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4 80s Rock Bands That Were Ahead of Their Time

The 80s music scene spawned some crucial bands, like the Pixies and Fugazi, who were way ahead of their time.

By Stephen Andrew Galiher

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One of the most important aspects of the 80s music scene is how it more tangibly shaped genres that had started to emerge in the 70s. Specifically, there were a lot of rock and rock-adjacent bands that were way ahead of their time, and those trailblazing qualities were invaluable to the future of music.

Below, you’ll find a list of four incredible 80s acts that made music far beyond their era, and they each remain legendary to this day.

Born from the ashes of another ahead-of-its-time band, Minor Threat, Washington D.C.’s Fugazi changed the shape of post-hardcore. The genre may have started earlier in the 80s, with Hüsker Dü and Minutemen, for example, but it was Fugazi that took the concept and molded it into a sound that........

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