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We’re taking a break this weekend from our usual format and taking a trip down Nostalgia Lane to revisit the 1980s. Only a couple of us here (exactly two, in fact) actually lived through the ‘80s. We’ve been reminded on several occasions in the last year that the decade has become cool in a retro […]
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The King of Pop
Tl;dr: Thriller. Whenever the history of music in the 1980s is told, there is only one definite version: There was once a guy named Michael, and then there was everyone else. Michael Jackson had done it all by the time he was 10 years old, but it was in the ‘80s when it all came […]
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The Golden Age of Hip Hop
The 1980s will forever be known to some as the Golden Age of Hip Hop. The period was marked by intense creativity in the genre; a Cambrian explosion of art, where every new artist appeared to create a sub-genre of their own. It was the decade where the music came to its own and rose […]
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The decade when heavy metal became mainstream and had an identity crisis
Metal crossed over into the mainstream in the ‘80s. As with hip hop, it could be argued that heavy metal was born in the early ‘70s and possibly even has roots in the ‘60s. MIT’s crash course on heavy metal argues that Black Sabbath was the first “proper heavy metal band,” and coming into the […]
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The becoming of house music
A lot of people out there mistakenly believe that House Music is a product of the now. But that seemingly futuristic, electronic sound “has predominantly black roots” and was born in poor, crime-ridden 1980s Chicago at the hands of one Bronx-bred DJ named Frankie Knuckles. As the resident DJ of The Warehouse in the early […]
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The TV ads craze in the ‘80s
Cartoons. Celebrities. Riri. Schweppes. Abdelrehim Amr. Catchy tunes. You guessed it: It’s our dive into the epic world of the ‘80s TV ads. “Hatlena Riri, hatlena Riri. Hatlena menno bako wetnein. El sala ‘al zein el sala ‘al zein.” Riri, everyone, the local cereal of the 80s, when folks apparently had a much longer attention […]
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Two of the best shows on television are set in the ‘80s.
You can tell Generation X is in charge of television today from the sheer volume of ‘80s-themed shows that have made it onto the airwaves in the last few years. We’re going out on a limb and saying it started in 1999 with Freaks and Geeks, and we’ll fast-forward through the dreck that was That […]
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Reboots of classic ‘80s shows
Then there are the shows that actually originally aired during the 1980s that are returning to television (and laptop) screens. Full House, which made its debut in 1987, returned last year as the Netflix original Fuller House with many of its original cast members. The show that catapulted Mary Kate and Ashley Olsen and John […]
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The only car worth lusting over in the ‘80s was built in the ‘70s
Forget Knight Rider’s KITT — the only car we wanted in the ‘80s was actually made in the 1970s. A second-hand, 1970s-vintage Chevrolet Corvette Stingray convertible, to be precise. Corvette Forum is your starting point for exploring the subculture. Close second: The Jeep CJ-7, preferably in soft-top. The notion that it’s now selling as a […]
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Before Adel Imam was the face of Ramadan, there were Fawazeer
Once upon a time, Adel Imam’s face was not a permanent fixture of Ramadan television. The ‘80s were a simpler time, when Nelly (and, later on, Sherihan) brought families together in front of the TV screen to watch Fawazeer, arguably the most iconic show in Ramadan entertainment history. Nelly’s run with Fawazeer started in 1980 […]