I knew it...I just knew it...

ZOMBIE USER 195 · Post by **ZOMBIE USER 195** » Sat Nov 10, 2001 7:54 am

I said YEARS ago this would happen...as soon as Austin Powers came out and the sixties and seventies fashions started coming back...I said, "God. The 80's are next." Everyone laughed. Everyone said, "80's fashion was horrible. It'll never come back." Well...1. Target now carries legwarmers.
2. Slap-bracelets are now for sale at Wal-Mart.
3. Bright lime green shirts are "in" again.Flashdance sweatshirts and shredded jeans and Zubaz pants: they're coming! My next prediction: a Teddy Ruxpin brand cell-phone that eats your ear when you try to use it.I'm afraid. I'm very afraid.

Appendix Q · Post by **Appendix Q** » Sat Nov 10, 2001 9:50 am

There is a bright side: 80s TV might come back. Look at Nick-at-Nite, for Pete's sakes...

ZOMBIE USER 195 · Post by **ZOMBIE USER 195** » Sun Nov 11, 2001 2:29 am

I'd yell at you for lengthily quoting on the forum, but it's MST3K, so I SUPPOOOSE that's okay <IMG SRC="http://www.keenspace.com/forums/biggrin.gif">What movie was it from, anyway?

Joshnickerson · Post by **Joshnickerson** » Sun Nov 11, 2001 6:06 am

Just to cause some more pain...[In the theater](Credits rolling, Hair band type music playing)Tom: Okay, okay. Be honest Mike, this music kinda really gets your blood going.
Crow: Yeah, Mike, this is YOUR music done by YOUR people, so I blame you for this entire movie.
Tom: Yeah, it's just like you to make a movie like this, geez.
Mike: I hated it too. What are you picking on me for?
Crow: Well, you were a young guy during the 80's weren't you? I mean this is your world, admit it. (Hair band ballad music starts playing)Crow: Okay, okay. This here is the kinda music you get all weepy at at the end of a drunken Friday night, sitting there with your hair all feathered, scarfing down cold potato skins.
Tom: Your attempt to get little Suzie what's her name drunk on lime vodka ended in humiliating rejection, so you sit there all mushy and sentimental reciting to yourself the words to some song by Night Ranger. You're pathetic.
Crow: Yeah, and maybe one homely girl feels sorry for you...for a second, but then she sees how stinkin' drunk you are and gets disgusted.
Tom: And maybe the first chair trombone player from the high school band comes by and he takes pity on you, tries to drive you home and all, but, no, Mike. You wanna swerve home in your cherried out Dodge Charger.
Crow: You wind up wrestling for your keys with the guy, then finally he drops you with one punch and he leaves, and you lie there knowing you got your butt kicked by the leader of the high school band.
Tom: You're pathetic.
Crow: You and your 80's.
Tom: Your precious 80's
Crow: You know, it would've continued to be the 70's if not for you.
Mike: All right. All right. That's it. That tears it.(Mike and the bot's duck down in their seats and start to fight. Punching sounds can be heard. Random phrases and threats can be heard: It's go time, 80's man!!! I'll take you!! 80's jerk!!! Cool breeze huh huh huh????!!?)(Mike and the bots sit back up.) Mike: Wait you guys. Wait, this isn't us.
Tom: Yes it is, you hair feathering freak!
Crow: No, no, no, Servo, he's right. This movie has us turning on each other. It won't end! These credits just won't end!!!
Tom: It's just like the stupid 80's. They never did, either.
Mike: No, no! Actually, they did, Tom. It's okay. See? See? There's the copyright, that means it's over.
Tom: I'm sorry, Mike.
Crow: I'm sorry, Mike.
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- Josh Nickerson
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Zodo · Post by **Zodo** » Sun Nov 11, 2001 12:36 pm

Yeah. I have most of Knight Rider and the V TV series on tape from Columbia house! <IMG SRC="http://www.keenspace.com/forums/smile.gif">Yay! <A HREF="http://zodo.virtual-voodoo.com/eighties.html" TARGET=_blank>eighties</A>! <IMG SRC="http://www.keenspace.com/forums/biggrin.gif">-Zodo, CI
Consummate Troublemaker
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Joshnickerson · Post by **Joshnickerson** » Mon Nov 12, 2001 7:32 am

It's from the horrendous "Space Mutiny" episode. The movie with the climatic floor buffer chase scene that rivaled with the chariot scene in Ben-Hur except for the fact that "Ben-Hur was a pretty good movie. This one totally sucked."
You did know Sci-Fi's gonna stop airing re-runs at the end of December, didn't you? <IMG SRC="http://www.keenspace.com/forums/eek.gif">------------------
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Zodo · Post by **Zodo** » Tue Nov 13, 2001 2:53 am

Good lord! I never thought I'd see an Aquanet Big-hair mullet before.The scary part is that the woman looks like my sister...Though in the eighties, my sister was shaving half her head, and dying the rest of her hair Magenta.Even though I was the elder, I went through the second half of High School known as "Kelly's brother".-Zodo, CI
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Cannonshop · Post by **Cannonshop** » Tue Nov 13, 2001 3:47 am

Ehhh!!! Wanna know what's really scary? I saw something quite similar yesterday, going down the street.
It's enough to make one nostalgic for the '90's again... (bad drum solo.)
What comes next? are we going to see a return of "dumb college" movies? Is Jerry Falwell going to come back from the outer darkness to discredit all non-liberals by claiming them as his own? Will (male) musicians start wearing more makeup, frillies, and pantyhose than the ladies, while playing dimwitted love ballads and singing in falsetto? How far will our civilization fall in this resurgence of the recently slain eighties? To Arms, I say!!! We drove back the hordes of the Seventies last year, can we find a weapon to lay to rest Disco's little brother (Glam Rock, Aka "hair bands"...) before Jon Bon Jovi decides to do a reunion tour!!! ARRRRGGHHHHH!!!

ZOMBIE USER 195 · Post by **ZOMBIE USER 195** » Tue Nov 13, 2001 4:03 am

<BLOCKQUOTE>quote:<HR>before Jon Bon Jovi decides to do a reunion tour!!! ARRRRGGHHHHH!!![/B]<HR></BLOCKQUOTE>Actually, BonJovi's still together, with a new album out that's quite good (except for the few ballads on it; those are the usual ickness). No more bighair though, thank goodness.I know I know. You all HATE hairbands. And that Poison Greatest Hits you own? Oh right. "It's my girlfriend's." <IMG SRC="http://www.keenspace.com/forums/biggrin.gif">That above link was pretty frightening, by the way. Mullet Mindy..?[This message has been edited by thefiretrap (edited 11-13-2001).]

PolyWitch · Post by **PolyWitch** » Tue Nov 13, 2001 8:59 am

Well, since you brought the '80s up, prepare to be totally horrified:
<A HREF="http://www.sillygirl.com/pictures.php?PSerial=50" TARGET=_blank>http://www.sillygirl.com/pictures.php?PSerial=50</A> ------------------
--PolyWitch
Well armed pacifist

Joshnickerson · Post by **Joshnickerson** » Wed Nov 14, 2001 6:49 am

<BLOCKQUOTE>quote:<HR>before Jon Bon Jovi decides to do a reunion tour!!! ARRRRGGHHHHH!!![/B]<HR></BLOCKQUOTE>Hey, I LIKE Bon Jovi!------------------
- Josh Nickerson
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"We can stay up late, swappin' manly stories, and in the mornin', I'm makin' WAFFLES." - Donkey

Steve-o · Post by **Steve-o** » Thu Nov 15, 2001 2:52 am

<BLOCKQUOTE>quote:<HR>Originally posted by thefiretrap:
And that Poison Greatest Hits you own? Oh right. "It's my girlfriend's." <IMG SRC="http://www.keenspace.com/forums/biggrin ... UOTE>No! It's playing in my CD player torturing my co-workers! Along with DEVO's Greatest Hits and Journey!!
~Steve-o
80's Child and recovering "Great Space Coaster" watcher.

ZOMBIE USER 1304 · Post by **ZOMBIE USER 1304** » Thu Nov 15, 2001 7:56 am

Well, since you brought the '80s up, prepare to be totally horrified: <A HREF="http://www.sillygirl.com/pictures.php?PSerial=50" TARGET=_blank>http://www.sillygirl.com/pictures.php?PSerial=50</A>
---------------------oh
my
god........
~jason

ZOMBIE USER 195 · Post by **ZOMBIE USER 195** » Fri Nov 16, 2001 1:41 am

To Cannonshop:I'm sending Teddy after you. He ate Jon BonJovi's hair, Sammy Hagar's, and YOU'RE next. BWA-HA! <IMG SRC="http://www.keenspace.com/forums/biggrin.gif">I can understand your hatred for glamrock, though. I can relate in my loathing of ska and swing (overplayed at me in college; especially during my art labs).I still like most glamrock though. My only explanation is that it's a nostalgia thing. I don't listen to all of it (the ballads? Um,no.), nor do I listen to it all the time. If I did, BJ'D probably would've broken up with me long ago. The lyrics are usually putrid, but I've always loved electric guitars in any form.And I will never ever have a Mindy Mullet (tm). <IMG SRC="http://www.keenspace.com/forums/biggrin.gif">(as a self-indulgent plug; The new Rob Zombie album's coooool. If you liked Hellbilly, anyways...)

Cannonshop · Post by **Cannonshop** » Fri Nov 16, 2001 4:32 am

Sorry, "During" the 80's, I didn't like Bon Jovi... I listened to Black Sabbath, Dio, Metallica (when they were halfway decent, i.e. when Cliff Burton was still alive...), and all those other bands that didn't get played anywhere but "Z-Rock" (an institution no longer in existence out here...) My SISTER liked Hairband Rock (and she played it constantly enough that I developed a strong dislike for it...)
For those of you too young (or sheltered) to understand what "Glam" is:1. The lead singer usually has better hair than his female fans, and more makeup.
2. at least half the album is "Power Ballads", these are kind of like "Shoujo Manga" for the hearing, include long, overcomplicated guitar solos at some point (apparently in an effort to maintain the credibility the band loses by dressing up in $1500 worth of rhinestones and silk...)
3. ALL of the songs are either 'Love songs', or, pretentions 'Rock 'n Roll lifestyle' songs, it's kind of like Journey on crack...
4. The Vocalist pretends to have a range by singing most of it in falsetto, followed by periods where he drops into using his "real" voice (Usually trying to sound "serious")
5. In spite of the copied from Van Halen string hammering, the whole album is done in a 4/4 beat, your average Bassist can play it while sleeping.
5. Finally: The music can rarely stand up on its own- Hair Bands need Music Videos, since their stuff is usually loud Muzak- background noise lacking almost anything interesting.
6. Oh, and the Band has to have a name that sounds "cool", or, a very good publicist.During the Eighties, these bozos, playing pretty much generic stuff,on MTV, made REAL Metal change its name to "Thrash", "Speed-Metal", and, in the '90s, "Grunge" and, "Hardcore". This was to separate the form from the Hollywood Panzies in their candy-colored costumes, high-heels, and pouffy hair....And now you know.
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tired......

Jackiesfridge · Post by **Jackiesfridge** » Fri Nov 16, 2001 8:18 am

<BLOCKQUOTE>quote:<HR>Originally posted by Steve-o:
80's Child and recovering "Great Space Coaster" watcher. <HR></BLOCKQUOTE>Heh...anyone remember "New Zoo Revue"?-Shannon

ZOMBIE USER 1304 · Post by **ZOMBIE USER 1304** » Fri Nov 16, 2001 9:05 am

quote:
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Originally posted by Steve-o:
80's Child and recovering "Great Space Coaster" watcher.
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------Heh...anyone remember "New Zoo Revue"?-ShannonYES!!! I can hear the theme song in my head now, thanks Shannon. <IMG SRC="http://www.keenspace.com/forums/smile.gif">~jason

Cannonshop · Post by **Cannonshop** » Fri Nov 16, 2001 9:28 am

<BLOCKQUOTE>quote:<HR>Originally posted by thefiretrap:
To Cannonshop:I'm sending Teddy after you. He ate Jon BonJovi's hair, Sammy Hagar's, and YOU'RE next. BWA-HA! <IMG SRC="http://www.keenspace.com/forums/biggrin.gif">I can understand your hatred for glamrock, though. I can relate in my loathing of ska and swing (overplayed at me in college; especially during my art labs).I still like most glamrock though. My only explanation is that it's a nostalgia thing. I don't listen to all of it (the ballads? Um,no.), nor do I listen to it all the time. If I did, BJ'D probably would've broken up with me long ago. The lyrics are usually putrid, but I've always loved electric guitars in any form.And I will never ever have a Mindy Mullet (tm). <IMG SRC="http://www.keenspace.com/forums/biggrin.gif">(as a self-indulgent plug; The new Rob Zombie album's coooool. If you liked Hellbilly, anyways...)<HR></BLOCKQUOTE>I liked "Hellbilly Deluxe" very much, but, I also liked "Astrocreep-2000"...
I think I was a little "strong" in expressing my opinion, actually, but, I agree with you on "Ska" and "swing", to an extent. I think maybe a better way for me to clarify would be thus: "I don't Hate Glamrock, I'm just Still Sick of Glamrock. Some of it was actually quite well made (early Def Leppard, virtually any Iron Maiden up to "Powerslave", Early Sammy Hagar (and who could forget, Van Halen With David Lee Roth...), but, for the most part, I can't sit through very much of it without grinding my teeth, because I heard it so often Everywhere when it was new.
Ska, on the other hand, in my own, humble, opinion, is "Whiteguy Reggae". Not being a Reggae fan myself, I hear the stuff, and think "Vanilla Ice meets Milli Vanilli".
Ick.
while Swing makes me think of my Grandmother's house, when I was but a wee lad, and I really can't believe that anyone under the age of Sixty really listens to it for Pleasure... Then again, I'm weird.
Go figure...