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Worst Things About The 80's!

Discuss your favorite songs, artists or post your top ten lists from the new wave era or related genres.

Postby plagiarism » Thu Nov 17, 2005 12:42 am

[quote][i]Originally posted by 2Nu[/i]
<br>Ok, Ok Motors, I'll grant you 'Obla-Di Obla-Da' doesn't have nearly as much lyrical substance and import as 'Hot Girls In Love'[;)]
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Ah, "Hot Girls in Love". I remember that video. It had one of the most inane scenes of all time: the drummer drumming with gas pump nozzles.

Re: synchronized dancing. I may be wrong, but I blame Pat Benatar for that. I don't think I saw a regular singer dance at the front of a triangle of dancers before "Love is a Battlefield". If you've got to have synchronized dancing, why can't the singer be on the back row, third one from the right?
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Postby DayGloJo » Thu Nov 17, 2005 1:12 am

Worst things about the 80s:

John Lennon's assassination
Ron & Nancy Reagan
Margaret Thatcher
Miami Vice
Flashdance
Big Hair
Phil Collins
Space Shuttle Challenger Disaster
Def Leppard
"Baby on Board" car signs

(Not neccesarily in that order)

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Postby British » Thu Nov 17, 2005 1:44 am

1. Video game crash of 1984
2. In fact, anything from 1984 on up. That's when the 80s "jumped the shark".
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Postby 2Nu » Thu Nov 17, 2005 1:49 am

[quote][i]Originally posted by DayGloJo[/i]
<br>Worst things about the 80s:

John Lennon's assassination
Ron & Nancy Reagan
Margaret Thatcher
Miami Vice
Flashdance
Big Hair
Phil Collins
Space Shuttle Challenger Disaster
Def Leppard
"Baby on Board" car signs

(Not neccesarily in that order)

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[/quote]
Okee... that jogged my memory (here are some more depressing 80's milestones)[V]

The Lebanon (not the song)

KAL Flight 007 (USSR vs civilian Airliner)

Chernobyl Disaster (This was just a test!)

Bhopal Disaster (Chemicals courtesy of Union Carbide)

USS Vincennes disaster (US Navy Aegis Class vessel vs civilian airliner - Iran Air Flight 655)

Pan Am Flt 103/ Lockerbe Disaster (Gave new meaning to the word Boombox)

Achille Lauro Hijacking - (Wheelchairbound pax Leon Klinghoffer tossed Overboard)


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Postby Moparmark » Thu Nov 17, 2005 12:03 pm

Ok Mr djcraig,when you break it down like that Loverboy got progressively worse as the 80,s wore on.But I still think thier first lp wasn,t bad.I,m no Loverboy fan and I sure as Hell wasn,t a Wham fan.
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Postby Moparmark » Thu Nov 17, 2005 12:05 pm

Hey djcraig, good post and welcome aboard.
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Postby design_femme » Thu Nov 17, 2005 12:27 pm

Hmm, horrors from the 80s…

You have two ways to die:

1) enduring "Almost Paradise" from the [i]Footloose[/i] soundtrack, or

2) watching "Circus of the Stars"

which would be less painful?

Although, now that I think about it, "Circus of the Stars" was sorta fun because at least you could hope that some B-talent star would completely eat it and fall off the trapeze, high wire, etc. But alas, that never happened, now did it?
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Postby plagiarism » Thu Nov 17, 2005 1:56 pm

I see your "Almost Paradise" and raise you Charlene's "I've Never Been to Me". And watching "Circus of the Stars" would be a cakewalk compared to a Smurf-a-thon.
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Postby WolverineSyr » Thu Nov 17, 2005 11:11 pm

Charlene's I've Never Been to Me is truly one of the most horrible songs ever written and recorded.

Most everything I'll mention has already been posted, but my worst '80's things

Ronald Regan
Bombastic pop-ballads from the likes of Peter Cetrea, Cher, etc.
Pretty Woman - I absoluetly HATE that movie
The incrediblely confounding rise of Phil Collins and Hall & Oats
Hair metal
Formulatic, "event" movies - stories sacrificed for focus group friendly films (see most anything starring Tom Cruise)
HIV - although I work in the field, I'd rather make a living off something else.
The rise of televangilism & infomercials
Sam Kinnison & Jerry Sienfeld - could never stomach either of them.

This was a pretty hard list to come up with though - I was in my early 20's during the 80s and I had a blast - I can think of a hundred things I loved for every one thing I hated.[8D]
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Postby Ape Module » Fri Nov 18, 2005 4:01 am

[quote][i]Originally posted by WolverineSyr[/i]
<br>Charlene's I've Never Been to Me is truly one of the most horrible songs ever written and recorded.

Most everything I'll mention has already been posted, but my worst '80's things

Ronald Regan
Bombastic pop-ballads from the likes of Peter Cetrea, Cher, etc.
Pretty Woman - I absoluetly HATE that movie
The incrediblely confounding rise of Phil Collins and Hall & Oats
Hair metal
Formulatic, "event" movies - stories sacrificed for focus group friendly films (see most anything starring Tom Cruise)
HIV - although I work in the field, I'd rather make a living off something else.
The rise of televangilism & infomercials
Sam Kinnison & Jerry Sienfeld - could never stomach either of them.

This was a pretty hard list to come up with though - I was in my early 20's during the 80s and I had a blast - I can think of a hundred things I loved for every one thing I hated.[8D]


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Good list. I'd put Reagan at the top too. Senile old bastard.

I don't think I've heard the Charlene song you guys mentioned. Or if I did I disregarded it completely. I barely heard radio in the 80s.

However, my pick for worst song of the 80s would be "We Built This City" by Jefferson Starship. Yee gods.

Worst video may well be Mick Jagger & David Bowie's "Dancing in the Streets" (which is equally horrible as a song, at least as performed by Mick Jagger & David Bowie.)

Other terrible music acts, many of which already mentioned: Journey, Styx, Foreigner, Huey Lewis and the News...too mahy to name really.

I disdain the rise of televangelism too..as far as it's IQ-crushing impact on society but I gotta admit I used to watch Robert Tilton and Jim and Tammy and stuff just for the love of hating it. It was fun whilst high to watch these overwrought assholes.

One thing that really bugged me in the 80s was how EVERYBODY had to insert a little rap or hip hop into their act as well as in coroprate merchandising. You couldn't see a Froot Loops or Fruity Pebbles commercial without Toucan Sam sporting a huge medallion and backwards ball cap rapping about being part of an essential, vitamin-fortified breakfast or Barney Rubble breakdancing (boyee). So many already crap artists also had to make their attempt at being funkee fresh, etc. I don't hate rap per se, though I'm not a big fan and I do actively hate gangsta/pimp rap, but I got pretty sick of all these old timers trying to jump on the cred bandwagon by adding scratches, samples and breakbeats.
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Postby Ape Module » Fri Nov 18, 2005 4:04 am

Oh yeah, another big drag for me personally was how punk rock, which had been about fun and loudfastrules music and just good times quickly became divided into run of the mill punks and the white pride nazi skinhead wads. That really ruined the scene for me, especially after several of my frenz were attacked by baseball bats (and one run over by a car) by a bunch of skins for putting on an anti-racist punk rock show.
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Postby djcraig » Fri Nov 18, 2005 5:35 am

[quote][i]Originally posted by Moparmark[/i]
<br>Hey djcraig, good post and welcome aboard.


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Thank you. And to be fair, there are some Loverboy songs that my are guilty pleasures. The Outfield too. But let's just let that be our little secret.
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Postby djcraig » Fri Nov 18, 2005 5:57 am

I tried to block these from my memory but they won't go away:

Magic- Olivia Newton-John from Xanadu
It's Still Rock 'n Roll to Me- Billy Joel
Passion- Rod Stewart
Self Control- Laura Branigan
Joanna- Kool & The Gang
Oh Sherrie- Steve Perry
To All the Girls I've Loved Before- Willie Nelson & Julio Iglesias
Almost Paradise- Mike Reno & Ann Wilson
Never Surrender- Corey Hart
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Postby ExRat » Fri Nov 18, 2005 3:22 pm

[quote]Originally posted by djcraig

Thank you. And to be fair, there are some Loverboy songs that my are guilty pleasures. The Outfield too. But let's just let that be our little secret.

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Hey djcraig! I saw the Outfield way back in the day. They were the second act for the Alarm during their "Strength" tour. The Long Ryders also played.
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Postby djcraig » Sat Nov 19, 2005 1:42 am

[quote][i]Originally posted by ExRat[/i]
<br>[quote]Originally posted by djcraig

Thank you. And to be fair, there are some Loverboy songs that my are guilty pleasures. The Outfield too. But let's just let that be our little secret.

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Hey djcraig! I saw the Outfield way back in the day. They were the second act for the Alarm during their "Strength" tour. The Long Ryders also played.
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The Alarm- or as The LA Times used to refer to them, U 1-1/2 (as in trying desperately to be U2 but not quite succeeding). So how was the show?

The Outfield, 38 Special, Journey- they're kind if like mopeds. Fun toys to break out once in a while but you don't want your friends to know you actually own them.
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