While we’re on the subject of eighties music, let’s remember that there was something going on other than synth pop. It’s the Seattle grunge scene that got really famous, but in San Francisco, there was an earlier anti-fashion scene full of rage, heavy guitars and sloppily dressed rockers: thrash metal.
At the moment, you can grab Megadeth‘s excellent Peace Sells, but Who’s Buying? — the song that gave us the MTV News bass riff — from Locust St.