Are these really the best songs of the ’80s?: Picking apart Pitchfork’s fascinating, frustrating list Hip hop and soul are well represented, but alt-country and U.S. alternative, not so much ...

How the Original 1988 Alternative Songs Chart Helps Explain Where Alternative Music Is in 2018 10/11/2018 Things were even bleaker for Americans in 1990, when 17 songs again led the list.

New Order is touring, as are two original Smiths, Morrissey and Johnny Marr (separately, of course). So what better time to discuss the 25 Best Alternative Bands of the 1980s? Just call it synergy!

Our list of era-defining ’80s songs has a foot in both camps, with a phantom limb or two in others. These kinds of lists are always a lightning rod for discussions both casual and heated.

We’re well aware that there’s a bit of an ’80s renaissance going on in pop culture. From soundtracking shows to influencing alternative artists with synth-pop and darkwave, the ...

One hit song catapulted these acts to sustaining fame, but let's take a deeper look at the second best songs from these '80s and '90s commercial flashes. Skip to main content Skip to site footer.

Debbie Harry Charts First Alternative Songs Hit Since 1990, ... although it almost certainly would have had the chart existed during the band’s late-’70s/early ’80s prime.) ...

The local modern rockers cover four tunes on new EP.

In this music parody game, Reggie Watts and Kate Berlant listen to alternative 1980s songs about things that happened in the 80s — of other centuries.