Not sure about that but I’d say the 80’s was the most creative decade and has within it the most profound influence and range I’ve ever known.
Adam & the Ants, Specials, The Police, Slayer, Mudhoney, The Sugarcubes, The Cult, Madonna, Bronski Beat, Black Flag, the Dead Kennedys, Frankie Goes to Hollywood, Godflesh, Dexy’s Midnight Runners, Trio, Orange Juice, The Redskins, Husker Du, Psychedelic Furs, Sisters Of Mercy, Nirvana, Dead Or Alive, Gaye Bykers On Acid, Stetsasonic, Sonic Youth, Loop, Public Enemy, The Jesus & Marcy Chain, De La Soul, New Order, The Sundays, Guns n’ Roses, 808 State, Talking Heads, Yello, Herbie Hancock, Bad Brains, The Primitives, Gary Byrd, The Birthday Party, The Cramps, Erik B & Rakim, The Shop Assistants, Prefab Sprout, Violent Femmes, Adrian Gurvitz, The Colourfield, Man Parrish, Go-Betweens, Crazyhead, R.E.M., Cocteau Twins, Neneh Cherry, Descendents, The Cure, Grace Jones, Big Sound Authority, Joy Division, NWA, Ramones, Stone Roses, Tom Waits, Bomb The Bass, Sade, Cameo, Japan, Metallica, The Fall, Iron Maiden, Pet Shop Boys, Killing Joke, Easterhouse, Transvision Vamp, PiL, the Misfits, Billy Bragg, The Human League, Lords of the New Church, New Model Army, Happy Mondays, Whitehouse,The Triffids, Prince, bauhaus, Spacemen 3, Stump, Echo & the Bunnymen, Pigbag, Age Of Chance, Red Lorry Yellow Lorry, Big Audio Dynamite, Linton Kwesi Johnson, The Beat, Aztec Camera, Sigue Sigue Sputnik, Laurie Anderson, Scritti Politti, The Associates, Discharge, Soft Cell, Trouble Funk, Au Pairs, Bow Wow Wow, The Weather Girls, Depeche Mode, Eurythmics, Cabaret Voltaire, Coatimundi, The Smiths, Nuclear Assault, Pablo Gad, RUN DMC, Terence Trent D’Arby, Beastie Boys, Heaven 17, Siouxsie & the Banshees, Madness, Hard On’s, Black Uhuru, Kreator, The Exploited, The Pogues, The Justified Ancients Of Mu Mu, Yazoo, Wham, Grandmaster Flash & the Furious Five, ABC, The Pixies, Napalm Death, OMD, My Bloody Valentine, Crumbsuckers, Duran Du-fucking-ran…