For the purposes of this list of premium '80s hard rock songs, I consider the broad term of hard rock to apply to loud, guitar-heavy rock music generally played by long-haired male musicians at slow and medium tempos. I make that distinction to explain why I leavepunk rockandhardcoreout ...
In one of the most tragic love songs ever written, a lovelorn man who promised he would love a woman until he died managed to kept his oath -- loving her until"they placed a wreath upon his door."The song resonated with listeners and won a Grammy, an ACM Award and a CMA Award for...
The 1980s were a glorious time for heavy music, so get ready to reflect on the decade with our picks for the Top 80 Hard Rock + Metal Albums of the 1980s!
The 1980s were a glorious time for heavy music, so get ready to reflect on the decade with our picks for the Top 80 Hard Rock + Metal Albums of the 1980s!
The 200 Best Songs of the 1980sThe greatest hits of music's wildest decade — hip-hop, synth-pop, indie rock, metal, Chicago house, Miami freestyle, ska, goth, reggae, acid house, and moreBy Rob Sheffield November 23, 2023 Photo illustration by Griffin Lotz. Photographs in i...
Some of the songs from AC/DC's 22-times-plus-platinum, top-selling masterpiece have certainly become painfully overplayed over the years onclassic rockand album rock radio. Nevertheless, the huge, unfailingly direct electric guitar riffs that fuel songs like this title track stand up pretty wel...
Yacht rock icon Steve Miller is known for a cavalcade of memorable songs like “The Joker,”“Fly Like An Eagle,” and the 1982 #1 hit “Abracadabra.” The song is from the 1981 album of the same name and was, according to Miller,inspired by watching Diana Ross and the Supremes. More...
#11 best song ever as rated by VH1's best 100 songs ever written in the past 25 years. Eddie Van Halen can do it all and it shows here. Not to mention Diamond Dave was still at the top of his game. 9. Rock of Ages by Def Leppard who doesn't know the lyrics to this song ...
Top Five Songs About Masturbation From the 80sOk, we all know the different ways to say this, but how about all the different songs from the wonderful eighties that discussed it (if somewhat more poetically). Of course, this is the nineties, and you can lose your job for talking about ...
If you need an explanation about why Cindy Crawford is on a list of top ’80s bombshells, you should probably crawl out from whatever rock you’ve been living under. Arguably the most famous model of all time, Crawford was her high school’s valedictorian and had a scholarship to study ch...