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.

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Fugazi

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 would go unrivaled for many years.

Punk icon Ian MacKaye formed Fugazi in the late 80s, with the band dropping their first album, 13 Songs, in September 1989.…