Novelty hits are wacky in general. But the 80s novelty songs took the craziness to another level, as these four songs prove.

The 80s were one of the most iconic and influential decades in music. In fact, many 80s songs remain popular hits to this day ...

Throughout the '70s and '80s, REO Speedwagon released several hits, including 1980's "Keep On Loving You," off the band's ninth album, Hi Infidelity.

Automatic For The People spawned one of REM's most moving and enduring songs, Everybody Hurts, a graceful, majestic and achingly moving song which lies at the emotional core of the album. It is a ...

On December 9, 1998, Hikaru Utada debuted with the single "Automatic/time will tell." She was only 15. Her style of writing her own lyrics and music was extremely unique in the Japanese mainstream at ...

Popular music was in a very different place in the 1980s than it had been in the '70s. Even as hair product use expanded, song complexity shrunk, or at least changed focus as styles like new wave ...

Grab your synthesizer and step into the decade that made electronic music legendary! Join us as we count down our picks for the most iconic and irresistible synth-driven songs of the 1980s '€” any ...

Most 80s kids had to run to the school bus on weekday mornings to head to class. And many a young audiophile in 1986 threw on their headphones the second they sat down. If you were one such 80s kid, I ...

The legendary songwriter ("MacArthur Park," "Wichita Lineman") is prepping Yours For the Taking: The Found Songs of Jimmy Webb. By Gary Graff A songwriter as prolific, long-lived and legendary as ...