About 80s MusicGet the latest headlines from the About.com 80s Music GuideSite.Devo Stands Up to Fast Food Raids on '80s Music Culture- June 30, 2008 Well, it's been nearly 18 months since I last ranted specifically in this space about the sad, almost inevitable intersection of crass commercialism and '80s music. But this time I...http://80music.about.com/b/a/007570.htm This Week's Forgotten Gem of the '80s: 'Til Tuesday's "Coming Up Close"- June 25, 2008 As one of the most consistently excellent songwriters and performers of the last 25 years, Aimee Mann stands out as one of the premier '80s artists capable of completely transcending...http://80music.about.com/b/a/007569.htm Rootsy Guitar Pop Artist Nick Lowe a Major If Not Fully Acknowledged '80s Music Legend- June 22, 2008 In the course of composing material for this site, I've often stopped to consider carefully just what makes a group or individual an '80s artist rather than merely one who...http://80music.about.com/b/a/007568.htm This Week's Forgotten Gem of the '80s: Hothouse Flowers' "Don't Go"- June 17, 2008 Anyone under the false but popular impression that '80s music was more often than not painfully homogenous and lacking in soul should make some immediate time to crank up this...http://80music.about.com/b/a/007567.htm Stains of the PMRC Unfortunately Linger in Our Collective '80s Music Education- June 16, 2008 If you're old enough to remember how laughably frightened some people were of '80s heavy metal prior to the menace-ectomy administered to the genre by the reign of hair metal,...http://80music.about.com/b/a/007566.htm This Week's Forgotten Gem of the '80s: Fiction Factory's "(Feels Like) Heaven"- June 10, 2008 This largely unknown British band belatedly perfected a distinctly post-new wave yet still unabashedly New Romantic sound on this criminally underrated track from 1984. Lead singer Kevin Patterson provides the...http://80music.about.com/b/a/007565.htm An '80s-Themed Elvis-Beatles Debate... Well, Sort Of- June 9, 2008 OK, this is far from a perfect parallel, but I'm running with it anyway. You remember the wonderful moment in Pulp Fiction when Mrs. Marsellus Wallace interviews Vincent Vega before...http://80music.about.com/b/a/007564.htm This Week's Forgotten Gem of the '80s: the Soft Boys' "There's Nobody Like You"- June 3, 2008 There are a number of exhilaratingly strange elements to England's punk-era misfits the Soft Boys, not the least of which is the mind-blowing fact that the band's guitarist, Kimberley Rew,...http://80music.about.com/b/a/007563.htm |