In the 80's, which guitarist played a white guitar daubed with paint splotches and Pollock-like streaks of neon pink and green, among other colors? I recall seeing the guitar (probably in a video), but can't place the guitarist or find any images.
posted on Jul 25, 2008 - 9 answers

Do you remember this mid- to late-80s Nickelodeon made-for-tv movie? "Give me back my button!" [more inside]
posted on Jul 21, 2008 - 3 answers

What is the name of the movie or show with this plot?: A young girl with an abusive father is given a black-robed doll name "the Viper." At night, the Viper comes alive as a human-sized version of itself with green, glowing eyes and helps the girl. Near the end of the movie/show, there is a twist where the Viper is actually the girls father or something along those lines.
posted on Jul 19, 2008 - 1 answers

Besides "running man" and "hammer dance", do you know the names of the dance moves in the video for Something Good '08 by Utah Saints?
posted on Jun 25, 2008 - 4 answers

GH3 guitar doesn't play well with others. [more inside]
posted on Jun 6, 2008 - 3 answers

80s tv question. When i was a young man i remember this show that was semi fanasty with a plot around swordsmen who had a sword but also a dirk would come out of the hilt of the sword. This is all i remember if anyone could guide me more would apprecaite it. Show would have been before 85.
posted on Apr 20, 2008 - 9 answers

Here's a semi-tough one (at least, I think). TV show from the 80's, had at least one character that was a mannequin who would come to life after you placed his cabbie-hat on him... [more inside]
posted on Apr 16, 2008 - 11 answers

Does anyone remember this traumatizing medical foundation advertisement from the '80s? [more inside]
posted on Apr 16, 2008 - 2 answers

I want to throw together 2 costumes (1 guy, 1 girl) that would scream 80's new wave high schooler. I need pictures to help us not end up too emo. "New wave" means different things to different people, so please read inside. [more inside]
posted on Apr 15, 2008 - 17 answers

My friend is looking for something she remembers from the '80s. It was a big plastic "jewel" on a bracelet or maybe a necklace -- it would open up and there would be a toy pet inside. (?) She wants to find one, maybe on eBay. But we can't remember what these were called!
posted on Apr 3, 2008 - 4 answers

I'm a child of the '80s, and I loved the '80s. However, I didn't develop a sense of good taste until about 1994, and as a result my pop-culture radar is completely jammed with crappy cartoons designed to sell toys, cereal commercials, and Ewoks. Can you recommend totally awesome movies/TV shows/etc. that will satisfy my '80s nostalgia, but are good enough to watch today? [more inside]
posted on Apr 3, 2008 - 73 answers

I am trying to find the title of this film I remember scantily from my childhood. I do remember belly-laughing at this film when I was a kid, but can't remember for the life of me more than just a few details. Here's what I know (or think I remember)... [more inside]
posted on Mar 22, 2008 - 5 answers

I'm trying to find an old computer game that we used to play in school (probably around late 80s). It was a text based RPG with puzzles and magical items. [more inside]
posted on Mar 5, 2008 - 14 answers

MusicvideoFilter: Animated mid to late 80s brazilian(?) music video on MTV, what was it? This has been bugging me for decades. There was a video shown on MTV for a while in the mid-to-late 80's that I'd love to see or hear again. I think the band was Brazilian, or at least latin. The video was animated colored drawings on a black background and did a lot of morphing from one thing to another. Can the hive mind mind put me on the right track?
posted on Feb 22, 2008 - 5 answers

Please help me remember the name of a childhood toy. [more inside]
posted on Jan 18, 2008 - 5 answers

Sometime in the 80s, I remember seeing what I think was an adaptation of the Pied Piper on Nickelodeon, but it doesn't seem to be any of the ones listed on the IMDB or Wikipedia. Maybe you remember? Details inside... [more inside]
posted on Dec 4, 2007 - 7 answers

1980s series of commercials told a love story. No, not Taster's Choice. Help! [more inside]
posted on Oct 16, 2007 - 20 answers

Looking for the name of a game I encountered on the Commodore 64 around 1987 or so. I remember it being a martial arts themed, 2 player, sidescrolling 'running race' through a series of different traps (fireballs, guillotines, etc...) [more inside]
posted on Oct 1, 2007 - 16 answers

wacky 80's rap tracks - recommend more songs like "The Breaks", "Magic's Wand", and especially "Holiday Rap"!
posted on Sep 8, 2007 - 20 answers

Help me make a playlist of cheesy, synth-heavy tracks from the 80's & early 90's. [more inside]
posted on Aug 28, 2007 - 48 answers

Searching for an obscure 80's comic book. [more inside]
posted on Aug 20, 2007 - 5 answers

What's the name of this late 70s/early 80s low budget scifi movie? [more inside]
posted on Aug 3, 2007 - 6 answers

Why do people tend to gravitate more strongly towards music that was popular in their teen years? [more inside]
posted on Jul 30, 2007 - 43 answers

I'm trying to remember the name of a really great home electronics company who I believe was catalog only, that I last knew about in the late 80s, when I ordered some dbx brand bookshelf speakers, and denon cd and amp (which I still own and are running strong to this day!) The catalogs came to my parents house in Santa Barbara, and they had all this really well selected gear, with both narrative and technical descriptions. The narrative felt like an enthusiast, but not snobby high end enthusiast. The company's name was, I believe, two syllables, something like Redken, but I know that's not it. Any idea what company I'm talking about, and if they still exist?
posted on Jul 15, 2007 - 10 answers

Help me and my husband prove we aren't crazy and/or having the same delusion. We swear we saw a trailer for a movie based on an 80s/90s cartoon and we can't figure out what it was. [more inside]
posted on Jul 7, 2007 - 7 answers

Trying to find the valentine cards of my childhood. some of you might remember passing out these 32 card sets between teh ages of 5 and 12 in class. When i was a boy we used to pass out valentine cards to everyone. Growing up there was Transformer, Dukes of Hazards, and A Team cards. I am looking for find these genre of cards again. I am going to start using them as my calling cards in a way. If anyone wouldnt mind showing me a place that might sell them. I looked on ebay and didnt have much sucess. Maybe i am not typing in them search field right. Thank you in advance.
posted on Jun 20, 2007 - 13 answers

Making an 80s emo ballad mix--what am i missing [more inside]
posted on Jun 13, 2007 - 64 answers

Re-make of popular 80s song that plays in the background of recent Mother's Day T.V. commercial [more inside]
posted on May 27, 2007 - 9 answers

I'm looking for a movie that was possibly made in the early 80s. It had a similar feel of Jungle Book because it had a little boy in it with many animals including a kangaroo. It was part animation and part live-action, and I believe the entire movie was set in Australia. I wish I could remember more details of it, but I was quite young when I watched it and I haven't been able to find it since.
posted on May 6, 2007 - 8 answers

Trying to remember a sci-fi short story - I used to read Nebula Award collections when I was a kid and this one was in one years collection, but I am pretty sure it did not win. I've been trying to figure out what it was for years now. I'll tell you what I remember from it inside here... [more inside]
posted on May 2, 2007 - 12 answers

LastMinuteCostumeFilter: Due to poor planning / organizational skillz, I find myself in need of (and sorely lacking) a pseudo-80's costume for an upcoming barbershop chorus performance on Saturday night. I'm too fat for all my old 80s clothes; hope me! PS - I have ready access to Goodwill and Salvation Army retail stores, so ideas around getting this done inexpensively would be fabulous. TIA!
posted on Apr 18, 2007 - 12 answers

What are some old-school rap or hip-hop songs that go against the gang/sex/drugs culture? [more inside]
posted on Apr 16, 2007 - 49 answers

Obscure 80s lyric/band search: "Feel me now" [more inside]
posted on Apr 11, 2007 - 9 answers

80's Filter: I need a phrase to put on a shirt for an 80's party on Saturday night! [more inside]
posted on Feb 20, 2007 - 51 answers

I'm looking for an old video that I think I saw back in the early 90s. It was a two part video about computer ethics. The first part was about piracy, the second was about the "evils of hacking". My Google skills have failed me. Does anyone out there remember this? [more inside]
posted on Feb 18, 2007 - 1 answers

[ChildhoodMemoryFilter]...I'm trying to remember the name of a TV program I watched as a child in Philadelphia in the 80s. It was a variety show hosted by a Native American. [more inside]
posted on Feb 5, 2007 - 3 answers

Are there songs that contain samples of or are remixes of Automatic [youtube] by the Pointer Sisters?
posted on Jan 29, 2007 - 1 answers

Music in the style of "Little Lies" by Fleetwood Mac, and "Crockett's Theme" by Jan Hammer. [more inside]
posted on Dec 24, 2006 - 9 answers

Ever more song identification madness. Late 80's industrial dance song with a man's voice saying "close the window, won't you darling?" (or possibly "open the window, won't you darling?"). Fairly certain the lyric "I hate the light" (or "I hate delight") was prominent. I thought it was an A Split Second song, but my attempts to track it down have failed.
posted on Dec 7, 2006 - 6 answers

I am looking for the original retail prices of the earliest Sony, JVC, and Panasonic camcorders, specifically ones available in or before 1986. [more inside]
posted on Nov 17, 2006 - 2 answers

Bizarre and completely NSFW porn-related question - where did these videos come from? [more inside]
posted on Nov 8, 2006 - 9 answers

When I was about ten when I saw this movie about a family trapped in a house. Their windows and doors were bricked in and they could not get out. Whenever they turned the television on a strange logo appeared. I think I remember the mother accusing the father of having done something to cause this situation. The thing that sticks in my mind was a scene towards the end of the movie where tons of black goo comes down the chimney and out of the fireplace. [more inside]
posted on Sep 14, 2006 - 14 answers

Why won't my Yamaha DX11 make any noise? There's [more inside]
posted on Sep 3, 2006 - 3 answers

In the late 70s or early 80s, I watched a movie, probably on network television, which was called something like, "The Last V8" or "The Last of the V8s". Help me find it! [more inside]
posted on Aug 12, 2006 - 7 answers

Did I imagine this song from the 80's? [more inside]
posted on Jul 31, 2006 - 9 answers

How did "classic" arcade displays evolve? [more inside]
posted on Jun 4, 2006 - 14 answers

Help a geek find a long-lost favorite childhood storybook/gadget. [more inside]
posted on May 27, 2006 - 4 answers

Anyone remember the name of this classic arcade game? [more inside]
posted on Apr 26, 2006 - 10 answers

Does anyone remember the plastic chain charm necklaces that were such a hit in the 1980s? [more inside]
posted on Apr 19, 2006 - 15 answers

Help me identify an old animated movie that involved a raccoon, a rabbit, and an owl. [more inside]
posted on Mar 29, 2006 - 7 answers