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. Videos by VICE 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. To this day, it remains a brilliant example of MacKaye’s foresight for where music could go.…