The Last Cougar: John Mellencamp’s Big Daddy at 30
Indiana’s finest took a big step forward at the close of the decade that defined him
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Can’t Stop Running: Todd Rundgren’s ‘Nearly Human’ at 30
The Wizard of Mink Hollow closes out the 80s with an underrated classic
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Sing Me A Sweet, Sweet Song: Badlands at 30
When Jake E. Lee and Ray Gillen formed a potent supergroup that never got its chance to fully shine
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King of the NY Streets: Dion’s Yo Frankie Turns 30
A look back at the Bronx teen idol’s undelrrated ’89 return
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Fade To Blackie
The Headless Children by W.A.S.P. turns 30
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The Name Of This Band Is Pixies
Thirty years ago, the Boston alt-rock giants kissed off the 80s with a masterpiece called Doolittle
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Still Your Reigning King of the Twang Bar
Adrian Belew’s Mr. Music Head at 30
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The Downtown Lights
The Blue Nile’s sophisticated pop classic Hats turns 30
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We Still Believe In Miracles
In the eleventh hour, Dee Dee brought the Ramones back to life with Brain Drain
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Like A Prayer at 30
Beyond pop stardom, Madonna’s success appeared heaven sent in 1989
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The Art of Fakery
Milli Vanilli and one of the greatest hoaxes in pop music at 30
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Please Be Upstanding
30 years of XTC’s Oranges & Lemons
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Can’t Stop the Way They Feel
The Raw & The Cooked, the smash second album by Fine Young Cannibals, turns 30
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Heavy Weather
Celebrating 30 years of New Model Army’s Thunder and Consolation
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Thirty Years After the War
Gary Moore’s political conscience rose to the surface on the last metal album of his career
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