Over 15K TV viewers have voted on the 240+ shows on Best TV Shows Of The '80s, Ranked. Current Top 3: M*A*S*H, Cheers, Magnum, P.I.
Boasting a seductive bassline, soaring guitar riffs, and enigmatic lyrics, Duran Duran's "Hungry Like the Wolf" redefined the new wave genre in the 1980s. The song's chart success and iconic music video presence solidified the band as one of the most influential groups of the era. Today,...
The politically charged outfit Rage Against the Machine were one of the most outspoken groups of the ‘90s, casting light on social unrest and disgust with the government. This passion, which was mutual between the band and many of their fans, igniting some of the most moving and inspired li...
From "Paris, Texas" to "A City of Sadness," and from "Blue Velvet" to "The Green Ray," these are the films that defined the 1980s.
The track was included in the 1985 movie Krush Groove, a film that looked at the rise of new school hip-hop groups like LL Cool J, Run-D.M.C., and the Fat Boys. In turn, it helped influence the "golden age" of hip-hop, embodied by the likes of Boogie Down Productions and ...
That the album’s classic singles (“Fairplay,”“Keep On Movin’,” and “Back to Life”) don’t sound anything like one another, or that, two decades of girl groups later, they still sound totally unique? Matthew Cole 99. Slick Rick, The Great Adventures of Slick Rick Rap’s ...
Lineage: The 50 Best Dancehall Songs 198. Mercyful Fate: Don’t Break the Oath (1984) The ’80s saw heavy metal engaged in a sort of arms race, as groups across the world set out to one-up each other in a quest to be the heaviest, the most technical, or the most extreme. Mercyfu...
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I don’t know. I do know that it’s nevertheless impossible for humans not to classify anything and everything into as many tiny groups as possible. Our brains love nothing more. It feels like we’re bringing order to a mad world. Or something. ...
While legacy rap groups like Wu-Tang let their breakout records settle on the public awhile before launching into solo records, N.W.A.'s 1988 gangsta rap landmineStraight Outta Comptonwas only out a few weeks when Eazy-E stepped out on his own forEazy-Duz-It. Eazy was coming off a st...