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- Aug 4, 2015
- 6 min
This Week In 1985: August 4, 1985
Is it just me or are there not as many song titles as there used to be that make use of brackets? The '80s are littered with them —...
- Jul 28, 2015
- 4 min
This Week In 1985: July 28, 1985
There came a point in time where I went from being a music fan who had never heard the original versions of cover songs or the old tracks...
- Jul 21, 2015
- 5 min
This Week In 1985: July 21, 1985
You can probably count the instrumental hit singles of the '80s on the fingers of one hand. Maybe two. And songs released in 1985 would...
- Jul 14, 2015
- 4 min
This Week In 1985: July 14, 1985
This week in 1985, the global music industry united in an unprecedented show of force. The event: Live Aid, which I looked back at in a...
- Jul 13, 2015
- 7 min
Today In 1985: The Best of Live Aid
On Saturday July 13, 1985, the charity movement that had started with "Do They Know It's Christmas?" and "We Are The World" (which both...
- Jul 7, 2015
- 5 min
This Week In 1985: July 7, 1985
For Pat Benatar, it's a chore to sing "Hit Me With Your Best Shot", while R.E.M. hate "Shiny Happy People" so much they left it off their...