June 23, 2011
— Ace Miserable. As Miserable as the end of the Carter/Reagan recession, with one big difference: At this point in Reagan's term, we were about to post a quarter of 10.9% GDP growth and grow (with one brief pause) through the end of Clinton's second term.
Andy notes "break out the parachute pants and the Madonna cassettes." Indeed, that's an excellent way of noting, in a tangible way, exactly how long it's been since it was this bad.
And I can't resist posting 80s videos anyway.
Pulling from this list, the Misery Index has not been this high since the below songs ruled the radio.
By the way, I'm including a few bad songs too, because it's bad songs that date things. Good songs tend to stick around for a long time and thus don't particularly implicate a time, while bad songs are quickly forgotten.
So when you hear Gloria, you know: Oh, right. That was 1983.
It hasn't been this bad since people bought Laura Brannigan's album, Brannigan.
Oh, and a pair of economically-themed songs from 1983. 1, a song that conjures the Great Depression ( the "uncensored" version of this song; it seems to have some blackface).
And then a really awful song, but so on point.
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One of these songs better end up being "Everyday I Write The Book" if it's 1983 we're talking about.
And I kind of liked that song "Gloria" when I was a kid.
Posted by: Jeff B. at June 23, 2011 11:58 AM (hIWe1)
Posted by: working_man at June 23, 2011 11:59 AM (Z+ze8)
Posted by: Bevel Lemelisk at June 23, 2011 12:00 PM (FkKjr)
Posted by: robtr at June 23, 2011 12:00 PM (MtwBb)
Posted by: laceyunderalls at June 23, 2011 12:00 PM (pLTLS)
Posted by: Meiczyslaw at June 23, 2011 12:00 PM (bjRNS)
Posted by: Mbruce at June 23, 2011 12:01 PM (Fr8N6)
Posted by: The Sixty Bajillionth Person To Say That at June 23, 2011 12:01 PM (2jb/z)
Posted by: EC at June 23, 2011 12:01 PM (GQ8sn)
Posted by: AmishDude at June 23, 2011 12:01 PM (T0NGe)
Posted by: Ted Kennedy's Gristle Encased Head at June 23, 2011 12:02 PM (+lsX1)
Posted by: Mbruce at June 23, 2011 12:03 PM (Fr8N6)
Posted by: Roy at June 23, 2011 12:03 PM (VndSC)
I was 15 in '83. I was fapping to that butch Quarterflash chick with the crooked eye. And every other female with a pulse.
Did I mention that I was 15?
Posted by: Damn Sockpuppet at June 23, 2011 12:03 PM (YmPwQ)
Posted by: BlackOrchid at June 23, 2011 12:04 PM (SB0V2)
Posted by: working_man at June 23, 2011 03:59 PM (Z+ze
If that's not your normal handle (and I apologize if it is), then the album you want to be referring to is Signals. That's the 1982 one.
Posted by: Meiczyslaw at June 23, 2011 12:04 PM (bjRNS)
*Remember Rave, ladies?
Posted by: laceyunderalls at June 23, 2011 12:04 PM (pLTLS)
ROTJ was the beginning of the suck.
Posted by: Waterhouse at June 23, 2011 12:05 PM (IdoRk)
Posted by: Damn Sockpuppet at June 23, 2011 12:05 PM (YmPwQ)
Posted by: Ted Kennedy's Gristle Encased Head at June 23, 2011 12:06 PM (+lsX1)
Posted by: Waterhouse at June 23, 2011 04:05 PM (IdoRk)
Bear in mind you are posting at an Ewok's blog...
Posted by: Bevel Lemelisk at June 23, 2011 12:06 PM (FkKjr)
Posted by: laceyunderalls at June 23, 2011 12:06 PM (pLTLS)
Posted by: AoSHQ's *second* worst commenter, DarkLord© at June 23, 2011 12:06 PM (GBXon)
Posted by: Roy at June 23, 2011 04:03 PM (VndSC)
Now it's the opposite. Sort of.
Posted by: AmishDude at June 23, 2011 12:07 PM (T0NGe)
OT: Catholics? arrested in attempted terrorist attack at recruiting station in Seattle.
Posted by: robtr at June 23, 2011 04:00 PM (MtwBb)
I'm calling bullshit. All we do is molest our altar servers. Those guys must have been Methodists or something. After all, they had filthy scandi names. mI can smell the lutefisk from here.
Posted by: Josef K. is a mackerel snappin' papist idolator at June 23, 2011 12:07 PM (7+pP9)
On the contrary:
Luke join the dark side.
I'll never join you.
Luke join the dark side.
I'll never join you.
Luke join the dark side.
I'm totally convinced now that you put it that way.
Posted by: Radio Star at June 23, 2011 12:08 PM (usXZy)
Posted by: Spurwing Warden at June 23, 2011 12:08 PM (HzhBE)
The NEW! Democrat/media lie-meme: The R's are sabotaging the economy! riiiight. Meanwhile, the democrats continue to worship at the altar of tax increases and more spending.
Posted by: Lemon Kitten at June 23, 2011 12:08 PM (0fzsA)
Posted by: Iron Balls McGinty at June 23, 2011 12:08 PM (Gkhxf)
Posted by: willow at June 23, 2011 12:09 PM (h+qn8)
It hasn't been this bad since people bought Laura Brannigan's album, Brannigan.
What do you think caused the crash in the first place?
Posted by: nickless at June 23, 2011 12:09 PM (MMC8r)
No, I've got my head in my hands. I'm sure it's my people again this time.
Posted by: AmishDude at June 23, 2011 12:09 PM (T0NGe)
Posted by: MuNuvians at June 23, 2011 12:09 PM (usXZy)
Posted by: Waterhouse at June 23, 2011 04:09 PM (IdoRk)
It's you. Embrace it.
Posted by: Sasquatch at June 23, 2011 12:10 PM (6rX0K)
83? hmmm....
Lets see... yep, my personal misery index was pretty high...
On October 23rd I lost some friends.... and then helped with the clean up... in Lebanon...
Then a bit later was told we'd be getting home late, because the folks who were supposed to be relieving us on station were invading Grenada... couldn't figure out why Reagan was invading Spain (hey, I was pretty young)....
So... I kinda missed most of the 'culture' of 83..
Posted by: Romeo13 at June 23, 2011 12:10 PM (NtXW4)
Posted by: SFGoth at June 23, 2011 12:10 PM (dZ756)
Posted by: Roy at June 23, 2011 12:11 PM (VndSC)
Barack Obama starring in Carter 2, Marxist Bugaloo.
Posted by: Warden at June 23, 2011 12:11 PM (HzhBE)
Posted by: mpfs, ewwwwwwww at June 23, 2011 12:11 PM (iYbLN)
Posted by: ace at June 23, 2011 12:11 PM (nj1bB)
I have that album (wife bought it back then).
1983 was actually a good year for me.
Posted by: Vic at June 23, 2011 12:11 PM (M9Ie6)
Posted by: Waterhouse at June 23, 2011 04:09 PM (IdoRk)
Yep, you have me beat.
Posted by: AmishDude at June 23, 2011 12:12 PM (T0NGe)
More like smart music blog, am I right?
(Also, it's too bad Billy Ocean didn't have an album in '83. He did in '82 and '84, though.)
Posted by: Lance McCormick, Hackneyed Comic at June 23, 2011 12:12 PM (zgHLA)
Posted by: Vic at June 23, 2011 12:12 PM (M9Ie6)
Posted by: t-bird at June 23, 2011 12:12 PM (2EEmX)
Electric Avenue. The horror! The horror!
I see the number one song of 1983 was Every Step You Take by the Police. Pretty much the same thing now except now its by Big Sis at DHS.
Posted by: WalrusRex at June 23, 2011 12:12 PM (jUZRg)
I like the googie 2 shoes video with the hair flick chick in glasses and the hotel room. meow.
wow - 80's wiplash.
Posted by: Lemon Kitten at June 23, 2011 12:12 PM (0fzsA)
Posted by: I Touch Myself at June 23, 2011 12:12 PM (wOaLi)
Posted by: Ted Kennedy's Gristle Encased Head
Oy. And they call me a monster!?!
Posted by: Sasquatch at June 23, 2011 12:12 PM (6rX0K)
Posted by: blaster at June 23, 2011 12:13 PM (l5dj7)
Posted by: laceyunderalls at June 23, 2011 04:04 PM (pLTLS)
Did that come in those HUGE ozone depleting cans?
Posted by: Red Shirt at June 23, 2011 12:13 PM (FIDMq)
Posted by: ace at June 23, 2011 12:14 PM (nj1bB)
Posted by: Waterhouse at June 23, 2011 04:09 PM (IdoRk)
iDork©. For the discerning Moron.
Wait, Apple's 1984 commercial is yet to come...
Posted by: AoSHQ's *second* worst commenter, DarkLord© at June 23, 2011 12:14 PM (GBXon)
Posted by: Barack Obama signing guestbook at June 23, 2011 12:14 PM (3nrx7)
Posted by: Vic
When did she pass? And of what?
Posted by: Sasquatch at June 23, 2011 12:14 PM (6rX0K)
Posted by: Stateless Infidel at June 23, 2011 12:14 PM (GKQDR)
Three weeks straight we get post after post with Hall & Oates. When it matters most? Nada. Pshaw.
Posted by: laceyunderalls at June 23, 2011 12:14 PM (pLTLS)
Posted by: BillyBob at June 23, 2011 12:14 PM (F0Pf9)
Posted by: t-bird at June 23, 2011 12:15 PM (2EEmX)
The symbol of the 80s for me and a lotta people is the disposable diaper
four little kids, one little bathroom. The Gold Old Days
Posted by: SantaRosaStan, an Gael at June 23, 2011 12:15 PM (UqKQV)
Hey, remember when we partnered with Run DMC on Walk This Way and mainstreamed rap music?
Bet you guys didn't think you'd be stuck listening to that ridiculous shit a full 25 years later, did you?
Sorry about that. We thought we were just capitalizing on a fad...you know like those neon windshield wiper things.
Actually, we're not sorry. We fat made money on that remake. That's all we give a fuck about anyway.
Posted by: Aerosmith at June 23, 2011 12:15 PM (HzhBE)
Posted by: laceyunderalls at June 23, 2011 12:16 PM (pLTLS)
Posted by: blaster at June 23, 2011 12:16 PM (l5dj7)
Posted by: toby928™ at June 23, 2011 12:16 PM (GTbGH)
Posted by: somebody else, not me at June 23, 2011 12:17 PM (7EV/g)
Posted by: Waterhouse at June 23, 2011 04:09 PM (IdoRk)
About time somebody gets a hash worse than mine.
Hellooooooooo, nurse!
Posted by: Meiczyslaw at June 23, 2011 12:18 PM (bjRNS)
Ah, good times. And by that I mean it totally sucked.
Posted by: Ace's liver at June 23, 2011 12:18 PM (QgI7g)
Posted by: steevy at June 23, 2011 12:18 PM (El+zA)
Posted by: Spurwing Warden at June 23, 2011 04:08 PM (HzhBE)
They're actually still around and making quite the comeback. There's a guy in the office here that wears em.
Posted by: © Sponge at June 23, 2011 12:18 PM (UK9cE)
Posted by: Dr Spank at June 23, 2011 12:18 PM (1fB+3)
Posted by: Texan Economist at June 23, 2011 12:18 PM (TC/9F)
I always liked Goodie Two Shoes, too.
And Dirty Laundry.
And Twilight Zone.
The rest of the list more or less sucks ass.
Posted by: mpurinTexas supports Rick Perry, bitch at June 23, 2011 12:18 PM (5d6vv)
Posted by: Jane D'oh at June 23, 2011 12:19 PM (UOM48)
Posted by: Chi-Town Jerry at June 23, 2011 12:19 PM (f9c2L)
Posted by: PugBoo at June 23, 2011 12:19 PM (20jXV)
Dude. I saw Bon Jovi open up for RATT, but it was in 1984, so not sure if it counts.
Posted by: Ted Kennedy's Gristle Encased Head at June 23, 2011 12:19 PM (+lsX1)
btw,
she blinded me with ass
Posted by: Soothsayer at June 23, 2011 04:18 PM (sqkOB)
They all do when you're that age.
Posted by: Ace's liver at June 23, 2011 12:20 PM (QgI7g)
Luke join the dark side.
I'll never join you.
Luke join the dark side.
I'll never join you.
Luke join the dark side.
I'm totally convinced now that you put it that way.
Posted by: Radio Star at June 23, 2011 04:08 PM (usXZy)
Compare with:
"I don't like sand. It's course and irritating and gets everywhere. Not like here. Here everything's...soft."
Posted by: Bevel Lemelisk at June 23, 2011 12:20 PM (FkKjr)
The original video had him being interviewed by a hot reporter chick. She was dressed up like a goody-two-shoes. AS the song went on, he broke her down until she had her hair down and was dirty dancing with him.
Significantly less homoerotic content.
Posted by: Iron Balls McGinty at June 23, 2011 12:20 PM (Gkhxf)
Posted by: Oldsailor's poet at June 23, 2011 12:21 PM (NtTkA)
Oh the horror! Posted by: PugBoo
...........
With knee socks and tight short shorts, right?
Posted by: Chi-Town Jerry at June 23, 2011 12:21 PM (f9c2L)
She died at home in bed of an undiagnosed brain aneurism in 2004. She was only 40 years old I think.
Posted by: Vic at June 23, 2011 12:21 PM (M9Ie6)
Posted by: phoenixgirl at June 23, 2011 12:21 PM (eOXTH)
Posted by: Waterhouse at June 23, 2011 04:09 PM (IdoRk)
That hash belongs to us. Copyright infringement. We're suing.
Posted by: Steve Jobs and his minnoion of dick-headed lawyers at June 23, 2011 12:21 PM (/U/Mr)
http://data.bls.gov/timeseries/LNS12300000
You know, until this year, 15 months or so into the magic Recovery from the Democrats stimulus... which is the lowest May since 1983... because recovery = fewer people working... at least now it means that.
Posted by: gekkobear at June 23, 2011 12:21 PM (X0NX1)
Posted by: FireHorse at June 23, 2011 12:21 PM (jAKfY)
Posted by: nevergiveup at June 23, 2011 12:22 PM (i6RpT)
Posted by: ace at June 23, 2011 12:22 PM (nj1bB)
You guys and all your adult memories of 1983. I was learning how to ride a bike.
You guys are old...
I don't get to say that nearly enough anymore, being in my 30's now, so let me relish it.
Posted by: yinzer at June 23, 2011 12:22 PM (/Mla1)
Oh the horror! Posted by: PugBoo
...........
With knee socks and tight short shorts, right?
Posted by: Chi-Town Jerry at June 23, 2011 04:21 PM (f9c2L)
Speaking of shorts... weren't dolphin shorts an 80s thing? So it wasn't all bad.
Posted by: Ace's liver at June 23, 2011 12:22 PM (QgI7g)
Posted by: Truman North at June 23, 2011 12:23 PM (K2wpv)
'83 was when I wrote my first VMS device driver. My life changed completely.
Also had my first encounter with RT-11. Also a mindbender.
Posted by: Anachronda at June 23, 2011 12:23 PM (xGZ+b)
1983? I graduated college.
Posted by: CUS at June 23, 2011 12:24 PM (84pE9)
Posted by: nevergiveup at June 23, 2011 04:22 PM (i6RpT)
I don't think you can top that without getting cancer or sumthin'.
Posted by: Ace's liver at June 23, 2011 12:24 PM (QgI7g)
I was only 12, but 1983 didn't seem that bad to me either..maybe because we could feel the tide turning with Reagan at the helm.
On a slightly separate topic- do you remember all those smart kid movies from the 80's? (War Games, The Manhattan Project, DARYL, heck, even Ferris Bueller, etc.). I just read that MTV is launching a show on high school drop-outs formatted on the same template as Teen Mom and Jersey Shore. What happened? It used to be cool to be smart, now its cool to make horrible decisions and be functionally retarded.
Posted by: shan2008 at June 23, 2011 12:24 PM (DB9eK)
Posted by: JAFKIAC at June 23, 2011 12:24 PM (h5nNz)
Posted by: yinzer at June 23, 2011 12:25 PM (/Mla1)
I saw Bon Jovi open up for RATT, but it was in 1984, so not sure if it counts.
Nope. Warm-up acts are never allowed to really show their stuff, and RATT was a drunken mess on stage back in '84.
Posted by: FireHorse at June 23, 2011 12:25 PM (jAKfY)
Replacements' Pleased to Meet Me was a good one from that era, with the Moron Lifestyle anthem "Gary's Got a Boner."
Posted by: T-Paw Comes Alive! at June 23, 2011 12:25 PM (K/USr)
~ 2011 quote from Erica Huerta, former Crist for Senate intern, during her post coitus incarceration.
Posted by: Damiano at June 23, 2011 12:25 PM (3nrx7)
Speaking of homoerotic... I know this was from 1984, but
Posted by: Truman North at June 23, 2011 12:25 PM (K2wpv)
Posted by: T at June 23, 2011 12:25 PM (z9Awt)
Posted by: The War Between the Undead States at June 23, 2011 12:26 PM (zgt4q)
I just hope we don't end up listing the hits of 1933
Posted by: weew at June 23, 2011 12:26 PM (l8YWh)
Posted by: Vic at June 23, 2011 12:27 PM (M9Ie6)
It was never cool to be smart. They didn't show it, but after Wargames ends Jenifer tells David she just wants to be friends and starts dating a biker dude.
Posted by: Ace's liver at June 23, 2011 12:27 PM (QgI7g)
Posted by: willow at June 23, 2011 12:27 PM (h+qn8)
Posted by: Kill Em All at June 23, 2011 12:27 PM (wOaLi)
... the Misery Index has not been this high since the below songs ruled the radio.
I need this like a knife in the back.
Posted by: Twisted Sister (1983) at June 23, 2011 12:28 PM (jAKfY)
Posted by: Vic at June 23, 2011 04:27 PM (M9Ie6)
I was told that there would be no math in this job.
Posted by: Barack Obama at June 23, 2011 12:28 PM (3nrx7)
Posted by: blaster at June 23, 2011 12:28 PM (l5dj7)
Posted by: Joe Biden at June 23, 2011 12:28 PM (ndlFj)
Posted by: ace at June 23, 2011 12:28 PM (nj1bB)
Posted by: The War Between the Undead States at June 23, 2011 12:29 PM (zgt4q)
Posted by: Dr Spank at June 23, 2011 12:29 PM (1fB+3)
Posted by: Dutchie passer at June 23, 2011 12:30 PM (sgopI)
__________________
FIFY
Posted by: devilish at June 23, 2011 12:30 PM (3eTJD)
Thank goodness that Frank Stallone gem has been remastered. Oh, and today happens to be Little Chico DeBarge's birthday.
Posted by: Matticus Finch at June 23, 2011 12:31 PM (0Mr4u)
Posted by: nevergiveup at June 23, 2011 12:31 PM (i6RpT)
Posted by: Oldsailor's poet at June 23, 2011 12:31 PM (NtTkA)
Posted by: blaster at June 23, 2011 12:31 PM (l5dj7)
Uhh, hello?
Posted by: Polaroid cameras at June 23, 2011 12:31 PM (tqwMN)
Posted by: Cherry π the unbanned at June 23, 2011 12:31 PM (OhYCU)
Try this:
http://tinyurl.com/ybfeljp (Shadow Stats Inflation)
http://tinyurl.com/yfw5zxj (Shadow Stats Unemployment)
That puts today's misery index at 33% -- the highest value ever, well beyond the previous peak of 20.76% just before Reagan took office.
Posted by: BobInFL at June 23, 2011 12:32 PM (ENnz1)
Posted by: Dr Spank
Feh. Xerox, then slip it under her dorm room door. That's high tech my friends.
Posted by: Sasquatch at June 23, 2011 12:32 PM (6rX0K)
Posted by: Cicerokid at June 23, 2011 12:33 PM (sgopI)
Umm, we did. WE used to have these two guys in my HS who everybody thought was gay and we called them Wham.
OK, fair enough. I was 7 years old.
Posted by: Truman North at June 23, 2011 12:34 PM (K2wpv)
Posted by: ace at June 23, 2011 04:14 PM (nj1bB)
It's got a weird, almost hillbilly twang to it.
And you should probably stick to political punditry and film criticism. We couldn't handle 11,000 words on the existentialist sentiment of Milli Vanilli.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo (NJConservative) at June 23, 2011 12:34 PM (LH6ir)
1983 gave us...
Manimal.
"a man who possessed the ability to turn himself into any animal he chose. He used this ability to help the police solve crimes."
He used his ability to solve crimes.
/nods
Posted by: Soothsayer at June 23, 2011 12:34 PM (sqkOB)
In actuality if you had real numbers instead of made up lies this would be worst misery since 1934 and probably even tops 1934.
I tend to agree. This administration massages numbers more effectively than a Tai massage parlor giving happy endings.
Ace should be putting up Tommy Dorsey and Benny Goodman. Heh.
Posted by: Delta Smelt at June 23, 2011 12:34 PM (ayzM7)
Posted by: Oldsailor's poet at June 23, 2011 12:34 PM (NtTkA)
Posted by: Robin at June 23, 2011 12:35 PM (6uXZa)
I always remembered that show as being pretty good, but the case of Rainier pounders we drank beforehand may have colored my perception of RATT's musical integrity.
Posted by: Ted Kennedy's Gristle Encased Head at June 23, 2011 12:36 PM (+lsX1)
Posted by: The War Between the Undead States at June 23, 2011 12:36 PM (zgt4q)
Posted by: Eurythmics at June 23, 2011 12:37 PM (sgopI)
Posted by: Cherry π the unbanned at June 23, 2011 12:37 PM (OhYCU)
Posted by: Jugeared Bastard at June 23, 2011 12:37 PM (YYaIP)
Posted by: Oldsailor's poet at June 23, 2011 12:38 PM (NtTkA)
In '83 I was a junior in college. Theater major (yark). The head costume designer was obsessed with Come On Eileen and The Safety Dance. You heard them about 50 times each every time you had a fitting and all through tech week.
Good times. I still love those songs, but mostly because I was having fun when I heard them.
Also, 80s songs were fun. You listen to the crap they're putting out now and you want to kill yourself. Back then, you just wanted to dance.
Posted by: Biblio at June 23, 2011 12:38 PM (y5VNb)
Oh the horror! Posted by: PugBoo
...........
With knee socks and tight short shorts, right?
Posted by: Chi-Town Jerry at June 23, 2011 04:21 PM (f9c2L)
Crap! Yes on both. It's all coming back now. Somehow avoided parachute pants but Guess jeans were the new must have.
Posted by: Guy Who Doesn't Know The Joke Is Over at June 23, 2011 12:38 PM (20jXV)
Duke Ellingtion: Sophisticated Lady
With a bullet!
Posted by: toby928™ at June 23, 2011 12:38 PM (GTbGH)
Posted by: SFGoth at June 23, 2011 12:38 PM (dZ756)
Posted by: runningrn at June 23, 2011 12:39 PM (ihSHD)
God, I had hot pink parachute pants! $7 and they were indestructible.
I denounce myself for hideous fashion sense back then.
Posted by: Biblio at June 23, 2011 12:39 PM (y5VNb)
And Madonna's first U.S. chart hit was in '84 ("Lucky Star").
The '80s didn't become The '80s until the mid-'80s. Our memories are just fucked up. If you used a 1983 yearbook as a movie prop, people would think it was from 1973. Only the Judas Priest t-shirts would be timely.
Think about it: What year did you really buy your "Beat It" jacket?
Posted by: oblig. has closely examined Breakin' at June 23, 2011 12:40 PM (xvZW9)
Good times. I still love those songs, but mostly because I was having fun when I heard them.
Also, 80s songs were fun. You listen to the crap they're putting out now and you want to kill yourself. Back then, you just wanted to dance.
Posted by: Biblio at June 23, 2011 04:38 PM (y5VNb)
That song wasn't as safe as they said it was.
Posted by: Phillip J. Fry at June 23, 2011 12:40 PM (YYaIP)
Posted by: Oldsailor's poet at June 23, 2011 12:40 PM (NtTkA)
Posted by: willow at June 23, 2011 04:27 PM (h+qn
heck no--70s; early 80s was skinny ties and lapels, dark colors
Posted by: T-Paw Comes Alive! at June 23, 2011 12:40 PM (K/USr)
Posted by: blaster at June 23, 2011 12:40 PM (l5dj7)
Posted by: Biblio at June 23, 2011 12:41 PM (y5VNb)
Posted by: ace at June 23, 2011 12:42 PM (nj1bB)
Posted by: Delta Smelt at June 23, 2011 12:42 PM (6f1k1)
Posted by: The War Between the Undead States at June 23, 2011 12:43 PM (zgt4q)
Posted by: Oldsailor's poet at June 23, 2011 12:43 PM (NtTkA)
ROTJ was the beginning of the suck.
You are both wrong. "I AM your father!" How hackneyed can you get...oh, wait, it got worse? damn...
Posted by: goozer at June 23, 2011 12:43 PM (vsmH2)
Posted by: ace at June 23, 2011 12:43 PM (nj1bB)
Posted by: Cherry π the unbanned at June 23, 2011 12:43 PM (OhYCU)
Minutemen--Double Nickels on the Dime
X--Under the Big Black Sun
Blasters--Non-Fiction
Some awesome music made then; also lots of puke; but theres always lots of puke.
Posted by: T-Paw Comes Alive! at June 23, 2011 12:43 PM (K/USr)
Posted by: Cherry ð the unbanned
Oh, my God, the first program I ever used in business! I still remember the commands, all these years later. . . .
Sometimes I still miss it.
Posted by: Biblio at June 23, 2011 12:43 PM (y5VNb)
Posted by: blaster at June 23, 2011 12:44 PM (l5dj7)
Posted by: George Orwell at June 23, 2011 12:45 PM (AZGON)
Posted by: Oldsailor's poet at June 23, 2011 04:31 PM (NtTkA)
Hell yeah. We'd come off deployment, get to a house and watch MTV for hours and it was all videos.
And back then we had a real CINC. Coincidence?
Posted by: USS Diversity at June 23, 2011 12:45 PM (RPYjQ)
Posted by: joejm65 at June 23, 2011 12:45 PM (UZuc4)
Posted by: Alabaster Jones at June 23, 2011 12:45 PM (xECRb)
Posted by: ace at June 23, 2011 12:45 PM (nj1bB)
Posted by: Oldsailor's poet at June 23, 2011 12:45 PM (NtTkA)
Posted by: blaster at June 23, 2011 12:45 PM (l5dj7)
Posted by: toby928™ at June 23, 2011 12:46 PM (GTbGH)
Posted by: Cherry π the unbanned at June 23, 2011 12:46 PM (OhYCU)
I graduated in 1983 and my two memories of that summer was paying of the 20% interest loan on an old ford truck I bought from my Dad and trying to get Mia to show me the magic in the bed of said truck. Well, I did pay off the loan but I never got the other pay off. I wonder where she is today? Hmmmm.
Posted by: Sgt. Fury at June 23, 2011 12:46 PM (LXPet)
(warning: NYT link)
It's a rambling mess that seems to support the nuclear freeze movement (that's some forward-thinking brilliance there) but chastises their...well...honesty.
It really is incomprehensible and, naturally, the ideas he espouses are manifestly stupid, not just in hindsight, they were exactly the kind of thing a stupid college student would have written.
Posted by: AmishDude at June 23, 2011 12:46 PM (T0NGe)
Posted by: Oldsailor's poet at June 23, 2011 12:46 PM (NtTkA)
_________
Did he try to make an escape on his Segway again?
Posted by: Anachronda at June 23, 2011 12:47 PM (FzhYM)
Posted by: blaster at June 23, 2011 12:48 PM (l5dj7)
Posted by: twiceblessedmom at June 23, 2011 12:49 PM (nt2ay)
Posted by: Cherry ð the unbanned
Oh, my God, the first program I ever used in business! I still remember the commands, all these years later. . . .
_________
I was all hopped up on WordStar. 'Course, that actually happened more like '81...
Posted by: Anachronda at June 23, 2011 12:49 PM (FzhYM)
I always sung it as "Bionic Woman."
Posted by: Dr. Varno at June 23, 2011 12:50 PM (QMtmy)
was Frankie Goes to Hollywood late 83 or early 84? Oh, and Van Halen's 84 tour rocked hard.
Posted by: Dick_Nixon at June 23, 2011 12:50 PM (kaOJx)
Posted by: Compuserve at June 23, 2011 12:50 PM (AZGON)
It's actually a fucking good song.
Posted by: ace at June 23, 2011 04:14 PM (nj1bB)
Wow, now I don't feel so bad about recently putting this on my ipod playlist.
YOU JUSTIFY ME, EWOK!
Posted by: Oedipus at June 23, 2011 12:51 PM (tQRxf)
Posted by: ASK-21 at June 23, 2011 12:52 PM (th8WQ)
Posted by: blaster at June 23, 2011 04:48 PM (l5dj7)
UH...sorry, we had parachute pants in ..... wait for it .....1978. Indeed we did. Seatle. They were not ass baggy as later, but that is when they arrived.
Posted by: giftogab at June 23, 2011 12:52 PM (SPVfc)
You're going to hit by a bus.
Posted by: Miss Cleo at June 23, 2011 12:52 PM (1fB+3)
Every time I hear the words Duran Duran, I can't help but think of Diane Downs...the psycho who shot her kids in the early 80s. I read a book about it all and will never forget her daughter. As a young child, she vividly remembered "Hungry Like a Wolf" playing on the radio when her mother pulled over on a dark, lonely road and shot her and her brother & sister. Not to dampen your high school memories or anything...... heh
Posted by: Lady in Black at June 23, 2011 12:52 PM (kOtPb)
Posted by: Oldsailor's poet at June 23, 2011 12:52 PM (NtTkA)
Then: Ronald Reagan, Howard Baker, and Tip O'Neil.
Now: Barack Obama, Harry Reid, and John Boehner.
Posted by: Soothsayer at June 23, 2011 12:52 PM (sqkOB)
Posted by: blaster at June 23, 2011 12:52 PM (l5dj7)
Posted by: Guy Fawkes at June 23, 2011 12:53 PM (ldUCK)
I know this is 1985, but this acapella rendition of Mr. Mister's Kyrie is really fun. From last year's show, The Sing Off:
http://tinyurl.com/6c5h898
Posted by: runningrn at June 23, 2011 12:53 PM (ihSHD)
Posted by: sifty at June 23, 2011 12:53 PM (BARAe)
This thread turned my Iphone into an Ican't.
Posted by: Guy Who Doesn't Know The Joke Is Over at June 23, 2011 12:53 PM (20jXV)
ZZ Tops Eliminator
She's Got Legs...
Posted by: Kill Em All at June 23, 2011 12:54 PM (wOaLi)
Had to be '84. I was in London then and Carnaby Street was filled with those ridiculous "relax" t-shirts.
Posted by: Dr. Varno at June 23, 2011 12:54 PM (QMtmy)
Then: Ronald Reagan, Howard Baker, and Tip O'Neil.
Now: Barack Obama, Harry Reid, and John Boehner.
Give Government back to the Irish!
Posted by: toby928™ at June 23, 2011 12:54 PM (GTbGH)
In 1983 John Elway lined up under Guard.
I dig the nostalgia threads. Even if they come about in reaction to bad news.
What can I say? I think it comes in part, with being a conservative.
Posted by: Delta Smelt at June 23, 2011 12:54 PM (/9s/O)
238: I don't remember the Saved by Zero video, and we used to sit up for hours watching videos. Anyone remember Duran Duran's Hungry Like the Wolf?
239: Are you doing that liberal spin thing where Saved by Zero really meant Made Wretched, With Great Gnashing of Hair & Clothes by Zero? Because then it was prescient. I skipped the speech because just seeing his face makes me want to throw bricks and my TV, and the TVs brand-new, so it would be counter-productive.
Posted by: Biblio at June 23, 2011 12:54 PM (y5VNb)
Posted by: Joe Biden at June 23, 2011 12:54 PM (aepk5)
Posted by: Oldsailor's poet at June 23, 2011 12:55 PM (NtTkA)
Posted by: AmishDude at June 23, 2011 12:56 PM (T0NGe)
__________
Seems a bit early for fancy modems. I don't think I was using anything faster than 1200 baud in '83.
'Course, I was living in the hinterlands...
Posted by: Anachronda at June 23, 2011 12:56 PM (IrbU4)
Posted by: That Guy Who Sings Pants on the Ground at June 23, 2011 12:56 PM (lSuMX)
Posted by: blaster at June 23, 2011 12:57 PM (l5dj7)
It was the year I came into this world!
/On a similar note, I was born during an ice storm. Harbinger of things to come?
Posted by: Kratos (Ghost of Sparta) at June 23, 2011 12:57 PM (c0A3e)
Posted by: George Orwell at June 23, 2011 12:57 PM (AZGON)
Posted by: Vashta.Nerada at June 23, 2011 12:58 PM (AskuI)
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I remember Hungry Like a Wolf. The should have called MTV the Duran Duran channel because it seemed like they played that video 24/7.
Posted by: Guy Who Doesn't Know The Joke Is Over at June 23, 2011 12:59 PM (20jXV)
Posted by: USS Diversity at June 23, 2011 12:59 PM (RPYjQ)
Posted by: Cherry π the unbanned at June 23, 2011 12:59 PM (OhYCU)
Just bought another cart of groceries this morning for $200. And that was with careful use of weekly specials, the bargain meat bin, coupons, and saying "no" to about half of what my daughter wanted me to buy, like ice cream and frozen waffles. Three bucks for a tiny box of Wheat Thins!
People always used to look happy in the grocery store. Now all I see on people's faces is shock and pain.
Posted by: rockmom at June 23, 2011 12:59 PM (u8gFC)
Posted by: Sheriff Joe Biden, Coal Miner's Daughter at June 23, 2011 01:00 PM (QKKT0)
Seems a bit early for fancy modems. I don't think I was using anything faster than 1200 baud in '83.
'Course, I was living in the hinterlands...
Heck, I was playing "Rogue", trying not to get killed by the trolls and not die of starvation before level 11.
Posted by: Curmudgeon at June 23, 2011 01:01 PM (ujg0T)
Posted by: Oldsailor's poet at June 23, 2011 01:01 PM (NtTkA)
Posted by: nevergiveup at June 23, 2011 01:01 PM (i6RpT)
Posted by: Dick Cheney at June 23, 2011 01:01 PM (usXZy)
Levis 501's, olive drab T shirt, Vans. Same as the day I graduated high scrool.
Probably be wearing the same thing in my nursing home.
Posted by: sifty at June 23, 2011 01:02 PM (BARAe)
Posted by: George Orwell at June 23, 2011 01:02 PM (AZGON)
Posted by: twiceblessedmom at June 23, 2011 01:03 PM (nt2ay)
Posted by: Penfold at June 23, 2011 01:03 PM (1PeEC)
I played that Quaterflash video and got instant flashbacks of Andrew McCarthy and that shitiest of shitty movies Mannequin.
God I hate that fuckin movie. I had a psycho bitch of a girlfriend back then, and she made me take her to see it like 3-4 fucking times.
Posted by: ASK-21 at June 23, 2011 01:03 PM (th8WQ)
Posted by: kbdabear at June 23, 2011 05:00 PM (so1xa
I had the hots for Joan Jett and saw here in concert at the Texas Jam in I think 81. So much later I discovered that she was a cave yodeler. So disappointing.
Posted by: Sgt. Fury at June 23, 2011 01:03 PM (LXPet)
Sort of a transition from 70's to 80's, REO Speedwagon, Hi Infidelity.
Posted by: Dick_Nixon at June 23, 2011 01:05 PM (kaOJx)
Can't remember. I know that Van Halen and Boston were still hogging my stereo.
Posted by: sifty at June 23, 2011 01:05 PM (BARAe)
Posted by: runningrn at June 23, 2011 01:05 PM (ihSHD)
Posted by: Roy at June 23, 2011 01:05 PM (VndSC)
Posted by: Oldsailor's poet at June 23, 2011 01:06 PM (NtTkA)
Posted by: Guy Fawkes at June 23, 2011 01:06 PM (ldUCK)
Posted by: Ted Kennedy's Gristle Encased Head at June 23, 2011 01:06 PM (+lsX1)
Y'all are a bunch of geezers. in 1983 Not only was I single, I hadn't graduated from College, HS, Junior High, or even grade school yet.
Posted by: MikeTheMoose at June 23, 2011 01:06 PM (0q2P7)
Posted by: publius(NotBreitbartPublius) at June 23, 2011 01:06 PM (VVB18)
Whoa.....didn't think it was possible for anyone to like that one (no offense, of course).
Vans = Spiccoli
For those that love 80s music, watch "Romy & Michelle's High School Reunion" for some 80s music fun. Fun in a cornball kinda way movie.
Posted by: Lady in Black at June 23, 2011 01:06 PM (kOtPb)
"If I ever catch you wearing parachute pants I'll throw you out of a plane." Felix Castranova Miami Vice "The Hit List pt. 1", October 19, 1984
Posted by: goozer at June 23, 2011 01:07 PM (vsmH2)
We're still in the early stage of shit times now, say the equivalent of 1974
I've lived through that, this is a lot worse
Posted by: kbdabear at June 23, 2011 01:07 PM (so1xa)
Yeah, but they're not as good as they used to be.
Posted by: Downscaled Upscale
LOL
Posted by: ASK-21 at June 23, 2011 01:07 PM (th8WQ)
Posted by: nevergiveup at June 23, 2011 01:07 PM (i6RpT)
In 1971 I saw Yes open for Emerson Lake and Palmer at the Auditorium in Chicago. It was like Godzilla vs Rodan; Yes just killed (played most of 'Fragile'), and ELP opened with 'Hoedown' before blasting through 'Tarkus' non-stop. One of the best shows I've ever seen.
Posted by: Sort-of-Mad Max at June 23, 2011 01:08 PM (2PTT7)
Posted by: Kratos (Ghost of Sparta) at June 23, 2011 01:09 PM (c0A3e)
Posted by: beedubya at June 23, 2011 01:09 PM (AnTyA)
Posted by: Curmudgeon at June 23, 2011 01:10 PM (ujg0T)
Dire Straits and the Police. That's what I remember from 83. Also red red wine.
Posted by: dagny at June 23, 2011 01:10 PM (wOFkj)
Ha, in 1976 this was the album cover to fap to after being at sea for 60 days
Who new that she would turn in to a fat liberal shrew.
Posted by: Vic at June 23, 2011 01:10 PM (M9Ie6)
Wow...the 80s were a fucking horrible decade for music
The non-commercial LA punk scene was something however.
Posted by: Curmudgeon at June 23, 2011 01:11 PM (ujg0T)
Posted by: MikeTheMoose at June 23, 2011 01:11 PM (0q2P7)
Posted by: PugBoo at June 23, 2011 01:11 PM (20jXV)
Posted by: USS Diversity at June 23, 2011 01:11 PM (RPYjQ)
Posted by: Justin Bieber at June 23, 2011 01:12 PM (nt2ay)
Who new that she would turn in to a fat liberal shrew.
She was getting it on with Governor Moonbeam at the time, we in Cali knew.
Posted by: Curmudgeon at June 23, 2011 01:12 PM (ujg0T)
It started to go downhill in the 80s big time. MTV did kill the rock 'n roll star. The 90s were worse and now there is no music.
TV in the 80s sucked too. Same story on its decline.
Posted by: Vic at June 23, 2011 01:12 PM (M9Ie6)
The 80s really started about 79....
I say the 80s began on Feb. 10, 1978, the day Van Halen's first ablum was released.
Posted by: FireHorse at June 23, 2011 01:14 PM (jAKfY)
Yeah, when I was at home it was in CA then. But, a lot of us knew that she was a beard.
Posted by: Vic at June 23, 2011 01:14 PM (M9Ie6)
My lips are moving but no sounds coming out...
Posted by: Ooh! at June 23, 2011 01:14 PM (sOtz/)
Posted by: Robin at June 23, 2011 01:15 PM (6uXZa)
I can still remember when Magnum shot that dude with his big ol' .45 in the episode "Did You See the Sunrise?"
made me a Selleck fan to this day.
Posted by: sifty at June 23, 2011 01:16 PM (BARAe)
Wait! LA had punk bands???
OMG, yes. SST and Frontier Records and other indie labels. For some of us, "Institutionalized" was a teen anthem. I actually did have a conversation with my mom along those lines, but I didn't ask for a pepsi.
Posted by: Curmudgeon at June 23, 2011 01:16 PM (ujg0T)
Tainted love was pre-83
I loved 1983. I was a soph or jr in college, Reagan was president, lost my virginity, fell in love (still with 'em), and could beer bong a case of talls without getting sick. Wonderful. Sigh.
Posted by: dagny at June 23, 2011 01:16 PM (wOFkj)
Posted by: LizLem at June 23, 2011 01:17 PM (lSuMX)
It started to go downhill in the 80s big time. MTV did kill the rock 'n roll star. The 90s were worse and now there is no music.
TV in the 80s sucked too. Same story on its decline.
Oh puhleeze. Did y'all live through the shit inflicted upon us as Children in the 1970's?
Then again, the subtle message from the entertainment media in the 1970's was that us kids were NOT wanted. From "Its Alive!" to "The Omen".
Posted by: Curmudgeon at June 23, 2011 01:18 PM (ujg0T)
Gary's Got a Boner
Posted by: beedubya at June 23, 2011 01:18 PM (AnTyA)
The non-commercial LA punk scene was something however.
Posted by: garrett at June 23, 2011 01:18 PM (LLirK)
Posted by: dagny at June 23, 2011 01:19 PM (wOFkj)
Posted by: Sort-of-Mad Max at June 23, 2011 01:21 PM (2PTT7)
Bono had yet to start trying to make America hate itself.
Posted by: sifty at June 23, 2011 01:22 PM (BARAe)
"Inflammable Material" by Stiff Little Fingers
great wall of sound by great musicians
Posted by: beedubya at June 23, 2011 01:22 PM (AnTyA)
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Posted by: toby928™ at June 23, 2011 01:24 PM (GTbGH)
Black Flag, Gone, etc.
My old band did a show with Leaving Trains. Falling James was quite the character. I guess you had to be if you were once married to Courtney Love.
Posted by: Dr. Varno at June 23, 2011 01:24 PM (QMtmy)
Posted by: Ginger Ale at June 23, 2011 01:27 PM (J9Vit)
Posted by: Robin at June 23, 2011 01:29 PM (6uXZa)
I loved 1983. I was a soph or jr in college, Reagan was president, lost my virginity, fell in love (still with 'em), and could beer bong a case of talls without getting sick. Wonderful. Sigh.
Dagny, we are the same age! I graduated from H.S. in 1982.
Posted by: runningrn at June 23, 2011 01:30 PM (ihSHD)
Posted by: Kratos (Ghost of Sparta) at June 23, 2011 05:09 PM (c0A3e)
You know how I know you're gay?
Posted by: seth rogan at June 23, 2011 01:31 PM (vsmH2)
Posted by: ashowalt at June 23, 2011 01:31 PM (ZaQ7q)
Posted by: Jimi at June 23, 2011 01:32 PM (JMsOK)
Posted by: Robin at June 23, 2011 01:38 PM (6uXZa)
Aye, I was young and strong.
Posted by: toby928™ at June 23, 2011 01:40 PM (GTbGH)
Gah....I can still hear the baby's gutteral, gurgling sounds. As a 12 year old when it was released, even the promo cover scared the sh*t out of me.
Posted by: Lady in Black at June 23, 2011 01:41 PM (kOtPb)
There is a show for you guys! It is called ??????????????, actually two shows. They are both a hoot and a half....Anthony Bourdain, charming, charming character and that little, I mean big, I mean little, cherub individual, who will eat everything...ask him to eat dirt, worms, toilet matter, he'll do it, with a pleasure. Anyway, these two people are highly popular. They give you a "sense" of these backwards, third-world countries; and it's not half-bad. Never mind the filth, smell, garbage that reeks into every pore of your body. These people are "resilient" and will offer up food and honesty like you would not believe.
P.S. As especially Pissed over Bourdain. He did this show out of Jordan, when they were celebrating successful bombs that landed in Israel. He was not sure what do to, but, by gosh, he ended up with the street celebration. Hands off, hands off, he proclaims.
Posted by: Ginger Ale at June 23, 2011 01:45 PM (J9Vit)
"Its Alive!"
Gah....I can still hear the baby's gutteral, gurgling sounds. As a 12 year old when it was released, even the promo cover scared the sh*t out of me.
Set in LA too. A baby born in 1974, the year of "It's Alive!" would have been 17 or 18 at the time of the 1992 riots, month depending.
Posted by: Curmudgeon at June 23, 2011 01:49 PM (ujg0T)
1983.
Third year of the decade.
Third Star Wars movie. Third Smokey and the Bandit movie. Third Superman movie. Third Jaws movie.
Coincidence? I think not.
Posted by: Book Geek at June 23, 2011 01:54 PM (1+OO5)
Posted by: Ginger Ale at June 23, 2011 02:03 PM (J9Vit)
Dagny, we are the same age! I graduated from H.S. in 1982.
Ha! We are. I graduated in 81 but I skipped 8th grade.
Posted by: dagny at June 23, 2011 02:07 PM (wOFkj)
Posted by: Jimi at June 23, 2011 05:32 PM (JMsOK)
That's because when you're 20 you just don't know any better.
Posted by: Ace's liver at June 23, 2011 02:09 PM (QgI7g)
Posted by: ginaswo at June 23, 2011 02:11 PM (pVo8C)
Posted by: toby928™ at June 23, 2011 02:39 PM (GTbGH)
I found one INXS Don't Change vid...bad quality, but its the original.
http://tiny.cc/1o5b4
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