80s music
The 80s were chockful of New Wave power ballads, synthesizers, drum machines, and no shortage of Madonna and Michael Jackson.
Strolling Down Lovers Lane 1980s
Love is a wondrous thing. There are many songs written about true love, wishing for love, unrequited love, and even heartbreak when breaking up. I want to take you through the years along Lovers Lane with popular love songs from the 1940s, 50s, 60s, 70s, 80s, and 90s.
Rasma RaistersPublished 3 months ago in BeatA Seventh Selection Of Ten Essential UK & Irish Folk Music Songs
Introduction This is the seventh installment in this series taking it up to seventy songs for you to enjoy. I am trying not to repeat artists but the more I share the more difficult that is to do.
Mike Singleton - MikeydredPublished 4 months ago in BeatFavorite Live albums part 2:Boy George and Culture Club
In 1997,Boy George and Culture Club partnered with music television network VH1 to do a reunion tour which was a smashing success all around. At the time VH1 had a concert series called “Storytellers” where bands would perform in an intimate setting for a small group of fans and do what else tell the stories of their careers, how certain songs had come to be, and naturally sing the songs as well. Culture Club did a “Storytellers” and it was great and out of that special came what would be their first live album to my knowledge. I got recorded on a video tape and watched it over and over and over again.
RIKKI LA ROUGEPublished 4 months ago in BeatSing In the New Year
All of these songs can be played at New Year’s Eve and New Year’s Day parties and are sure to bring back many memories of past celebrations. So put on the party hats, set out the noise makers, and get ready to ring out the old year and ring in the new while singing, dancing, and waiting for the stroke of midnight and partying into the brand New 2024 Year.
Rasma RaistersPublished 4 months ago in BeatAre These Folk Songs?
Introduction While researching songs for articles that I share in UK & Irish Folk Music 60s-80s I started thinking of songs by non-folk artists that could be considered folk songs. Folk music often documents the zeitgeist, as well as telling stories and including love songs and lost love songs, all of which are seen across all genres of music.
Mike Singleton - MikeydredPublished 4 months ago in BeatBon Jovi's "Livin' On A Prayer"
'Livin' On A Prayer' is my all time Go-To Anthem... it paradoxically revs me up, as tears spring unbidden to my eyes! Obviously, I have excellent taste in this instance, as this track off Bon Jovi's 1986 "Slippery When Wet" album topped the charts in early 1987; later won an MTV Video Music Award for Best Stage Performance in a Video and has become the band's signature song.
Angie the Archivist 📚🪶Published 4 months ago in BeatMy favorite albums part one: Selena’s live albums
Selena won her Grammy in 1994 for this wonderful live album that she and her band released and recorded in 1993 appropriately titled “Live”. It’s an album that is chocked full of Selena’s hit at the time that have become classics with time. The album takes the best from every album that the band had recorded from when they signed with EMI Latin at the time to 1993 when the album was recorded. Recording the album where they recorded it was a homecoming because it was Selena y Los Dinos hometown heroes in Corpus Christi Texas at the famous collesium of the city.
RIKKI LA ROUGEPublished 4 months ago in BeatWorld Turned Upside Down - Incredible Words From Leon Rosselson
Introduction Sometime in the past I first heard this song, either by Billy Bragg or Dick Gaughan. These versions conveyed the anger at the Hateful spite of the privileged classes toward the less fortunate.
Mike Singleton - MikeydredPublished 4 months ago in BeatBoy George and culture club, as great and fabulous as they ever ever wore, and ever are, and ever will be forever and ever always!
I saw a Boy George and culture club in 2022, my awesome cousin took me to see them at some hotel resort in Pennsylvania somewhere. Boy, George and culture club did not disappoint at all, they did their hits a lot of them and also because there’s artists in the music industry they also treated us their fans to some new stuff too, which is always enjoyable and exciting at the same time. Unfortunately, on this gig, while this show rather original drummer John Moss was not there now he is not out of the group bios any stretch of the imagination no it is there was a substitute for him at that night. He still a member of culture club.
RIKKI LA ROUGEPublished 4 months ago in BeatA Sixth Selection Of Ten Essential UK & Irish Folk Music Songs From 1960s-1980s
Introduction I need to be a little more careful in my song selections as I repeated one in Episode Five (Link at the end of this article) but I have to be thankful for the suggestions from the members of UK & Irish Folk Music 60s-80s for their suggestions of artists who have slipped my mind and artists I have never heard of. I had been particularly remiss in my lack of coverage of Welsh Folk.
Mike Singleton - MikeydredPublished 4 months ago in BeatSpend Christmas with Willy Chirino
In recent years Willy Chirino released two Christmas albums one was “Llegó la Navidad” and “Navidad en Familia”. Willy knows how to serve up wonderful holiday concerts and television specials be it for Valentine’s Day or Christmas.
RIKKI LA ROUGEPublished 4 months ago in BeatA Fifth Selection Of Ten Essential UK & Irish Folk Music Songs From 1960s-1980s
Introduction This is the fifth installment in this series taking it up to fifty songs for you to enjoy. I am trying not to repeat artists but the more I share the more difficult that is to do.
Mike Singleton - MikeydredPublished 4 months ago in Beat