The 80s visually and culturally were the primordial soup that produced Shadowrun. This influence is especially clear in SR1, still the greatest edition. This thread is for posting awesome 80s music videos that get you all pumped up to play Shadowrun. I'll start it off, you contribute.

Self Control - Laura Branigan - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5IyAGpooGko...feature=related
The Warrior - Scandal - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XDuWFYOTyqA
I Ran - Flock of Seagulls - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uUjIA3Rt7gk...feature=related (See, in my opinion, this music video almost says it all about 80s orientalism. I think that one of my secret deep desires is to put on kabuki face makeup and GM a D&D 1st edition game of Oriental Adventures, where "karate" is capable of doing 1d6 damage per punch.)
Japanese Boy - Aneka - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nCH1IlOfDTM (You've heard of the "Scottish Play", but I refer to this as the "Scottish Disaster". I think that it actually contains lethal doses of orientalism with affects similar to those of radiation poisioning.)
Good Enough - Cyndi Lauper - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5kMi9tvuuZY (I prefer to end on a positive note...80s music and such pro wrestling luminaries as Captain Lou Albano. That kind of gets you transitioned into wanting to play Shadowrun first edition.)

This is the iconic look and feel for me...
...Sisters of Mercy - This Corrosion

Best joint venture ever: GnR and the T101

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mNp7CN_Hqjo
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZTXJfOd3qv4

... meanwhile, somewhere warm and outside the Sprawl....

What's possibly more embarrassing for me than loving this video and owning all their albums is the fact that I used to own those sunglasses....

Mine were white.

If you're health conscious, I guess they're good because they look like they really block out that UV light.

And damn near everything else....

EMI blocked...

Duran Duran, Hungry Like The Wolf. Here's one outside of EMI's channel. Work blocked it on you or you blocked EMI yourself?

Blocked, too. Stupid GEMA.

You can dance if you want to...

cant forget Devo

concrete blonde-god is a bullet

Wait, so that's depicing D&D 4e?

Yeah, if you want to talk 80s + SR + 'dance' this is where it's at..

I figured they were visiting the area around Mount Shasta, since Hestaby seems to be the "Happy" dragon since the Big D bought it....*grin*

the police syncronicity 2

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JBjvY7VY7bY
This one. Alltime Favourite for me.
The Hair, the Clothes, the Fairlights . . well, i think they used Fairlights way back then at least . .
Also, admittedly, the ladyboys which were the inspiration for the elves i guess *snickers* ^^

Lol i just checked the comments for that video:

I can get behind that. Usher in the new era properly.

I've been playing that song every year on newyears eve.

3 a.m. eternal

Technically 1990 and 1991, but screw it. Same time period... Last Train to Transcentral and Justified & Ancient

Hmm I was a metal head in the 80's oh hell what am I saying..I still am. But Queensryche (Mind Crime and Empire) and KMFDM set SR for me. As well as some bands from over the pond. Some of these vids may slip into early nineties but then so did SR.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tS7SrhYTZjc
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bhrBpcJ2bko
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xORUCLvvjzQ...feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mGEQT48Ghzs...feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3XyBMYbLiCU...feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FjV8SHjHvHk

The year was 1987 and there were some "Lost Boys"...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o375ke8Csio

I know what you are thinking...those vampires sure "Die Hard"...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R5in09EwYV0

Not everyone made it through to the "Breakfast Club"...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OxL1dJyIYXo

Admit it...this was "Most excellent"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kZNGPzpL03Y

my impression is that the 80s didnt start until 85, and didnt end until 95.

This is true. "The '60s" technically went well into the 1970s. Though I would quibble that the '80s ended in '95. I wouldn't equate Ice-Cube with the '80s.


Yeah. Manly. And... oily.

If that hurt your "Eyes" how about this?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G7e75Mig25E...feature=related

The 80's were "Simply Irresistible"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UrGw_cOgwa8



Edit...now you did it! Here ya go straight from the Master and a little advice about "Breaking Free"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9hMrY8jysdg

But I perhaps I digress, or regress, "The Show Must Go ON!"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lSkx34M3XtY

I don't know... Would we not consider the Sex Pistols a primarily 80s band? And they started BEFORE the 80s. Plus, everything Reagan was obviously 80s. I'd tend to say the 80s included everything from 1976, when the Sex Pistols started making their first big album, to at least 1992, when Bush Sr. left office.

The 70s were from '75-'76. They pretty much sucked.

I don't know about that. There's some ancient and powerful magic coming from the early 80s. This includes Lone Wolf McQuade, Gymkata, and American Ninja.

EDIT: And how could I forget to mention "Revenge of the Ninja" with Sho Kosugi? Although that film was set in California it was filmed in Utah and at a buliding called American Towers. If you google it you can see that that building is still existing and it appears to have the same rooftop spa setup that was used for the final ninja battle in that film. WHO WANTS TO MAKE A HOLY NINJA PILGRIMAGE TO UTAH???

I used to sit in the security room at American Towers watchin the security monitors trying not to fall asleep. I can honestly say...never did I see a ninja...of course that was probably the point.

IMO...the 70's was the hangover from the 60's. I can't say when an era started or ended with any authority, I can say that the 80's were good to me!

:O


Can you send me some dust from American Towers, that I might worship it as a relic while watching "Revenge of the Ninja"?

Sorry, that was a long time ago and I no longer live in SLC. Cool building though and impressive security system.

This dates from 1982 and it's epic...English Boys by Blondie, as broadcasted on French TV!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nb-KkVNEbw8


EDIT: I used to play a Blondie CD on my laptop while playing one of the most righteous and awesome Vietnam War games ever, EA's SEAL Team. It had suppression fire, real formations and hand signals used by SEALs, and you could call for extraction, support, or emergency extraction whenever you wanted. You could tell the squad how much automatic fire to use and you had to manage your ammunition supply. You could be extracted either by helicopter or by boat and could call for either as circumstances dictated. If one member of the SEAL team was killed you had to drag his body around. The game actually prompted you "pick him up". If two team members (out of a four man team, the Officer In Charge, the Corpsman, the Rear Security, and the Pointman) were killed the team automatically called for emergency extraction. You also had a roster of SEALs who gained skills and experience as you used them, and if any of them died they were out of the game forever, AND the game showed a picture of a formal military funeral after the mission and displayed this long textual script which was a speech given at the funeral. I think it was a pretty heartfelt speech seeing as the game was actually created by military personnel. I played it through like four times and of course this song was often playing in the background which was just the right touch.

Here's the link to the Mobygames review: http://www.mobygames.com/game/seal-team

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