“Some people want to fill the world with silly love songs. And what’s wrong with that?” Paul McCartney and Wings threw that question out in 1976, and thankfully a cavalcade of artists a decade later ...

Maybe there was a better era for love songs. But it certainly didn't feel that way. Everything about the 1980s and its music was big. The blockbuster pop album became a regular thing. Various genres ...

Your taste in music might contain multitudes, but there's one thing that can be found in any genre: sad love songs. As long as musicians—and the fans who listen to them—have broken hearts, we'll have ...

Even hardened thrashers like Megadeth can sing the love blues. In this blackened torch song, Dave Mustaine lashes out at a lover in what reads like a suicide note: "Now as I die for you/My flesh still ...

Much like a smell or a picture, a song can bring back so many memories. Sometimes, it's just the first note that makes you reminisce about the past, especially when it's about relationships long lost ...

There can be something deeply satisfying about gut-wrenching music and lovesick ballads. From singing, or sometimes screaming, along with the musicians to the poetic lyrics telling the story or ...

The ’80s were nothing short of magical (at least when viewing with rose-colored glasses). Music in this decade wasn’t bad either. Thanks to numerous new technologies, a unique sound was curated that ...

Nancy Wilson of Heart was working on remastering some albums from the early ’80s when she couldn’t help but notice just how badly those songs had been served by the production values of the day. “A ...