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[Somewhat OT] Mention of D&D on VH1's "I Love the 80s"
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Re: Marcarana
That would have been right about 1995 or 1996.
caudor said:
That would have been right about 1995 or 1996.
Lost Soul,
You were mentioning 90's nostalgia and neon clothes. Check your memory again. Neon colored clothing was all 80's. Neon yellow, green, blue, pink etc... were all mid 80's colors. I know this for a fact. Back in the early to mid 90's when Pearl Jam and Nirvana were big, I was flipping through the stations and saw one of their videos on MTV. Everyone was wearing dark somber colors: Brown, black, hunter green, stripes etc.. The much was dark, depressing and angry. I turned to the next station, which is VH1 in our line up and they had a rerun of American Bandstand from 1985. The kids were all wearing bright lively clothes, white, yellow, bright orange, light blue etc.. and were dancing to Katrina and the Waves, walking on Sunshine. They all looked happy, dancing their lives away to the music. They wouldn't become that dour, somber lot until 5 years later when they had graduated college and realized there weren't any jobs available for them. I know, I was one of them. Now if we can just convince some of the girls today to wear parachute pants.
Hawkeye
You were mentioning 90's nostalgia and neon clothes. Check your memory again. Neon colored clothing was all 80's. Neon yellow, green, blue, pink etc... were all mid 80's colors. I know this for a fact. Back in the early to mid 90's when Pearl Jam and Nirvana were big, I was flipping through the stations and saw one of their videos on MTV. Everyone was wearing dark somber colors: Brown, black, hunter green, stripes etc.. The much was dark, depressing and angry. I turned to the next station, which is VH1 in our line up and they had a rerun of American Bandstand from 1985. The kids were all wearing bright lively clothes, white, yellow, bright orange, light blue etc.. and were dancing to Katrina and the Waves, walking on Sunshine. They all looked happy, dancing their lives away to the music. They wouldn't become that dour, somber lot until 5 years later when they had graduated college and realized there weren't any jobs available for them. I know, I was one of them. Now if we can just convince some of the girls today to wear parachute pants.
Hawkeye
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That's right! We were happy darnit, to live under the spectre of nuclear war!Hawkeye said:
BigFreekinGoblinoid
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Hawkeye said:
A-Men brutha! Nothing got my 13-14 year old hormones jumping like a properly worn pair of parachute pants!
Jr. High School 1982-83
Sir Hawkeye
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Re: 80's
Ahh! Doppleganger!
Nice name
The best thing the 80's have going for them is Ferris Bueller. and of course DA BEARS won the Super Bowl
On music:
"Everyone knows rock achieved perfection in 1974"
-Homer Simpson
Hawkeye said:
Ahh! Doppleganger!
Nice name
The best thing the 80's have going for them is Ferris Bueller. and of course DA BEARS won the Super Bowl
On music:
"Everyone knows rock achieved perfection in 1974"
-Homer Simpson
Imhotepthewise said:
That's probably the faintest praise I've seen in quite some time.
I think that its sort of funny that no one has mentioned U2 or REM in this thread. They are still, IMHO, vital bands that were alternative back in a time when that word actually meant something. If anything, I'm nostalgic for the 80s because "alternative" wasn't just marketing shorthand for "it has guitars". I like a lot of current music by young bands, but I can't listen to the radio.
Oh yeah, and I guess I'm glad I came of age in the 80s because whenever I see kids downtown wearing those baggy pants, I just think back to my thin, black leather tie worn proudly with a pink, button-down collar'd dress shirt and rugby pants and, well, I just can't bring myself to laugh at anyone else more than I laugh at myself.
Cheers
Mathew_Freeman
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For those in the UK, you could also add bands like The Wonderstuff to that, a band that described themselves (with some justification) as "best band in Britain. Best band in the world apart from REM". Really good songs.
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