More often we remember songs that reached #1 on the pop charts. But what about those songs from the ’80s that were good enough to make it to #2 on the Billboard Hot 100 but just couldn’t make CONTINUE READING…
Jason welcomes special guest Tim to travel in this week’s TRN Time Machine back to 1985 and relive the 1985 MTV Video Music Awards show. As in our previous episode covering the 1996 VMAs, we’ll CONTINUE READING…
This installment of the Retro Network’s Bracket Madness tournament podcast is a unique one! Join Mike (@FallWestMike of @AdventCalHouse), Stacey (@geeky_vixen), Tim (@oldschool80s), Karen (@KarenFlieger8), Eric (@Eric_Vardeman), and Gary (@MileHighSamurai) with host Jason (@RD80s) as they pick the 2ND CONTINUE READING…
In the ’80s, you had the Moonwalk, the Running Man, the Cabbage Patch, the Roger Rabbit, the Kid n Play kick-step, the Robot, the Worm, the Wave and all sorts of break-dancing among others hitting CONTINUE READING…
Hard to believe it was 35 years ago we all learned how to “Walk like an Egyptian.” Life seemed so much more carefree back then. Of course most of us were kids and didn’t know CONTINUE READING…
Peter Frampton’s Frampton Comes Alive album was released January 6, 1976. One of the great parts of retro blogging is looking back further than my own childhood. This is an album that has been out CONTINUE READING…
Back in the late 1980’s through much of the 1990’s, compact discs were still a fairly new innovation in audio entertainment and were considered gift items. Stores that sold music would have big sales on CONTINUE READING…
1983: The Year End Wrap Up Well, kids…here we are. The final post in our year long look at the music of 1983. Several times this year, I’ve been asked why I consider 1983 as CONTINUE READING…
This Week In 1983: The Top Music of December 23, 1983 Well, folks…here we are. The last charting week of 1983. Big jumps this week by Matthew Wilder (who climbs nine spots to land at CONTINUE READING…
“2000 Miles” was released in November of 1983 and would later be included on the band’s 1984 album Learning to Crawl. It was the first single and album by the new Pretenders line-up reconstituted after the deaths CONTINUE READING…
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