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Waylon Jennings

Peaches & Herb http://youtu.be/8tJi8Y7nuCc Michael Jackson when he was good.

This is pretty much the true sound of the 70's.

When Freddy Fender Ruled The World! http://youtu.be/GS3COVhl9rk

Yeah, I went there.

http://youtu.be/El6iQ2_dvlc

Time for some Lefty Frizzell.

Not to be one of those guys who bumps their own thread in a vain attempt to get more hits, but an 80's thread without The Cars just doesn't feel right.

I suppose if you squinted really hard and assumed Buddy shrank dramatically with age, you might confuse the two. Well, until Noah started to speak, anyway.

The Bruce Lee part alone makes Marlowe a must-see. Also a fan of Rockford and Support Your Local Gunfighter. Haven't seen them in years, but I really liked Tank and Murphy's Romance when they came out. Pretty much all of his 60's work is worth the time invested in viewing.

I remember my grandpa messing with me by telling me that Barnaby Jones was Rockford's dad. I was super pissed because I was pretty sure it wasn't true but there was no way to prove it. You could have just watched the Rockford Files, since his father was a regular character.

Remember when artists embraced a cause and enlisted the (band) aid of their friends to sing about it? The 80's was a boom period for musical activism. Little Steven fights for social justice:

I know, but the performance was 83 and it was a pretty significant 80's event.

I just straight-up don't give a shit about Van Hagar. And it always seemed to me like, deep down, Eddie didn't either.

Can't go into a second page without The Clash showing up.

This song was part of the soundtrack of my life as a teenager. I wasn't much of a hip hop fan back then, but most of my friends were and it seemed like this song played at every party back in 85. It was also perfect for freaking with a girl you liked, something I wouldn't have ordinarily done if not for "A Fly Girl" booming out the speakers.

I started getting nostalgic after seeing the requests to to do another 80's movie poll and started thinking about the music of those times. I'm not down for throwing out a lot of rules for posting stuff, so I'll keep it simple. It's from the 80's and why it's great. If you asked anyone, and I mean anyone, about Dexy's Midnight Runners, you were probably going to hear a lot of laughter. But someone was buying this song. It was fucking big for a minute. And if you bothered to dig a little deeper( Obviously a much more labor intensive task in the 80's) , you would have been rewarded with discoveries from their Too-Rye-Ay album such as "Let's Make This Precious" , "Plan B" , "Liars A to E", and an absolutely fantastic cover of "Jackie Wilson Said (I'm in Heaven When You Smile)". Their case for being a good band was unfortunately underscored by Kevin Rowland's voice breaking like a 13-year-old during live appearances. But I would urge anyone who has an interest in Blues/Soul and the British version of it, to seek out as much Dexy's as possible. They certainly do not deserve to be lumped in with the Kajagoogoos and Real Lifes and whatnot.

May not seem like much now, but way back when, people were going ape-shit in the theater.

As someone who actually came of age during those times, I can tell you that your perceptions are insightful, but shy of the mark. No one believed that the world would end in nuclear armageddon... Ronald W. Reagan saw to that!!!! It wasn't that it was matter-of- fact....it was largely a Hollywood reaction to the creeping Conservative movement they thought might swallow them whole, and, of course, not without justification. The rest of us were all about parachute pants and Kool Moe Dee and Bruce Springsteen,Superstar( a good thing) and the like. We didn't accept and embrace the Horrors of the World. Hell, we had just left the 70's fer chrissakes...talk about dark, dystopian periods in filmmaking! And in the real world, sure we had the NATO Alliance and the Warsaw Pact and all that, but no one really believed it. Hell, the scariest thing about being a soldier in (formally) West Germany in 1985 wasn't the Soviets that we trained to repel, but the left wing German citizens that bombed discos because they thought their girlfriends might be getting fucked by G.I.s of all races and descriptions. And the attraction of The Road Warrior wasn't some innate response to some perceivable future. Fuck no. It was about the "foreign" film style of an Australian film director who managed to make dudes who dressed like the Village People seem completely Bad-Ass, even as they took those stereotypes to places that the musical group couldn't have dreamed of. Moral of the story: Artsy,dystopia, generally trumps your popcorn bullshit. But a taste is a flavor and I love popcorn as much as caviar.

So you'll be throwing Le Dernier Combat a high vote? I got your back on that one.

They're good, but they are far from being top shelf Kitano, which includes the already mentioned Violent Cop. Hell, they don't even stack up to Ishii's Gonin.

Never seen E.T. and have zero desire to ever do so. That may be one of the first films where the trailer told you pretty much everything you needed to know.

Sounds like the first line of a studio pitch.

Very sorry for your loss Natural, and to everyone else dealing with similar family issues. I'm sure 99% of the people around here can relate and wish you all the best and just know that better days will come, even if it is hard to believe that right now.

This is the absolute truth. When I was younger, I wasn't much of a crier, though there have been notable exceptions. "When She Loved Me." from Toy Story II? Yeah, I was on a 'date night' with my soon to be ex-wife. Figured that would be a harmless enough mood setter to talk things over afterwards. That song destroyed my soul with her sitting right next to me. And Spock's death scene in WoK has always gotten to me. That was about it until a few years ago. Now, commercials make me cry. I got all misty eyed when Tim Duncan was talking about his kids seeing him win it all, and I don't even have kids!! Too much life experience leads to emotional triggers you don't even see coming. And judging by some of these posts, some of you should probably just become shut-ins as you grow older. It isn't going to be pretty.