The 1980s was the golden age of movie soundtracks, and these overlooked albums still hold some of the decade’s best music.

It isn’t really true that everything was bigger in the ’80s, but the decade did find us embracing excess in a number of ways — including hefty shoulder pads, piled-high hair, and absolutely massive ...

On this day in 1984, Kenny Loggins made both movie andmusic history. Exactly 42 years ago on March 31, 1984, Loggins' hit pop-rock track "Footloose," written for the iconic movie of the same name, ...

Below, we wanted to highlight four times a movie soundtrack hit No. 1 on the Billboard Top 200 in the mid-80s, alone. Four times the collection of songs in a movie was seemingly as important as the ...

The cult animated hit Heavy Metal has a bunch of great tunes in it. Sammy Hagar, Blue Öyster Cult, Devo, and others all have great tunes. One of the best, if not the best, is "Heavy Metal - Take A ...

"Footloose" is Loggins' only song to reach the No. 1 spot, though his hit song "Danger Zone," from the blockbuster film Top Gun, came close when it peaked at No. 2 in July 1986. Loggins, often ...