{"id":839403,"date":"2026-09-07T10:52:11","date_gmt":"2026-09-07T10:52:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/839403\/"},"modified":"2026-09-07T10:52:11","modified_gmt":"2026-09-07T10:52:11","slug":"3-underrated-classic-rock-songs-from-the-1980s-that-rock-my-world-after-all-these-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/839403\/","title":{"rendered":"3 Underrated Classic Rock Songs From the 1980s That Rock My World After All These Years"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The <a href=\"https:\/\/americansongwriter.com\/tag\/1980s\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">1980s<\/a> birthed some of the best bands, musicians, albums, and songs of all time, especially when it comes to rock music. The influence of new wave and heavy metal seemed to do wonders for classic rock at the time. And the following underrated classic rock songs from the 1980s still rock my world, decades after they first dropped. Maybe you\u2019ll feel the same way after giving them a spin.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cUnder The Milky Way\u201d by The Church from \u2018Starfish\u2019 (1988)<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\tPlay video<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/1788778330_565_hqdefault.jpg\" alt=\"Play\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Remember this alternative rock band from Australia? The Church had a pretty big moment in the 1980s when several of their albums became successful internationally. Starfish was one of them, and the hit single \u201cUnder The Milky Way\u201d remains way too underrated decades later.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\tVideos by American Songwriter\t\t<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This band took 1960s psychedelia, 1970s rock sensibilities, and 1980s new wave goodness and sort of mashed it all together into a song that\u2019s still pure magic after all these years. It\u2019s not surprising to me that back in the day, \u201cUnder The Milky Way\u201d made it all the way to No. 24 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart. And yet, so few remember it today. What gives?!<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLove Removal Machine\u201d by The Cult from \u2018Electric\u2019 (1987)<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\tPlay video<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/1788778331_769_hqdefault.jpg\" alt=\"Play\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Those big guitars and absolutely roaring groove are still a treat for my ears, literal decades after \u201cLove Removal Machine\u201d dropped in 1987. If you were around to hear this song from The Cult on the radio, you definitely still remember it. This heavy metal, hard rock jam was a No. 15 hit on the Mainstream Rock chart in the US, and it did similarly well on the UK Singles chart.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTuff Enuff\u201d by The Fabulous Thunderbirds from \u2018Tuff Enuff\u2019 (1986)<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\tPlay video<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/1788778331_22_hqdefault.jpg\" alt=\"Play\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cTuff Enuff\u201d by The Fabulous Thunderbirds brought blues rock back to the mainstream in an era when it felt like bluesy rock classics were left in the dust. This entry on our list of classic rock songs from the 1980s just can\u2019t be beat in terms of sounding both ahead of its time and firmly behind its time. And, surprisingly, The Fabulous Thunderbirds never quite scored as big a hit again. \u201cTuff Enuff\u201d peaked at No. 10 in the US, but none of the band\u2019s follow-up singles cracked the Top 40. What a shame!<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">(Photo by Fryderyk Gabowicz\/picture alliance via Getty Images)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The 1980s birthed some of the best bands, musicians, albums, and songs of all time, especially when it&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":839404,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[53],"tags":[20278,88,216,2156],"class_list":["post-839403","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-music","tag-1980s","tag-entertainment","tag-music","tag-rock-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/839403","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=839403"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/839403\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/839404"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=839403"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=839403"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=839403"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}