MSP129 [] The 80s: Day-Glo Don’t Quit - a podcast by KULTURPOP

The 80s. A great place to visit, a terrible place to live. Why has our obsession with 80s culture lasted for 20 years? It’s time to throw away the neon tees and create something new.

Hosts: Matt Armitage& Jeff Sandhu
Produced: Jeff Sandhu for BFM89.9Episode Sources:
https://www.bfm.my https://www.vulture.com/2016/10/2016-why-are-we-obsessed-with-the-80s.html 

EPISODE EXCERPTOn last week’s MSP, Matt Armitage had a brain wave. Generally speaking, these are dangerous things accompanied by considerable suffering for other people. This one, if it works, is likely to be no more than a crime against taste. Yes, today we’re talking about The 80s. The decade that just won’t quit.So. The 80s?
I don’t know - you tell me.I was there. For pretty much all of it.
And sometimes I feel like I’m still there. I walk into stores and they’re selling clothes like the ones that looked terrible on me 30 years ago.



And look worse now?Well, yeah, we hadn’t added Lycra to everything back then. 
Now I just end up looking like one of those neon caricatures you see in sweat suits and head bands in comedies.I should advise you that your use of the word neon is being strictly monitored for this show…
And rightly so. That’s perhaps one of my favourite things about the decade, the total absence of colour sense that I still display today.I force myself to wear mostly black and navy clothes because if I’m left to choose the things I want to wear, I’ll end up looking like one of those orphan balls of Play-doh with all the different colours smooshed together. 
Probably best that I barely leave the house anymore.Cultural revivals are nothing new - we recycle fashions and tastes all the time - but those revivals are often short-lived.
A spring and summer fashion collection, a movie remake or two, some song covers or samples. Normally it’s a Flash in the pan - culture moves on. But the 80s won’t move on. 



In what sense?We were announcing and celebrating the 80s revival in the early noughties and it never really stopped. 
I think pretty much every TV show and movie from that era has been remade.
Charlie’s Angels, Dynasty, 21 Jump St, Starsky& Hutch, the A Team, Ghostbusters.
The list of etc etc goes on forever. This year was supposed to be the year that Top Gun made a high altitude comeback. 
Not sure when we’ll see it now.It’s like there’s no stone of 80s pop culture that hasn’t been given another go around. 

Even the games have come back…Not just the games - even their music.
We had stuff like the 8-Bit chip music scene that emulated the kind of music that you’d get in video games and consoles in the 80s.Which is weird. Because that music sounded like this:
Play: https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=18&v=NTa6Xbzfq1U&feature=emb_logo 
That was. of course, the Super Mario Bros Main Theme for the NES - Nintendo Entertainment System in 1985.And it’s the sound of nightmares. Yet chip music was huge for about 30 seconds in probably the mid noughties.
But even that’s back. The remix is being remixed. The chiptune scene has been profiled for sites like Vice…

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