Hatin' on the '80s

Kansas City Star ^ | 3/3/05 | Jeff Leeds

[MarkL]

Remember "Strange Brew"? We've been looking for it recently for the kids. That was a funny movie!

I used to go to a bar that had "Beer Hunter" contests... You had to bring a "took," and speak "canadjun, eh?"

It was russian roulette with a six pack of beers. One can was shaken up, and you had to pick a can, and open it in front of your face!

Take off you hoser!"

Mark

I loved Max Von Seedow as the evil brewmiester!

Mark

[reagan_fanatic]

There was a lot of good music from the 80's, along with a fair amount of dreck.

However, even the dreck from the 80's is preferrable to the talentless crap being mass-produced today.

[Space Wrangler]

The Cure, my man, The Cure.

[RepoGirl]

Yeah, I caught that last paragraph. I got the feeling that the guy they interviewed was your typical lefty book store owner. The standard jab about the shallow, horrible 80s--coke, yuppies and Reagan...

I think you nail the 90s. The worst thing about the various musical movements in that decade is that they were so contrived and artificial. The 80s, especially the early part of the decade, was so organic and chaotic, it was wonderful.

Grunge was so annoying, but rap/hip hop is nauseating.

[MarkL]

I will be the first to admit that David Lee Roth was better than Sammy Haggar, but Sammy is better than nothing I guess.

Sammy is a seriesly fun rocker... But DLR is a showman.

Mark

[GatorGirl]

I don't know. We were there for the first mainstream rap...The Sugar Hill Gang's "Rappers Delight". Oh, how things have changed since then, huh?

[RepoGirl]

ACK! Rappers Delight... I hated that song!

However, I love the song that they use as the bed: Good Times by Chic. Nile Rodgers is a musical genius.

And you aren't kidding. The lyrics to RD are so quaint and charming compared to what they're doing now.

Heck, I'll even listen to Never Mind the Bollocks and think, what was the fuss about? But at the time, it was just so over the edge.

[WestVirginiaRebel]

Don't forget N.W.A. and Ice T.

Some of the best movies were made during the Eighties. Comedies, sci-fi and action flicks that would be considered too politically incorrect today. Arnold and Stallone were in their prime.

My favorite memories: Reagan whupping Mondale's ass, the '84 Olympics, the '84 San Diego Padres, Miami Vice, Knight Rider (Forget Baywatch, this was a true guilty pleasure) the A-Team, the GI Joe animated series, Headbanger's Ball and 120 Minutes. Night Court and Hill Street Blues. Ah, where did it all go?

[ShadowDancer]

Lovesong.

[sandalwood]

I'd like on your ping list, please.

Hmmm...a former LI'er from the early 80s, huh? Did you have a "Save the OBI" bumper sticker?

[GatorGirl]

The Stray Cats were/are great. I guess now they are the BSO, they have endured. My kids love "Stray Cat Strut" (they have to listen to alot of 80's with me around!).

Peter Gabriel, The Clash, Talking Heads, The Cure, the Smiths...awesome!

[WestVirginiaRebel]

If you ever get a chance to see Johnny Rotten being interviewed by Tom Snyder, do so. From 1981 or so and hilarious.

[GatorGirl]

But admit it, you know the words, don't you? ;-)

[sandalwood]

Back in 81, a kid brought a pistol to class and shot himself in front of his classmates. I didn't know him personally, but from what I understood at the time, he was trying to kill himself in order to send a message to the students who'd been bullying him.

That just reminded me - wasn't "Teen Suicide" all the rage back then?

There was that song by "Frankie Goes to Hollywood" and everything...

[Clemenza]

That would be Brewmeister Schmidt.

Ol' Max certainly had a diverse career: A Knight in the Seventh Seal, Jesus in the Greatest Story Ever Told, Ming the Merciless in Flash Gordon, Some creepy guy in Hannah and her Sisters and Brewmeister Schmidt, among others.

[Clemenza]

"Relax" was actually about Gay sex.

[clockwise]

Try this http://daygloradio.com/index.php

[Clemenza]

Do you remember WBAB (Fingers Metal Shop) or WLIR?

[MarkL]

Ol' Max certainly had a diverse career: A Knight in the Seventh Seal, Jesus in the Greatest Story Ever Told, Ming the Merciless in Flash Gordon, Some creepy guy in Hannah and her Sisters and Brewmeister Schmidt, among others.

And don't forget he played the assasin in 3 Days of the Condor. And he played a part in Dune (I think it was Liet-Kines).

Mark

[cyborg]

WDRE!!!!!! which has been replaced by spanish pop :(