other than many that have been mentioned
heres another one

 

batreleaser: parliament-Funkadelic but no sly & the family stone?

atsonicpark: polysics but no devo?

really?

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my answer: I.R.S.-era R.E.M.

With a little help from their artist friends like Jim Herbert and the Reverend Howard Finster, they established their own image. A lasting legacy was thus created that successfully avoided the preening pitfalls of the MTV eighties hit-making machine.

Thom Yorke?

Except invisible people. W_-V

the damned


the cramps


the flying luttenbachers (well, mostyl weasel)

darkthrone


devo

the contortions


bloodyminded

the velvet underground


mc5


morbid angel


wu tang

I figured someone already came up with the Velvets. Yeah, it doesn't get much better.

Asobi Seksu

asobi seksu looks like youre avrage indie couple. pretentious, boring, and trying too hard, i really dont see what you could find interesting about that at all. a dress on the girl, and a blazer on the guy.

I guess it's their whole vibe. Their albums don't look like anything that comes out today and the music is totally different.

Suicide


Ramones

GG Allin in the 80's.

MF DOOM:


Eric B. & Rakim:



Sun Ra:

I don't think he's that well-liked around here, but you can't deny Elvis Costello looked awesome:


The Feelies:

Some early black metal looked really cool (ie they weren't fat and they had good corpsepaint)
Mayhem