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Bad 80’s Flashback Open Thread

Posted on May 30, 2009 by Myiq2xu

Pop music that will give you diabetes.

When this video came out Reagan was President and I was between wives.

What were you doing in 1987?

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63 Responses

  1. cwaltz, on May 30, 2009 at 4:07 pm said:

    I was in the Phillipines, most lilely snockered. I was a very young, naive 19. God, it feels like another lifetime ago.

  2. bostonboomer, on May 30, 2009 at 4:12 pm said:

    Oh come on! The Locomotion in the ’80s?

    • Downticket, on May 30, 2009 at 4:26 pm said:

      I never knew she was the original singer. Her version is better

      • myiq2xu, on May 30, 2009 at 4:27 pm said:

        The bra she is wearing could put someone’s eye out – it’s like Madonna’s “nose cones” bra.

      • jjmtacoma, on May 30, 2009 at 5:37 pm said:

        My mother was young – so I knew this version of Loco Motion when I was growing up. It certainly lost something in the 1987 version.

        1987: I was 20, in college and in love. 1988 was the year I dropped out of college to get married.

      • JeanLouise, on May 30, 2009 at 6:58 pm said:

        Generations… I didn’t know Kylie Minogue did a version of “Locomotion”.

    • chatblu, on May 30, 2009 at 8:17 pm said:

      Go, L’il Eva, go!

    • bostonboomer, on May 30, 2009 at 4:58 pm said:

      Carole King probably wrote the song. She wrote just about every big hit in the ’60s.

    • bostonboomer, on May 30, 2009 at 4:33 pm said:

      I like their version, but it’s almost a note for note cover of the original.

      Here’s the recorded version that I had in my 45 collection.

      • kiki, on May 30, 2009 at 5:51 pm said:

        Little Eva was discovered by Carole King. She babysat Carole and Gerry Goffin’s child. Neat story 🙂

        Carole sang background on Little Eva’s version.

        • bostonboomer, on May 30, 2009 at 6:43 pm said:

          That is a neat story. Carole King is a genius. She was writing hit songs when she was practically a kid.

  5. myiq2xu, on May 30, 2009 at 4:26 pm said:

    Apparently no one has covered the song sing Kylie

  6. laurie, on May 30, 2009 at 4:29 pm said:

    1987-the year I stopped drinking….

    Followed by 1988-the year I accidentally got pregnant, and my life dramatically improved!!!!

    (sorry can’t remember much about 1987….)

    • bostonboomer, on May 30, 2009 at 4:30 pm said:

      Wow! Quite a year. I stopped drinking in 1982. Can you believe it?

      • laurie, on May 30, 2009 at 4:40 pm said:

        yup. Drinking is such a terrible waste of time-I’m so glad I stopped. I drank far too much for most of the eighties.

        Weather has improved here -it’s gone from 95 to 75 literally overnight. When it gets that hot I can’t blog-keyboard gets sticky, room heats up from the computer fan…putting one word in front of another is beyond me.

        • bostonboomer, on May 30, 2009 at 4:45 pm said:

          It finally got warm here. It has been in the 40s and 50s for days.

      • chatblu, on May 30, 2009 at 8:19 pm said:

        1978 here. Lots of Bills’ friends here.

  7. bostonboomer, on May 30, 2009 at 4:31 pm said:

    In 1987 I had quit my job as a secretary and had no clue what to do with the rest of my life.

    • Stateofdisbelief, on May 30, 2009 at 5:15 pm said:

      I got pregnant, Black Friday, 1987. I know this because we were using the BBT method to get pregnant and I had a chart posted over our bed. True story. (still have that dang chart too.)

  8. Joanie in Brooklyn, on May 30, 2009 at 4:35 pm said:

    My Dad died March 18, 1987, the rest of the year sucked!!!

  9. Downticket, on May 30, 2009 at 4:37 pm said:

    I don’t think 80s music was bad. I like it because most of it is happy music

  10. bostonboomer, on May 30, 2009 at 4:37 pm said:

    Here’s a song I liked in the ’80s.

  11. laurie, on May 30, 2009 at 5:06 pm said:

    This was an album I really loved, and a fantastic concert-Paul Simon: Diamonds on the soles of her shoes, South Africa / concert in zimbabwe1987. ladysmith black mambazo, joseph shabalala, ray phiri, miriam makeba:

    • bostonboomer, on May 30, 2009 at 5:37 pm said:

      That is a great album and a wonderful song.

    • Downticket, on May 30, 2009 at 6:04 pm said:

      Nice song. This one is my favourite Paul Simon song. I just love the story of how they ended up making this video. Chevy Chase is funny

      • jjmtacoma, on May 30, 2009 at 6:54 pm said:

        Yes, I LOVE this song and I always thought Chevy Chase was funny. He looks HUGE next to Paul Simon.

  12. myiq2xu, on May 30, 2009 at 5:07 pm said:

    This was the #1 song of 1987

    • myiq2xu, on May 30, 2009 at 5:08 pm said:

      This was before George came out of the closet and went into the bathroom stall.

    • Stateofdisbelief, on May 30, 2009 at 5:20 pm said:

      George Michael was HAWT in this video (it’s my absolute favorite George Michael song).

    • bostonboomer, on May 30, 2009 at 5:37 pm said:

      Did you listen to top 40 music? I always listened to alternative.

      • Stateofdisbelief, on May 30, 2009 at 5:46 pm said:

        Pretty much only listened top 40s in the 80s. Now I don’t really listen to top 40 at all. I could not tell you what the tops songs or singers of today are. I have my satellite radio and listen to the 70s decade genre music or talk radio. I’m more partial to CDs — 70s music and love my “best of” cds: Doobies, America, 3DogNight, Blood Sweat and Tears. And then I really love Luther Vandross and Michael Buble.

  13. Stateofdisbelief, on May 30, 2009 at 5:26 pm said:

    • bostonboomer, on May 30, 2009 at 5:38 pm said:

      It’s nothing new for Tancredo. There is no shark for him to jump. He’s a wacko from way back.

    • jjmtacoma, on May 30, 2009 at 5:44 pm said:

      I’m not crazy about the guy interviewing him although he is at least better than KO.

      I honestly can’t figure out why republicans go on the obama network. They can’t win on that playing field. They will be ridiculed and look completely stupid. It is like democrats going on Fox about 5 years ago to be critical of GW.

      • Stateofdisbelief, on May 30, 2009 at 6:27 pm said:

        yep…they even help the MSNBO shills by grabbing their own feet and shoving them forcefully into their own mouths.

    • Stateofdisbelief, on May 30, 2009 at 5:41 pm said:

      They make him look good by being so gawdawful

  14. Inky, on May 30, 2009 at 6:42 pm said:

    I moved to NYC — if I knew I’d still be here 22 years later, I might have reconsidered. Here’s a song that make me think of the 1980s.

    <embed id="VideoPlayback" src="http://video.google.com/googleplayer.swf?docid=-6418981950523381596&hl=en&fs=true&quot; style="width:400px;height:326px"

    • Inky, on May 30, 2009 at 6:45 pm said:

      Drats! I suspected that wouldn’t work. Here’s a later version of the same song.

    • bostonboomer, on May 30, 2009 at 6:45 pm said:

      Ooops! Try you tube. What’s the name of the song?

      • boogieman7167, on May 30, 2009 at 6:54 pm said:

        the only thing i know about this song is that it sucks

        • Inky, on May 30, 2009 at 7:08 pm said:

          Ah well–different strokes for different foks–it’s not my favorite song–But I think it’s pretty funny and it reminds me of my 1980s. Here’s another song that reminds me of the ’90–particularly America’s foreign policy under Reagan.

        • myiq2xu, on May 30, 2009 at 7:13 pm said:

          Ronnie Raygun??:

    • tpfka nycblue, on May 30, 2009 at 6:50 pm said:

      Inky, me too. Actually, as I rethink, I probably was already in NYC in 1987. I always thought I’d move back to the burbs when I had kids, but it’s never happened. Now I can’t imagine having to drive everywhere! Or got out to eat instead of ordering in…. When my youngest was 2, every time the door buzzer rang he would shout “Dinner!”

  15. katiebird, on May 30, 2009 at 6:49 pm said:

    I had just gotten a divorce and thought I’d change careers. But, I didn’t – I just switched specialties from Law Libraries to Public Libraries. And met my husband at my new job which made it all worth while!

  16. myiq2xu, on May 30, 2009 at 6:49 pm said:

    New thread up

  17. econsmed, on May 30, 2009 at 7:44 pm said:

    this is what you all should’ve been listening to in the 80’s – this kind of music got me through lots of hell

  18. bostonboomer, on May 30, 2009 at 7:50 pm said:

    Inky,

    I love Bruce Cockburn. That song used to send shivers down my spine.

    • bostonboomer, on May 30, 2009 at 7:52 pm said:

      Still does actually. It’s one of those anger songs that are so powerful.

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