1980s

Billboard magazine (browse the 1980s)

Billboard year end charts

Metal

• Dwight Schrute playing air guitar
• Dwight Schrute and Motley Crue, pre-raise, pre-sale
• Motörhead: Ace of Spades
• Iron Maiden, “The Number of the Beast” (1982)
• Judas Priest
  • “Living After Midnight” (originally released 1980)
  • Live Festival (1983)
• Eddie Van Halen
  • Eruption
  • “How is Eddie Van Halen Linked to Metal?”
• Metallica
  • “Enter Sandman” (Monsters of Rock tour, Moscow, 1991); original music video
    • For Wagner and Rivera, Play it Again Metallica (NYT, 4/5/2006)
    • The Man Who Came up with Rivera’s Enter Sandman Theme 
    • Rivera’s final game entrance at Yankee Stadium (9/26/2013)
    • Metallica at Yankee Stadium for Mariano Rivera Day (9/22/2013)
  • detailed history of the band
  • Beavis and Butthead listen to “One” (…And Justice for All LP released 1988)
  • Dog playing drums to “Enter Sandman”
• Metal dude: “Enter Sandman”; “Crazy Train“; (Shotaro Nakamura)
• Motley Crue, “Wild Side” (1987), “Girls, Girls, Girls” (1987)
• Twisted Sister
  • “We’re Not Gonna Take It” (1984)
  • Twisted Sister Wikipedia page
• Guy gets owned at talent show; 8 years later
• Shit gets real during High School talent show (3:17)
• Chris Fitzpatrick for ASB Class President (SNL)
• Ronnie Dio interview (devil horns origin), joined Black Sabbath in 1979
• Heavy Metal Parking Lot (1986); Where are They Now (2006)
• Aural Amphetamine: Metallica and the Dawn of Thrash (2008)
• The 100 Greatest Metal Albums of All Time (Rollin Stone)

Hard Rock

• Aerosmith, “Dude (Looks Like a Lady)” (1987)
• AC/DC, “Highway to Hell” (original recording 1979)

Parents Music Resource Center (PMRC)

• PMRC on wiki (w/filthy 15)
• 25 Years After
• Senate Commerce Committee testimony (1985)
  • Record labeling: hearing before the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation, United States Senate, Ninety-ninth Congress, first session, on contents of music and the lyrics of records, September 19, 1985. Susan Baker (10-12),  Tipper Gore (12-17), Frank Zappa (51-64), John Denver (64-), Dee Snider (72-82), Filthy Fifteen (89, from RS 9/12/1985)
  • Frank Zappa; Zappa on Crossfire (1986)
  • Dee Snider (Twisted Sister), opening statement, part 2; Dee Snider on censorship and his testimony
  • the full hearing (Al Gore questioning Dee Snider, 15:35)
• Parental Advisory Forever (Newsweek, 2015)
• “Future Changed Rap for a Generation. He Doesn’t Know How to Feel About It” (rollingstone 1/17/19)

Charity Rock

• Band Aid, “Do They Know it’s Christmas” (Nov. 1984)
• USA for Africa, “We Are the World” (Jan. 1985); with vocalist identifications and lyric subtitles;  Lyrics (along with personnel); Wikipedia page
• Greil Marcus, “Number One with a Bullet” (1985) (go to p. 105), Wesleyan access only
• Japanese game show “We Are the World“
• Live Aid
  • Live Aid/Bohemian Rhapsody (2018) scene comparisons
• “We Are the World 25 for Haiti” (Feb. 2010); personnel listing
• SNL parody of “We Are the World 25” (Feb. 27, 2010)

Pop

• Whitney Houston singing in church as a young girl

Michael Jackson

• “Beat It” (1983)
• Pepsi commercial (1984)
• “Bad” (1987)
  • part 1, part 2
  •  Edmund Perry Case Resonates Years Later
  • Pint-sized Michael Jackson
  • Prince turning down Bad
• with James Brown (August 1983); with Prince and James Brown (same gig, but lower quality video)
• “Working Day and Night” (live in Bucharest, 1992, HBO)
• Oprah interview (moonwalk 45:15, beatbox 47:45)
• Best Moonwalk Ever? (extended solo dance sequence, Billie Jean)
• “Who Invented the Moonwalk?”
• crotch grab
  • compilation
  • Justin Bieber crotch grab count
  • Jay Z and Kanye West, “Otis” (2:35)
• Richard Pryor, “White and Black People” (from Wanted, 1978)

Prince

• “When Doves Cry” (1984): extended version; short version
• Questlove Remembers Prince (rollingstone.com, 4/25/2016)
• Prince inducts Parliament Funkadelic into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame (1997)
• Prince: A Musical Portrait

Electronic Dance Music

• “Genres, Subgenres, Sub-Subgenres and More: Musical and Social Differentiation Within Electronic/Dance Music Communities” (Kembrew McLeod)
• GRAPHICS
  • techno.org electronic music guide
  • How Music Travels: The Evolution of Western Dance Music (explanation and comments)
• Documentaries
  • Pump Up the Volume: The History of House
    • part 1: Time to Jack (On and On: 33:10)
    • part 2
    • part 3
  • I Was There When House Took Over the World
    • part 1
    • part 2 (tracklist in comments)
  • House: first news report in Chicago (1986)
  • Frankie Knuckles, Powerhouse opening night (1986) (interview: 1:50)
  • Frankie Knuckles (redbullacademy 2011)
  • Detroit: Blueprint for Techno
  • High Tech Soul: The Creation of Techno Music

1985

• 8 songs of the Billboard top 10 are from the UK (May 25, 1985)
• “How Will I Know,” Whitney Houston

Alternative/Indie/Punk

• Sonic Youth
  • “Expressway to your Skull” (from 1991: The Year Punk Broke) (aka “Madonna, Sean, and Me”)
  • “Expressway to your Skull” (1991 live)
  • “Expressway to Your Skull” (live Prospect Park, Brooklyn, 2010)
• Pixies
  • “Gigantic” live (1988); lyrics and interview explaining them
  • David Bowie on the Pixies (3 things about them, 0:25)
• Nirvana
  • “Smells Like Teen Spirit” (1991); lyrics w/Kurt Cobain interview on the Pixies;  Kurt Cobain Rolling Stone interview (1994); wikipedia page
• “The Trouble with Indie Rock” (Carl Wilson, slate.com, 10/18/2007)

Misc.

• Synth Britannia (BBC 4 doc, 2009)
• Talking Heads, Stop Making Sense (1984), “Life During Wartime“
• “Like a Prayer,” Madonna (1989)