Oh wow! Missed this thread!
80s gods -
Japan
Simple Minds
Ultravox
Prefab Sprout
early U2 (up to and including War)
Big Country
The Fixx
The Silencers
Icehouse
Adam and the Ants
Joe Jackson
Joan Armatrading
The Jam
Madness
Only 3 things wrong with the eighties...
Stock
Aitken
and Waterman