Confess something that might surprise others or damage your reputation on JUB - 2014

[borg69unimatrix]

Gene Simmons?

 

[medic1]

Boy George, please say Boy George................

 

[G-Lexington]

...John Oates. He was handy.

Lex

 

[dpnice]

...John Oates. He was handy.

Lex

Not of Hall and Oates fame?

 

[G-Lexington]

The same.

Lex

 

[belamyi]

Boy George, please say Boy George................

 

[dpnice]

As we are talking about Hall and Oates this would seem quite appropriate.

 

[MoufOfKhaos]

The same.

Lex

...I'll get the ban hammer ready. Again.

 

[G-Lexington]

...I'll get the ban hammer ready. Again.

Lex

 

[maxpowr9]

Thank God I was only born in the 80s and did not have to endure said decade.

 

[Harke the Boeotarch]

 

[G-Lexington]

Thank God I was only born in the 80s and did not have to endure said decade.

It's strange, but throughout the 90s, it appeared that most musicologists considered the 70s to be the absolute nadir of popular music. Now, it seems they've shifted that to the 80s. It may simply be my adolescence talking, but I thought the early part of the decade was an exciting and interesting time for music. It was the end of the decade (and the start of the next) that seemed especially paltry, at least until grunge and hip-hop started pushing things outward. But I'm sure there are people five to seven years younger than me who are as big on Milli Vanilli as I am on Duran Duran.

Lex

 

[borg69unimatrix]

I Loved the 80's - Madonna, Rick Springfield, Olivia Newton John, Duran Duran, Corey Hart, Prince, WHAM!, Boy George, Cyndi Lauper, Bruce Springsteen, Mister Mister, Michael Jackson, ... There was a lot of great music that came out of that decade.

 

[belamyi]

Thank God I was only born in the 80s and did not have to endure said decade.

But you can't avoid the rehash of it, while us who lived at leat part of our teen years in it have already grown past it with the vaccine we got past then: for us, the reality that we see today in the street or the media is so much like we have seen so many times before, that it's just like briefly walking among the phantoms of our memory again

 

[belamyi]

It's strange, but throughout the 90s, it appeared that most musicologists considered the 70s to be the absolute nadir of popular music. Now, it seems they've shifted that to the 80s. It may simply be my adolescence talking, but I thought the early part of the decade was an exciting and interesting time for music. It was the end of the decade (and the start of the next) that seemed especially paltry, at least until grunge and hip-hop started pushing things outward. But I'm sure there are people five to seven years younger than me who are as big on Milli Vanilli as I am on Duran Duran.

Lex

Culturally, the first half of the 1980s was just the continuation of the breakthrough of disco and punk during the second half of the 1970s, while the part that you call paltry belongs to the yuppie era that extended to the mid 1990s... even purely musically: listen to that Do you really... song of Boy that I posted above, and compare it to the instrumentation of disco ballads of the 1970s.

 

[G-Lexington]

I Loved the 80's - Madonna, Rick Springfield, Olivia Newton John, Duran Duran, Corey Hart, Prince, WHAM!, Boy George, Cyndi Lauper, Bruce Springsteen, Mister Mister, Michael Jackson, ... There was a lot of great music that came out of that decade.

Shame you didn't mention any of it.

Lex

 

[JayHawk]

I have eaten fresh raw gargoyle and it was delicious.

 

[frankfrank]

Zombies and Gargoyles... I've seen worse matches shopping at Wal-Mart.

I call them Wal-Martians.

 

[maxpowr9]

But you can't avoid the rehash of it, while us who lived at leat part of our teen years in it have already grown past it with the vaccine we got past then: for us, the reality that we see today in the street or the media is so much like we have seen so many times before, that it's just like briefly walking among the phantoms of our memory again

I at least can filter out the garbage more easily. This is a perfect example of a good 80s rehash...

 

[belamyi]

I at least can filter out the garbage more easily. This is a perfect example of a good 80s rehash...

No, that is what I am saying: we do not even need to filter because we received the vaccine back then and do not even need to make any effort... any rehash is for us not rehash as it's for you, so much as old same 1980s

And excuse me but what you quoted is more precisely mere 2009-2016 globopop, which is indeed part of the sort of rehashing in fashion and design in general, not just clothing, but not exactly a purer rehash like this:

even though it's more the "1970s" sort of techno 1980s