A Video Celebration of the 1980s
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Topic: A Video Celebration of the 1980s
Posted By: Logan
Subject: A Video Celebration of the 1980s
Date Posted: December 31 2020 at 12:25
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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. |
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Posted By: Psychedelic Paul
Date Posted: December 31 2020 at 12:51
^ 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. 
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Posted By: Shadowyzard
Date Posted: December 31 2020 at 13:02
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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! |
Posted By: Logan
Date Posted: December 31 2020 at 13:30
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^ V was very cool. And in films Tron had big impact on me about that time, and a Werewolf in London.
Indeed a very happy new year to all. Sorry snipping and I will check out the film, but with the way my mind regularly associates, your post took me on a short and silly flight of fancy.... I would love a decade like the 80s to come around again, but at least in 59 years we'll have another 80s. That said, I don't think it will be very much like "our" 80s. People will be into Post-Neo-New New Wave music by then, but Neo-Prog from the 1980s will still be called Neo-Prog -- some things just never will change. I'm planning to be alive in 2080 although some would say that's wishful thinking. People have been telling me that I have really aged recently, so I started using a little anti-ageing cream (the wife's -- she never seems to age much, but that might be the Oriental in her more than the cream). I figure that if I use if for long enough, by 2080 I should look about 20. If I want to be physically 20 and not just look it, then I figure I'm going to need to inject the cream to anti-age my organs. I'm worried if I use too much I might turn into a foetus. Please nobody try this, but I think it may still be better than injecting disinfectants like bleach to deal with pesky viruses. |
Shadowyzard wrote:Posted By: Shadowyzard
Date Posted: December 31 2020 at 13:41
 ^ 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. |
Posted By: Logan
Date Posted: December 31 2020 at 17:42
| Baldness is in and has been in for a long time, especially at PA. I naturally have a thick head of hair, but shaved it all off some time ago. Well, that’s because I did such a lousy job trying to use a tool to cut it yourself, messed up, so took it all off. You look healthy. I’d like immortality if I felt that I could always be improving, learning and growing, but not perhaps if my life stagnated and I felt that I had already reached my potential. And I wouldn’t want to outlive my children. Really I would love to have a lot more time to waste. |
Posted By: JD
Date Posted: January 04 2021 at 14:18
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This screams "Here Comes The 80's !" ------------- Thank you for supporting independently produced music |
Posted By: dwill123
Date Posted: January 04 2021 at 15:51
Posted By: JD
Date Posted: January 04 2021 at 16:02
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You might want to strap in for this one. ------------- Thank you for supporting independently produced music |
Posted By: mathman0806
Date Posted: January 04 2021 at 17:46
First video when this launched. |
Posted By: JD
Date Posted: January 04 2021 at 18:00
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------------- Thank you for supporting independently produced music |
Posted By: Blacksword
Date Posted: January 05 2021 at 01:04
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That Apple advert was great! I don't think I've ever seen that before. ------------- Ultimately bored by endless ecstasy! |
Posted By: progaardvark
Date Posted: January 05 2021 at 03:30
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I'll probably be banned for posting this... ------------- ---------- i'm shopping for a new oil-cured sinus bag that's a happy bag of lettuce this car smells like cartilage nothing beats a good video about fractions |
Posted By: Cristi
Date Posted: January 05 2021 at 03:32
not to worry, it says video unavailable, or maybe it's just for me.
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Posted By: suitkees
Date Posted: January 05 2021 at 03:43
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In the 80s I was young and thus saw The Young Ones (I even had a Neil "heavy sh*t" t-shirt): ------------- The razamataz is a pain in the bum |
Posted By: dwill123
Date Posted: January 05 2021 at 12:09
Posted By: JD
Date Posted: January 05 2021 at 12:27
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I remember taping this on my folks original top loader VCR when it was broadcast. I think I still have the tape in a storage bin somewhere. ------------- Thank you for supporting independently produced music |
Posted By: richardh
Date Posted: January 06 2021 at 03:25
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just this , probably my favourite TV show of all time. I didn't enjoy the eighties much but I loved this |
Posted By: Ronstein
Date Posted: January 06 2021 at 03:27
I believe David Icke thinks it was a documentary
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Posted By: Shadowyzard
Date Posted: January 06 2021 at 03:34
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^ It is funny and sad at the same time that conspiracy theorists believe in virtually anything that is made up. Sometimes it is tempting to devise a plan and create "the biggest nonsense ever" and see if they'll believe that too. 
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Posted By: Ronstein
Date Posted: January 06 2021 at 03:35
I see your Steve Miller and raise you to Robert Palmer  |
Posted By: JD
Date Posted: January 06 2021 at 05:02
------------- Thank you for supporting independently produced music |
Posted By: Shadowyzard
Date Posted: January 06 2021 at 05:13
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