In Medias Res

I was never a big fan of The Human League, whose second American hit, "(Keep Feeling) Fascination," started to climb up the Billbo...

Here it is, folks--the Eurythmics's Annie Lennox, wearing a business suit, leather gloves, and a buzz-cut, swinging a dominatrix's c...

There is probably no other song that I'll be featuring in this series this year that has less to do with my overall thesis about 1983 t...

Ska! I'm sure I didn't know the word when I first heard this delightfully bonkers song by the great two-tone band Madness on the rad...

What better song from my memories and the Billboard charts of 1983 could I pull out for today, May 1, May Day, Beltane, etc., than this one?...

This series is based on the Top 40 Billbord charts of 1983, and my memories of what I heard on the radio that year, and not much else. But f...

Another classic one-hit wonder of the 1980s, at least insofar as American radio is concerned. I've already featured four so far, and the...

Eddy Grant actually encapsulates so much of what my whole thesis regarding 1983 is all about, except that what he encapsulates--the raciall...

I wrote earlier that I have a fondness for every song in this series. Well, let me qualify that a little bit, because "She's a Beau...

Ah, Duran Duran. A hugely successful New Wave band that I can remember somehow not taking fully seriously even back when I was cranking up t...