10 Greatest Classic Rock Songs Of The 1980s

whatculture.com ^ | April 29, 2020

[mowowie]

I frigging loved Asia.
Saw YES once...great show.
ELP, KC....wow

Radio was great back then....i don’t even bother anymore with it.
being basically forced into listening to the same classic hits all day long every day at work is starting to get extremely tiresome.
sad what the industry has turned into...

[Bullish]

Have you spent years and hundreds of hours Playing classic rock songs on stage ? I have.

I do kind of have an informed opinion from that.

[blackpacific]

Make no mistake, these artists are extremely talented. But the things they made us focus on were not for our betterment.

[nicollo]

“NEVER ANYTHING BY THE Jersey jerk.”

Haha, oldvirginian and rktman, you're with the rest of us on The Springsteen Sucks AND he is a Douchebag ping list .

The Jersey jerk sucked in the 70s. He sucked in the 80s. He sucked in the 90s. He sucked in the 00s. And he still sucks (and he always was and is still a douchebag).

[P.O.E.]

Springsteen ruined rock music with his soul-less “everything’s wrong” b.s.

[Mama Shawna]

Ad me to that list. Can’t stand Springsteen.

[dfwgator]

Bruce always sings like he’s trying to pass a bowling ball.

[Impala64ssa]

Springsteen should be a poster boy for “cultural appropriation”. If it weren’t for Howling Wolf, Robert Johnson, Muddy Waters and other bluesmen from days gone by he’d be just another White trash from the Jersey shore crashing Chevelles on the Garden State Pkwy.

[Impala64ssa]

The Dead Kennedys. They were just another Garden variety leftist anarcho punk band, but anyone who had the balls to call themselves that was worth giving a listen to. Their best song was Holiday in Cambodia . Surprisingly anti liberal with some badass guitar riffs.

[ConservativeStatement]

To this day, “Changes” by Yes with Trevor Rabin on vocals is my favorite song of that period by the band.

[ConservativeStatement]

I mentioned that song in another thread earlier this month.

[central_va]

No. 4 is No. 1 in the hearts of ex-strippers everywhere.

[central_va]

If a gal can’t pole dance to it then it isn’t an 80’s classic.

[ConservativeStatement]

I listened to that cassette so often that I wore it out and bought a second copy.

[VTenigma]

The list wasn’t very good IMHO. REM really?

[dfwgator]

Even worse was when Bruce tried to sing in that faux Southern Drawl.

[oldvirginian]

And I thought I was the only person that didn’t like the guy the E Street Band made famous.