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15 Everyday Sounds That Could Take You Straight Back to the 80s

There was a time when every object made its own kind of music. The world wasn't quiet or digital yet. Machines clanked, ...
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This 1970s One-Hit Wonder Helped Inspire Another One-Hit Wonder in the 1980s (With Some Help From a Soap Opera)

The 1976 one-hit wonder "Afternoon Delight" helped inform an equally kitschy vocal pop group in the following decade.

How This '80s Hard Rock Band's Unlikely Cover of a 'Minor' R&B Hit Put Them on the Map

For their Snakebite EP in 1978, the band recorded a cover of "Ain't No Love in the Heart of the City," which had been a ...

How Whitesnake made a cult R&B song their own – and got the blessing of the soul icon who wrote it

Whitesnake began playing Ain’t No Love right away, and the song instantly became a crowd favourite. Also in place from the ...

Is 'Illegal Alien' by Genesis the most racist song of the '80s?

"It's not fun ... being an illegal alien." I was only 16 when this song by Genesis was released in 1983. All I thought at the time is that it was semi-catchy, and semi-stupid. But was ...