1985 was a great year for music and a really bad year for hair, and that dichotomy is more than evident in the video for Ready for the World's "Oh Sheila." Oh, Jheri Curl!

Anita Baker has been around since the early 80s, and despite (I'm guessing) not being a mainstream household name like the R&B divas we all know and love, she's still selling out concerts and landing at the top of the charts with original material. Most modern R&B songstresses can't even maintain that sort of longevity over the course of five years. Here's "Sweet Love" from 1986.

Maybe this song would have been a better choice for, say, the morning after a Democrat officially takes the White House or when Hillary Clinton actually acknowledges defeat, but what can I say? Kool & the Gang's "Celebrate" is a happy, if hopelessly cheesy and overplayed, song, and this is a happy time.*

*For some.

Last week, I asked about your favorite 80s movies, and one movie th]at seemed to connect most of you was Goonies, proving that in the 80s most young people, myself included, were enraptured by tales of Chester Copperpot, One-Eyed Willy, and a group of white kids (plus Data!) from the New England Pacific Northwest. Here's the original trailer.

If you haven't heard yet, Hollywood is making a live-action, feature-length version of Fraggle Rock. This proves, once and for all — as if that computer-animated Alvin and the Chipmunks abomination wasn't enough — that the entertainment industry thinks nothing of shattering the childhood memories of adults. Take temporary solace in this clip from the real version.

House Party is just one of those back-in-the-day movies that makes me happy every single time I see it, and Full Force's "Ain't My Type of Hype," which has a prominent place in the movie, is just one of those songs. I forgive Full Force for the video, their dancing, and their general style. It was 1989, after all.

The rappers on VH1's competition show, Miss Rap Supreme, leave much to be desired, but so have many mainstream female rappers in hip hop's history. Nowadays, they might have resigned themselves to a future in the reality television world, but one upon a time Salt 'n' Pepa were Miss Rap Supreme Nos. 1 and 2.

George Clinton is considered to be one of the most sampled musicians ever — Snoop was obviously a fan of "Atomic Dog" — and it makes the odd-is-an-understatement musician, seem pretty timeless, even though he's 67 years old.

I think I've mentioned before, in a moment of raw honesty, that Jermaine Jackson was my first crush (or so I've been told by various family members). Look, I never said I was proud of it. And after watching the video for "Dynamite" for the first time since I was, oh, four years old, I can officially say that I had very questionable judgment back then, even for a pre-kindergartener. Of course, I had no way of knowing back then that this would be the beginning of the end for good ol' Jermaine.

March Madness is a sports event that I usually get into despite my general lack of interest in sports. Since my alma mater didn't make the tournament this year, I'm less inclined to pay attention, but I still filled out a bracket using completely uneducated guesses. Above, enjoy the infamous 1983 championship win by NC State, a victory that surely ruined a few brackets. But it's the possibility of an underdog going all the way that gives March Madness it's charm, right?

Fame is one of my favorite movies of all time and this "Hot Lunch" is one of my favorite scenes. Plus, I believe that this movie and the subsequent television show based on it (and the subsequent reality show based on the movie and television show) paved the way for shows like So You Think You Can Dance, without which I would be a much less happy person.

This 80s drug PSA is interesting, because it shows that there has been one constant to anti-drug commercials. They've always been most likely to make the sorts of kids who are doing or thinking about doing drugs laugh.

Michael Jackson's big Thriller 25th Anniversary Edition was released yesterday, and it included a previously unreleased track that sounded to me like it was trying to be what Human Nature actually is. So here's the real thing, performed during MJ's Bad tour. Enjoy!

Happy Potomac Primary Day! In honor of DC, MD, and VA's primary voting, I thought I'd hit you with a little something from the area. E.U.'s "Da Butt." It's one of DC Go-Go's few foray's into the mainstream, thanks to Spike Lee and School Daze. Sexy, Sexy!

When Morris Day and the Time performed "Jungle Love" last night (with Rihanna, oddly), it was fun to watch. But seeing him all advanced-in-years just made me long to watch the original.