80s are coming back!!

BloodRose

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'80's coming back'? Oh god, I hope not. Too much cheesy music and looks. I don't want to listen to any band with spandex, ratted up hair, make up, platform shoes, and a whiney singer pouting for the camera.

The 80's seemed good after disco, but in retrospect, it left a lot to be desired. It's very dated and little of it holds up well these days.
 
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All the "good" in the 80s as far as music is concerned was when NOWBHM took hold in America. Once Bon Jovi was mistaken for "Metal", the decline started. If the 80s are coming back, I can assure you it's going to be synth pop, a Michael Jackson impersonator (other than Corey Feldman), and other such simplistic bubblegum ignorance, which will set social evolution back well beyond the 80s.

And no to the Big Hair.

But then, if Big Hair returns, the adult film industry is going to have lots of work for fluffers again.
 
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One person's trash is another's treasure.

I only liked heavy rock/Metal in the '80s. Getting a older, the same stuff is cool but my tastes have grown a lot broader and I discovered how cool some of other material available in the '80s.

FTR, I still don't really give a rat's *** about Bon Jovi.
 
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Hey now, some bands peaked in the 80s.

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80s are coming back!!

Let them come, i was born too late to find out about the madness myself, it would be an experience;)
 
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I remember the 80s well. It started out pretty good musically, but I spent most of it delving back into the previous 4 decades of music to find things worth listening to.

The 80s were so varied musically, and there is a big rift between the early years of the decade and the latter years dominated by MTV instead of radio.


But for some reason people associate 80s rock music with latter West Coast Hair Metal, and 95% of the craptacular bands that were featured on MTVs Headbangers Ball. It died a horrible death long ago, and deservedly so. Unfortunately some really good bands like Badlands and GnR suffered from the association. As mentioned, little of the hair metal holds up today well at all, as there was no substance. When the Scorpions, Dio, and Priest start poofing up their hair and wearing makeup to fit in, something has gone terribly awry with "metal" and music in general.

Sorry 1980s, alot of bands of the 1970s already did the makeup, glam thing, and did it ten times better with originality and astonishingly without any MTV choreography or posing and prancing C.f. Bowie, New York Dolls, Genesis, and a host of other bands.
 
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I don't think you know what that word means. :scratchch

Yes, it means the person who fluffed up porn star pubes between takes. With the adoption of the Brazil Cut/Shaved Beaver, the need for a fluffer on porn sets was greatly reduced.
If the 80s Big Hair comes back, big bush will return as well.


And Wolferine - there really wasn't much difference between the 80s and today, at least none worth bragging about. No internet, if you wanted to record tracks you had to go to a studio, cocaine was then what crack and meth are today, cell phones weighed more than your cat and cost as much as a Les Paul and couldn't take pics. If you wanted to take pictures, you needed a thing called a "camera" which used a medium called "film" that had to be protected from light, unless you had a Polaroid, which would eject a photograph that would develop over about a minute. It would be about like attaching a photo printer to a digital camera, except 10x slower.

Computers ran DOS, and Windows 1, which looks a lot like an old NES console game. Apple had the Macintosh, which already had a mouse-driven windowed interface but really couldn't do much more than IBM-based DOS systems.

Charvel imports cost about $500-$600 new, if not more, USA Jacksons cost $2500 and were rarely found used for half price, but a new Les Paul only cost about $1000 for a Custom. Of course minimum wage was like $3.75 an hour.

We had an old Hollywood Western Cowboy movie star for a President, but he wasn't as bad as they say.

Corporate raiding was just getting started so there were still plenty of jobs to be had.

MTV used to show music videos, and they weren't all rap or R&B.

Music-wise, you didn't miss much either, especially when people discovered Big Hair, hairspray, styling gel, mousse, and men started wearing makeup and lingerie.
 
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I say yes to metal on the radio and winning the cup. No, to Kajagoogoo type bubblegum crud and nuclear meltdowns (I like my spinach).
 
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To get more metal on the radio, you have to execute the existing program directors via Guillotine and install a regime Of the People, By the People, For the People who want to hear metal on the radio.

Otherwise it's gonna be the same crap we have now.
 
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Jacksons were not quite that expensive (Expensive for sure, but worth it above what Fender was putting out) - I came across the receipt of the one I bought in 1984. It should have listed around 2K (probably about $100 less than that)based on the actual price I paid (no I'm not revealing that here). Its a Soloist Student level with Binding on the neck. Of course price varied with trim.
 
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Yes, it means the person who fluffed up porn star pubes between takes. With the adoption of the Brazil Cut/Shaved Beaver, the need for a fluffer on porn sets was greatly reduced.
If the 80s Big Hair comes back, big bush will return as well.
Uh, no. They weren't fluffing the pubes. ..
 
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