80s stations do play New Wave, but I usually also here a lot of Prince, various Jacksons, multiple different flavors of hair metal…

apparently you and i don't get invited to the parties where they talk about these things

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Wikipedia on the character Luke from General Hospital:

I think I read somewhere that Kesha is signed directly to Dr. Luke's label, so this doesn't really affect her in a good way, or something. Oh yeah, here it is, maybe you can make sense of this stuff better than I can http://www.slate.com/blogs/…

Well, that's just New Wave (the "music for white people" genre that replaced soft rock and was later itself replaced by alt-rock). There were a lot of New Wave hits that decade, but there was also a lot of pure pop, funk-pop, yacht rock, early hip-hop, and even good country crossovers like "Islands in the Stream" for…

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yeah it's pretty clear he was thinking "I'll take the word dumptruck and turn it into a euphamism about booty somehow," but he really should have considered the implications of putting the word "dump" anywhere near a song about butts

heh. there are people on this forum who will have you believe the 80s were the worst time for music…those people, I just don't know

Oh yeah, Sisqo, from Get Over It

Yeah, I'm with her, this is a stupid idea.

Yeah! And why is it only for the consoles?!

True…I don't think well-distributed moisture would cause this though. French-cut potatoes are pretty moist but they fry just fine, all the water escapes early in the process…

I was thinking they probably have air pockets.

you mean you pan-fry it, right? that would allow air to escape from the top. This guy is deep frying, hence the explosions

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the delivery lacked confidence

…until 1982 when that all changed.
'80 and '81 were basically still the late-70s. I refer to them as "the Air Supply Years." Thriller changed everything. Pop music was pretty uniformly great from '82 to '88, when we entered the Gloria Estefan Era of Forgotten Pop Culture.

I'm in the exact same category, even married one…we probably go to the same websites and everything

it's like saying "at least reality television gave us The Animal costar Colleen Haskell"