Welcome, welcome, to the place the 80s never ended. Walk on our spotless silver carpenting, sit in a big comfy vinyl chair, pop open a diet soda, and enjoy your choice of 80 cartoons or 80s music videos. Or you may prefer to visit our arcade with every video game of the 80s. We also have a library of every comic from the 80s, including the entire outputs of cool indies like First and Eclipse (none of that horrible black-and-white negative nihilistic stuff, though.) Optional but highly recommended are our rock-and-roll makeover rooms -- new wave to the left, hair metal to the right.
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My indie poisons included Grimjack, Scout, American Flagg, Crossfire, Starslayer (though only the Ostrander/Truman issues,) and Warp (though only the Brunner issues.)
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never got into Grimjack. Had the 1st issue or two of Scout. A little too Reaganistic for me, although I liked Truman's art.
AF, Crossfire (esp the B&W run) were favorites.I've only read the Grell Starslayer, and even then the 90s 'director's cut' from Acclaim. It's hard to imagine anyone but Grell doing those characters. Never read Warp.
Elfquest, Jon Sable, Miracleman (okay, Marvelman), Masked Man, Mage, Grendel and A Distant Soil were other faves of the era.
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Ooh, the eighties!! I'm here, I'm queer... wait a second... >.>
Whatevs! *parties like it's 1989*
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Mars (Wheatley & Hempel)
Damn near anything by Roberta Gregory, Bernard Mireault, and Scott Saavedra.
After everyone goes to bed, I will get out Marshall Crenshaw's Field Day, Joan Armatrading's The Key and T-Bone Burnett's Proof Through The Night and play them over and over again until somebody gets up to either placate me with Uno's pizza or eject me from the premises. Or both, in no particular order.
Vinyl only. Damnit.
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didn't realize W&H did Mars, or that Roberta Gregory was doing stuff in the 80s.
I still listen to Springsteen's live 75-85 boxed set from time to time. Other 80s music I frequent once in a while: Kate Bush, Alison Moyet, Kirsty MacCall, and Blondie.
I sometimes miss vinyl.
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Gregory's work in Gay Comix was amazing. It would have been a surprise to a lot of people who only knew her later from Naughty Bits. Actually Gay Comix in general had amazing contributors. I was really sad to let my copies go, finally, about three years back. But they found good homes, mostly in Europe.
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Sweet! The "Take on Me" video could be playing at all times!
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I loved Galaga. A friend of mine showed me a trick in the 10th grade. On stage 2, I believe, if you avoided the bombs the bugs were dropping for about 15 minutes, and never fired back, eventually they just quit firing, and never fired another shot the entire game. We racked up a million points more than once. *sigh*
BTW, I loved "Take on Me."
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I fondly remember Dalgoda, Zot!, and American Flagg! I wanted to like DNAgents--the characters were cool, but I just never got into Mark Evanier's writing.
For music/music videos, the early '80s belonged to Rainbow, particularly "Can't Happen Here" and "All Night Long" (a bit sexist in retrospect), J. Geils Band ("Come Back" and "Love Stinks"--before "Centerfold" took them too far in the pop direction), and my perennial favorite, Jefferson Starship ("Find Your Way Back" and "Layin' It on the Line").
Of course, newer bands such as Def Leppard, A Flock of Seagulls, Men at Work, and Duran Duran were fun to watch and listen to, as well.
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I tried to like DNAgents. couldn't (still have the Dave Stevens cover issue of Rainbow). But the spinoff series Crossfire was magnifique!
80s pop can still be fun to listen to, but the stuff from the 80s that really stands the test of time is the Alternative stuff that didn't get much radio play the 1st time around.
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Radio was my only source of music in those days. There were a lot of songs that got some airplay yet didn't become hits (but should have), such as
*"This Beat Goes On/Switching to Glide" by the Kings *"You Got What I Need" and "Last Chance" by Shooting Star (a Kansas City band!) *"Into the Night" by the Sherbs
Don't know if any of these qualify as alternative, but back then it seemed like anything that wasn't Lionel Richie was alternative!
I just realized that we mentioned two different Rainbows in back-to-back posts. That got to be some kind of rare LW coincidence.
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quote:Originally posted by Tamper Lad: ...and huge honking shoulder pads on women's clothing.
Shoulder pads... bah. I've always had broad shoulders, despite being not tall. I spent that entire decade and a good chunk of the next one cutting shoulder pads out of every damn shirt, blouse and dress I purchased. I used to give them to a roommate's aunt. She was a very tiny, small-boned woman and liked to wear them in everything. However, she ascended to the next plane several years ago, so I don't know what the blazes I'd do with a new torrent of homeless shoulder pads. Bleah.
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