Blog Profile / Stuck in the 80s
| URL : | http://www.tampabay.com/blogs/80s/ | |
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| Filed Under: | Age Groups / Gen X | |
| Posts on Regator: | 1231 | |
| Posts / Week: | 12.4 | |
| Archived Since: | June 29, 2011 | |
Blog Post Archive
Roger Ebert, longtime film critic and movie lover, dies at 70
Roger Ebert has passed away. The longtime film critic of the Chicago Sun-Times died Thursday in Chicago after a longtime battle with cancer of the thyroid and salivary gland.
Review: G.I. Joe Retaliation - A Real American Zero
Living the Stuck in the '80s lifestyle as I do, it's hard to find time to hit up the cineplex for new movies. Umm, even though there's literally a theater 20 yards from my office. Seriously. But thankfully, longtime Stuck in the '80s friend and …
Huey Lewis, Weird Al parody 'American Psycho' scene
Huey Lewis, Weird Al, and the American Psycho parody. This might be the single greatest moment of your week. So enjoy it. (Here's the RELATED ►POST PROFILESHARE ►
Oscar winning screenwriter of 'A Room With A View' dies at 85
Sad news from the Associated Press: Oscar-winning screenwriter and award-winning novelist Ruth Prawer Jhabvala has died at age 85 after a long illness. Jhabvala wrote 22 …
Lost and found: April Wine's 'This Could Be The Right One'
April Wine is one of Canada’s most beloved bands, but in the U.S. they only scored three Top 40 hits including the classic power ballad Just Between You and Me from 1981.
Rolling Stones 2013 tour includes 9 stops ... none in Florida
The Rolling Stones finally stopped teasing its fans and announced the dates and cities of its 2013 summer tour. Sadly, it only includes nine cities, none of which are remotely near Florida. So much for any emotional rescue for '80s fans. Here are the towns and …
First mobile phone call? 40 years ago today
Sadly, it wasn't Wall Street's Gordon Gekko who made the very first mobile phone call, but the model was pretty much exactly the same.
If you want some love this Wednesday, you got it
Robin Zander of Cheap Trick has made two podcast appearances on Stuck in the ‘80s, so Cheap Trick really hasn’t been too lost, but we do feel the need to tell radio programmers that Cheap Trick has more material than the two or three songs they usually play.
Whitesnake 2013 tour includes stop at Clearwater's Ruth Eckerd Hall
Last time I heard a Whitesnake song, it wasn't being sung by Whitesnake. It was Here I Go Again and it was from the Rock of Ages soundtrack. Good song pick for the movie, even if the movie's performance didn't include Tawny Kitaen in white …
3 flicks from '80s make list of all-time best heist films
I'm not going to remotely make a case that the '80s were THE decade of "heist movies." Hell, I can make a better case that our beloved decade had zero great heist movies. But Paste Magazine managed to include three '80s flicks in its brand-new list of the RELATED ►POST PROFILESHARE ►
Queen's Freddie Mercury snuck Princess Diana into a gay bar
So a pop singer, TV star and a princess walk into a gay bar. Ba-dum-dum. But in this case, it's no joke. The UK's Mail Online says Queen frontman Freddie Mercury helped sneak …
Lost and found: Alice Cooper 'Clones'
In 2011, Bobcat Goldthwait directed perhaps the darkest comedy ever called God Bless America. In the film, the disturbed main character, Frank, stumbles onto a teenage girl named Roxy who believes Alice Cooper the most important individual in rock history and states her case in RELATED ►POST PROFILESHARE ►
Review: Depeche Mode's 'Delta Machine' resurrects its '80s soul
One of our favorite correspondents, Bassnote from Chicago, is a diehard Depeche Mode fan. Here's his review of their new album, Delta Machine.
Best April Fools Day prank ever: Big Ben and The Clash 'London Calling'
One of the best April Fools Day pranks of the '80s occurred in England in 1980. The always proper BBC reported that the 132-year-old metal hands of Big Ben would be taken down and replaced with a digital clock prompting disbelief and outrage in London. So today we salute Big Ben who gets the first few seconds of face time in the video for …
Never found in the '80s: Big Black
One of the loudest bands I’ve ever seen, Big Black was a dark, disturbed and angry band out of Chicago. Their sound was hard edged fueled by trashing guitars, thumping bass, and a powerful drum machine beat. They were big in the post punk scene of the 80s, but their songs were far too twisted to ever get a whiff of the pop …
Star Trek polo shirts: It's logical
Star Trek polo shirts! It's amazing nobody thought of these before. Because what else would Kirk and Spock wear on the golf course between teaching seminars at Starfleet Academy?
Listen to our 5 favorite Stuck in the '80s podcast interviews
Martha Quinn. Brian Johnson. Maybe even Howard Jones. Stuck in the '80s fans have a lot of opinions on which was the best interview we've done in nearly eight years of Stuck in the '80s. With Easter upon us and half the country covered in snow, maybe the best way to celebrate the holiday is safely indoors with a pair of ear buds …
Friday lost and found: It's Immaterial 'Driving Away From Home'
While Easter is not the traveling holiday that Thanksgiving and Christmas has become, there still might be some of you on the highways this weekend. For those travelers, Lost and Found submits Driving Away From Home (Jim’s Tune) from England’s It’s Immaterial.
3 movies from the '80s that aren't as bad as you think
I'm under no illusion that the '80s were the golden age of film. For every Breakfast Club, there's a Gymkata. But Totalfilm.com has put out RELATED ►POST PROFILESHARE ►
'Push Comes to Shove' for the Shoes
If you love power pop, there is no band truer to the genre than Shoes. Every song they’ve recorded is so sugary sweet that you should probably brush your teeth after a full listening.