80s Music Blog

• The Best 80s New Wave Songs: A Definitive Playlist — New Wave produced some of the sharpest, most stylish pop of the 1980s. Here's our pick of its essential songs.
• The Best 80s Synth-Pop Songs You Need to Hear — Synth-pop ruled the 1980s charts. Here are the songs every fan needs to know.
• The Cure in the 1980s: From Post-Punk to Pop Royalty — Robert Smith's band moved from cold post-punk to lush, romantic pop across one of the decade's defining catalogues.
• From Joy Division to New Order: A Tale of Two Bands — Joy Division's tragic end and New Order's brilliant rebirth — one of the most important transitions in modern music.
• The 25 Best 1980s Albums of All Time — The decade's most essential albums, from chart-toppers to underground classics.
• Why 80s Music Still Matters in the 2020s — Forty years on, 1980s music is more popular than ever. Here's why the decade's sound continues to dominate.
• The 20 Greatest 80s One-Hit Wonders (And Where They Went) — Twenty artists who burned bright for one perfect 1980s single — the songs, the chart peaks and what happened next.