The 80s

[BoyNextDoor]

https://youtu.be/vCadcBR95oU

A tear for Left Eye

 

[Christobal]

Ok this year felt the corporate guys looked at metrics and the best formula and decided what they would promote. The music stinks.

Edited to add the year is 1989

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yBfvrRamqIo

 

[BotanyBoy]

NIN & Pantera in the 80's?

Your suspicions are not unfounded I'm quite certain if you look it up both were actively putting music out in the 80's despite 89/90 being their big debuts generally landing them 90's band status.

NIN had some singles going back to 86 and dropped Pretty Hate Machine in 89.

Pantera was glam at the time, then in 88 I think Phil Anselmo the white trash metal god snapped them out of that bull shit and they put Cowboys from hell out in 90...I member it was like audio cheese cake.

So yes technically they qualify as 80's bands but culturally they are 90's.

 

[BoyNextDoor]

Sir Mix A Lot

 

[Disgustipated]

Your suspicions are not unfounded I'm quite certain if you look it up both were actively putting music out in the 80's despite 89/90 being their big debuts generally landing them 90's band status.

NIN had some singles going back to 86 and dropped Pretty Hate Machine in 89.

Pantera was glam at the time, then in 88 I think Phil Anselmo the white trash metal god snapped them out of that bull shit and they put Cowboys from hell out in 90...I member it was like audio cheese cake.

So yes technically they qualify as 80's bands but culturally they are 90's.

You are probably right on technicalities.

Phil's glamband was awful. Pantera was getting big when I lived in Dallas and people went back & forth to take Phil seriously.

 

[BotanyBoy]

You are probably right on technicalities.

Phil's glamband was awful. Pantera was getting big when I lived in Dallas and people went back & forth to take Phil seriously.

LOL nice....I met Dime at Mars Music in Arlington once.

 

[Christobal]

LOL nice....I met Dime at Mars Music in Arlington once.

They told me about that. You left a bad impression.

 

[Christobal]

What happened in 1982?

The advances in technology that began in previous years continue to gain speed in 1982 with the release of the Commodore 64 computer and the first CD player by Sony. The shift is so significant that Time Magazine names The Computer as the person of year in 1982. Other big news items include the opening of Epcot Center, the dedication of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial, the Tylenol scare, the death of John Belushi, and the birth of Prince William. It was a great year in movies with ET, Fast Times, the Wall all at the box office. Olivia Newton John had us getting physical and Joan Jett had us loving rock n roll. But, Michael Jackson ruled the music scene and the airwaves with Thriller, which became the best selling album of all in time. 1982 . . . we embrace you with Open Arms.
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Collage showing history and events from 1982A brutal cold snap sends temperatures to all-time record lows in dozens of cities throughout the Midwestern United States.
Cold Sunday was a meteorological event which took place on January 17 when unprecedentedly cold air swept down from Canada and plunged temperatures across much of the United States far below existing all-time record lows.
On April 6 – A blizzard unprecedented in size for April dumps 1-2 feet of snow on the northeastern U.S., closing schools and businesses, snarling traffic, and canceling several major league baseball games.
U.S. Brigadier General James L. Dozier is rescued by Italian anti-terrorism forces after 42 days of captivity under the Red Brigades.
On March 10 all 9 planets align on the same side of the Sun.
Thriller album by Michael Jackson is released, becoming the biggest selling album of all time in entertainment history.
Israel completes withdrawing from the Sinai peninsula per the Israel-Egypt Peace Treaty.
The Weather Channel (United States) airs on cable television for the first time.
Braniff International Airways was declared bankrupt and ceased all flights.
By Proclamation of the Queen Elizabeth (queen of England & Canada) on Parliament Hill, Canada patriates its constitution, granting full political independence from the United Kingdom.
A rally against nuclear weapons draws 750,000 to New York City’s Central Park. Jackson Browne, James Taylor, Bruce Springsteen, and Linda Ronstadt attend.
Longest Luna Eclipse of the 20th century took place on July 6, lasting 106 min.
The first International Day of Peace on Sept 21.
The Tylenol scare is sparked when 7 people in the Chicago area die after ingesting capsules laced with potassium cyanide.
The Epcot theme park at Walt Disney World opens to the public for the first time.
Sony launches the first consumer compact disc player (model CDP-101).
On Nov 13, The Vietnam Veterans Memorial is dedicated in Washington, D.C., after a march to its site by thousands of Vietnam War veterans.
At the University of Utah, 61-year-old retired dentist Barney Clark becomes the first person to receive a permanent artificial heart (he will live for 112 days with the device).
Time Magazine’s Man of the Year is given for the first time to a non-human, the computer.
Commodore 64 is released. The Commodore 64 goes on to sell over 20 million computers until 1994.
Falklands War (Apr 2-June 14): Argentina invades the Falkland Islands.
Prince William is born on June 21 at St Mary’s Hospital in Paddington, West London.
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Music

Album covers of 80s albums released in 1982Physical – Olivia Newton-John
Eye Of The Tiger – Survivor
I Love Rock N’ Roll – Joan Jett & The Blackhearts
Ebony And Ivory – Paul McCartney / Stevie Wonder
Centerfold – J. Geils Band
Harden My Heart – Quarterflash
Stray Cat Strut – Stray Cats
Rosanna – Toto
Eye in the Sky – The Alan Parsons Project
Mickey – Toni Basil
Gloria – Laura Branigan
Come on Eileen – Dexy’s Midnight Runners
Who Can It Be Now? – Men at Work
Open Arms – Journey
Don’t Talk to Strangers – Rick Springfield
Maneater – Hall & Oates
Up Where We Belong – Joe Cocker / Jennifer Warnes
I Want Candy – Bow Wow Wow
Key Largo – Bertie Higgins
I Melt With You – Modern English
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Television

1982 tv shows
Cheers
Starring: Ted Danson, Rhea Perlman, George Wendt, John Ratzenberger, & Shelley Long
The regulars of the Boston bar Cheers share their experiences and lives with each other while drinking or working at the bar where everybody knows your name.
Knight Rider
Starring: David Hasselhoff, William Daniels as the voice of K.I.T.T., Edward Mulhare, & Patricia McPherson
Michael Long is a crime fighter who is seriously wounded during his work. Nursed back to health by a mysterious benefactor, he regains consciousness as a new man with a new face and a new name: Michael Knight. His mysterious benefactor provides Michael with equipment and support so that he can continue his crime fighting work. The most notable piece of equipment supplied, is “K.I.T.T.”, a high-performance sports car fitted with artificial intelligence.
Fame
Starring: Debbie Allen, Gene Anthony Ray, Carlo Imperato, Erica Gimpel, Valerie Landsburg, Lee Curreri, Carol Mayo Jenkins, Ann Nelson, & Albert Hague
The Art School was always their dream. They want to dance, they want to sing, to play music, to act but above all they want to live their lives while they are still young and full of energy. Leroy, Danny, Jesse, Chris, Coco and all the others try hard because they know that they’ve got a long way to go till they reach fame and riches. Fame costs and here (the Art School) is where they start paying for it.
Family Ties
Starring: Meredith Baxter, Michael Gross, Michael J. Fox, Justine Bateman, & Tina Yothers
A couple who were ardently leftwing political activists in the sixties face the problems of raising a family with children who have strongly conservative views.
Cagney & Lacey
Starring: Tyne Daly & Sharon Gless
Two female police detectives cooperate with each other both in their professions and in their personal lives.
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Movies

Movies released in 1982E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial
Starring: Henry Thomas, Dee Wallace, Drew Barrymore, Peter Coyote, Robert MacNaughton, K.C. Martel, Sean Frye, & C. Thomas Howell
While visiting the Earth at Night, a group of alien botanists is discovered and disturbed by an approaching human task force. Because of the more than hasty take-off, one of the visitors is left behind. The alien is found by a 10 year old boy, Elliot. While E.T. slowly gets acquainted with Elliot’s brother Michael, his sister Gertie as well as with Earth customs, members of the task force work day and night to track down the whereabouts of Earth’s first visitor from Outer Space. The wish to go home again is strong in E.T. & he starts building a device to send a message home. Before long, E.T. gets seriously sick, and because of his special connection to Elliot, the young boy suffers, too. The situation gets critical when the task force finally intervenes. By then, all help may already be too late, and there’s no alien spaceship in sight.
Tootsie
Starring: Dustin Hoffman, Jessica Lange, Teri Garr, & Dabney Coleman
An unemployed actor with a reputation for being difficult disguises himself as a woman to get a role in a soap opera.
An Officer and a Gentleman
Starring: Richard Gere, Debra Winger, David Keith
A young man must complete his work at a Navy Flight school to become an aviator, with the help of a tough gunnery sergeant and his new girlfriend.
Porky’s
Set in 1954, a group of Florida high schoolers seek out to lose their virginity which leads them to seek revenge on a sleazy nightclub owner and his redneck sheriff brother for harassing them.
Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan
Starring: William Shatner, Leonard Nimoy, DeForest Kelley, James Doohan, Walter Koenig, George Takei, Nichelle Nichols, & Ricardo Montalban
Admiral James T. Kirk is still in charge of a space fleet, but from behind a desk. Dr. McCoy and Mr. Spock convince him to take on a mission which sounds simple, but with the appearance of the mysterious Khan, things get a little tricky.
48 HRS.
Starring: Nick Nolte & Eddie Murphy
A hard-nosed cop reluctantly teams up with a wise-cracking criminal temporarily paroled to him, in order to track down a killer.
Poltergeist
Starring: Craig T. Nelson, JoBeth Williams, Heather O’Rourke
A young family are visited by ghosts in their home. At first the ghosts appear friendly, moving objects around the house to the amusement of everyone, then they turn nasty and start to terrorize the family before they “kidnap” the youngest daughter.
Best Little Whorehouse in Texas
Starring: Dolly Parton, Burt Reynolds, & Dom DeLuise
Town Sheriff and regular patron, fights to keep a historical whorehouse open when a TV preacher targets it as the Devils playhouse.
Annie
Starring: Albert Finney, Carol Burnett, Tim Curry, Bernadette Peters, Aileen Quinn
In the depths of the 1930’s, Annie is a fiery young orphan girl who must live in a miserable orphanage run by the tyrannical Miss Hannigan. Her seemingly hopeless situation changes dramatically when she is selected to spend a short time at the residence of the wealthy munitions industrialist, Oliver Warbucks. Quickly, she charms the hearts of the household staff and even the seemingly cold-hearted Warbucks cannot help but learn to love this wonderful girl. He decides to help Annie find her long lost parents by offering a reward if they would come to him and prove their identity. However, Miss Hannigan, her evil brother, Rooster, and a female accomplice, plan to impersonate those people to get the reward for themselves which put Annie in great danger.
The Verdict
Starring: Paul Newman
A lawyer sees the chance to salvage his career and self-respect by taking a medical malpractice case to trial rather than settling.
Gandhi
Starring: Ben Kingsley
Biography of Mahatma Gandhi, the lawyer who became the famed leader of the Indian revolts against the British through his philosophy of non-violent protest.
First Blood
Starring: Sylvester Stallone as John Rambo
A mentally unstable Vietnam war vet, when abused with a small town’s police force, begins a one man war with it.
The Dark Crystal
Another planet, another time. 1000 years ago the Dark Crystal was damaged by one of the Urskeks and an age of chaos began. Now the time of the great conjunction of the three suns is near. If the crystal is not healed now the control of the evil Skekses will last forever. Jen the last of the Gelflings nearly exterminated by monsters controlled by the Skekses starts his dangerous journey to find the missing shard of the crystal. Will he be able to heal the crystal and restore order on the planet?
Conan the Barbarian
Starring: Arnold Schwarzenegger, James Earl Jones, Max von Sydow, Sandahl Bergman, Gerry Lopez, Cassandra Gava, Mako, & Valerie Quennessen The epic tale of child sold into slavery who grows into a man who seeks revenge against the warlord who massacred his tribe.
Tron
Starring: Jeff Bridges, Bruce Boxleitner, David Warner, Cindy Morgan
A hacker is literally abducted into the world of a computer and forced to participate in gladiatorial games where his only chance of escape is with the help of a heroic security program.
Victor/Victoria
Starring: Julie Andrews
A struggling female soprano finds work playing a male female impersonator, but it complicates her personal life.
Blade Runner
Starring: Harrision Ford, Rutger Hauer, Sean Young, Edward James Olmos
Deckard, a blade runner, has to track down and terminate 4 replicants who hijacked a ship in space and have returned to earth seeking their maker.
Fast Times at Ridgemont High
Starring: Sean Penn, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Judge Reinhold, Phoebe Cates, Brian Backer, Rober Romanus, Eric Stoltz, Anthony Edwards, Ray Walston
Follows a group of high school students growing up in southern California, based on the real-life adventures chronicled by Cameron Crowe. Stacy Hamilton and Mark Ratner are looking for a love interest, and are helped along by their older classmates, Linda Barrett and Mike Damone, respectively. The center of the film is held by Jeff Spicoli, a perpetually stoned surfer dude who faces off with the resolute Mr. Hand, who is convinced that everyone is on dope.
Mad Max 2: The Road Warrior
Starring: Mel Gibson
In the post-apocalyptic Australian wasteland, a cynical drifter agrees to help a small, gasoline rich, community escape a band of bandits.
Pink Floyd: The Wall
A troubled rock star descends into madness in the midst of his physical and social isolation from everyone.
The Man from Snowy River
The story of a boy suddenly alone in the world. The men who challenge him. And the girl who helps him become a man.
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[pink]

Duran Duran- still love them. New CD is called Paper Gods.

 

[Christobal]

What happened in 1983?

The advances in technology that began in previous years continue to gain speed in 1982 with the release of the Commodore 64 computer and the first CD player by Sony. The shift is so significant that Time Magazine names The Computer as the person of year in 1982. Other big news items include the opening of Epcot Center, the dedication of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial, the Tylenol scare, the death of John Belushi, and the birth of Prince William. It was a great year in movies with ET, Fast Times, the Wall all at the box office. Olivia Newton John had us getting physical and Joan Jett had us loving rock n roll. But, Michael Jackson ruled the music scene and the airwaves with Thriller, which became the best selling album of all in time. 1982 . . . we embrace you with Open Arms.
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History & Politics

Collage showing history and events from 1982A brutal cold snap sends temperatures to all-time record lows in dozens of cities throughout the Midwestern United States.
Cold Sunday was a meteorological event which took place on January 17 when unprecedentedly cold air swept down from Canada and plunged temperatures across much of the United States far below existing all-time record lows.
On April 6 – A blizzard unprecedented in size for April dumps 1-2 feet of snow on the northeastern U.S., closing schools and businesses, snarling traffic, and canceling several major league baseball games.
U.S. Brigadier General James L. Dozier is rescued by Italian anti-terrorism forces after 42 days of captivity under the Red Brigades.
On March 10 all 9 planets align on the same side of the Sun.
Thriller album by Michael Jackson is released, becoming the biggest selling album of all time in entertainment history.
Israel completes withdrawing from the Sinai peninsula per the Israel-Egypt Peace Treaty.
The Weather Channel (United States) airs on cable television for the first time.
Braniff International Airways was declared bankrupt and ceased all flights.
By Proclamation of the Queen Elizabeth (queen of England & Canada) on Parliament Hill, Canada patriates its constitution, granting full political independence from the United Kingdom.
A rally against nuclear weapons draws 750,000 to New York City’s Central Park. Jackson Browne, James Taylor, Bruce Springsteen, and Linda Ronstadt attend.
Longest Luna Eclipse of the 20th century took place on July 6, lasting 106 min.
The first International Day of Peace on Sept 21.
The Tylenol scare is sparked when 7 people in the Chicago area die after ingesting capsules laced with potassium cyanide.
The Epcot theme park at Walt Disney World opens to the public for the first time.
Sony launches the first consumer compact disc player (model CDP-101).
On Nov 13, The Vietnam Veterans Memorial is dedicated in Washington, D.C., after a march to its site by thousands of Vietnam War veterans.
At the University of Utah, 61-year-old retired dentist Barney Clark becomes the first person to receive a permanent artificial heart (he will live for 112 days with the device).
Time Magazine’s Man of the Year is given for the first time to a non-human, the computer.
Commodore 64 is released. The Commodore 64 goes on to sell over 20 million computers until 1994.
Falklands War (Apr 2-June 14): Argentina invades the Falkland Islands.
Prince William is born on June 21 at St Mary’s Hospital in Paddington, West London.
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Music

Album covers of 80s albums released in 1982Physical – Olivia Newton-John
Eye Of The Tiger – Survivor
I Love Rock N’ Roll – Joan Jett & The Blackhearts
Ebony And Ivory – Paul McCartney / Stevie Wonder
Centerfold – J. Geils Band
Harden My Heart – Quarterflash
Stray Cat Strut – Stray Cats
Rosanna – Toto
Eye in the Sky – The Alan Parsons Project
Mickey – Toni Basil
Gloria – Laura Branigan
Come on Eileen – Dexy’s Midnight Runners
Who Can It Be Now? – Men at Work
Open Arms – Journey
Don’t Talk to Strangers – Rick Springfield
Maneater – Hall & Oates
Up Where We Belong – Joe Cocker / Jennifer Warnes
I Want Candy – Bow Wow Wow
Key Largo – Bertie Higgins
I Melt With You – Modern English
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Television

1982 tv shows
Cheers
Starring: Ted Danson, Rhea Perlman, George Wendt, John Ratzenberger, & Shelley Long
The regulars of the Boston bar Cheers share their experiences and lives with each other while drinking or working at the bar where everybody knows your name.
Knight Rider
Starring: David Hasselhoff, William Daniels as the voice of K.I.T.T., Edward Mulhare, & Patricia McPherson
Michael Long is a crime fighter who is seriously wounded during his work. Nursed back to health by a mysterious benefactor, he regains consciousness as a new man with a new face and a new name: Michael Knight. His mysterious benefactor provides Michael with equipment and support so that he can continue his crime fighting work. The most notable piece of equipment supplied, is “K.I.T.T.”, a high-performance sports car fitted with artificial intelligence.
Fame
Starring: Debbie Allen, Gene Anthony Ray, Carlo Imperato, Erica Gimpel, Valerie Landsburg, Lee Curreri, Carol Mayo Jenkins, Ann Nelson, & Albert Hague
The Art School was always their dream. They want to dance, they want to sing, to play music, to act but above all they want to live their lives while they are still young and full of energy. Leroy, Danny, Jesse, Chris, Coco and all the others try hard because they know that they’ve got a long way to go till they reach fame and riches. Fame costs and here (the Art School) is where they start paying for it.
Family Ties
Starring: Meredith Baxter, Michael Gross, Michael J. Fox, Justine Bateman, & Tina Yothers
A couple who were ardently leftwing political activists in the sixties face the problems of raising a family with children who have strongly conservative views.
Cagney & Lacey
Starring: Tyne Daly & Sharon Gless
Two female police detectives cooperate with each other both in their professions and in their personal lives.
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Movies

Movies released in 1982E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial
Starring: Henry Thomas, Dee Wallace, Drew Barrymore, Peter Coyote, Robert MacNaughton, K.C. Martel, Sean Frye, & C. Thomas Howell
While visiting the Earth at Night, a group of alien botanists is discovered and disturbed by an approaching human task force. Because of the more than hasty take-off, one of the visitors is left behind. The alien is found by a 10 year old boy, Elliot. While E.T. slowly gets acquainted with Elliot’s brother Michael, his sister Gertie as well as with Earth customs, members of the task force work day and night to track down the whereabouts of Earth’s first visitor from Outer Space. The wish to go home again is strong in E.T. & he starts building a device to send a message home. Before long, E.T. gets seriously sick, and because of his special connection to Elliot, the young boy suffers, too. The situation gets critical when the task force finally intervenes. By then, all help may already be too late, and there’s no alien spaceship in sight.
Tootsie
Starring: Dustin Hoffman, Jessica Lange, Teri Garr, & Dabney Coleman
An unemployed actor with a reputation for being difficult disguises himself as a woman to get a role in a soap opera.
An Officer and a Gentleman
Starring: Richard Gere, Debra Winger, David Keith
A young man must complete his work at a Navy Flight school to become an aviator, with the help of a tough gunnery sergeant and his new girlfriend.
Porky’s
Set in 1954, a group of Florida high schoolers seek out to lose their virginity which leads them to seek revenge on a sleazy nightclub owner and his redneck sheriff brother for harassing them.
Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan
Starring: William Shatner, Leonard Nimoy, DeForest Kelley, James Doohan, Walter Koenig, George Takei, Nichelle Nichols, & Ricardo Montalban
Admiral James T. Kirk is still in charge of a space fleet, but from behind a desk. Dr. McCoy and Mr. Spock convince him to take on a mission which sounds simple, but with the appearance of the mysterious Khan, things get a little tricky.
48 HRS.
Starring: Nick Nolte & Eddie Murphy
A hard-nosed cop reluctantly teams up with a wise-cracking criminal temporarily paroled to him, in order to track down a killer.
Poltergeist
Starring: Craig T. Nelson, JoBeth Williams, Heather O’Rourke
A young family are visited by ghosts in their home. At first the ghosts appear friendly, moving objects around the house to the amusement of everyone, then they turn nasty and start to terrorize the family before they “kidnap” the youngest daughter.
Best Little Whorehouse in Texas
Starring: Dolly Parton, Burt Reynolds, & Dom DeLuise
Town Sheriff and regular patron, fights to keep a historical whorehouse open when a TV preacher targets it as the Devils playhouse.
Annie
Starring: Albert Finney, Carol Burnett, Tim Curry, Bernadette Peters, Aileen Quinn
In the depths of the 1930’s, Annie is a fiery young orphan girl who must live in a miserable orphanage run by the tyrannical Miss Hannigan. Her seemingly hopeless situation changes dramatically when she is selected to spend a short time at the residence of the wealthy munitions industrialist, Oliver Warbucks. Quickly, she charms the hearts of the household staff and even the seemingly cold-hearted Warbucks cannot help but learn to love this wonderful girl. He decides to help Annie find her long lost parents by offering a reward if they would come to him and prove their identity. However, Miss Hannigan, her evil brother, Rooster, and a female accomplice, plan to impersonate those people to get the reward for themselves which put Annie in great danger.
The Verdict
Starring: Paul Newman
A lawyer sees the chance to salvage his career and self-respect by taking a medical malpractice case to trial rather than settling.
Gandhi
Starring: Ben Kingsley
Biography of Mahatma Gandhi, the lawyer who became the famed leader of the Indian revolts against the British through his philosophy of non-violent protest.
First Blood
Starring: Sylvester Stallone as John Rambo
A mentally unstable Vietnam war vet, when abused with a small town’s police force, begins a one man war with it.
The Dark Crystal
Another planet, another time. 1000 years ago the Dark Crystal was damaged by one of the Urskeks and an age of chaos began. Now the time of the great conjunction of the three suns is near. If the crystal is not healed now the control of the evil Skekses will last forever. Jen the last of the Gelflings nearly exterminated by monsters controlled by the Skekses starts his dangerous journey to find the missing shard of the crystal. Will he be able to heal the crystal and restore order on the planet?
Conan the Barbarian
Starring: Arnold Schwarzenegger, James Earl Jones, Max von Sydow, Sandahl Bergman, Gerry Lopez, Cassandra Gava, Mako, & Valerie Quennessen The epic tale of child sold into slavery who grows into a man who seeks revenge against the warlord who massacred his tribe.
Tron
Starring: Jeff Bridges, Bruce Boxleitner, David Warner, Cindy Morgan
A hacker is literally abducted into the world of a computer and forced to participate in gladiatorial games where his only chance of escape is with the help of a heroic security program.
Victor/Victoria
Starring: Julie Andrews
A struggling female soprano finds work playing a male female impersonator, but it complicates her personal life.
Blade Runner
Starring: Harrision Ford, Rutger Hauer, Sean Young, Edward James Olmos
Deckard, a blade runner, has to track down and terminate 4 replicants who hijacked a ship in space and have returned to earth seeking their maker.
Fast Times at Ridgemont High
Starring: Sean Penn, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Judge Reinhold, Phoebe Cates, Brian Backer, Rober Romanus, Eric Stoltz, Anthony Edwards, Ray Walston
Follows a group of high school students growing up in southern California, based on the real-life adventures chronicled by Cameron Crowe. Stacy Hamilton and Mark Ratner are looking for a love interest, and are helped along by their older classmates, Linda Barrett and Mike Damone, respectively. The center of the film is held by Jeff Spicoli, a perpetually stoned surfer dude who faces off with the resolute Mr. Hand, who is convinced that everyone is on dope.
Mad Max 2: The Road Warrior
Starring: Mel Gibson
In the post-apocalyptic Australian wasteland, a cynical drifter agrees to help a small, gasoline rich, community escape a band of bandits.
Pink Floyd: The Wall
A troubled rock star descends into madness in the midst of his physical and social isolation from everyone.
The Man from Snowy River
The story of a boy suddenly alone in the world. The men who challenge him. And the girl who helps him become a man.
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[Christobal]

Music from 1985. You should have forgotten about.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H8nOM1r-kDI

 

[renard_ruse]

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Run to the Hills

I saw a young millennial "hipster," early 20s I would say last Saturday night in downtown LA with an Iron maiden t-shirt. I was like, wow, how cool is that. Of course, she wouldn't have been an Iron Maiden fan in the 80s, she would have been into New Wave or maybe some proto-alternative or whatever, but still. If Maiden is hipster retro cool, that's fine by me. Just glad to see it.

As a side note, though, I never liked Run to the Hills. English people lecturing Americans on treatment of American Indians always rubbed me the wrong way considering the far worse way they treated many of their own colonial subjects over the centuries, as well as ignoring the atrocities on both sides in the wars between the settlers and the Indians in the US.

 

[Christobal]

What happened in 1986?

Timbuk 3 said it best in one of the year’s top songs, “The future’s so bright, I gotta wear shades.” 1986 was marked by both advances and setbacks. Technology advances helped the Soviet Union launch the Mir Space Station and had the UK and France building the Chunnel. Sadly, it also saw the Space Shuttle Challenger disaster and the explosion of one of the nuclear reactors at Chernobyl. We saw Fergie get married to the Duke of York and 5 million people join hands in Hands Across America. Robert Palmer had us “Addicted to Love” and Kenny Loggins took us to the “Danger Zone.” Ferris Bueller took a day off while the Chicago Bears won Super Bowl XX. 1986 saw the birth of Lindsay Lohan and the Olsen twins and the deaths of Donna Reed and Cary Grant.
Learn all about the year that celebrated the first MLK Day and take Mr. Ocean’s advice, “When the Going Gets Tough, The Tough Get Going.”
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History & Politics

1986 History & PoliticsThe first Hispanic-American astronaut, Dr. Franklin Chang-Diaz, goes into space.
The first PC virus, Brain, starts to spread.
The United Kingdom and France announce plans to construct the Channel Tunnel or “Chunnel.”
The first federal Martin Luther King Day, honoring Martin Luther King Jr., is observed on Jan 20.
Space Shuttle Challenger disintegrates 73 seconds after launch, killing the crew of 7 astronauts including schoolteacher Christa McAuliffe.
Comet Halley reaches its perihelion, the closest point to the Sun, during its second visit to the solar system in the 20th Century.
The Soviet Union launches the Mir space station.
An article in the New York Times charges that Kurt Waldheim, former United Nations Secretary General and candidate for president of Austria, may have been involved in Nazi war crimes during World War II.
Hailstones weighing 2.2 lb (880 g) fall on the Gopalganj district of Bangladesh, killing 92.
A treaty ends the Three Hundred and Thirty Five Years’ War between the Netherlands and the Isles of Sicily.
Geraldo Rivera opens Al Capone’s secret vault on The Mystery of Al Capone’s Vault, discovering only a bottle of moonshine.
In Ukraine, one of the reactors at the Chernobyl nuclear plant explodes, creating the world’s worst nuclear disaster. 31 are killed directly by the incident, many more die from cancer in later years, many thousands more are exposed to significant amounts of radioactive material, and vast territories in Ukraine and Belarus are rendered uninhabitable.
Hands Across America: At least 5,000,000 people form a human chain from New York City to Long Beach, California, to raise money to fight hunger and homelessness.
Jonathan Pollard pleads guilty to espionage for selling top secret United States military intelligence to Israel.
The Statue of Liberty is reopened to the public after an extensive refurbishing, just in time for its centennial dedication.
In London, Prince Andrew, Duke of York marries Sarah Ferguson at Westminster Abbey.
In Edmond, Oklahoma, United States Postal Service employee Patrick Sherrill guns down 14 of his co-workers before committing suicide.
Desmond Tutu becomes the first black Anglican Church bishop in South Africa.
U.S. President Ronald Reagan signs the Goldwater-Nichols Act into law, making official the largest reorganization of the United States Department of Defense since the Air Force was made a separate branch of service in 1947.
Fox Broadcasting Company is launched.
Iran-Contra Affair:
The Lebanese magazine Ash-Shiraa reports that the United States has been selling weapons to Iran in secret in order to secure the release of 7 American hostages held by pro-Iranian groups in Lebanon.
National Security Council member Oliver North and his secretary start shredding documents implicating them in selling weapons to Iran and channeling the proceeds to help fund the Contra rebels in Nicaragua.
U.S. President Ronald Reagan announces that as of December 1 former Senator John Tower, former Secretary of State Edmund Muskie, and former National Security Adviser Brent Scowcroft will serve as members of the Special Review Board looking into the scandal (they became known as the Tower Commission). Reagan denies involvement in the scandal.
Democrats regain control of the United States Senate for the first time in 6 years.
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Music

1986 MusicThat’s What Friends Are For – Dionne Warwick & Friends
Say You, Say Me (Title Song from “White Nights”) – Lionel Richie
I Miss You – Klymaxx
On My Own – Patti LaBelle / Michael McDonald
Broken Wings – Mr. Mister
Addicted to Love – Robert Palmer
Danger Zone – Kenny Loggins
Take Me Home Tonight/Be My Baby – Eddie Money
Stuck With You – Huey Lewis & the News
Sara – Starship
Venus – Bananarama
When the Going Gets Tough, The Tough Get Going – Billy Ocean
Burning Heart – Survivor
Kyrie – Mr. Mister
Heartbeat – Don Johnson
The Future’s So Bright (I Gotta Wear Shades) – Timbuk 3
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Television

1986 TV ShowsALF
Starring: Max Wright, Anne Schedeen, Andrea Elson, Benji Gregory, & Paul Fusco as the voice of ALF
The Tanners are an average American family. One day, they discover that they have a visitor. He’s small, he’s furry, he’s arrogant, and he’s an alien from the planet Melmac. Unsure what to do, they name him ALF: Alien Life Form. Alf soon decides that as much as he misses his home planet, there’s a lot to be said for Earth. After all, the Tanners are willing to concede anything as long as he doesn’t announce his presence. Oh yeah, the Tanners also have a cat, which looks rather tasty.
Matlock
Starring: Andy Griffith
Criminal defense attorney Ben Matlock seeks to prove the innocence of his client as he takes on his/her case, of which most involve murders.
Designing Women
Starring: Dixie Carter, Delta Burke, Annie Potts, Jean Smart, & Meshach Taylor
Outspoken feminist Julia Sugarbaker runs a design firm out of her Atlanta home, along with her shallow ex-beauty queen sister, Suzanne, divorced mother Mary Jo, and naive country girl Charlene. Black ex-con Anthony helps deliver furniture for the business and voices his unique opinion on whatever the women are discussing.
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Movies

1986 MoviesTop Gun
Starring: Tom Cruise, Kelly McGillis, Val Kilmer, Anthony Edwards, & Tom Skerritt
The macho students of an elite US Flying school for advanced fighter pilots compete to be best in the class, and one romances the teacher.
Crocodile Dundee
Starring: Paul Hogan & Linda Kozlowski
An American reporter goes to the Australian outback to meet an eccentric crocodile poacher and invites him to New York City.
Platoon
Starring: Tom Berenger, Willem Dafoe, Charlie Sheen, & Forest Whitaker
A young recruit in Vietnam faces a moral crisis when confronted with the horrors of war and the duality of man.
The Karate Kid Part II
Starring: Ralph Macchio & Pat Morita
Daniel accompanies his mentor to Okinawa who is off to see his dying father and confront his old rival, while Daniel inadvertently makes an enemy of his own.
Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home
Starring: William Shatner, Leonard Nimoy, DeForest Kelley, James Doohan, Walter Koenig, George Takei, & Nichelle Nichols
To save Earth from an alien probe, Kirk and his crew go back in time to retrieve the only beings who can communicate with it, humpback whales.
Back to School
Starring: Rodney Dangerfield
To help his discouraged son get through college, a fun loving and obnoxious rich businessman decides to enter the school as a student himself.
Aliens
Starring: Sigourney Weaver
The only survivor of the Nostromo, Ripley is discovered in deep sleep half a century later by a salvage ship. When she is taken back to Earth, she learns that a human colony was founded on the same planet where the aliens were first found. After contact with the colony is lost, she finds herself sent back to the planet along with a team of warriors bent on destroying the alien menace forever, and saving any survivors — if any remain.
The Golden Child
Starring: Eddie Murphy
A private detective specializing in missing children is charged with the task of finding a special child that dark forces want to eliminate.
Ruthless People
Starring: Danny DeVito, Bette Midler, Judge Reinhold, & Helen Slater
A couple, cheated by a vile businessman, kidnap his wife in retaliation, without knowing that their enemy is delighted they did.
Ferris Bueller’s Day Off
Starring: Matthew Broderick, Alan Ruck, Mia Sara, Jeffrey Jones, & Jennifer Grey
A high school wise guy is determined to have a day off from school, despite of what the principal thinks of that.
Down and Out in Beverly Hills
Starring: Nick Nolte, Bette Midler, & Richard Dreyfuss
See what happens when a dirty bum meets the filthy rich.
The Color of Money
Starring: Paul Newman & Tom Cruise
A former pool player returns to the game and takes on a young protégé.
Stand by Me
Starring: Wil Wheaton, River Phoenix, Corey Feldman & Jerry O’Connell
After the death of a friend, a writer recounts a boyhood journey to find a body of a missing boy.
Cobra
Starring: Sylvester Stallone & Brigitte Nielsen
City cop is on the trail of a serial killer.
An American Tail
While emigrating to the United States, a young Russian mouse gets separated from his family and must relocate them while trying to survive in a new country.
Peggy Sue Got Married
Starring: Kathleen Turner & Nicolas Cage
Peggy Sue faints at a High school reunion. When she wakes up she finds herself in her own past, just before she finished school.
Short Circuit
Starring: Ally Sheedy, Steve Guttenberg, & Fisher Stevens
Number 5, one of a group of experimental military robots, undergoes a sudden transformation after being struck by lightning. He develops self-awareness, consciousness, and a fear of the reprogramming that awaits him back at the factory. With the help of a young woman, Number 5 tries to evade capture and convince his creator that he has truly become alive.
Pretty in Pink
Starring: Molly Ringwald, Jon Cryer, Andrew McCarthy, James Spader, & Annie Potts
Young Andie is one of the not-so-popular girls in high school. She usually hangs out with her friends Iona or Duckie. Duckie has always had a crush on her, but now she has met a new guy from school, Blane. He’s one of the rich and popular guys but can the two worlds meet?
Three Amigos
Starring: Chevy Chase, Steve Martin, & Martin Short
Three unemployed actors accept an invitation to a Mexican village to replay their bandit fighter roles, unaware that it is real thing.
Little Shop of Horrors
Starring: Rick Moranis
A nerdish florist finds his chance for success and romance with the help of a giant man-eating plant who demands to be fed.
The Money Pit
Starring: Tom Hanks & Shelley Long
A young couple struggles to repair a hopelessly dilapidated house.
Running Scared
Starring: Billy Crystal & Gregory Hines
They’ve got 30 days to clean up Chicago before they retire to Paradise . . . Losing their police car, their suspect and having their cover blown is a real bad start.
Labyrinth
Starring: David Bowie & Jennifer Connelly
Fifteen-year-old Sarah is left home alone to baby sit her little 1/2 brother Toby. But the baby keeps crying and Sarah, while telling him the story of her favorite book, the Labyrinth, to make him sleep, inadvertently conjures from a fantasy world the Goblin King who steals the child and brings him to his castle in the middle of a labyrinth. Sarah has to rescue him before midnight, or the baby will became a goblin.
Jumpin’ Jack Flash
Starring: Whoopie Goldberg
Terry works for a bank, and uses computers to communicate with clients all over the world. One day she gets a strange message from an unknown source. The message is coded. After decoding the message, Terry becomes embroiled in an espionage ring. People are killed, and Terry is chased. Throughout she remains in contact with this unknown person, who needs Terry to help save his life.
Hoosiers
Starring: Gene Hackman, Barbara Hershey, & Dennins Hopper
A coach with a checkered past and a local drunk train a small town high school basketball team to become a top contender for the championship.
The Great Mouse Detective
Basil, the rodent Sherlock Holmes, investigates the kidnapping of a toy-maker and uncovers its link to his archenemy, Professor Ratigan.
Tough Guys
Starring: Burt Lancaster & Kirk Douglas
Two elderly gangsters are released from prison only to find they have trouble fitting in as old men who still take no guff from anyone.
A Room with a View
Starring: Maggie Smith, Helena Bonham Carter, Denholm Elliott, & Julian Sands
When Lucy Honeychurch and chaperone Charlotte Bartlett find themselves in Florence with rooms without views, fellow guests Mr. Emerson and son George step in to remedy the situation. Meeting the Emersons could change Lucy’s life forever but, once back in England, how will her experiences in Tuscany affect her marriage plans?
Flight of the Navigator
Starring: Joey Cramer, Sarah Jessica Parker & Paul Reubens as the voice of Max
In 1978, a boy is moved 8 years into the future (1986) and has an adventure with the alien ship.
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Sports

1986 sports highlightsThe Chicago Bears win Super Bowl XX.
Irish race mare Dawn Run wins the Cheltenham Gold Cup at Cheltenham, England, becoming the first racehorse to complete the Champion Hurdle, Cheltenham Gold Cup double.
Greg LeMond (United States) wins the Tour de France.
The New York Mets win the Major League Baseball World Series, beating the Boston Red Sox in 7 games.
Mike Tyson wins his first world boxing title by defeating Trevor Berbick in Las Vegas.
Montreal Canadiens win the Stanley Cup.
Ferdinand wins the Kentucky Derby with a time of 2:02.80.
Bobby Rahal (for Truesports) wins the Indy 500.
Boris Becker defeats Ivan Lendl to win Men’s Singles & Martina Navratilova defeats Hana Mandlikova to win Lady’s Singles at Wimbledon.
Ivan Lendl defeats Miloslav Mečíř to win Men’s Singles & Martina Navrátilová defeats Helena Suková to win Women’s Singles at the US Open.
Argentina beats West Germany 3-2 to win the FIFA World Cup.
Dale Earnhardt #2 won the NEXTEL Cup (formerly Winston Cup).
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People Who Died

People died in 1986Donna Reed (b. 1921) – Actress – as Donna Stone on The Donna Reed Show & Mary Bailey in It’s a Wonderful Life
Phil Lynott (b. 1949) – Lead singer & bassist of Thin Lizzy
L. Ron Hubbard (b. 1911) – Writer & founder of Scientology
Gordon MacRae (b. 1921) – Actor / Singer – The Desert Song, Oklahoma!, Carousel
Crew of the Space Shuttle Challenger:
Greg Jarvis (b. 1944)
Sharon Christa McAuliffe (b. 1948)
Ronald McNair (b. 1950)
Ellison Onizuka (b. 1946)
Judith Resnik (b. 1949)
Francis R. Scobee (b. 1939)
Michael J. Smith (b. 1945)
Frank Herbert (b. 1920) – Author – best known for Dune and its 5 sequels
Richard Manuel (b. 1943) – Musician – Singer, pianist & drummer for The Band
Georgia O’Keefe (b. 1887) – Artist – known for paintings in which she synthesizes abstraction and representation in paintings of flowers, rocks, shells, animal bones and landscapes.
James Cagney (b. 1899) – Actor – Yankee Doodle Dandy, The Public Enemy, White Heat, Mister Roberts, & Seven Little Foys
Harold Arlen (b. 1905) – Composer – wrote “Over the Rainbow,” “I’ve Got the World on a String,” “Let’s Fall in Love,” & “Stormy Weather”
Otto Preminger (b. 1906) – Film director – Laura, The Cardinal, & Anatomy of a Murder
Broderick Crawford (b. 1911) – Actor – All the King’s Men, Born Yesterday, & as “Chief” Dan Matthews on the TV police drama Highway Patrol
Robert Alda (b. 1914) – Film & Broadway actor – Guys and Dolls (theater), The Girl Who Knew Too Much; also the father of Alan Alda
Sterling Hayden (b. 1916) – Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb, The Killing, The Godfather, The Asphalt Jungle
Benny Goodman (b. 1909) – Jazz musician & big band leader known as “King of Swing” & “Patriarch of the Clarinet”
Cary Grant (b. 1904) – Actor – Bringing Up Baby, His Girl Friday, The Philadelphia, Penny Serenade, To Catch a Thief, Holiday, & North by Northwest
Vincente Minnelli (b. 1903) – Film director – An American in Paris, Brigadoon, Kismet, Gigi, Madame Bovary, Father of the Bride, & Designing Woman
Hank Greenberg (b. 1911) – Professional baseball player who played for the Detroit Tigers & the Pittsburgh Pirates
Cliff Burton (b. 1962) – Musician – Bassist for Metallica
Keenan Wynn (b. 1916) – Actor – Kiss Me, Kate; The Man in the gray Flannel Suit; Dr. Strangelove, as Alonzo P. Hawk in the Flubber movies (The Absent-Minded Professor & Son of Flubber); Herbie Rides Again; The Shaggy D.A.; Finian’s Rainbow; Piranha; Orca; & was a regular on Dallas as Digger Barnes
Forrest Tucker (b. 1919) – Actor – The Yearling, Sands of Iwo Jima, Rock Island Trail, The Abominable Snowman, & Thunder Run
Gia Carangi (b. 1960) – Supermodel
Scatman Crothers (b. 1910) – Musician, Singer, Actor & Dancer
Kate Smith (b. 1907) – Singer – best known for her rendition of “God Bless America.”
Paul Frees (b. 1920) – Voice actor – Disney’s Professor Ludwig von Drake, the Pillsbury Doughboy, the 7-Up bird Fresh-Up Freddie, Froot Loops bird Toucan Sam, the Jolly Green Giant, several Tolkien characters (like the dwarf Bombur) in the animated versions of The Hobbit and The Return of the King, and Kin Haggard’s wizard Mabruk in The Last Unicorn.
Ray Milland (b. 1907) – Actor – The Lost Weekend, Close to my Heart, Daughter of The Mind, Love Story
Lilli Palmer (b. 1914) – Actress – Cloak and Dagger, Body and Soul, The Fourposter
Henry Moore (b. 1898) – Sculptor
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People Who Were Born

People born in 1986Mischa Barton – Actress – as Marissa cooper on The O.C.
Lauren “L.C.” Conrad – Reality TV star on MTV’s Laguna Beach: The Real Orange County & The Hills
Charlotte Church – Classical & Pop Singer
Justin Berfield – Actor – as Reese Wilkerson on Malcolm in the Middle
Amanda Bynes – Actress – All That, The Amanda Show, What I Like About You, Big Fat Liar, What a Girl Wants, She’s the Man, Hairspray
Emily VanCamp – Actress – as Amy Abbott on Everwood & Rebecca Harper on Brothers & Sisters
Shia LaBeouf – Actor – as Louis Stevens on Even Stevens, Stanley Yelnats in Holes, Kale Brecht in Distrubia, & Sam “Spike” Witwicky in Transformers (film)
Mary-Kate & Ashley Olsen – Actresses/Entrepreneurs – as Michelle Tanner on Full House
Lindsay Lohan – Actress/Singer – The Parent Trap, Freaky Friday, Confessions of a Teenage Drama Queen, Mean Girls, Georgia Rule
Mario – Singer/Actor – Singles include: “C’mon,” “Just a Friend 2002,” & “How Could You”; Films include: Step Up & Freedom Writers
Shaun White – American professional snowboarder – Won Gold in the Men’s Halfpipe at the 2006 Winter Olympics.
Emmy Rossum – Actress/Singer – as Katie Markum in Mystic River, Laura Chapman in The Day After Tomorrow, Christine Daai in The Phantom of the Opera
Robert Pattinson – Actor – as Edward Cullen in the Twilight Saga, Cedric Diggory in Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, Tyler Hawkins in Remember Me

 

[Mike_Yates]

Some of the very best music ever composed came out of the 80's.

 

[Christobal]

Some of the very best music ever composed came out of the 80's.

What were you thinking of?

 

[BoyNextDoor]

What happened in 1986?

WTF - ? Can you stop with the wall of txt ShitFire?

 

[Christobal]

WTF - ? Can you stop with the wall of txt ShitFire?

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Life is hard. I will help you get through this. Information overload is a common problem. I will stop for now. Let me know when you are able to handle more my petite flower.

 

[Liar]

Human League
The Psychedelic Furs
Duran Duran
A Flock of Seagulls
Spandau Ballet
Soft Cell
Thompson Twins
Culture Club
The Police
The Cure
The Smiths
Depeche Mode
New Order

Many of those were kind of toss in the 80's and got way better in the 90's.

Slayer
Cannibal Corpse
Nine Inch Nails
Iron Maiden
Dio
Death
Testament
Danzig
Morbid Angel
King Diamond
Motorhead
Metallica
Savage
Venom
Pantera

Those too.

 

[Lancecastor]

You must be the fair haired boy on Twitter.

What happened in 1989

In many ways, 1989 provided the perfect bookend to this decade that saw so much change. It continued the social, political and technological changes that mark the 1980s. The Berlin Wall came down, the first GPS satellite was put into orbit, and the first black governor in the US was elected. Progress indeed. On the darker side, we suffered through Hurricane Hugo, the Tiananmen Square massacre, and the Exxon Valdez oil spill. The music charts were dominated by the likes of Paula Abdul, Richard Marx and Milli Vanilli, each with more than one #1 hit that year. 1989 is the year that brought us “Christmas Vacation,” which if nothing else happened all year would be enough. The big screen was crowded with sequels with new iterations of Lethal Weapon, Ghostbusters, Back to the Future, Indiana Jones, and Karate Kid. The Simpsons made it to the small screen for the first time (and are still going strong) and Daniel Radcliffe was born.
In the words of Bill and Ted, it was “most excellent.”
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History & Politics

1989 History & PoliticsRace riots occur in Overtown, Miami.
The Stockton massacre: Patrick Edward Purdy kills 5 children, wounds 30 and then shoots himself in Stockton, California.
George H. Bush succeeds Ronald Reagan as the 41st President of the United States of America.
American Olympic medalist Bruce Kimball is sentenced to 17 years in prison for killing 2 teenagers in a drunk driving accident.
Ron Brown is elected chairman of the Democratic National Committee, becoming the first African American to lead a major United States political party.
The first of 24 Global Positioning System (GPS) satellites is placed into orbit.
Iranian leader Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini encourages Muslims to kill The Satanic Verses author Salman Rushdie (a British-Indian writer), placing a US $3-million bounty on his head, and breaks off diplomatic relations with the United Kingdom.
United Airlines Flight 811, a Boeing 747 bound to New Zealand from Honolulu, Hawaii, rips open during flight, sucking 9 passengers and crew out of the first class section.
Time, Inc. and Warner Communications merge, forming Time Warner.
Gun control: U.S. President George H. W. Bush bans the importation of certain guns deemed assault weapons into the United States.
Stanley Pons and Martin Fleischmann announce that they have achieved cold fusion at the University of Utah.
A 1,000 ft diameter Near-Earth asteroid misses the Earth by only 400,000 miles.
Exxon Valdez oil spill: In Alaska’s Prince William Sound the Exxon Valdez spills 240,000 barrels (11 million gallons) of oil after running aground.
Trisha Meili is savagely attacked while jogging in New York City’s Central Park; as her identity remains secret for years, she becomes known as the “Central Park Jogger.”
Seven crew members die after a gun turret explodes on the U.S. battleship Iowa.
Nintendo begins selling the Game Boy.
Disney-MGM Studios at Walt Disney World opens to the public for the first time.
The Tiananmen Square massacre takes place in Beijing on the army’s approach to the square, and the final stand-off in the square is covered live on television.
Actress Zsa Zsa Gabor is arrested in Beverly Hills, California after slapping a motorcycle police officer.
United Airlines Flight 232 (Douglas DC-10) crashes in Sioux City, Iowa, killing 112; due to extraordinary efforts by the pilot and crew, 184 on board survive.
A federal grand jury indicts Cornell University student Robert Tappan Morris, Jr. for releasing a computer virus, making him the first person to be prosecuted under the 1986 Computer Fraud and Abuse Act.
In Beverly Hills, California, Lyle and Erik Menendez shoot their wealthy parents to death in the family’s den.
Yusef Hawkins is shot in the Bensonhurst section of Brooklyn, New York, sparking racial tensions between African Americans and Italian Americans.
Hurricane Hugo makes landfall in South Carolina, causing $7 billion in damage.
U.S. televangelist John Nunes is found guilty of embezzling $158 million.
The Loma Prieta earthquake, measuring 7.1 on the Richter scale, strikes the San Francisco-Oakland region of Northern California, killing 63. Occurring during the warm up for the third game of the 1989 World Series (Oakland Athletics vs. San Francisco Giants), this was the first major earthquake in the U.S. to be broadcast on live television as it happened. The highest concentration of fatalities, 40, occurred in the collapse of the Cypress Street Viaduct on the Nimitz Freeway (Interstate 880), where a double-decker portion of the freeway collapsed, crushing the cars on the lower deck.
Douglas Wilder wins the governor’s seat in Virginia, becoming the first elected African American governor in the United States.
East Germany opens checkpoints in the Berlin Wall, allowing its citizens to freely travel to West Germany for the first time in decades. The next day, celebrating Germans began tearing the wall down.
The wreck of the Lady Elgin (a steamboat) is discovered off Highland Park, Illinois by Harry Zych.
Serial killer Ted Bundy is executed in Florida’s electric chair.
France celebrates the 200th anniversary of the French Revolution.
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Music

1989 MusicLook Away – Chicago
My Perogative – Bobby Brown
Every Rose Has Its Thorn – Poison
Straight Up – Paula Abdul
Miss You Much – Janet Jackson
When I See You Smile – Bad English
Eternal Flame – The Bangles
Sowing the Seeds of Love – Tears for Fears
Toy Soldiers – Martika
Heaven – Warrant
Don’t Wanna Lose You – Gloria Estefan
Soldier of Love – Donny Osmond
Hangin’ Tough – New Kids on the Block
Right Here Waiting – Richard Marx
Lost in Your Eyes – Debbie Gibson
Iko Iko – Belle Stars
Good Thing – Fine Young Cannibals
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Television

style="margin-top:7px;"The Simpsons [cartoon]
The Simpsons are very politically incorrect family who live in Springfield. Homer works with pride in a nuclear power plant run with more regard for profit that safety. His wife, Marge, is a kind of supermom. Bart, the oldest of the Simpson kids, is an underachiever and prancster “and proud of it.” Lisa, the middle child, is serious, responsible and the genius of the bunch. Maggie, the baby, can’t talk yet. Together the Simpsons (and other members of the town) get themselves into some crazy adventures.
Saved by the Bell
Starring: Mark-Paul Gosselaar, Mario Lopez, Dustin Diamond, Tiffani Thiessen, Lark Voorhies, & Elizabeth Berkley
Zach Morris is the cool, preppy trouble maker. A.C. Slater is the kind hearted jock. Screech Powers is the smart and funny nerd. Kelly Kapowski is the teen dream with whom Zach is obsessed. Lisa Turtle is the gossiping fashion lover. Jessie Spano is the femenine straight A student. Together they get into mis-adventures at Bayside High School.
Baywatch
Starring: David Hasselhoff
This series follows the adventures of a team of lifeguards on a crowded resort beach. Veteran lifeguard Mitch Buchannon watches over the younger lifeguards as they keep the beaches safe for vacationers. Frequently he must take action to save them from the raging seas and from the raging tempers that sometimes flare up between the young guards in this stressful job.
Family Matters
Starring: Reginald VelJohnson, JoMarie Payton, Kellie Shanygne Williams, Darius McCrary, & Jaleel White
The Winslow family is a pretty normal family except for one thing, their neighbor Stephen Urkel. A genius and klutz, Steve makes some really weird inventions while driving the Winslow’s insane.
American Gladiators
Two teams (one male, one female) compete in games of physical strength against the “Gladiators” – very athletic body builders who attempt to halt the contestants from scoring points in any of the competitions. Events include, The Assault, Joust, The Wall, Breakthrough and Conquer, Hang Tough, Powerball, and many others, all culminating in the final event, “The Eliminator”, a difficult obstacle course race.
MTV Unplugged
In this concert series, major pop music talents play their biggest hits without the benefit of electronic instruments and use only basic acoustic ones. This often produces a dramatically different sound for their songs as they are performed.
Quantum Leap
Starring: Scott Bakula & Dean Stockwell
Doctor Sam Beckett led a group of top scientists into the desert to research his theory that a man could time travel within his own lifetime. Unfortunately, in order to save his funding, he was forced to enter the accelerator prematurely and vanished. He awoke to find himself in someone else’s body with partial amnesia. Sam’s only contact from home is Al, who appears as a holographic image only he can see and hear. Setting right things which once went wrong, Sam leaps from life to life, hoping each time that this is the final leap home.
Tales from the Crypt
Tales of horror based on the gloriously gruesome EC horror comics of the 1950’s, hosted by an animatronic skeleton called The Crypt Keeper.
Coach
Starring: Craig T. Nelson, Jerry Van Dyke, Shelley Fabares, & Bill Fagerbakke
Hayden Fox, head coach of a university football team, eats, sleeps and lives football. His partner Christine, however, does not share his passion for the sport, which frequently causes friction in their relationship. While Hayden often fits the stereotype of dumb jock (as do his co-workers Luther and Dauber), he sincerely cares about his friends and family, and tries his best to make things work out.
Alien Nation
Starring: Gary Graham & Eric Pierpoint
A flying saucer crashed in the Mojave Desert and its inhabitants turned out to be alien slaves, bred to be super intelligent, strong, and controllable by their Overseers. These Tenctonese, or “Newcomers”, have been assimilated (sort of) into the population of Los Angeles. One of them, George Francisco, is a police detective with a human partner, Matthew Sikes. George and Matt fight crime together, while learning to respect the other’s culture, and question his own. They also fight prejudice, as personified by the Purists, and fear, in the form of the unseen Overseers, who seek to regain control over their slaves.
The Super Mario Bros. Super Show! [cartoon]
Mario, his brother Luigi, Princess Toadstool, and her advisor Toad go from land to land try to save it from the sinister Bowser Koopa and his band of goombas, troopas, and other villians from the video game.
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Movies

1989 MoviesBatman
Starring: Michael Keaton, Jack Nicholson, & Kim Basinger
The Dark Knight of Gotham City begins his war on crime with his first major enemy being the clownishly homicidal Joker.
Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade
Starring: Harrison Ford & Sean Connery
When Dr. Henry Jones Sr. suddenly goes missing while pursuing the Holy Grail, eminent archaeologist Indiana Jones must follow in his father’s footsteps and stop the Nazis.
Lethal Weapon 2
Starring: Mel Gibson, Danny Glover, & Joe Pesci
Riggs and Murtaugh are on the trail of South African diplomats who are using their immunity to engage in criminal activities.
Look Who’s Talking
Starring: Kirstie Alley, John Travolta, & the voice of Bruce Willis as Mikey
Mollie, a single mom, is searching for the perfect father for her new son, Mikey. Mikey, (unbeknownst to her) seems to have a better idea of the men she should date and who would make a good father figure! If only she could understand him.
Honey, I Shrunk the Kids
Starring: Rick Moranis, Marcia Strassman, Matt Frewer, Thomas Wilson Brown, Jared Rushton, Amy O’Neil, Robert Oliveri, & Kristine Sutherland
Wayne Szalinski is a crazy scientist who invents a miniaturizing machine that is so powerful it only blows things up. When the kid next door hits a baseball through the window and it lands in the path of the machine’s laser, it begins working. While retrieving the baseball, the machine accidently shrinks Wayne’s two kids plus the two neighbor kids down to 1/4-inch tall. Not knowing what just happened, Wayne accidentally sweeps them up and puts them out with the garbage. Now the kids must travel through the thick grass back to the house, while braving giant bugs, sprinklers and a lawn mower.
Back to the Future Part II
Starring: Michael J. Fox, Christopher Lloyd, Tea Thompson, Thomas F. Wilson, Elisabeth Shue, & Jeffrey Weissman
Doc, Marty and Jennifer take the time-traveling DeLorean into the year 2015 to straighten out the future of the McFly family. Unfortunately, Biff Tannen steals the time machine and gives his younger self a book containing 50 years of sports statistics, which the young Biff uses to amass an enormous gambling fortune and transform idyllic Hill Valley into a living hell. To restore the present, Doc and Marty must return to the events of their previous adventure in 1955 and retrieve the book.
Ghostbusters II
Starring: Bill Murray, Dan Aykroyd, Harold Ramis, Ernie Hudson, Sigourney Weaver, Rick Moranis, & Annie Potts
Five years later, the Ghostbusters have been plagued by lawsuits and court orders, and their once-lucrative business is bankrupt. However, when Dana begins to have ghost problems again, the boys come out of retirement only to be promptly arrested. The Ghostbusters discover that New York is once again headed for supernatural doom, with a river of ectoplasmic slime bubbling beneath the city and an ancient sorcerer attempting to possess Dana’s baby and be born anew. Can the Ghostbusters quell the negative emotions feeding the otherworldly threat and stop the world from being slimed?
Driving Miss Daisy
Starring: Jessica Tandy, Morgan Freeman, & Dan Aykroyd
An old Jewish woman and her African-American chauffeur in the American South have a relationship that grows and improves over the years.
Parenthood
Starring: Steve Martin, Dianne Wiest, Dennis Dugan, Mary Steenburgen, Rick Moranis, Paul Linke, Jason Robards, Tom Hulce, Martha Plimptom, Keanu Reeves, & Joaquin Phoenix
The Buckmans are a midwestern family all dealing with their lives: estranged relatives, raising children, pressures of the job, and learning to be a good parent and spouse.
Dead Poets Society
Starring: Robin Williams, Ethan Hawke, & Robert Sean Leonard
English professor John Keating inspires his students to a love of poetry and to seize the day.
When Harry Met Sally . . .
Starring: Billy Crystal & Meg Ryan
Harry and Sally have known each other for years, and are very good friends, but they fear sex would ruin the friendship.
The War of the Roses
Starring: Michael Douglas, Kathleen Turner, & Danny DeVito
A married couple try everything to get each other to leave the house in a vicious divorce battle.
The Little Mermaid
Ariel, youngest daughter of King Triton, is dissatisfied with life in the sea. She longs to be with the humans above the surface, and is often caught in arguments with her father over those “barbaric fish-eaters”. She goes to meet Ursula, the Sea Witch, to strike a deal, but Ursula has bigger plans for this mermaid and her father.
Steel Magnolias
Starring: Sally Field, Dolly Parton, Shirley MacLaine, Daryl Hannah, Olympia Dukakis, Julia Roberts, Tom Skerritt, Sam Shepard, & Dylan McDermott
In a small parish in modern-day Louisiana, a close-knit circle of friends’ lives come together at Truvy’s Beauty Parlor.
Christmas Vacation
Starring: Chevy Chase, Beverly D’Angelo, Juliette Lewis, Johnny Galecki, Randy Quaid, & Miriam Flynn
The Griswold family’s plans for a big family Christmas predictably turn into a big disaster.
Turner & Hooch
Starring: Tom Hanks
A detective must adopt the dog of a dead man to help him find the murderer.
Born on the Fourth of July – Tom Cruise – The biography of Ron Kovic. Paralyzed in the Vietnam war, he becomes an anti-war and pro-human rights political activist after feeling betrayed by the country he fought for.
Uncle Buck
Starring: John Candy, Jean Louisa Kelly, Gaby Hoffmann, Macaulay Culkin, Amy Madigan, & Laurie Metcalf
Bachelor and all round slob, Buck, babysits his brother’s rebellious teenage daughter and her cute younger brother and sister.
Field of Dreams
Starring: Kevin Costner, Ray Liotta, James Earl Jones, Amy Madigan, & Gaby Hoffmann
An Iowa corn farmer, hearing voices, interprets them as a command to build a baseball diamond in his fields; he does, and the Chicago Black Sox come.
Harlem Nights
Starring: Eddie Murphy & Richard Pryor
“Sugar” Ray is the owner of an illegal casino, who contend with the pressures of vicious gangster and corrupt policemen who want to see him go out of business. In the world of organized crime and police corruption in the 1920s, any dastardly trick is fair!
Pet Sematary
Starring: Dale Midkiff, Fred Gwynne, Denise Crosby, & Brad Breenquist
The Creed family has moved to a nice little community, but shortly after the move, their son is killed. Grief-stricken, the father learns of a cemetery where you can bury your loved ones and then they come back to life. He takes his son to this place, and the boy is revived. It seems all is well again until the son kills a person. That is when the father learns, “Not everything that comes back is the same.” Now, he has to find a way to stop his son before he kills the whole town.
The Abyss
Starring: Ed Harris, Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio, & Michael Biehn
A civilian diving team are enlisted to search for a lost nuclear submarine and face danger while encountering an alien aquatic species.
Star Trek V: The Final Frontier
Starring: William Shatner, Leonard Nimoy, DeForest Kelley, James Doohan, George Takei, Walter Koenig, & Nichelle Nichols
Capt. Kirk and his crew must deal with Mr. Spock’s half brother who hijacks the Enterprise for an obsessive search for God.
Major League
Starring: Tom Berenger, Charlie Sheen, Corbin Bernsen, James Gammon, Wesley snipes, Dennis Haysbert, Rene Russo, & Bob Uecker
The new owner of the Cleveland Indians puts together a purposely horrible team so they’ll lose and she can move the team. But when the plot is uncovered, they start winning just to spite her.
See No Evil, Hear No Evil
Starring: Richard Pryor & Gene Wilder
A man is murdered. Two men witness it. A blind man who hears the killer, and a deaf man who sees her. The police don’t think they’re credible witnesses, but the killers don’t want to take any chances. The two men must now work together to save themselves and bring the killers to justice.
Bill & Ted’s Excellent Adventure
Starring: Keanu Reeves, Alex Winter, & George Carlin
Ted “Theodore” Logan and Bill S. Preston esquire won’t graduate if they don’t do well in their history presentation. This would be both bogus and uncool! A dude called Rufus comes from the future in a telephone box to help them, as their lives are apparently rather important to the future of mankind! They travel through time doing some interesting research for their history presentation, and generally being excellent to each other!
The ‘burbs
Starring: Tom Hanks, Carrie Fisher, Bruce Dern, Wendy Schaal, & Corey Feldman
An overstressed suburbanite and his paramilitaric neighbor struggle to prove their paranoid theory that the new family in town is a front for a cannibalistic cult.
License to Kill
Starring: Timothy Dalton, Carey Lowell, Robert Davi, Talisa Soto
James Bond leaves Her Majesty’s Secret Service to stop an evil drug lord and avenge his best friend, Felix Leiter.
Weekend at Bernie’s
Starring: Andrew McCarthy, Johnathan Silverman, & Terry Kiser
A pair of losers try to pretend that their murdered employer is really alive, but the murderer is out to “finish him off.”
Road House
Starring: Patrick Swayze & Sam Elliott
Dalton is the Cooler in bars; He backs up and directs the bouncers. He takes a job in a Road House that has gotten far too rough. His attempts to clean things up put him in conflict with Brad Wesley, the town bully and rich person. Things heat up.
The Dream Team
Starring: Michael Keaton, Christopher Lloyd, Peter Boyle, Stephen Furst, & Dennis Boutsikaris
Dr. Weitzman works with patients in a sanitarium. Convinced that all that his “group” needs is a some fresh air and some time away from the sanitarium, he pursuades the administration to allow him to take them to a ballgame. Unfortunately, he accidentally stumbles across a crime in progress and ends up in hospital. The group are stranded in New York City, forced to cope with a place which is often more bizarre than their sanitarium.
Do the Right Thing
Starring: Ossie Davis, Danny Aiello, Giancarlo Esposito, & Spike Lee
On the hottest day of the year on a street in the Bedford-Stuyvesant section of Brooklyn, everyone’s hate and bigotry smolders and builds until it explodes into violence.
All Dogs Go to Heaven
A dog returns from the dead looking for revenge on his killer using an orphan girl who can talk to animals.
Glory
Starring: Matthew Broderick, Denzel Washington, Morgan Freeman, & Cary Elwes
Robert Gould Shaw leads the US Civil War’s first all-black volunteer company, fighting prejudices of both his own Union army and the Confederates.
Sex, Lies and Videotape
Starring: James Spader, Andie MacDowell, Peter Gallagher, & Laura San Giacomo
A sexually repressed woman’s husband is having an affair with her sister. The arrival of a visitor with a rather unusual fetish changes everything.
Lean on Me
Starring: Morgan Freeman
The dedicated, but tyrannical, Joe Clark is appointed as principal of a decaying inner city school and he is determined to improve it.
The Karate Kid Part III
Starring: Ralph Macchio, Pat Morita, Martin Kove, Thomas Ian Griffith, & Robyn Lively
Kreese, his life in tatters after his karate schools was defeated by Daniel and Mr Miyagi, visits Terry, a friend from Vietnam. Terry is a ruthless business man and a martial arts expert, and he vows to help Kresse take revenge on Daniel and Mr Miyagi.

 

[ryan8558]

What happened in 1986?

Timbuk 3 said it best in one of the year’s top songs, “The future’s so bright, I gotta wear shades.” ......

Think you're supposed to post a snippet of something then provide the link. Not cut and paste the entire article or page.

I may be wrong about this, but Laurel is the final arbiter.

 

[Christobal]

Think you're supposed to post a snippet of something then provide the link. Not cut and paste the entire article or page.

I may be wrong about this, but Laurel is the final arbiter.

You are right about Laurel. Now I ask how many line of text are acceptable?

 

[ryan8558]

You are right about Laurel. Now I ask how many line of text are acceptable?

http://forum.literotica.com/showpost.php?p=62595579&postcount=2

 

[Christobal]

http://forum.literotica.com/showpost.php?p=62595579&postcount=2

Good grief! I have been schooled. I won't do that again.

 

[doctor_insanus]

It barely slips in at the end of the 80s, but it counts.

The Cult - Fire Woman

 

[doctor_insanus]

Jesus God, it'll be the 2020s before I read through that post.