Jarrah

Geelong, Victoria, AUSTRALIA


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About Me
I'm an editor for a commercial magazine and write for various other magazines, papers and blogs.

When I was offered a domain blog on Orble I chose the 80s - because its so hot right now ;)

Back To Te Eighties.net
http://www.backtotheeighties.net

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Michael Jackson Tribute

June 26th 2009 02:00
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One glove!

As most would know by now, the 80s king of pop has raised the glove for the very last time today.

I don't think there is anybody that isn't shocked and surprised about this news and certainly any 80s fan would be pretty saddened.

The dude broke all the records there were to break in the music industry and opened up the whole thing to R&B and black people...this was all of course before he became white.

Before Jacko was wacko, he was just...well; he was always a bit wacko... anyway, there is no denying that he was the biggest entertainer in the 80s and easily sold more records than anyone else.

Below is our previously posted BTTE Top 10 MJ songs:
Rock on.


MICHAEL JACKSON SONGS


Don’t Stop ‘Til you get enough – Off The Wall
This was Jacko’s breakthrough solo single from his Off The Wall album. Its a cool little upbeat song and has been featured in a stack of movies, most famously when Chris Tucker sang it in Rush Hour 2 or from the classic sequence in the final Seinfeld clip show.

Bad – Bad
This was like a cross between Beat It and Billie Jean. The video had the famous dance showdown in an underground car park or subway or something. One of the most classic things about the song was Weird Al Yankovic’s cover – Fat.

Beat It – Thriller
This was Jacko’s first hard rockin’ number, thanks to Steve Lukather’s smokin’ hot riff and Eddie Van Halen’s historic guitar solo. It set the trend for him to include a hard rock song on each album with a famous guitarist handling the axe duties. It also got the Weird Al treatment with eat It.

Smooth Criminal – Bad
This song was the centrepiece to his movie Moonwalker and debuted his also-famous Anti-gravity Lean move. It has this cool fast-paced riff and was covered by Alien Any Farm a few years back which was pretty cool too.

Billie Jean – Thriller
This was the biggest song of 1983 (see Top 10 Songs of 1983 post) and came from the highest selling alum of all time – Thriller.

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They Don’t Care About Us – HIStory
This was probably one of his last cool songs. Had some dynamic and controversial lyrics, a sweet beat and some tasty guitar licks to boot. Spike Lee even made the video

Black & White – Dangerous
This song was so freakin’ big when I was young, you could barely go a day without hearing it (a bit like Kings of Leon right now...) It was unbelievably ironic and the music video also starred the then huge-as-all-hell child actor Macaulay Culkin.

Jam – Dangerous
This was his try at a bit of a hard and funky rap thang. Heavy D from Heavy D and the Boys (Now that We’ve Found Love...) took the solo rap section and coolest thing about it was that Michael Jordan was in the video and anything to do with basketball at this time was instantly huge. Jackson tries to show Jordan how to Moonwalk and Jordan shows Jacko how to play ball. Kriss Kross (!) also make a cameo appearance.

The Way You Make Me Feel – Bad
This was his little upbeat shuffle from Bad and the video was the first time he’d ever been seen kissing someone in public.

Give in to Me – Dangerous
This is my favourite MJ song of all time and probably one of his most underrated. I still remember when it came out and the video had Slash in a blue flannel shirt blazing a solo out with the dry ice and fans going full-blast. Absolute classic. For some reason it wasn’t released as a single in the U.S. but it topped the charts everywhere else.



Other notable mentions:
Dirty Diana, Thriller, Ben, Rock With You, Off The Wall, Wanna Be Startin' Somethin', Remember the Time, Blood on the Dance Floor, You Rock My World


"You're Thinkin' About My Baby. It Don't Matter If You're Black Or White"
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Cocktail

June 22nd 2009 08:36
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In truth, this probably isn’t one of the best movies ever made, but it is an 80s classic.

Tom Cruise was riding his wave to mega-fame after Top Gun and could basically do no wrong in terms of box office gold.

Top Aussie export Bryan Brown co-stars alongside Cruise’s Flanagan as they try to reach their American dream of starting the McDonalds of cocktail bar franchises.

The film weaves in and out of different locations and after a lot of the famous cocktail-acrobatics, finds itself slowing down in Jamaica where Cruise comes face-to-face with Liz Shue. Obviously, love and heartache follow that leads up to the tragic finale...or something like that.

bryan brown and elizabeth shue
Although many don’t rate this film, it really did make a stamp on modern pop culture at the time. I remember not even being old enough to drink and we were throwing water bottles and primas around in class, trying to practice our cocktail making skills with flare.

The fake romanticness that the film portrays is hinted at by Flanagan's teacher in the beginning, but the end provides a much starker picture as Liz and Tom get married in his smoky old pub and then she announces that she is already pregnant with twins – what a start for those kids...classy. Only an 80s film could romanticise that.

The soundtrack had a stack of big songs from the past and present and shot to number one on the Aussie charts. It included 80s classics like Don’t Worry Be Happy, Addicted to Love and also launched the Beach Boys’ first hit in 22 years (a world record between hits) with the worldwide number one, Kokomo...ah, where is Kokomo exactly, anyway?

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“I am the last barman poet, I see America drinking the fabulous cocktails I make, Americans getting stinky on something I stir or shake. The sex on the beach, the schnapps made from peach, the velvet hammer, the Alabama slammer. I make things with juice and froth – the pink squirrel, the three-toed sloth. I make drinks so sweet and snazzy, the iced tea, the kamakazi, the orgasm, the death spasm, the Singapore sling, the dingaling. America you've just been devoted to every flavour I got, but if you want to got loaded...why don't you just order a shot?”
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RoboCop

June 19th 2009 07:21
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Heavy law enforcement

I must say that I haven’t seen Robocop for some time.

It’s one of those 80s movies that looks kinda cheesy and cutesy from the iconic images and themes that always accompany the film, but when you actually see it again, you realise it was rough, gritty and a little hardcore for its time.

RoboCop was a fairly generic idea for an 80s movie, but through some very imaginative and ironic futuristic design, this sucker blew-up at the box office.

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I’m pretty sure it was rated R when this thing first came out and was bloody as hell. It had some very memorable music and scoring to go along with it too.

I can remember when Murphy (RoboCop) takes off by himself for the first time in robot form and drives out of that cop carpark with that cool orchestration going. Great scene.

The second pushed the boundaries even further with some more great future commercials, a new killer robot cop and a wicked drug named ‘nuke’ that you inject in your neck. That was pretty damn cool back in the day. The kid running the whole underground drug cartel was a little much though, even for Neo-Detroit.

It was one of the first introductions of cyberpunk to the western world and contained several ‘in-house’ jokes and running gags and has since turned into a worldwide cult classic.

I didn’t see the ill-fated third film, but they have been trying to make a new one for years now. Apparently it is finally on its way into production and should be out around 2010.

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"I'd buy that for a dollar!"
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Die Hard

June 17th 2009 02:10
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The Dark Crystal

June 11th 2009 23:00
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Who's the Boss?

June 10th 2009 08:18
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Man about the house

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Legend

June 3rd 2009 08:36
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Off with the fairy's
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Akira

May 31st 2009 23:00
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Married...with Children

May 29th 2009 01:06
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Good Morning, Vietnam

May 27th 2009 00:13
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on Awesome Dudes Awesome Chilli Prawn Spaghetti

June 11th 2009 11:34
Yeah, he would have got smashed in a fight I reckon I'm with Manny.

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June 4th 2009 11:54
Yes, it is kinda bizarre, and yes, you should subscribe!

Comment by Jarrah
on Over the Top

May 18th 2009 08:03
Malboro Man huh? Another classic that my wife is fond of.

We've got a dodgy copy of Over the Top somewhere around here...

Comment by Jarrah
on One Hit Wonders of the 80's

May 15th 2009 00:53
Back to the 80s - wtf??

Comment by Jarrah
on Top 10 AC/DC songs

May 11th 2009 07:54
Ahh, the classic blues ballad, alas I know it well...
There are several I missed I guess...

Also -- tickets go on sale in 2 weeks for the OZ Tour if anyone needs to know.
See you in Melbourne! Yeah, baby!

Comment by Jarrah
on Things That You Learn to Love in Melbourne

May 8th 2009 08:02
Amen brother.

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on How to Pick a Bathing Suit Fit for Your Body

May 8th 2009 07:08
I have always found that a black string speedo-thong compliments me quite well at the beach.

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on Ello Bucket Heads

May 8th 2009 07:07
Yeah, don't you hate it when 'real-life' gets in the way.




Comment by Jarrah
on Things That You Learn to Love in Melbourne

May 8th 2009 07:00
Yeah, I have found that Melbourne has turned into one of the biggest base for the 'try-hard' arts, which is a shame, because it also has/had plenty of the real deal.

Comment by Jarrah
on Manny being Manny

May 8th 2009 06:56
Of course he knew, hes a pro athlete.
Its sucks, buts thats the state of game these days.