1982

New Wave Pop Rock 

Marshall Crenshaw on Marshall Crenshaw

February 27, 2023February 27, 2023 Katherine Yeske Taylor 0 Comments 1982, Gin Blossoms, John Lennon, Marshall Crenshaw, Warner Bros. Records, Yep Roc

Celebrated singer-songwriter on the 40th anniversary expanded edition of his eponymous 1982 debut

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Electronic New Wave Rock 

Sample and Hold: Neil Young’s Trans Turns 40

January 3, 2023January 3, 2023 Lee Zimmerman 0 Comments 1982, 1983, 40th Anniversary, Kraftwerk, Like An Inca, Neil Young, Sample and Hold, Trans, Transforner Man

Looking back on his excursion into electronic music

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Rock 

Little Victories: Bob Seger’s The Distance Turns 40

December 28, 2022December 28, 2022 Lee Zimmerman 0 Comments 1982, 40th Anniversary, Alto Reed, Bill Payne, Bob Seger, Bob Seger and the Silver Bullet Band, Bobby Hall, Bonnie Raitt, Bruce Springsteen, Chris Campbell, Craig Frost, Danny Kortchmar, Davey Johnstone, David Hood, Don Felder, Elton John Band, John Fogerty, John Mellencamp, Little Feat, Pete Carr, Randy McCormick, Roger Hawkins, Roy Bittan, Russ Kunkel, The Eagles, Waddy Wachtel

The Detroit rock great released this Silver Bullet Band classic in the last week of 1982

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Hard Rock Heavy Metal Rock 

War Machine: KISS’s Creatures of the Night Turns 40 

December 15, 2022December 15, 2022 Jedd Beaudoin 0 Comments 1982, 40th Anniversary, Ace Frehley, Bryan Adams, Creatures of the Night, Eric Carr, Gene Simmons, I Love It Loud, Jim Vallance, Kiss, Paul Stanley, Super Deluxe Edition, Vinnie Vincent, War Machine

Diving into the new Super Deluxe Edition of the classic 1982 LP

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Soul 

Hot Just Like An Oven: Marvin Gaye’s Midnight Love at 40

December 6, 2022December 6, 2022 Justin Cober-Lake 0 Comments 1982, 40th Anniversary, Bob Marley, David Ritz, Gordon Banks, Joy, Marvin Gaye, Midnight Lady, Midnight Love, Odell Brown, Sexual Healing, Third World Girl

Why the singer’s final studio album is so much more than “Sexual Healing”

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Funk Pop Rock Soul 

Too High To Get Over: Thriller Turns 40

December 2, 2022December 2, 2022 Kara Tucker 0 Comments 1982, 40th Anniversary, Beat It, Billie Jean, Eddie Van Halen, Epic Records, Human Nature, Michael Jackson, P.Y.T. (Pretty Young Thing), Quincy Jones, The Girl Is Mine, Thriller, Wanna Be Startin' Somethin'

Why Michael Jackson’s smash 1982 LP remains the biggest selling album of all time

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Punk Rock 

The Missing Link: The Damned’s Strawberries Turns 40

November 22, 2022November 22, 2022 Tim Sommer 1 Comment 1982, Blondie, Captain Sensible, CHEAP TRICK, Commander Cody and His Lost Planet Airmen, Dave Vanian, Machine Gun Etiquette, Moody Blues, Strawberries, The Black Album, The Cars, The Damned, The Doors, The Kinks, The Who, Van Morrison

How did we miss out on one of the greatest classic rock bands of all time?

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Blues Hard Rock Rock Zep 

We’re Gonna Groove: Led Zeppelin’s Coda Turns 40

November 19, 2022November 19, 2022 Lee Zimmerman 1 Comment 1982, 40th Anniversary, Coda, Jimmy Page, John Bonham, John Paul Jones, Led Zeppelin, Poor Tom, Robert Plant, Walter's Walk, We're Gonna Groove, Wearing and Tearing

In retrospect, Zep’s final collection of studio recordings provides an intriguing addendum

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Alternative Rock New Wave Post-Punk Rock 

Exquisite Corpse: The Sky’s Gone Out by Bauhaus at 40

November 4, 2022November 4, 2022 Ryan Maffei 0 Comments 1982, 40th Anniversary, Bauhaus, Brian Eno, Daniel Ash, David Bowie, David J, Kevin Haskins, Peter Murphy, The Sky’s Gone Out, Third Uncle, Ziggy Stardust

A look back at the seminal goth quartet at the time of their penultimate album

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Funk New Wave Pop Prince Rock Soul 

A Pocket Full of Horses: Prince’s 1999 at 40

October 27, 2022October 27, 2022 Craig Peters 0 Comments 1982, 1999, 40th Anniversary, Adam Ant, Billy Joel, Huey Lewis, Joe Jackson, Little Red Corvette, Men At Work, Phil Collins, Prince, Stray Cats, The Go-Gos, Warner Bros.

Looking back at the Purple One’s breakthrough double LP

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New Wave Pop Rock Soul 

Firing On All Cylinders: Hall & Oates’ H2O at 40

October 25, 2022October 25, 2022 Thomas Inskeep 0 Comments 1982, Daryl Hall, Family Man, GE Smith, H2O, John Oates, Maneater, Men At Work, One On One, Phil Collins, Stray Cats, The Supremes

The album the acclaimed duo released at the zenith of their Imperial Phase is their artistic peak, too

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New Wave Pop Rock 

Glittering Prize: Simple Minds’ New Gold Dream (81-82-83-84) at 40

October 12, 2022October 12, 2022 Kara Tucker 0 Comments 1982, 40th Anniversary, David Bowie, Herbie Hancock, Jim Kerr, Kenny Hyslop, New Gold Dream (81-82-83-84), Simple Minds, Stevie Ray Vaughan, Virgin Records

Looking back at the album that broke the band in the UK

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Pop Rock 

Where’s the Orchestra: Billy Joel’s The Nylon Curtain at 40

October 3, 2022October 3, 2022 Ryan Maffei 0 Comments 1982, 40th Anniversary, Allentown, An Innocent Man, Billy Joel, Columbia Records, Goodnight Saigon, Laura, Pressure, The Nylon Curtain, The Stranger, Turnstiles, Where’s the Orchestra

Inside a Piano Man’s most political album

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Bruce Folk North Americana Rock 

Reason to Believe: Bruce Springsteen’s Nebraska at 40

September 30, 2022September 30, 2022 Craig Peters 0 Comments 1982, 40th Anniversary, Atlantic City, Bruce Springsteen, Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band, Highway Patrolman, Johnny 99, Mansion on the Hill, My Father's House, Nebraska, Open All Night, Reason to Believe, Used Cars

Looking back on an album of “absurd intimacy”

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New Wave Pop Synth 

The Meaning of Love: Depeche Mode’s A Broken Frame at 40

September 28, 2022September 28, 2022 Jim Allen 0 Comments 1982, 40th Anniversary, A Broken Frame, Andy Fletcher, Dave Gahan, Depeche Mode, Erasure, Martin Gore, See You, Vince Clarke, Yaz

How the band sidestepped doom and started a new chapter

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