1) Top Gun
2) Birthday parties at McDonalds
3) Growing Pains
4) Four channels, and one replaces cartoons with a funeral home airing gospel music on Saturday morning
5) Jams shorts
6) Go-Bots
7) Andre the Giant turning on Hulk Hogan
8) Press Your Luck (awesome show, but the Whammy scared me half to death)
9) Victor Newman
10) The late 80s Braves and Yankees
11) Joe Thiesman's knee injury + Tim Krumnie's knee injury
12) The first time you asked your mom for Nike Air Revolutions and she said "$120 for shoes? What about these sweet Roos?"
13) Roos
14) The Showcase Showdown with the furniture
15) Mr. Claw
16) Cobra Commander
17) Star Scream
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I mean this is the same guy that doesn't like cheese so...
The hair.
The music. (EDIT 2: except for the rise of punk rock)
The cars.
The clothes.
EDIT: and the architecture. The 80s was a visual disaster.
Thank you. I had a hard time resisting the urge to tell everyone in the other thread that the 80s sucked. Glad I'm not the only one who thought so.
I have a few things from the 80s I liked, mostly I think the movies were fairly adventurous for the time and pushed cinema to new heights, pro wrestling was still gritty but started to realize the value of storylines, but other than that, the 80s sucked. I think the 80s even created AIDS.
Nah, that actually started at the end of the 70s.
I may be biased, as I grew up in the 90s, but they blow the doors off the 80s in every sense except cinema (movie studies tried to replace plot with special effects and CGI). The 90s brought:
1) The freaking internet (AOL discs in the mail for 10 FREE HOURS, LOL)
2) Cell phones
3) The computer OS as we know it
(while the first 3 may not have been invented in the 90s, they were made fit for public consumption in the 90s)
4) The pinnacle of hip-hop
5) The pinnacle of R&B
6) The pinnacle of Grunge
7) Possibly the pinnacle of Alternative Rock ["Rock" moved to emo in 2000s]
8) Possibly the pinnacle of heavy metal
9) The 1999 Women's World Cup (Brandi Chastain's PK)
10) The 1996 Olympics in Atlanta (Kerry Strug securing the gold on one good leg, Michael Johnson shattering records)
11) The 1992 Dream Team
12) The 1994 Men's World Cup in the US
13) MJ at his peak and the Bulls dynasty
14) The Spade, Farley, Sandler, Rock years of SNL
15) The NWO vs everyone years of WWE/WWF
16) Actually getting to party like its 1999
17) Mike Vick at VT and a Natty Championship run
18) The 1995 Sugar Bowl
Argue amongst yourselves if the rise in Starbucks, CVSs, and Rite-Aids across the street from each other was good
Lowlights:
1) Rodney King and the LA Riots
2) OJ
3) Dallas Cowboys and NY Yankees bandwagon fans
4) Y2k fears
5) Peak Boy Bands
6) Rise of participation trophies and then the kids being blamed for them like they bought them for themselves
You forgot on the good 90s list the Rangers winning the Stanley Cup.
Fellow 90s kid here, and you're damn right
Many good points here, but I can't imagine 90s beats out 80s for peak metal. I don't think I'd even put it ahead of the 70s for that category.
The "Big Four" were at their peaks in the late '80s so hard to argue with that.
Chaka Khan
Downvote for that one...Chaka is a queen..
If she were a queen, she'd make better music. IJS
Agree to disagree...I haven't listened to every one of her songs, but I respect her enough to know that a lot of people did and that she can blow..just like Donna Summer
French60wasp
And we thought the Tavien Feaster thread needed to be burnt to the ground.....
Mullets
We Built This City by Starship
Cassette Tapes
Those baggy pajama looking pants
Probably the highest percentage of baseball stadiums using Astroturf
We went 9-2 in 1983 and didn't get a bowl bid
The cars. Most all of them just looked terrible and performed miserably.
Performance drop caused by two things that sucked in the 70s, the 1973 and 1979 oil crises.
Worst of the worst...Chrysler K cars & the Yugo.
And Renault
This one ran pretty well:
But the band The Cars was really good.
The second worst band I ever saw live.....(worst was Sevendust.....)
When WangChung opens up for you and kicks your ass......you've got a problem.
Dirty Dancing
Building Construction
A good chunk of Dirty Dancing was filmed at Mountain Lake right down the road from Tech...a couple of Hokies friends worked on the set there... I can't say this was a bad movie..
I lived in Giles County during school and again 26 years later on, and I can assure you that an awful lot of people come to Mt. Lake just because of the film. Giles promotes it as much as it can. I wouldn't call it a bad movie, either, but mostly because I always liked Patrick S. It was a young love/teenish flick that hit enough nerves to still be talked about, though.
Son of a bitch made this just to put Top Gun on there.
He put it there because secretly thinks it's the best thing. Better than the Iron Eagle series. And he's psyched about the upcoming sequel. [dives behind couch]
HADES BOMB
Better than Iron Eagle? I would take Louis Gossett Jr. against Dennis Hopper..any day of the week..
You are damn right you will. Plus, Chappie picks Steve Winwood to blow stuff up to.
Louis Gossett Jr makes a good President.
Wish he was. no/s
Probably
Aids, Apartheid, and the Cold War if we're being literal.
We're not.. ;-)
I actually liked Go-Bots. They were the size of matchbox cars and could truly be robots in disguise, while transformers were never the same scale as anything else.
And Andre turning on Hogan was a pivotal life lesson akin to your father saying to jump into his arms and then letting you drop to teach you that "you can never really trust anyone." Height of drama.
I'm sorry....this is actually a thing??? it was thrown in here so casually
The fact that you believe this is a real thing proves that your father never taught you this valuable lesson.
That was the first wrestling angle I can remember and it upset me greatly. Although Windham turning on Lugar a year later was much more elegant and well done.
That they ended 😭
sorry everyone i'm actually also somehow the worst thing to come out of the 80s
Shoulder pads and Richard Simmon's shorts. Well, Richard Simmons period.
Boy George
Do you really want to hurt me?
Karma Chameleon
You come & go.
I was actually OK with BG.
Decent lyrics, and catchy tunes.
Pop with weird hair.
aka The 80s
I must have read the title wrong, because this is surely a list of the BEST things about the 80s! I mean, Jams says it all, right there! Man, did I wear out some jams in middle school!
The best is the other thread.
Am I the only one that was shocked to see birthday parties at McD's on this list but not birthday parties at Chuck E Cheese?
We didn't have a Cheese. We had Pizza Hut (and later Swieragans.) McDonalds parties were the worst
Really? Were you guys Deadwood?
Not Chuck E. Cheese, but Showbiz
The only reason those kids are smiling is because they haven't seen the nightmare haunting creature behind them.
Almost any video by a pop British band in MTV...OK, looking back... almost ANY video on MTV!
How can anyone not like this video? There is a stuffed squirrel playing a smoking pipe for the sax solo!
Layered izods.
Break Dancing and boom boxes.
55 MPH speed limits.
Raising the drinking age right before I got there.
Don't hate on Turbo and Ozone now...
Joanie Loves Chachi. Seriously... What the fuck?
It was sort if stated above... Anything Richard Simmons. No. I'm not sweating to the oldies. I'm sweating because you are an alien.
The term "Yuppie". It's not a bad thing to dress nice and drive a BMW.
"The Facts of LIfe". Enough said.
Trying to record songs off of the radio while the DJ is talking during the first and last 10 seconds of the song because that motherfucker KNOWS what I'm trying to do.
Aqua Net. Damn, girl. Your hair needs to be a little bigger.
Acid washed jeans. From the time when Levi's was on acid.
Except it did have Jo Polniaczek...
And it did manage to spawn a sequel...
Other than that, I agree, it was trash.
Jo was definitely cooler, and way more attractive than Blair.
I'll choose the Mary Anne over Ginger every time.
Nope on Aqua Net. We need it to shoot the potato gun, man.
negative on the facts of life..i liked Blair and Tootie..
We lost John Lennon & John Belushi.
and John Bonham
And Bon Scott (for those about to rock, we salute).