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What Do You Remember About the 80's?
Posted by faithsju243 • 1/16/09 • Subscribe to this Discussion [RSS] • Report This Topic
Topics: the eighties
Just a random Friday question, is there anything that you miss about the Eighties? Or what was your favorite thing from the 80's? Were you fascinated with the sorbid late night soap operas like Dynasty and Knots Landing?
Were you obsessed with the over-indulgence of the decade and everything neon?
Personally I miss my LA Gears with the lights in the back.
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BIG hair...
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You mean kind of like this?
I must admit, my big hair is what I remember most! -
whoaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa - That hair has taken on a life of itself!
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@Kellybax, that's awesome I love it so eighties! You have the waterfall bangs too!
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That is some impressive hair height ya got there, Kelly. I bow to your Supreme Aquanettishness! -
Thank you, thank you! It took a lot of practice you know. My only question is.... what was I thinking???
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Ohhhh - so that involved thought....
I see now - laughs...
Now how many people agree with me... wasn't she cute? Big hair- much better than the Shattered Bob! -
You were thinking, "Wow, I am having SUCH a great hair day today!" Like the rest of us with big hair. Perfectly normal!
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@ThriftShopRomantic: It was fun, wasn't it!
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OMG I love it. I could never get my bangs to fluff out like that, so mine just went straight up, with a flip at the end
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Thank you Anok! Now my hair seems so boring. Think big hair will come back in?
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Anok, we called that the 2x4 'do, in my neck of the woods. Did you stick the sides straight out and then hanging long, as well, or just the bangs?
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@KELLY
WOW and double wow!!!....is that REEEEEALLY itty bitty you under all that hair??? WOW!! You have some awesome hair going on there girl. I kinda like that wild woman look on you. It suits you. I could picture you riding a horse like Lady Godiva. Honestly I would know it was you due to the beautiful sweet face. You still look like that....that young!! -
holy smokes this pic got me so flustered i hit report by mistake!!!
now look what the 80s have made me do!
sorry about that! -
I would not have posted that if I were you. -
That's awesome! I had bangs like that back then too! -
@rainforestrobin: Thank you hon!!
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The music. The love songs of the 1980s are incredible. It is a shame kids today many never know them. I started a blog on love songs so maybe more will hear them.
It was liked something happened in that era that made all these songs come out within a 10 year frame. Magic maybe. Any guesses?-
DISCO - No no no no ---
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the era I was born in, and I like that song that goes "I wear my sunglasses at night..." cant remember the rest, but I like it when I hear it.
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I need a little bit more....no wait I am going to google that line and come back.
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www.youtube.com/watch?v=20qEnKIuoaI Corey Hart, one of the hottest pop guys from the 80s, sounding like a creepy stalker.
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Disco was the 1970s.
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As a kid, I loved all the detective shows that were on... Simon & Simon, Riptide, Magnum PI, Remington Steele, Matt Houston... the whole bunch.
In retrospect, I'm sure they were cheesy, but I was a kid, so I thought it was great.-
Yeaaaaaah....who could beat Magnum PI, I mean the man solved the crime in a Hawaiian shirt!
Side note cheesy=eighties! -
And did he ever have the shirts!
"Above, Mr. Magnum is modeling the Red Luau model with orange and blue birds of paradise..." -
Wrong place. -
wrong place...answered the pink donkeh's remark -
I had no idea that ~ was the international symbol for moustache.
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Sorry SV I made the initial wrong placing then compounded my mistake by making you make a mistake, doh!
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Oh yeah I refuse to use the the "M" word when there is a perfectly good symbol for it.
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Massive shoulder pads.
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You mean to tell me you want massive shoulder pads back????
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First thing that came to mind, along with Jheri curls and those corkscrew curl hairdos.
There wasn't much I liked about the '80s...the music, fashion...even the cars...were soooo forgettable!
I did like Tom Selleck, though. Not so much now, knowing he is a rabid conservative. -
@Sweet, how could I forget jheri curls....you're taking me back!!!
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Magnum was a rabid conservative? I always assumed he was gay, what with the magnificent ~ and all.
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Dunno about Magnum being conservative, but Selleck sure is. He's married to a Brit actress (Jillie Mack) and they have a daughter.
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@faith...I had a roomie who had one and for Christmas I gave her a new pillow with a plastic lined pillow cover for it! She looked great in a Jheri curl, but the thing was death on the bedlinens!
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@SV, Poor sheets they didn't know what they were getting in to when she took up with that dreadful jheri!
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Nightmare on Elm Street part 1,2,3,4 and 5.
Also I remember NWA's "F#%@ The Police" ..I was 8 when i heard it.
On a personal level, we used to have a nice garden and we had lots of barbeques back then.Beautiful days.-
The 80's just wouldn't be the same without the dream stealer would it.
Side note, rap music did start to go mainstream by the mid to late eighties. -
wrong place
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Rock Concerts that cost only five - ten bucks. Headliners like Journey, AC/DC, Scorpions, Aerosmith, Foreigner, Styx etc...
Guess Jeans, Member's Only Jackets, Football Jerseys were really big.-
Yeah, I think I paid $19 to see Aerosmith and Skid Row in 1989. Not like the $80 it would cost me to see AC/DC tomorrow night. [rolls eyes] As though they've gotten better?!
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Yes yes yes, I want a members only jacket.
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Acid washed jeans and high cut shoes.-
Acid-wash jeans with teeny, tiny ankles on them. Button-fly 501s, shrink-to-fit and altered to get rid of the huge ankle flaps, with zippers on the bottom so that you could be them over your heels. 15 safety pins to tighten them down, in proper skater fashion, and to go with the ones in your ears.
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My red boots and 20 year old skin!
And from my discussion on "What are the Best Love Songs":
Love songs from the 80’s
Faithfully – Journey
If I Should Fall Behind – Bruce Springsteen
I’ll Stop the World and Melt with You – Modern English
True Blue – Madonna
Romeo & Juliet – Dire Straits
Open Arms – Journey
Take My Breath Away – Berlin-
Just heard a bit of Journey's "Wheel in the Sky" for the first time in AGES and still find I like it.
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www.youtube.com/watch?v=zJv5qLsLYoo
"All I know is that to me you look like you're lots of fun,
Open up you're loving arms I want some, want some....
You spin me right round baby right round, like a record baby right round round"
I do like Adam Sandler's version better though www.youtube.com/watch?v=j20srFBJVxQ -
My husband's list: Madonna, McGyver, A-Team, Michael Jackson's Thriller ("when he was good...before he got weird"), big hair, "the last real Star Wars movie."
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I also remember watching Little Mermaid and Dumbo in the 80s.
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The 80's...
You do realize that the PC didn't even exist -
unless you count the Radio Shack Color Computer, TRS 80 and a few others little useless timex Sinclairs... (well early 80's)-
Really I thought Apple created the first personal computer some time in 76-77 but it didn't go into mass production until 81? Either way the 80's def wasn't the computer age.
Think back then people flipped to the B side of a tape to hear the 6-7 other songs on an album. -
turntables - damn - cassette tapes - 8 tracks...
and no crazy electronics for DJing....
good times -
@BennyG
I remember cassette tapes being "the big new thing!"
When I was younger, we used to set up our own little dance club in the basement and play 45s and invite friends over and everything. Mom would come down with cheese whiz and crackers and those little sugar water drinks that came in every color but all tasted the same. The bottle looked like a little barrel with a foil top. And there we were, ten kids between the ages of 7 and 9 dancing like crazy to Kool & the Gang, Michael Jackson, and Donna Summer. (c. 1981)
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Pontiac Firebirds, mullets, Farrah Fawcett hair and posters, string bikinis and one-piece bathing suits with legs cut up to the waist!
Exercise videos...Dungeons & Dragons...Trivial Pursuit.-
And the Chevy Monte Carlo Super Sport!
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And late-70s Camaros.
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Bitchen' Camero!
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I inherited an '81 Camaro lowrider that had been my dad's mid-life crisis. It was the car I drove in high school.
b*tchin camaro, indeed! -
I was in love with my Dad's Camero but he totally wrecked it before I was of age to drive....what a tool!
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21 Jump Street, crimping irons, and blue eyeliner. And wearing multiple pairs of socks at the same time, and actually thinking you looked hot.
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Oh yah...the Miami Vice look: sport coats with Tshirts and stubble.
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And loafers with no socks
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I loved my multiple slouch socks. I also had PINK hightop sneakers. With velcro. I wore them until they were not so pink anymore and kinda fell apart.
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Oh yeah before Miami vice if you went out unshaven, wearing a suit jacket with a t shirt and no socks people just assumed you were a mentally ill homeless alcoholic.
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@Anok I know I can count on you to remember everything. How could I forget 21 Jumpstreet when this is what I call my long time crush we always watch it together.
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And colored mascara - nothing says, "I'm a fine individual," like blue eyeliner and blue mascara, with blue eyeshadow!
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Oh see now, my hi-tops were black Reeboks. I used to wear them with my black stir-up pants, and neon colored socks - rolled, not slouched
Does anyone else remember folding the bottom of their jeans over the ankles? -
Faith- Oh yes, I discovered Johnny Depp in Jump Street. Now I realize, that was a LONG LONG time of liking Johnny Depp.
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@legbamel
You totally stole my answer! I was going to say green eyeshadow/mascara combination!!
What about MEN with the big hair? (The guy from AHA (Morton Harkett, I think? i can't believe i remember that!) -
Yes, the 80's, when men permed their hair
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Oh, dear god, the man perm. How could anyone have thought that was sexy? I blame Russell Whats-his-name from Air Supply for popularizing the look.
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How about Vans? The Walkman? Deely-boppers? Cabbage Patch Kids and the Atari 2600? or The Village People?
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I had all of those, and still have the Atari and the Village People 45s.
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Atari - check! Cabbage patch kids - Check! Garbage pail kids - check!
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I was married to an Atari exec in the early 80s. We got all the games pre-release (they were just a little circuit board with a chip on them...no plastic cartridge shell).
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Oh wow, that's neat.
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I still have my Michael Jackson records from the 80s, including his narration of ET. I wouldn't be surprised to find a poster or two in the boxes of stuff from my old closet my parents mailed to me when they sold the house.
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I don't know if you had these in the states but Soda streams, the machines for making fizzy drinks.
You bought it, made three fizzy drinks then put it at the back of the kitchen cupboard.-
Not that I remember. We did have the snow-cone phase, though.
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Was that the make-your-own snow cone machine that looked like Snoopy's doghouse with a crank on the side? I had that.
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Yes! The snoopy one, oh how I loved that stupid ice shredder with the syrupy flavor stuff!
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TSR doesn't do valuations... But I'm not sure that a Snoopy Snowcone maker would be worth a ton currently unless it was mint in box. Especially because I think they've reissued some. But still, in memories, very, very cool!
I didn't have one, but sure wanted to try it. -
They tried to bring them back in various forms, but the new ones were just rubbish. They didn't shave the ice just-so, they broke after like, one cone, and they had waaay too many "new and exotic" flavors.
I mean, all you need is red and blue.
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was the fanny pack or however you spell it, was that from the 80s? cause if it was, then we should arrest the idiot that thought of that ridiculous fashion item.
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I believe that was the early 90's. Close enough, anyway
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@Sensico....don't tell anyone but that's my random thread for next Friday.
(whispering, keep it on the QT)
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oh oh and the sexy side pony tails!
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@Endlessly....There was nothing better than a side pony tail. I used to wear those all the time with a waterfall bang as high as the ceiling and my La Gear with the lights, acid washed jeans and off the shoulder shirt tied at the side!
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Yes! I was going to say, only with an off the shoulder sweatshirt and BIG earrings
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And don't forget the banana combs!!
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What do I remember? Big hair, shoulder pads, "new age" music (Yani etc...), going to college, getting married. GOLD was de-controlled. It had been around $35 an ounce for eons and then when it got de-controlled it went up to $1000 an ounce. The higher price caused everyone to want to wear gold jewelry (conspicuous consumption)to show off. Mr. T - are you listening?-
Hey, Mr T is still rockin' his signature style,
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Flock of Seagulls!!!
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Does anyone remember jellies, Jamms, and those itty-bitty sneakers? (I think they were called bo-bos)
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Do you mean these lovelies?
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OMG LOL! I saw a pair in a store a few months ago - I was in shock!
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Ah, jellies... my mother refused to give up the jellies trend long after they were no longer popular.
That woman would Crazy Glue them when they'd break in spots, because "they came in so many colors that matched her outfits."
Now that's loyalty.
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I had the purple black and white LA Gears with the ribbon shoe laces. I miss scrunchy socks, and tee shirts with beaded sleeves...lol. I miss Kids Incorporated...that show was the ish. I miss Bel Biv Devoe and the old Michael Jackson.-
"That girl is pooiiison!"
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Hell yea!! Lol! I'm telling you, for a good ole time, go on You Tube and look up old videos and commercials.. flash back, major.
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@Lotusb....Poison....Poison...never trust a big butt and a smile that girls is poisooooooon!!!!!
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I was watching VH1 the other night, and they had one of the music countdowns - and most of the videos were from the 80's.
I was like, OMG I love this song!! And my husband looked at me like I had three heads. I forget that back then, our age difference was a lot "greater" in terms of social exposure. Whoops -
LMAO @ Faith. YES, that was the song.
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I don't remember much, I was only around for three years of it! I remember singing along to Eternal Flame by The Bangles when I was two, if that counts -
I miss my hair. But honestly, what I miss about the 80's are my high school friends, the fun I had then, the music. The time was just care free. I only had to worry about myself. Not saying that I do not enjoy myself now, it's just that in the 80's it was easier times, for me. -
People were also less crazy back then. Never had to worry about a school shooting. The thought of it never popped into any kids mind back then.
The worst was just the making out in the halls all day long. Maybe a fight once in a great while. That is as bad as it got. -
I miss that hair Kelly. I hate the short hair on girls today.
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How could I forget LL Cool J and his boombox.
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I'm licking my lips just thinking about it.....YUM!
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Power, it starts with P like...erm, kitty
That was LL Cool J, right? I think that was the early 90s, though. -
OMG, his lips are soooo sexy, *screaming like teenage girl*
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LLCoolJ, Tone Loc, and MC Hammer were (I think) 1989 or so.
My 80's groove was all about Prince. (And yes, I think he's taller than me -- maybe with his platforms on).
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LL was the 1980s. He was one of the best. I have him on my rap music blog. Roxanne Shante was my favorite rapper from 80s though.
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BLUE eyeshadow!! Oh I so wanted to be one of
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The kids cartoons were way better in the 80s then they are now. Some say this is because I was a kid in the 80s but I disagree. Ive seen some of the new kids cartoons and they are awful. -
@ SWAY
I couldn't agree with u more!! HEEMAN and SHERAA were my all time faves.
but the smurfs,care bears,and rainbow bright were all runnin a close second.
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@Hollythehousewife....HEMAN and SHERAW were cool but you can't forget the Smurfs. Come on now the Smurfs were the bestest!
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@ faith
you didn't finish reading my comment did you?
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All the awesome hair bands...glamor rock kicks ass!!! -
Um, excuse me everyone. Does anyone else besides me remember the AIDS scare, or have we all forgotten and moved on? It was all everyone talked about for the entire 1980s.
Not to mention John Lennon was assassinated, and where would we all be without Reagan?-
@Riverstxx, there was also a crack epidemic but we would like to look back on the good and not dwell on the bad.
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I was honestly not old enough (or erm, "mature" enough) to have been affected by either crack or AIDs in the 80's.
So, obviously, that's why I don't remember it off the top of my head.
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personally, 80s gave the best of music
-- michael jackson, culture club, george michael, eurythmics, duran duran, sheena easton
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You're missing Prince & Debarge!
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I loved all those groups and singers you named. The 80's was great times.
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OMG, My other favorite song is "Take on Me" by Aha
c'mon you know you like that song. -
Metal bands
Pretty in Pink
Vinyl
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My favorite thing about the 80's was my career taking off. But I didn't get to enjoy much else. I was too busy in the boiler room tending to operations while studying Hebrew on break. -
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@LGram, where would we be w/o leg warmers. This is why everyone's two cents is needed. Anok reminded me of 21 Jumpstreet and Jellies.
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Leg warmers, ala flash dance!
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aww. who can forget? I wanna bop w/ya baby all night long.
Or. Boosom Buddies and One day at a time. -
THe hairstyles has to be a big one for sure.-
Ya gotta love that aqua net
and dippity dew
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Yes. That big hair thing. We put a shovelful of grease until the hair hardens and remains stuck for years. The really adventurous ones would even add glitters for toppings so you get hair that shines and sparks and wouldn't budge even when when the rest of you had been blown away by the tornado. The british new wave artists fix their hair to stand up with the tips hanging above the eyes a la edward scirsorhands. But I thought the guys who sported that look eventually get exposed as closet queens, hahaha!!!! -
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thriller michael jackson black wow -
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I don't remember anything as I didn't exist then. Wish I had though, from what I hear the music was good, the fashion was terrible and then there was the whole Thatcherism thing.. would have been an interesting era to witness. -
The Safety Dance (that crazy gypsy blond haired woman always cracked me up)
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I don't remember anything. Not because I was so incredibly high all the time, but because I was born in the late eighties.-
@friday13, don't worry you're an honorary member of the 80's. Here's a mullet and loafers without socks to you
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I will wear them for next Halloween!
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The fashion was bad sometimes. The girls hair was great. They spent forever looking good for the guys. Their hair must have took forever each morning to get that way. Guys hair was just too long though.
Check out my 80s music blog sister for the best 80s songs if you have time.-
OMG I used to spend sooo much time in front of the mirror getting that just right shade of jade eyeshadow to look good with my new eyeliner
I remember one day, I was trying to do my hair (I was rocking the "wall" bangs with the flip at the top, and wings at that time) and I had to be outside - I was late, and there were people waiting for me in the yard and driveway. I kept looking out the window - with my curler firmly stuck at the top of my bangs, and the crisp smell of burning aquanet and hair lingering in the air...thinking to my hair - oh, God please hurry up! Why dear God why?! are these bangs not setting?!
In retrospect, I think my panic was a bit over the top - but at that moment in time it was just sheer and utter panic of not being ready in time, and the thought of being seen with undone hair was mortifying.
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I was never big into hair and make-up, but my sister would get up at 5 in the morning to do her hair so that she had time to re-wash it and start over if things didn't go well. It was disturbing to see how frantic she was about it just for school, especially when I wanted to take a shower at 6:30.
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I remember being in my twenties. I remember being in the army and at college. I remember hating a couple presidents then too. And I remember some things that probably shouldn't be aired on a public forum.
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JESUS...LMAO
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You were a trouble maker, weren't you?
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Also some concerts: Gang of Four, Iggy Pop, The Cramps.
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the uber tight jeans! is it possible that this is the reason why there weren't any population booms in all the countries?! haha.
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Yeah, those and the cocaine.
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Funkadelics were so cool!
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like oh my god .... I like so totally loved Emilio Estevez and Judd Nelson in St Elmos Fire and Breakfast Club, they were so like totally cool but what......everrrrrrrrrr
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The Breakfast Club is classic.
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The Breakfast Club is probably the only movie from the 80s that I will happily watch
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Oh yea thought about this last night.
STONE WASHED JEANS -
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I remember quaaludes... or maybe I don't. I remember disco. I remember falling in love, and out. I remember disco. I remember deciding that there had to be more to this Life, and joyfully finding out that I AM right about that.
I also remember Kelly's hair. Amazing art.
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Two of the greatest comedy movies of all time, both 1988...
Direty Rotten Scoundrels, starring Steve Martin and Michael Caine.
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K-9, starring Jim Belushi and that incredible German Shepard, Jerry Lee, in the best performance by an animal in a motion picture I have ever seen.-
Dirty rotten scoundrels was hilarious, the scene where he whips S Martin's legs makes me cry.
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Random I know but how could we forget this guy.
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what is that? a care bear thingy
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@Sensico, OMG that's Teddy Ruxpin you are so not in the cool kids clique anymore.
Shaking head in disbelief.
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Hey, I was born in 87 and basically learned everything I know about the 80s during the 90s...this teddy bear was not something that was mentioned about the 80s
Oh, ok Im back in, good cause I was going to secretly start crying, I have never been kicked out of something before.
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