20 Forgotten Bands of the 1980s That Vanished Without a Trace!

[@vicmhortzb9221]

You underestimated A-ha...they didn't vanished without a trace. As a matter of fact, A-ha is still very much alive and kicking.

[@sergiomanchester1109]

You're confusing A-Ha with Simple Minds, aren't you?

[@dranet47]

Is this an AI voice? Because it doesn't know how to pronounce Sigue Sigue Sputnik.

[@LokiNoin]

yes

[@MetalMama-Mimi523]

I came to say the same thing

[@danielgomez2933]

how to pronounce?

[@Aivansama1000]

I was here to say same thing, but then I thought that this maybe was someone from U.S. so they don't know that there are other languages than U.S. english, so I forgive him.

[@danielgomez2933]

@@Aivansama1000 I thought the same

[@katemaloney4296]

In the case of The Outfield, if literally 2/3 of your bandmates die, your band didn't disappear, it no longer exist.

[@blebhan8213]

The Pretenders : "Hold our beer"

[@ellzedd4113]

Tony still performed almost up to his death. Very sad ending for him. They were popular in Canada

[@katemaloney4296]

@@blebhan8213 There were five in The Pretenders; there were three in The Outfield. And as far as I know Chrissie is still alive; Tony isn't.

[@blebhan8213]

@@katemaloney4296 Four actually. James Honeyman-Scott (lead guitar) and Pete Farndon ( bass) died within a year of each other. So it was just Chrissie Hynde and Martin Chambers (drums) and a bunch of session musicians until Chambers left. Then it was just Chrissie and random dudes masquerading as The Pretenders. But yeah, hard to move on when your lead singer dies.

[@shiroibasketshoes]

Right..in the cases of Badfinger and the Bee Gees, too!

[@shiroibasketshoes]

Even this American (me) knows that a-ha have been together the vast majority of the last four decades; they absolutely did not vanish without a trace.

[@Cyannah117]

Yeah, agreed…they did split for a bit but got back together and are still going!!! 😂 Toto are also still kicking around.

[@shiroibasketshoes]

@@Cyannah117 They split in 1994 and 2011, then have been together since 2015. The end of the video "Butterfly, Butterfly (The Last Hurrah)" was meant to indicate they are really splitting this time, but with no hard feelings involved. But then they reunited again four years later. Toto also split twice but have been together since 2020, with some personnel change. a-ha, of course, have never had personnel change. One of my longtime friends got to interview David Paich twice for an hour each time. Happy New Year to you and yours!

[@gbedmonds1594]

Loved and still listen to "The Outfield" Great Band! I've never heard of 15 of these bands.... 🤪🤪🤪🤪

[@SpookyEng1]

I saw them in 1985 with Toto at a Pensacola Beach spring break concert. It was amazing!

[@babalui66]

@@SpookyEng1 I saw them in Denver CO when they opened for Journey. Great show! RIP!

[@MusicData04]

Visage was indeed a prominent band in the New Romantic movement, and "Fade to Gray" is a classic and highly influential song.❤‍🔥

[@michaelmalone7231]

For Band of Susans, it shows a group photo of the Irish shoegaze band My Bloody Valentine. Legendary AND active.

[@babalui66]

Minnesota has a huge music scene. There is a lot of talent that has come out of this state.

[@marcuscompton3772]

The Outfield " Your Love " and Toto " Africa " is the 80s soundtrack to me.

[@Cyannah117]

What I would love to see with this type of content is the inclusion of the full film clip of the band’s most famous song! There are some bands I’ve never even heard of (that I knew of when watching this anyway), but once I looked them up elsewhere I realised that I did know their songs. 🤷🏻‍♀️🙄😂

[@raymondreid4987]

The bass on Too Shy is the hook.

[@MikeSchmidt-qt7ls]

Funny how critics love a band and it bombs. Shows what critics know. Lol

[@williamweiss6128]

Producers, Outfield, Divynyls.

[@jomeke101]

So you talk about Lipps. Inc, but then you show us a picture of Earth Wind and Fire. Love your videos but you really need to lift your game here.

[@mujahidhamid6585]

Why is A-ha always considered as a lost or one-hit band?

[@BruceWalther-s2l]

Twenty Flight Rockers. I never heard of them. The one band here I would consider "re-introducing" myself. Till Tuesday is the one band whose song transplants me to high school, watching MTV: "Voices Carry". The A-ha MTV video was unforgettable.

[@JulezWinnfield]

3 Susan's in a band? How about the 3 unrelated Taylor's in Duran Duran?

[@jacklow9611]

Did you know the only bands on this list I ever heard of were A-ha and Lipps, Inc? I liked them.

[@chrismorgan9153]

You show a picture of Earth, Wind, and Fire when talking about Lipps, Inc. What's up? Do black people really look all alike to you?

[@urbanhuss9852]

Ah'a still going strong ..

[@8BitLatinGamer]

The Outfield founding members died only member that is still alive is the drummer the singer/bassist and backing vocals/guitarist sadly passed away. They did not dissapear. You can say the same as for The Cars. Two of the most important band members have also passed away.

[@JJ-qs9hu]

Trash can sinatras is one of my favorites. Their album CAKE is a all time Top 10 of mine.

[@trishm9776]

In the 80s it was better for bands that there wasn’t piracy via the internet, then subsequent cutthroat deals with companies like iTunes … but at that time, there wasn’t exposure without labels and radio play. It’s a shame that for new music we don’t have a system protected from piracy and affiliated industry, that would still allow for internet recognition and buzz. Surely the technology exists, but the industry prevents it? How great would it be for new music if they could charge (and get) CD/LP prices without having to rank in a streaming service?

[@framzoid]

Some sloppy editing there botman...

[@mht525]

Visage... Midge Ure. "Feed the World " ✌️🤘🏴🇦🇺

[@andrewbolwell4632]

Sigue Sigue Sputnik were fantastic a proper pop band that played rock and wore really exciting costumes

[@PatrickRyder-k1n]

The Replacements broke up...westerberg released some great solo music.. Tommy played with guns n roses for years and has done some great music on his own.i believe Chris is a painter..bob died...paul and Tommy did a great reunion tour a while back..

[@frankfrank7921]

The operative phrase here is: "Internal tensions".

[@darrellwiley4288]

I am in the market for a hot tube time machine so that I can go back to the 80's too a much much better time than now

[@clausrosler4529]

To mention A-ha here is pure nonsense.

[@beachgrad98]

You put The Waitresses where you should have put 'Til Tuesday.

[@infernalstormrider]

Vixen 🤘🤘🤘

[@TeppoS1976]

I really hate everything, what's made with ai, including this video. Annoying voice, several wrong photos.. no humanity left.

[@antoniop1968]

I must have the most forgotten as you forgot them. Where is Roxette?

[@JulezWinnfield]

Pseudo Echo took me to Funkytown. And yeah, I know it was a remake of Lipps Inc.

[@stephenbell8349]

I engineer was also a hit for Animotion

Sigee Siegee Sputnik?? Seriously!?

[@coachtomas1492]

Trash video. Too many bad pronunciations and incorrect photos - even the idea that A-ha disappeared is way off base. Let's make a deal: I won't make videos on how shitty AI has become, and you don't make anything related to music because as a bot you know nothing.

[@timetravelclock2]

Holly Johnson LOVE

[@MikeSchmidt-qt7ls]

They dont mention all the band members in the groups

[@TMFC1973]

The band The Sound with a picture of the band The Sounds. Not the same band.

[@englishtime5327]

In the American world nothing else exists outside. How could it?

[@curtisthomas2670]

Neneh Cherry of Rip Rig + Panic comes a musical family, her father was Sierra Leone musician, her stepfather was noted jaaz musician Don Cherry her half brother is alternative rock artiste Eagle Eye Cherry

[@alroops5378]

a lot of these bands deserve to not be around anymore

[@yagmurnazik2749]

A-ha shouldn't have been on this list. Wrong...

[@MikeSchmidt-qt7ls]

I would disagree, they didnt just disappear.

[@MikeSchmidt-qt7ls]

They goofed on number 5,

[@RVZNKaraoke]

Ever wonder...? Did...just that!

[@sb6678]

All these bands have been forgotten? Really????? Maybe they have been in America where it doesn’t really matter what they do or think, but America doesn’t rule the world despite what they think. The rest of the world is far more significant and these bands have not been forgotten in the real world.

[@trv411]

Too many "Ever wondered?"or "Did you know?"beginnings.

[@sophiegeorge2816]

This AI voice is so annoying, all it does is shout there’s no intonation in the voice

[@MomLAU]

I don't like how slowly the "guy" is talking.

[@alanvallazza9781]

I don't know if it's AI but it definitely is slow

[@michaelalvintay5393]

The Smiths

[@analuisahering2043]

Where's Oingo Boingo ?

[@yankeejib]

A dark and bleak time in pop and rock music and a talisman of the mediocrity to come.

[@AltonW521]

The world is better off not hearing from these bands and much better off not having to look at them.

[@robertocontreras2071]

I think “sigue sigue” it was just a joke…

[@hannable70]

I thought Sigue Sigue Sputnik was pronounced "Seek Seek Sputnik" or even "Sick Sick Sputnik" (I've heard it both ways) but never "Sig-way, Sig-way Sputnik." I really do miss the days when content creators actually read their own damn material instead of foisting it onto some AI text-to-speech robot that misprounces everything that isn't in some kind of pre-programmed dictionary. While it's not necessarily the "end of the world," it is rather annoying and jarring when you're listening to it, expecting to hear one thing and instead hearing something totally different. Regardless, knowing that an awful lot of content creators are leaning on AI bots to actually present their material has caused me to not subscribe to channels or like videos. Not to mention that if I subscribed to every channel in which I watched even one video, i'd have a sub list with hundreds upon hundreds of entries -- which kind of makes subbing pointless.

[@ravibritto6334]

Blue train......😮😮

[@jaysummers6358]

Had to stop, your ear splitting pronouncing was too much.

[@TheSimba1960]

¨Why is there a photo of The Damned during the Twenty Flight Rockers clip?

[@davidbarton1928]

And My Bloody Valentine in the Band of Susans bit too.

[@hannable70]

I loved growing up in the 80s. Sometimes it felt as if that decade had been made just for me. At least it did at the time. Looking back on it now, though, I realize a lot of things were really cringe-worthy -- especially most movies and television shows that came out during that decade. There were some good ones -- the Indiana Jones movies, the Back to the Future movies, Ghostbusters, John Hughes movies, and a few others. But the 80s was soiled -- even ruined -- the the Satanic Panic and the authoritarian fascism of irritating religious fanaticism. In fact, growing up in the 80s made me a die-hard anti-theist as well as an atheist. Unfortunately Ronald Reagan was a big time fundy religious fanatic who truly believed we were living in the "End Times." One of the things he did was pack the FCC, whose members are appointed by and answerable only to the president of the United States, with big-time fundy Christians like him. Christians who believed they had some kind of religious mandate to force -- literally FORCE all Americans to watch good, wholesome entertainment on television, at the movies, and on the radio. This is why, in every action show that aired during the 80s, almost no one died. Ever. This was why there could be 20,000 people shooting machine guns at each other -- and not one single person would die. At best, someone ... one person, maybe two ... would get hit in the arm. It's not that I want to see people die. It's just so unrealistic. And at the end of every ineffective gun battle, the big Hero of fhe good guy's team would engage in a "mano y mano" fist fight with the leader of the Bad Guy team. A few punches would be thrown, the Baddie would get knocked out, and the police sirens would start wailing about 5 seconds after the Baddie hit the floor. All the shows, from action shows to sit coms were highly formulaic and extremely predictable. This was due to the FCC becoming more or less a church which was beating the war drums against sex and violence on television. That was the big horrible stain on the 80s -- the autocracy of organized religion refusing to give people the right to listen to and watch whatever movie, television show, radio broadcast they wanted -- without some pushy religious fanatic telling them they were going to hell. And that happened quite often where I lived. Even at our damn prom, a group of us teens were out in the hall where we could talk about our relationship issues and parental issues and other "issues" away from the loud music and other distractions -- and here comes the janitor, lecturing us on how we were all going to rot in hell for listening to that evil rock music. It was always rock music. Even after rock music had fallen out of favor and gansta rap had FAR worse lyrics than rock ever had ... and still these dinosaurs complained about rock music. According to these people, simply listening to a rock song was a one-way ticket to eternal damnation. It was so damn stupid.

[@Clay-tg3su]

I'm surprised the Thompson Twins wasn't mentioned here.

[@laurabailey1054]

They haven’t disappeared they still tour or at least the lead singer does.

[@stefanii1965]

They were #5 but were labeled wrong.

[@fletchbg]

One can be forgiven for thinking that Aimee Mann and Alannah Currie looked somewhat alike in certain photos, but no, #5 was definitely Til Tuesday, not Thompson Twins

[@Diesal3]

21:25 Thats not how you spell 'Til Tuesday

[@LuciousRokuX3]

Apart from A-ha all the other bands are quite annoying and forgettable, also props to Aimee Mann, amazing career.....

[@I-Libertine]

see-gay see-gay sputnik.

[@rokky6931]

Kajagoogoo is such a stupid name that’s why it’s memorable

[@jessloya850]

Hated the Outfield, still do

[@nopopkrap4]

4:41 , would GLAM and PUNK be called GLUNK ????

[@blebhan8213]

Jazz + Punk = JUNK?

[@infernalstormrider]

😂😂😂 good one

[@chardrum]

AI??

[@World-Superbike]

" see-gay see-gay spurning " ..... really.

[@ancient_of_mumu]

AI making AI... Cash grab!

[@savafanbryan]

Whomever made this video is too wuss, lazy and whatever else to add to use AI to narrate this film, just screwed up when referring to Vixen's guitarist as "Yan" Kuehnemund, it's Jan like Jan Brady!! This video proves you don't need talent but maybe some outfit full of goodies to make you seem brilliant...

[@curtisthomas2670]

8

[@c4sb2008]

lame video and annoying voice. Most of the band nobody ever heard of.

[@80ssynthfan48]

Another lame video from another lame channel.

[@neilhenderson458]

Fiction Factory , A Certain Ratio , Railway Children ??