What's the modern equivalent of a Casio VL-Tone? [more inside]
posted by dmd on Oct 17, 2009 - 3 answers

Half remembered international animated short story from the 80's - does anyone recognise this story? [more inside]
posted by lilyflower on Sep 8, 2009 - 1 answer

I have an upcoming costume party and the theme is 80s or 90s - but how can I incorporate a red leather skirt? [more inside]
posted by nextian_geometry on Jul 14, 2009 - 11 answers

I'm on a search to find a movie that can live up to The Holy Mountain by Alejandro Jodorowsky. Please recommend trippy, surreal, psychedelic cult movies. [more inside]
posted by Juliet Banana on Apr 14, 2009 - 64 answers

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? [more inside]
posted by Lentrohamsanin on Dec 24, 2008 - 7 answers

Was there a name for this '80s kitsch art aesthetic? [more inside]
posted by Countess Elena on Aug 23, 2008 - 6 answers

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? [more inside]
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? [more inside]
posted by cmyk on Sep 14, 2007 - 9 answers

80's movies featuring really lame punk gangs? [more inside]
posted by ReiToei on Aug 27, 2007 - 33 answers

Do you know of any movies with improbable technology as a plot device? [more inside]
posted by soundofsuburbia on Jul 25, 2007 - 42 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? [more inside]
posted by Toekneesan on May 29, 2007 - 24 answers

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? [more inside]
posted by ZenMasterThis on Oct 16, 2006 - 10 answers

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: [more inside]
posted by ramix on Oct 15, 2006 - 2 answers

Does anyone remember a sitcom named Whoops? [more inside]
posted by jon_kill on Apr 4, 2006 - 12 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? [more inside]
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... [more inside]
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. [more inside]
posted by NewGear on Dec 29, 2005 - 8 answers

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. [more inside]
posted by dbarefoot on May 11, 2005 - 11 answers

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