"Eighties" Blogs & Blog Posts

Say what you will about TikTok, but you can't deny its ability to surface real gems. A good example is the 1981 documentary Clotheslines by Roberta Cantow which I came across scrolling through the app recently. It interviews women in New York City ab...

In this humorous video, YouTuber Squirrel Monkey once again takes us back in time, imagining Duolingo as a 1980s software for IBM PCs. Transporting the popular language learning app to a time when it would have been distributed on floppy disks. ̵...

Rockstar then, rockstar now. A few years before he was Nirvana's drummer, a young Dave Grohl played for Mission Impossible, a punk band from Springfield, Virginia. Amazingly, there is footage of him at just 16 years old displaying his kickass drummin...

Over on TikTok there's a guy, @NoProblemGambler, who goes to great lengths to figure out which sports games are being played in the background of movies and TV shows. Commenters send in their own submissions to try and stump him. — Read the res...

Hailing from Lebanon, Tony Abou Jaoudeh is a talented guy. He's not only an actor, stand-up comedian, and illustrator, but also a vocal impressionist. This video of him singing The Weeknd's "Save Your Tears" as different eighties artists, including A...

Back to the Beach, the eighties nod to the beach flicks of the sixties, turned 35 this week. For the milestone, UPROXX interviewed the movie's director, Lyndall Hobbs. She talked about what it was like to work with stars Frankie Avalon, Annette Funic...

Kobanes, a Chicago punk band, have covered the theme song to Pee-wee's Playhouse and now I never want to hear it any other way. It just works! Fun trivia: Cyndi Lauper sang the original theme but is credited as "Ellen Shaw." — Read the rest...