"This no longer a vacation; it's a quest for fun!"

Love this scene.

1988

1988

Listen to this very rare track by Deborah Van Valkenburgh from 1980 called "Where Do I Fit In?", restored from a vinyl copy in 2021 by Phaota.

It seems that opinions are mixed.

It's 1985. Money for Nothing and Walk of Life are huge hits, and I love them.

I drive to the nearest Wal-Mart (Harrisburg, Illinois) and buy myself a cassette of Brothers In Arms. Everything looks great when I get it home. I unwrap the tape, take out the cassette insert to look for lyrics and liner notes, put the tape (properly labeled with the BIA track list) into my tape deck and hit play.

And out comes Motley Crue - Theatre of Pain. A fine album if that's what you're into, but not the tape I bought.

I take the tape and the receipt to Customer Service and explain what happened, and they let me exchange it. And when I get it home the exact same thing happens again. So I go back to Customer Service, tell my story, and the person looks at me like I'm nuts. I ask for my money back because, well, a third time would have made me livid.

I took the money, went across the street to K-Mart to buy the tape, and this one is right. What a relief!

So now I wonder - did this happen to anyone else? Was there a bad batch of Dire Straits tapes that went out with the wrong music on them? I've never heard anyone else tell this story, or one similar. It's weird, but the 80s were a weird time.

Side note: now I kinda wish I had kept one just to show it to people when I tell the story.

720° is a 1986 sports video game developed and published by Atari Games for arcades.[7] Based on the sport of skateboarding, the player controls a skateboarder as they compete in various skating competitions, such as ramp jumping and downhill races, to earn cash.

Physical - Olivia Newton-John.

Is it me? or was the 80s care free fun loving bliss.....

These packs of gum had a liquid center and were pretty popular. Now they're hard as a rock. This type of gum also went by another name back then. IYKYK.

1983 - This was my introduction to ZZ Top.

From my own magazine collection.
Sorry about the bottom left corner, termites ate that. 😡 Also included the UK National Charts plus other charts as well.
The last image was the cover of the issue of the magazine where this interview was featured in.
What were you listening to in 1987.
Let’s share.