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Max-Mix

2007-01-08T18:45:47Z

Maybe it's a euro thing, but one of the first records I was totally crazy about were these strange 80's Spanish mixtapes called Max Mix which featured, as described online, "cheesy disco-tracks mixed and cut together perfectly" with strange background noises added to the mix. Like la is la bonita mixed with yello and sounds of toilet flushing. Anyone heard these and can get a hold of any?

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Weird band names,et al.

2005-10-22T21:50:13Z

Alright, who would've thought that we would be listening to bands like "Kajagoogoo" and "Johnny Hates Jazz" (amongst others) in the 1980s. Whenever I think of the early 80s, I hear the song "Too Shy(shy hush hush ido wy...to shy shy hush hush idowy)"....Help!

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80's dance music...

2005-09-03T09:36:51Z

At my reception, I want to have a block of 80's/early 90's music to dance to, more along the alt rock lines, I'm thinking:
It's the End of the World... REM

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Movies that I have seen...

2005-07-21T18:13:22Z

while heavily medicated for bronchial pneumonia and unable to sleep...Gawain and The Green Knight(with Miles O'Keeffe), The Serpent and The Rainbow, Reform School Girls, The Sword ant the Sorceror, Waxwork II-Lost in Time, The Company of Wolves, Prom Night II-Hello Mary Lou, 976-EVIL II, Jaws III, and The Howling III-the Marsupials. All of these were broadcast on the USA network's "USA-up all night) during the early 1990s, while I was suffering so badly from pneumonia that I could not lay down to sleep. Some of these movies were made in the 1980s...some were so bad I thought I was hallucinating off of my antibiotics!

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real reasons to hate the '80's

2005-07-19T15:09:55Z

REALLY big hair

button down cotton shirts, short sleeves rolled up, collar standing up, extra points for brightly colored random graphic print. even better if you had the asymetrical hairstyle where your hair swooped up over one eye and down the other, before settling into the precursor to the mullet-the bi-level haircut.

i graduated cosmetology school in time to experience the height of the mullet. i became an expert at the mullet. at that time it was known as the Bi-Level.

i did a few mullets, i admit it. but back then, it was cool.
then i stopped, and resolved never to repeat the mullet.
then i had someone who requested it. a young college student, a surfer dude.
i'm struggling with my vow to never re-create the mullet. yet, it's been requested, and by people willing to pay me 4 times what they paid for the same haircut 18 years ago. ah, the irony of fashion....

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Who told these people they could Act!

2005-06-15T15:46:38Z

Just thinking about some of the worst films of the 1980s...I think most of them were directed by John Hughes, and had Molly Ringworm (oops, I mean Ringwald) in them. Also who told the Coreys that they could act???? It boggles the mind.

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YOU KNOW YOU GREW UP IN THE 80's (or early 90's) IF:

2005-05-16T17:49:14Z

You've ever ended a sentence with the word "PSYCHE".

Girls wore biker shorts under their skirts & felt stylishly sexy.

You know that "WOAH" comes from Joey on Blossom.

You had plastic streamers on your handle bars & "spokey-dokes" or playing cards on your spokes for that incredible sound effect.

It was actually worth getting up early on Saturday to watch cartoons.

You wore a ponytail on the side of your head.

You played the game "MASH" (Mansion, Apartment, Shelter, House).

You wore fluorescent clothing. (some of us...head-to-toe)

You can remember what Michael Jackson looked like before his nose fell off & his cheeks shifted.

You have ever pondered why Smurfette was the only female smurf.

You took lunch boxes to school & traded Garbage Pail Kids in the
schoolyard.

After you saw Pee-Wee's Big Adventure you kept saying "I know you are, but what am I?"

You used to (& probably still do) say "What you talkin' about Willis?"

You had big hair & you knew how to use it.

You're still singing "Shot Through The Heart" in your head, aren't you!!!

Homemade Levi shorts. (the shorter the better)

You tight rolled your jeans.

You owned a bannana clip.

You remember "Where's the Beef?"

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from the 80's....

2005-01-28T17:57:50Z

I know we are focused on the baaaadddd... things about the 80's, but you have to admit that one of the best things to come from the 80's is Beastie Boys....

They have been plastering thier new song 'check it out' over the air waves and it totally rocks!!!!

Also, Alan Thicke--remember him from the 80's???? Well, ya'll may already know this, but just in case.... his son Robyn Thicke has a cd out and I will admit to being a proud owner of it....it's pretty good (modern day funk--kinda sounds like Stevie Wonder at times)...and he's cute!!! I got it last summer and still listening to it......

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Beaded Safety Pins

2004-11-21T05:10:56Z

Does anyone remember these things? For me it was a dreadful trend back in 5th and 6th grade. Let's just say I was making my own beaded safety pins. Pathetic I know....One will do anything to make herself seem popular.

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Robert Smith

2004-07-26T03:37:18Z

so i just got back from coachella. for some reason i was looking forward to seeing the Cure (aka Robert Smith and his ever changing wonder boys). mostly i was thinking about their fun dancy hits, i guess. Robert smith still lives deep in the 80s, with the same hair and a few extra pounds. he has this strange idea that people care about his music (some apparently do) so he graced us with over 90 minutes of less known to obscure cure songs... the only thing that kept us there was the hope that he'll do "love cats". we got some of those hits (done with very little joy) for an encore as we were walking away. bah!

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reasons to hate the 80's

2004-04-27T20:14:31Z

i know... there's so many of them.
* Those stupid baggy pants, i think they called them parachute pants?
* Stupid fake pop music like Samantha Fox (big tits dont make for singing talent)
* at least for me, school and about half of high school. not a good part of my life.

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question...

2004-03-04T04:40:40Z

why isn't Aleman on this tribe....don't we need a devils advocate??

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PTSD

2004-02-27T21:40:18Z

So are we being quiet because it is painful to discuss it??:)

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