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After last year's 70s indulgence with the Trash Disco series, Party Favorz is moving a decade forward. In typical fashion, I try to do something that's not so obvious, which better reflects who I was and what I was into by the end of the decade which was the 80s.







I was a disco kid heading into high school and dabbled in Punk and New Wave but then quickly adjusted my tastes to fit in with the other kids. AC/DC (who I still love), Def Leppard, Bon Jovi, Scorpions, and down the line fueled me. By the end of the decade, I was the preppy kid hanging with the cool kids dressed in black with earrings and eyeliner (much to the dismay of my parents) listening to the coolest music by New Order, Erasure, Depeche Mode, etc., and smoking a lot of pot while occasionally dropping acid. It's not a path I would recommend to anyone today but if I'm being real...







It was the decade of Vans (which I had), OP (Ocean Pacific for the uninitiated), Levis 501 button-fly jeans, Izod, and shitty (hideous) clothing from Oak Tree and the Limited; Just look at any Rick Astley video or even Depeche Mode and you'll understand. For the most part, I was a geek with good taste in music (or at least I like to think so).







Truth is, I'm a music addict. I enjoy almost all forms of it from the crude and crass (Dead Kennedys, Plasmatics) to the most commercial (Tiffany, Debbie Gibson). I can't explain my tastes but they run the whole spectrum.