Posted on 05/21/2015 6:24:54 PM PDT by Perdogg
I’ll take the 80’s for everything but the music. Punk & Rap
Ugh!
He was too girly for Bond.
Real Genius was 30 years ago. Better than both. And probably the second major step to nerds taking over pop culture.
Even by the time Happy Days hit 50s nostalgia was already an institution. With Shanana and Grease and American Graffiti it was already going strong. I don’t get a decade as popular for entertainment as the 50s.
View to a Killl and Die Another Day are the worst of the Bond movies, IMHO. And it’s not that close.
Either click your heels three times or dump some Calgon in a bathtub.
Yes. I found this on Wiki. I guess we can blame Woodstock and the hippies for making people nostalgic for a decade that had only been gone for ten years:
The group began singing as part of the long standing Columbia University a cappella group the Kingsmen, but changed their name due to the Pacific Northwest group of the same name, famous for covering “Louie, Louie.” Conceived by George Leonard,[4] then a graduate student in Humanities, Sha Na Na began performing in 1969, at the height of the hippie counterculture, and achieved national fame after playing at the Woodstock Festival, where they preceded Jimi Hendrix. Their 90-second appearance in the Woodstock film brought the group national attention and helped spark a 1950s nostalgia craze that inspired similar groups in North America, as well as the Broadway musical Grease and the TV show Happy Days.
LOL. Women sure loved him.
Yep. I’m waiting for time travel to arrive.
There’s plenty of good music from the 80’s!
There are a few songs on the radio that sound like they came from the 80s (eg Echosmith) - maybe it is making a comeback like big hair for women.
I think George Kennedy and Jim Brown are the only ones still alive.
I agree. U2 was good back then, for example. Movie soundtracks were really good.
Yep. Not to sound like an old bastard, but, “Back when I was a kid, things were better.”
And of course, the “hairstyles” were SOOOOOO MUCH better than today. I’m having some fun memories...:)
Yeah.
I think Donald Sutherland is still alive.
You’re right! I overlooked him.
Moonraker, ugh.
I liked the second Bond with Timothy Dalton.
I wish Dalton had these Daniel Craig scripts.
IMO the music industry peaked in the 80’s.
There were only a few I couldn’t stand back then such as michael jackson, boy george, culture club, and cindy lauper.... Now a days, I spend more time flipping through the channels just trying to find something decent to listen to. I actually have an advantage in that I’ll listen to just about anything from AC-DC to ZZ Top except for that rap crap and the real twangy my dog died, my girlfriend left me, and my truck broke down kind of country music.
Jim Brown was also a football star back in the day, wasn’t he?
NFL Hall of Fame. A bunch of MVPs. (Pre Superbowl).
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