Very well done, Bobbo.

- Rave was underground and---*gasp*---cool

- Bjork was known by only the Sugarcubes fans

- Photoshop didn't have: "layers" or "history"

- 100mb storage media was the size of a cd case and cost you $100.

- No one had Email except computer programmers

- All my music was still on Cassette

- DVDs were science fiction

- "Alternative" still meant alternative

We were still laughing over Dukakis in a tank.

Hmmm, let's see...

Vinyl accounted for 80% of our store's sales, 10% being cassettes, 8% being accessories, and 2% beiing these compact disc things. Only classical music nerds bought cd's.

The Oilers ruled the NHL.

Reagan was coherent.

There was only one decent car manufactured in the USofA, the Buick Grand National.

REM could still be seen playing a local college or high school gymnasium.

David Byrne was only 1/6 the asshole he'd eventually become.

Sigourney Weaver had only made one decent film...okay, she's still only made one decent film.

James Woods was uber-cool.

The Jam were going to get back together any second now.

the year of my birth.

I'm 1987... lots of mullets, parachute pants, and bad music on the radio...


Looking through Wikipedia about 1987 things music and otherwise:

Music:
Beastie Boys first band censored by American Bandstand
Bon Jovi's Living on a Prayer #1 song for the year
first 5 Beatles albums released on some weird format called compact disc
U2 shoots "Where the streets have no name"
Whitney Houston is sane and not a user and becomes the first woman to debut at #1
Fugazi forms
Public Enemy forms
Jane's Addiction forms
Nirvana forms
Husker Du break up
Smiths break up
Wham breaks up

News worthy... ?...

Terry Waite was kidnapped by Islamic terrorists in 1987 and not released until 91. This shit didn't start in 2001.

The guy who killed himself on TV inspiring Filter's "hey man nice shot" happened in 87

Unabomber starts bombing

Iran Contra comes to light

Joshua Tree released

Jim Baker and PTL come crashing down

Gary Hart and his candicy comes crashing down

Some kid lands a plane in the middle of Red Square in Moscow

"Tear down this Wall" by Regan to Gorbachev

Bork nominated, gets Borked

Nazi Klaus Barbie caught, imprissoned

Market hits 2000 early in the year for the first time... Dow hits 2500 in July

Baby Jessica falls down a well... media goes bat shit crazy

Black Monday... Oct 19, 1987 kicking all investors asses

Typhoon Nina hits the Philippines killing over 1000.

Korean Flight 858 is blown up by terrorists

Channel Tunnel is initiated

Hustler mag vs Jerry Fallwell

First intifada begins by Palestinians in the West Bank

Prozac makes its debut

MP3s were all the rage
People talked to each other using "cell" phones
global warming was laughed at
gas was over $2 a gallon
the middle east was surging with violence
retro was popular
network tv sucked
...especially SNL
people took photos using "digital" cameras

and such

In 1992...

A naked Boris Yeltsin straddled the 120mm gun of a T-80 main battle tank and shouted "Fucking Chechens!" while waving a four/fifths empty vodka bottle in the air.

The Church of England voted to allow women to become priest for the first time provided they refrained from gossiping during the sermon, wore only "God approved lipstick" and did the dishes and generally cleaned up after the Christ Our Saviour coffee mornings.