"We Don't Have to Take Our clothes Off (To Have a Good Time)"

[SarahB]

Yeah, we do.

I'm just watching VH1 Classics (still). I'm addicted.

Have any bad 80's songs that you like?

[General Zod]

1. "The Reflex" by Duran Duran.....

Euro-trash pop at its best!

[ScreamingMeemie]

2. Hey! They were all good!!

Here's to Future Days by the Thompson Twins.

And to think I used to wear my hair like that....

[zbdent]

3. Hey, I had fun at the Spencer Tunick shoot in Cleveland!

And we took our clothes off at various times . . .

[MercutioATC]

13. You're in Cleveland? I'm in Westlake.

I wanted to make it to the shoot, but I was working. I think it would have been a little uncomfortable for me, but I would have loved to be part of something like that. How was it?

[zbdent]

25. A bit chilly

but rather interesting.

And fun.

[zbdent]

4. Is that a reminder card they're printing up as a reminder for

the GOP convention?

[Zomby Woof]

5. the 80's sucked a big fat one

But glad you had fun.

[SarahB]

6. Sometimes

Brain-numbing drivel is good for the soul.

[Zomby Woof]

7. no, it isn't

That is what pissed me off about the decade while it was actually occurring. There was this prevalent mentality that dumb is good, and questioning it in any way made one a crank. I say fuck that, that mentality is what let Reagan prevail. Dumb was rewarded, thinking was wrong and discouraged.

Got to to be the pissed off asshole to ruin your thread, but I am an arrogant bastard. Always have been, always will be.

My anti-80's attitude will never die, 24 years and counting, woohoo.

Needless to say, I enjoyed being a thinking dissenter during that time, much as I enjoy being a curmudegeonly Uncle Zomby on DU.

[SarahB]

8. I get where you're coming from...

It was just about my taste in music on occasion. Kind of falls in line with the occasional appeal of silly slapstick comedy.

Curmudegeons don't bother me, I welcome the challenge.

For my pissed off asshole, buddy Zomby:

[Zomby Woof]

9. the thing is...

With friends like you, whom I accept unconditionally, I know you will let me have my say, as I let you have yours, and even when we disagree, it's okay, because we know why we are the way we are.

Don't ever change, don't ever shy away from your love of your music and your attitudes.

Just thanks for giving me the room to be the crank I am. x 1,000.

[SarahB]

11. Awwww!

under the jello mistletoe for you!
Nope, the world will not get me down yet. I have too much to do.

[MercutioATC]

14. Bitter old man!

[Zomby Woof]

15. damn straight!

[NightTrain]

10. Nothing personal, Sarah, but I've always detested that song.

Granted, it's not as horrendous as Eddie Murphy's "Party All The Time" or Falco's "Rock Me Amadeus," but I still find the damned thing unlistenable.

[SarahB]

12. It is horrendous.

Silly, stupid, pointless. I had been immersing my brain all afternoon in microbial genetics, communicable diseases, and all sorts of complex academic stuff while this music was one. It was like a yin-yang thing for counter balance. Cathartic in a sense.

[The Great Escape]

16. "The Rain" By Oran Juice Jones.....

when I was in the Navy this was the first song I was able to pick on an American Radio Station as I was coming back from my first Med Cruise in '86...I always associate that song with coming home! LOL It truly is a bad song...but...I will always love it...the next song was "Holding Back The Years" by Simply Red (now that is a really great song)......My biggest memory of Europe that year was Madonna and her "True Blue" album where everywhere..."Papa Don't Preach" and "Live To Tell" were all over the radio in Europe in '86.

[Bertha Venation]

17. I miss Gilda Radner.

honey, touch me with my clothes on . . . sigh

[bo44]

18. I love British New Wave

Reminds me of partying in clubs in San Francisco while I was in school.

[Kat45]

19. Song title doesn't ring a bell--and that would be a hard one to forget

Who did the song?

[The Great Escape]

20. Jermaine Stewart****

****

[Kat45]

21. Thanks. I don't think I've ever heard of Jermaine Stewart.

No wonder the song title isn't familiar. Maybe that's good?

[The Great Escape]

22. He Was Certainly A One Hit Wonder....

he was pretty tight with Jody Watley...the song was really pretty bad although it was catchy...unfortunately Jermaine died in 1997 of AIDS.

[puerco-bellies]

23. Lawyers in Love

But I'm seeking treatment.

[The Great Escape]

24. That's Certainly a Forgotten Eighties Hit....

Last night I watched the news from Washington, the capitol
The Russians escaped while we weren't watching them, like Russians will
Now we've got all this room, we've even got the moon
And I hear the U.S.S.R. will be open soon
As vacation land for lawyers in love