The 80's
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Evil Alpaca
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Daisy May said:Knickers??? Oh my God! Did I spell that right?? They're pants that come to your knees. I almost forgot about them. My mother always made me wear them
So, is that AV a revolution against the knicker craze?
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In the 80s the cell phones were too big to bring into a restaurant and cause a problem for other patrons.
Cinderella
IMy gypsy road can’t take me home
I drive all night just to see the light
My gypsy road can’t take me home
I keep on pushin’ cause it feels alright
Cindy Lauper took on Captain Lou Albano and the WWF. Hulk Hogan took on Andre the Giant.
The laser dick needed tobe taken out and flipped over like a vinyl LP to see the second half of the movie. Remember vinyl LPs? CDs killed the full size album cover.
Space Invaders? The big on around my neighborhood was Asteriods. 100,000 points to "turn over" the score and begin again at zero. A kid in the neighborhood did it about 12 times before just giving upp because he was bored.
The thing about Pac-Man (not the song I've got Pac-Man fever. It's driving me crazy I like Homer Simpson's version better) is that there was a route that you could follow to always win at the game. Every kid wanted to know the route so they could run up the score.
I did not usually put my initials on the scoreboard. I would do something lame like spell out SEX or GAY or FAG or some dumbass three letter word like that. (FUK, SUX, et al.)
We had an Atari video system. Remember Atari. A joystick with one button for most games and the control knob to play Tank. Now look at the shit out there now. XBox, Gameboy, so on and so forth. Fucking Atari looks like Pong by comparison. But I still think you cannot beat a good game of Missle Command or Space invaders with the invisible aliens and the huge cannon below.
Impressive, please tell me that you were about 17 when you sat on Santa's lap. What did the old boy do? Were you naghty or nice (or a little of both?) *drool*
Are you looking here Sweetness? I am thinking of you, my precious one.
Cinderella
IMy gypsy road can’t take me home
I drive all night just to see the light
My gypsy road can’t take me home
I keep on pushin’ cause it feels alright
Cindy Lauper took on Captain Lou Albano and the WWF. Hulk Hogan took on Andre the Giant.
The laser dick needed tobe taken out and flipped over like a vinyl LP to see the second half of the movie. Remember vinyl LPs? CDs killed the full size album cover.
Space Invaders? The big on around my neighborhood was Asteriods. 100,000 points to "turn over" the score and begin again at zero. A kid in the neighborhood did it about 12 times before just giving upp because he was bored.
The thing about Pac-Man (not the song I've got Pac-Man fever. It's driving me crazy I like Homer Simpson's version better) is that there was a route that you could follow to always win at the game. Every kid wanted to know the route so they could run up the score.
I did not usually put my initials on the scoreboard. I would do something lame like spell out SEX or GAY or FAG or some dumbass three letter word like that. (FUK, SUX, et al.)
We had an Atari video system. Remember Atari. A joystick with one button for most games and the control knob to play Tank. Now look at the shit out there now. XBox, Gameboy, so on and so forth. Fucking Atari looks like Pong by comparison. But I still think you cannot beat a good game of Missle Command or Space invaders with the invisible aliens and the huge cannon below.
Impressive, please tell me that you were about 17 when you sat on Santa's lap. What did the old boy do? Were you naghty or nice (or a little of both?) *drool*
Are you looking here Sweetness? I am thinking of you, my precious one.
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ABSTRUSE said:
I was there watching the very first broadcast! And who remembers the very first (and sometimes I think last) video they every played?
Vincent E said:
Ah! I was so crushed when I went to see the Hulk with my dad. We had front row seats and I found out it was all fake. I was 15 or so and as a strange girl (I suppose) loved wrestling. I never watched wrestling EVER again.
I'll take Asteroids over space invaders. No. Change that. It's equal. I miss Atari!
Santa?? At 33, I still sit on his lap. But the ones today don't even ask the kids what they want for Christmas anymore. Just throw them candy canes. When I sat on his lap last year, I DEMANDED that he asked me, and said, "shame on you, you didn't even ask my kids!" LOL! "Next year", he said. Ho! Ho! *slap*
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CharleyH said:Sheila E, Appolonia, and Sheena Easton all had something in common in the days when an artist actually had a name.
Appolonia found Jesus and Prince is Prince again....I think it was hard to get that symbol printed on his American Express card.
she_is_my_addiction
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Psyche!!!
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entitled said:
Saw it on back-to-back nights at the Sports Arena and then again at the Coliseum in LA a few months later....(or was it the Rose Bowl? No, I think that was Depeche)
Saw them again on the Elevation tour and they still kick ass....
I was a concert addict. I saw everybody I could.
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I just read every post here and I was amazed. Nobody made any mention of AIDS. To me, that was the biggest thing of the 80's.
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Boxlicker101 said:
When I was in high school it was barely on the radar. We were all afraid of herpes. It took until later in the decade for it to start scaring me. Of course, in the US at that time we all felt it was almost completely relegated to the homosexual male community.
I began to really pay attention to it when someone I knew was diagnosed for the the first time (even then it was a gay friend), and that was not until around '87. Most of the decade is gone by then. To me, when I talk 80's I most likely mean "from '81 to '86". Just because of my own age I think.
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Belegon said:
I don't remember exactly when I first heard or read about AIDS but I remember where I was working at the time so it was in the early 80's, before 1984. At the time, I was living and working in the San Francisco Bay Area and it was probably bigger news there than most parts of the country.
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Other relics of the 80's?
Electronic Music of the 1980s:
Miami Beat
An offshoot of hiphop and electro-funk, this stuff is notorious for implementing those goddamn cheesy samples from who knows where. Bad bad bad but lots of good 808 bass and cowbell.
Techno-Dance
Synthrock and all this sort falls under this, Michael Jackson and the other sort. This genre gave way to everyone calling electronic music "techno".
New Wave
Duran Duran! Flock of Sea Gulls! One of the main catalysts for the darker, grungier sounds of the 90's.
Eurotech
This stuff replaced disco in the European discoteques bringing such classics as Vangelis and the sort.
80's techno
Anyone remember those bad educational films from the 80's. This is the stuff. Cool in a way, not cool in other ways. More melodic than the stuff that came out in the 90's though, which isn't saying much.
Acid House
Late 80's here, we're talking the birth of the rave, Ibiza being where it all started and then spawned in London in 1987. This genre would start all those crazy parties of the 90's.
Kraftwerk
Even though they started in the late seventies, Kraftwerk slowly transformed into a more amelodic group focusing less on the melody and more on the textures. Trans Europe Express being a big hit of the 80's.
Freestyle
Spawned from Afrikan Bambaataa and Kraftwerk, this is where the cool music for basketball comes from (no, not Sweet Georgia Brown!) Gritty beats churned from the infamous TR808 drum machines, this would spawn the famous breakbeat dancing.
Old School Rap
Will Smith when he actually rapped, silly rhymes and none of this hardcore bullets in my tongue stuff. The good stuff.
Electronic Music of the 1980s:
Miami Beat
An offshoot of hiphop and electro-funk, this stuff is notorious for implementing those goddamn cheesy samples from who knows where. Bad bad bad but lots of good 808 bass and cowbell.
Techno-Dance
Synthrock and all this sort falls under this, Michael Jackson and the other sort. This genre gave way to everyone calling electronic music "techno".
New Wave
Duran Duran! Flock of Sea Gulls! One of the main catalysts for the darker, grungier sounds of the 90's.
Eurotech
This stuff replaced disco in the European discoteques bringing such classics as Vangelis and the sort.
80's techno
Anyone remember those bad educational films from the 80's. This is the stuff. Cool in a way, not cool in other ways. More melodic than the stuff that came out in the 90's though, which isn't saying much.
Acid House
Late 80's here, we're talking the birth of the rave, Ibiza being where it all started and then spawned in London in 1987. This genre would start all those crazy parties of the 90's.
Kraftwerk
Even though they started in the late seventies, Kraftwerk slowly transformed into a more amelodic group focusing less on the melody and more on the textures. Trans Europe Express being a big hit of the 80's.
Freestyle
Spawned from Afrikan Bambaataa and Kraftwerk, this is where the cool music for basketball comes from (no, not Sweet Georgia Brown!) Gritty beats churned from the infamous TR808 drum machines, this would spawn the famous breakbeat dancing.
Old School Rap
Will Smith when he actually rapped, silly rhymes and none of this hardcore bullets in my tongue stuff. The good stuff.
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Evil Alpaca said:
hell i didnt see the first ever video... didnt need to the amount of times they re-played that sucker.
though
i do remember staying up late to watch thriller... god we got sucked into that! all my friends knew the dance moves. oh yeah and pat benetar 'love is a battle field' my hero!
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