Cheers to the one hit wonders of the '80s for bringing us some of most memorable songs of the decade. To the eighties! Most divisive: We Are the World Over 9.7K Ranker voters have come together to rank this list of The Greatest '80s Songs by One-Hit Wonders HOW RANKINGS WORK...
I've seen a couple of New Wave compilations recently that feature eighties artists heavily (Rhino has a New Wave eighties, The New Wave Connection has a couple of CD's) and I thought this might be a neat list to start since it is the Christmas season. I've started it off with a ...
Movies in the eighties had some of the best soundtracks, and the most memorable and popular songs at the time seem to have sometimes outshone the movies themselves. As I get time I'll add more songs to this list, feel free to send me your additions to the list. If you want, try an...
In the Eighties, Paul McCartney introduced himself to a whole new generation of fans by duetting with Michael Jackson on “Say Say Say.” He wouldn’t pull another cross-generational stunt like that with any real success until 2015 when he found himself collaborating with Rihanna and Kanye West...
Cheers to the one hit wonders of the '80s for bringing us some of most memorable songs of the decade. To the eighties! Most divisive: We Are the World Over 9.7K Ranker voters have come together to rank this list of The Greatest '80s Songs by One-Hit Wonders HOW RANKINGS WORK...
Dylan was always a hip-hop head — ever since he spat bars on old-school rap legend Kurtis Blow’s“Street Rock”in the Eighties. In his memoir,Chronicles, he raves about getting his mind blown by N.W.A, Public Enemy, and Ice-T. “These guys weren’t standing around bullshitting,”...
They see a duo, and they think it’s going to be two people with a couple of keyboards and a bunch of backing tapes, and that’ll be it. Over the years, we’ve vastly improved since our heyday back in the Eighties.” Curt Smith ...
Eighties synthpop can seem kitsch today because it was so aggressively determined to sound like the future back then. Why is ‘Blue Monday’ different? Why does it still feel like the future? From that utterly distinctive bass drum intro to Bernard Sumner’s eerie, oblique ‘how does it fee...
Kurt Cobain described this song as being about people and how they are expected to behave. The chords in this song are a slowed down replica of Killing Joke’s 1985 song “Eighties.” 10. Jump Around – House Of Pain Amy Winehouse borrowed the bass line from “Jump Around” for her 200...
“Morning Dew” was born in that context, a song that has resonated in thundering choruses at protests in Korea throughout the past five decades — from the Eighties democracy movement to the ongoing struggle over accessibility in Seoul’s public transportation system. The song, whose mention of...