NashVegas
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Sun Jul-18-04 09:09 PM
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Edited on Sun Jul-18-04 09:21 PM by Crisco
I was late getting to the other thread - now archived:
Movies:
Room With a View Unbearable Lightness of Being Real Genius Wings of Desire, Paris, Texas (+ other WW stuff) The Gods Must Be Crazy The Killing Fields Matewan (+ other Sayles) Diner (+ other Levinson) The Princess Bride, This is Spinal Tap (+ other RR) Robocop Dead Ringers A Fish Called Wanda Birdy Bull Durham Batman, Beetlejuice (+ other Burton) Blade Runner Das Boot My Life as a Dog (+ other Halstrom) Witness Brazil (+ other Gilliam) Ran My Beautiful Laundrette Jean De Florette Aliens Blue Velvet An American Werewolf in London Body Heat Taps My Dinner with Andre The Year of Living Dangerously Stop Making Sense After Hours
etc, etc,
Music:
R.E.M. U2 Replacements Dead Kennedys Neighborhoods Throwing Muses X Dream Syndicate Los Lobos Pretenders Camper Van Beethoven Kate Bush Miracle Legion Grandmaster Flash Black Flag Hüsker Du Anita Baker Soul Asylum Sonic Youth They Might Be Giants OMD (pre-John Hughes) Living Colour Red Hot Chili Peppers Billy Bragg Echo & the Bunnymen The Cure New Order Skinny Puppy Big Audio Dynamite Beastie Boys Public Enemy Let's Active Translator Romeo Void Violent Femmes 10,000 Maniacs Bauhaus Love & Rockets Jazz Butcher Meat Puppets Lloyd Cole & the Commotions Paul Kelly & the Messengers Hunters & Collectors Crowded House Midnight Oil INXS Sugarcubes Concrete Blonde Fetchin' Bones Cindy Lee Berryhill Suzanne Vega Waterboys Hoodoo Gurus Jane's Addiction Soup Dragons Stone Roses Happy Mondays Bill Nelson
Publishing: the rise of alternative weeklies and fanzines.
Activism: Live Aid, Artists Against Apartheit & all the college students who forced their unis to divest in SA.
To anyone who says "the '80s sucked," I say: It's not my goddamn fault you were willing to swallow whatever swill was being hyped, and missed all the good shit.
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Sun Jul-18-04 09:16 PM
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1. Of course, who was President? |
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Edited on Sun Jul-18-04 09:18 PM by ih8thegop
Well, St. Reagan was better than his two Republican successors.
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Sun Jul-18-04 09:17 PM
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2. Yep, some excellent films came out of the '80s, including many of my |
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favorites. Music, though, was less happy a situation -- some good stuff, as highlighted in your list, but I think that the much-dismissed '70s may have had a higher ratio of musical hits to misses. All a matter of taste, of course...for one, I;m hypersenitive to synthesizers and anything New Wave or New Romantic.
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NashVegas
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Sun Jul-18-04 09:26 PM
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3. The Trouble with '80s Films |
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Is what was being marketed to the youth crowd. Mostly shit. Most of the stuff on the list is very adult. They were all great, but very little brain candy with the depth of something like Network. The last 5 years have been the best period for exciting film-making since the 1970s, IMO.
Shame you couldn't take the synth, there was some good stuff made by people who treated it as its own instrument ... reminds me, I forgot to put Philip Glass on the list.
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Sun Jul-18-04 09:28 PM
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4. You left out Metallica, Megadeth, and Iron Maiden? |
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I know Metallica is shitty now but in the 80's they fuckin ruled.
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Sun Jul-18-04 09:40 PM
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Metallica helped me get through high school in the 80s. I don't know if I would have made it without them, they really helped me cope with a lot of angst.
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Sun Jul-18-04 09:29 PM
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5. missed one of the funniest movies ever of the 80s |
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Sun Jul-18-04 09:32 PM
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That was Cusack, yes? (come to think, I missed Say Anything, too.
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