Did you know that most decades actually end at some point? It usually happens on or around the end of the decade, but that didn’t happen with the 1980s. They briefly went out of fashion for a few years, but ever since Adam Sandler weaponized Reagan-era nostalgia in the 1998 comedy “The Wedding Singer,” the business of fetishizing, cannibalizing and taxidermizing pop culture from the ’80s equally defined by cocaine and “DuckTales” has been booming. Even though it’s gotten a bit boring.
The problem is that for too long, most of our 1980s nostalgia has been nostalgic for extremely mainstream stuff: John Hughes movies, toy commercials, Ecto Cooler.
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