What I liked (yes, liked!) about the 1980s

[NightTrain]

OK folks, I know I've done my fair share of '80s-bashing around these parts. But I'd be lying if I said there weren't some things that I liked about the Decade of Greed. Here's what comes to mind right now:

Tip O'Neill ("I think every good Christian oughta kick Falwell right in the ass!")

Donkey Kong

The two-and-a-half-hour finale of "M*A*S*H"

New Wave music

"Cheers"

The early days of MTV

Prince, Madonna, Cyndi Lauper, and Michael Jackson

Watching Dan Quayle grow up on TV

The invention of the CD

Bruce Springsteen finally making it into the mainstream (and not having to dumb down his music to do so)

The cable TV and VCR explosion

The Dead Kennedys

Mark Russell on PBS (Boy, did he make Reagan look stupid! Granted, that wasn't difficult to do, but Mark Russell was still a master at it.)

The "mad slasher" films of the early '80s (I'd probably hate most of those films now, but as a 16-year-old, I really dug watching them on HBO late at night!)

The death of M.O.R. music (For the uninitiated, "M.O.R." stood for "Middle of the Road." It was just one step above the so-called "Beautiful Music" that plagued the FM dial until the dawn of the '90s.)

CBS finally putting Archie Bunker out of his misery

The birth of hip-hop and rap (I know I'm gonna get some shit for this one, but I don't give a damn!)

Eddie Murphy on "Saturday Night Live"

"The SCTV Comedy Network" (Still the best damned satire I've ever watched on the small screen, "The Daily Show" notwithstanding)

[jenk]

1. a few things I liked about the 80's

Mets win world series

REM

Nirvana forms

new years day, 1990.

[U2Fanatic]

2. ,I'm an 80s freak, I love the 80s

except for reagan and all that crap :mad:

[YellowRubberDuckie]

6. Unless you abandoned your new car for a car from the 80s...

you're not an 80s freak...my best friend from the time we were babies did this. It's hilarious. I'll never forget that. She was such an eighties freak, I was surprised she didn't continue to dress in leg warmers...
Duckie

[Zomby Woof]

3. slight correction

It was Barry Goldwater who suggested Christians should kick Falwell in the ass. :-)

[papau]

4. '84 Cubs win division, Billy Bob theater on Cable where the movie was

rated by the number of car crashes, body parts exposed, and body parts maimed or removed, with a healthy selection EU movies that indicated a different EU standard toward the showing of skin. A contrast to the pretend morality of the rapist treasonous Reagan that was needed at the time.

and of course Cubs get into playoff in '88.

[LeftPeopleFinishFirst]

5. I liked the cartoons

Carebears, Smurfs, etc.