# Can Anyone Identify this 80's Band? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [October 11, 2005, 10:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-anyone-identify-this-80s-band/325815 "2005-10-11T22:57:01Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Zabali\_Clawbane](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/ecd19e/32.png) [@Zabali\_Clawbane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zabali_Clawbane)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2005, 11:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-anyone-identify-this-80s-band/325815/41 "2005-10-12T11:00:06Z")
**Oswald Bastable** is correct. I think the one with the “kewpie doll” hairstyle now wore yellow in the photo linked by the OP. The one in the white shorts is the second guy in red, not flashing a peace sign. The one flashing the peace sign was dangling his shades from his mouth in the other photo. I think the one in all black wearing shades was the one on the far left in the older photo, and the guy in the middle back is the tallest of the bunch in the older photo. ---
**Author:** ![ShibbOleth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/848f3c/32.png) [@ShibbOleth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ShibbOleth)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2005, 11:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-anyone-identify-this-80s-band/325815/42 "2005-10-12T11:34:55Z")
> [@Oswald Bastable](#): > > Actually, the one in yellow in the original picture is the gormless yet cuddly looking one on the left of the what they look like now picture. Ouch, he looks like Benny Hill’s bastard son. Maybe Hill had a long weekend in Helsinki back in the 60s? ---
**Author:** ![Anastasaeon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/73ab20/32.png) [@Anastasaeon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anastasaeon)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2005, 11:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-anyone-identify-this-80s-band/325815/43 "2005-10-12T11:37:29Z")
Hey, one of them became Tom Petty! ---
**Author:** ![antechinus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/fbc32d/32.png) [@antechinus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/antechinus)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2005, 12:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-anyone-identify-this-80s-band/325815/44 "2005-10-12T12:19:04Z")
> [@don't ask](#): > > Actually Australia managed to largely avoid the trend for haircut and trousers bands in the 80s. We had a wave of [Garage Rock](http://www.shock.com.au/releases/info.asp?release_ID=115371) bands and only a faint smattering of embarassments. Thanks for the link **don’task**. This is exactly the music I was listening to in the 80s. Most of the stuff I have on vinyl, but buying this CD saves ripping the vinyl. ---
**Author:** ![deevee](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/57b2e6/32.png) [@deevee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/deevee)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2005, 9:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-anyone-identify-this-80s-band/325815/45 "2005-10-12T21:30:16Z")
Shirley U Rock!! (More than Bogart Co. anyway I’m sure) ---
**Author:** ![cornflakes](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/9d8465/32.png) [@cornflakes](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cornflakes)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2005, 11:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-anyone-identify-this-80s-band/325815/46 "2005-10-12T23:13:03Z")
Wow, I guess that I’d better hold off on that trip to Lake Gairdner for a while. Sorry, guys, no offense intended… ---
**Author:** ![felisssilvestris](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/8e7dd6/32.png) [@felisssilvestris](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/felisssilvestris)\ **Post date:** [February 9, 2013, 10:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-anyone-identify-this-80s-band/325815/47 "2013-02-09T22:58:55Z")
> [@Shirley\_Ujest](#): > > Ladies and Gentlemen, behold the power of Fark: > I give you [Bogart Co](http://www.valt.helsinki.fi/blogs/salonranta/post252.htm) From Helsinki. Yes, Bocart Co. but city is Turku from Finland not Helsinki 😃 [![](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/CGP1xtVQHwM/hqdefault.jpg?sqp=-oaymwEmCOADEOgC8quKqQMa8AEB-AH-BIAC4AOKAgwIABABGHIgWyg-MA8=&rs=AOn4CLBR1Bir-UtDAnopOBxU0-IdNtM-Gw "Bogart Co. - All The Best Girls") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CGP1xtVQHwM) [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-anyone-identify-this-80s-band/325815.md?page=2)