1980s
Lotti Golden
In Look magazine for September 9 1969, there's an article about an aspiring young singer named Lotti Golden, who wanted to be just like Dylan. Never having heard of her before, I got curious and did some research.She did go on to release a couple of albums. This blogger discusses her career and offers a compressed audio file of one whole album. This fellow does the same.
But overall, poor Lotti is so obscure she doesn't even have a Wikipedia entry, and her records never made it to CD.
In 1982, she tried again with a group called Warp 9, purveyors of "new wave funk." You can hear two samples of their stuff here.
If you listen to the clip below, you might see why she never made it big. This song is like five different disparate songs jammed into one.
Posted By: Paul - Tue Mar 03, 2009 -
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Category: Music, 1960s, 1970s, 1980s
Farting Evangelical
As we learn in the Wikipedia article on Robert Tilton, this satirical fake video of "Pastor Gas" dates back to at least 1985. Yet it's still getting many views on YouTube and other sites, nearly twenty-five years later.Now, it seems to me that the very longevity of a simple fart joke makes it weird!
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Posted By: Paul - Wed Feb 25, 2009 -
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Category: Humor, Religion, Flatulence, 1980s
The King of Kong
Surely there's not a lot of things weirder than obsessive videogame world-record competitions...
Posted By: Paul - Thu Jan 29, 2009 -
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Category: Contests, Races and Other Competitions, Eccentrics, Games, Geeks, Nerds and Pointdexters, Documentaries, 1980s
Repo Chick
Remember one of the weirdest films ever made, REPO MAN? This month marks the start of filming for a sequel titled REPO CHICK. Let's hope it can live up to its predecessor.
Posted By: Paul - Tue Jan 20, 2009 -
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Category: Aliens, Armageddon and Apocalypses, Business, Death, Movies, Paranormal, Pop Culture, Unsolved Mysteries, Bohemians, Beatniks, Hippies and Slackers, 1980s, Cars
Star Trek Convention, 1986
"Today Trekkers have appeared in Buffalo... A Trekker is almost anybody. Not only does it span all ages from 8 to 80, but all walks of life as well, all career endeavors."
Posted By: Alex - Sat Jan 17, 2009 -
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Category: Fads, Science Fiction, 1980s
Follies of the Mad Men #50
At one time, during either the seventies or the eighties, I believe, this campaign was ubiquitous. I would run across OJ and his boots in every issue of Playboy I intended to cut up for collages, whereupon I would promptly rip out the page intact and mail it to a friend. That's why I had to find a scan on eBay, for this post, and can't tell you the exact provenance of the advertisement.
Of course, today we laugh because of OJ's appearance. "So that's how he was able to escape so fast after the murders! He deployed his third leg!"
But consider the campaign even without OJ.
First you get the off-color allusion to "third leg = penis." Then you get the Addams-Family-style associations of "Our boots are worn by mutants and freaks."
Brilliant!
Posted By: Paul - Wed Dec 10, 2008 -
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Category: Business, Advertising, Products, Celebrities, Death, Fashion, Shoes, Law, Lawsuits, Sports, Scary Criminals, Stupid Criminals, 1970s, 1980s
High Weirdness by Mail
In those antique pre-internet days of the book's debut, your only resources for contacting and receiving strange information was the USPS. There are plenty of cheap copies of HWBM available online, if you want to get a nostalgic snapshot of that era.
But the SubGeniuses behind the book have also launched THE HIGH WEIRDNESS PROJECT, which strives to replicate the book as a web-based experience.
Pay them a visit, and get your slack on.
Posted By: Paul - Wed Dec 03, 2008 -
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Category: Eccentrics, Religion, Weird Studies and Guides, Books, 1980s
Follies of the Mad Men #36
Because satyriasis and nymphomania are such funny hooks with which to pitch a lubricant.
Posted By: Paul - Sun Oct 12, 2008 -
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Category: Addictions, Sex, Business, Advertising, Products, Technology, 1980s
Sonseed
Sonseed never achieved much fame when they were playing together twenty-five years ago, but now they're attracting quite a following on the internet. Once you've seen them perform "Jesus is a friend of mine" you may understand why. TheDougsploitation blog recently tracked down the lead singer, Sal Polichetti, and interviewed him.
Posted By: Alex - Mon Sep 15, 2008 -
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Category: Music, Video, 1980s
Random Rant
I dug this out of my files, and although it's nearly twenty years old, a good psychotic rant never goes out of style.
Posted By: Paul - Tue Aug 05, 2008 -
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Category: Art, Eccentrics, Education, Literature, Obsessions, Scholarship, School, 1980s
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