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The 80s are now a minimum of 20 years ago.   :bluesad:

I've been thinkin' about this today, it pains me  :bluesad:

I've set all my calendars and clocks at home and work to 1989. When it hits 2010, I'll just start over believing its; 1980.

That long . . . wow, I'm getting old.  I miss the 80's.  I miss Duran Duran, Tears for Fears, Ronald Reagan, and being young and skinny.

Yeah, getting older sucks in some respects.  I'm turning 34 in March.

What's funny is that in the 90's it was fun for a lot of people to trash the 80's but time has been kind to a lot of the music and movies especially of the decade of excess.  The 90's really were just extremely boring for the most part.

I think that the 80 will be eventually looked back on as the last truly memorable decade that had some kind of identity.

Have I ever told you that I love you?  :smile:

The 1900s will be known as "the turbulent century" :bouncegiggle:

I miss the 80's. All of it, i remember it was cool to actually say "this is the 80's man!". Now nobody ever references their decade.

But what's weird is there's been little resurgance of that era, people act like it was a bad family secret we have to keep in the closet.

I remember in the 80's and some of the 90's that there were CLASSIC ROCK stations that played 70's rock music. In fact, that era was pretty popular, people were wearing tie dye and there were lots of movies about the 70's and people were into floyd and all those bands. And yet, wher eare the 80's only stations? Where are all the 80's movies beyond romy and michelle? The only thing i see retro are some old t-shirts in the juniors department.

sad

nobody really knows what a cool era that was to live in. The music was just crazy because video killed the radio star and music became about an IMAGE. And man people had some crazy images, guys were wearing makeup and scarves and girls were tomboys, even madonna was tomboyish. We had pop, metal, our fashion was outrageous as much as it was bad. It was an over the top decade that had enough of all the politicalness of the 60's and post-hippy music of the 70's. Girls just wanted to have fun and we just wanted to bang our head.

The 90's truly sucked and there's nothing really that stands out about that time fashionwise outside of some plaid t-shirts

I turned 18 in 1980. A lot of that era,for me,was a drunken blur. But  what I do remember was Ronald Reagan,(whom
every other Dead Kennedys song complained about);scaring the neighbors by playing Black Flag as loud as possible;being homless for awhile in NYC; my first REAL girlfreind; hearing rap music (in NYC over a boom box in the Bronx) for the first time;Thrash metal,speed metal, going to bars with my metal head freinds, fighting in the street in Long Island,Live Fast,Die Young...except I didn't die...though I know a lot of people who did. I was young,crazy,and I was NEVER going to die. 

 Lotsa good times...lotsa hard times ( which I brought on myself)....but I was LIVING life. I had to do it all...at least once. And as a result I've been,in a way,dealing with the fall-out of that era  ever since. Ah....such is life!

Me and my Dad in Lawton on Christmas...circa 1985...

(http://i93.photobucket.com/albums/l79/RCMerchant/manson1024.jpg)



The scar on my chin is a result of a car accident from the previous year-I plowed a 1962 GMC into a tree (sober yet!). It wasn't even my truck...it was my freind Bud's! He came to see me in the hospital-(I had broken my legs too) and the first thing outta his mouth was "What's my truck look like?" It looked like scrap iron,is what it looked like! The engine was practically in the cab! I hit that dam tree head on-dam muddy Michigan back roads...grrr....

...and with my Ma on L.I. in 1988...

(http://i93.photobucket.com/albums/l79/RCMerchant/manson1025.jpg)

The next year I entered rehab for the first time.

Ronnie - there is something very like "St. Elmo's Fire" (another great 80's song) clinging to you in that last pic . . . confirming something I have always suspected -

YOU ARE THE CHOSEN ONE!!

Now we must go and retrieve the amulet of destiny before Lord Murgo finds it!

Huh...believe it or not...I never seen St. ELMOS FIRE (hangs head in shame) I don't even know what it's about!

As for chosen-as Dana Andrews said in CURSE of the DEMON-"Choosen? Choosen for what?"
Not this,I hope  :buggedout: ! ---->

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GyRxtxXX70E

I'm a total child of the '80s.  We moved to San Diego in '81, I graduated from high school in '82, man what a time to be alive!  Loved it all - the clothes (especially the girls in the clothes  :teddyr: ), the music, the everything.  Used to have friends that talked like Valley Girls, and yes, Valley Dudes.  Love all those movies that are just so totally '80s.  About 80% of the music in my CD collection is '80s stuff.  Was just listening to Loverboy's album "Keep It Up" when I was working out yesterday.  Want a subwoofer demo on my stereo?  You'll get Def Leppard's Hysteria. 

I remember parts of the 80's. those were my teen years so there was a lot of drunken debauchery which occurred in my life during that time. I do like to tell people that cocaine ruled the 80's cause how else can you explain a lot of things that happen like the retro active music, fashion, movies, and such. I mean parachute pants, what the hell were we thinking?
I still listen to a lot of the hair bands that were popular during that time. Granted my kids groan now when I do.

Having also lived through the '70s, I can honestly say that parachute pants were a VAST improvement over leisure suits  :tongueout:. And yes, I had a couple, though I never owned a pair of parachute pants. I've seen them in a few stores recently, and I've been tempted (if for no other reason than to embarrass my daughter), but I have thus far resisted.

I love much of the music of the '80s, and it makes up a large part of my music collection, that and the music of the '40s. I went to college in the '80s, and while I didn't participate in the drinking, drugs and wild sex (I went to a small religious college--those things were hard to find), I did come out of my shell a lot more, and I will always look back on that decade with great fondness (at least until senility sets in and I can't remember it anymore).

ah yes, the aerobic trend. When suddenly fitness and aerobic classes and jogging became trendy. The cotton short shorts with the strip on the side and knee high socks. The all important headband and of course wrist bands because we can't have sweaty wrists

and while this was more of a late 70's phenomenon, i remember all too well the terry-cloth fabric shorts. Then came legwarmers thanks to Flashdance mid-80s and the aerobic outfits women wore to the gym were more like swimsuits

i have to say of the worst fashion, nothing was quite worse than how most of us looked in gym class from the late 70's to mid 80's

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LgYi80pLif0

anyone want to name this movie without looking at youtube? ;-)

Here's me after I just stepped out of my DeLorean Time Machine...

(http://i389.photobucket.com/albums/oo336/backto86_bucket/DSCI0223.jpg)

(Yeah you can laugh, go ahead... :bouncegiggle:)

The 00's are so dull make the 90's look like like style heaven. At least the fashions and music were cool early to mid ninties (Tank Girl).
This decade is easily the most boring.
 :bluesad:

And kids telly is rubbish these days.

No Real Ghostbusters, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles or Thundercats.

I feel sorry for 'em.

That's why they're so screwed up.

Wow...I gotta give you karma just for having the juevos to walk around in public in that get up!  :thumbup: You are definitly a classic!   :cheers:

What I remember about 1984 and 85, which was before i was into metal and all that:

Hot summer, listening to  "Let's Dance" by Bowie on my JAMBOX. If I heard a song I liked I would tape it. I used to create tons of mix tapes. I wore bad fashion like pink velcro shoes and neon shirts with the big plastic bracelets or the slinky bracelets. I even had a thermal shirt that changed colors with body heat. (Don't wear that in gym class) We had cable but back then it was pretty much just HBO, MTV and a couple other stations. the HBO movie premiere would come on and i'd watch the intro all excited wondering what movie would be coming on because we never had a tv guide and the tv never told us what was going to play. Saturday night i was into WCCW so i could watch the von erichs wrestle from 10-12am. Going to the MALL was the best place for teens to hang out, and we'd get dropped off there all day and hang out at the arcade or boy watch. Went to see Gremlins. Remember shows like Family Ties and Knight Rider. Eating Tombstone pizza was a treat, there wasn't much to choose from in frozen food back then outside of Hungry man.

"Aligator" came on tv and I was so psyched to see it, my brother of course went outside and shut down power to the house to p**s me off. He also used to disable the doorbell so i couldn't hear my friends ringing the bell.  I loved Apple Fruit roll-ups which they don't sell anymore and pudding pops. We ate Mortons frozen donuts for breakfast, "Where's the beef" was on everyones tongue and "omg gag me with a spoon", totally grody and barf me out. We all made fun of the valleygirl talk. Watched LIVE AID on tv and loved Queen (i still do). Would have slumber parties where we'd dress up and crimp our hair and listen to cindy lauper. Station signoff still went on, but i can't remember if HBO went on all night in the early days. We'd watch MTV tho, get all excited for the video world premiere. Going roller skating at Skateland with all the disco lights flashing as "Thriller played". I usually sat out that song because i refused to like Michael Jackson.  I still have my stuffed animal Ewok my uncle bought me when I was too old for stuffed animals.  Passed a Mad Lib around in class, Ronald reagan was forever in office and we made fun of him all the time because he was going senile. The russians were still our enemies but the movies were trying to make them our friends. Crack was new and everyone thought AIDS was a gay disease (talk about the biggest lie and an even bigger mistake for the public health officials and reagan administration that never talked about it) Social classes never seemed as divided. There were the rich yuppies and then everyone else. The have and have nots, the preps and the geeks, the freaks and the ropers, the skaters and the punks and the new wavers and of course the posers


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i1NKoMNy5bY
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ArbARCeam3I

What i loved about LIVE AID is with all the stars, nobody expected s**t from Queen. They weren't huge in the music scene as much as the late 70's.  Freddy knew he had the worlds attention, the whole world was watching LIVE in front of a huge crowd and he truly fed off of that energy. Freddy went out there and kicked everyones ass

Susan, your clip reminds me of Perversions of Science  :teddyr:


http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=_Gp4u5vR0hk&feature=PlayList&p=245AFCB6158200CD&index=0

doggett, looks like they intentionally ripped off the HBO themes (there were a couple during that time) and instead of going to outspace they go to inner space.

the HBO theme tho was the bomb, i used to get SO excited when it came on with my bowl of popcorn i could hardly contain myself. I didn't care if the movie sucked, because back then you are watching a fairly recent movie free on your tv! No going to the video store for your vhs or beta rental

I remember watching that HBO intro.
It did make you excited to see the movie.   :smile:
They changed it 4-5 times throughout the 80's, but it essentially remained the same.

I have a lot of memories from the 1980's and many of them are very vivid.  Though I seem to remember more from the second half of the 80's than the first half.

I especially remember when I was first exposed to hard rock & metal.

I borrowed Bon Jovi's "Slippery When Wet" from a friend and it was all over.  I became a huge metalhead after that.  My tastes started out with Ratt, Twisted Sister, Poison, Warrant etc...and then progressed into harder and harder stuff.
I still like the 80's hair bands and it's still awesome to crank up a hair metal song while cruising in the car with the windows down.   :thumbup:
That was what defined the 80's the most for me...
The music.

Since we're sharing pictures, here's me in 1980 when I was 6 years old.
(see the date at the top left corner)
(http://img149.imageshack.us/img149/3408/4ofusag2.jpg) (http://imageshack.us)

The two Filipino girls are Grace (far left) & Maria. (far right) The other girl is their cousin Dawn.
Grace & Maria lived up the street from me.  Grace & Dawn are 2 years older than Maria and I, who are two months apart.
In this pic, we had gathered at a local park to participate in the MNB Bike Races.
(notice our shirts are all the same)

And here's another from when I was in Jr. High School.
I was in a play called "Hiding Mr. Hale" and it was set during Revolutionary War times in a one-room schoolhouse.
See the two boys in the front row wearing white?
I'm the one on the right. 
And that's Maria to the left in the pink dress. (2nd from left, front row)
(http://img149.imageshack.us/img149/2114/mrhaleip2.jpg) (http://imageshack.us)

Yeah, I didn't hit puberty until I was almost 15 years old.   :tongueout:

I have lots of great memories from the 80's.
That era had a certain feel to it that hasn't been duplicated.
And I agree about how this decade hasn't seemed to offer anything really memorable.
But who knows?  Maybe 20 years from now we'll look back at these years fondly.
Hindsight really is 20-20.

I thought that 20 yrs ago about the '60s...

When you say Lawton, do you mean Lawton, Oklahoma?

He's a Michigan man... :teddyr:

ya'lls pics are nothing compared to what i got. I have shots of me with the biggest hair you ever saw on a human head...lol

I want to see!  :smile:

This was 1988, before i bought my leather coat and stared wearing fishnet stockings. Yeah - it was a bad "haira" for me. The year prior I was wearing my hair flat. The year prior to that i was feathering..lol But the funny thing is a ton of girls used to ask if I could cut or style their hair for them because nobody could seem to fathom how i got mine so damn big. I think i wanted to outdo all the rockers

so if we're having a bad  80's photo contest.... I win



(http://i14.photobucket.com/albums/xxx.jpg)

If you want to see 80s street cred...check this out... some you may have seen....most you want to forget about...:teddyr:

(http://www.geocities.com/darksider66/voltron.jpg)
Those are Voltron PJs...
(http://www.geocities.com/darksider66/uwarrior.jpg)
THE POWER OF THE WAH-YAH!  Plus Epcot shirt from the 80s
(http://www.geocities.com/darksider66/smurfmobile.jpg)
Smurf mobile...cuz thats how I roll...
(http://www.geocities.com/darksider66/markclown1.jpg)
Clowns...that isn't Circus by the way...but note the Pacman outfit...
(http://www.geocities.com/darksider66/markbf.jpg)
That is a Britny Fox tape...

Marry me!  :smile:

This would be the top reason for the hole in the ozone layer.  Susan killed most it with the hairspray used in this picture.    :bluesad:

don't be talking s**t about aqua net. That stuff was like the holy grail for every hair band that ever was

That reminds of how we used to spray it on our boots or on the ground in the shape of an anarchy symbol or something and light it on fire. Poof. The funniest and stupidest thing we ever did was spray my friends jeans from seam to seam (ankle to thigh) during a party and set it on fire. Normally you can pat it out on your jeans because we did this all the time. But because of the long vertical strip she couldn't get it out and it was a moment of panic

the rest of us were just keeping our hair away from the flame

We don't get Aqua Net over here, so I use Elnett:

(http://mybeauty.punt.nl/upload/elnett.jpg)

I need my hair cutting a bit, as it's almost impossible to back-comb and get a decent "big" look... :smile:

At this point I wish I had the picture of me in my old Culture Club shirt.  Yes...I had a Culture Club shirt with Boy George's face on my chest.  I feel so icky now thinking about it.  I'll have to dig that picture up. 

My brother has a great one of him striking a model pose in his early 20s while wearing a "Choose Life" shirt.  I think he also had a shirt that said, "Frankie Says Relax". 

I can vividly remember dancing to Culture Club's "Karma Chameleon" at a school disco while wearing a Darth Vader dressing up costume.

Very fondly.  I like it better now than I did then (not that I've ever really watched it.)  Your '80s pic is hot;  I like it.   :cheers:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iliLnQmaEOA

I attended many great live shows in the 1980s: PRETENDERS (I was right out front...CHRISSIE HYNDE shrugged at me!!) STEVIE RAY VAUGHAN just weeks before he was killed, he opened for JOE COCKER, YES (reunion in the round) CULTURE CLUB...
(yeh, Darksider, I liked 'em too)  :lookingup:  They're alright...  :bouncegiggle: 
... ERIC CLAPTON with MARK KNOPFLER, THE POLICE, PETER GABRIEL, PHIL COLLINS, U2, MIDNIGHT OIL, THOMPSON TWINS (BERLIN opened for them or did they open for EURYTHMICS?) STYX, HOWARD JONES, DAVID BOWIE, THOMAS DOLBY ... surprised I can remember as many we were usually behaving badly  :lookingup: :drink:

In the '80s it was still great to go to the ballpark to watch the PHILLIES at Veteran's Stadium or the METS at Shea Stadium (both teams usually playing each other or the PIRATES or the ASTROS)  YANKEE Stadium was a dream - easy to get to, family friendly, good seats at reasonable prices (not that the old timers then thought any of that...) I found YANKEE stadium by far the friendliest of the three... lots of good times.  And a few not so good... 
:cheers: 

Back in the 80s I had all the records.  I used to cue my friends to say that I had "all the records" (yeh I was even then arrogantly certain of my great taste...)  :hatred:  :lookingup:  :drink:  :wink:

I lent a cool jean jacket to somebody, covered with pinbacks and cool crap... it didn't come back...

Live Aid was a unique event. I remember watching as much of it as possible when it came on and you're right, Freddy Mercury and Queen was at their best. I remember when hearing about Bob Geldof creating, my first thought was, "The guy who shaved off his nipples in The Wall is doing a global concert?"
 
I did find a link that might be fun to look at which give a brief history of the decade.
http://kclibrary.lonestar.edu/decade80.html
It's from Lone Star College - Kingwood which is based in Kingwood, TX. While not a complete list of things 80's it does have some interesting things listed which I forgotten about like Smurf figurines, Those things were everywhere.