I've been able not to think about it until now.

[akiratubo]

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

[Psycho Circus]

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

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

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.

[indianasmith]

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.

[Torgo]

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.

[Psycho Circus]

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? 

[Doc Daneeka]

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.

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

[Susan]

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

[RCMerchant]

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...





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...



The next year I entered rehab for the first time.

[indianasmith]

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!

[RCMerchant]

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  ! ---->

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

[Jack]

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  ), 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. 

[meQal]

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.

[Derf]

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?

Having also lived through the '70s, I can honestly say that parachute pants were a VAST improvement over leisure suits  . 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).

[Susan]

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? ;-)

[Psycho Circus]

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



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