The Tracks Quest –
Documenting the 80s Vinyl Hits From Swedish Radio Show Trackslistan

Tommy Nilsson’s 1988 single “Miss My Love” is an exquisite slice of Swedish AOR that deserves to be pulled out of the crate and heard again. It’s a song that represents a dramatic turning point for the artist, a triumphant return to his home country…

The moment Belinda Carlisle’s voice soars into the final, glorious chorus of “Heaven Is a Place on Earth,” the air changes. It’s not just the sudden, unexpected musical lift, the famous key change that critics have rightly called one of the greatest in pop history….

In the mid-1980s, Gary Moore, a hard rock virtuoso, was at a crossroads. Just a year after the death of his close friend and Thin Lizzy bandmate Phil Lynott, Moore returned to his Irish roots for a deeply personal album: Wild Frontier. It was a…