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100 Best Albums of the Eighties. From synth pop and rap to metal and funk, 100 best albums of the Eighties selected by the editors of Rolling Stone. First 10 entries here span the Clash's...
- The 200 Best '80s Songs: Top Tunes From The 1980s - Rolling Stone
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- The 200 Best '80s Songs: Top Tunes From The 1980s - Rolling Stone
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- Biz Markie, ‘Just a Friend’ Lighters up for the late, great Biz Markie, one of the most beloved music heroes of the Eighties or any other decade. The Diabolical One.
- Nena, ’99 Luftballons’ A German girl sings about nuclear apocalypse in a perky New Wave bop about the end of the world. Yet it’s also a doomy teen romance, at a time when half the hits on the radio were about the end of the world.
- My Bloody Valentine, ‘Feed Me With Your Kiss’ The dawn of the shoegaze era. My Bloody Valentine give an early taste of their power on their debut album, Isn’t Anything: Irish guitar madman Kevin Shields’ tremolo overdrive and feedback-loop noise, Belinda Butcher’s breathy vocals, awesome power-klutz drumming.
- Bobby Brown, ‘My Prerogative’ The sound of New Jack Swing. Bobby Brown dishes the dirt on celebrity gossip, as the young Harlem prodigy Teddy Riley soups up a beat that would rule the radio for the next few years.
- Run-D.M.C. - Run-D.M.C. March 27, 1984. Hip Hop, East Coast Hip Hop, Hardcore Hip Hop. Critic Score 90 2 reviews. Amazon. Spotify. Next. Related. Rolling Stone Lists.
- Dire Straits - Making Movies. October 17, 1980. Rock, Pop Rock. Critic Score 86 3 reviews. Amazon. Music. Spotify.
- John Hiatt - Bring the Family. May 29, 1987. Roots Rock, Singer-Songwriter, Americana, Blues Rock, Soft Rock. Critic Score 80 2 reviews. Amazon. Music. Spotify.
- Talking Heads - Speaking in Tongues. June 1, 1983. New Wave, Synth Funk. Critic Score 85 5 reviews. Imbued with an adventurous spirit that’s as close to Television’s Marquee Moon as it is to Michael Jackson’s Thriller, Grand Master Flash’s “The Message” and Nigerian high-life music, Speaking in Tongues gives new meaning to the word crossover.
- Hall and Oates, ‘Voices’ Ever savvy about the marketplace, H&O left their Philly soul and folkie periods in the dust and went all New Wave. The makeover forced the duo to tighten up and sharpen their hooks.
- The Cramps, ‘Songs the Lord Taught Us’ “I cut your head off and put in my TV set/I use your eyeballs for dials,” Lux Interior proposed on “TV Set,” which opened the Cramps debut.
- Rod Stewart, ‘Foolish Behaviour’ Stewart was at the height of his Hollywood excess when he made the wonderfully trashy Foolish Behaviour. As he confessed, “Too much partying, too much booze, and a few too many dabs of recreational cocaine might have had something to do with it.”
- Jim Carroll, ‘Catholic Boy’ Has any punk rocker ever killed off as many memorable characters in one song as Jim Carroll did in “People Who Died”? No way.
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Apr 20, 2011 · See the full list of 100 best albums of the 1980s here. 1. The Clash, "London Calling" This album could not have come at a more perfect time or from a more appropriate band than the Clash...
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Jun 1, 2023 · The best Rolling Stones 80s songs found the group utilizing a host of different music genres, including punk, rock, blues, disco, soul, and hip-hop.
