The 1980s were both a strange and fun time to be a music fan. It is perhaps the oddest decade for popular music since maybe the 2020s. There was rock, glam, the beginnings of rap, new wave, the rise ...

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Here at AudioPhix, we write a lot of lists. That probably isn’t news to you. The internet lives on lists. They provoke, anger, and maybe sometimes even inform. If you’re like me, you usually just tune ...

The 1980s were a transformative era in pop music. Musicians were moving away from the disco genre of the '70s and decided to innovate with bolder sounds. It was a time in which synthesizers, ...

What were the best rock and metal collaborations of the 1980s? History may tell you that the '80s were the "me" decade, but when it came to rock and metal there was probably more openness to ...

The 1980s had many twists and turns musically. We were still very much in classic rock territory. New Wave had taken us on from punk rock and added in more keyboards and electronics. Power ballads ...