Metallica’s ’80s output is full of pointed, socially conscious songs about the horrors of war (“Disposable Heroes”), drug ...

You’re belting out your favorite ’80s anthem at the top of your lungs, completely confident in every word, when someone stops you mid-chorus to point out that you’ve been singing the wrong lyrics for ...

Songwriting continues to reach new levels of complexity as the years go on. But don’t get it twisted, that doesn’t mean artists from previous decades didn’t have something to say in their lyrics. Here ...

There's one 1980s song that hits the ground running every single time, and that's the 1984 power pop hit “Holding Out for a Hero" by Welsh artist Bonnie Tyler. Right out the gat ...

Some artists thrived in the '80s — Michael Jackson, Prince, Madonna, etc. Others, arguably, did not. Even the most devoted of Bob Dylan fans don't typically point to the '80s as his best decade of ...