Some of you are waaay mixed up on what constitutes 80s cheese.
This is classic 80s New Wave
awesomeness.
So is
this...
And
this.
On the other hand...this is
80s cheese.
And
this...
And
this.
The first group is totally tubular.
The second group is grody to the max.
Your choices will get no complaint from me. 80s Metal/Hair Rock is cringe inducing Cheeze-Whiz practically without exception. I think I mistook the title of this thread in my earlier post: when I saw "Best" I thought it meant cheese that I actually liked (much like other guilty pleasure threads around here).
But it's the nature of the beast that almost all 25-year old artifacts will seem pretty cheesy, and since the 80s were so much all-of-a-piece (distinctively modernistic music, clothes, interior design, etc) instead of the free-wheeling whatever-you-like/DIY music/hemlines/sofa that followed, 80s artifacts reek of an earnest cheesiness. How else can the fabulosity of
Dead Or
Alive or The
GoGos be
explained? Much as I love
this song, they still look like Brazilian drag queens recreating the Miss Venezuela pageant :biggrin1:
I did have several pet peeves in the 80s, wondering how certain groups/celebrities ever attained popularity: think
Air Supply or that dreadful
Christopher Cross (ugh).
