The Eighties are Back - Seriously Questionable Style Moments
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Proof that lightning does strike twice. (submitted by Terri)
As I was growing up (late eighties and nineties), goblins were mostly confined to Labyrinth, weird rubbery puppets that came in their own cage, and an excellent PC game that I don’t remember …
The eighties were so weird. Even at the time we thought that era was bad, but looking back I always am blown away at how truly amazing that decade was. It was a time of learning about so much wild stuff because there was suddenly a “critical mass” interest in the “weird” past and tons of CD reissues of… virtually everything. And we were all digging it up—and digging the shit out of it—just as it was about to be dumped, burned or lost. In this pilgrimage was also a great sort of confusion of the decades, known by myself and friends as the “eighties/fifties.” Loads of bands were “eighties/fifties” in great and horrible ways (think DEVO or B-52s as opposed to, say, the Stray Cats). Add onto all this the emergence of cable/public access TV and its availability to anyone with an idea (and follow-through). My friends in LA and I (in NYC) would trade the weirdest stuff we could find and tape off air. At that time (and still, amazingly enough) my West Coast friends were members of Redd Kross, White Flag, filmmaker and Painted Willie drummer Dave Markey and a...
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