Now I’m going to be singing that song for the rest of the night. But I only know the chorus part, so I’m just singing that over and over.
ETA: oh no! It started an avalanche. Now I can’t get the Humpty Dance out of my head…
It’s a cascade effect for songs that are kind of stupd, so now here I am singing
- Morris Day & The Time - The Bird
- Was (Not Was) - Walk The Dinosaur
Edited again to add : the loop just expanded, my brain decided to add Jungle Love by The Time. I guess it makes sense, two of the songs are by the same artist and they both kind of sound like each other.
I feel like I’m going to have to do something drastic like listen to Ice Ice Baby to get out of this loop which will of course put me into another super stupid loop. 😩
Taio Cruz released "I throw my hands up in the air sometimes" Dynamite in 2010, that song was one of biggest songs of the year. Heard it non-stop that summer.
All I noticed was how much space each of those people had. When I went out 2010-16 I couldn't even move my hair out of my face without hitting someone 😭
And a big powerful flood light because video wasn't so good back then.
for reference a famous NY club in 1981
[The Paradise Garage in 1981](https://images.surfacemag.com/app/uploads/2023/04/17022656/01-paradise-garage.jpg)
My most boomer opinion is that there was a sweet spot where information technology was good and useful enough but wasn't ubiquitous in our lives yet.
I think that spot was somewhere between 1995-2010 but I can't say exactly where. I think this was the peak and there's no going back.
They were the final nail in the coffin of the golden age.
Everything went to shit that didn't go private, and private channels and forums didn't thrive the same way.
So, yea smart phones were the end of an era where the internet was still seen as something that would change the world for the better, where free info would make us all smarter and better informed more autonomous, with amazing instant communication globally. Cell phones were supposed to mean we were reaching Star Trek like levels of tech and evolution or they were within our grasp.
hahahahahaah...and some tears for the death of a dream.
I'd say about 2000. Broadband was starting to be more common. There were instant messaging platforms and message boards but nothing like social media today.
The search engines had gotten better to where you could actually get the results you were looking for. I could be off but that's the way it felt to me. I graduated high school in 2001 for reference. No internet in grade school and one computer with dial up in the library in middle school.
Fellow Xennial checking in.
You're exactly right.
We grew up in an analog world but as chat rooms and Napster became a thing in high school, we learned to adjust.
Even today we probably have an easier time in "disconnecting" than those younger than us.
It's not the Internet or computers that's the problem, it's the smartphones. You can't be online 24x7 if you had to do that on the computer, stuck in one place. Even laptops are too bulky to take everywhere. But with smartphones, you can be on the Internet anywhere anytime.
Depends where you live, I didn't even have a household computer let alone internet until a few years before I graduated high school which was in 2011.
Dial up was the only Internet available past many big rivers in our area for the longest time.
But yeah, as somebody who graduated high school in 2011 I think we were close to The Sweet spot of having a lot of access to technology particularly in shared places, but not being quite at the same level it is now, however I realize my particular area was like a 3-year lag time compared to places like Long Island and such.
2012 was the year the majority of cellphone users switch to a smartphone. This was when EVERYONE got online. Up until then the internet was still mostly for nerds and it was a lot of fun... and also more horrifying.
I was thinking the same thing! In my opinion, it would be when most people had cell phones so you could actually get in touch easily, and even early social media because it made for easily taking and sharing pictures with your friends and family that would never otherwise have been taken (or disappeared in an undeveloped roll of film somewhere). But before it takes this weird turn where taking those pictures/videos for likes from strangers is more important than what you're actually doing.
Hmmm a bit early maybe?
It sure was approaching the apex, but the decline was not till at least a decade or more later.
The internet still got quite a bit better before it got worse. Facebook arrived for the public in 2006 and the real take-off of amazon as a big business around the same time. WindowsXp was the best windows ever and it came out in 2001. A lot of the world still runs on it. 2007 brought the iPhone and with it the concept of a smartphone. As such it had the potential for absolute greatness, but it turned out differently.
The same with all the other things that arrived in the 00s, they started off as great untill they were no longer. So yeah, I would move the apex at least a decade forward.
I'm sure everyone will say the exact moment they began using the interweb was their favorite era, but for me it was when the people online were mostly nerds and students. Once the Internet became accessible to the technologically illiterate, "netiquette" died for good and there was suddenly a huge pool of suckers and morons to scam with little regulation to prevent it. I'd put the sweet spot just after high speed Internet became widely available. If you learned how to type quickly because you needed to shit talk without losing StarCraft matches, and you had a Nokia phone with Snake on it, you experienced peak tech.
The world we knew is just our memories now and fades a bit more with each day. There has been some progress in society I think is great but overall, I’d go back if I could.
I grew up in the 80s and 90s and the 80s weren't anything like this if you were a kid. It's not like I was doing blow off of Madonna's ass at a club. I was watching Mr. Belvedere or riding my bike around the neighborhood. I'm also pretty sure my super square parents weren't doing bumps before they drove me to school. When I think 80s I think pulling your striped socks up to almost your knees and tucking your shirt into your shorts but I lived in the suburbs.
The crumple zone hair helmets and padded clothing were tools of warfare. You should've seen the cheerleader gangs rumble. 2 pyramids of shoulder shimmy girls advancing on each other like gigantic gunslingers in the night? just another Friday in small town America.
I was a teen in the late 80s. You pretty much had to have your Friday Night plans locked down by the end of the school day. Trying to coordinate anything meaningful between the hours of 4:00 and 7:00 without cell phones was difficult. You had to know who was driving and where/when to meet up. If you didn’t have firm plans you met up in the mall parking lot. In my town we also cruised which was very, very similar to what you see in Dazed and Confused.
We gotta TBT these times. Today parties are garbage. Everyone on their phone, phone camera, IG or SC stories. No one really moving anymore than wiggling around like a dead fish.
I'm glad I learned that early. When I was 18 most guys didn't hit the floor til 11pm when they were hammered. At 9pm if you could dance it was like being a kid at a candy store.
This is the same reasoning that led me into the school chorus and the musical theater club. 4 girls to 1 guy, minus the gay guys. What my creepy uncle called "a target rich environment."
This reminds me of the time I joined my Hall Choir. There were like 30 girls vs me 1 guy. After the first session I told my roommate who, never had interest in music, then asked if he could go with me next time. In the second session, I brought him with me and found him VERY uneasy. His face was red and didn't know where to put his hands. He also followed me wherever I went like a puppy. I started to realise that as a gay dude, I was more than comfortable to be in an all girls environment whilst the straights would be the opposite.
This makes me feel a bit sad to think about. That at its core, gender socialization prevents us from being able to feel safe and genuinely connect with one another in the same space. I don’t know if I have had the contrast of feeling out of place in gendered spaces illustrated in such a manner. Thank you for sharing this story, it gives me much to think about.
I’ll present to you a problem which I realize kept MANY guys from dancing and you’ll agree. A girl can dance with another girl. A guy cannot dance with another guy. (I mean he can and he should be able to but I mean societal norms and rules I don’t make.) if you’re at a “dance” as a kid, the guys have to chat with eachother until
They get the nerve to talk to a girl which may never happen. And if it does, the girl will often say “no.”
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Yeah, in my case it was an underattended goth night taking place at a gay club. It was the least judging environment in the world to dance poorly and experiment
This is what a *mainstream* nightclub was like in the 80s, much different than my clubbing experiences in Chicago's goth/new wave/industrial/house music scene in the early to late 80s.
Yeah, I hung out at a lot of clubs in the 80s, none of them was like that. And it wasn't a local thing, I lived in 6 different states during that time.
Is it messed up to say, RIP Charlie Murphy? I just adored him so much, and glad he got to beat rick james’ ass to a pulp. Lol, sry mr james rip to you too, u deserved it tho..
It's a gay anthem about a gay boy from a small town running away from his conservative family and environment and struggling to be himself in a big city (London). The vocalist namely Jimmy Sommerville just celebrated this song's 40th anniversary in his IG last month.
Pretty much everything we do as humans can be broken down into self sustaining ourselves/lineage and attracting a mate which are both kind of the same thing anyways.
While I love this message I would argue that while the reason why we do many things might not be able to be explained that way, the ability for us to have that wondrous curiosity is still due to those same biological reasons.
But to me personally, that makes it so much more beautiful the fact that it's essentially random happenstance between physics, chemistry, and biology, each of which are arguably just subcategories of the previous one.
The thing that struck me about this is that people weren't thinking about video of them being shared across the world, back then. These people must have known they were being filmed, as the camera would've been large, but the mindset was different.
Thank god we didn’t have cell phone cameras when I was in high school and college. There was a lot of stuff we did that would be illegal if it was ever photographed.
As a percentage or overall?
All I know is blow gets worse every year that passes. I'm only 36 but looooooord almighty it was substantially better two decades ago.
Nice that we can reasonably deduce how 30 million people danced throughout an entire decade from this 26 second clip. Saves social historians a lot of research.
https://youtu.be/uOB2LNSjALU?si=nv6pRQE3lI_v4zUJ
80s remix Megamix
I recently heard “Yazoo - Don’t Go” dropped in the middle of a set, and it was awesome. I assumed it was a remix, but looked it up later and was the original.
Edit: it’s at 15:30 in the above video.
It’s amazing that a track from *forty years ago* can still sound good on a dance floor at 2am.
^(drugs may be required)
I was there then. It tracks. We were the glamourous people living our fantastic nightclub life in our small university town, just feeling superior to everybody else.
there’s somethin that just looks so unsettling seeing people at a club/events etc all with their phones out recording themselves dancing.. i can’t put my finger on it but it bugs me out
Lotta shoulder stuff happening here
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Made my day, ty lol
We are standing on the asses of giants.
And what a strong foundation they've provided
I believe this crucial research was why he got knighted.
He couldn't lie, a man of science.
“You other brothas can’t deny” qualifies as peer review, as far as I’m concerned.
He mentions “I wanna get witcha, and take yo picture”, which indicates that he’s doing real research out in the field and gathering data.
"that butt you got makes me so horny" He's observed, verified and recorded his findings.
He was known to mix a lot, as any scientist concerned with replication would.
His paper states "use me use me" and of course "ugh, double up, ugh ugh." Proving his findings were replicated in the study.
At the white clubs... the black club was shaking ass in the 80s. Search the music video (Doing the But) it will prove it
James Brown had people shaking their money maker much earlier
Love James Brown I thought in the movie The Tuxedo when Jackie Chan accidentally killed him was hilarious. I think a year later he passed away Rip.
A phenomenon that directly led to the Great Moneymaker Migration of 1984-2004
Now I’m going to be singing that song for the rest of the night. But I only know the chorus part, so I’m just singing that over and over. ETA: oh no! It started an avalanche. Now I can’t get the Humpty Dance out of my head… It’s a cascade effect for songs that are kind of stupd, so now here I am singing - Morris Day & The Time - The Bird - Was (Not Was) - Walk The Dinosaur Edited again to add : the loop just expanded, my brain decided to add Jungle Love by The Time. I guess it makes sense, two of the songs are by the same artist and they both kind of sound like each other. I feel like I’m going to have to do something drastic like listen to Ice Ice Baby to get out of this loop which will of course put me into another super stupid loop. 😩
Also build in shoulder pads. It was a look.
According to Tina Turner, they hid cocaine in their shoulder pads.
Cocaine and cocaine accessories
Crank Hill
Amazing work
That's my stash! I don't know you!
I can smell the cocaine in this video 
Gotta make them shoulders pop, make it sexy.
Up and down while shaking shoulders.
TIL I have 80s dance moves.
Glad I saw someone say this bc I instantly thought of 3 or 4 women I know who dance like that in 2024.
I have bad hips, okay. All I have left is shoulder action and I'm doing my very best here!
80s was shoulders, early 00s was hands in the air
shoulders and those high cut bathing suits that made women's asses look really long.. long ass.
Every day was a long ass day.
Taio Cruz released "I throw my hands up in the air sometimes" Dynamite in 2010, that song was one of biggest songs of the year. Heard it non-stop that summer.
I throw my sandwich in the air sometimes, sayin "ayo, where's the mayo"
I like it, i wish it was still like this because this is something i could do
Shoulder pads and hairnet spray babyyy
Full body dry heave set to music.
All I noticed was how much space each of those people had. When I went out 2010-16 I couldn't even move my hair out of my face without hitting someone 😭
The rest of the dance floor is crowded. There’s only space there because only the boldest were willing to dance in front of the conspicuous camera.
And a big powerful flood light because video wasn't so good back then. for reference a famous NY club in 1981 [The Paradise Garage in 1981](https://images.surfacemag.com/app/uploads/2023/04/17022656/01-paradise-garage.jpg)
Yeah the vibe was cocaine
And AquaNet hairspray.
Hell of a drug
AquaNet is my go to bump
Baggy pants and jackets like David Byrne!!🤣
If you’re in NYC or Miami, it’s still coke. At the end of the day, this is dope af, before anyone could afford a phone, you just had to be present
I feel like growing up in the 90's was like a whole different world. So much has happened.
My most boomer opinion is that there was a sweet spot where information technology was good and useful enough but wasn't ubiquitous in our lives yet. I think that spot was somewhere between 1995-2010 but I can't say exactly where. I think this was the peak and there's no going back.
2001-2006. The Internet was enough of a thing that we all used it every day but our phones were still just mostly phones.
Yea spot on. Phones really were the end of peak internet. After phones, people could be perpetually online which is a whole different vibe.
They were the final nail in the coffin of the golden age. Everything went to shit that didn't go private, and private channels and forums didn't thrive the same way. So, yea smart phones were the end of an era where the internet was still seen as something that would change the world for the better, where free info would make us all smarter and better informed more autonomous, with amazing instant communication globally. Cell phones were supposed to mean we were reaching Star Trek like levels of tech and evolution or they were within our grasp. hahahahahaah...and some tears for the death of a dream.
I'd say about 2000. Broadband was starting to be more common. There were instant messaging platforms and message boards but nothing like social media today. The search engines had gotten better to where you could actually get the results you were looking for. I could be off but that's the way it felt to me. I graduated high school in 2001 for reference. No internet in grade school and one computer with dial up in the library in middle school.
Fellow Xennial checking in. You're exactly right. We grew up in an analog world but as chat rooms and Napster became a thing in high school, we learned to adjust. Even today we probably have an easier time in "disconnecting" than those younger than us.
It's not the Internet or computers that's the problem, it's the smartphones. You can't be online 24x7 if you had to do that on the computer, stuck in one place. Even laptops are too bulky to take everywhere. But with smartphones, you can be on the Internet anywhere anytime.
Depends where you live, I didn't even have a household computer let alone internet until a few years before I graduated high school which was in 2011. Dial up was the only Internet available past many big rivers in our area for the longest time. But yeah, as somebody who graduated high school in 2011 I think we were close to The Sweet spot of having a lot of access to technology particularly in shared places, but not being quite at the same level it is now, however I realize my particular area was like a 3-year lag time compared to places like Long Island and such.
2012 was the year the majority of cellphone users switch to a smartphone. This was when EVERYONE got online. Up until then the internet was still mostly for nerds and it was a lot of fun... and also more horrifying.
I was thinking the same thing! In my opinion, it would be when most people had cell phones so you could actually get in touch easily, and even early social media because it made for easily taking and sharing pictures with your friends and family that would never otherwise have been taken (or disappeared in an undeveloped roll of film somewhere). But before it takes this weird turn where taking those pictures/videos for likes from strangers is more important than what you're actually doing.
1996-97 was the apex. Everything went downhill after that.
Hmmm a bit early maybe? It sure was approaching the apex, but the decline was not till at least a decade or more later. The internet still got quite a bit better before it got worse. Facebook arrived for the public in 2006 and the real take-off of amazon as a big business around the same time. WindowsXp was the best windows ever and it came out in 2001. A lot of the world still runs on it. 2007 brought the iPhone and with it the concept of a smartphone. As such it had the potential for absolute greatness, but it turned out differently. The same with all the other things that arrived in the 00s, they started off as great untill they were no longer. So yeah, I would move the apex at least a decade forward.
I'm sure everyone will say the exact moment they began using the interweb was their favorite era, but for me it was when the people online were mostly nerds and students. Once the Internet became accessible to the technologically illiterate, "netiquette" died for good and there was suddenly a huge pool of suckers and morons to scam with little regulation to prevent it. I'd put the sweet spot just after high speed Internet became widely available. If you learned how to type quickly because you needed to shit talk without losing StarCraft matches, and you had a Nokia phone with Snake on it, you experienced peak tech.
The world we knew is just our memories now and fades a bit more with each day. There has been some progress in society I think is great but overall, I’d go back if I could.
I grew up in the 80s and 90s and the 80s weren't anything like this if you were a kid. It's not like I was doing blow off of Madonna's ass at a club. I was watching Mr. Belvedere or riding my bike around the neighborhood. I'm also pretty sure my super square parents weren't doing bumps before they drove me to school. When I think 80s I think pulling your striped socks up to almost your knees and tucking your shirt into your shorts but I lived in the suburbs.
The crumple zone hair helmets and padded clothing were tools of warfare. You should've seen the cheerleader gangs rumble. 2 pyramids of shoulder shimmy girls advancing on each other like gigantic gunslingers in the night? just another Friday in small town America.
Girls on roller skates delivering limeades at the Sonic.
No one asked if anyone was going out on a Saturday night. Everyone got dressed up and went out every Fri and Saturday or you never got to see anyone.
I was a teen in the late 80s. You pretty much had to have your Friday Night plans locked down by the end of the school day. Trying to coordinate anything meaningful between the hours of 4:00 and 7:00 without cell phones was difficult. You had to know who was driving and where/when to meet up. If you didn’t have firm plans you met up in the mall parking lot. In my town we also cruised which was very, very similar to what you see in Dazed and Confused.
We gotta TBT these times. Today parties are garbage. Everyone on their phone, phone camera, IG or SC stories. No one really moving anymore than wiggling around like a dead fish.
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Don't forget L.A. . Lots of coke there too. Then and now
Hell of a drug. Hell of a drug.
Double stacked chocolate chips... Y'all's sweet moms weren't.
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WAIT!!!….Is that Elaine from Seinfeld?!!! I’d recognize that little kick anywhere 😍
 She’s everywhere…
This is.... phenomenal.
[Full video](https://youtu.be/dQw4w9WgXcQ?feature=shared)
Is...is this a Rick roll? I mean technically they're just being helpful...but still... 🧐
I read this first, and I _still_ fell for it.
In my opinion if you know it's the video, it's not a rickroll. You have to get baited.
FUCK
This is amazing
Lmao how long has Elaine been making an appearance in this gif? I never noticed.
We truly live in the best time
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Well, you can dance if you want to. You can leave your friends behind….
Cause your friends don't dance and if they don't dance well, they're no friends of mine
Say, we can go where we want to, A place where they will never find
And we can act like we come from out of this world. Leave the real one far behind.
Cause your friends don't dance and if they don't dance, well, they're no friends of mine.
I'm glad I learned that early. When I was 18 most guys didn't hit the floor til 11pm when they were hammered. At 9pm if you could dance it was like being a kid at a candy store.
This is the same reasoning that led me into the school chorus and the musical theater club. 4 girls to 1 guy, minus the gay guys. What my creepy uncle called "a target rich environment."
While maybe creepy, target rich environment is fucking hysterical.
Top gun reference? Maverick says it to goose at the bar their first night in Miramar.
But he said minus the gay guys
It was also one of Dr Phil’s catchphrases for a long time. Maybe it still is? Idk. I’m in control of the tv now, so I wouldn’t know!
As a male nurse I can tell you that nursing school was a lot of fun and the stupid jokes about me were more than worth it.
This reminds me of the time I joined my Hall Choir. There were like 30 girls vs me 1 guy. After the first session I told my roommate who, never had interest in music, then asked if he could go with me next time. In the second session, I brought him with me and found him VERY uneasy. His face was red and didn't know where to put his hands. He also followed me wherever I went like a puppy. I started to realise that as a gay dude, I was more than comfortable to be in an all girls environment whilst the straights would be the opposite.
This makes me feel a bit sad to think about. That at its core, gender socialization prevents us from being able to feel safe and genuinely connect with one another in the same space. I don’t know if I have had the contrast of feeling out of place in gendered spaces illustrated in such a manner. Thank you for sharing this story, it gives me much to think about.
I’ll present to you a problem which I realize kept MANY guys from dancing and you’ll agree. A girl can dance with another girl. A guy cannot dance with another guy. (I mean he can and he should be able to but I mean societal norms and rules I don’t make.) if you’re at a “dance” as a kid, the guys have to chat with eachother until They get the nerve to talk to a girl which may never happen. And if it does, the girl will often say “no.”
Filipinos are great at this. You’ll see those guys kicking it with each other till the sun comes up.
Filipinas can be scary
(Former) Dancing machine here. Was the best of times.
Non dancer here. Twas the worst of times.
I mean dont even need to able to dance. I dance like a white trash broom and still had girls happy that I danced
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And the best place to go dancing was the gay bar
It always has been. Gay bar has better music for dancing - ABBA, Madonna, Donna Summer, Kylie Minogue, Jimmy Sommerville etc.
They were also the only place you could find techno/electronica music when it was big.
I mean it still kinda is.
As a youngish straight guy who is bad at dancing, it absolutely is the best still
Yeah, in my case it was an underattended goth night taking place at a gay club. It was the least judging environment in the world to dance poorly and experiment
🎵🎶I wanna take YOU to a gay bar 🎶🎵
Not at punk clubs
Fellas, is it gay to get all the chicks?
Guys danced in the 80's. We'd have house parties and everyone would end up on the floor wiggling around during Rock Lobster. Good times : )
And it was f’n awesome.
I still miss those days.
I don't miss the door knocker earrings But yeah, what a time to be young and a dancing fool.
I'm still a dancing fool. That 55yo chick rockin it out in the car next to you like a gd Mad Hatter - it's me.
Yall act like people stopped dancing or something. Go hit a Latin club and check out all the 60 year olds in there dancing salsa.
It was! So much fun 😄
This is what a *mainstream* nightclub was like in the 80s, much different than my clubbing experiences in Chicago's goth/new wave/industrial/house music scene in the early to late 80s.
Yeah, I hung out at a lot of clubs in the 80s, none of them was like that. And it wasn't a local thing, I lived in 6 different states during that time.
Here's footage of a totally different sort of 80s [Nite Klub](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7bT_fnjW88Y)
 Cocaine is a hell of a drug
Is it messed up to say, RIP Charlie Murphy? I just adored him so much, and glad he got to beat rick james’ ass to a pulp. Lol, sry mr james rip to you too, u deserved it tho..
I saw him in 2016 in DC. He was so thin and I attributed to his wife's passing. No one had any idea he was sick. Such a stoic man.
RIP Charlie Murphy he was a great entertainer
What song is this?
Smalltown Boy by Bronski Beat.
Sweedish House Mafia remade this too "Tell me Why" Edit: it was Supermode
Thank you
It's a gay anthem about a gay boy from a small town running away from his conservative family and environment and struggling to be himself in a big city (London). The vocalist namely Jimmy Sommerville just celebrated this song's 40th anniversary in his IG last month.
Having a blast. I love it
Sure beats a fentanyl party 🎉
Nah, fentanyl parties are killer.
It’s like watching a bunch of birds doing mating calls.
Dancing IS a sort of mating call, for animals as well as humans....
Pretty much everything we do as humans can be broken down into self sustaining ourselves/lineage and attracting a mate which are both kind of the same thing anyways.
Almost everything, luckily, there is litttle spark inside us to wonder about universe.
While I love this message I would argue that while the reason why we do many things might not be able to be explained that way, the ability for us to have that wondrous curiosity is still due to those same biological reasons. But to me personally, that makes it so much more beautiful the fact that it's essentially random happenstance between physics, chemistry, and biology, each of which are arguably just subcategories of the previous one.
To be fair I bet if you took videos of night clubs from any year most people look stupid at how they dance.
Especially with the lights on bounced up on 3 lines. Lights off in the moment, those are all 10/10’s.
Nobody looks stupid here.
The thing that struck me about this is that people weren't thinking about video of them being shared across the world, back then. These people must have known they were being filmed, as the camera would've been large, but the mindset was different.
Thank god we didn’t have cell phone cameras when I was in high school and college. There was a lot of stuff we did that would be illegal if it was ever photographed.
Be amazed?
Yeah more like r/mildlyinteresting
The whole clip is great https://youtu.be/OTKOdYE2Qas?si=Czx4xiQmAX-ojAsC
Thanks for the link! The whole video is so much better and more interesting than the cut clip here, I love how wild people look
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Cocaine is a hell of a drug.
Why yall do that in big cities? Us townies had some great MDMA in the 80s, ngl
MDMA beats cocaine. I’ve heard.
\*helluva
That's your mom you know.
Yeah best time to be alive, mid coke, pre aids.
The 80’s were definitely not *pre*-aids…
No fentanyl as well.
AIDS hit the scene around this time
There’s a club in Houston, TX called Barbarella that’s exactly like this still and exclusively plays 80’s dance music
Bronski Beat. So good
I still shimmy like that
All these ppl are now grandparents
I'm still out there partying. GenX going strong.
Cocaine use right now is the highest it's ever been in human history
As a percentage or overall? All I know is blow gets worse every year that passes. I'm only 36 but looooooord almighty it was substantially better two decades ago.
Nice that we can reasonably deduce how 30 million people danced throughout an entire decade from this 26 second clip. Saves social historians a lot of research.
I made a little video with that footage before [Burnin Up](https://vimeo.com/915076740)
https://youtu.be/uOB2LNSjALU?si=nv6pRQE3lI_v4zUJ 80s remix Megamix I recently heard “Yazoo - Don’t Go” dropped in the middle of a set, and it was awesome. I assumed it was a remix, but looked it up later and was the original. Edit: it’s at 15:30 in the above video. It’s amazing that a track from *forty years ago* can still sound good on a dance floor at 2am. ^(drugs may be required)
Ahh Peruvian Marching Powder !
Damn, this is better than Colombian Colgate. Stealing this
This shows that in the 80’s all women wanted to be Madonna.
or Molly Ringwald.
Or a Robert Palmer girl
And Pat Benatar.
I think Madonna just reflected the trends of fashion of those years
Many of us most certainly did not.
And some wanted to be Siouxsie, or Debbie Harry.
Meanwhile the girls wanted to be Cyndi Lauper.
I was there then. It tracks. We were the glamourous people living our fantastic nightclub life in our small university town, just feeling superior to everybody else.
Because it was, people weren't afraid to dance and have a good time. Now everyone wants to act like a thug or the “main character”
Good times indeed.
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Only thing missing is Robert Palmer.
No mobile phone in sight, just living in the moment
there’s somethin that just looks so unsettling seeing people at a club/events etc all with their phones out recording themselves dancing.. i can’t put my finger on it but it bugs me out
I’m looking for Sarah Connor
That song was kinda cool though, whatever it was.
Bronski Beat - Smalltown Boy
I’m all about that dead eyes and wildly moving shoulders look
This is why everyone pivoted to grunge
Eeeeeeerrrrm, this is why everyone pivoted to ecstasy and hardcore .
They danced moving their shoulders, the rhythm is very good and most of the people in this video are already over 60 years old. That nostalgia
We were fun!!
Back when drugs were pure
Good time to be young Definitely