Here was Idol emphatically putting his stamp on the ‘80s ... Top. 4. Tom Petty, “Don’t Come Around Here No More” The dawn of the music video age turned Tom Petty into an unlikely MTV star ...

As you will see in the below list of the Top 50 New Wave Songs, chosen by the UCR staff, many of these tracks would fit comfortably within other playlists from the era, not just punk, but also pop, ...

Hard rock as a genre is difficult to pin down ... VH1 ranked it 47th on their list of the 100 greatest 80s songs. In 1985, ...

The '80s were filled with all-star collaborations on ballads and for the Footloose soundtrack we got the pairing of Heart 's Ann Wilson and Loverboy 's Mike Reno. The song was actually penned by ...