Nose candy, suitcases of cash, T-shirts under luxe European suits, ubiquitous pastels, shoes with no socks, speedboats, fast Ferraris, bikinis, boat life ... and ohhhh the music: There's something in the air tonight, and it's NotMyselfRightNow's most magnificently mega of mega posts on Miami Vice. 🕶
The 80s are known for many things, like big hair, valley girls, MTV, shoulder pads and neon colors. But in the midst of all that, Alvin and the Chipmunks released an absolute monument to sludge rock and 1adam12 made a post celebrating this little known fact. Rock on!
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A roaring Ask Metafilter "identify this item" success for moonmilk's question "Do you recognize this t-shirt from 1992?"
via themckenzietapes.com
The McKenzie Tapes is a collection of live audio recordings from some of New York City area’s most prominent music venues of the 1980s and 1990s — great post from chinese_fashion
Anna's Eighty-eight butterfly by Charlesjsharp (cc by)
Bop out, with your neon top out - for music Saturday, share your favorite 1980s pop song remixes
vinyl by suzy_yes (cc by-nc-nd)
Thanks to the work of everyone in this thread, I was able to make a positive identification of the song, order the vinyl, and have it professionally converted to digital.
The OP has updated an old thread about a 30-year-old mystery tune in Ask Me with a YouTube video of the song. Yay, team!
Looking for more musical mysteries to solve?
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Finding a song based on a music video: "a woman riding a horse and she had dramatically long hair that floated through the sky"
I grew up without cable, and am pretty much ignorant of everything but the "classic" music videos from the 80's; please let me know what I'm missing.
An awesomely generated list of 80s videos from Ask MetaFilter. Now with playlists!
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