Talking Heads
Depeche Mode?
Iron Maiden was huge in the 80’s, at least early 80’s
and not to be all judgie but ** msmith537** POISON?!?!?!?!
no one under the age of 30 knows who the hell they are, they had no influence at all on the music scene (if anything they were the absolute top of the follow every trend ever set before them band) and did they even have more than one album? (no I am not going to google them for an answer its one of those silly rhetorical questions.
That’s too much a matter of taste. Some people really do thing Air Supply is thooper, but a “supergroup” has criteria that goes beyond personal taste. I would say that it would have to involve more than one guy from a previously big group, too. Musicians shuffle back and forth between bands all the time. I think the true nature of the supergroup is that a bunch of independent superstars get together to create a completely new band with a completely new sound.
But that’s me.
Crosby, Stills & Nash = supergroup
Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young = NOT supergroup
Two bands that define Supergroup -
The Traveling Wilburys
The Highwaymen
end of post.
Prezactly.
Just out of curiosity, why do you hate U2? Seriously, I’m not trying to pick a fight; just honestly curious.
One reason is that I don’t like their music. But the main reason is that I hate their over-the-top pretension.
Supertramp? 
Clearly you do not watch Bret Michaels’s Rock of Love on VH1.
But yeah, I’ll concede they were basically a Motley Crue clone along with Ratt and Warrant.
I totally agree with you on *both * counts.
What…
no love for Doug and the Slugs?
No, no, no. Poison wore far more lipstick than the others, and poofier hair. Motley Crue were more pseudo-Satanic, hence more rebellious. Warrant recorded the song “Heaven,” which every teenaged boy played to try to get his girlfriend into bed, and is possibly the most loathesome song ever recorded, so they don’t even count. Ratt had a good song once, I think, but spiraled downward.
Like already mentioned, it seems the OP is more or less looking for really popular bands instead of the “supergroup” definition.
It looks like the big ones were listed.
Def Leppard maybe?
That’ll be a lesson for me- I didn’t even know the term was defined. I didn’t actually mean as per having previously cuccessful members- more the definition of MsSmith 537 viz
a) Reached their commerical peak between 1980 and 1989 (for example Beastie Boys is not included because while License to Ill was released in 1987, they really hit their peak in the 90s)
b) Continued to consistantly produce quality, commercially successful work (no one cares if Tears for Fears has a new album)
c) Their work continues to be remembered as classic by all generations.
d) Sizable body of work (ie a massively successful one hit wonders are excluded)
e) Considerable influence on the music industry
I don’t quite get the OP. Bands that sold a lot of records in the 1980s? Many are listed here. But also:
Huey Lewis & The News
Bee Gees
Chicago
Duran Duran
Hall & Oates
Wham!
New Kids on the Block
New Edition
Prince & The Revolution
REO Speedwagon
Rolling Stones
Whitesnake
Culture Club
(Yes, some of these bands had success in other decades as well.)
Bands that were comprised of other members of big bands:
Band Aid
USA for Africa
Northern Lights (the Canadian version of USA for Africa)
Electronic (Barney Sumner of New Order; Johnny Marr of The Smiths; Neil Tennant of The Pet Shop Boys)
Errm, I have never heard of Stines or Slade. When were they super, exactly?
Never heard of either, and yes, I did listen to music in the 80’s.
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.
Asia was composed of members of Yes and King Crimson, I think. “Heat of the Moment” was their big song.
Damned Yankees featured Tommy Shaw (Styx) and Ted Nugent and some other rock dudes. Their song was “High Enough,” which almost washed away the shame of Shaw’s work with Styx.
Rush
Early 70s for Slade.
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
But since I’d never neard of them before, in my mind they’re classified as a “One hit wonder.”
The best examples I can come up with, and they’ve already been mentioned, are:
Van Halen
Rush
U2
All were hugely popular in the 80s. All were widely influential. All have large bodies of work. And all are still played on a lot of stations, hence “classics.”