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Three-Year Quest to Identify Lost Song Ends With ‘80s Adult Movie

A three-year hunt to identify a lost ‘80s song ended when one of the tens of thousands of people involved in the search found it in an adult movie soundtrack.The “lostwave” hobby involves trying to locate details of music created before the internet era. In 2021, an extremely low-quality 17-second clip was uploaded to the WatZatSong community by a user who said they couldn’t remember where they’d got it from, […]

todayMay 4, 2024 1

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How Adrian Belew Put Together His ‘80s King Crimson Celebration

It was King Crimson's Robert Fripp himself who nearly broke the prog internet when he shared details of Adrian Belew's upcoming tour paying homage to the '80s era of the band.In a way, it was a perfect full circle moment, considering that Belew had first floated the ideas he was having to Fripp in 2019, to get his thoughts and input. He found that his former bandmate was not only receptive […]

todayApril 3, 2024

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Lil Jon Reflects On Crunk’s Punk Ties & Skateboarding In the 80s

Lil Jon pioneered the “Crunk” branch of Southern Hip Hop, and he has now revealed where all that energy came from.The 53-year-old rapper joined Popcast for a chat that was published on Wednesday (March 27), during which he elaborated on spearheading the subculture while looking back at the inspiration behind it.“I was going to punk clubs in the 80s, I was a skater in the 80s before it was cool,” […]

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Can You Guess the ’80s Hair Metal Video From the Screenshots?

Can you guess these '80s hair metal videos from just a couple of screenshots?The '80s, especially the latter portion of the decade, brought us a wealth of rockers depleting the ozone with hair spray, growing out and teasing up those locks and yes, rocking the daylights out of the stage and MTV. It was a golden era for hair metal and you likely were jamming up the Dial MTV phone lines […]

todayMarch 19, 2024 1

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25 Essential ’80s Rock + Metal Albums to Pass on to Your Children

What 1980s era rock and metal albums do you feel it’s essential to pass on to your kids?As a teen in the ‘80s, there was a lot of great music to digest. But as I’ve gotten older, it’s always interesting to see what from my youth has been passed on to the next generation and what has gotten overlooked.So for this exercise, we’re talking about the absolute must, completely essential […]

todayFebruary 23, 2024 1

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Ranking All 52 Journey Songs From the ’80s

Journey moved more than 6 million albums in America in the '70s, most of them after Steve Perry joined in time for 1978's Infinity. Not bad. Then their second proper studio album of the following decade, 1983's Frontiers, sold more than that all but itself. By then, however, they'd amassed so much commercial momentum that this LP was actually considered something of a letdown. Journey kicked off the '80s with […]

todayFebruary 23, 2024

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Post Malone Will Appear In The Upcoming Remake Of ’80s Classic

Post Malone has now added another movie credit to his extensive resumé.The rapper/singer appears to have a part in the upcoming remake of Road House, starring Jake Gyllenhaal in the role that the late Patrick Swayze made famous. On Tuesday (February 13), the official account for Prime Video on X, formerly known as Twitter, sent out a photo of the “Circles” performer in the role of “Carter.”That prompted Gyllenhaal to […]

todayFebruary 14, 2024

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The 20 Meanest ’80s Movie Bullies

The '80s were known for many things. The myth of trickle-down economics, unfortunate hairstyles, those darned Ninja Turtles, just to name a few. But in no era in American movies was there a more fruitful and entertaining trade in that great cinematic tradition, the big screen bully. If our heroes were the underdogs then there had to be top dogs picking on them with all the subtlety of a hair metal guitar riff.Nobody […]

todayFebruary 6, 2024 1

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’80s No. 1 Rock Songs From Worst to Best

The '80s began with holdovers from the previous decade still holding sway, then quickly began to morph. Some of those first- and second-generation classic rockers adapted to an era defined by synthesizers, music videos and hairspray. But they were soon joined by new faces that bent and shaped pop and rock in a new image.This winding musical journey played out at the top of the Billboard Hot 100. The following […]

todayJanuary 29, 2024 1

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