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The most expensive music video at the time (1982), and all that matters to me is that there's a brain-melting mandolin solo at 3:55 that pretty much no one knows about https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=glStPHUErJU
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For some reason, the local elementary school showed us Kidd Video. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lq64MJKwElw https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V9n2nCqTJ_I That's Robbie Rist, a.k.a. Cousin Oliver from the Brady Bunch in the videos. He's actually a pretty decent musician. And for some late '80s, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=By86PcLufOU
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 I don't think you can do these side graphics on modern cars but boy did they kick rear end on the 80s boxy stuff.
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Peter Gabriel's "Sledgehammer" was the first music video I really remembered. My mom taped it off of TV for me so I could watch it whenever I wanted, which was often. It had so many neat visuals. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OJWJE0x7T4Q
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Jun 11, 2018 04:15
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This video scared young me a great deal and is one of the first I can remember https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QHmH1xQ2Pf4
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twistedmentat posted:Though Kiss probably lost its edge. During the 80s, KISS was kept afloat mostly by Paul Stanley. Gene Simmons was preoccupied with trying to be a movie star and produce other acts and has admitted several times that he was just phoning it in. They had some good tunes during that time, but it was obvious they were just chasing trends.
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WescottF1 posted:During the 80s, KISS was kept afloat mostly by Paul Stanley. Gene Simmons was preoccupied with trying to be a movie star and produce other acts and has admitted several times that he was just phoning it in. They had some good tunes during that time, but it was obvious they were just chasing trends. Yea, 80s kiss is pretty unremarkable hair metal/cock rock. Like they got lost in all the bands that were very clear influanced by 70s Kiss.
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Jun 11, 2018 18:58
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Kiss did fairly well to survive and thrive throughout the 80s. Not a lot of holdover 70s bands managed. Those who did more or less burned out by the middle of the decade. The key year is 1986 because that's the year Journey released their last album with Steve Perry for 10 years, and it's also the year Bon Jovi released Slippery When Wet and Poison released Look What the Cat Dragged In. So it's the year mainstream rock changed gears from populist AOR to populist hair metal.
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Jun 11, 2018 22:12
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Wheat Loaf posted:Kiss did fairly well to survive and thrive throughout the 80s. Not a lot of holdover 70s bands managed. Those who did more or less burned out by the middle of the decade. That's interesting. I had no idea that 86 was such an important year for rock. But you can't argue that Kiss had lost its edge and what no longer biggest band in the world. A funny thing is that Kiss and Alice Cooper were Americanized Glam Rock (mostly stripping out the Gay subtext), but the bands that they influanced tooked the Rock excess that Glam also had to an extreme length. MANAMAL
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Jun 12, 2018 03:05
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Man I loved Manamal! What was the other one? Automan or something? He was half computer and tied to a car? It would make right angle turns and poo poo. He was super-smart and he looked like a low-budget Tron.
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Jun 12, 2018 03:10
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KakerMix posted:
I've always liked cars that proudly boast that they're TURBO Like this rad Honda City Turbo II (available with an optional tiny fold up motorcycle that stowed in back)  or this Renault 5 Turbo 2  Notable owners of the latter include Bulma 
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Jun 12, 2018 06:20
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Sonehow i completly missed thundercats. I think i watched all the other cartoons a kid born in the early 80s would have watched. What channel were they on?
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Jun 12, 2018 06:24
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Thundercats was syndicated, so it’s possible that nobody in your market was showing it, or just ran it at weird times.
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There’s a pretty awesome video or recording of someone walking around a BEST showroom in like 85 or something during regular hours. When he walks by the electronics section with some of the Atari games being showcased its a weird feeling to see how much has changed. I remember going to a BEST with my dad and not understanding that if you wanted something in the store you had to order it from the catalogue or something so that they could ship it you I think. A catalogue showroom or whatever https://youtu.be/hMfqiOxDtVk
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Wheat Loaf posted:Kiss did fairly well to survive and thrive throughout the 80s. Not a lot of holdover 70s bands managed. Those who did more or less burned out by the middle of the decade. 1986 is the key year because that's when Master of Puppets, Peace Sells... But Who's Buying? and Reign in Blood came out  why yes I am a metal nerd why are you all walking away
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I liked how the show that the heroes put on at the end is called Street Jazz, because that's what an out of touch movie exec that ran a studio like Canon would think was the coolest. That reminds me of something else I attach to the 80s, Motown and Jazz music being the realm of either Dad stuff, or the "wacky music" they show during a bad sitcoms montage.
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fast cars loose anus posted:1986 is the key year because that's when Master of Puppets, Peace Sells... But Who's Buying? and Reign in Blood came out One thing that's actually pretty interesting is looking back at old interviews with guys like Nikki Sixx and Joe Elliott circa 1989/1990 when they're being asked about what they think the future holds for rock music and they're all saying things like, "Oh, the whole glam thing isn't sustainable, something new is going to break through into the mainstream and take over," but they all assumed it was going to be thrash metal (probably something along the lines of Metallica's Black Album).
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Ferrule posted:What was the other one? Automan or something? Yep.    I never actually saw Automan or Manimal; I knew of the former from an entry in, no poo poo, The Encyclopedia of Super Heroes (published in 1985; I think I got mine in 1988) and the latter from a joke on Late Night with David Letterman that was republished in a book. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tfW247_xpJI "Here's a show called Manimal. This one's about a crime fighter that can turn into a snake... and a bird." ETA: I'd never seen this entire Letterman bit roasting Manimal after it was put on hiatus, but it's great: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JmYrscLAVXw
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Lazlo Nibble posted:Thundercats was syndicated, so it’s possible that nobody in your market was showing it, or just ran it at weird times. Weren't most weekday afternoon cartoons syndicated? Most of them were on the UHF channels, at least until the Disney Afternoon arrived on the scene in the late 80's, and Fox started expanding their programming in the early 90's. I remember the networks usually had afternoon talk shows like Donahue, or reruns like Quincy. Thundercats was one of those weird cartoons where I watched the poo poo out of it, but I don't recall ever seeing a single Thundercats toy. My toybox was full of a mishmash of toys from just about every 80's cartoon built from the ground up to sell toys, and not a single one of them was a Thundercat. Hell I even had a few GI Joes and I hated GI Joe (although I always thought Cobra Commander was pretty cool). Since we're identifying distant memories of shows, I remember there was some show where a guy had a knockoff bit from Tron that would follow him around. It would have been 83/84 because I remember wanting to watch it when my mom was in the hospital, but she's very adverse to anything science fiction, so I got scolded. Hell, maybe it was Automan 
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It was Automan, yes.
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KakerMix posted:
Words can't express how much I want to own that truck.
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https://youtu.be/g_87i7FhkIs “11 Intros to Tacky 80’s SciFi/Fantasy TV” - I don’t recall most of these myself but I’d love to see new takes on The Wizard, Misfits of Science, Shadow Chasers, and Outlaws. I don’t watch TV these days so for all I know we have those in some form.
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DrBouvenstein posted:Words can't express how much I want to own that truck. It's going to be up for sale soon, much too nice for me to daily drive like I have been for the last month. This is by far the best side-graphics package vehicle I've imported but I've had some other nice ones  1985 Daihatsu Rugger w/ 'TURBO DIESEL' on the sides and a little red 'TURBO' in the grill  Technically a 1990 Toyota LiteAce but it's an 80s design, plus 4WD graphics  1983 Honda Acty STREET Soon I'm going to have this guy  1989 Suzuki Jimny that really wants you to know that it's TURBO. 80s and 90s were the pinnacle of automotive design imho. My wife recently scored a huge collection of classic neon surf/skate/automotive stickers too. 
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twistedmentat posted:That's interesting. I had no idea that 86 was such an important year for rock. I'm probably ascribing it with more significance than it merits. I just think it's kind of neat how the AOR era seemed to begin in 1976 with Boston's self-titled release, Frampton Comes Alive! being the biggest album of the year, along with things like Led Zeppelin arguably losing their edge a bit after Physical Graffiti the year before and Queen moving away from the really dramatic stuff in favour of a more straightforward rock sound for News of the World. Then in 1986, Steve Perry left Journey, Boston released their last album for almost a decade, those huge hair metal cornerstone albums came out and so on. Though I think one of the most important years for "pop-metal" was actually 1983 if only because that was when Pyromania appeared and that was an album (and, more to the point, a set of music videos) that made a big splash.
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SUPERMAN'S GAL PAL posted:Oh, and this, which aired on old Nickelodeon: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VGOMnE26jNo (Spartakus and the Sun Beneath the Sea) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XtyXnr5XV_A
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So who was stuck with a betamax vcr in the 80s? It took me a while to find the one I grew up with but this fellow was with me until at least the late 90s.  It gave me 2 vcrs so I could copy anime fansubs. I also recorded a lot of Star Trek TNG and TOS, Simpsons, and any sci-fi or fantasy movie that was on TV becaucse if you were a dorky kid/teen in the 80s and 90s, this was your best bet. I watched the tape I had of the Dark Crystal so much. The thing that really dated it outside of beta tapes was that its channels could only go up to 24, which was fine in the early 80s, but as more channels were added, it wasn't.
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KakerMix posted:It's going to be up for sale soon, much too nice for me to daily drive like I have been for the last month. This is by far the best side-graphics package vehicle I've imported but I've had some other nice ones Dude, those are all sick. I've had an itch to pick up a Mitsubishi Delica 4x4 for a while now, myself, but waiting on a potential move since my S/O is finishing her residency and we may be relocating. Also, I just bought a load of these.  I don't know if those were popular beyond the Houston area, but there was a couple of years there maybe around 85-87 +/- that you couldn't spit in Houston without hitting an Ultra Hot sticker.
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ReidRansom posted:
You could see these all over Texas well into the mid-90s, if I'm remembering correctly. I'd forgotten all about them - they were so ubiquitous that they were practically invisible. I looked them up and was completely surprised to discover they're still around and making the drat things; I just assumed you'd gotten those off of eBay or something. Just wanted to look at an 80s school computer lab this morning:  
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Pastry of the Year posted:Just wanted to look at an 80s school computer lab this morning: In the early 80s our Kindergarten class was marched to the library where the school had just installed a dozen Apple IIs. I will never forget being told that we were going to need to know how to use them for work someday. Joke’s on them, I spent a lot more computer time on PC raiding in Warcraft! 
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This isn't just incredibly 80s, it's also a rare example of the single best scene of a TV series being in its pilot episode. 
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ReidRansom posted:Dude, those are all sick. I've had an itch to pick up a Mitsubishi Delica 4x4 for a while now, myself, but waiting on a potential move since my S/O is finishing her residency and we may be relocating. Thanks! I actually have an import thread in Automotive Insanity right here on SA: https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3829078 Dunno how close you are in knowledge but it's a big ol' effort post about importing into the USA from Japan. A few goons have picked up some sweet rides! For stickers my wife is a reseller (much like me with cars  ) and she'd made a killing on those stickers on etsy and eBay. So much so that we're wondering about making up new designs in this neon-classic vein to see how well they'd sell. We seem to be in peak 80s-90s right now so its as good a time as any.
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https://i.imgur.com/oBDIBel.gifv https://i.imgur.com/ifNHQu6.gifv 80s subway pics in NYC      
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Wheat Loaf posted:This isn't just incredibly 80s, it's also a rare example of the single best scene of a TV series being in its pilot episode. I somehow knew exactly what this video would be before I clicked on it.
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When this came on screen at 7 o'clock https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ew_wOOjcD4 you knew you were in for some Good poo poo.
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Inhumanoids was some hosed up poo poo for 8-year old me to watch. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jDKyL6y7FZ8
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I loved Denver 
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