80s music
The 80s were chockful of New Wave power ballads, synthesizers, drum machines, and no shortage of Madonna and Michael Jackson.
Big Bang for the 80s
I said a hip-hop, the hippie the hippie To the hip, hip hop you don't stop Rock it to the bang bang boogie Say up jump the boogie to the rhythm of the boogie, the beat Now, what you hear is not a test I'm rappin' to the beat, And me, the groove, and my friends are gonna try to move your feet
By Isabel Valencia Zuñiga5 years ago in Beat
I ˂3 The Eighties . Top Story - August 2020.
So you’re telling me I can only listen to one decade of music when I’ve grown up on 90's and 2000s pop music, my nana’s love for Elvis and my own music taste that varies from AC/DC to Nicki Minaj?? Well damn, the answer is pretty obvious to me.
By Leigh Hooper5 years ago in Beat
The Most Powerful Political Songs of the Decade: The 1980s
The 1980s are the moments in history when disasters were painted in neon colours. All it took was for one television network to finally give a voice the world’s hippest protest music. Launched in 1981, MTV started to gain its footing at the beginning of the decade. This new channel dedicated to music provided a platform for popular music from areas all of the world, as well as new genres to be heard by the American public.
By Shandi Pace6 years ago in Beat
The eerie ambiance of Flash In The Night
I found this song recently on an 80s compilation playlist playing while I was doing my last YouTube video before bed. My tastes primarily in finding songs that weren't on my retro radar. I was intrigued to see what I could find. When the song was next on the list, I was instantly hooked just by the sample of the song. It was the one song that stuck out the most above all the others, I bought it on iTunes the next day. Throughout the day I kept listening to it over and over again, captivated by a song with a supernatural story behind it.
By Samantha Parrish6 years ago in Beat
Manchester: a city written by The Smiths
Manchester, so much to answer for, sings Morrissey in ‘Suffer Little Children’, back in the day when the singer didn’t put his fans under constant moral dilemma. The song, featured in the first Smiths’ album released in 1984, talks about the Moors murders that happened in the Greater Manchester area between 1963 and 1965 — and it’s one of many lyrics involving the city.
By Yessica Klein6 years ago in Beat
Another list of underrated 80s songs
The 80s had many musical wonders that no one got on their retro radar, so I’ve comprised another list of songs to bring attention to for your playlist of the nostalgic misses. You'll find that you know this specific artist or band for an iconic song they are known for, but to find out what else they did that went unknown to others. Get your hairspray, your leg warmers, and take a trip back to the past.
By Samantha Parrish6 years ago in Beat
"Make 'Em Scream Like I'm Keith
If you let me tell it, ever since I was a kid I was destined to be a Major League Baseball player. Yessir, I was supposed to don the pinstripes as the shortstop for the New York Yankees. So yeah, Derek Jeter took my spot. No hard feelings though. He did pretty well I guess. Well, at least the Major League Baseball Hall of Fame thinks so. But I digress. All the way up until I was senior in high school I was a 3-sport type of dude. Baseball, Football and Basketball, yeah that was the ticket. Then there was one day I was chillin’ at home listening to the radio and I hear this ad lib in a monotone voice, “Ooooh! Oh yeah.” It was fluid over what was considered at the time the newest sound in music. When I say probably 90% of the top R&B songs on the charts was produced by this kid from Harlem and leader of the iconic R&B group Guy. Ladies and gentlemen, I’m talking about the one and only Teddy Riley. The creator and pioneer of the sound called the New Jack Swing.
By Malcolm Batten6 years ago in Beat
Thriller
I walked along Michigan Avenue spellbound. I’d been on a few trips to Florida and Tennessee, but this was my first time in the big city. After all, I was a country girl from a small town in Ohio. The energy was palpable. I ran my tongue along my inner bottom lip, scarred from braces, and tugged at the rainbow legwarmers I wore on my arms. Eyes wide with delight, every store window caught my attention with its promise of unexpected treasures. The world was collectively swooning over a superstar, and I was no exception. Everyone, it seemed, had Michael Jackson fever, and the evidence of it was everywhere. From lunch boxes to bubble gum cards, I’d never seen such a frenzy. I was sixteen years old in Chicago on a music-related field trip with some classmates. The year was 1983.
By Jenny McFarland6 years ago in Beat
Steve Morse is Pretty Intense about Flying Colors
Photo by Stephan Birlouez At 11 years old, Steve Morse first got a look at the Beatles in 1964, and the electric guitar certainly got his attention. So by the time Morse was a teenager, he took it up a notch and got into his first band. He quickly learned what it was like to live off the energy of a good show. Moving forward, Morse got his first big break when the Dixie Dregs were signed by Capricorn Records. When that eventually ended, he settled into a comfy spot with Deep Purple in 1994. Squeezing some time in between Purple’s rugged schedule, he conspired with a group of virtuoso musicians and helped reel off a bluegrass, classic rock and fusion recording mix. In deep -if you will - the turn around was done in record time
By Rich Monetti6 years ago in Beat
5 Underrated 80's songs
Ever since I was a little girl, I was always fascinated with the songs my mom showed me. Anytime I went for a ride with her, she'd tell me about how Pat Benetar's father played the drums at her shows. Michael Jackson and his rise from the accidents he faced. I absorbed all that information as a child and continued to find anything else 80's related. Even though I was never born during that era as I was born in the mid nineties, I was always called an old soul because what I listened to. When I went on my search to scour and find other songs. I found that these weren't given the proper recognition, I even found a couple of songs that went under my mom's radar. Some of these barely even got the radio play it clearly deserved.
By Samantha Parrish6 years ago in Beat
