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"Gag Me" (with a spoon)

"OK Fine, Fer Sure, Fer Sure, She's a Valley Girl and there is no cure"
Frank Zappa, as sung my his daughter, Moon Unit Zappa

On Punk and New Wave

"Students were seen walking through the halls as though they had just landed from outer space." (1981) Highschool Yearbook

80's Chick Flicks - Flashdance/Footloose/Pretty In Pink

"Generation Xers have accomplished a lot of things. And they have done it, in most cases, with nobody older and more experienced to help them."

RETRO-SPECTIVE

1980s Fads and Culture

The 80s were a hangover in reverse. After the Peace, Love and Tofu of the 70s, mellow was suddenly out and Big, Loud and Rich was the name of the game. The Baby Boomers who were rebelling against the establishment in the late 60s and 70s suddenly found that they were now the establishment, and that the bigger their own establishment was, the better.

GenX, the much smaller and largely ignored generation that followed the Boomers, was approaching adulthood. (We didn't officially get a name until the 90s.)

"Boomers are a uniquely self-absorbed generation," he said. "That's not a criticism. It's just true. They are into their own issues - like turning 50 or handling this ascent to power." Tulgan said baby boomers haven't been very charitable to the generation that follows them. "You would think they would be extremely sensitive, that they would think, 'I had it rough when I was a kid. I was a disgruntled twenty-something too. I know where they're coming from,"' said Tulgan. "But they haven't. And Generation X is really being misunderstood because of it.""

Stuff that was BIG in the 1980s:
(In no particular order)
  1. The Go Gos
  2. Ronald Reagan
  3. Frankie Goes To Hollywood
  4. Flash Dance
  5. DEVO
  6. Madonna
  7. Leg Warmers
  8. Headbands
  9. Big Hair
  10. New Wave
  11. Oingo Boingo
  12. Prince
  13. Thriller
  14. Break Dancing
  15. The Walkman
  16. Short Poofy Skirts
  17. Big Shoulder Pads
  18. Journey
  19. Foreigner
  20. Dallas
  21. Dynasty
  22. Falcon Crest
  23. Threat of Nuclear War
  24. The Arms Race
  25. Mikhail Gorbachev
  26. Rocky Sequels
  27. Duran Duran
  28. Pretenders
  29. Terminator
  30. Jazzercise
  31. The KGB
  32. Olivia Newton John (Again)
  33. Sheena Easton
  34. Pat Benatar
  35. Cyndi Lauper (Girls Just Wanna Have Fun!)
  36. The Japanese
  37. Turning Japanese
  38. Real Estate
  39. Savings and Loan Scandals
  40. Greed
  41. Investment Banking
  42. Corporate Raiding
  43. Jane Fonda (Again)
  44. Tiffany
  45. Debbie Gibson
  46. Flock of Seagulls
  47. Wham
  48. MADD
  49. Leveraged Buyouts
  50. Gordon Gekko (Not the little green lizard...)
  51. Nancy Reagan
  52. Red
  53. Cocaine
  54. Bill Cosby
  55. The Cosby Show
  56. Desperately Seeking Susan

 

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"Da dada, da Da dada" Oh Blake, I want to give you a child!" "Oh Crystal, my name's Charlie! And These Are My Girls!" (oops). "Oh Crystal, I'll get right on that! But first, let me go stop ColbyCo from destroying my empire, catch my gay son in bed with his boyfriend, and my ex-wife in bed with her pool boy!" (Pauses, turns) "Oh, btw, I invited Tony Nelson and his wife Jeanie to dinner...Funny thing, he calls himself JR these days! Make something good for dinner, will you?"


Dallas premiered April 2, 1978 and was last aired: May 3, 1991. Dallas epitomized the 80s.

Totally Awesome 80s.
Totally Awesome 80s: A Lexicon of the Music, Videos, Movies, TV Shows, Stars, and Trends of That Decadent Decade


80s Bond

  1. For Your Eyes Only (1981
  2. Octopussy (1983)
  3. Never Say Never Again (1983)
  4. A View To A Kill (1985)
  5. Goldfinger (1986)

 		      
1980's Movies at the IMDB