Where were you in 1986? If you’re like most of our listeners, you weren’t even born yet. Goddamn Millennials. But for the rest of us who were there for it, most would all agree that 1986 was most definitely a year.
This week, we’re taking a look back at another watershed moment in pop culture - 1986: When Mav first turned and burned, when Eddie Murphy was the #1 everything, and real nerds listened to They Might Be Giants. (Years before the cool kids would hijack the term “nerd” and make it their own, taking our last shred of dignity. Jerks.)
So sit back and listen to three guys talk about neat stuff. From 1986.
0:00 Intros
4:19 The End of the F**king World
5:27 Heathers (reboot trailer)
6:55 Valley Girl (musical)
7:40 Schitt$ Creek
9:05 Flight of the Phoenix
10:50 Oregon people have to pump their own gas
13:28 “Weird Al” Yankovic - Mandatory Fun
17:00 S-Town
17:20 They Might Be Giants - I Like Fun
19:00 Halt and Catch Fire
19:40 The Good Place
21:40 Cobra
24:50 Short Circuit
26:38 Space Camp
27:50 Ferris Bueller’s Day Off and Back to School
30:00 Legal Eagles
31:45 Labyrinth
32:30 Running Scared
34:30 Ruthless People
35:12 Psycho III vs The Great Mouse Detective vs About Last Night
35:55 Big Trouble In Little China
38:11 Under The Cherry Moon
38:42 Club Paradise
39:25 Aliens
43:50 Haunted Honeymoon
44:29 Nothing in Common
44:43 Maximum Overdrive
45:44 Pirates
47:27 Howard The Duck
48:37 Transformers: The Movie
48:51 One Crazy Summer
51:30 She’s Gotta Have It
53:12 The Fly
55:54 Stand by Me
57:42 The Manhattan Project
59:04 There were also good movies in 1986
Clips
Peter Gabriel - Sledgehammer
Clip from Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery
Kool & the Gang - Fresh / clip from Bridesmaids / Beside - Change the Beat
Buzzcocks - Why Can’t I Touch It?
Phantogram - Run Run Blood
Schitt$ Creek - End Theme
“Weird Al” Yankovic - Foil
“Weird Al” Yankovic - First World Problems
“Weird Al” Yankovic - Word Crimes
“Weird Al” Yankovic - NOW That’s What I Call Polka!
They Might Be Giants - By the Time You Get This
Halt and Catch Fire - Theme
Mentos Jingle / Outkast - So Fresh and So Clean / Devo - Fresh
Clip from Poltergeist 2: The Other Side
Kenny Loggins - Danger Zone
Clip from Cobra
El Debarge - Who’s Johnny
Space Camp trailer
Lisa Lisa & Cult Jam - Lost In Emotion
Rod Stewart - Love Touch
Michael McDonald - Sweet Freedom
Clip from Running Scared
John Carpenter - Pork Chop Express (Main Title) - Big Trouble in Little China
Prince and the Revolution - Under the Cherry Moon
James Horner - Bishop’s Countdown (Aliens - Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)
Clips from Aliens
Sesame Street - One Of These Things Is Not Like The Others
Dom DeLuise and Gilda Radner - Ballin’ The Jack
Pirates trailer
Dolby's Cube featuring Cherry Bomb (lead vocals: Lea Thompson, background vocals: George Clinton, guitar: Joe Walsh) - Howard The Duck Theme
Clip from One Crazy Summer
The Kids in the Hall - Captain Wonderful
Ben E. King - Stand By Me
Eddie Murphy - Party All The Time
