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Unposter
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Memory is a little sketchy but...
MTV
Friday Night Videos
Did I mention videos?
Atari/Nintendo/Odyssee (?)
NBC's Thursday night line-up: Cosby, Family Ties, Cheers and Night Court.
Terminator and the beginning of the Schwartzenager mystique.
Gary Gygax AD&D Books
Iran-Contra Affair & Oliver North
Someone shot Buckwheet SNL
Larry Bird vs. Magic Johnson
The baseball that went through Bill Buckner's legs to keep the Bosox curse going.
Joe Montana
People wearing "shades."
Michelob
The last episode of MASH
Michael Jackson sitting next to Webster at the Grammies
Lionel Richie suddenly becoming really, really popular. Remember he can't slow down...
Hands Across America
Live Aid
Band Aid's Do They Know its Christmas
Artists Against Aparteid.
South African Aparteid.
Heavy Metal Pop like Ratt and Whitesnake.
The Firm's Radioactive.
70's acts doing one last album and making a lot of cash
New Wave and Synthesized music
Everyone saying things sucked and wishing that even if the 60's couldn't return, at least the 70's would come back.
People actually concerned about what we were going to do with the homeless.
Children on Milkcartons and tons of concern about runaways.
Dreaming of running away myself.
People started talking about Yuppies.
Who were all those Rat Pack Children stars? I remember having a crush on Ally Sheedy.
St. Elmo's Fire, The Lost Boys and The Outsiders.
Who was the Red-headed actress in 16 Candles, Breakfast Club and Pretty in Pink? Can't seem to remember her name anymore...\
Oh, maybe I could go on forever... |
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Fishead soup
Joined: 24 Jun 2007
Location: Korea
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The Eighties was the decade when the punk adopted a uniform. From 1976-1979 it was much more do it yourself.
The Eighties punk uniform was doctor Martin boots Black leather jacket with lots of studs. With either The Exploited or G.B.H. written on it.
Red tartan pants with lots of zippers.
A Mohawk or Spiky |
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DRAMA OVERKILL
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| Posted: Thu Sep 06, 2007 11:29 pm Post subject: |
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| Fishead soup wrote: |
The Eighties was the decade when the punk adopted a uniform. From 1976-1979 it was much more do it yourself.
The Eighties punk uniform was doctor Martin boots Black leather jacket with lots of studs. With either The Exploited or G.B.H. written on it.
Red tartan pants with lots of zippers.
A Mohawk or Spiky |
Ummm... I disagree. The punk "uniform" popped up around '76/'76 - it was supposed to be about about originality, but then the punk style became known and the "uniform" was adopted. I remember an interview with Johnny Rotten where he got really pissed at that - punk is about originalty; twatss showing up at punk shows made the punk dress style "uniform." I would say the 80s would be when the punk rock uniform went mainstream (subtle at first... but when it caught, off it went). |
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Jizzo T. Clown
Joined: 27 Mar 2006
Location: at my wit's end
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| Unposter wrote: |
Iran-Contra Affair & Oliver North
Joe Montana
People wearing "shades."
Hands Across America
Who were all those Rat Pack Children stars? I remember having a crush on Ally Sheedy.
Who was the Red-headed actress in 16 Candles, Breakfast Club and Pretty in Pink? Can't seem to remember her name anymore...\
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I'd forgotten about these until I read your post. People used to wear shades at night! I used to have an Ollie North fan club t-shirt. What about We Are the World? Ally Sheedy--Short Circuit and Maid to Order. Don't tell me you forgot about Molly Ringwald!
Oh, has anyone mentioned The Boss?  |
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chris_J2
Joined: 17 Apr 2006
Location: From Brisbane, Au.
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| Posted: Fri Sep 07, 2007 2:32 am Post subject: 80's |
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Sigourney Weaver in Aliens
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Unposter
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| Posted: Fri Sep 07, 2007 1:56 pm Post subject: |
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Molly Ringwald! That's it. I just didn't have time to google it.
The boss? Bruce!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
How about Who's the Boss?
How about TRS 80s? Commodore 20? VHS vs. BETA
Space Invaders! |
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chris_J2
Joined: 17 Apr 2006
Location: From Brisbane, Au.
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| Posted: Fri Sep 07, 2007 2:07 pm Post subject: 80's |
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Pacman:
Space Invaders came out in 1978. Wrong decade. |
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jaganath69
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Wigan beating Manly of Sydney 6-0 to win the inaugural world title and us lot |
Any other Aussie team than those silver-tailed b@stards and I would tell you to pull your head in! Ahh, the annual post-season p1ss swilling trip to the UK!
I remember getting ragged on at school for putting my Dead Kennedys tape on in the lunch room, some mulleted freak wanted to hear Van Halen. I remember attending the inaugural Rugby World Cup, amateurs to a man then, and watching the Wallabies beat the USA. I recall, in 1986, fearing the outbreak of WWIII as the US had bombed Libya. I remember ninja films, Sho Kasugi and the mania for everything Japanese. I remember smoking my first joint, seeing my first thrash gig and getting laid for the first time. I remember Vision skateboards, Powell Peralta and the Bones Brigade. I remember wanting to be a yuppie then not wanting to be one. I remember the 80s hard-on the kids then had for the 60s, much like Gen. Y has for the 70s today.And so on. |
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Dome Vans
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haha, I agree with Bejarano's (especially hedgehog flavour crisps and would probably add:
*Jaw breakers.
*Flek trousers
*BBC games (chuckie egg, aviator, which used to take 50 minutes to load because it was so good, must have wasted half my life waiting for games to load))
*Band Aid
*Everybody being very proud of Frank Bruno although never beat Tyson.
*Whizzer and Chips
*A metre high pile of panini football swaps
*A lot of incomplete panini sticker albums.
*Terry Butcher's blood stained head.
*Super Cup football. (The electronic one where the players would run in a straight line, and sometimes the players would break but you could still play with just their feet, looked a bit weird. I had one, loved it so)
*Easter bonnet parades at school.
*Aha
*Paul Simon dropping his glass thru the table in 'You can call me Al'
*Sledgehammer
*Muppet Babies |
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Fishead soup
Joined: 24 Jun 2007
Location: Korea
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| Posted: Sun Sep 09, 2007 6:24 pm Post subject: |
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| DRAMA OVERKILL wrote: |
| Fishead soup wrote: |
The Eighties was the decade when the punk adopted a uniform. From 1976-1979 it was much more do it yourself.
The Eighties punk uniform was doctor Martin boots Black leather jacket with lots of studs. With either The Exploited or G.B.H. written on it.
Red tartan pants with lots of zippers.
A Mohawk or Spiky |
Ummm... I disagree. The punk "uniform" popped up around '76/'76 - it was supposed to be about about originality, but then the punk style became known and the "uniform" was adopted. I remember an interview with Johnny Rotten where he got really pissed at that - punk is about originalty; twatss showing up at punk shows made the punk dress style "uniform." I would say the 80s would be when the punk rock uniform went mainstream (subtle at first... but when it caught, off it went). |
I've been seeing Korean kids wearing Vivian Westwood T-shirts. I'm sure they have absolutly no idea who she was. She got British kids wearing Destroy T-shirts with Swastikas |
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crusher_of_heads
Joined: 23 Feb 2007
Location: kimbop and kimchi for kimberly!!!!
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There is certainly a lot.
Given that I am listeing ot a tune from them right now at the top of the list would be The GoGos. |
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chris_J2
Joined: 17 Apr 2006
Location: From Brisbane, Au.
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| Posted: Mon Sep 10, 2007 4:51 am Post subject: 80's |
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Roseanne (Barr) & Dan started in 1988. |
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Fishead soup
Joined: 24 Jun 2007
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| Posted: Mon Sep 10, 2007 3:23 pm Post subject: |
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| DRAMA OVERKILL wrote: |
| Fishead soup wrote: |
The Eighties was the decade when the punk adopted a uniform. From 1976-1979 it was much more do it yourself.
The Eighties punk uniform was doctor Martin boots Black leather jacket with lots of studs. With either The Exploited or G.B.H. written on it.
Red tartan pants with lots of zippers.
A Mohawk or Spiky |
Ummm... I disagree. The punk "uniform" popped up around '76/'76 - it was supposed to be about about originality, but then the punk style became known and the "uniform" was adopted. I remember an interview with Johnny Rotten where he got really pissed at that - punk is about originalty; twatss showing up at punk shows made the punk dress style "uniform." I would say the 80s would be when the punk rock uniform went mainstream (subtle at first... but when it caught, off it went). |
I was in England in 1978 and 1984. there was a considerable change to the scene between those two dates. There was a lot more originality and creativity in the 1976-1980 period. There were no mohawks in 1976-1978
period. The music was also much more varied. Remember back then the Stranglers were considered Punk.
A big influence to eighties punk was Oi. There was the skinhead brand of Oi on one side and Crass on the other. |
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chris_J2
Joined: 17 Apr 2006
Location: From Brisbane, Au.
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| Posted: Mon Sep 10, 2007 6:09 pm Post subject: 80's |
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| I recall the punk movement took off in the US about 1984 (Joan Jett, mohawks etc). The US was several years behind the UK, where 'punk' was already in full swing in 1977. (Never mind the Bollocks etc). I also recall a quote by Paul Macartney that punk was good, as it injected new life into the music scene, then dominated by sterile disco music. |
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newton kabiddles
Joined: 31 Mar 2007
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| Posted: Tue Sep 11, 2007 1:18 am Post subject: Re: 80's |
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| chris_J2 wrote: |
| I recall the punk movement took off in the US about 1984 (Joan Jett, mohawks etc). The US was several years behind the UK, where 'punk' was already in full swing in 1977. (Never mind the Bollocks etc). I also recall a quote by Paul Macartney that punk was good, as it injected new life into the music scene, then dominated by sterile disco music. |
you're off on this, but it doesn't matter |
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