Every forum needs one. For those us who grew up in the 80', the decade was one that for good and bad reasons will never be forgotten. What are your favorite 80's movie/tv/music memories? Movie: Ferris Bueller's Day Off gave high school students nationwide hope. (Some are still searching for Shermer, IL). TV: GI Joe, Transformers, Saved by the Bell, and Dukes of Harzard reruns. Saturday morning television has sucked ever since. Music: Hair Bands. The two greatest episodes of Behind The Music aired on VH1s 80s week (Motley Crue and Poison). Not necessarily the very best of the 80s, or my personal favorites, but classics nonetheless.
Get the GI Joe movie on DVD. Check the extras, which has all of the public service announcements. There's like 20+ of them, I think. You'll thank me later.
Movie: Urgh! A Music War--a great look at the new wave/punk scene of the mid-80's. the Police, Gary Neuman, Go-Gos, Klaus Nomi, Oingo Boingo, DK, Joan Jett, Wall of Voodoo, OMD, XTC, the Members, Steel Pulse, Echo and the Bunnymen, the Au Pairs, the Cramps, Pere Ubu, the Fleshtones, the Cramps, X, Skafish, Jools Holland, Gang of Four, 999. Music: the Minneapolis scene (aside from Prince and his crew) Husker Du, the Replacements, Soul Asylum, the Jayhawks, the Suburbs, the Flamin' Ohs, the Phones, Dare Force, Chameleon, the Mary Jane Alm Band. TV: PeeWees Playhouse--"You gotta have the right tool, and know how to use it!" (Jimmy Smits as the Conky repairman to Miss Yvonne)