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Favoriting August 15, 2013: Cheesing it up with the 80's


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Killing Joke  Eighties   Favoriting Night Time  0:00:00 (Pop-up)
Magazine  The Light Pours Out of Me   Favoriting Real Life  0:04:08 (Pop-up)
Gary Numan  Are 'Friends' Electric?   Favoriting Replicas Redux  0:08:59 (Pop-up)
Pete Shelley  Homosapien   Favoriting Just Can't Get Enough: New Wave Hits of the 80's  0:13:51 (Pop-up)
Dramarama  Anything, Anything (I'll Give You)   Favoriting Cinema Verite  0:17:18 (Pop-up)
Gene Loves Jezebel  Desire   Favoriting 100 80's Classics  0:20:23 (Pop-up)
Call  Everywhere I Go   Favoriting Reconciled  0:24:41 (Pop-up)
The Alarm  The Stand   Favoriting New Wave Dance Hits: Just Can't Get Enough  0:28:53 (Pop-up)

Music behind DJ:
 
Sounds From the Coney Island Boardwalk  
 
0:32:03 (Pop-up)
Altered Images  I Could Be Happy   Favoriting Just Can't Get Enough: New Wave Hits of the 80's  0:36:30 (Pop-up)
Martha and the Muffins  Echo Beach   Favoriting Far Away in Time  0:39:39 (Pop-up)
The Flirts  Jukebox (Don't Put Another Dime)   Favoriting New Wave Dance Hits: Just Can't Get Enough  0:43:04 (Pop-up)
The Go-Go's  We Got the Beat   Favoriting Beauty and the Beat  0:46:40 (Pop-up)
Kim Wilde  Kids in America   Favoriting Living in Oblivion: The 80's Greatest Hits  0:49:14 (Pop-up)
Pat Benatar  Invincible   Favoriting Greatest Hits  0:52:29 (Pop-up)
Frida  I Know There's Something Going On   Favoriting Top 100 1983  0:56:27 (Pop-up)

Music behind DJ:
 
Sounds of Sideshows by the Seashore  
 
1:01:12 (Pop-up)
The Undertones  It's Going to Happen!   Favoriting Just Can't Get Enough: New Wave Hits of the 80's  1:04:56 (Pop-up)
Haysi Fantayzee  Shiny Shiny   Favoriting Living in Oblivion: The 80's Greatest Hits  1:08:12 (Pop-up)
Howard Jones  Things Can Only Get Better   Favoriting Top 100 1985  1:11:53 (Pop-up)
Belouis Some  Some People   Favoriting Living in Oblivion: The 80's Greatest Hits  1:15:40 (Pop-up)
Ebn-Ozn  AEIOU Sometimes Y   Favoriting Living in Oblivion: The 80's Greatest Hits  1:19:28 (Pop-up)
Paul Hardcastle  19   Favoriting Living in Oblivion: The 80's Greatest Hits  1:23:26 (Pop-up)
M/A/R/R/S  Pump Up the Volume   Favoriting Sleep with 4AD  1:26:56 (Pop-up)

Music behind DJ:
 
Sounds from the Point Pleasant Beach  
 
1:34:54 (Pop-up)
Flock of Seagulls  Wising (If I Had a Photograph of You)   Favoriting New Wave Dance Hits: Just Can't Get Enough  1:38:26 (Pop-up)
Tears for Fears  Change   Favoriting New Wave Dance Hits: Just Can't Get Enough  1:41:54 (Pop-up)
Oingo Boingo  Dead Man's Party   Favoriting 20th Century Masters: The Millennium Collection  1:45:52 (Pop-up)
Heaven 17  (We Don't Need This) Fascist Groove Thang   Favoriting New Wave Dance Hits: Just Can't Get Enough  1:52:08 (Pop-up)
Trans X  Living on Video   Favoriting 100 80's Classics  1:56:19 (Pop-up)
Cabaret Voltaire  Sensoria   Favoriting New Wave Dance Hits: Just Can't Get Enough  1:59:42 (Pop-up)
Berlin  Sex (I'm a...)   Favoriting Pleasure Victim  2:06:09 (Pop-up)
Soft Cell  Sex Dwarf   Favoriting The Very Best of Soft Cell  2:08:29 (Pop-up)

Music behind DJ:
 
Sounds from the Point Pleasant Boardwalk  
 
2:13:33 (Pop-up)
Ratt  Lay It Down   Favoriting Tell the World: The Very Best of Ratt  2:17:00 (Pop-up)
Van Halen  Panama   Favoriting 1984  2:20:09 (Pop-up)
Guns and Roses  Nightrain   Favoriting Appetite For Destruction  2:23:32 (Pop-up)
Mötley Crüe  Looks that Kill   Favoriting   2:28:01 (Pop-up)
Metallica  Hit the Lights   Favoriting   2:31:55 (Pop-up)
Anthrax  Efilnikufesin (N.F.L)   Favoriting Among the LIving  2:36:01 (Pop-up)

Music behind DJ:
 
Sounds From the Coney Island Boardwalk  
 
2:40:56 (Pop-up)
Bronski Beat  Smalltown Boy   Favoriting Just Can't Get Enough: New Wave Hits of the 80's  2:43:29 (Pop-up)
Yaz  Situation   Favoriting Upstairs at Eric's  2:47:36 (Pop-up)
Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark  Tesla Girls   Favoriting The OMD Singles  2:50:58 (Pop-up)
Pet Shop Boys  It's a Sin   Favoriting Actually  2:54:26 (Pop-up)


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Listener comments!

Avatar 6:01am
Chuck:

Ahhhh! Eigh-Tees!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 6:02am
Sem Chumbo:

Hiya, Meghan. Good morning.
Avatar 6:02am
Looms:

80s! PUSH!!!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 6:03am
Meghan:

Morning Sem and Chuck!
Avatar 6:03am
AKA BA (Hons) Full-on:

Back to the Future...for real!
Avatar 6:03am
C.S.:

Such a great decade...and I will NEVER apologize to anyone for saying that.
Avatar 6:04am
Dave B:

I had eight coffees
Avatar 6:05am
sFrances from VA:

Spilled my coffee pogoing to Killing Joke, just like when I saw them live in the Eighties!(minus the coffee).
Avatar Swag For Life Member 6:06am
Meghan:

I am still on one, but I feel it's going to be that kind of day! Morning Dave, C.S., Looms and AKA BA
Avatar Swag For Life Member 6:06am
Meghan:

hahaha.... morning sFrances.... I was going to say, you were drinking coffee at a show? That is dangerous!
Avatar 6:07am
Andy in Berlin:

Hi Meghan!
Magazine is HARDLY what I would call cheese. But thanks for playing it!!
Avatar 6:07am
Chuck:

Got a feeling the 80s music will continue for me all day! It's a mode I get into once in while...
Avatar Swag For Life Member 6:08am
Meghan:

Morning Andy.... I honestly don't consider any of it cheese! but it will come.... it always does!
Avatar 6:08am
Dave B:

80s fashions... Now THAT'S cheesy
Avatar 6:10am
C.S.:

But the 80s came right after the 70s so we make allowances.
  6:11am
ellemieke:

you killing me with this theme......
Avatar 6:12am
Chuck:

We need jackets covered in a million buttons of every sort. hehe...
Avatar 6:13am
C.S.:

Is Chess King still in business?
Avatar 6:15am
Chuck:

Synchronize your Swatches everyone!
Avatar 6:16am
Dave B:

Chapter 11 1995
  6:16am
Rob in Maryland:

This is an awesome set, Meghan. Simply awesome. More awesome than the cool Canadian weather we have in the east!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 6:16am
Meghan:

I have a feeling I am going to be doing a lot of laughing at today's comments board.....
Avatar 6:16am
Dave B:

A double Windsor on a skinny tie looks dumb...
Avatar Swag For Life Member 6:17am
Meghan:

Hey Rob! I know right?! I'll take this weather ANY DAY!!!
Avatar 6:18am
Chuck:

A skinny LEATHER tie, DB! hehe....
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Chuck:

Yeah, I had a red one....
Avatar 6:19am
C.S.:

Let's go really avant garde with a bolo tie.
Avatar 6:20am
Chuck:

And suit jackets with the sleeves rolled up...
Avatar Swag For Life Member 6:20am
Sem Chumbo:

Is it a triumph of marketing that I recognize everything in this genius graphic?
Avatar 6:20am
Dave B:

The compact disc - 1982
Avatar 6:22am
C.S.:

Ah screw the bolo tie. Just hand me my Wendy's Jazz Cap.
Avatar 6:23am
Dave B:

MIDI standardized - 1983
Avatar 6:25am
Chuck:

Gonna have some Siouxsie in the mix today, Meg?
Avatar Swag For Life Member 6:26am
Meghan:

Not sure Chuck. Doing it on the fly, so it's where the music takes me.....
Avatar 6:26am
Dave B:

MTV launched - 8/1/1981
  6:27am
Rob in Maryland:

>Gonna have some Siouxsie in the mix today, Meg?

I heard a rumor.
  6:27am
KP:

I had a nightmare that "Homosapien" had made someone's cheesy list,
Avatar 6:27am
Chuck:

Yeah, DB! Almost exactly a month after I got out of the Army...
  6:28am
jesus is love:

eat prunes
Avatar 6:28am
Dave B:

If yer doing it on the fly, how about some Split Endz?
  6:29am
KP:

Morning, Meghan.
Avatar 6:29am
Dave B:

For some reason, I thought you were in the Air Force chuck....
Avatar 6:29am
Andy in Berlin:

I forgot to mention it before but you really should play We've Got A Fuzzbox And We're Gonna Use It doing International Rescue
www.youtube.com...
Avatar Swag For Life Member 6:29am
Meghan:

morning KP!
  6:30am
lipstick:

i love my red lipstick!!
Avatar 6:31am
Chuck:

Nope, Army, DB. June 29, 1978 to June 30, 1981...
Avatar 6:33am
Dave B:

My biggest regret in the 80s, I rocked a mullet for a very short time in 1981.
Avatar 6:34am
Chuck:

Pictures, Dave B? hehe...
Avatar 6:35am
Dave B:

Nope. Thankfully.
Avatar 6:35am
Chuck:

Cinderella Man by Rush, Meghan. Hehehehe....
Avatar 6:36am
Chuck:

Wicked! Love this song!
  6:40am
KP:

Eighties is a lot of guilty pleasures and Altered Images is one. Her voice is great.
  6:40am
Rob in Maryland:

I Could Be Happy and Echo Beach, two of my favorite songs ever. Going to work is going to be extremely difficult if this keeps up!!
Avatar 6:41am
Chuck:

It's funny how I can get more excited over someone else playing a song I actually have then me playing it myself from my own collection...
Avatar Swag For Life Member 6:42am
Meghan:

It the joys of the unknown.... wondering what is going to get played and when it's something you love you smile and dance around....
  6:43am
Rob in Maryland:

Chuck, the same here! And I agree with Meghan too.
  6:43am
KP:

Eighties music is a lot of stuff that I enjoy but wouldn't buy and if bought it, wouldn't display.
Avatar 6:43am
Dave B:

Where IS Echo Beach?

It sounds like a nice place...
Avatar 6:44am
Chuck:

And, thus far, I have all but three of the songs you've played! Yippee!
  6:44am
Rob in Maryland:

OMG this Flirts song used to be a staple of a particular dj at the original WHFS in DC (Weasel).
  6:45am
Rob in Maryland:

Echo Beach is a state of mind, Dave B.
Avatar 6:45am
Dave B:

A dime?

And smokes were about 75 cents a pack.....
Avatar 6:46am
the glowing one:

@Rob: and I guess some listeners also didn't want to hear that song no more.
Avatar 6:48am
Dave B:

It is a reality....

www.echobeach.ca
  6:48am
Rob in Maryland:

@the glowing one, yes, it was played to the point of annoyance on that show. It, or another Flirts song, was in the show intro or outro theme.
Avatar 6:50am
Dave B:

Who do the Go-Gos have a beef with? They were always so happy in their videos
Avatar 6:50am
Chuck:

Thought it would be California, DB, but no...
  6:50am
Rob in Maryland:

Where's the BEAT?

Or the BEET?
Avatar 6:51am
Andy in Berlin:

And people wonder how I got into Metal... :)
Avatar 6:53am
Dave B:

^ that made me laugh Andy ^
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C.S.:

The early, mid and late 80s seemed to be different from each other in terms of style and music. I think the mid 80s is what everyone remembers as "the 80s"
  6:53am
KP:

Do you have Kim Wilde's drunk on tube version of this?
Avatar 6:53am
Chuck:

Pat Benatar hits cheese pay dirt...
Avatar 6:55am
Andy in Berlin:

I'm just steeling myself for the Wang Chung and Tears For Fears. :)
Avatar 6:55am
Chuck:

Grin and bear it, Andy!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 6:56am
Meghan:

Wow, no Legend of Billie Jean comments?!
  6:56am
KP:

Pat Rentacar.
Avatar 6:56am
Chuck:

Not unless you play it, Meghan...
Avatar 6:57am
Chuck:

Swedish cheese!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 6:58am
Meghan:

I played it Chuck. That Pat Benatar song was from the Legend of Billie Jean....
Avatar 6:59am
Chuck:

Never saw the film, sorry, Meg. Didn't make the connection...
Avatar 7:00am
Chuck:

Thought you were referring to Michael Jackson for some reason...
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:00am
Meghan:

www.youtube.com...
  7:01am
jefff:

What, are going O.U.T?
Avatar 7:03am
groucho:

morning x
Avatar 7:05am
Andy in Berlin:

Hey, I didn't know this was the Undertones - I love this song!
Avatar 7:06am
Chuck:

Wow, this makes me think that Stiff Little Fingers should also slip into the mix as well...
  7:07am
luh3417:

echo beach definitely best song followed by another girl another planet IMHO great show
  7:07am
KP:

Agree on Echo Beach. It's been covered, a mark of a great song. It's so dramatic.
Avatar 7:07am
plasticfangs:

Grim subject matter for such a jaunty tune, too...
  7:09am
KP:

The Undertones live were underwhelming.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:10am
Meghan:

It's amazing how many happy songs have grim subject matter.....
Avatar 7:13am
Chuck:

An 80s show would be incomplete without some Howie...
  7:13am
Dave B:

It was the eighties.
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the glowing one:

Whoa whoa whoooaa
  7:14am
Dave B:

HoJo wrapped up the sentiment right there

"Things can only get better"
Avatar 7:14am
Chuck:

Wait! Where's my Bartels and James Wine Cooler!
Avatar 7:15am
C.S.:

Someone ask Herb the Nerd to pass me a can of New Coke.
Avatar 7:16am
the glowing one:

The 80s were also the apogee of background singers.
  7:20am
Dave B:

"Hey girl, you wanna go OUT?"
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:21am
Meghan:

What do you mean Do I Want to go OUT?
Avatar 7:23am
the glowing one:

nananana-nineteen
Avatar 7:24am
C.S.:

na na na na nineteen
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AKA BA (Hons) Full-on:

Reminds me, are you playing any Front242 or NitzerEbb Meghan?
  7:25am
Dave B:

You don't happen to have that Jerry Harrison track with Reagan sampled saying "we begin bombing in five minutes" do you?
  7:25am
Allan in Germany:

Two Tribes, please
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:26am
Meghan:

I was just thinking about Nitzer Ebb the other day.... but I think I am not fully jumping into the industrial side.... that is more my birthday shows than anything.....
Avatar 7:26am
AKA BA (Hons) Full-on:

Sorry...I ALWAYS think of song requests/ideas during your program. If only there was a time machine.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:27am
Meghan:

when you find one, let me know!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:27am
Dave L.B. is RRN63:

...Well - seeing That 70s Show 1st time
- it was like all this stuff I had totally repressed that they brought back amazingly accurately
...this is a little like that - but a bit something else...
- not sure I'll a lotta trax this week, but no extreme suffering so far!
- Thx for playing "Are 'Friends' Electric?" instead of 'Cars'! Much better - & ya *never* hear it...
Avatar 7:27am
the glowing one:

Haha!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:28am
Meghan:

Oh RRN.... you made it! I didn't scare you away too badly! ha!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:28am
Dave L.B. is RRN63:

...not sure I'll *☆* a lot - forgot to put that in...
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:30am
Dave L.B. is RRN63:

...as much sleep as anything, M...& that damn work thing beckons yerknow...
  7:30am
Dave B:

The volume is pumped
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:32am
Dave L.B. is RRN63:

...then there will be efd's Disco Show...
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Chuck:

Say, how many volumes are there in that Living in Oblivion comp, Meg? I don't have any of them yet...
Avatar 7:32am
the glowing one:

"Paid in full" please!!!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:33am
Meghan:

I think 6....
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:34am
Dave L.B. is RRN63:

...so we won't be hearing Replacements, Flipper, Black Flag, HuskerDu, Teardrop Explodes - *that* 80s...
  7:35am
Dave B:

If I recall it was EEBEN OHZEN
Avatar 7:35am
Chuck:

I have all 15 of the Just Can't Get Enough comp which has many of the same songs, but there are some songs on the Oblivion comp I don't have....
Avatar 7:38am
Chuck:

Flock of Seagulls "I Ran" may have been the first video I saw on MTV...
Avatar 7:40am
the glowing one:

I can't help but notice that many of the records have skips... makes me wonder, were they played back more often than the former owners would now admit?
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:41am
Meghan:

Well, none of these have skips.... or that I have heard..... unless you are hearing me plug in and out of a headphone jack..... that could be it.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:42am
Meghan:

which could be the case..... and if so, I need to grab another set of headphones.... But I am not ashamed of lots of 80's play!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:43am
Dave L.B. is RRN63:

FoS are ok!
...I admit to a tinge of embarrassment re how much I cared about The Alarm - but not too much.
...I'm embarrassed how much time I wasted having MTV *hoping* something I liked would come on...
- I think means pop & crackles rather than skips?...I forgot what we used to call them!!...
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:43am
listener james from westwood:

w00t! cheesy 80s! synthpop and 1-off wonders! lando macking on she-ra!
Avatar 7:43am
the glowing one:

Oh, I guess that's it then. It's a crackling noise which I thought was a skip (vinyl record type, not CD type).
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:44am
listener james from westwood:

i am starring this episode back to the stone, er, reagan age!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:44am
Dave L.B. is RRN63:

- having MTV *on*...I need to get fed & Caffed up awlready...
Avatar 7:45am
C.S.:

Just Say No
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:46am
Dave L.B. is RRN63:

Just Say No to the 80s
- Ha! ...sorry...
Avatar 7:46am
C.S.:

This is your brain on cheese. Any questions?
  7:48am
Dave B:

I think the first time I ever saw/heard oingo boingo was on the gong show around 77 or 78
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:48am
Parq:

Howdy, all. Great 80s pic. Did they miss Max Headroom or am I just not spotting him?
Avatar 7:49am
C.S.:

He's next to Pac Man
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:49am
listener james from westwood:

upper right, just below rambo and shredder
Avatar 7:50am
Chuck:

Does anyone know if they actually make Bartels and James wine coolers anymore? Haven't seen them in years and the show has put me in the mood for one, perhaps two! hehehe....
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:50am
Meghan:

He's near pac man and tron
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:50am
maestroso:

Isn't that Max on the tv in the upper right corner?
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:50am
Meghan:

yeah chuck, it's next to the Zima....
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:52am
Dave L.B. is RRN63:

...playing *this* Oingo off a Hits comp.
...it all comes back to me & Top40 parting ways around mid-70s when Punk started
- altho' there was Alternative creeping in here, & where MTV fit in
...then there was Grunge, which generated more heat than light, but I've warmed myself @ it often enuff...(Comment about Early-Mid-& Late 80s sounds right)
Avatar 7:52am
Chuck:

Ah, since I'm not interested in Zima could be why I missed them, Meg! It's on the menu today!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:53am
Dave L.B. is RRN63:

Bauhaus not cheezy?? Sweet gheezus I am old...
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:53am
Meghan:

See I hated grunge. It made me mad. It ruined GOOD music in my eyes.... and ears. Alternative wasn't an alternative to anything any more.
Avatar 7:54am
C.S.:

No Strawberry Shortcake, Meghan?
Avatar 7:55am
the glowing one:

What I like about the 80s music most is the clean production, it was at its peak. In New Wave and Synthpop it was probably the most noticeable, but it's also noticeable in 80s Metal for example, even the one that's supposed to be dirty. Despite the electronic "sounds" and what was being generally implied People were still playing actual instruments, even if it were synthesizers, and you can tell every instrument cleanly apart. I like that because it died out with the loudness war escalation of the 90s.

If I want to hear noise and distortion I listen to noise music or music with distortion, but if I listen to music from the mid 90s onward I get noisy music regardless. It's a quality issue not an esthetic one.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:55am
Meghan:

man! That is what is missing from this pic! You are right C.S.! But maybe since we can't smell them like a scratch and sniff sticker.....
Avatar 7:55am
Chuck:

Ha! My youngest sister (same age a Meghan) adored her Strawberry Shortcake, C.S.!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:56am
listener james from westwood:

strawberry shortcake is driving k.i.t.t.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:56am
Dave L.B. is RRN63:

...I remember 1st seeing the designation 'Adult Alternative'...yes - designating it 'Alternative' was ironically a way of codifying it - & simultaneously ghettoizing it rather than accepting it as just the new thing...
Avatar 7:57am
C.S.:

I notice a lot more boy-oriented characters and fewer girl characters like Rainbow Brite, too.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:57am
Meghan:

hahaha... nice James.... yes!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:57am
Dave L.B. is RRN63:

...it was a looong time ago...
Avatar 7:58am
C.S.:

@ Chuck still available: www.bartlesandjaymes.com...
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Chuck:

I just think the term "alternative" is misleading. How "Alternative" is it if EVERYONE is doing it?
Avatar 7:59am
the glowing one:

@C.S.: doll companies like Mattel wanted to sell dolls to boys. And cartoons went hand in hand with dolls and "action figures".
Avatar 8:00am
Chuck:

See that I even forgot that Jaymes had a "y" in it. It's been ages...
Avatar Swag For Life Member 8:01am
Meghan:

If there are boy toys in there.... where is My Buddy and Monchichi?
Avatar 8:02am
Chuck:

And Cabbage Patch Kids, Meghan...
Avatar 8:02am
C.S.:

My Buddy had Little Sister
Avatar Swag For Life Member 8:03am
Dave L.B. is RRN63:

...waiting up for 120 Minutes on MTV - subscribing to TrouserPress only to get BoyGeorge on the cover & feeling I'd missed the bus - New Wave Theater...@ the beginning, the end of School, Reagan - Lennon shot...liquid LSD - then leaving home, vinyl Punk stores...homelessness, the WestCoast...my 20s - major changes!
...it wasn't too shiny & clean for me, I suppose...
Avatar Swag For Life Member 8:03am
Meghan:

yep.... Kid Sister...
Avatar Swag For Life Member 8:03am
Parq:

Who's the devo in the Superman shirt? (As distinct from the Devo above Indy Jones.)
Avatar 8:04am
C.S.:

There were near riots for those damn Cabbage Patch Kids. I preferred Garbage Pail Kids, myself.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 8:04am
Meghan:

That is Chunk from Goonies!
Avatar 8:05am
Chuck:

Berlin! Good Lord!
Avatar 8:06am
Chuck:

I think this song was actually banned from radio due to it's content at the time...
Avatar Swag For Life Member 8:06am
Meghan:

RRN.... I used to sneak downstairs to watch 120 minutes, when Kevin Seal was the host. And the British guy (can't remember his name) became a host after, but he was just a blur originally....
Avatar Swag For Life Member 8:07am
listener james from westwood:

if memory serves, they slip a "fuck" or two into the fadeout of this one.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 8:08am
listener james from westwood:

meghan: dave kendall was the brit iirc.
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Van in DC:

Berlin! Good morning Meghan!
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Meghan:

YES! Thanks James..... brain wasn't working....
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listener james from westwood:

heh, it was a big decade, containing multitudes.
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Parq:

Cabbage patch kids were the first Insanely Popular Christmas toy. Then came Tickle Me Elmo -- that was in the early 90s, yeh? I remember being glad my daughter was too little for it.
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C.S.:

Then Furby.
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Parq:

I also remember thinking that Soft Cell were saying "Sex Tour" -- decades later, we actually have those.
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stvn:

isn't that Sloth from the Goonies? Chunk was the little fat kid.
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PKNY:

Soft Cell had a song called "Sex Dwarf"? Wow!
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Meghan:

errr, yes Stvn..... I just get that scene with Rocky Road stuck in my head....
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Stevo:

Non Stop Erotic Cabaret baby!!!
Still got it on vinyl......
I LOVED the eightie's.
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C.S.:

Hey Meghan. We have the cheese but where's the beef?
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Cheri Pi:

Good Morning, let's RAWK
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Cheri Pi:

In a Meghan's Birthday kinda way ;)
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Van in DC:

ha ha ha...I recognized Ratt right off the batt
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common:

oh yea, ratt!
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Meghan:

hahaha.... right Cheri Pi? But there is rawk....
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listener james from westwood:

ahhhh, 80s metal set. time for memories of high school summers spent roleplaying until dawn.
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Cheri Pi:

I'm shawked and awed!
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Cheri Pi:

YYYYYYYYEEEEEEEEEESSSSS!
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Van in DC:

Van! Halen! :)
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Sem Chumbo:

Zero discipline.
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Cheri Pi:

Our local boys "Man Halen" played a SICK cover of Panama recently downtown on the public square.
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amEdeo:

Holeeeeeee shizzzt. Is that Jem and the Holograms in the background?
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Meghan:

it is! It's truly OUTRAGEOUS!
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listener james from westwood:

it's difficult to overestimate how much of a fucking monster "appetite for destruction" was during summer '87
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Dan B From Upstate:

I can pinpoint everyone in the picture except the two guys in the top left... the brown fella with the sword, and the guy in the cowboy hat who isn't boss hogg. And the dude with the white face in the bottom right next to Billy Dee. Any help? :)
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Davee:

Better late than never?
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amEdeo:

Truly, truly outrageous!
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Cheri Pi:

Max Headroom!
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the glowing one:

A friend of mine had a t-shirt with the orignal cover art. He got in trouble when he wore it in school... :D
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C.S.:

Brave Starr in the hat and Bearriors...which I missed myself.
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listener james from westwood:

summer 1987, last summer before college: this album, def leppard's "hysteria," and the "untouchables" soundtrack were on heavy rotation in my friend tony's basement as we stacked nights of boardgaming and rerun action films on hbo like a barricade against being forced into the faux-adulthood of college.
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Earthwormkev:

Top left cowboy is "Bravestar"
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Davee:

who is the little guy in the glass on the bar?
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glenn:

hey cheri pi, there's an all chick v.h. tribute band in toronto. and their name?
why, it's vag halen.
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listener james from westwood:

that cartoon's a new one on me, c.s. no idea who the pharaoh-looking dude next to lando is.
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Meghan:

That is a snork in the glass....
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common:

this takes me back to living with my metal head sister in wv. good times.
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Davee:

I must have missed the snork in the 80's
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Chuck:

Had to go downstairs and see to G'Kar's needs. How could I have forgotten the "Hair Band" contribution to the eighties?!
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listener james from westwood:

g'kar?! awesome. cat, dog, or actual narn in the house?
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Cheri Pi:

OMG Glenn!!
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Chuck:

Cat, listener James. hehehe... At least you got the reference....
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C.S.:

@James It's a cartoon called Sliver Hawks
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Cheri Pi:

ANTHRAX!
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Parq:

I was not yet a parent in the 80s, so most of the cartoon characters are unknown to me. Of course, pretty much every celebrity in the 80s was a cartoon character.
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listener james from westwood:

mos def chuck. was a b5 geek back in the day. really enjoying the av club's weekly recaps of the show. fun to see folks watching for the first time along w those remembering their mid-90s trip to the 23rd century.
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listener james from westwood:

thanks, cs! didn't see that one the first time through.
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C.S.:

Lots of cartoons supported toys back then but two I remember that were very well-written were The Adventures of the Galaxy Rangers and StarCom the US Space Force
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Chuck:

Jeez, I've got the whole series and the films of B5 on DVD, listener James. Just another indication of what a dweeb I am!
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Cheri Pi:

BTW, Efilnikufesin = Nice Fucking Life backwards...
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Davee:

it's funny how if you spell things backwards they look like German
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Cheri Pi:

Perflect blend of 80's metal Mr. Underwater!
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listener james from westwood:

that is my kind of geekery, chuck!
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Davee:

Metal Cheese!
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listener james from westwood:

woo-hoo! bb!
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common:

Ebn ozn AEIOU. I think that's the band and the song. weird.
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Chuck:

I also just found and won the bidding on a model of the Babylon 5 space station on eBay. Can't wait for it to get here! I love building stuff...
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Dan B From Upstate:

Thanks, C.S.
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C.S.:

@Dan Glad all those years of blowing off homework to watch cartoons paid off.
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Cheri Pi:

I love this set
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Chuck:

OMD!!!!!!
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Davee:

Testicle girls?
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listener james from westwood:

probably old news to many here, but those who haven't seen the "synth britannia" bbc documentary, get thee hence to youtube. great stuff.
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listener james from westwood:

as if i hadn't made the volume loud enough, "it's a sin" now prompts me to go to 11.
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KP:

Some fun. Thanks, Meghan!
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Stevo:

Love to hear 'Second's' by the Human League Meghan,or love action,agree on that synth Britannia James,great tv.
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Chuck:

No, no, NO! It can't be over yet!
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listener james from westwood:

six stars out of five. many thanks for the flashback, meghan!
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Sem Chumbo:

Thanks, Meghan. Enough 80's to last for another decade. See ya!
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C.S.:

Two dollars! I want my two dollars!
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listener james from westwood:

stevo, that doc pairs nicely with the bbc radiophonic studio doc, also on yt.
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Chuck:

Meghan, sometimes I don't think I give you enough props for the show. But this show and the beautiful weather have completely MADE MY DAY! Thank you so very much!!
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listener james from westwood:

und der krautroc doc, for that matter!
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Stevo:

Just trying to think of the other outstanding BBC docu. and that was it James,the one on Krautrock,not heard that radiophonic thing tho,will check it out,just wonderin' James if you ever catch Jarvis Cocker on a sunday teatime on 6 ?
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tristan:

whats the cartoon bear/ beaver with the Mohawk top left please!!!
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