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(DIR) Post #Ac8hglnDbuq6yn87fc by admin@detroitriotcity.com
2023-11-24T18:09:41.968359Z
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The Billboard Top 20 for the week of November 22, 1986:
(DIR) Post #Ac8t91F6rQyaV5qgEa by CoQ_10@poa.st
2023-11-24T20:18:12.828141Z
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@admin I remember surprisingly few of these.Not sure if that's good or bad.
(DIR) Post #Ac9HIDEI3ruDBPNkR6 by judgedread@freespeechextremist.com
2023-11-25T00:48:48.010031Z
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@admin Always interesting to see which ones made it into the classic rock rotation and which vanished without a trace.I have no memory of Human by The Human League.
(DIR) Post #Ac9HdmhxLf3dIaXonY by SilverDeth@freespeechextremist.com
2023-11-25T00:52:41.931769Z
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@judgedread @admin Went and looked it up... chick music.
(DIR) Post #Ac9Hk03CeZoUPyRiro by admin@detroitriotcity.com
2023-11-25T00:53:42.876347Z
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@judgedread I can recall it getting a moderate amount of play time at the Harmony House and Record Time outlets at the Eastland Mall back in ‘86. Oddly it didn’t seem to get much airtime on the FM radio stations locally though.
(DIR) Post #Ac9I7CC7fXNmk3g9Pk by judgedread@freespeechextremist.com
2023-11-25T00:58:00.853144Z
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@admin Human League had three hits, Don't You Want Me in 1982, their massive monster hit which was number six for the year, Fascination, a mid 33 for the year of the Jedi 1983, and the aforementioned Human which was number 25 in 1986.
(DIR) Post #Ac9K8GbOxytWbt8pLE by SilverDeth@freespeechextremist.com
2023-11-25T01:20:37.065571Z
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@judgedread I was a very young lad when Return of the Jedi came out. I had been begging Dad for weeks to go see it. We were poor ranchers so going to the showhouse was a luxury. I worked the mother angle and got her to nag him until he relented. We lived 45 minutes out of town so it was a bit of a drive. I was excited beyond words, as I'd watched our bootleg VHS copy of Star Wars (which still had the HBO opening intro) until it was nearly ruined.As we were walking inside the theater, my six year old sister walked right through the glass window next to the doors. We had to leave to go the emergency room, and they sent us to a bigger hospital almost two hours away.I freaked. We spent the night and I just pouted - I insisted sis did it on purpose just to spite me. While mom and I were with my sister at the Hospital, Dad snuck out to Woolworths and bought me a RotJ Read-Along-Book and cassette, and we listened to maybe fa dozen times on the way home. What an absolute king that man was.It was months later before dad was able to take me to see RotJ in a matinee. (It was still running in the theaters - back then a popular film would stay in theaters for months).To this day, I bring my dad two pint jugs of locally brewed beer every Thursday night, and just chat with him. Not a lot of men had great dads. I was lucky.My first "viewing" of Return of the Jedi
(DIR) Post #Ac9KIxEzIBuNkMkmx6 by SilverDeth@freespeechextremist.com
2023-11-25T01:22:32.963032Z
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@judgedread My book was a cassette not a record though. The memory is foggy, but I pretty sure it was the same book. The cover is right.
(DIR) Post #Ac9KlwQ7QDYfbGmYHw by SilverDeth@freespeechextremist.com
2023-11-25T01:27:47.281768Z
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@judgedread Now you've got me going down a rabbet hole...This intro... right here... it's as much a part of Star Wars to me as the 20th century fox intro and the opening crawl...HBO Shows Star Wars - for the First Time - 1983!!!.mp4
(DIR) Post #Ac9M9NzjAQQVjdBHhQ by thymeandplac3@nicecrew.digital
2023-11-25T01:43:13.355215Z
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As someone who wears a a Human Leugue shirt weekly, I have to agree with this. They still rule tho.
(DIR) Post #Ac9R6AmGLqbLe2AbzM by Simpadoo@freespeechextremist.com
2023-11-25T02:38:40.472004Z
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@judgedread @admin I always thought they were overrated. I listened to radio then and could not fathom why some songs were so popular when the actually sucked.
(DIR) Post #Ac9Tl40wbLfmRyfBgG by judgedread@freespeechextremist.com
2023-11-25T03:08:28.477132Z
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@SilverDeth The struggle is real.Star Wars came out in 32 theaters in 1977. That's right - thirty two! So it was weeks after the word had spread like wildfire before I got to see it when it hit the lesser multiplexes. Empire and Jedi opened wide so I was there opening day.
(DIR) Post #Ac9U24BLEOG3tRdNDc by SilverDeth@freespeechextremist.com
2023-11-25T03:11:32.845590Z
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@judgedread Ahh I was too little to have seen the first movie and empire in theaters. Empire was the first movie we rented when the first video store opened in our home town though. I remember it was like 40 bucks for one movie rental and a rented VCR. Dad bought us one that Christmas, and his pal in town recorded us movies off of HBO.
(DIR) Post #Ac9UIJrKi9Bn9I1cye by judgedread@freespeechextremist.com
2023-11-25T03:14:29.088575Z
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@SilverDeth Ha! Pan and scan version! You could only get it letterboxed on Japanese bootlegs and one rogue copy that apparently originated with David Bowie, who got a transfer done specially by Lucasfilm to show to his kids. Actually that latter may only have leaked in the internet era.BTW that cool metal HBO flying logo... is metal. Machined out of stainless steel, not CG. Shot motion control... possibly by ILM, that I am not sure about.There were only a few places that could pull it off in 1983.
(DIR) Post #Ac9USPzSlpeP3mdxYm by SilverDeth@freespeechextremist.com
2023-11-25T03:16:18.593890Z
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@judgedread You are truly the God of pop culture. I always wondered how they did that intro - I figured it was animation. Pretty freaking cool.
(DIR) Post #Ac9UdM5FdT8W84Z9iC by judgedread@freespeechextremist.com
2023-11-25T03:18:17.181888Z
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@SilverDeth The slick General Cinemas logo from the late eighties to nineties was done by ILM, the one that ends with the popcorn popping in deep space.
(DIR) Post #Ac9VIqVlPYa6N6ke7U by SilverDeth@freespeechextremist.com
2023-11-25T03:25:47.095606Z
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@judgedread Another thing that has been bugging me for years - and maybe you can help me on this. Star Trek II was one of my favorite films as a kid. We has a bootleg of it recorded off television to vhs - it had ads. There was a scene where Kirk was leaving sickbay after watching Mr. Scott's relative die. He was complaining about being old and out of touch - and he said "the only reason we're alive right now is because I knew something about these ships he didn't."When I moved out and bought it on VHS, and later DVD in the late 1990's, that scene was not present. I know I'm not crazy, but the television version had stuff that wasn't in the DVD/VHS versions.
(DIR) Post #Ac9X8pZgEtnmTjw3s0 by judgedread@freespeechextremist.com
2023-11-25T03:46:23.101262Z
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@SilverDeth OK, it was not done by ILM, it was done by a small production company in 1983, which is when computer controlled cameras became, if not common, available to people other than master hardware hackers who assembled them by hand, right down to etching the circuit boards.The logo was not stainless steel, it was machined out of brass and chromed.https://brandedinthe80s.com/16142/lets-talk-about-that-epic-hbo-feature-presentation-intro-from-the-80shttps://www.core77.com/posts/15919/old-skool-special-effects-the-making-of-hbos-1983-starship-intro-15919
(DIR) Post #Ac9XKjCTlRkYBUkxAO by judgedread@freespeechextremist.com
2023-11-25T03:48:32.110355Z
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@SilverDeth That scene is on the current Bluray, but that is from the extended cut.I believe you're correct that it was present in the broadcast version but not the theatrical.I recall the reason it was cut is that the set looked cheap on the big screen - and in HD it does indeed look a bit tacky.
(DIR) Post #AcA8gHQBQHvchjJ3Cq by judgedread@freespeechextremist.com
2023-11-25T10:47:00.936977Z
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@thymeandplac3 Don't You Want Me is still solid 41 years later.