A Video Celebration of the 1980s

What with it being New Year's Eve here in my rather high-culturally bereft (debatable as cannabis is legal here) and very dull (hard to argue with) part of British Columbia (oh, how I long to escape)...

No. 2: "Do you still think you can escape, Number Six?"
No. 6: "Escape, come back, wipe this place off the face of the Earth, obliterate it, and you with it" (the Prisoner).

Oh wait, wrong decade, but on that cheery note...

I thought it might be fun to do a series where we reminisce, chat about, remember events and mostly the culture of the 80s, but am image is worth a thousand words, and a video ten thousand so this is mostly about videos. If you didn't exist back then, or are too young to remember it, you can still participate.   And if one wants to talk about things from the 80s that one wishes could be wiped off the face of history, well one can do that too (you can borrow my TARDIS disguised in the shape of an unobtrusive stainless steel DeLorean automobile if necessary -- no one will ever expect that it's actually a time machine!).

The 80s were an interesting and troubling time: Thatcher, Reaganomics, AIDS, Duran Duran, New Wave, The Breakfast Club, The Young Ones, Colin Baker's very loud Doctor Who jacket, getting Rick-rolled before people knew the term Rick-rolled ("Never Gonna Give You Up"), Blade Runner, the Satanic panic, Mad Max, big hair, narrow ties, glam, massive mobile phones, Impossible Mission on my C-64, the Chocky TV series, "Who killed JR?", Grace Slick with James Bond, Milli Vanilli, MC Can't Touch This Hammer and if you try I'll hang you up by the strings of your parachute pants....

Four 80s videos from me:

This remains the commercial that had the biggest impact on me.



And here was one of my favourite music videos in the 80s.



The trailer of a movie that I caught late night while still young, and thought since the 80s had its own peculiar vernacular, but I was way too cool to use it, "Ah gee Wally, that's swell. I sure wish that my mom would let me insert videotapes into my abdomen." It's reasonably tubular.



And who that lived through the alien invasion could forget V?



So please post something 80s that means something to you.

Edited by Logan - December 31 2020 at 12:32

Happy new year to all!

How I wish a decade like the '80s comes again...

I'll post the trailer of an obscure sci-fi musical. Any 80s' fan gotta watch the movie, BTW.

Enjoy! 

 

^ People say I don't physically show my age. If it weren't for my *almost* baldness (see my avatar), I might be mistaken for a university student. I also feel, like my soul is ancient sometimes. Not like supernaturally and all... More like intuitively. Also there is still a kid inside me!!! Even my surname is plural, you know? Durakoğulları: it means something like "stop or station (like a bus stop) sons". Plurality ist krieg!!!

Being alive in 2080? I would wish to be immortal, but would never risk interfering in my natural self for the sake of it. Ageing well and then dying is also perfectly OK for me. 

Edited by Shadowyzard - December 31 2020 at 13:42

Edited by JD - January 05 2021 at 12:29

Psychedelic Paul wrote: ^ I Loved the "V" mini-series with Marc Singer, Michael Ironside & Robert Englund (Freddie from Nightmare on Elm Street). I imagine conspiracy theorist David Icke is a big fan of the show too.