The 1980s are a rich text of classic songs that topped the Billboard charts and shaped culture along the way. Stacker ranked ...

In the 1980s, movie soundtracks were often tantamount to a film’s success. If you got the right needle drops, then you had the audience in the palm of your hands. Directors knew this, screenwriters ...

Of the past decades, the 1980s have had the most lasting cultural impact, or is, more accurately, the decade that has the most nostalgia expressed about it. We're now as close to 2070 as we are to ...

Recently, some colleagues and I got into a discussion about the theme song to “St. Elmo’s Fire,” the 1985 movie starring Demi Moore, Rob Lowe, and the rest of the Brat Pack. My boss hated John Parr’s ...

The songwriter didn't predict this song would go far. The 1980 nominated movie didn't win the Oscar, but was later used in a ...

How did Kenny Loggins make it to the top of the soundtrack heap? A trip to the golf course started him on the path.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. It's impossible to say which decade was strictly the "best" for music, but very few have a style and aesthetic quite as ...