This Week In The 80’s: The Longest Summer of My Life June, 1985. It’s a boiling hot day in the Texas panhandle. I ride my Huffy 10-speed up to a stop sign intersection that greets CONTINUE READING…
This Week In The 80’s: Passion Killer, You’re Too Much It’s summertime in 1983! School is out, the city pool is open and I spend most of the day on my bike with my friends CONTINUE READING…
This Week In The 80’s: Sleight of Hand And Twist of Fate 1987. I’m finishing up my junior year of high school and headed to the summer. I’m a senior, baby! I’ve got two albums CONTINUE READING…
This Week In The 80’s: In Charge of Finding Treasure In The Dark It’s May of 1984. I’m a couple of weeks from the end of my 8th grade year and a great summer break CONTINUE READING…
This Week In The 80’s: Call The Police There’s a Mad Man Around It’s the second semester of my sophomore year, 1986. We’re a couple of weeks from summer break. Most of my friends and CONTINUE READING…
This Week In The ’80s: I’ve Got A Pocket Full of Quarters… It’s May of 1982 and I’m a few weeks from finishing 6th grade. I’m just starting to get into music. We don’t have CONTINUE READING…
This Week In The 80’s: Walking Like a Man, Hitting Like a Hammer Spring of 1989. It’s the second semester of my freshman year of college. It’s a little over a month to the end CONTINUE READING…
This Week In The 80’s: A Floating Amp, Lions, and Richard Marx April, 1988. Senior year. A month and a half from THE finish line and a few short weeks from a huge prom debacle CONTINUE READING…
This Week In The 80’s: Swaying Room As The Music Starts Freshman year of high school, 1985. Man, there’s so much GREAT music sitting in the Top 40 this week. Lots of great songs with CONTINUE READING…
This Week In The 80’s: I Want My MTV! Oh man, what a week this was in 1983! When I looked at the Top 40 list for this week I got excited because it’s chock CONTINUE READING…
This Week In The 80’s: Just Around The Corner To The Light of Day… It’s March of 1987 and I’m a junior in high school. I don’t have any big story for you this week, CONTINUE READING…
This Week In The 80’s: I’ve Got A Pocketful of Quarters…And Slugs March of ’82. I had just turned twelve and I’m in the sixth grade. I was just starting to discover Top 40 music CONTINUE READING…
This Week In The 80’s: Then I got my first ticket… It’s March 7, 1986. Three days prior to this date I turned 16. First thing that morning, my dad took me to take my CONTINUE READING…
This Week In The 80’s: And I Know, Baby, Just How You Feel… It’s the first of March, 1984. I’m in eighth grade and about a week out from turning fourteen. Looking at the chart CONTINUE READING…
This Week In The 80’s: The Curious Tale of Rob and Fab In February of 1989, I was in college, second semester of my freshman year. My freshman year started out ambitiously – getting up CONTINUE READING…
This Week In The 80’s: A Slim Chance In Tight Pants February, 1988. It’s my last semester of high school and I DO NOT wanna be there. My daily class schedule is a joke and CONTINUE READING…
This Week In The 80’s: Young Love & Nuclear Bombs February 7th, 1987. I’m a junior in high school. I drive a hot car (’71 Matador Red Chevelle Malibu), I’m in a band and I’m CONTINUE READING…
This Week In The 80’s: It’s Only Love It’s January of 1986. I’m a sophomore in high school and about six weeks from getting my drivers license. There’s A LOT of great music on the CONTINUE READING…
This Week In The 80’s: The Death of Simon Le Bon Was Greatly Exaggerated. Or Was It? It’s the end of January, 1985. Second semester of my freshman year of high school. Madonna is spending CONTINUE READING…
This Week In The 80’s: Ground Control To Major Tom. It’s 1984. Michael Jackson and Paul McCartney sat near the top of the charts (#2) at the beginning of 1983 and now they sit at CONTINUE READING…
This Week In The 80’s: Toni Basil Sues ‘Em All! It’s 1983. It’s 1983. Men At Work supplant Daryl Hall & John Oates’ “Maneater” in the #1 spot (which has been there for the past CONTINUE READING…
This Week In The 80’s: Olivia Newton-John Gets “Physical”. It’s 1982. MTV had only been around for a short five months and was only available in a few markets because conservative cable operators refused to 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…
This Week In 1983: The Top Music of December 16, 1983 Not a ton of movement on the chart this week. The biggest drop of the week belongs to Michael Jackson as “P.Y.T” drops 16 CONTINUE READING…
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