10 Best Blends of 80’s Music and Hair

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It was the decade where "Greed was good," Crockett and Tubbs were dapper and Nagel was art. Today, Hipsters now where "Docksiders," keep their color up on a pastel Lacoste (we called them Izods) and sport the iconic Wayfarers. Where did this all begin?

I WANT MY MTV

We laugh at the goofy fashion, the cheesy videos and the awful television. 
Does anyone remember “My Two Dads” or was that a really bad hallucination I had?
But, unlike the 70’s and its tendency toward idiocracy (Disco Fever?), the 80’s delivered iconoclastic images that we can be proud of. Great era.

10. Talk Talk - It's My Life

A wonderful bass line. Some velvety synth. And a liltingly great voice. Voila, you’ve got an ’80’s staple.

9. Kajagoogoo - Too Shy

I still remember the first time I saw this flippin’ cool video. It was at an 8th grade birthday party for a girl name Bridget. She had enormous hair. She was soooo cute.

8. A Flock Of Seagulls - I Ran

Funny thing about this video. When I first saw it, I found nothing at all odd about their clothes or hair.

7. Berlin – No More Words

One facet I never questioned about the music videos in the 1980’s: The correlation between the song and what the heck was going on in the video. Bonnie and Clyde? Robin Hood? What the hell is this video about?

I still play this song on my iPod.

 

6. Duran Duran - Girls on Film

Anyone really seen the X-rated version of this video? Yes, I know of the “uncensored” version.
But when I was in the 9th grade, that was like a totally big deal. And we were sure a XXX version existed

5. Go Go’s Head Over Heals

My mom, age 66, wears a lot of these same clothes.

4. Haircut 100 Love Plus One

What happen to the saxophone in today’s music? What happen to Rob Lowe? Anyone?

3. Human League - Don't You Want Me Baby

Why don’t people walk around in trench coats at night with loads of eye-liner singing about how much they want you anymore? Really?

2. OMD So in Love

I dated a girl named… I’ll call her “Heather.” Actually, that’s her name. This was “our” song. I was 17. I drove a Monte Carlo with a t-bar roof. So did she. I am not making this up.

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I need to have 80’s music day……this inspired me.

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I love this. I love all these songs too. So sad.

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Oh, and Bowie was dead by 1980 – Tin Machine? Come on. Even genius fades over time.

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I once was a doofus clogging the world with fabricated perversity. Now, I am just an ex-hipster disguised as a closeted hooligan and father of two boys.