It only makes sense that the music of the decade would mirror the times. To that end, Stacker scoured Billboard charts from the '80s and chose 25 of the top bands whose music soundtracked the decade.

Power pop blossomed in the 70s. Bands combined the melodicism of 60s pop with the harder rock sounds that were coming into vogue. That genre faded in popularity a bit as the 80s dawned.

It only makes sense that the music of the decade would mirror the times. To that end, Stacker scoured Billboard charts from the '80s and chose 25 of the top bands whose music soundtracked the decade.

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That would be the 1980s, which was by far the most visible period where prog rock bands went pop on a large scale. Perhaps the pull of successful '80s music was too much for some prog bands to ...

For Rodríguez, it’s perfectly natural that Latinos would be attracted to '80s British music, in the same way that it was perfectly natural for his mother to love the Beatles and Carole King.

The '80s had stupid synthy pop bands. No instrument was good enough. Everything had to be played by a synthesizer. And hair metal. Never too much glitter. Milli Vanilli faked their songs.

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