Yep. I tried the same with I Got The Message and suddenly the video was great.
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Really? Look I think a whole bunch of the 1980s nostalgia is a bunch of misplaced bullshit and I fucking grew up in the 1980s. There were plenty of essential cultural contributions that took place during that decade in music and film.
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Saturday Night Fever was an unironically great film. I’ve watched it dozens of times and I absolutely love it.
On the other hand, Staying Alive was absolutely terrible, completely unnecessary, and had nearly zero redeeming qualities.
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Except for the song genre used for the tribute video and the inclusion of “Staying Alive” This video made the 80’s look like a wonderful time for entertainment.
I’ve just read through this whole comment section and I can’t believe that nobody has made the ultimate argument against Frauenfelder’s assertion:
Raiders
of
the
lost
Ark
*mic drop*
(+ its two sequels)
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The '80s only stink because you cannot remember (or did not experience) the '70s.
The '70s were: heroin, bad sideburns, wide ties, Nixon. The people rest, your Honor.
The 80’s might have sucked for some things. But like any era it has good and bad. Bad things like Reagan and Bush the elder. 1984 was a great book about fascists but it missed by 32 years. But for me 1984 was a year that brought me a daughter. I was very lucky to raise her by myself. 1988 saw a career change that brought together all my schooling and experience. It’s seems easy to live a black and white life. But life isn’t even a full range of greys. Life is a technicolor burst that feeds the soul. All you have to do is take off your monotone spectacles.
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It was in the video montage.
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The 80s had heroin where I lived. It also had Maggie Thatcher letting everything get run down because fixing things would involve the government interfering with the market.
The two may be connected.
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The radio program started in 1978 and the first novel was published in 1979.
TV series was in 1981.
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The eighties also marked a boom in the Japanese anime industry and the beginning of Original Anime Videos and theatrical releases. Fandom was just catching on in the US, leading to more commercial imports.
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It’s a very good movie, but it really could use a remake. Just make Princess Buttercup be a bit less helpless.
Before we get too deep into the history of rap, let’s all take a look back at Ed Piskor’s Hip Hop Family Tree, okay? Okay.
Why that’s not condescending at all…
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Nah, I was reminded that it’s a good read, and thought I could sucker some more into looking at the comics again. It is disguised as condescension.
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I used to think the 1970s was a bad decade for pop culture.
This is the most surprising thing of all. How can the 70s possibly be bad pop culture? Star Wars and Close Encounters alone beats most decades, and that was just 1977.
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As far as 1980’s entertainment goes (after all, I turned 13 in 1980), to me it was a case of Hollywood and the record industries making more and more movies and albums by formula. It was the era of boy bands, of haircut metal, of highly polished acts like Michael Jackson, Madonna and so on. The era when 1970’s stars like Elton John came out of rehab and made their comebacks as being “high on life”. The era when even the Grateful Dead released a pop hit. Where R.E.M. became the archetype of the indie/hipster trope: “I was into them before they went mainstream”. The 1980s were the era where it seemed the biggest box office hits were sequels or remakes.
To me, the mainstream of the 1980s was defined by managers and producers, not by artists. It musically felt like an era stuck between the more vibrant 1970s and 1990s.
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Susanna Hoffs and that LOOK in “Walk Like an Egyptian” My God! I would watch MTV for hours just waiting for that to come on.
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