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By Steve Peake, About.com Guide to 80s Music

'80s Music Band Names Often of the Questionable Variety

Monday October 15, 2007
This may be relatively true for rock music of all eras, but the '80s certainly made a case for producing some of the most ridiculous band names of the last 50 years. In the case of the rash of surname bands (from Nelson to Slaughter to Winger), band names of the '80s definitely had the ability to be tremendously boring, but more often than that they simply made no sense or made it impossible to ignore the band in question's tackiness. My list of the Top 8 Worst Band Names of the '80s really only scratches the proverbial surface of possibility. But let me tell ya; the effort needed to consider this subject with great intensity was considerable.

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