Novelty & Comedy Songs Novelty songs are different from most popular songs in that they usually have an invisible expiration date like 1999 or Pac-Man Fever with the exception of Christmas Songs and to a lesser extent, Halloween Songs. Pac-Man Fever really mattered in the early 1980s, but it has long since lost its purpose.… Read More
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About Retro Songs: Retro Songs can be songs that capture an era from your youth or a pivotal time from your life. Often they can be that bubblegum pop you heard non-stop as a child. Retro Songs can make you relive a moment, a day, an evening, a summer, or even a lifetime. Retro songs… Read More
Top 100 Disco Dance Hits 1. Y.M.C.A. – Village People 2. I Will Survive – Gloria Gaynor 3. Brick House – Commodores 4. Don’t Stop Till You Get Enough – Michael Jackson 5. It’s Raining Men – The Weather Girls 6. Play That Funky Music – Wild Cherry 7. Super Freak – Rick James 8.… Read More
Hip Hop Old School Music 1970s-early 1990s Old School DJ Kool Herc is credited with inventing Hip Hop at a block party in 1974, although there were others playing too. All it took was two of the same vinyl record and some skill at cutting between them. That summer, Lovebug Starski started this style of… Read More
80s Dance Hits
1980s Advice Songs Giving and accepting advice is one part of life that helps us through the trials and tribulations we are faced with. The problem with advice is that we often don’t take it, especially if it means doing or admitting something that we’d rather not. Sometimes advice brings up an option you didn’t… Read More
Must-have Classic Hip Hop Party Hits
About Music of the 80s: Things You Need To Know Journey’s Don’t Stop Believin’ was released in 1981. The song is arguably the most well-known of the entire rock era. It only reached # 9 on the Billboard charts, making it the #65 biggest pop song of the year. The 120 BPM song breaks several… Read More
Worst Songs in Pop Music World’s Worst Pop Music Bad music and all of the worst songs are subjective, we admit. Often, the songs on this are loved by many, but hated even more by others. This section is devoted entirely to the worst songs of all time. Well, maybe not the all-time worst written… Read More
Sexy Songs – 1980s
December 24, 1988- January 13, 1989: Every Rose Has Its Thorn – Poison January 14 – January 20: My Prerogative- Bobby Brown January 21 – February 3: Two Hearts – Phil Collins February 4 – February 10: When I’m With You – Sheriff February 11 – March 3: Straight Up – Paula Abdul March 4… Read More
Popular and Notable Books From 1980: A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole The Bourne Identity by Robert Ludlum Cosmos by Carl Sagan The Covenant by James A. Michener The Devil’s Alternative by Frederick Forsyth Ender’s Game by Orson Scott Card The Fifth Horseman by Larry Collins and Dominique Lapierre Firestarter by Stephen King… Read More
1989 Popular Song Chart 1. Love Shack – B-52’s 2. Like A Prayer – Madonna 3. Bust A Move – Young MC 4. Wind Beneath My Wings – Bette Midler 5. Joy and Pain – Rob Base & D.J. E-Z Rock 6. Funky Cold Medina – Tone Loc 7. All I Want Is You –… Read More