100 Best Songs of 1982. All-time classics, buried treasures, cult favorites, and one-hit wonders — from Prince and Duran Duran to Kate Bush and the Go-Go's to the Replacements and R.E.M.

Most of the tracks on our list of the Top 10 Songs of 1982 are from '70s veterans digging into familiar trenches. Most everyone else jumps in alongside them, seeking safety in numbers and guitars.

And the sweeping “Don’t Change” would go down as one of the best songs Michael Hutchence, Garry Gary Beers, Penguilly and the three Farris Brothers would ever record. — Josh Jackson 19.

TOP SONGS. Post Malone's "I Had Some Help," featuring Morgan Wallen, ... but he interpolates Steve Miller Band's hit "Abracadabra," which itself went to No. 1 on the Hot 100 in September of 1982.

From 1972 through 1982, few factions of mainstream music were as elemental or beloved as yacht rock. Here are the greatest yacht rock songs of all time, ranked.

Best Dance Songs of All Time: ... Prince was an essential force in ‘80s dance music as well, particularly on 1982’s 1999 (and many of his B-sides released that decade).