Anyone who has ever watched a movie knows how important the soundtrack is, and how it can totally make a movie. I am talking about the actual songs not the movies musical score. A movies songs can set the mood and make the movie unforgettable. Maybe it is since I grew up in the 1980’s ...
The pop music scene since the 1980s has gotten increasingly and distressingly less creative, imaginative, and versatile. Not to mention significantly less fun. The 1990s seemed to be dominated by boy bands except for the insidious manner in which rap entwined its deadening sameness around seemingly every musical style. The death of rock music in ...
1983 saw a number of significant news events unfold and pop culture continued to evolve. 1983 was a landmark year as far as worldwide terrorism goes; in Beirut, 237 American marines die in a terrorist explosion. Meanwhile, “modern” technology expanded further as people begin taking to the digital sound quality that compact discs (CDs) offer, ...
The Winter Olympic Games returned to Lake Placid, New York for the second time in 1980. The first time the town was chosen as the host of the Winter Games was in 1932, and the U.S. emerged from the competition atop the medal standings with six golds and 12 medals overall. With the second edition ...
Any discussion of the music of the 1980s is likely to spur harsh discussion and heated words about the best songs of the decade. Madonna, U2 and The Police dominated a decade when Phil Collins left Genesis and hair metal found its way to the top of the charts. So, how do you pick the ...
Are you in the process of planning a 1980s themed party? If so, you may want to take a look at my list of the top 1980s themed party favors for teens. Some of the party favors are suitable for adults as well. Here’s the list: Rubik Cubes Rubik Cubes would make excellent 1980s themed ...
Metallica released four albums in the 1980’s. The band members that played on the albums were James Hetfield, Lars Ulrich, Kirk Hammett, Cliff Burton, and Jason Newsted. The four albums released in the 1980’s were Kill ‘Em All (1983), Ride the Lightning (1984), Master of Puppets (1986), and …And Justice for All (1988). Here are ...
In the era before TiVo and digital video recorders, the sitcoms of the 1980’s kept people at home in front of their TV’s at night. NBC even set a standard for programming blocks of comedy with their Thursday night “Must See TV” schedule. Original, made-for-cable programming was still in its infancy in the 1980’s, which ...
The 1980s was a decade that marked multiple changes in how American’s communicated, conducted business and appeared to others. I know, because I lived through it. Based on that experience, I thought that I would take a moment to highlight several inventions that popped up during the decade. Here they are: Phones The 1980s brought ...
There have been rumors about the “return of the 1980’s”, is that a good thing. Well, how about you judge for yourself, based on some of these fashion trends from the 1980’s for men. In general fashion in the 1980’s for men was about expressionism. There were changes as the decade progressed from the end ...
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