling locally.

During the late 1970s and early 1980s, Sugiyama composed for musicals, commercials, pop artists, and for animated movies and television shows, such as Kagaku Ninja Tai Gatchaman and Cyborg 009.

In the early 1980s, he starred in the title role of the national touring company of the musical Barnum composed by Cy Coleman.

It was also in the early 1980s that he composed jingles for the European radio station " NRJ ".

A series of concerts in the mid to late 1980s finally premièred many of his pieces to great acclaim, notably his orchestral masterpieces in October 1987 in Cologne, about a quarter of a century after those works had been composed and less than a year before the composer's death.

Showing the broad range of his talent, Powell composed for orchestras, choruses, singers, and chamber ensembles throughout the 1960s, 1970s, and 1980s.

Although Horace worked continually, led bands, arranged, recorded, and composed into the 1980s, and although he is considered by many the more talented and skillful of the Henderson brothers, Fletcher remained more popular and accomplished more in the field.

The two composed the song Naprej zastava slave together, which used to be the unofficial Slovenian national anthem up to the 1980s.

In the 1980s, a new British superhero group appeared, mainly composed by people who were children during Sliding Albion's attack.