Jason Kottke pointed out<\/a>, Sixteen Candles and Footloose closed the weekend before.<\/p>\nAs for music, here\u2019s the Top 10 from that week:
\n* \u201cThe Reflex\u201d – Duran Duran
\n* \u201cTime After Time\u201d – Cyndi Lauper
\n* \u201cLet\u2019s Hear It For The Boy\u201d – Deniece Williams
\n* \u201cDancing In The Dark\u201d – Bruce Springsteen
\n* \u201cSelf Control\u201d – Laura Branigan
\n* \u201cThe Heart Of Rock & Roll\u201d – Huey Lewis and The News
\n* \u201cJump\u201d – The Pointer Sisters
\n* \u201cWhen Doves Cry\u201d – Prince and The Revolution
\n* \u201cEyes Without A Face\u201d – Billy Idol
\n* \u201cBorderline\u201d – Madonna<\/p>\n
Pop, rock, dance, and some soul. If you think that list sent me over to the Billboard site to dig deeper into that week\u2019s Hot 100, you would be correct. I just can not resist a 1980s music rabbit hole.<\/p>\n
Great movies, great music, and the Los Angeles Olympics were a month away. Summer 1984 was crazily awesome.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
I\u2019ve stated my case, many times, for 1984 being one of the best pop culture years ever. Over the weekend, there was another effort at laying down \u201984\u2019s case. I\u2019m sure this crossed your Twitter\/Facebook\/Blogosphere streams, but I couldn\u2019t let it go without sharing again. Thirty years ago last weekend, here\u2019s what you could see at a movie theater: * Ghostbusters * Gremlins * Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom * The Karate Kid * Star Trek III: The Search For Spock * Top Secret! * The Natural * Police Academy Holy shit! As Jason Kottke pointed out, Sixteen Candles and Footloose closed the weekend before. As for music, here\u2019s the Top 10 from that week: * \u201cThe Reflex\u201d – Duran Duran * \u201cTime After Time\u201d – Cyndi Lauper * \u201cLet\u2019s Hear It For The Boy\u201d – Deniece Williams * \u201cDancing In The Dark\u201d – Bruce Springsteen * \u201cSelf Control\u201d – Laura Branigan * \u201cThe Heart Of Rock & Roll\u201d – Huey Lewis and The News * \u201cJump\u201d – The Pointer Sisters * \u201cWhen Doves Cry\u201d – Prince and The Revolution * \u201cEyes Without A Face\u201d – Billy Idol * \u201cBorderline\u201d – Madonna Pop, rock, dance, and some soul. If you think that list sent me over to the Billboard site to dig deeper into that week\u2019s Hot 100, you would be correct. I just can not resist a 1980s music rabbit hole. Great movies, great music, and the Los Angeles Olympics were a month away. Summer 1984 was crazily awesome.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[127],"class_list":["post-2264","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-nostalgia"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dsnotebook.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2264","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dsnotebook.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dsnotebook.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dsnotebook.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dsnotebook.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2264"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dsnotebook.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2264\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14278,"href":"https:\/\/dsnotebook.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2264\/revisions\/14278"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dsnotebook.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2264"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dsnotebook.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2264"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dsnotebook.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2264"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}