Billboard magazine (browse the 1980s)
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
- Metallica
- “Enter Sandman” (Monsters of Rock tour, Moscow, 1991); original music video
- 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
- 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; Bob Dylan rehearsing with Stevie Wonder
- Greil Marcus, “Number One with a Bullet” (1985) (go to p. 105), Wesleyan access only
- Japanese game show “We Are the World“
- Live Aid
- “We Are the World 25 for Haiti” (Feb. 2010); personnel listing
- SNL parody of “We Are the World 25” (Feb. 27, 2010)
Pop
Michael Jackson
- “Beat It” (1983)
- Pepsi commercial (1984)
- “Bad” (1987)
- 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
- 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
- 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
- Pump Up the Volume: The History of House
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
- “The Trouble with Indie Rock” (Carl Wilson, slate.com, 10/18/2007)
Misc.
- Synth Britannia (BBC 4 doc, 2009)
- “Love is a Stranger” (Eurythmics, 1982)
- “Like a Prayer,” Madonna (1989)