Put the "punk" back in cyberpunk: The Clash, Sex Pistols, the Ramones.
To spin slightly, some two-tone ska fits right in there. I mean, Madness?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N-uyWAe0NhQAny song/band that CAUSED AN EARTHQUAKE IN ENGLAND gets props like few others, you know?
(Quoting here)
VF: Surely your best festival moment must be at Madstock in Finsbury Park when your fans caused a mini-earthquake, hitting 4.5 on the Richter Scale?
Suggs: "That's very true, yeah. It's very high up on my list of favourite achievements. We'd kinda broken up in 1988, for various reasons, primarily because we'd run out of steam and weren't as popular as we were and all the usual sort of things. But then 1992 came and we had a bit of a comeback, our Greatest Hits went to number one and it was mooted that we should do a tour. But I didn't really want to do it. I thought about doing a one off 'thank you very much, great that you still care about us' show. So we met Vince Power (founder of Mean Fiddler) and he had all the fences set up after Fleadh or something and he asked us if we wanted to do a day in Finsbury Park. It was the first time we'd opened a gig with 'One Step Beyond', and it's a fairly up-tempo song, so there were about 45,000 medium to large middle aged men all jumping up and down at the same time.
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Baggy Trousers might not be quite so "Rebel on the school yard" as it once was, but.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XJOLwy7un3UGoing back to post'81 stuff, Duran Duran can't be underestimated. Shame that I can't get a copy of the correct video for "The Reflex", but.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oDnNF5cHCdoThey also gave us Hungry Like the Wolf, which is a video that the creators of Venture Brothers drew from for the Season 2 opener.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oOg5VxrRTi0Adam Ant, another part of teh Second British Invasion. Note his back-up girls' make-up.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o41A91X5pnsWhich gave rise to Prince and the Revolution.
(Who I can't link to because he doesn't want his music on YouTube)
Who gave rise to Morris Day and the mother-fraggin' TIME.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fDpcDjxWt9Q(And if you haven't watched Purple Rain yet, go to Netflix and fire that sucker up, stat! TRUST me on this one.)
Scandal, The Warrior. Note the attire! Kind of a Razorgirl-Street Sam vibe going on.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XDuWFYOTyqAPat Benatar, Love is a Battlefield, AKA the story of a young girl who winds up in a Bunraku Parlor.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CjY_uSSncQw(Famous for being the first video where dialogue was put in over the song.)
Wait. How have we not handled Thomas Dolby yet? She Blinded Me with Science!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3fI8834iCgo