# Super Groups of The 80's **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [September 19, 2007, 12:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/super-groups-of-the-80s/419732 "2007-09-19T12:01:56Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 11\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Jolly\_Roger](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/91b2a8/32.png) [@Jolly\_Roger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jolly_Roger)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2007, 1:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/super-groups-of-the-80s/419732/41 "2007-09-20T13:47:06Z")
Asia was touted as a supergroup in the 80s. ---
**Author:** ![Who\_me\_1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/958977/32.png) [@Who\_me\_1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Who_me_1)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2007, 1:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/super-groups-of-the-80s/419732/42 "2007-09-20T13:57:29Z")
[QUOTE=Oslo Ostragoth] Never heard of either, and yes, I did listen to music in the 80’s. [/QUOTE] Apparently you weren’t paying attention. I heard them on the radio all the time. ---
**Author:** ![control-z](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/eada6e/32.png) [@control-z](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/control-z)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2007, 7:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/super-groups-of-the-80s/419732/43 "2007-09-20T19:02:39Z")
If you mean groups that started/broke big in the 80’s and lasted quite a while, I think these qualify: Metallica Guns N’ Roses Culture Club Devo Duran Duran Tears For Fears INXS REM ---
**Author:** ![Cicero](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cicero/32/3594_2.png) [@Cicero](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cicero)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2007, 12:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/super-groups-of-the-80s/419732/44 "2007-09-21T00:20:42Z")
[QUOTE=Hippy Hollow] I think the OP meant “Stones,” unless that was a whoosh. Slade was a glam rock band who had their heyday in the 1970s (the original “Cum On Feel The Noize”) but a few hits in the 1980s as well, mainly in the UK. . [/QUOTE] I meant the Stones. Typo. ---
**Author:** ![Derleth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b9e5f3/32.png) [@Derleth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Derleth)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2007, 1:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/super-groups-of-the-80s/419732/45 "2007-09-21T01:32:23Z")
[QUOTE=Cicero] Beatles [/QUOTE] What other famous bands were the members of the Beatles in before the Beatles? (I mean famous at the time, not retroactively.) ---
**Author:** ![Cicero](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cicero/32/3594_2.png) [@Cicero](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cicero)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2007, 5:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/super-groups-of-the-80s/419732/46 "2007-09-21T05:50:57Z")
[QUOTE=Derleth] What other famous bands were the members of the Beatles in before the Beatles? (I mean famous at the time, not retroactively.) [/QUOTE] If you scroll up to an earlier post you will see that was not a criterion I was using. ---
**Author:** ![Cluricaun](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/bb73d2/32.png) [@Cluricaun](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cluricaun)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2007, 1:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/super-groups-of-the-80s/419732/47 "2007-09-21T13:48:18Z")
[QUOTE=MissGypsy] Ratt had a good song once, I think, but spiraled downward. [/QUOTE] Did the spiral cause them to go 'Round and 'round perhaps? ---
**Author:** ![GargoyleWB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gargoylewb/32/199_2.png) [@GargoyleWB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GargoyleWB)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2007, 7:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/super-groups-of-the-80s/419732/48 "2007-09-21T19:27:43Z")
Yes, but they were soon back for more 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Jodi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/7feea3/32.png) [@Jodi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jodi)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2007, 8:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/super-groups-of-the-80s/419732/49 "2007-09-21T20:01:26Z")
[QUOTE=Hypno-Toad (and similarly by others)] As much as I hate them, U2 is the only group from the 80’s with the endurance to be called a supergroup. [/QUOTE] Looks like y’all don’t listen to country music. Using the “hugely popular” definition of “super group” and not the “guys from other bands” definition of “supergroup,” one of the greatest '80s super groups – of any genre – was [Alabama](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alabama_(band)). ---
**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2007, 8:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/super-groups-of-the-80s/419732/50 "2007-09-21T20:08:30Z")
While **Boston** started in the 70s and helped drag music back from the disco abyss, it could be argued that they were also a supergroup in the 80s. The _3rd Stage_ album was their most successful, and they were a major touring force despite their legal woes. ---
**Author:** ![Moirai](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/96bed5/32.png) [@Moirai](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Moirai)\ **Post date:** [September 22, 2007, 3:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/super-groups-of-the-80s/419732/51 "2007-09-22T03:08:43Z")
[QUOTE=Turek] Yeah, and they had a song in the 80s that was big, “Run Runaway.” _See chameleon Lying there in the sun All things to everyone Run runaway_ [/QUOTE] Oh, thanks a lot, you ass… I probably hadn’t heard that song in 25 years, and now it’s stuck there… 😉 [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/super-groups-of-the-80s/419732.md?page=2)