Submitted by S Weadock

Call it Party Law if you want, but after enough beer is consumed, at least one large guy in attendance WILL do the following:

The famous Truffle Shuffle!

The Goonies is another 80’s movie with a great theme. Cool video, too. Remember when videos were little movies unto themselves? Heck, remember when MTV PLAYED videos? If you remember none of that, here’s some Cyndi Lauper for you doing “Goonies R Good Enough:

Submitted by W Bickford

The commercial that started it all:

In the late 80’s, there was a Raisin invasion! They were EVERYWHERE! The Raisins had four albums (the first is pictured at the top), two TV specials, a cartoon, and there was supposed to be a video game. “California Raisins: The Grape Escape” was never released. But we found a clip for you, because we care:

We can understand why this wasn’t unleashed on the general public.

Submitted by S Albert

Raise your hand if you ever tried to sing along and completely slaughtered the high notes! And almost every girl I knew, myself included, had a big fat crush on Marten Harket. He was dreamy. Sigh….drool… Let’s just say he was my original McDreamy.

OK, snapping out of it now. The video was also the first time most of us saw Rotoscoping, which according to Wikipedia is defined as:

Rotoscoping is an animation technique in which animators trace over live-action film movement, frame by frame, for use in animated films. Originally, pre-recorded live-action film images were projected onto a frosted glass panel and re-drawn by an animator. This projection equipment is called a rotoscope, although this device has been replaced by computers in recent years. In the visual effects industry, the term rotoscoping refers to the technique of manually creating a matte for an element on a live-action plate so it may be composited over another background.

Wow. Since the video came out in 1985, you know they did that by hand. Like as in, no computers. Using fingers. And hands. As such.

You may think a-ha is lodged firmly in the “Where Are They Now?” file, but you’d be wrong. They released their last studio album Analogue in 2005, and are slated to release a new album in early 2009.

Here’s a relatively recent photo of a-ha:

Photo via Alternative Classix

My, they have aged well. Who wants to go to Norway with me?