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Ciaran Laval
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10-13-2007 16:06
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Jig Chippewa
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10-13-2007 16:14
I listen to Virgin radio or have Indie Pop on. BUT (I was 12 when 80s ended) I like 80s "stuff" - people looked so cool in a cute way. Music was dense and packed. I have lovely bags from 80s in real. You people from 80s are very retro-fashionable even when you speak. I also love your morals and you kinda earthy sweetness. Old Hippies are rather fragile to my way of thinking. My SL husband/partner is actually 64 in real so I guess he predates hippies.
But looking at this thread and reading between lines, I just realize that I talk often to people older than me and that is why I am often confounded by their replies. _____________________
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Har Fairweather
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10-13-2007 17:54
the 80s a low point in music? youre insane. the crap that has been recorded in the past decade PALES to what was happening in the 80's. Agree, in spades. It's all been downhill since Igor Stravinsky - and that's not even considering what's happened to the pop scene. Methinks we should go back to a basic set of log drums and Pan's pipes, and start all over again O.O |
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Har Fairweather
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10-13-2007 17:58
Awww, but the guys wore more makeup than the girls! And looked prettier! Yeah, I like some of the music.. but not the styles. Those make me want to put spikes in the shoulder pads... Waddya talking about? The Eighties were the Reagan Era - and Papa Bush. Guys' make-up?! Where were you? Charitably, behind the scenes in Hollywood or a Broadway theater. Otherwise, Greenwich Village, and no more than two blocks from Christopher Street? San Francisco? Vanity Fair magazine or one of their cosmetics company advertisers? Sheesh. |
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Brenda Connolly
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10-13-2007 17:59
Agree, in spades. It's all been downhill since Igor Stravinsky - and that's not even considering what's happened to the pop scene. Methinks we should go back to a basic set of log drums and Pan's pipes, and start all over again O.O Yeah, that Friggin Glenn Miller screwed it up for all of us _____________________
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Victorria Paine
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10-13-2007 18:01
Waddya talking about? The Eighties were the Reagan Era - and Papa Bush. Guys' make-up?! Where were you? Charitably, behind the scenes in Hollywood or a Broadway theater. Otherwise, Greenwich Village, and no more than two blocks from Christopher Street? San Francisco? Vanity Fair magazine or one of their cosmetics company advertisers? Sheesh. Ohhhhh... the boys in Duran Duran wore tons of makeup .. they were prettier than many girls hehe .... and others too .. Robert Smith comes to mind ... |
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Joaz Janus
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10-13-2007 18:06
The 80's were a wonderful decade for Music.
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Brenda Connolly
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10-13-2007 18:10
The 80's were a wonderful decade for Music. Brahms, Wagner, Dvorak.............. Ah ....The memories..............The Memories. Yes, it opened up a whole "New World" _____________________
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Dytska Vieria
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10-13-2007 18:57
The 80's were the most interesting time of all ages. It was the end of communism and the beginning of freedom for many people. Don't complain!
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Luth Brodie
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10-13-2007 19:08
All of you ignored the 1 post about how the 80's style is "in" IRL and has been for at least a few years now. I don't even pay attention but with the large amount of people with mullets and huge off one shoulder sweaters, it's pretty hard to miss. SL trends follow RL trends.
Actually it isn't even just mimicing 80's fashion, the cinema trends are in the same direction. Most of it is crap escapisim with a high amount of speculative fiction. Then you have the current "me" generation that is a lot like yuppie club scene. _____________________
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Bodhisatva Paperclip
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10-13-2007 19:14
No time to read all the preceding responses but I'll assume they echo my assessment: The Eighties were the absolute zenith in music and style on planet Earth.
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Teeny Leviathan
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10-13-2007 19:37
No time to read all the preceding responses but I'll assume they echo my assessment: The Eighties were the absolute zenith in music and style on planet Earth. I dunno. The 80's gave us the following: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plymouth_Reliant http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Small_Wonder_%28TV_series%29 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milli_Vanilli http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Over_the_Top Every era has its asterisks.  _____________________
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Colette Meiji
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10-13-2007 19:39
Oh please after the demise of Ska and Punk and until the emergence of indie, music in the eighties was largely a huge steaming pile of pants, Stock, Aitkien and Waterman have a lot to answer for. guess pile of pants does work for the 80's Look at the hair bands and that spandex yum. then of course theres always ... HAMMER TIME! |
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Maggie McArdle
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10-13-2007 20:17
I dunno. The 80's gave us the following: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plymouth_Reliant http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Small_Wonder_%28TV_series%29 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milli_Vanilli http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Over_the_Top Every era has its asterisks. oh hey now Small wonder was umm .... kinda good ..after a few bon.....ummmm i liked it  _____________________
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Colette Meiji
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10-13-2007 20:27
I dunno. The 80's gave us the following: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plymouth_Reliant http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Small_Wonder_%28TV_series%29 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milli_Vanilli http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Over_the_Top Every era has its asterisks. I liked that song "Blame it on the rain" by Milli Vanilli, I was bummed when that all came out. |
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Raudf Fox
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10-13-2007 20:39
Ohhhhh... the boys in Duran Duran wore tons of makeup .. they were prettier than many girls hehe .... and others too .. Robert Smith comes to mind ... Boy George... Most of them at least had eyeliner, by the tons. I was young enough to wonder whether Boy George was a girl or a guy. I mean, he wore enough makeup, much more than I'd ever found in my mom's makeup case. _____________________
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Brenda Connolly
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10-13-2007 20:43
Boy George... Most of them at least had eyeliner, by the tons. I was young enough to wonder whether Boy George was a girl or a guy. I mean, he wore enough makeup, much more than I'd ever found in my mom's makeup case. And he kinda looked like my Aunt Margaret too. _____________________
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Raymond Figtree
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10-13-2007 20:48
Downhill since '71.
In 71, the following were peaking: Allman Bros, the Who, Led Zep, Grateful Dead and the Stones. And for the record, the best album of the 80's, London Calling, was recorded in '79. _____________________
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Susie Boffin
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10-13-2007 20:58
I am guessing that people who like 80's music are engaged in wishful thinking. There was the Dire Straits but that was about it.
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Tegg Bode
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10-13-2007 21:12
Music has gone down hill since the disco era of the '70s. Yep it's all been downhil since the 1800's really Bullcrap mate, Music is just as good as it ever was, and now more artists are getting a go than in the last 20 years, where many good bands failed. Checkout SpaceJunky sometime inworld, top music from recents artists, I like my 70's, 80's, 90's and 00's music even though I was born in late 60's _____________________
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10-13-2007 21:14
guess pile of pants does work for the 80's Look at the hair bands and that spandex yum. then of course theres always ... HAMMER TIME! You can't touch this! _____________________
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Jig Chippewa
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10-13-2007 22:14
Excuse me for saying this but you all REALLY miss the 80s don't you? It's kinda neat to hear you all talk about it like being interviewed for PBS documentary. Soon you all be singing Abba songs and talking about TV shows. Carry on .. I wait for more memories of the way you were ...
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Colette Meiji
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10-13-2007 22:18
Excuse me for saying this but you all REALLY miss the 80s don't you? It's kinda neat to hear you all talk about it like being interviewed for PBS documentary. Soon you all be singing Abba songs and talking about TV shows. Carry on .. I wait for more memories of the way you were ... I heard "Dancing Queen" on the radio yesterday and caught myself singing along |
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Phoenix Psaltery
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10-13-2007 22:21
Cyndi Lauper would fit right in in SL, pink hair and all.
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Jig Chippewa
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10-13-2007 22:22
Okay, what foods did people eat back then? I mean, what were popular? Right now I drink a power drink after my gym workout - did you people have such things? What do you remember?
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