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this playlist is for my former classmates - and anyone who appreciates the awesome music of the 1980s.  There's a great mix of rock, r&b, pop, and new wave hits I can remember dancing to at our school dances and playing loudly at parties. I hope this playlist makes some of you Gen Xers Bust a Move! life Mixtape music youth 

Class of 1990 – 31 Years Later

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***EDITED & UPDATED on 2/15/2021: Added Prince and Morris Day & The Time to the playlist.   June 7, 1990   The class of 1990 graduated from Clearview High School in Lorain, Ohio – all 70 something of us. Small school, small class, but we all knew each other and there was an almost universal camaraderie between us all.     Looking back now, being a pretty tight-knit class was amazingly cool. I can remember the movies from my teen years where the schools were huge and no one knew each other…

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Head Bangin’ Car Blastin’ Hair Bands

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  In the mid 1980’s a rock music explosion happened almost over night. Their hair was big and their music was loud.  Hair bands. Some people love them. Others hate them. Either way, along with helping to tear a hole in the ozone layer with all the hair spray they used, these bands carved out a place in 80’s music history. There are stations like Hair Nation on Sirius XM dedicated to that head banging era of music. Terrestrial radio stations dedicate afternoons, days and even weekends to the glorious metal…

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10 Controversial Classic Alternative Tunes

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    Political Correctness – it’s all around us and you cannot escape its stifling grip.    I remember going to Disneyland as a child and riding the Pirates of the Caribbean ride with my parents and seeing the historically correct “Auction! Take a wench for a bride!”, thinking nothing of it being offensive because it was a part of history. When I took a solo trip to California many years later, I rode the same ride and the auction part was removed because it was no longer politically correct. It…

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