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I Like the 80s...and stuff...
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An 80s aggregate blog for your one-stop nostalgic needs.
Recent Posts
Rod Stewart’s ‘Missing You’ … wait! what?!?
Missing You is one of those songs you can’t hear enough. John Waite gets a lifetime pass in my book for this tune. But I’m not sure what to think of Rod Stewart’s cover version, which I discovered accidentally today on YouTu...
Sooty, Sweep or Soo?
Another simple survey for you this week, and you don’t have to just be a Child of the 1980’s to answer this one. In fact you could be as far back as a Child of the 1950’s! I wrote about yellow teddy bear Sooty this week, and...
Kick Start
Kick Start is another great example of the sort of TV programme that just doesn’t get made any more, and really should as it was great family viewing, whether you were into motorcycles or not. The show was based in the world of motorcycle...
Super Mario Bros. theme song … as played by a death metal band
Normally things from the ’80s don’t get better in the remake process. But the castle theme from Super Mario Bros. — composed in 1985 — did need an update. Thanks to death-thrashers Nylithia, we have one. We think Princ...
The Realistic Ghostbusters
[Egon Spengler: comes with a peeing Slimer in 6"] The enterprise that was the Ghostbusters, much like those annoying little entities that they are forced to deal with in each episode / movie on a regular basis, never really did die. That is mor...
People’s sexiest men alive … in the ’80s
People magazine today dubbed Johnny Depp (21 Jump Street!) as its “Sexiest Man Alive” for 2009. That’s all well and good, but we’re stuck in the ’80s. So who did People dub as the sexiest men alive in the ’...
