What is your favorite music band/group/artist/rapper/ect. from the 80's?
How about the 90's
...and why

I'll start

80's= Iron Maiden: I dug them as a kid and still do, their music brings back fond memories and Scifi Fantasies

90's= Mr Bungle: I'm a huge Mike Patton fan and think he made the most unique and creative music with the guys of Mr Bungle, especially 95's Disco Violante

80's = Run DMC cuz they were the best back then RIP JAM MASTER JAY

90's = Bone Thugs N Harmony cuz they music was like gangsta rap mixed with a R&B Vibe

I can't really think of a #1 fave from the 80s. From the 90s I have to say No Doubt.

i don't know about 80's but i loved green day in the 90's. i still love them, but dookie back in the 90's was an awesome cd. the goo goo dolls have always been good. remember those one hit wonders by OMC and the cardigans back in the 90's? i guess tho for the 80's i like duran duran and motley crue

Geez to many to name...Adicts, Agent Orange, Alice Cooper, Animals, Anti Flag, Anti Nowhere League, Angry Samoans, A.P.P.L.E, Bad Brains, Bad Religion,, Black Flag, Butthole Surfers, Buzzcocks, Chieftons, Circle Jerks, Clash, Clit 45, Cockney Rejects, Conflict, Cramps, Dead Boys, Dead Kennedys, Deliquents, Exploited, Fear,G.B.H, Germs, G.G. Allin, Global Threat, GO GO's, Iggy and the Stooges, Insane Picnic, Jam, Joan Jett, Joy Division, Kids, Kinks, Leftover Crack, London SS, Lower Class Brats, Minor Threat,Marcy Playground, Misfits, Mutants, Offspring, Pearl Jam, Phish, Poison Girls, Pouges, Queen, Queers, Ramones, Rancid, Rebels, REM, Rhino Bucket, Rolling Stones, Scary Kids Scaring Kids, Screamers, Sex Pistols, Sham69, Siouxsie and the Banshees, Skids, slime, Social Distortion, Spitfire Boys, Special Duties, Stiff Little Fingers, Stitches,Stray Cats, Sublime, Suicidal Tendencies, Suicide Swingin Utters, T.S.O.L, U.K. Subs,Vandals, Vice Squad, Virus, Wasted Youth, Weirdos, Xray Spex

Cool. I like how you put them all in alphabetical order.
Here's my list in order of remeberance:
Alice in Chains, (old)Metallica, Iron Maiden, Mercyful Fate, Beasty Boys, RunDMC, Primus, Tool, Helmet, Clutch, Faith No More, Melvins, Slayer, Pantera, Sepultura, Nirvana, Social Distortion, Misfits, Bad Religion, Megadeth, Mr Bungle, Melt Banana, Pigface, Nine Inch Nails, Ministry, KMFDM, Sublime, Fishbone, Specials, Operation Ivy, Danzig, Body Count, Dead Kennedies, Rage Against Machine, Radiohead, Pink floyd, Black Sabbath (a little early), Type O Negative (i know, go ahead and laugh), Phish, Stone Temple Pilots, Violent Femmes, Pixies, Cure and I'm sure there's a bunch of others, but I gotta get back to work.

Yeah No Doubt was and still is my favorite band in the 90s. ummm as for the 80s I would say poison or Motley Crue not that I was around when they first came out but you know years later I got into them

80's - Depeche Mode, Madonna, U2, Guns n Roses, R.E.M, Petshop Boys, Motely Crue, Cindy Lauper, F.Y.C., Europe, Berlin, The MIsfits, Imformation Socitey, Expose, and many more.

90s - Madonna, Prodigy, Danzig, Belly, Letters to Cleo, Toadies,......

Many of the bands here have already been mentioned. I was all over the place at that time.

Is it just me and my nostalgia or were the early 90's one of the best and most diverse musical times? Then again I was kid...but I'll give you some examples here....Dr.Dre and Snoop (Good Hard Rap), Kriss-Kross (Good Fun rap), Salt-N-Pepa (Good Female Rap), BoyZ to men, there was good techno and dance songs, great rock, awesome ballads, and different types of music. Even the music for "grown-ups" was good.

I heard a couple of days ago "Runaway Train" by Soul Asylum at the mall and I was shocked, they never play that song anywhere. I remember the video made me cry.

It just seemed that there was a lot of good variety in the early 90's, but maybe it's just me.