MetaFilter posts tagged with 1983

1983: The Brink of Apocalypse

empath — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 01:22:13 -0800

1983: The Brink of Apocalypse -- In 1983 the NATO war exercise Able Archer almost started a nuclear war. Unknown to NATO, just a few months earlier a false alarm had already put the Soviet leadership on edge, and the exercise triggered preparations for a counter attack in the Soviet military. Only a few double agents on each side may have saved the world from nuclear armageddon. Bonus MAD Documentary: The Brink of Eternity (2, 3, 4, 5). Of course, if more world leaders listened to Matthew Broderick, none of this would of happened.

Jon and Vangelis

vronsky — Tue, 23 Dec 2008 12:33:51 -0800

State of Independence + He is Sailing

Awesome

vronsky — Fri, 07 Nov 2008 16:57:48 -0800

Seminal Synth & New Wave Sounds

Van Halen at the Woz's US Festival, 1983

not_on_display — Fri, 10 Oct 2008 14:01:17 -0800

In 1982, Steve Wozniak sank a lot of his own money into creating the US Festivals -- the first large concerts to celebrate the merging of music, technology (and money). For the second (and final) US Festival in 1983, Van Halen was given 1.5 million dollars, up front, to headline the 1983 US Festival. What did they give back to their fans? Well, about eighty-four seconds into their first song, David Lee Roth screamed, "I forgot the f@¢₭n' words!" Along with a swipe at the Clash, the set that followed remains evar a drunken classic of testosterone-fueled pop metal campiness. About 3:20 into this clip, DLR launches into his epic fail version of "God Bless the Child" -- 'nuff said.

Black July

chunking express — Thu, 07 Aug 2008 06:28:16 -0800

Groundviews has posted a collection of writing about the July 1983 and 1958 riots in Sri Lanka.

Articles written to remember the anti-Tamil riots of July 1983 and 1958. This content was submitted to Groundviews in July 2008, 25 years after the riots of 1983 and 50 years after those in 1958. Over 9,000 visitors read and engaged with this content from 23rd to 30th July alone. Nearly all submissions were exclusive for Groundviews and came from award winning poets and novelists, senior Government Ministers, Members of Parliament, renown scholars, human rights defenders, civil society activists, artistes, senior civil servants, a former Secretary of Defense and others.

Transformation

vronsky — Sun, 27 Jan 2008 19:42:58 -0800

Nona Hendryx (wiki) founding member of Labelle went on to a solo career that included working with The Talking Heads, Material, and Laurie Anderson. Her album Nona (produced by Laswell) featured the club hit Transformation which still sounds 20 years ahead of its time even though it was recorded in 1983. Here she is rocking the house live at the Apollo with Why Should I Cry and making your spirit soar with Winds of Change [warning: one or more of these videos may contain a keytar]

MTV when it was AWESOME

Lord_Pall — Sat, 26 Jan 2008 00:55:56 -0800

Those of us who were born in the 1970's have a number of indelibly permanent shared experiences. Relive a few of them with 3 hours of MTV from 1983. Single Link, 2 videos, Will make you feel old.

Mister Rogers talks about games

tepidmonkey — Thu, 25 Oct 2007 12:54:43 -0800

Mister Rogers asks a kid how to play Donkey Kong. Later in the clip, Keith David shows up and demonstrates how the buttons in an arcade machine work. [Via .]

83F Project

dhammond — Mon, 27 Aug 2007 23:09:29 -0800

1983 Fleer Project As of 8/25/07: 364 of the 660 cards autographed (55%).

Discovering Electronic Music

MetaMonkey — Wed, 19 Jul 2006 15:38:53 -0800

Discovering Electronic Music (1983) pt 2, pt 3 [youtube, via linkfilter]