San Francisco Bands in the 1980s

Total found: 136

Rules: band/artist was based in the Bay Area, and either played live or recorded at least one song within SF city limits sometime in the decade from 1980-1989.
Feel free to add any amusing or relevant details to the fun facts section.

Band Name
Fun facts
Major
3 Day Stubble
4 Non Blondes
American Music Club
Archipelago Brewing Co.
Avengers
technically not active during the 80s although they did release an album
Beatnigs
Beatnik Beatch
Big City Orchestra
Bomb
Brown Streak
Buck Naked and the Bare Bottom Boys
Camper Van Beethoven
originally from Santa Cruz but lived in SF for a while
Capture the Flag
Caroliner Rainbow
Chris Cain
Chris Isaak
Chrome
Chuck Prophet
Club Foot Orchestra
Consolidated
Crime
Dance Hall Crashers
Dead Kennedys
Death Angel
Deli Creeps
Denim TV
Die Bossa Nova
Digital Underground
Dresden
En Vogue
Eskimo
Exodus
Factrix
Faith No More
Flipper
Frightwig
Fungo Mungo
Glorious Din
Grease Monkeys
Green Day
Greg Kihn
Helios Creed
Henry Kaiser
Hieroglyphics
Himalayans
Hoi Polloi
Hostages
Hueman Flavor
Huey Lewis and the News
Idiot Flesh
J Church
Jefferson Starship
Jellyfish
Jim Campilongo
Joe Louis Walker
Joe Satriani
it pains me to include this
Journey
Kronos Quartet
Limbomaniacs
Looters
Love Nest
M-1 Alternative
MCM and the Monster
MDC
MX-80 Sound
Melvins
Metallica
Monkey Rhythm
Monks of Doom
Mr. Bungle
Mr. Dog
Mr. T Experience
Mud Puppies
Mudwimmin
Naked Into
Negative Trend
Negativland
Neil Young
Neurosis
Operation Ivy
Oxbow
Pearl Harbor and the Explosions
Penelope Houston
Pink Section
Polkacide
Pop-O-Pies
Pray for Rain
President’s Breakfast
Primus
Psychefunkapus
Red House Painters
Residents
Rhythm and Noise
Romeo Void
Rova Saxophone Quartet
Royal Trux
thought of as a NY band but early records were made in SF
Samiam
Shiva Dancing
Sly and the Family Stone
Smoking Section
Snakefinger
Sordid Humor
Spot 1019
Steelpole Bathtub
Stone Foxes
Ted Zeppelin
Testament
The Billy Nayer Show
The Cat Heads
The Cheeseballs
The Contractions
The Dils
The Freaky Executives
The Fucking Champs
also really from Santa Cruz but seemed to be SF based
The Grateful Dead
The Mermen
The Mummies
The Offs
The Tubes
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282
Those Darn Accordions
Toiling Midgets
Tom Waits
Tower of Power
Tragic Mulatto
Translator
Trashwomen
Tuxedomoon
Uptones
Victims Family
Vio-lence
White Trash Debutantes
Wire Train
World of Pooh
Zev
Zulu Spear