80s music? Quick--brain bleach!

The partner training today (new company, hereby known as SurferGirl) involved sitting through several videos, including one with a remake: "I ran, I ran so far awaaay---" WTF? Wasn't that by "A Flock of Seagulls"---certainly one of the most peculiar band names of its era?

If I'm right, I'm going to be rather weirded out, since my affinity for 80s music leans more towards hair bands and heavy metal. (Except for Oingo-Boingo, who I saw in concert several times.) Metallica. Megadeth. Judas Priest. Iron Maiden. Dio, Dokken, White Lion, Great White, Whitesnake, Def Leppard, Aerosmith, Poison, Faster Pussycat, Quiet Riot, AC/DC, ZZ Top, Twisted Sister, Alice Cooper. (Not KISS---in the 80s, KISS was plastic, not metal.) Bon Jovi, Skid Row, Guns 'n' Roses, LA Guns, Badlands, Fastway, W*A*S*P*, Circus of Power, Wall of Voodoo, Motorhead, Danzig, GWAR, Cinderella.

And that's just off the top of my head. I am SUCH a geek!

EDIT: Queensryche...how the hell did I forget Queensryche?!

80s music? Quick--brain bleach!

The partner training today (new company, hereby known as SurferGirl) involved sitting through several videos, including one with a remake: "I ran, I ran so far awaaay---" WTF? Wasn't that by "A Flock of Seagulls"---certainly one of the most peculiar band names of its era?

If I'm right, I'm going to be rather weirded out, since my affinity for 80s music leans more towards hair bands and heavy metal. (Except for Oingo-Boingo, who I saw in concert several times.) Metallica. Megadeth. Judas Priest. Iron Maiden. Dio, Dokken, White Lion, Great White, Whitesnake, Def Leppard, Aerosmith, Poison, Faster Pussycat, Quiet Riot, AC/DC, ZZ Top, Twisted Sister, Alice Cooper. (Not KISS---in the 80s, KISS was plastic, not metal.) Bon Jovi, Skid Row, Guns 'n' Roses, LA Guns, Badlands, Fastway, W*A*S*P*, Circus of Power, Wall of Voodoo, Motorhead, Danzig, GWAR, Cinderella.

And that's just off the top of my head. I am SUCH a geek!

EDIT: Queensryche...how the hell did I forget Queensryche?!

Geek and re-geek....

In a vein similar to yesterday's "Where does all this trivia come from?", I was responding to a comment about plagues and whatnot, during which The Andromeda Strain came up. I commented that I'm not a big fan of Charleton Heston, got a response saying, "Neither am I, but I like sci-fi."

I was about to reply with, "But I liked Westworld." and I had to stop and think: Heston wasn't IN Westworld---so where did that come from? IMDb'd it, and realized that Michael Crichton wrote both**. That weird cross-reference of mine again!

BTW, they're doing a remake of Westworld, as well as one of Logan's Run. Ah, the Seventies---!
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** as well as The 13th Warrior...Antonio Banderas looking good, as usual.

Geek and re-geek....

In a vein similar to yesterday's "Where does all this trivia come from?", I was responding to a comment about plagues and whatnot, during which The Andromeda Strain came up. I commented that I'm not a big fan of Charleton Heston, got a response saying, "Neither am I, but I like sci-fi."

I was about to reply with, "But I liked Westworld." and I had to stop and think: Heston wasn't IN Westworld---so where did that come from? IMDb'd it, and realized that Michael Crichton wrote both**. That weird cross-reference of mine again!

BTW, they're doing a remake of Westworld, as well as one of Logan's Run. Ah, the Seventies---!
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** as well as The 13th Warrior...Antonio Banderas looking good, as usual.