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| Ms. Cates shows off her collectables poolside at th' IoF© |
You'll know Phoebe Cates from her voiceover for the Lego Dimensions video game, but did you know she's also an avid collector of obscure 'seventies rock albums? Relaxing poolside [yetsiddy, perchance? - Ed.] yestiddy, she waxed loquacious anent her passion while Kreemé served signature lemur spleen n' mayo smoothies!
FT3 Heyyy! Phoebes! Lookin' phabulous!
PC (tossing back hair) Which there's something about False Memory Foam Island© that's strangely invigorating! I ain't felt like this since 1982!
FT3 I get that a lot. But tell us about those here albums what you brung!
PC It's so refreshing to be with someone interested in whom I am as a person! These are the first two albums by the Fabulous Rhi-
Unfortunately the tape runs out at this point. Look 'em up on wiki, should youse be desirous. Learn something, crisakes, even if it's useless knowledge that will do nothing to slow the looming climate apocalypse!
The deiverables will include the third album, when they didn't think they were fabulous any more. But hey! Tell us about your favorite 'eighties teensploitation movies! If you can't remember any, tell us about your favorite movies! If you can't remember any, tell us about your favorite anything! Just leave a comment to prove to yourself you're still alive and this isn't all just a crazy mixed-up dream!
ReplyDeleteFavorite: 'Old Enough' from 1984
DeleteA few honorable mentions (in no particular order):
Heathers
The Lost Boys
Akira
Dirty Dancing
Fast Times at Ridgemont High
Sorta like John ‘Cougar’ Mellencamp. At some point he must've decided 'Cougar' was pretentious, not all that cool, didn't draw the ladies, whatever. Too late tho'. Much like referring to oneself as ‘macho’, ‘the lion’, ‘fabulous’ or getting a tattoo, it's not something you can simply drop and walk away from. Once the cougar, always the cougar.
DeleteThe "Johnny Cougar" name was forced on him by his manager, notorious huckster Tony DeFries (See Main Man shenanigans, David Bowie lawsuit etc.). Sure, Mellencamp isn't great if they want to push you as a teeniebopper idol, but Mellencamp hated his stage name and DeFries' teenbeat push with a passion, and well, he has been extra grumpy ever since, hasn't he?
DeleteUnderstandable.
DeleteThere's an interview of Mellencamp done by NPR that popped up on the podcast list in my car a few weeks ago. (OK, it was a very long drive, and I never figured out if it was an old interview they were reviving for some reason or a new interview to promote a new album, but I digress...) Mellencamp goes into a bit of detail about the "Johnny Cougar" episode as well as the production values (read that as slap-back reverb) that "the label" pushed on him. He seems to view himself as a folksinger.
DeleteThe way I hear it is DeFries used to call him "cougar" because he looked like a middle-aged glamor doll on the hunt for young studs.
DeleteNot quite an eighties teensploitation movie, but Animal House was a regular vhs that got passed around amongst my chums.
ReplyDeleteFunny flick, though.
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ReplyDeleteLittle Darlings is a fairly forgotten, underrated film.
I just watched "The Boys Next Door" from Penelope Sheeris, pretty impressive stuff.
Little Darlings downloading as we speak.
Deletedon't recall when they came out and young people but not teens ''rancho deluxe'' with early music by Jimmy Buffett,and ''lone star state of mind''
ReplyDeleteOver The Edge from '79 is a favorite that encapsulates my junior high experience at the time (minus blowing up the school). Fast Times, Repo Man, and Detroit Rock City are also faves that speak to my teen years in the late 70s early 80s.
ReplyDeleteSince I already broke the rulez here are some more faves that were not made in the 80s but capture my teenage years as a stoner/skater in late 70s Southern California:
DeleteDazed and Confused
Lords of Dogtown
The Stöned Age
Also, completely unrelated but I just came across it, did anyone else watch that 2016 HBO series Vinyl and if so what did you think of it?
I did not, MrD.
DeleteI did, and enjoyed it.
DeleteMrDave, it doesn't represent my experience , but Dazed and Confused is a truly great film because it transcends its time and place while also no doubt evoking it really well.
DeleteThe same is true of Almost Famous, also one of the great rock'n'roll films AND teensploitation (that teen writer is clearly getting exploited).
These two movies are so rewatchable, it's almost absurd.
Vinyl, however? Boy, that stank. Pretentious and boring. I don't know if I gave up after the pilot - Suck it, Scorsese! - or after the second episode, but that show was just horrendous. And that despite me liking Bobby Canavale and hoping this would be great with him in a rare starring role...
The (Phabulous) Rhinestones were ahead of the game in '71, their only problem being no-one else was playing it. Nothing radically new here, but the combination of familiarities was. They missed out on global celebrity, but I doubt they cared much. File under: music by musicians.
ReplyDeletehttps://workupload.com/file/DRE3taT8STL
Here’s the complete (I think) Fabulous Rhinestones discography.
DeleteThese are Japanese limited edition “Mini-LP” SHM-CDs, remastered and released in 2011.
‘Fabulous Rhinestones’ from 1972
https://workupload.com/file/7ZZ8nawY456
‘Freewheelin’' from 1973
https://workupload.com/file/wf5h4VBLHmc
‘The Rhinestones’ from 1975
https://workupload.com/file/AEbHupztsh8
For Renaissance fans
Renaissance Fillmore West, San Francisco, CA
March 6, 1970
https://workupload.com/file/NCQ4UZ2BzmM
Oh, and speaking of Japanese limited edition “Mini-LP” SHM-CDs
‘Ashes Are Burning’
https://workupload.com/file/sUDw6mxXCrV
Babs' Hubble-eared fidelity, or shitrate! The choice is yours, Mr and Mrs Freeloadingbum, Anytown, USA!
DeleteThanks, Babs!
DeletePS, I like your new shower curtain.
Excellent comment, MrDave!
DeleteThere's a whole distinct genre of movies here that possibly represents the last whole distinct genre of movies before everything turned to shit. The superhero franchise doesn't count, because I tell the truth and I'm always right. It's also a genre that the UK never had, because everyone was too depressed and poor to have fast times at school.
ReplyDelete(Thanks for the lists - I'm moored off Pirate Bay)
I still get together with some of my school chums every two weeks. School, universally the most hated times of our lives here in the south of England. The best times started almost the moment we got jobs, and most importantly record and gig ticket money. "School days are the best times of you life" was a commonly heard phrase, was that only said in the UK?, because in my experience it was bullsh*t.
DeleteOh yeah. I went to the school they modelled Hogwarts on, minus the magic. The "masters" wore black gowns and mortarboard hats, the Head Boy affected a silver-handled cane and brocade weskit - I am not making this up - and steam trains ran on the branch line behind the bike sheds. School uniform was a heavy three-piece suit (with cap). Caning and "slippering" was a common punishment, as was detention, usually involving scraping old varnish off desks with a piece of glass. Used to go home with my hands bleeding. Five years after my first day (when the Head Boy asked me to "cut along to the tuck shop" for him, I was taking acid - smile, let your life begin. I was expelled.
DeleteCaning and "slippering" was also still common punishment at my secondary school, about 1980. I kept out of trouble, by not being good or bad at anything, and went home for lunch (really walked the streets or park nearby), to avoid being beaten up. Also it was an all boys school, which fortunately is probably not allowed anymore.
DeleteAnd you try telling the young people of today that, they wont believe you.
My vote goes for Animal House too. Great dialogues and gags that stick to the memory.
ReplyDeleteSomehow this kind of movies represent some of us in a way or other at that age.
Which one are you?
Cheers
Bat
"Diner" depicts a world slightly before my coming of age, but it really holds up.
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