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Member the 80's
Ohhhhhh, I remember the 80's. I Loved the 80's.
Member Gremlins. Ohhhh!! Gremlins..I loved Jerry Goldsmith.
Member E.T. Ohhhh!! E.T...I member John Williams.
Member Heartbeeps!! Ohhhh, no one remembers Heartbeeps!!
Member?
not only do I remember Heartbeeps (love the movie as well) but now I have the music in my head.
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Oct 18, 2016 - 2:36 PM
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Rameau
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In many ways it was a fantastic decade for me, bought my first house, got a great job, plus other stuff, but I don't remember it with that much pleasure, I suppose it's because the music & movies were crap.
That kind of lazy generalisation always makes me laugh. The 80s were no different from any other decade. There was some crap music and movies and also some good music and movies. Just like every other.
What complete rubbish. That decade, like every other decade can only be judged by me as I experience it. If I think most of the films & music in the eighties were crap, then as far as I'm concerned they were crap. You probably think differently, fine. Things aren't as they are, they're as we individually experience them. If I went down the line of your lazy thinking then I wouldn't be allowed to dislike or trash anything.
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Member? I thought this was a contact thread for Stefan!!
Kev clickbait alert.
And Thonas, be a good chap and stop riling your football thread brother.
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My "wonder years." Teens and early 20s. I was already a confirmed "New 1970s Hollywood" fan by 1981, so I didn't care for the change in movie styles as the 1980s went on, but I've grown to enjoy a lot of it (both American and non- movies) now that the '80s style has become "antique." Favorites include Brazil, Down By Law, Altered States, Nostalghia, Excalibur, Raising Arizona, The Unbearable Lightness of Being, After Hours, Mishima, Paris Texas, The Right Stuff, Gallipoli and Field of Dreams. I was heavily into film music early on in the 1980s, then lost interest for awhile (save for a few outstanding scores such as Glass' Mishima and Carl Davis' The Rainbow), then got back into an enthusiastic "mode" by 1990/91 with the help of this mimeographed newsletter by some kid named Lukas Kendall...
A lot of pop 80s music is derided, but I still like the best of it. Obviously there is a nostalgia factor for me, but the better things (Prince, Elvis Costello, Madness, PSB, David Bowie [his 80s stuff is underrated], Bryan Ferry, Style Council, UTFO, Talking Heads, Depeche Mode, Tears for Fears, OMD, Morris Day and The Time, Peter Gabriel, The Bus Boys, and many others) hold up splendidly.
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Oct 18, 2016 - 4:54 PM
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Howard L
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Whoo-hoo-hoo Thor, you are giving me a slew of straight lines to work with. However, will save for another day. And thread. 
Per Spector reference, and other threads, my music is the 60s. You grow up with The Four Seasons, The Beatles, the whole British Invasion, Motown, The Doors, the Beach Boys, etc. and it just doesn't get any better. For most youths on this side of the drink, their music is the music of high school years. Not mine. No, mine is the music of my older siblings' high school years. Disco was starting to hit near the end of my high school years. 'Nuf said.
And yet my pop music taste has always been eclectic. I was just as prone to listen to jazz/big band. That was my folks' music. Am just as crazy over Nat Cole, Bobby Darin, Sinatra, Ella Fitzgerald and Judy Garland. Patsy Cline. And Blondie. Carly Simon. Even, at times, Elton John. Billy Joel.
Always have been, always will.
As to the 80s, that sound is what it is. Even in some of the 70s, like 10 CC's I'm Not In Love. Give me time, more will come to mind. A film music ambiance? Yeah! From M. Jarre's The Year Of Living Dangerously to J. Nitzsche's Starman to whatever film when Andrew McCarthy made his entrance with something that sounded like a dash of T. Newman. Perhaps one of our younger 'members' can help me identify that one.
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Of course, not a SINGLE one of you get the South Park reference in the OP.
I shouldn't be surprised, though....
i did. Because you told us in the 4th post in.
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