terminal_frost
2003-08-29 02:03 pm UTC (link)

I remember Duran Duran.

I also remember Culture Club, Thompson Twins, Tears for Fears (I was a major TFF junkie once - still am, but in tamer form) and a lot of other '80's bands too. (Where are they now? I ask meself.)

But some days, it's hard to admit to being an '80's child when you've got people like this. Seems that anything that has nostalgia value, you get those who long for the "golden days" of the fandom (think they'll wet themselves with excitement if all the great '80's styles come back?)

Anyways, do you know of any other sources of '80's nostalgia!wank? I need a been there, watched the show, bought the toy-based laugh every now and then. (I think that was a challenge to myself, that...)

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sidewinder
2003-08-29 03:31 pm UTC (link)

Anyways, do you know of any other sources of '80's nostalgia!wank? I need a been there, watched the show, bought the toy-based laugh every now and then. (I think that was a challenge to myself, that...)

:: snort :: Just hang out on any Police-related mailing list or web board. We get fresh wank almost daily. The "golden days" of that fandom were a wankfest and the old wars still rock on. Sad but true.

Loved the Duran wank, BTW. The bitching about Avril and Kelly was almost the same as we got when they chose Gwen Stefani to do the Hall of Fame honors for The Police.

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parlance
2003-08-29 04:29 pm UTC (link)

Loved the Duran wank, BTW. The bitching about Avril and Kelly was almost the same as we got when they chose Gwen Stefani to do the Hall of Fame honors for The Police.

Why, thank you. *curtsies* Interestingly enough, Durannies would have been mollified if Gwen Stefani had presented the award to Duran since she's mentioned being a fan before and No Doubt went to the VIP reunion concert in LA a few weeks ago.

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sidewinder
2003-08-29 04:43 pm UTC (link)

Why, thank you. *curtsies* Interestingly enough, Durannies would have been mollified if Gwen Stefani had presented the award to Duran since she's mentioned being a fan before and No Doubt went to the VIP reunion concert in LA a few weeks ago.

One would have thought the same thing with the Police fans, since Gwen has repeatedly gone on about how big of a Police fan she is, but nooooo... they all wanted someone of truly legendary stature to introduce the band and bitched for weeks about how awful her induction speech was.

Pity the worst of the wank has timed out on one of the message boards, I'll have to doublecheck if it overflowed onto the mailing list... of course that also turned into a fresh Sting vs. Stewart wankfest over how much of a bastard Sting is for not wanting to do a reunion tour, and how Stewart purposefully broke his snare during the performance for the attention (and/or as a sure sign that he has no control as a drummer), how much Andy sucked or rocked, and finally death threats were issues at VH1 for cutting one of the songs from the TV broadcast...

....ah, good times were had by all.

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parlance
2003-08-29 04:50 pm UTC (link)

Pity the worst of the wank has timed out on one of the message boards, I'll have to doublecheck if it overflowed onto the mailing list...

We could have 80s wank week.

how much of a bastard Sting is for not wanting to do a reunion tour, and how Stewart purposefully broke his snare during the performance for the attention

I'm glad the animosity between band members never quite reached Police level because I like my Durannie wank to stay relatively tame (although... who knows if there'd been message boards around when Andy was suing the band for the name...). Nonetheless, some of the threads about how Warren was unceremoniously dumped to make room for the reunion were threatening to reach historic levels of wank.

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	darkrose 2003-08-29 06:14 pm UTC (link)
	who knows if there'd been message boards around when Andy was suing the band for the name...) blink I missed that one, clearly... (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	parlance 2003-08-29 06:24 pm UTC (link)
	There were a few media mentions about it, but most notably Duran did a (very bitchy) documentary about the '87 tour called Three to Get Ready and they referenced the lawsuit there. (Reply to this)(Parent)

parlance
2003-08-29 04:25 pm UTC (link)

Seems that anything that has nostalgia value, you get those who long for the "golden days" of the fandom

I'm not sure if I'm misinterpreting your post, but I should have probably added for context that these aren't fans on a nostalgic kick. Duran - for better or worse - continuously have been releasing albums with various lineups. So most of the fans on the board are people who have followed the band through all its incarnations. In other words, the wank has been building up for over 20 years. ;->

Anyways, do you know of any other sources of '80's nostalgia!wank?

I don't follow any (but if there were a public Tears for Fears board, believe me, I'd be linking to wank there, because they're even worse than Durannies) but my guess is that if any of these sites has a message board, there's wank to be had. ;->

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terminal_frost
2003-08-29 06:56 pm UTC (link)

I'm not sure if I'm misinterpreting your post, but I should have probably added for context that these aren't fans on a nostalgic kick. Duran - for better or worse - continuously have been releasing albums with various lineups. So most of the fans on the board are people who have followed the band through all its incarnations. In other words, the wank has been building up for over 20 years. ;->

Meh. That's what I get for trying to sound intelligent after a sleepless night. I'm not really sure what I meant to say actually...

I don't follow any (but if there were a public Tears for Fears board, believe me, I'd be linking to wank there, because they're even worse than Durannies)

A TFF board? Oh, I'd be so there. And I'd probably be just as bad as the Durannies we're mocking, because I was like super obsessed with them just before they split up ('round 90-91 somewhat).

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	parlance 2003-08-29 06:59 pm UTC (link)
	I didn't get into TFF until "Elemental" was released in '93, amazingly enough. And I can tell you that a good number of the fans are batshit insane. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	terminal_frost 2003-08-29 07:03 pm UTC (link)
	I like "Elemental", but I kinda like Roland's solo project just a tad more, IMHO. I'd better stop now; else I may end up luring the worst of the TFF fandom into coming here. I wouldn't be too surprised if I live to regret my desire to fish for wank at a TFF board if they're that insane. O.O (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	parlance 2003-08-29 07:09 pm UTC (link)
	If you do search, be sure to look for wanks about the fans' purported psychic connections to Roland. I guarantee they're there. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	Re: terminal_frost 2003-08-29 07:10 pm UTC (link)
	I'll make a note of that. It's one of many things I haven't yet heard of. Mommy, I wanna be a naive fourteen-year-old again. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	parlance 2003-08-29 07:13 pm UTC (link)
	Mommy, I wanna be a naive fourteen-year-old again. Except these claims are coming from women in their 40s. I can't tell you how many marriages broke up in a short period because of something TFF-related. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

terminal_frost
2003-08-29 07:28 pm UTC (link)

*looks up at comment about being obsessive TFF fan in childhood but has since tamed-down considerably*

To think the worst of my obessions (I was 14 in 1989-90) included:

1: insisting upon seeing them in concert not once but twice (Toronto and Hamilton).
2: filling up every blank tape I had with their songs and driving my family insane.
3: drawing pics of Roland Orzabal (a la Seeds of Love).
4: crushing over Roland.
5: and throwing a tantrum worthy of F_W over not getting to see the video premier of Advice for the Young at Heart on Much Music (that was more family-related, as my dad was letting my sister get her way with the TV when they KNEW I wanted to see the vid. It counts as TFF wank because TFF was involved). Feels good to admit to that last one really - cathartic in a way.

But breaking up a marriage because Roland was sending them psychic vibrations via his music and whatnot...

TFF fandom has gone from wanky to horror flick.

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	parlance 2003-08-29 07:38 pm UTC (link)
	Now I want to find a picture of Curt and Roland that says "From wank to horror flick." (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	terminal_frost 2003-08-29 08:03 pm UTC (link)
	Curt and Roland: now they dead from ex-wives. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	parlance 2003-08-29 08:05 pm UTC (link)
	sporfle (Reply to this)(Parent)

	eljuno 2003-08-29 04:53 pm UTC (link)
	Tears for Fears Tears for Fears! I loved Tears for Fears! ...and I was about to tell a story about that, but it would emphasise how young I am, so I withdraw it respectfully. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	parlance 2003-08-29 05:01 pm UTC (link)
	..and I was about to tell a story about that, but it would emphasise how young I am, so I withdraw it respectfully. Oh, well, now you gotta. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	eljuno 2003-08-29 05:06 pm UTC (link)
	Cough Well, when I was little, my mum used to let me stay up after my bedtime to watch MTv if the video for Sowing the Seeds of Love was going to be on. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	parlance 2003-08-29 05:12 pm UTC (link)
	Awww... that's cute. And I mean that. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	shoiryu 2003-08-29 06:23 pm UTC (link)
	Everybody wants to rule the world, you know. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	song. squee. virago 2003-08-30 03:44 am UTC (link)
	I set up a mighty wail when I heard that song on that blasted long-distance commercial (facetiously, of course), and my sister still teases me about it now and then. :P hugs the song, sniffles (Reply to this)(Parent)

	eljuno 2003-08-29 09:52 pm UTC (link)
	Heh. Now if you want REALLY bizarrely cute, I have to find a picture of me circa 10 years old, when I was, basically, a 4'6" bespectacled simulacrum of Kurt Cobain... (Reply to this)(Parent)

	darkrose 2003-08-29 04:26 pm UTC (link)
	Duran Wank??? And I missed it??? Nancy, South Side (Chicago) Durannie since 1983. (Reply to this)(Thread)

	parlance 2003-08-29 04:31 pm UTC (link)
	Oh, you haven't missed it. There's still time to jump in. ;-> (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	peacockharpy 2003-08-29 08:17 pm UTC (link)
	laugh But it's safer to eat popcorn on the sidelines. And to think I skipped the VMAs last night. Pity. I was a huge fan in the 80s, but haven't paid so much attention in recent years... (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	einini 2003-08-30 12:07 am UTC (link)
	(Trying this again--anyway.) Love your icon. Want to buy it candy. (Reply to this)(Parent)

	snowball 2003-08-30 08:05 am UTC (link)
	I want to have babies with your icon. (Reply to this)(Parent)

	lilithlotr 2003-08-30 03:48 am UTC (link)
	Hello fellow Durannie. North side Durannie, once the world's oldest Durannie... Remember? (Reply to this)(Parent)

eljuno
2003-08-29 04:28 pm UTC (link)

Admittedly, the VMA's last night turned me into a knife wielding maniac (long story...) was over Johnny Cash losing to Missy Eliot and Metallica playing Nirvana and the White Stripes and stuff like that, but things like this make me happy I don't have some form of community to discuss this with, 'cause music boards = wank. Always and forever.

Music fans just take themselves too seriously, I think...

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	sidewinder 2003-08-29 04:45 pm UTC (link)
	'cause music boards = wank. Always and forever. Dang, ain't THAT the truth. Neverending wank that just goes on and on and on... (Reply to this)(Parent)

rogue
2003-08-29 06:50 pm UTC (link)

"Duran Duran made MTV!"

I thought Elvis did?

Ahh...

I can understand the fans being upset, but not to this degree. MTV has gone to crap over the past five or so years. Does anyone else remember when they would do the international awards during the main show, and more than the same five videos got nominated for every award? I watched, and I was really not that impressed - but I wasn't expecting much.

Tho I do admit I cringed seeing Kelly and Avril give the award with Duran Duran. Not so much Kelly, but I was afraid we were going to have another episode of "David BOWie" with Avril. Oi.

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parlance
2003-08-29 07:06 pm UTC (link)

I can understand the fans being upset, but not to this degree.

As I told someone else, it's wank that's built up for years. For instance, Duran have been neglected at all MTV's anniversary celebrations, Rolling Stone and NME have always given them scathing reviews and the only Grammys they've gotten were for video. Basically, they got as much respect a boybanders in the '80s because they appealed to teenage girls, and Durannies have been waiting for a lifetime achievement award.

So, you must understand that Durannies are a very sensitive, precious bunch. *g*

I was afraid we were going to have another episode of "David BOWie" with Avril. Oi.

Luckily, Duran Duran's a little harder to mispronounce even if she'd never heard of them.

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	terminal_frost 2003-08-29 07:30 pm UTC (link)
	So in other words, Durannie!wank is kind of like a volcano that's been waiting to erupt for years. All it's really waiting for is the right time and place to do so. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	parlance 2003-08-29 07:41 pm UTC (link)
	So in other words, Durannie!wank is kind of like a volcano that's been waiting to erupt for years. Duran Duran: The dormant volcano of wank. You're giving me good icon ideas today. (Reply to this)(Parent)

	lots42 2003-08-29 06:51 pm UTC (link)
	Brings to mind the quote 'Talking about music is like dancing about architecture'. (Reply to this)

	mynxkittie 2003-08-29 11:23 pm UTC (link)
	What do they expect? It's MTV. It's like living in Hell and complaining about the weather. (Reply to this)