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The best albums by Queen came before the 80s (Queen 2, A Night at the Opera, A Day at the Races), so I'm not comfortable naming them the best band of the 80s. The Smiths is a good choice. I don't really have many favorite bands that did its best work in the 80s, I'm gonna say The Stone Roses because their best album (The Stone Roses) came out in 1989, and it happens to be one of my top 5 albums of all time