"100 Best Songs of 1982," the year when today's pop music was born

Author and respected music critic Rob Sheffield argues that the year 1982 was a transformative moment in music. In Rolling Stone, he shares his wonderfully-eclectic list of the "100 Best Songs of 1982," from Toto's "Africa" (duh) to Hall & Oates's "Maneater," The Gap Band's "You Dropped A Bomb On Me," New Order's "Temptation," Prince's "Little Red Corvette," and, at number one, Grandmaster Flash & the Furious Five's "The Message." — Read the rest