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Edited on Sun Jul-18-04 09:21 PM by Crisco
I was late getting to the other thread - now archived:
Movies:
Room With a View Unbearable Lightness of Being Real Genius Wings of Desire, Paris, Texas (+ other WW stuff) The Gods Must Be Crazy The Killing Fields Matewan (+ other Sayles) Diner (+ other Levinson) The Princess Bride, This is Spinal Tap (+ other RR) Robocop Dead Ringers A Fish Called Wanda Birdy Bull Durham Batman, Beetlejuice (+ other Burton) Blade Runner Das Boot My Life as a Dog (+ other Halstrom) Witness Brazil (+ other Gilliam) Ran My Beautiful Laundrette Jean De Florette Aliens Blue Velvet An American Werewolf in London Body Heat Taps My Dinner with Andre The Year of Living Dangerously Stop Making Sense After Hours
etc, etc,
Music:
R.E.M. U2 Replacements Dead Kennedys Neighborhoods Throwing Muses X Dream Syndicate Los Lobos Pretenders Camper Van Beethoven Kate Bush Miracle Legion Grandmaster Flash Black Flag Hüsker Du Anita Baker Soul Asylum Sonic Youth They Might Be Giants OMD (pre-John Hughes) Living Colour Red Hot Chili Peppers Billy Bragg Echo & the Bunnymen The Cure New Order Skinny Puppy Big Audio Dynamite Beastie Boys Public Enemy Let's Active Translator Romeo Void Violent Femmes 10,000 Maniacs Bauhaus Love & Rockets Jazz Butcher Meat Puppets Lloyd Cole & the Commotions Paul Kelly & the Messengers Hunters & Collectors Crowded House Midnight Oil INXS Sugarcubes Concrete Blonde Fetchin' Bones Cindy Lee Berryhill Suzanne Vega Waterboys Hoodoo Gurus Jane's Addiction Soup Dragons Stone Roses Happy Mondays Bill Nelson
Publishing: the rise of alternative weeklies and fanzines.
Activism: Live Aid, Artists Against Apartheit & all the college students who forced their unis to divest in SA.
To anyone who says "the '80s sucked," I say: It's not my goddamn fault you were willing to swallow whatever swill was being hyped, and missed all the good shit.
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