I've been in the mood for '80s music today, so I listened to an '80s internet radio station at work. Sometime around 11:00, what might be my least favorite song of all time, Rod Stewart's "Forever Young" came on. It was a big hit in the '80s and it was an '80s station, so I was okay with it. Then, just a couple hours later, there was a quick ( Read more... )

Run DMC and Aerosmith's collaboration on the 1986 remake of "Walk This Way" is seen by most everyone as the beginning of rap rock, yet here's Afrika Bambaataa and John Lydon (Johnny Rotten of The Sex Pistols) together as Time Zone performing "World Destruction" in 1984, two years earlier.

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Shifting gears, I never even knew this classic cover had a ( Read more... )

When I was a kid, Rod Stewart was a name that would strike fear into my heart and make me leap to turn the channel on the TV or radio before I was forced to hear one note of whatever crappy ballad or light rock song of his was popular at the time. I was about ten years old when what is still one of my least favorite songs of all time, "Forever ( Read more... )