The '90s Greatest
2018
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- 10. Walls Come Down Sep 10, 2018
- The 1980s go out with a bang, as the push for freedom brings down the Berlin Wall in 1989.
- 9. It's a Small World Sep 10, 2018
- In the 1980s, shrinking technology brings the world together in unexpected ways.
- 8. Greed Is Good Aug 27, 2018
- In the era of big hair and big bonuses, nothing succeeds like excess.
Oct 26, 2023 · By Tom Eames. The 1980s may have been the decade of questionable fashion choices, but we'll probably say the same about the 2020s in a few years... It was also the decade of great movies, the rise of video games and downright fantastic music. The 100 greatest songs of the 1970s, ranked.
THE '80s GREATEST is a television series that offers a challenging and stimulating view of one of history's most enigmatic periods, shining a light on the people and events that shaped the decade while illuminating the trends that helped design our future. Stars. Huey Morgan. Steven Tyler. Kurt Andersen.
- (93)
- 2018-08-13
- Documentary
- 30
- 5 min
- Rob Sheffield
- 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.
THE '80s GREATEST is a television series that offers a challenging and stimulating view of one of history's most enigmatic periods, shining a light on the people and events that shaped the decade while illuminating the trends that helped design our future.
- (49)
- 2018
- TV-PG
- Huey Morgan
7.1/10. Rate. Seasons. Years. Top-rated. 1. Top-rated. S1.E1 ∙ Miracle on Ice. Mon, Aug 13, 2018. The 1980s begins with an Olympic Hockey game that lifts America's spirits; Ronald Reagan battles Bruce Springsteen; and a sitcom helps invent the yuppie. 5.8/10 (19) Rate. Watch options.
From shoulder pads to bank balances, we revisit the greatest moments from America’s 80s decade.
ABOUTTHESHOW. We revisit the greatest moments from America’s decade of decadence when everything went big…from shoulder pads to bank balances. Huge passion led to huge profit, and amidst an explosion of luxury brands and unbridled credit, we splashed the cash like there was no tomorrow.
