1980 Hit Parade Rewind: The Songs That Launched the 80s
A retro video countdown of the Top 10 songs of 1980 from the Billboard Hot 100 Year-End chart,…
Smells Like Gen X • Video Topic Archive
Video Topic: Music
This is the music video lane inside Smells Like Gen X — chart countdowns, radio damage, one-hit weirdness, song rabbit holes, and the exact tracks that still own way too much of your internal hard drive.
Use this page when you want music-first nostalgia instead of pinballing around the broader video archive like a mall rat with no supervision.
Music Video Lanes
Use these routes when you want your music damage narrowed by decade or by format.
70s
Warm analog damage
Filter this topic through the 70s if you want the earlier, stranger, softer-lit version of the same cultural sickness.
80s
The flagship overkill era
Use the 80s route when you want the loudest, strongest, most chemically imbalanced version of this topic.
90s
The cooler hangover
Use the 90s route when you want the afterglow version of this topic: a little glossier, a little more cynical, still deeply damaged.
Countdown
Ranked nostalgia hits
Use the countdown lane when you want the list-driven version of this topic instead of free-roaming through the archive like a feral mall child.
Skit
Personality damage in motion
Use the skit lane when you want the faster, stranger, more openly broken version of this topic.
Featured Music Video
Start here if you want the fastest hit of Music-specific Gen X damage.
Legit 80s One-Hit Wonders That Owned the Decade
Strict U.S. Top 40 Rule 80s One-Hit Wonders Legit 80s One-Hit Wonders That Owned the Decade The 1980s were the golden age of one-hit…
Music Videos
Everything currently tagged into the Music video archive.
The Dark Story Behind “Maniac” from Flashdance
Rewind the strange origin story behind Michael Sembello’s “Maniac,” the Flashdance soundtrack hit that started with a much…
Every #1 Hit of 1990: Billboard Hot 100 Music Rewind
Rewind through every Billboard Hot 100 #1 hit of 1990, from Phil Collins, Janet Jackson, Madonna, Wilson Phillips,…
The Top 5 Songs This Week In 1983!
Rewind to January 23, 1983, with a Top 5 countdown featuring Men at Work, Toto, Hall & Oates,…
Name this 80’s song!
How good are you at identifying iconic 80’s music? Test your Gen X skills on this challenge!
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Music is only one lane.
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