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[cabbitzilla]

Your generation stuck mine with a motherload of cultural horrors (bradys! disco! plaid! roller skating!).
-30% for being a yuppie.

5 point bonus for telling me where you saw this. Thanks!

Final Score: 123.3


*peers* No Black Sabbath? No Dio? No Triumph? No Rush? No Styx? One piddly Duran Duran reference? And on top of that, potshots about disco (hey, it's the /kids/ that are reviving it. We didn't /know/ better at the time...) and roller skating. Funny, roller blades are /awfully/ damned popular even today, and they're a direct descendant of it.

In short, if your '80s Experience' was mostly the spoon-fed pap that the media blitzed with, without much deviance to find /real/ music, most of these pieces will be familiar... but I'll warn you, there're a dozen or so where the supplied lyric is so badly butchered it took /thought/ to try and figure out what it was. *shakes her head*

Planned 6pm departure's been postponed... I need a nap before I'm in driving shape. Crashing now.

*hugs*

Comments

Technically...

[meamgrimlock.livejournal.com]

Rollerblading is a cousin of Roller Skating.
The first Roller-blades were invented to help Cross-Country Skiers train in the off-season, and were modelled after the shape and feel of a cross-country ski. I read somewhere that Roller Skate design wasn't even consulted in the process. This is part of why Rollerblades have such heavy ankle protection where as Ice Skates have much less (Even Hockey Skates), and roller-skates can be purchased with almost no ankle support at all.

And having been on all three, I can tell you that the feel of Roller-Blades, Ice Skates, and Roller-Skates are all incredibly different!