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Synthwave (also called outrun, retrowave, or futuresynth [5]) is an electronic music microgenre that is based predominantly on the music associated with action, science-fiction, and horror film soundtracks of the 1980s. [2] Other influences are drawn from the decade's art and video games. [3]
The 1980s proved a difficult time for many 1960s-70s veterans, many of them unable or unwilling to adapt to current trends. Music icons such as Bob Dylan, Neil Young, and The Rolling Stones released albums that were often poor quality and critically panned as they attempted to grapple with the changing times. MTV in particular was a problem for ...
80 "I Pledge My Love" Peaches & Herb: 81 "The Long Run" Eagles: 82 "Stand by Me" Mickey Gilley: 83 "Heartbreaker" Pat Benatar: 84 "Déjà Vu" Dionne Warwick: 85 "Drivin' My Life Away" Eddie Rabbitt: 86 "Take the Long Way Home" Supertramp: 87 "Sara" Fleetwood Mac: 88 "Wait for Me" Daryl Hall & John Oates: 89 "Jojo" Boz Scaggs: 90 "September Morn ...
Vaporwave is a microgenre of electronic music and a subgenre of hauntology, a visual art style, and an Internet meme that emerged in the early 2010s, [30] [31] and became well-known in 2015. [32]
The Billboard Hot 100 is the main song chart of the American music industry and is updated every week by the Billboard magazine. During the 1980s the chart was based collectively on each single's weekly physical sales figures and airplay on American radio stations.
Issue date Song Artist(s) Wks. 1984 October 20 "I Just Called to Say I Love You" Stevie Wonder: 3 November 10 "Wake Me Up Before You Go-Go" Wham! 4 December 8 "Out of Touch"
[80] July 11 "Give to Live" Sammy Hagar: 3 [81] August 1 "Touch of Grey" Grateful Dead: 3 [82] August 22 "Paper in Fire" John Cougar Mellencamp: 5 [83] September 26 "Learning to Fly" Pink Floyd: 3 [84] October 17 "Brilliant Disguise" Bruce Springsteen: 1 [85] October 24 "Love Will Find a Way" Yes: 3 [86] November 14 "Cherry Bomb" John Cougar ...
Miles Davis (pictured in 1984), whose 1970s fusion music helped lead to the development of smooth jazz in the 1980s. In the 1980s in jazz, the jazz community shrank dramatically and split. A mainly older audience retained an interest in traditional and straight-ahead jazz styles.