While settling a disagreement over whether Total Eclipse of the Heart was a duet, I just saw the music video and it blew my mind. I grew up without cable, and am pretty much ignorant of everything but the "classic" music videos from the 80's; please let me know what I'm missing.
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posted by a box and a stick and a string and a bear
on May 23, 2013 -
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Looking for a movie I saw on TV in the 80s that was about a sad clown/mime who left his circus and was wandering around the city - a foreign city, probably Europe. It is NOT Children of Paradise, but maybe some remake inspired by it. I believe it was a foreign film and was probably shown on Nickelodeon - it was a color film. Very atmospheric and followed the clown wandering in the city. Any ideas?
posted by cmp4Meta
on Nov 20, 2012 -
5 answers
Just heard
this song by the Wombats. I reminds me very strongly of another song or type of sound. Can you help me identify where I've heard a song (or sound) like this? It seems very strongly eighties to me, but I can't put my finger on it.
posted by Spyder's Game
on Sep 24, 2012 -
11 answers
Can anyone recommend good books on the Years of Lead and/or the Strategy of Tension in Italy ? They have to be in English.
Many thanks
posted by devious truculent and unreliable
on Sep 20, 2012 -
1 answer
Which artists had an uncharacteristic attempt at synthpop/electronica in the 70s/80s?
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posted by meech
on Apr 4, 2012 -
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I just watched Poltergeist, which I am now thinking seems right-wing, almost Catholic. at the end of the movie, the husband kicks the tv out of the room and serene music plays. is this a common feature of the movies of the time? did people kick the tv out of the room a lot in the movies of the 80s?
posted by parmanparman
on Mar 28, 2012 -
15 answers
Can anybody fill in the gaps in this memory I have of shopping for cassette tapes in the mid to late eighties? Memories involve a plexi glass wall and conveyor belt contraption used to prevent theft.
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posted by shushufindi
on Mar 11, 2012 -
7 answers
Help us identify an illustrated children's book involving people on a ship, the invention of pretzels, and piranhas - probably from the late 70s or early 80s.
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posted by lunasol
on Feb 10, 2012 -
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In a couple days, I will be dressing up as Nick Rhodes from Duran Duran and serving waffles to gallery patrons in a performance art piece in Chicago. This is a live version of
this blog. The problem: I only know a little bit about Duran Duran, and even less about Nick Rhodes. Help me be the best Nick Rhodes I can be!
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posted by anonymous
on Nov 16, 2011 -
19 answers
I'm searching for digitized archives of Joel Denver's 'Future Hits' radio program from 1984-1992.
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posted by yellowcandy
on Oct 31, 2011 -
1 answer
ID this horror film that featured a bunch of people trapped in a house, someone sliding down a rope bare-handed, and a hole in the ground that opened into hell?
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posted by sillymama
on Sep 22, 2011 -
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A two-fer about eighties music - I'm looking for eighties songs about the cold war, Reagan, Thatcher, US foreign policy, etc. Also looking for music I'll enjoy if I like eighties cellist composer guy Arthur Russell.
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posted by Frowner
on Jun 2, 2011 -
67 answers
Need help with identifying a half-sample of some eighties female vocalist, as echoed in a BEP single.
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posted by flatluigi
on Apr 25, 2010 -
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I'm trying to recall which music video featured a heavily edited faux 80's wedding with the bride dancing by herself and a balding, gloomy groom.
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posted by benzenedream
on Apr 15, 2010 -
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What book was this: Soviet artist (theater/music/writer?) writing about his life in Moscow during the eighties.
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posted by gmm
on Feb 24, 2010 -
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Half remembered international animated short story from the 80's - does anyone recognise this story?
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posted by lilyflower
on Sep 8, 2009 -
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In the late seventies or early eighties there was a song with a lyric something like:
I got a call last night from Washington/(the President)
Do you recognize it?
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posted by Lentrohamsanin
on Dec 24, 2008 -
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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 by Java_Man
on Jul 25, 2008 -
9 answers
Sometimes I can’t find what I want at the local House o’ Used CD’s or on iTunes. What are your favorite sources for (legally) obtaining music?
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posted by pointystick
on Mar 17, 2008 -
18 answers
Help me identify a movie I barely remember. Coins, pools, abandoned houses, and maybe a war?
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posted by cmyk
on Sep 14, 2007 -
9 answers
AlbumFilter: I've asked this to guys at used music stores and just got a duh. What is that album my ex got? Can I still get it?
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posted by Toekneesan
on May 29, 2007 -
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EightiesFilter: Where can I buy LEGAL song downloads of slightly(?)-out-of-the-mainstream eighties artistes like The Brains, Ian Dury and the Blockheads, Tonio K., The Church ("The Unguarded Moment"
full band studio version) for my iPod?
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posted by ZenMasterThis
on Oct 16, 2006 -
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Name that tune/artistfilter: Mid to late eighties i think, maybe a little later?, sounds like a youngish man singing, and all i remember are the words (sorta) to the chorus:
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posted by ramix
on Oct 15, 2006 -
2 answers
Does anybody remember a kids TV show from the eighties with a yellow flying saucer robot, a boy and, as far as i remember, a dog?
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posted by aqueousdan
on Mar 14, 2006 -
4 answers
Help me figure out the name of an alien-related mid-eighties children's TV show...
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posted by greycap
on Jan 29, 2006 -
3 answers
It's been six years. Do you have, or does anyone you know use a term, in conversation, comparable to 'the nineties' or '
the eighties' for this decade?
posted by airguitar
on Jan 2, 2006 -
71 answers
I'm looking for the title/artist of two rap/dance songs from around the mid-Eighties, one of which says "change the beat", and the other says "freeze...defrost". Sketchy details inside.
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posted by NewGear
on Dec 29, 2005 -
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I have very fond memories of playing a graphically-simple game in the late eighties or possibly early nineties. It was set in the future, in a plague-ridde, post-apocalyptic America. You were a gang leader, and your job was to assemble gang members, vehicles and guns and essentially deliver America from ruin.
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posted by dbarefoot
on May 11, 2005 -
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Eighties educational toys. When I was growing up, I had some plastic building blocks that I'd like to find again. They came in bright colors and were covered in densely packed, tiny pegs on each face (front, back, and sides). If you pressed two blocks together, the pegs would interlock and stick together. They came in all sorts of shapes, but were thinner than wooden blocks and slightly flexible. Any idea what these were called or where I can find a set?
posted by Jeff Howard
on Mar 2, 2004 -
6 answers
