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[Vieo]

What were some things in the 1980's that just wouldn't quite work if you tried doing/using them in today's world?
For example, what was something you would wear/or do in the 80's that if you got caught doing it today, it would probably get you beatup/laughed at?


I'm going with...

Mullets..

Pogo Balls..

Piano ties..

&

Not lacing your Adidas

 

[MrPing1000]

Betamax

 

[dem]

Come on... who didnt own one of these bad boys??

 

[Brannon]

Movies using synthesizers. Oh god that shit sounded bad when it FIRST came out.

 

[monkey79]

 

[Tedesco!]

 

[Lucky Forward]

 

[Saki]

Mullets are still cool

 

[fennec fox]

 

[Goreomedy]

http://www.nutv.ca/php/movie.php?id=2

 

[Cerebral Palsy]

 

[xsarien]

If you throw one of these, you better write your home address on it beforehand:

In a band in the 80s? Having one of these was a federal mandate:

 

[Jeffahn]

Betamax

Please retract your statement.

...

 

[Hitokage]

Movies using synthesizers. Oh god that shit sounded bad when it FIRST came out.

They still do. Just that now they have high quality wavetable synths that actually sound decent instead of just settling for beep-beep boop-boop and calling it trendy.

 

[darscot]

Mullets are still cool

Mullets were never cool. I have a picture of me and about 10 friends from back in the late 80's and I'm the only guy without a mullet.

 

[aoi tsuki]

Fact is, most toy guns that project anything except light don't work after a week. Something always breaks. And Betamax is still in use today, just not in the consumer market. The company my uncle works for uses it. One of the guys there bought a deck a few months ago as a matter of fact.

Looking glam is out, unless you're KISS (or a tribute band) or on Livejournal/Makeoutclub. Keep it in Asia, pretty boys.

American ninja/samurai movies too, though they're probably more awesome to watch now.

 

[xsarien]

Fact is, most toy guns that project anything except light don't work after a week. Something always breaks. And Betamax is still in use today, just not in the consumer market. The company my uncle works for uses it. One of the guys there bought a deck a few months ago as a matter of fact.

I think this reaches beyond the scope of this thread. DAT was another format that tried to get into the consumer space, and now, like Betamax, it's only really used in prosumer/professional environments. Neither are "dead," but they didn't really "work" for the general public.

 

[belgurdo]

Didn't Gotcha and Lazer Tag and all of that other shit just turn into Counterstrike with the march of technology?

 

[ArcadeStickMonk]

Here's a two-in-one

 

[Doth Togo]

The Republican administration.

is greater than

 

[aoi tsuki]

Here's a two-in-one

Granted, Mr. T may not be working today, but he always works. Every time.

Which reminds me...

 

[DopeyFish]

Mullets were never cool. I have a picture of me and about 10 friends from back in the late 80's and I'm the only guy without a mullet.

I think it's the other way around!

You were never cool!

 

[Shig]

Movies with soundtracks entirely performed by one (usually bad or unfitting) pop artist, such as Wang Chung (To Live & Die in LA) or Prince (Batman)..

 

[darscot]

No I still tease everyone of those guys about that picture. Looks like a red-neck convention mullets and Storm Riders. I look so out of place in it. You think they would be about to beat me. I was already into snowboarding so I was sporting the I dont get give a fuck shag and more of a skate style.

 

[bjork]

am i rite

 

[Flynn]

Movies using synthesizers. Oh god that shit sounded bad when it FIRST came out.

You made me cry.

 

[sprsk]

They still do. Just that now they have high quality wavetable synths that actually sound decent instead of just settling for beep-beep boop-boop and calling it trendy.

Those beep beeps and bloop bloops are still good.

to me using these kind of sounds are the equivilant of using an acoustic guitar. They can be really cool when used effectively.

Id like to see more movies with electronic soundtracks that arent just the chemical brothers or some generic techno music.

Orchestra isnt the end all be all of film soundtracks. And high production isnt everything.

Sounds are like color, no one stopped using base red because they had all these other shades of red, nor should they stop using saw tooth wave because they have whatever the hell it is they play in those crunk songs. It may sound old and dated, but thas just when its used in an old and dated way.

im going off on a tangent, but anyway theres nothign wrong with those old electronic soundtracks

 

[heavy liquid]

Pinstripe jeans.

And rolling and tucking your jeans around your ankles. :lol

 

[ManDudeChild]

Granted, Mr. T may not be working today, but he always works. Every time.

Which reminds me...

You talking about the actor that played Apollo Creed, or that drink?

 

[Lucky Forward]

I still love Jan Hammer's Miami Vice music.

 

[Archaix]

You talking about the actor that played Apollo Creed, or that drink?

Billy Dee Williams didn't play Apollo Creed, you blasphemer

 

[Gek54]

 

[Raxel]

.

 

[AntoneM]

80's synth rock fucking owns, I love the textures of hi tech aor. Jump, The Final Countdown, the Airwolf theme, the Knight Rider theme and so on still hold up today.

Unless your idea of music is incohesive singing and mindless guitar strumming over a wildly out of sync rhythm section, I don't see how you can fault the composition of music from that era.

I don't think the composition is what he was talking about, just the sound. I've gotta agree with him, I hate hate hate the sound of 80's synth rock.

 

[Sh0k]

 

[Guzim]

 

[bjork]

 

[Ryck]

oh yeah and lest we forget

 

[djtiesto]

I remember a few years ago in college some kids played Lazer Tag

Some of the old synth soundtracks in movies were really good... Vangelis, anyone?

Ironically enough, the 80's synth has come back in recent times... In Electroclash (kind of a modern day version of synthpop, with tacky singing), house, and even some trance has electro elements (Some Ferry Corsten/M.I.K.E.) stuff.

 

[Crandle]

Huge government deficits

I would've posted a picture of a guy wearing a barrel but some of you might've gotten the wrong idea

 

[whytemyke]

skidz!!!

 

[Gek54]

Skrew lazer tag. Photon was better.

 

[Jdw40223]

Typewriters:

and pat benetar do's:

 

[segasonic]

Movies using synthesizers. Oh god that shit sounded bad when it FIRST came out.

Sounds good in all those Carpenter movies though...

 

[Hitokage]

Those beep beeps and bloop bloops are still good.
[...]
im going off on a tangent, but anyway theres nothign wrong with those old electronic soundtracks

Yeah, but I'm talking more Terminator 1 soundtrack than Axel F.

 

[Litigation Manuel]

Movies with soundtracks entirely performed by one (usually bad or unfitting) pop artist, such as Wang Chung (To Live & Die in LA) or Prince (Batman)..

About a Boy had a soundtrack made by Badly Drawn Boy, and it was great. One of his best albums.

 

[Shompola]

I dont know. I think today movie soundtracks lack charisma and originiallity. They all sound the same or are too subtle to even notice. Maybe that is a good thing though but it is nothing I talk about afterwards.

There were a bunch of awful movie soundtracks in the 80s, just as there are a good amount of them produced today. It was the artist more than aything that screwed up and not the tools he used to produce it.

And wavetable based synthesis sounds just boring IMO but I guess it is a good compromise when you cant afford or dont want an orchestra to perform the piece for you. Hans Zimmerman is a very good example of one man orchestra producing his music with synthesizers, in particular wavetable based syhnthesizers and it sounds just as good as any very good composer performing music with an orchestra.

 

[bionic77]

Skrew lazer tag. Photon was better.

Holy shit, someone else remembers Photon!

I will never forget the epic Photon tournament that me and 7 of my friends had during the summer once.

Damn, the 80s reallys were better.

 

[Boomer]

This thread started off good but turned into a boring discussion about movie soundtracks

 

[bionic77]

The internet really killed off Playboy.

Kids today get everything too easy these days. Not like when I was a kid. Today the games beat themselves. Back in the day you had to beat a game 2 times in a row, up hill all the way, to get the good ending.