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I agree. I graduated in '84. If I ever hearsomething from the '80s on a classic rock station, I might have to hurt somebody. Posts: 4569 | Registered: Dec 2003
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Are you talking about the VH1 "I love the 80s" show? Because that show rocks my socks. Not so much seeing all the stuff, but seeing the celebritities comment on them.
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Ah, 1983. Noumea, New Caledonia: A bar full of transexuals and several bottles of red wine...
Oh, who am I kidding. I freaked out and left. Some of the other guys on my ship claimed they got lucky, though. Posts: 173 | Registered: Jun 2002
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If you were listening to disco during the 80's then you were clueless to the world around you. .
The 80's will forever be known in my life as the decade where punk, alternative and new wave rock rose to prominence. The music from that era NEVER gets old.
And yes, we're getting old.
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quote:Police songs from Synchronicity do end up on classic rock stations already
Off topic: What's up with this line in Synchronicity II?
quote:Another working day has ended Only the rush hour hell to face Packed like lemmings into shiny metal boxes Contestants in a suicidal race
I didn't know they had lemming packing plants. Where can you buy these packed lemmings? And what do you eat them with? Pasta?
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Speaking of nostalgia, has anyone here played Grand Theft Auto: Vice City?
It's got the eighties down to a T. Along with Cuban hookers, rocket launchers, and cop-killing. But wow, the soundtrack, the cars, the outfits...
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Yeah, but Vice City doesn't have G. Gordon Liddy as the mastermind of a widespread criminal organization. So near, yet so far.
We were studying a case in Constitutional Law that arose out of the Iran Hostage crisis, and I realized most of the people in my class weren't alive then.
And I don't care what VH1 says about it, Clash of the Titans was a great movie!
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I knew I must be old when I was showing my "kids" @ work my new Ipod and they asked me who the Eurythmics were. Then I I left the mall I heard Duran Duran's "View to a Kill" on the MUZAK! I feel very old indeed. This thirty-something crap sucks. Now I get why the show sucked too! Posts: 601 | Registered: Sep 2002
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I am a child of the eighties (born in 73), but I don't remember much of pop culture before 1984. Not because I was too young, but because I was too clueless. I was (as were most of you) the class nerd, and it wasn't until 84 that I decided I should try to learn something about what it was that made my classmates cool. So at that point I started listening to the radio, and watching music videos whenever I could.
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That's when I discovered that most of my favorite musicians were Gay/Lesbian. And, I was one of the few heteros in Advanced Art classes, so in a way, I thought I'd be cooler if I was gay. Fortunately, I was not at all interested in other girls. I think that's how I ended up being sort of a fag hag (do they still say that, or is it un-PC?).
Anyways, now I have the Soft Cell version of "Tainted Love" playing in my head.
Dagonee, Thanks a LOT. Posts: 9293 | Registered: Aug 2000
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Ah...I remember it well...that feeling of going into the "record store" and finding your favorite album of all time in the "oldies" bin.
Welcome to my world.
On the one hand, you have to put up with not knowing anything about modern music or trends. On the other hand, you can buy your favorite music for under $10 and inflict it on future generations.
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Just for the record... disco died officially in 1981.
(I was also born in 1981. The fact that I am the re-incarnation of disco, though, is not what we're here to discuss)
My link to 80s pop culture was my dad, who was the more musical of my parents and bought a tape every 2 years. As limited as my exposure was, I will always have powerful 80's flashbacks whenever I hear:
"Pop Muzik" by M
the Brothers in Arms album by Dire Straits
anything by the Police
Paul Simon's Graceland album
Ahh... now that's good stuff...
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Hey, UofU, I was born in '73 as well. Strange, but I rarely meet anyone who is within a year of my age. Everyone seems to be several years younger or older than me. Maybe all the rest of us 30-year-olds went to live with the Lost Tribes.
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When Johnny Depp turned 40 (and got nominated) I knew the 80's were no more. But I remember with delectation the scene when we asked our AP American History teacher when we were going to start learning about Vietnam. He was under the impression that that was current events.
The Baby boomers had to be removed from their youth so forcibly, it really isn't very Gen-X to complain.
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quote:Just for the record... disco died officially in 1981.
Well, 1980 and 1981 were disproportionately long years.
Besides, it took many more years for bars, radio stations - and even some people I called friends in spite of their taste in music - to hold the funeral.
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Whether or not 80's music belongs on classic rock stations is up for debate. But surely 90's music doesn't belong there. I'm too young to be old.
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My college years--80's. My Junior and Seinor High School years--80's.
Classic? Me?
I felt old when I saw my high school car at a classic car show.
Now, I feel ancient.
In 83 I was 19-20. Today you are 20-21.
Just wait till Brittney Spears and Justin TImberlake show up on oldies stations. You know what time it is when that happens? Do you? Do you? Its time to get a freekn new oldies station because that one will be playing garbage, but that's besides the point.
And Bob, you can tell us real oldies. We remember walking into a record store and Buying a RECORD
THe 80's. When adding 20 Meg to your hard drive was a big thing. Of course, that was the top of the line Hard Drive, not Ram Memory.
See what happened here? You got us senile old goats talking. You can't shut us up, and our swiss cheese minds can't stay on a topic for more than
oh. Lunch.
The sweet nursing home staff is bringing me pudd'n.
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Well, I can't wait 'till people start reminiscing about the 90's so I'll actually have something to talk about.
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quote:Just wait till Brittney Spears and Justin TImberlake show up on oldies stations. You know what time it is when that happens? Do you? Do you? Its time to get a freekn new oldies station because that one will be playing garbage, but that's besides the point.
You know, that's something I worry about. I mean, in twenty or thirty years, are The Beatles going to be as obsolete as 20's music is now? That would just suck.
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I get easily confused as to how old Rivka is. Are you not actually a rebbetzin then?
The Beatles are my parent's younger sister's kind of music. I imagine for many of you it is your parent's music. Someday it will be Grandparent's music. Good it its way, but still Grandparent's music.
But I'm asian. I won't age and then BAM one day my husband will wake up next to a catcher's mitt.
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