Agreed. Other than the cringeworthy lyrics to “Stranglehold”, the self-titled album isn’t that bad. And Meatloaf sang on a couple of songs on “Free For All”. But it was all downhill after that.
Oh, I’m sure I’ll go back to all the music of my youth when I’m old, and The Moody Blues is one of them with especially strong associations to a specific time of my life, but I’ll probably be listening to more Beatles and Beach Boys.
gerrrgh…where’s that frothing stink-eye smiley when I need it!
Milli Vannili. I’m embarrassed just typing that.
My friends and I were HUGE Bill Cosby fans and I can still recite his first few albums from memory… but i don’t.
I just watched a clip, and it looks like so much fun! For the time, it would’ve been so much more exciting than Queen For A Day or other boring daytime shows.
(Now I’m nostalgic for someone else’s childhood…)
The Terry Kath period stuff holds up. In fact, I’ve been saying we need a new band like Chicago or early BS&T. For great rock/jazz/blues fusion with kickass brass, go listen to Chicago Transit Authority or Chicago II or III (We’ll wait…).
I thought Yugo’s were kinda cool.
I’m not, and I’ll say this: He was always a bit unskeptical, a bit overly-impressed with his own intelligence. I remember reading one of his books where he unironically boosted Neuro-Linguistic Programming and claimed that one of his friends was unnaturally lucky because of the quantum. Him falling into weird politics wasn’t a huge shock to me, is what I’m saying.
I thought AMC Pacers were da bomb.
It hasn’t helped that he’s run every. single. trope. he typically uses (and there’s only like half a dozen to start with) right into the ground.
That’s because they were good for only a very brief time (briefer than the Moodies, c. 1970-1973). It ain’t on you.
[Cokes to the usual suspects above]
I think Scott Adams actually had some good points about Trump’s success, even though I was looking at it from the perspective of someone who didn’t want him to succeed.
I never read Dilbert though anyway. It’s really not that good. My threshold for good strip-style comics is pretty damn high. From Charles Schultz all the way to Garry Trudeau, Berkley Breathed, and Adrian Tomine (a recent comic-strip/graphic novelist who is just spectacularly talented) - why would you read shit like Dilbert when that stuff was available?
Upon rewatch, I realized 1980s Transformers, Superfriends, Voltron, and G.I. Joe fit into the embarrassing label.
V was not scary and it was unrealistic.
Land of the Lost was unbearable.
Never- ever- had any desire to go back to The Cosby Show, Roseanne, or many other 1980s like Webster, Mr. Belvedere, Cheers, Family Ties, Growing Pains, Alf, The Facts of Life, etc
Dallas and Dynasty- what was I thinking?
Can’t watch A-Team and Knight Rider again.
Planet of the Apes TV show was disappointing
Anyway, as I got older I also had the Sturgeon’s revelation about 90% of everything being crap.
My true confession: my username is also my nickname due to a tattoo I got in 1990 – a shark on a surfboard wearing pink sunglasses. Yup.
Naw, you’re thinking of the Pinto (snerk).
This may be the only time in SDMB history that Rio, by Duran Duran has actually been a relevant response. Savour the moment.
Yeah, Darren was an ass, but I get the impression that Endora’s scorn was a bigoted reaction to him being mortal, rather than for his behavior. And regardless of why she disliked him, the shit she put him through way out of line (from my limited, mortal perspective, anyway).
Living abroad in the '90s, I got to rewatch a lot of Dallas. It held up surprisingly well. Dynasty, on the other hand, rapidly descended into ludicrousity. I hadn’t seen it before, and I still have no idea why others liked it so much.
I like that type of art, the bright-contrast fading-light twilight cottage–except actual Kincade. He’s actually below average in his actual genre.
Elton John, Goodbye Yellow Brick Road. I played the bejeezus out of this at the time. Don’t think I could stomach it at this late date. (Thanks to the other thread for the reminder.)
Why would a Shark need a surfboard? 
My mom had a revelation like this in the mid-80s.
Casablanca came out the year she was 12. In those days, movie theaters anywhere outside a large city would show a movie for one week. New movie on Friday, run through Thursday, new movie that Friday, and so forth. “Cici” (she wasn’t anyone’s mom then!) saw Casablanca the first Saturday, cried her eyes out, thought it was even better than Gone With the Wind. So did a lot of people, and it was held over! for another week – great. big. huge. deal! So she saw it again, cried some more, thought it was the greatest movie ever.
But time went on, and somehow she never saw it at a revival house, or on TV. Skip ahead to 1985 or '86, when she borrowed the VHS from the library. 
“Why is this a classic? Why did I see this twice and cry and cry? What did I think was so amazing about it? What does anyone think is so amazing about it?!” Her take on it was, she’d done a whole lot of living in the intervening 40+ years, and was no longer the idealist/romantic she’d been then. Still, nowadays two of her favorite films are Driving Miss Daisy and Field of Dreams, and neither of those is exactly made for hard-bitten cynics.
(She also outgrew GWTW. Which is fine with me; I have enough people pushing those films on me as it is.)