20 Music Videos of the 1980s That Have Aged Terribly

In this third and final installment of our retrospective of music videos from the 1980s, we focus on 20 promos that the passage of time has been especially unkind to.

                                      
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In this third and final installment of our retrospective of music videos from the 1980s, we focus on 20 promos that the passage of time has been especially unkind to.

Four days, six stories, one column, dozens of tweets and nearly 10,000 words later, I'm still wondering how we define success at SXSW.

Mike Doughty's covers album seems like an odd collection of logical and left-field choices. But in his hands, they almost all turn out to be good decisions.

Cheap Trick scion gets his twang on.

Spanning 1977-1988, this totally superfluous collection nonetheless reminds you of how Cheap Trick was great, and then not-so-great.

Fans have made a strong case for the following bands and artists who weren’t nominated this year and aren’t in the hall of fame yet.

SXSW conference attendees took a workmanlike “how-to” approach to discussing new revenue streams, replacing the “what do we do now?” tone of recent years.

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Cheap Trick's The Latest is a glorious, joyous testament to rock and roll, wrapped in the undeniable power of perfect, potent pop.

Celebrating their career-making romp at Japan's Budokan 30 years ago, Cheap Trick offer a four-disc set that fans will no doubt "Surrender" to.

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Even 27 years after the fact, Cheap Trick and Dream Police still hold up surprisingly well.

Even 27 years after the fact, Cheap Trick and Dream Police still hold up surprisingly well.