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5 on the dial?

7?

9, perhaps?

No?

Feeling a bit ill?

Then you, my friend... you need a little TLC.

Dr Wak's Perscription. (http://www.kvflipside.org/music/alittletlc.html)

I...the 80s...too much?  Feels so right.

:ponder:

I took all ten years of it. I think that I developed a bit of Stockholm Syndrome in the process ;)

If I was Doc Rotwang, my amps would go up to 11.

-ckasg

Quote from: flyingmiceIf I was Doc Rotwang, my amps would go up to 11.

-ckasg

TWELVE.

With a side of fries.

I hadn't hit my teen years yet, thanks god. My best memory of the 80s is watching the Berlin Wall fall.

I have made Mcrow physically ill with my 80's mojo. Ice-Ice Baby!

Bill

Quote from: HinterWeltI have made Mcrow physically ill with my 80's mojo. Ice-Ice Baby!

Bill

I just lost a little respect I have for you...or had...

Quote from: James J SkachI just lost a little respect I have for you...or had...

I had someone's respect?!?!? Cool :cool:

I went to school with "Vanilla Ice". I could tell you some stories... *I* thought HE was a geek...

Man I hadn't seen that in years.  Wow.  Just wow.  My brain hurts now.  I had worked so hard to block the eighties out of my memory and now they are bleeding back in.

Burns us it burns us precious...

Quote from: James J SkachI just lost a little respect I have for you...or had...

Yeah, Vanilla Ice was the 90s, mate.

MY wife's actual words - "What the hell are you watching?"

Quote from: CaudexYeah, Vanilla Ice was the 90s, mate.

Hey! I am just a spud boy looking for that real tomato...nobody respects MY potato.

Video Reference (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0UKtZwWLMp8)

Bill

Quote from: James J SkachMY wife's actual words - "What the hell are you watching?"

Eh?

HinterWelt for the win! :cool:

I think the worst parts of the 80's was the yuppy movement, disco and, worst of all, Ronald (Satan) Reagan......

QuoteMy best memory of the 80s is watching the Berlin Wall fall.

Cool Beans!

I lived 750m away from it, when it happened.

Quote from: SettembriniCool Beans!

I lived 750m away from it, when it happened.

So, did you cop any pieces of it?

Quote from: Dominus NoxI think the worst parts of the 80's was the yuppy movement, disco and, worst of all, Ronald (Satan) Reagan......

And why do you consider Ronald Reagan to be Satan?  (I suppose he was nuts for thinking that he get the Berlin Wall torn down, right?)

And disco was the 70s.  I know because I have the 45s to prove it.  So exactly how old were you during the 1980s?

The eighties rocked.  There was nothing bad in the eighties.  Even "M" misses the cold war.  All opinions contrary to this one are erroneous.

That is all.

Quote from: WakshaaniThen you, my friend... you need a little TLC.

Dr Wak's Perscription. (http://www.kvflipside.org/music/alittletlc.html)

That was craptacular :D

QuoteSo, did you cop any pieces of it?

I have one. Somewhere...can´t remember where it is right now. Actually not a very high priority thing to have here.
We Berliners tried to totally erase it out of the city and our minds in the years immedeately following the event. The tourism board even had to buy back some larger pieces to put back for the tourists and later generations.

EDIT: Thanks to all NATO servicemen for keeping the Soviets out. And thanks to all sane russians, who actually "loved their children too."
I had to think of the saying some time ago. There was a TV special on Genscher our foreign minister at the time. He had a talk with Schewardnadse, the soviet foreign minister at the time of the Prague embassy crisis. Genscher said: "The hygienical situation is worseing for the refugees on the embassies grounds. "
Schewardnadse asked:"Are there children with the refugees?"
Genscher: "Yes."
Schewardnadse: "Departure to the FRG granted."

I can't get enough of the 80s. I went from 7 to 17 during those glory days. You got more 80s? Bring it on I say!

Quote from: O'BorgThat was craptacular :D

You know, I think half the thread missed the video link.

So very sad!

Quote from: WerekoalaI went to school with "Vanilla Ice". I could tell you some stories...

...and you will.  Won't you?

Quote from: HinterWeltHey! I am just a spud boy looking for that real tomato...nobody respects MY potato.

(http://fusionanomaly.net/devoohno.jpg)

Rotwang! Weighs In
I am so freaking 80's that if I were ever to shake hands with Toni Basil, she'd grow to 90' tall and start shooting day-glo lasers from her fingerless lace gloves.

"Hey, everybody gotta wear clothes...if you don't, you'll get arrested."
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1jfBGhWo760 (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1jfBGhWo760)

Quote from: Dr Rotwang!...and you will.  Won't you?

Robbie Van Winkle.

Ahhh yes.

Total spirit geek. He was the guy who helped make the banners that hung in the halls on Game Day, and that the team would run through on Friday night. Our school Mascot was a Lion, and in finiest spirit-geek tradition, he would run up and down the sidelines hoisting a stuffed lion over his head when we scored (for what its worth, I played football back in the day). He also worked the basketball games and such. But you know its bad when the D&D geek thought HE was a geek. :)

I should round up my old yearbooks and scan some pictures of him. Short-ish. Semi-curly hair. Cheeky in a chipmunk kinda way. Dash of freckles. He obviously spent alot of time "re-making" himself after HS to achieve his persona. I still wonder where he got the idea to this day.  

Don't get me wrong - he was plenty popular and outgoing. Good grades. Nice guy. But not a rapper from the mean streets of the Mi-am-ay.

Quote from: WerekoalaBut not a rapper from the mean streets of the Mi-am-ay.

He did end up being a decent motocross racer, though.

The 80s were cool. The $$$ I spent for records and clothes was insane. However, by '87, latest, the 80s were sorta over.

Sadly, they weren't really replaced by anything that had both enough pervasiveness, staying power, and oomph.

Grunge: nope. Techno: nope. House: nope. Emo: please.

Everything's fractionalized beneath the subatomic level, retro loops biting their own tails...

Right now, if the Mission and the East Village are any guide, we're back to skinny black jeans and leather jackets... but then, we've been back to that several times already, first with Jesus & Mary Chain, then with Black Rebel Motorcycle Club. And that's just one example.

If you were cool back during the eighties, you just called them "The Mary Chain."

Or that's what my cool friends told me anyway.

Oh, I was cool. I looked like Duran Duran. One can of hairspray a week will do that for you.* That, and the pirate boots. And the gold brocade jacket.

*To sustain the effect I recommend avoiding rain and driving around in convertibles. Sometimes this was just not possible, but luckily there are no photos to document the results.

Quote from: Pierce InverarityHowever, by '87, latest, the 80s were sorta over.

The Eighties ended on the day I heard The Fat Boys sing "Wipeout" on Radio Hits, 97.7 FM out of Mexico City, in the late Summer of 1987, or so.

Everything after and up to 1 January 1991...death throes.  Spastic, zombie-like death throes.

That's absolutely right. '87 to '91, WTF even happened?

Whereas I remember distinctly what woke me up in '91 AND told me the '80s were over:

Nirvana.

Suddenly, pop music felt like something that was made by one's younger brother. But that was okay. I mean, it was Kurt Cobain, not half bad for a brother.

Quote from: Pierce InverarityThat's absolutely right. '87 to '91, WTF even happened?

http://www.stockaitkenwaterman.com/

This is what happened.

I was a junior metalhead in the late 80s so I watched the Stock Aiken and Waterman commecial bandwagon roll out talentless Aussie soap star turned singer one after the other with contempt from behind my denim jacket (couldnt afford a leather one).

Like many cash-strapped teenagers my musical fix was whatever I could borrow and tape from a mate, raiding dad's record collection (which fortunately for me had the Rolling Stones, Zeppelin and Deep Purple), and Greater London Radio 94.9's Krushers Metal Mayhem on a Sunday afternoon.
From there I've kinda gone backwards up the evolution of the genre and started listening to old blues stuff, then a sideways step to (old style) Soul and Motown. I don't suppose many people's CD player contains both Aretha Franklin and Love/Hate at the same time ;)

What, you people never heard of Hair Metal? I distinctly remember the later parts of the 80's as Ratt, Poison, Warrant, etc.  As someone pointed out, this all ended with Nirvana/Pearl Jam (I add the second as it's who I noticed first).

The other thing is that decadesnever represent the numbers they claim.  What I mean is that the 50's weren't really from 1950 - 1959.  Instead they always seem to run from about mid point to mid point.  When people think of the 50's, they generally mean the point between 1954 and 1964 (after Korea before the Beatles).  I mean, when eveyone talks about the 60's, they're really referring to the period between 65 and 72-73.

The eighties were odd for having two parts, 82-87 and 87-91, that were very different.

Of course, this is probably dependent on the country/culture in which one is situated.

Quote from: James J SkachWhat, you people never heard of Hair Metal?

Yeah.  Doesn't mean I dug it, though, see...?

Quote from: Dr Rotwang!Yeah.  Doesn't mean I dug it, though, see...?

s'cool, man.  I was referring to the question about what happened to the rest of the 80's, not your personal groove, or lack thereof, on it...

I liked the TV show Stingray amongst others and porn seemed better when it was viewed from tape...

Regards,
David R

Oh, here's what on reflection *I* remember about the late 80s, though I was late to the party and to me it was more like an early 90s thing:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acid_house

Remember S'Express? "Technique" by New Order? OMFG. Also, Happy Mondays. OMFG again.

Lastly, Inner City, "Good Life," technically House, but for me part of that moment. That song still gives me shivers.

Americans may not know what I'm talking about here... but there's an awesome reader's review by a guy called sonik57 on British amazon that gives you the lowdown.

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Paradise-Inner-City/dp/B000024OES

Quote from: Pierce InverarityOh, here's what on reflection *I* remember about the late 80s, though I was late to the party and to me it was more like an early 90s thing:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acid_house

Oi! Inverarity!  Take your house music and sod off to a farmers field in Kent where you don't have permission to be.  I won't have your "Aciiiiiieeeeeeed" contaminating my John Hughes directed, pastel coloured, power ballad soundtracked eighties.

Thankyouverymuch

The 80s for me was black clothes, Hunters & Collectors, the Go-Betweens, the Smiths, the Doors, the Triffids, the Cure, New Order, the Laughing Clowns, the Cramps, the Velvet Underground, the Jesus and Mary Chain, Bauhaus, Television, the Cocteau Twins and other 4AD associates, the Pogues, Prince, Run DMC, Eric B and Rakim, Biz Markie and Public Enemy. It was ACIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIID! It was beer, cheap wine, pot, LSD and effies. It was art school and unemployment and 30+ hours of roleplaying a week. It was fear of nuclear obliteration.

That video is the shit we used to laugh at. Kick those fuckers' heads in with your Dr Martens!

Souvenir, souvenir.

I dedicate this thread to the memory of Billy MacKenzie.

(http://www.billymackenzie.com/billy_pics/wftladvert.jpg)

http://www.billymackenzie.com/

http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/0747543992/billymackenzietr

Quote from: Pierce InverarityOh, here's what on reflection *I* remember about the late 80s, though I was late to the party and to me it was more like an early 90s thing:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acid_house (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acid_house)

For a few breif weeks in 1987, I was famed across at least two classes in my school for taking the song Aciiiiiiid and dubbing in Van Halen's Eruption (sans the intro drums) after the first couple of lines.

Well it was funny at the time.

It was also no mean feat of timing on an early Sony tape-to-tape deck, long before MP3s and even WAV editors :)

The 80s are something I would rather remember than repeat.