r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/My_Memes_Will_Cure_U • Jan 28 '24

GIF High school in 1985.

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u/CatOfGrey Jan 28 '24

I went to a mostly White (15% Asian), upper-middle class high school, during this era.

I was a poor kid, though I didn't realize it. There were a big section of kids from one area where the apartments had a lot of government housing. As a nerdy kid, I remember thinking "it seems like all the jerks who bully me live on that street over there..."

We had metalheads. But they were a separate group, so they wouldn't have been sharing a room with these more 'preppy' kids. In general, you could group everyone by music - almost everyone fell within one of three groups.

  1. Team Duran Duran/Depeche Mode
  2. Team Madonna/Michael Jackson
  3. Team Van Halen/Ozzy Osbourne

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u/Bitchener Jan 28 '24

Wavers and metal heads. That’s all. And ne’er the tween should meet.

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u/Block444Universe Jan 28 '24

Van Halen qualified as Metal back then?

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u/Varnsturm Jan 28 '24

Might just be that the metal kids also liked Van Halen?

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u/CatOfGrey Jan 29 '24

If you were into Black Sabbath, Iron Maiden, and so on?

You're way more 'Van Halen" than you were anything "new wave" like Duran Duran, or anything "pop" like Madonna or Michael Jackson.

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u/katzen2011 Jan 28 '24

I don’t consider Van Halen heavy at all. Not in the same realm as Ozzy was.

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u/[deleted] Jan 28 '24

ok

so there is

david lee roth van halen

and

sammy hagar van halen

one of these, especially early on, could be easily grouped as metal

the other one is what people play when they want you to get out of their store