Men Without Hats: You have accidentally dropped a pager into a tub of frozen yogurt.
uh... no? never had a pager / don't like frogurt!
this is BULLSHIT!
but i must say ... men without hats put out BRILLIANT stuff between 1980 and 1987 (first EP + 3 albums) and had some decent stuff after... they broke up in 91 but came back in 2003 and i became a fan in 2002 so it was a thrilling time to come into them...
flash forward NINE YEARS... to now! ... i've waited nearly a decade to see them live and this september it is finally going to happen! ... it won't be the same as seeing them Back in the Day but it is better than no thing!
i wish i could convince more to check out ze hats but no one will ever believe! they'll just think of the hit song and them as a joke / novelty!
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depeche mode is really groovy too... so many good albums! even later years!
and a-ha is quite under-rated / thought too much of a one hit wonder blunder!
REM to me goes far beyond just an '80s' band... i mean come now!
just recently i FINALLY heard the first 2 tears for fears albums and i don't know why i waited so long... good stuff!
I thought it was funny, and having grown up in the 80's, found some of them to be totally spot on. Like the Huey Lewis and the News one, about hanging from monkey bars in school photos. Josh Fernandez, all the way. I loved all the references that only people my age will get. But it IS McSweeny's after all (same generation as me) (we rock). (No, we RULE) (tee hee) Thanks for sharing!
Sorry for being a bummer, man. I actually understood that it wasn't your list, having read it. But hey, I guess I just don't see the humor in it; I'm not really into a whole lot of 80s music.
As time goes on, I see more and more opportunities not to say anything, and I'm realizing this would have been one of those times.
By the way: for Men At Work, who I do incidentally like, that's actually true for me. It's Florida, so I wear shorts. I'm outside a lot, so I wear old boots.
Most music, film, art, fashion, philosophy...any cultural response and/or interpretation is transitory, time sensitive, personal and, frankly, political at its root. I have my personal reasons for despising disco and loving Depeche Mode and cannot, will not, defend either opinion. You know? I look forward to going blah blah blah with you tomorrow night!
I dunno, aside from a small handful of groups, the 2000s sucked pretty hard. At least there was grunge and good rap in the 90s, along with some other cool bands that don't fit into either of those categories.