Star in Your Own 80's Band & Best Rock Songs of 80s

Star in Your Own 80's Band

Guitar Hero

Want to become an overnight star of your own 80's band? Play Guitar Hero III: Legends of Rockfor Wii.

Select and customize your own character. Battle the best like Slash and Guns N' Roses. A variety of player and battle modes keep things interesting.

Best Rock Songs of 80s

Messages, love, and rock and roll

Bands in the 80s had a lot to say. Not only did we have the hair bands, we had some of the deepest, emotional, stick-with-you songs of love, hope and life. Who doesn't remember Bruce Springsteen and Born in the USA or Billy Joel railing about the unfairness of our generation having to deal with crap we didn't start in We Didn't Start the Fire? He wrote this song after John Lennon's (Beatles) son Sean had expressed how distraught he was over world politics and the issues being dealt with at the time.

I know what he meant. I grew up in New York with air raid drills vs. lock down drills because we never knew if Cuba or Russia might attack the coast. When that alarm went off, it was into the hall, on your knees head down against the wall.

Aids was new and mysterious...and very deadly. Until then, we'd only ever had to worry about getting mono but no one knew for sure how you might get Aids. We learned about nuclear missiles and watched movies of the mushroom clouds and how they would wipe out all life. There were times we didn't know if the world would outlast us or if it would expire and take us with it. We weren't giving up without a fight, though. Our feelings came out through the bands that spoke on our behalf.

Okay, we had some goofy stuff, too. J Geil's Band's Centerfold, a song about a guy seeing an old high school flame as a centerfold in a magazine. Funny AND the beat stuck in your head. If you've never heard that one before, listen and see if you don't find yourself humming it later in the day.