Holy Crap, It's an REO Speedwagon Hidden Object Game! - UPDATED

[300lb. Samoan]

Who the fuck gave the go ahead on this one?! REO Speedwagon was awesome back in the day....but...this is wrong!

... How so? Do you, um, not like video games? 0

 

[cleverlymadeup]

dear god people the 70s and 80s are over, give it up

i hate retro stuff and have for a very long time, people thinking the 80s were a good thing, they were horrid and awful

Spoiler: Listen to this

And this is just the pop! A lot better than the shit that is getting pumped out now. Most of this is from the Grand Theft Auto: Vice City Soundtrack. I still think Vice City had the best soundtrack, right behind The Ballad of Gay Tony (Not Grand Theft Auto IV, just The Ballad of Gay Tony).

thanx for proving my point about how bad the 80s were and Cars was from the 70s

*frowns* I respectfully disagree with you sir. There was much about the 80's that was simply outrageous.

not much, Tom Baker left as The Doctor and any of the good music was rather obscure, the "good" stuff people think is great is horrible horrible music that. the only two good types of music in the 80s were industrial and metal, the rest was horrid

 

[The_root_of_all_evil]

*frowns* I respectfully disagree with you sir. There was much about the 80's that was simply outrageous.

not much, Tom Baker left as The Doctor and any of the good music was rather obscure, the "good" stuff people think is great is horrible horrible music that. the only two good types of music in the 80s were industrial and metal, the rest was horrid

We also had some of the best children's television ever, TISWAS, Max Headroom, The 64/Speccy console wars, Elite, Twin Kingdom Valley, ULTIMATE Play the Game (to become Rare), The Darling Brothers (To become Codemasters), The Avengers, 2000 AD's best years, THE WATCHMEN, Empire+Return, Nu-wave, The Beginnings of Goth, Electronica, Wispa bars, The Dukes Of Hazzard, M*A*S*H's finale, The A Team, Magnum P.I., ALF, Moonlighting, Cheers, The screen birth of Samuel L M-Fing Jackson, Surely Airplane!, Ghostbusters, Indiana Jones, Gremlins, Back to the Future, Fluorescent tube socks, Deeley Boppers (Ok...the last two were awful), Good Morning Vietnam, Who Framed Roger Rabbit?, The Goonies, The Breakfast Club, Wargames, BeetleJuice, The Princess Bride, Short Circuit, WWF(E), The Terminator, Pink Floyd's The Wall, The basis of Trainspotting, Watermelon Gobstoppers/Dinosour Eggs, AC/DC/ Maiden, some of the cheesiest Xmas music ever and some of the best (Fairytale of New York, Stop The Cavalry), Flash DIVE MY HAWKMEN!!!!!11! Gordon.

I mean, c'mon, what have the 00's got apart from Moffat's Doctor Who episodes, good as they maybe; and maybe House, Dexter and Chuck.

Edit: And I feel all that text deserves a picture.

 

[300lb. Samoan]

*frowns* I respectfully disagree with you sir. There was much about the 80's that was simply outrageous.

not much, Tom Baker left as The Doctor and any of the good music was rather obscure, the "good" stuff people think is great is horrible horrible music that. the only two good types of music in the 80s were industrial and metal, the rest was horrid

the Brutal Legend soundtrack - THAT is why the 80's were awesome!

Judas Priest, Motorhead, Ozzy's first two albums, all that great obscure stuff
plus Iron Maiden and Dio

synth-pop, well I see it continuing to go in and out of popularity. during the 90s no one could stand that cheesy mess, now it's all the rage. you'd think with better synthesis technology we'd be playing around with newer, better sounds, but no. we just canibalize the 80s. BUT, I can dig The Cars, and that song Cars, and Thomas Dolby, some of the stuff that wasn't afraid to be outright nerdy.

and Hair Metal does not count as good 80s metal.

OT, if I had to listen to REO Speedwagon, gimme "Ridin' the Storm Out" over their cheesy ballad stuff.

 

[The_root_of_all_evil]

and Hair Metal does not count as good 80s metal.

But where would naff discos be without this?

Much as you may hate poodlerock, you can't deny it's influence. Unless you're also prepared to take on Alice Cooper, Iron Maiden, Def Leppard, Guns & Roses and Spinal Tap.

 

[cleverlymadeup]

the Brutal Legend soundtrack - THAT is why the 80's were awesome!

Judas Priest, Motorhead, Ozzy's first two albums, all that great obscure stuff
plus Iron Maiden and Dio

those were all 70s bands that just got some more popularity in the 80s

synth-pop, well I see it continuing to go in and out of popularity. during the 90s no one could stand that cheesy mess, now it's all the rage. you'd think with better synthesis technology we'd be playing around with newer, better sounds, but no. we just canibalize the 80s. BUT, I can dig The Cars, and that song Cars, and Thomas Dolby, some of the stuff that wasn't afraid to be outright nerdy.

synthpop, with one or two notable exceptions hasn't been that popular ever. sure it's big in the goth scene but that's about it. granted there are a couple notable exceptions but for the most part it's not well liked

 

[300lb. Samoan]

and Hair Metal does not count as good 80s metal.

But where would naff discos be without this? {Europe, Whitesnake, Bon Jovi}

If I had my way, those discos and all that music would be burning in hell. What a bunch of pure product music, BLEGH.

Much as you may hate poodlerock, you can't deny it's influence. Unless you're also prepared to take on Alice Cooper, Iron Maiden, Def Leppard, Guns & Roses and Spinal Tap.

Alice Cooper came in the early 70s and was a rock'n'roll circus. There's nothing like him (as much as Kiss might try, they fail by comparison.)
Iron Maiden, New Wave of British Heavy Metal, the origin of meathead rockers (like me) running around calling everything epic. Iron Maiden would use their flaming swords of pure metal to ignite the putrescent Aquanet'd hair of the infidels.
Def Leppard... piss on 'em.
Guns & Roses is just a great rock'n'roll band, where most hair metal groups were just mediocre rock'n'roll bands (not true metal). They happened to take the same formula for success that all these poddlerock jokers were using and turned it against them. If I had to sink the entire hair-metal gunship, G&R would probably have to go down with it. It'd be a tough casualty to accept... but deep in my heart I know I'd rather see commercial music fail, so I'd have to go through with it.

And finally... Spinal Tap. What a great movie. Funny soundtrack. But you've gotta realize, they were satirizing (in '82) all the commercial excess that was about to give birth to all these poodlerockers.

And another thing... as much as I hate poodlerock, I love the word 'poodlerock'. So thanks for that, I need to go find someone in rl who likes poodlerock and start making fun of poodlerock to their face.

poodlerock... oodles of poodlerock... hehehe

 

[300lb. Samoan]

the Brutal Legend soundtrack - THAT is why the 80's were awesome!

Judas Priest, Motorhead, Ozzy's first two albums, all that great obscure stuff
plus Iron Maiden and Dio

those were all 70s bands that just got some more popularity in the 80s

synth-pop, well I see it continuing to go in and out of popularity. during the 90s no one could stand that cheesy mess, now it's all the rage. you'd think with better synthesis technology we'd be playing around with newer, better sounds, but no. we just canibalize the 80s. BUT, I can dig The Cars, and that song Cars, and Thomas Dolby, some of the stuff that wasn't afraid to be outright nerdy.

synthpop, with one or two notable exceptions hasn't been that popular ever. sure it's big in the goth scene but that's about it. granted there are a couple notable exceptions but for the most part it's not well liked

70's acts that grew stronger in the 80's - hey, just like REO Speedwagon
Ozzy's solo stuff, BTW, started in 81 with Blizz of Oz.

Synthpop - are you kidding me? What's all this pop music with synthesizers I'm hearing down the street at 80's Night, then? They sure do love them some Falco over there... And what about The Killers, The Bravery, even MGMT? I hear a lot of music on the radio today that wouldn't be anywhere without the retro strains of 80's synth music.

 

[The_root_of_all_evil]

Spinal Tap wasn't real???? NOOoOOooOOOOooOoooooooOOOOooo!

 

[300lb. Samoan]

Spinal Tap wasn't real???? NOOoOOooOOOOooOoooooooOOOOooo!

ok, in my defense, 'Like My Love Pump' has got to be the saddest song of all time... and come to think of it, Spinal Tap did make the 80's pretty awesome.

This thread is so full of WIN, it clearly needs a sticky.

Strike that: this thread needs to be the homepage from now on.

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