80s MUSIC MEMES If you have found your way to this blog you are obviously a big fan of 80s music. Which is why you'd be insulted if your boyfriend made derogatory remarks about your clean-the-house-80s-playlist. If he does, give him the old Billy Idol staredown... Not to make assumptions, but, I'm assuming if you've made it to this blog you are 'old'. Maybe not in spirit, but, in the physical world. According to Billy Joel you must be one bad ass... And, if you are a lawyer, it's best not to quote Billy Joel when in court... You may even be a parent of a backtalking teen. Just remember you are the Springsteen of your household...never forget that... And, you've probably learned a few lessons or two in your day. Like, fashion trends are sometimes stupid... And, there may even be times when you hear the literal version of Depeche Mode's 'Enjoy The Silence'...b/c you are old and going deaf. Hopefully, you have upgraded the sound system you carry around and you are now using a smart phone. Doing so will save you so much on batteries! You have probably moved out of your parents basement, unlike the millennials of today, and hopefully you'll remember Arhaus when moving up to the middle of the street... I hear there is a good pet shop nearby run by some nice pet shop boys. They sell all kinds of interesting pets. Remember, if you are building a new house to get that permit from city hall. And, if you are starting a new city of your own you need to get a permit from the land registry office (I think?). Since you are not as young as you used to be, please take it easy when you dance for joy after taking over the world, okay?! We are not quite at that age, but, when you do get well past your prime be extra vigilant. One auto accident and you could lose the license for being too old! Be sure to wake up before you go-go anywhere! Anyway, keep having fun and listening to the best music this universe has to offer... Keep it together people MORE FUNNY 80s MEMES Get modern with the wifi connected boom box (plays tapes too) - CLICK HERE

Funny memes about 80s music BLONDIE, the literally named band that we all know and love. With super hits like Heart of Glass, Call Me, Gonna Get Ya... Blondie, Call me - doesn't give number Blondie - gonna get ya I really liked Foreigner and their rockin' hits, like Urgent, Hot Blooded, and Cold as Ice. Ever take the lyrics literally? Cold as Ice - not to be taken literally Speaking of lyrics, what was Def Lep thinking when they wrote Hysteria? Just trying to find a rhyming word with malaria, or diphtheria or careeria-ending-lyrics...who knows? Def Leppard song writing sessionI do still have a landline, just like in the 80s. You hear new music reference cell phones, but they'll never compare to the old landlines, cords and all! Stevie Wonder and Lionel Ritchie landline joke Stevie Wonder was wonderful in the 80s too. I think I wore out his 45s, like Part Time Lover, or I just called to say I love, and Isn't She Lovely. He looked pretty cool to. Stevie Wonder's part time lovers were eligible for dental benefits I just called to say meme Stevie Wonder Part Time Lovers, nobody got time for that Isn't She Lovely Stevie Wonder joke And, you can't forget to mention TV in the 80s. Come on ALF? A stuffed animal has his own prime time show! And, the staple of daytime television - The Price is Right? Am I right? I hear Bob Barker is still listening to the 80s music. Alf: Have Cat will stay for dinner Bob Barker defends 80s music MORE 80s MUSIC MEMES https://amzn.to/30DJGv0 Wanna rewatch some ALF

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IT IS ALMOST TOO EASY TO LAUGH AT THE 1980s. Hey, if Eddie Van Halen is cheer-sing you for listening to 80s music thirty years later then cheers him back...FYI no reference to the 80s TV show cheers, that could be a copyright infringement. Wouldn't want to do anything like that. I still love when 80s Aerosmith comes on the radio, the classic rock station of course. I still sing it the way I did back in the 80s, "data,data...do it like a lady!" I know the 'special guy' in goonies is not called chunk, but, I think he should have been called chunk! There is alot of talk about Foreigners lately. I keep hoping it is about the band, but, 99% of the time is in not. Too bad b/c Foreigner rocked! Millenials may not understand that big time song from Dolly Parton in the 80s, that 'Workin' 9 to 5' one. Apparently, they work 24 hours a day or retail jobs which are all over the place. I still don't understand the term 'working from home', unless you are a VCR repairman. If there was an 80's version of monopoly I'd buy Electric Avenue and Paradise City everytime! Back in my day you had to look in the atlas for Funkytown...I think it was near Detroit. I'm going to get religious on you and talk about Genesis, and the gospel of Phil... Really, the only thing I love nowadays, that isn't from the 1980s I mean, is Grumpy Cat. But, I really only like the Grumpy cat jokes that make references to the 80s or my favourite 80s bands. A double 80s doozie! Ever since that dang show GLEE came out the radio has been overplaying Journey! I just don't believe it. Would someone have the nerve to photoshop Bon Jovi with a Banjo? Probably. You know what 80s one hit wonder seems to be more popular as a meme than as a song? Jenny (867-4309). Think about it. When is the last time you heard Jenny on the radio, even the classic rock station? Now how often do you see an 867-5309 joke? Probably more. That's just what I'm sayin. Dee Snider turned like 80 the other day... See, 1980s memes are full of fun and memories. Want more? No Problemo, I have plenty more.

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Released in 1991, 'Behaviour', the fourth studio album by the Pet Shop Boys somehow became an instant elegy for a generation. The collection of songs were deemed by Entertainment Weekly to be 'heartfelt expressions of romantic distress, plus their best tunes yet'. Elsewhere, epithets such as 'sublime', 'unforgettable' and 'magnificent' were bandied about the popular music press of the time. In his blog 'A Film Canon', Billy Stevenson echoes the sentiments of all for whom the album remains firmly lodged within the heart and mind as ' pop music's answer to Proust's madeleine', and so it proves (and continues so to do) with the passing of the years, despite what has continued to be the PSBs burgeoning pop canon. The video for 'Being Boring'. the album's opening salvo (and arguably, it's most unforgettable song) was shot by Bruce Weber and, watching again with the sober benefit of experience, it appears somehow akin to a Golden Age before the Deluge, with it's seductive images of sublimely beautiful young people at play in a perfect world; somehow, as though the Jeunesse D'ore of Alain-Fournier's 'Le Grand Meaulnes' have been beamed to the suns of California, and suffused with the perceived perfection of an Abercrombie and Fitch universe. Stevenson continues that 'Behaviour' 'deals more with mnemosexuality than homosexuality; that is, sexuality as a search for sexuality, a journey limited by its own vocabulary, and so only accessible in terms of more general, ostensibly asexual, expressions of yearning. It feels as though the Boys only invoke betrayal- and more generally, the confessional mode- as a pretext for wider reflections on the passage of betrayal and time', and so it proves for me, all these years later, a bringing to mind (as it specifically did with Tennant) all of those who have been swept away by the ravages of time and circumstance- yet remain in memory as sharply as do these songs. As 'Court and Spark', Joni Mitchell's sublime, LA-infused album of 1974 similarly attests, there are collections of songs which simply fuse us irrevocably to our time, and can never set us free. 'Behaviour', therefore, is the touchstone for a generation of gay men, in particular- which fixes us to period when our world was less grave, but which still somehow allows us that breath of memory, the joys of love and friendship- and a recollection of a time before the Fall. When Tennant was interviewed for the South Bank Show in 1991, he spoke eloquently about 'Being Boring'. 'A lot of our songs come about through personal experience. 'Being Boring, which I think is one of our best songs,..I was reminded of a party we had when I was living in Newcastle as a teenager' - and where the invitation purportedly contained a quote from Zelda Fitzgerald; 'She was never bored, mainly because she was never boring'. Tennant went on to say that 'a very good friend of mine from that era had died of AIDS, so [the song] was a kind of an elegy for him, for the part of myself in Newcastle, all my friends in Newcastle, when I went to London, what I was doing then, but he wasn't there. And so it became a really elegiac song'. He also states that 'Being Boring' was 'also an attempt to do a Stock, Aitken and Waterman thing, believe it or not'. At it's essence, 'Being Boring' describes three distinct forms of remembrance; personal, familial and communal and, to quote Billy Stevenson once again 'conflates them in such a way as to characterize Neil Tennant's subjectivity as a mere function of his inescapable memory, and love as a mere memory in the making'. Elsewhere on the album, is the sweeping, magnificent 'This must be the Place I Waited Years to Leave', a song-testimony to the rigors of a Catholic school upbringing, and which, if memory serves, during the concert performances of their second tour, saw Chris Lowe in short trousers and a school cap. It could equally be the clarion for all of us who endured the bullying and privations of a Secondary education. 'My October Symphony' continued Tennant's fascination with Russian history, but also succeeded (as do so many other PSB songs- witness 'Go West' on 1993's 'Very', in referencing a sub-text way beyond the Village People original, a love-lament for all of those who leave their home to seek a fabled 'promised land' elsewhere). Stevenson speaks of 'Jealousy', the album's ultimate track, as set in a London apartment 'in which the past is almost architectural, so concrete is its presence'. For me, 'Behaviour' is forever the windswept majesty of Dungeness, and the animated trips into Rye with Derek Jarman, It is also the rooms of Streatham Hill, and of my dear friend David Kirkup, and my seventh-floor flat on the Old Kent Road. Listening again from the vantage-point of some twenty years, I am immediately transported back to these places and these people, and am more than glad to linger there for the duration; 'Behaviour' then, as a threnody for all that has gone before -and just maybe- for a domain now lost to us forever. A small photograph on the rear page of the CD boooklet shows the empty Arts and Crafts chair that Lowe has occupied on its front cover, the roses they cradle now strewn on the floor. If ever there was a metaphor for loss, the remembrance of time past (to plunder the Proustian epithet once more) this is it. One thing is for certain; it is with 'Behaviour' that the fabled chance-meeting of Tennant and Lowe in a King's Road hi-fi store truly reaches its apotheosis, and we, for all our gratitude, will never be the same again.