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In the summer of 1983, baseball gave us one of its most unforgettable meltdowns—and it wasn’t over a bad call or a bench-clearing brawl. It was over pine tar. Yes, sticky stuff on a bat. And at the center of it all? Kansas City Royals legend George Brett, whose fiery sprint from the dugout became instant sports lore.

In the golden age of 1980s teen comedies, Real Genius stood out like a popcorn-filled mansion in a sea of frat parties and makeover montages. Directed by Martha Coolidge and starring a young, chaotic Val Kilmer, this film dared to ask: what happens when you give a bunch of brilliant misfits access to military-grade lasers? Spoiler: it’s awesome.

In 1984, Rob Reiner gave the world a gift wrapped in leather pants, eyeliner, and ego: This Is Spinal Tap. It wasn’t just a movie—it was a seismic shift in comedy, a mockumentary so pitch-perfect that real musicians mistook it for truth. Forty years later, it still hits harder than a double-neck guitar solo in a fog machine.

This is a list of the top 100 albums of the 1980's, from rock, to pop, to metal and new wave.

This journey started back in 1986. My dad, who fixed up wrecked cars on the side, bought a damaged red 1982 Datsun 280ZX and fixed it up. I got to drive it around quite a bit and loved the manual transmission and how spunky the engine was. But I really just loved how cool this little red sports car looked on me. Alas, as happened with numerous other cool cars my dad fixed up, he sold it to some lucky person and I never saw it again.

This is a list of the top 150 musics tracks of the 1980's, from rock, to pop, to metal and new wave.