Step back into the vibrant era of neon, leg warmers, and the Walkman with our dive into the Greatest '80s Pop Songs. The 1980s were a time of bold style, colors, and sounds, particularly in the music world. From the synth-pop hooks of A-ha's Take On Me to the enduring anthems ...
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.
The '80s was hip-hop's first real decade, the era when everything started to blow up. There'san old sayingthat no idea's original: "There's nothing new under the sun. It's never what you do, but how it's done." And it's true that hip-hop was a continuation of a much longe...
While ’80s pop culture is largely remembered for its frivolity, the social unrest that stirred beneath the decade’s brightly colored gloss and greed resulted in not just the guilt-driven good intentions of enterprises like the star-studded USA for Africa, but a generation of artists whose mus...
A Tribe Called Quest is one of themost influential white rapgroups of the 80s. Founded by Q-Tip and Phife Dawg, they brought a new style of rap to the game, combining jazz samples and signature flows with socially conscious lyrics. ...
From "Paris, Texas" to "A City of Sadness," and from "Blue Velvet" to "The Green Ray," these are the films that defined the 1980s.
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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If the ’70s was one of themost consequential decades for popular music, the ’80s is perhaps the only other decade that can give it a run for its money in terms of both innovation and pop cultural visibility. The top 40 was rife with heavy hitters—Michael Jackson, Madonna, Prince and...
From house to hip-hop, college rock to techno, bubblegum pop to post-punk, heavy metal to hardcore—here are our favorite tracks of the 1980s. By PitchforkAugust 23, 2015Welcome to our list of the 200 best songs of the 1980s. A great deal of today's music looks to the '80s for...