In Medias Res

For the first and only time in this list, a 1983 pop hit directly inspired by another, previous 1983 pop hit. Stevie Nicks was, of course, a...

Last week, I labeled A Flock of Seagulls, when referencing what I think to have been their greatest pop achievement , as possibly the "...

Climbing slowly up the Billboard charts in the wake of The Police's monster hit from last week, we have my favorite song by A Flock of S...

[Cross-posted to Front Porch Republic ] In the preface to Why Liberalism Failed , the manuscript of which “was completed three weeks before ...

This is the big one, folks, or at least one of the very biggest. Go back to this very week, 40 years ago, and the summer of Synchronicity --...

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?...