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Olivia Newton-John's song "Physical" was the Billboard Hot 100's longest running number one of the decade.. Reflecting on changes in the music industry during the 1980s, Robert Christgau later wrote in Christgau's Record Guide: The '80s (1990):
Roots rocker John Fogerty had hit "Old Man Down the Road" in 1985. Punk rock artists such as Patti Smith and Paul Westerberg (The Replacements) were popular as singers and songwriters. In the late 1980s, new history of female U.S. folk artists was beginning with Suzanne Vega whose first album sold unexpectedly well.
2 [23] November 27 "Down Under" Men at Work: 2 [24] December 11 "You Got Lucky" Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers: 2 [25] December 25 "Down Under" Men at Work 3 [24] 1983 January 15 "You Got Lucky" Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers 1 [25] January 22 "Hungry Like the Wolf" Duran Duran: 3 February 12 "Twilight Zone" Golden Earring: 1 February 19
[27] [80] Instrumentals were common, while songs with lyrics were sometimes conceptual, abstract, or based in fantasy and science fiction. [81] The American brand of prog rock varied from the eclectic and innovative Frank Zappa , [ 82 ] Captain Beefheart and Blood, Sweat and Tears , [ 83 ] to more pop rock orientated bands like Boston ...
The look of the ton-up boy and rocker was accurately portrayed in the 1964 film The Leather Boys. The rocker subculture has also influenced the rockabilly revival and the psychobilly subculture. Many contemporary rockers still wear engineer boots or full-length motorcycle boots, but Winklepickers (sharp pointed shoes) are no longer common.
Youth crew was a movement that began in the mid-to-late 1980s as a reaction against the metal influences being embraced in New York hardcore. Youth crew bands began playing a sound that called back to earlier punk rock–leaning hardcore acts. [21] The movement was fronted by Youth of Today, who coined the name on their 1985 song "Youth Crew".
Hardcore has been called a faster, meaner genre of punk rock, that was a stern refutation against it, [23] being more primal and immediate, with speed and aggression as the starting point. [ 16 ] In the vein of earlier punk rock, most hardcore punk bands have followed the traditional singer/guitar/bass/drum format.
The Smiths were a major influence, as were bands of the Madchester scene, which had dissolved in the early 1990s. [80] The movement has been seen partly as a reaction against various US-based, musical and cultural trends in the late 1980s and early 1990s, particularly the grunge phenomenon and as a reassertion of a British rock identity. [212]