You know how the first line in Video Killed the Radio Star is “I heard you on the wireless back in ‘52”?

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Osinuous@reddit

You know what, I’m not downvoting you for this, but I WANT to. I have it on good authority that 1995 was six years ago.

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Significant_Ruin4870@reddit

To quote Adam Savage, "I reject your reality and substitute my own."

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merrysunshine2@reddit

If back to the future were made today it’d take place in 1994 :/

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it's like listening to some 82 - 84 pop and 79 - 90-something punk now (listening to minor threat atm) and time-switching it... or 50s and 60s rock from my parents. that would have been like listening to music from the 30s and 40s back in the 80s 😄

which... yeah, i also did.

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ImInBeastmodeOG@reddit

Nah, lots of kids into real punk are listening to legends again. Punks coming up again. Surprisingly.

There were lots of 16+ kids at the descendants/buzzcocks show I went to recently. It was a glimmer of hope seeing them know the words. Awesome show btw.

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Automatic_Fun_8958@reddit

Now it’s Reality Killed The Video Star

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_sLLiK@reddit

More like Polarity killed Reality.

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ImInBeastmodeOG@reddit

More like reality TV shows on MTV killed the video star

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FecklessScribbler@reddit

"I heard you on my Discman back in '95..."

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hyperdream@reddit

"It only cost me 30 bucks to see you live..."

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Thirty_Helens_Agree@reddit

Hell, I saw Green Day back then for something like $18.

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Monkeynutz_Johnson@reddit

Green Day at the Baltimore convention center, 14.50 , same fir Weezer in 94. Grateful Dead in 94 at RFK was like 20 and Traffic was the opening act.

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Eastern-Ad-5253@reddit

Hey Baltimore!! We ( me and my niece)went to the HFS Festival$25 in 03 line up was Audio Slave , Garbage Janes Addiction .. 2005. Lineup was Epic :Billy Idol, Foo Fighters, Cold Play

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VF-41@reddit

Went to the first HFS Fest at Lake Fairfax- ‘90. Gang of Four, Tragically Hip, Pursuit of Happiness and Concrete Blonde!

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ImInBeastmodeOG@reddit

Damn, concrete blonde is criminally underrated. One of the best voices ever in rock. I wish I had seen them in their prime. Bloodletting is still a sick record.

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Eastern-Ad-5253@reddit

😎😎😎😎😎

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Ok-Cauliflower-3129@reddit

Was it still all of the original members of Traffic ?

Traffic really is an under appreciated band in my opinion.

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Monkeynutz_Johnson@reddit

I think so because Winwood was with them. It was a big deal that he was playing.

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WhyMe7B@reddit

Hell…. I saw Bad Religion in 93 for $15 and Green Day was the opener. Felt I saw them for free (actually made something as Billie Joe gave me his hat).

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AgateHuntress@reddit

I saw Van Halen in '84 for $11.

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ofcourseIwantpickles@reddit

How was Panama live?!

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AgateHuntress@reddit

It was great. One of my top five concerts ever. Back then most stadiums, including the one in my city weren't airconditioned, so I passed out during the opening band (can't even remember who it was) but recovered just in time for Van Halen to play. It was hot as hell, but also awesome!

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gripperjonez@reddit

Not the OP, but I saw that tour. Dave was too busy waiving his styling at women to pay much attention to the music. I ALSO saw the first Van Hagar tour and Panama with Sammy was pretty spectacular. (Yeah, I liked Van Hagar! Come at me, bro)

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ofcourseIwantpickles@reddit

Fucking Dave

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JankroCommittee@reddit

$5 Green Day shows- Phoenix Theater.

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AnhedoniaJack@reddit

OHHHH, OOOOOHHHH

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gotkube@reddit

That… doesn’t go with the flow of the song :)

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Nitroburner3000@reddit

Saw Janes Addiction and Soundgarden for three bucks and change.

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Sandfleas1@reddit

I saw Nirvana in ‘93 for $7 at the state fair

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Len_Zefflin@reddit

$26 Robert Plant in 1990. A few months later $52 to see John Lee Hooker on New Years Eve.

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suziequzie1@reddit

Oh-a-Oh-Aaaa!

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Jack_Straw_71@reddit

They should have paid YOU to sit through it. I could not imagine having to witness such a thing.

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MrsMiterSaw@reddit

Saw Green Day on Sproul Plaza in Berkeley for free on my first Friday in college in Aug 92.

Literally thought to myself "Has punk been hiding here this whole time?"

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TheGirlwThePinkHair@reddit

I saw Nirvana for $17.50

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giggles991@reddit

Just sharing that the following will still work for the lyrical cadence i. The previous 2 posts

"I saw Green Day for someone like 15"

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cheapdialogue@reddit

Radiohead, ~$18 and they played in a university basketball court gym, AND they weren't the headliners. Getting older is weird.

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intensenerd@reddit

I paid $13 to see Rage in a prison courtyard in 96. Still best bang for my buck I’ve ever had.

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EmptySeaDad@reddit

"I helped to catch you when you did that sick stage dive"

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ZouDave@reddit

"We waited hours for the main act to arrive."

OH WA OH!

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peptide2@reddit

Oh oh oh

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MentallyStrongest@reddit

I saw U2 in 1983 for 10 bucks. The Alarm was the opening act!

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OtisPimpBoot@reddit

I remember when I paid $70 for Stones tickets in 1997 and I thought that it was highway robbery.

And now last year my wife took our 14 year old to Taylor Swift and “only spent a few hundred bucks” per ticket, like that was some kind of deal.

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OtisPimpBoot@reddit

I remember when I paid $70 for Stones tickets in 1997 and I thought that it was highway robbery.

And now last year my wife took our 14 year old to Taylor Swift and “only spent a few hundred bucks” per ticket, like that was some kind of deal.

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ColonOBrien@reddit

“But I was already…old enough to drive”

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KatJen76@reddit

OWWA OH!

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MentallyStrongest@reddit

I saw U2 in 1983 for 10 bucks. The Alarm was the opening act!

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jlusedude@reddit

Discman is making a come back, in a terrible form factor.

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lectroid@reddit

🎶”And I remember Mrs Cleaver spoke in jive…”🎵

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Adventurous_Use2324@reddit

That's the line? I never knew that.

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LostBetsRed@reddit

"Lying awake intent on tuning in on you... If I was young It didn't stop you coming through...*

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Johnnyhellhole@reddit

When I think of this line, I always think of my late nights at the cabin in NorCal when whatever weather allowed for propagation of the signal for the Mighty 690 from Tijuana. Wouldn't happen every night, but when you could hear Another One Bites the Dust coming through, that's was quite a thrill.

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ConfidenceFragrant80@reddit

Ohh ohh

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ConfidenceFragrant80@reddit

Ohh ohh

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Gnovakane@reddit

I was speaking to some of my millennial friends a while back and they were complaining about GenZ not even knowing Nirvana well.

I told them that the time difference between now and Nevermind's release was more than between it and the Beatles.

No one considered the Beatles still relevant in 91.

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Pumpnethyl@reddit

As a kid who was raised by MTV, I have YT premium and always have music videos or live songs/shows running instead of just audio. Living room, all day in my office. I have a TV connected to a tube preamp and EQ connected to amplified Speakers . The video is as important as the music. It’s my comfort blanket

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OnlyPopcorn@reddit

I'll bet you saw Live Aid on the MTV like me, kindred spirit.

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Pumpnethyl@reddit

I did. I woke up that Saturday with a slight hangover and watched most of it in bed. U2 blew me away. I’d seen their videos but they were great live.

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Embarrassed_Run_3993@reddit

30 years before I was born, the ovens at Auschwitz were raging around the clock, and I'm 50 now. Puts it in perspective when I remember asking my grandmother, who was a survivor, what those camps were like, now knowing how fresh 30 years can feel.

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OreoSpeedwaggon@reddit

🎵 "I saw you on MTV back in '95..." 🎵

🎵 "This was a few years before Total Request Live..." 🎵

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heresyforfunnprofit@reddit

🎶”Streaming killed the MTV star…” 🎵

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Thirty_Helens_Agree@reddit

🎶 Cheap reality TV shows killed the MTV star 🎶

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afternever@reddit

Jesse Camp came and broke our hearts

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Ralph--Hinkley@reddit

So put all the blame on dumb people stars...

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Chateaudelait@reddit

They don’t play music any more, put all the blame on Jersey Shore.

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1900grs@reddit

The Limousines - Internet Killed The Video Star

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indicus23@reddit

oooo-wah-ooooo!

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PhoneJazz@reddit (OP)

👏👏

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Advanced_Tax174@reddit

And MTV had already changed so much by then!

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GuyFromLI747@reddit

Wasn’t this the first video ever played on mtv? 1980s mtv was the best

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Cool_Dark_Place@reddit

Yup, but the video was actually made a couple of years earlier, in 1979. Music video culture had actually been going on for a while in the U.K.. Throughout the '70s, lots of bands would record videos to play on the hit BBC show "Top of the Pops." And these older videos made up a lot of MTVs early catalog. And also, that's when a lot of the British "New Romantic/New Wave" music began to take off here in the U.S. This scene hadn't had really had a lot of exposure here in the U.S. until MTV. Then, suddenly...we had about a 2-3 year back catalog of new (to us) music to explore.

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feltsandwich@reddit

Not an exactly accurate account.

MTV didn't worry about a deep library, because in general they played the same videos over and over.

I never saw a Top of the Pops performance on US MTV. Top of the Pops was about live/lip synched performances, not videos.

There were American videos before MTV as well. It's not a "UK" thing. There just wasn't a channel that played only videos. I still recall seeing the video for "Dream Police" by Cheap Trick. No MTV in 1979.

New Romantic relied also on radio, which contrary to the Buggles was still very influential.

You're making most of this up.

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Cool_Dark_Place@reddit

I never said videos were exclusively a U.K. thing, but they definitely were finding mainstream appeal there before they did here. Videos existed in the US, just not nearly to the extent they did in the U.K. (I believe the show Night Flight debuted here a few months before MTV.) And lots of the U.S. videos relied heavily on live concert footage, while the U.K. bands were beginning to experiment more with "concept videos." Lol... they'd been doing this since The Beatles movies. And "Top of the Pops" did focus mostly on live performances and interviews, but bands often recorded videos to play on that show when they couldn't appear live. And yes, New Romantic relied on radio as well, but MTV was instrumental in opening up the floodgates to the U.S. market.

Nah...I don't think I'm making most of this up.

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itstraytray@reddit

Simon Reynolds' excellent book "Rip it up and start again" has a chapter about the burgeoning video clip era/MTV and how the US were kinda "caught with their pants down" compared to the UK/EU bands who were already willing to do arty clips, rather than the usual "band standing in front of a pile of flashing lights with lens flare effects".
There were US bands doing this stuff - Devo was one, but they said that they really struggled to get anyone into the idea. They were alas a bit ahead of their time.
Devo approached their videos as art long before bands were doing so. "They weren't just commercial advertisements to get on MTV," Mothersbaugh says. "We thought sound and vision was going to bury rock & roll and that we were apart of something brand new that was much bigger than rock & roll." - Mark Mothersbaugh in Rolling Stone Feb 2014

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Cool_Dark_Place@reddit

Sounds like an interesting read! I guess it makes sense that Devo was one of the early American bands to really see the potential of this format. They really were just as much performance art and social commentary/satire as they were musicians. I've always sort of had a interest in this era of popular music, the sort of transition from the '70s to the '80s. I'll admit, I'm a young GenX (born in '78), so it's just outside of my memory. But it's just kind of fascinating to me how quickly things seemed to change, and how radically different these new sounds were from what came before.

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itstraytray@reddit

It is a GREAT book. Loads of pages, very comprehensive, highly recommend it if you're a postpunk/indie history nerd.

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Scalpels@reddit

I can confirm that it was.

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PhoneJazz@reddit (OP)

It was!

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Gomer_Schmuckatelli@reddit

https://youtu.be/6jcdwiV6dXw?si=OBZ8WQzd0QOXNO9C

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Ralph--Hinkley@reddit

MIdnight August 1, 1981. My entire extended family came over to have a party. Something like 25 people crowded around a 19" CRT.

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jeexbit@reddit

that's freakin' awesome :)

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Ralph--Hinkley@reddit

Shit, I was only five, but I remember it like it was last night.

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Gooogles_Wh0Re@reddit

what is a radio?

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Scary_Sarah@reddit

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Accomplished_Pop529@reddit

I paid $60 for the fourth row to see Oingo Boingo at Irvine Meadows Halloween somewhere in the 80s. Huge price for the time but so worth it. I don’t remember what I paid to see Depeche Mode at music for the masses in 88

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AbruptMango@reddit

It was 20 years ago that Bowling for Soup released 1885.

Since Bruce Springsteen, Madonna, way before Nirvana there was U2 and Blondie, and music still on MTV

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PhoneJazz@reddit (OP)

It’s been 139 years since 1885, feel old yet?

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FaceMaulingChimp@reddit

1885 - not a phone in sight , just people living in the plague

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the_spinetingler@reddit

well. . .

In 1876, Alexander Graham Bell was the first to be granted a United States patent for a device that produced clearly intelligible replication of the human voice at a second device.

And the plague was 1300s.

:)

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AbruptMango@reddit

Damn phone keyboards!

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CantIgnoreMyTechno@reddit

"Just take those old records off the shelf" ... if that Bob Seger song was written today, those old records might include Franz Ferdinand.

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AJourneyer@reddit

Internet killed the Video Star

`the part two

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mazopheliac@reddit

"I saw you on MTV back in '92"

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disharmony-hellride@reddit

"I loved teen spirit and now you just play with Foo"

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mazopheliac@reddit

“But you got canceled from the cheating that you do …

Ow-ah, ow-ah “

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DBDude@reddit

Remember Happy Days being nostalgic about the 1950s? That would be like a TV show today being nostalgic about the 2000s.

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leeloocal@reddit

Or, I dunno, That 70s Show?

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mazopheliac@reddit

The Fonz would have frosted tips.

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ShortestSqueeze@reddit

The Buggles!

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Blurghblagh@reddit

I think it is time GenX pooled all their money to invent some sort of time loop machine where we all stay young and it is always the 80s and 90s.

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Bobodahobo010101@reddit

I wack nostalgic about 95 sometimes....

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PhoneJazz@reddit (OP)

Pamela Anderson? Gillian Anderson? Jennifer Aniston?

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OnlyPopcorn@reddit

Love what you did there.

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Eaudebeau@reddit

Be careful, lest nostalgic wacks back.

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garagespringsgirl@reddit

$5 grass passes for Charlie Daniels.

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mossywill@reddit

Fugazi $5

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KapowBlamBoom@reddit

Here is the thing though.

That song was released in 1980. So that was ONLY 28 years removed from 1952.

If the writer was, say…33 then….her WOULD have been listening to the “wireless radio” in 1952

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Parking-Power-1311@reddit

So.

You're Satan then.

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l_rufus_californicus@reddit

My dude just rolled in here choosing violence today, I see.

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Unlikely_Side9732@reddit

Used to feel silly to hear old people say that life goes by so fast

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AgainstSpace@reddit

In the video for Video Killed the Radio Star, one of the keyboard players is composer Hans Zimmer.

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EdgeCityRed@reddit

95 was the last time I worked in radio, haha.

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MyriVerse2@reddit

Trevor Horn was talking about listening to the radio when he was 3 years old.

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Kimber80@reddit

I always thought that line was similar to a line in Asia's "Heat of the Moment" which I think came out a year later ..... "And now you find yourself in 82" ...

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doctormadvibes@reddit

moores law innit?

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RKsu99@reddit

Well I saw the Buggles last year and they still sounded great. It’s actually one guy Trevor Horn, who has been involved in a lot of different songs and acts over the years. It was a great show (along with Seal!)

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Dark-Empath-@reddit

How very dare you!

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Weird-one0926@reddit

one of us

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Serling45@reddit

The Four Seasons had a 1976 song taking about late December 1963.

That’s like a song today talking about 2012 or so.

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FaceMaulingChimp@reddit

Oh what a night , late December back in 2012 when the Mayans ended the world!

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Serling45@reddit

We should blame the Mayans.

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Cool_Dark_Place@reddit

Yeah, it's funny how nostalgia works. The early '60s were still a lot like the '50s. And things had changed so much throughout the remainder of the '60s and '70s, and those years were such a total shitshow for a lot of people, so they were already nostalgic for the "good old days." American Graffiti, Happy Days, Grease, all fed into this massive wave of '50s/early '60s nostalgia.

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Krimreaper1@reddit

I heard you had a Coleco back in ‘82.

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MissDisplaced@reddit

Really a great and strange video.

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JeffTS@reddit

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Connir@reddit

You're mean.

Obligatory GenX quote, "your mother"

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tvieno@reddit

I hate the reality of this thread.

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DisturbingPragmatic@reddit

Also, if they made Back to the Future today, Marty would be headed back to 1994.

Oh, and when they went 30 years into the future in Back to the Future 2? Yeah, that was to 2015... 9 years ago.

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SomePeopleCallMeJJ@reddit

If they made Happy Days today, its first season would be set in 2005.

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mrekted@reddit

THIS THREAD IS DOING ME HARM

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TheMobHasSpoken@reddit

ALSO! You remember the 1981 song "Bette Davis Eyes," about an actress that you may have heard of, but she was popular before most of us were born? The Maroon 5 song "Moves Like Jagger" is the equivalent for people who were young when the song came out in 2011.

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