So you miss the 80's?

[vision63]

jdc wrote:
That was milli vanilli level lip synching.

Except Irene Cara could belt out a song at the drop of a hat. Not to mention her Academy Award winning song "What a Feeling."

[Filliam H. Muffman]

Music in the 80's transformed from radio to eMpTyV. Some of it was good but there were a lot of one hit wonders.

Irene's career slowed way down in the late 80's. Looking back I would guess she rejected someone powerful and they blacklisted her. Youtube is missing a lot of the video versions of her hits.

[Racer X]

That was some very wooden dancing. No fluidity at all.

[N-OS X-tasy!]

rgG wrote:
[quote=vision63]
[quote=DeusxMac]
No thanks, one "80s" was enough for me.

I would nominate the 80's at that century's worst decade? The 60's was clearly the coolest (I guess imho).
Yeah, gotta agree that it was pretty bad. It got better toward the end, but fashion was b a d.
For the popular music of the era, my perception is just the opposite -- the "good" '80s ran from 1979 until 1985, then the bad '80s took over through the end of the decade.

Fashion was pretty bad throughout the entire decade.

[pdq]

N-OS X-tasy! wrote:
Fashion was pretty bad throughout the entire decade.

The hairdos were somethin, tho, huh?

[NewtonMP2100]

....18...80's....???

[rgG]

N-OS X-tasy! wrote:
[quote=rgG]
[quote=vision63]
[quote=DeusxMac]
No thanks, one "80s" was enough for me.

I would nominate the 80's at that century's worst decade? The 60's was clearly the coolest (I guess imho).
Yeah, gotta agree that it was pretty bad. It got better toward the end, but fashion was b a d.
For the popular music of the era, my perception is just the opposite -- the "good" '80s ran from 1979 until 1985, then the bad '80s took over through the end of the decade.

Fashion was pretty bad throughout the entire decade.
Yeah, I was thinking about the world/stuff in general not really music. I agree that music was much better the first half.

[MikeF]

Will Ferrell would have been 13 in 1980. Maybe his dad.

[N-OS X-tasy!]

MikeF wrote:
Will Ferrell would have been 13 in 1980.

My first wife went to high school with him (two grades ahead of him). His star began to rise just shortly after she and I split up, so I never got the chance to ask her if she knew him.

[S. Pupp]

I don't miss the arms race and perceived imminent nuclear winter.
I do miss the Rubik's Cube being a novelty.
I miss hearing Der Kommissar on the radio, but got to re-experience it in the late '90s when Adam Sandler's film "The Wedding Singer" came out (19 years ago? Good Lord.)