Earlier this summer, Paste began its big, multi-month project: picking the greatest songs of all time. The plan is to go decade by decade and choose our favorite singles and deep cuts before producing ...

Mainstream music in the 1980s was a hodgepodge of rock ‘n’ roll, synth-heavy pop music, and the burgeoning hip-hop genre, which means the Top 40 was as vast as the hair was tall, the pants were tight, ...