[Somewhat OT] Mention of D&D on VH1's "I Love the 80s"

[caudor]

Re: 80's

The "I am too sexy for this shirt." is from the 90's, not the 80's.

Hawkeye

Yep, I stand corrected on that one...thanks.

My memory is getting pretty bad. I can't even remember what decade ALF is from, and that was one of my favorites for a while.

 

[LostSoul]

Truth - and I could tell both musically and culturally that 1980's fad nostalgia has been slowly building since late 2000.

I think it's been building since the mid-'90s. I remember a lot of "best of the '80s" compilations coming out then.

In another couple of years, we're going to see '90s nostalgia (hopefully no neon coloured clothes, though).

 

[Henry]

Re: 80's

The "I am too sexy for this shirt." is from the 90's, not the 80's.

Hawkeye

Well, it's 80's - 90's "cusp" music. So you could sorta count it. I remember listening to it in my second year of college - and that was 1990.

 

[Tom Cashel]

Best music from the '80s that is still good:

Camper Van Beethoven and The Pixies.

Speaking of '80s nostalgia (which has been building for the past several years like a noxious lower-GI tract depth charge), here's a refreshing whiff of fragrant air: Camper Van Beethoven is about to embark on their reunion tour!

See the Pitch-A-tent website.

 

[RyanL]

Re: Re: 80's

Thank you, I was going to point this out, but wanted to wait until I read all of the posts.

Also, do you really think the 90's were any less self centered or that commercialism was less than in the 80s. If anything I think it has grown. In the 80's everyone wanted to own a BMW or other Luxery car. In the 90's many many poeple actually did. It is not people's fault, but people now in their forties and younger have been brainwashed by commericals since infancy. We (at least Americans) are all programmed into buying and the importance of materialistic property from a young young age. It is truely sad. I hate it and am as effected as anyone else.

I find your comments quite poignant. Funny how we never stop worrying about having enough money, even when our incomes are increasing.

At any rate, I think the 80's were as cool as any other past decade. There's always a backlash against the previous decade. Then, as people who grew up in that decade become influential, the media paints a rosier picture and it becomes cool again.

Some things, of course, will never become cool again. Take Vanilla Ice, for example. (Take Vanilla Ice, please!)

-Ryan

 

[Buttercup]

Why do we care what anyone else thinks of us? Who cares?

Good question.

 

[Balsamic Dragon]

I saw the clip and I thought it was great! Sure, they played up the nerd factor, but they showed real D&D games in progress, not made-up ones. No mention of satanism or anything like that.

Plus, we have a new celebrity to add to the list: Hal Sparks said that he plays D&D and is the DM in his game! Hal was a host (briefly) of Talk Soup on E! and is very funny. According to VH1, he is apparently now doing Queer as Folk.

Balsamic Dragon

 

[Mathew_Freeman]

With all the stuff going round at the moment over the new Star Trek film...I just have to say...I saw The Weakest Link:Star Trek on the BBC yesterday. That was funny.

I so wanted Shatner to get voted off first...

 

[Desdichado]

I wasn't really "around" during the 80s, but something compels me to say that Grand-Theft Auto: Vice City and other things are compeling people to think the 80s were cool all of a sudden... Why, one of my friends was jammin' to Vanilla Ice down the stairs at school last semester in his faded blue suit, because it was funny. I think the 80s will be remembered by the youth that I am among as an era of humor and more humor.

Funny, that's what we said about the 70s when I was in high school. Guess what everyone looks like now, with their bell-bottom jeans, tight little shirts and absolutely horrible earth toned clothes? I about did a spit take the first time I saw neo-disco fashions resurface a few years ago.

 

[Desdichado]

At the risk of getting shot down in flames...I must agree: the 80's where NOT really that cool. Of course, with a whole decade to draw from...this may be easy to counter.

Think about it, we had:

- Madonna 'striking a pose'

"Vogue" was from 1990

- Our favorite game almost went belly-up

Our favorite game also took off this decade.

- Punk Rock and Pop Rocks

Uhh, punk rock was a fad of the mid to latish 70s. By 1978 or so it was completely dead. The 80s were the decade of New Wave, not punk. Although we did have Pop Rocks.

- Too many Tupperware Parties

How many of these did you go to?

- New Coke

Still better than Coke "Classic!" Didn't Mountain Dew also debut in the mid-80s?

- 'I'm too sexy for my shirt...'

Came out 1992.

- Michael Jackson changed before our eyes

It's not like that was unique to the 80s -- you seen him lately?

- Spuds MacKenzie ...no wait, I liked that dog!

OK, Spuds really was pretty stupid.