These songs — a mix of singles and album tracks — reflect the turning tide: Rock, metal, alternative, pop, new wave and dance music all vie for a position in the best songs of 1986. There may not ...

How well do you remember the rock radio hits of 1986? Sure, everyone remembers Bon Jovi's big breakout, the emergence of what would become known as hair metal and the big head-to-head action of Van ...

Need some solid rock songs from 1986 for your era-specific playlist? I bet every 80s kid out there knows the words to these three tunes.

Here’s how bad things were for rock and roll music forty years ago. By 1986, new wave was old. The genre that had attempted to breathe new life into some of the more tiresome corners of old school ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A number one power ballad single captured the hearts of listeners worldwide and has since evolved into a timeless anthem over the ...

We at American Songwriter have some fun from time to time, looking back at the five biggest US hits of a particular artist. As far as we can tell, in only one case did the five songs come from a ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. It's officially been 40 years since one of The Bangles' most enduring hit songs made its way up the music charts. On March 15, ...