Reasons for Children of the 80s to Feel Old (for all of us late 70s/80s teens & youg adults)

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I miss that as well. I sometimes listen to CSX(Doesn't come in that well in Howell), although I usually listen to WMMQ out of Lansing which plays more of a variety of stuff. The WRIF is usually good around 5PM as well and even plays some local stuff at times during their request hour then.

101.3 in Grand Rapids(which I can get in Williamston) is probably the best station in the state. Plays almost everything. I even heard one song I heard only once on the old Z-Rock/The Bear(102.7) - Gary Moore's version of Shapes of Things.

Welcome to FR. Isn't it nice knowing Xers will rule the world soon? Go-go Reaganauts!

Fourth grade!!!! Now I feel old. I was 17 when it happened. Now I know I drank too much as a teenager to remember what it was all about.

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OK, I can deal with making fun of mullets and the Guido cars, but Flock of Seagulls, and the Human League rock, well maybe not rock per se, but are still quite fun to listen to. Now The Cure, they are a bunch of freaks.

That GR station sounds cool. I once heard that GR was a pretty big Progressive Rock town. I have no idea if that is true. I know that Marillion used to tour there back when they still toured the US regularly.

I get my rock music 'diversity' fix from listening to XM these days. The only problem is that their Deep Tracks station (channel 40) is almost too deep. I'd like them to split it up into a couple of eras. Perhaps early 60s - late 70s and late 70s - early 90s or current. That would be better. Of course I'm going off on a tangent now............

In the early 80s I was still listening to Zeppelin myself (I was a recent convert from ELO) and resisted alot of the 'synth' pop stuff. I did, however, like some of the new wave synth stuff that was played on rock radio here in Detroit.

Some examples of the synth-based rock stuff that was played on rock radio that I liked:

Flock of Seagulls
Split Enz
The Kings (remember "Switching to Glide"? - real big in Detroit)
The Cars (of course)
The Sherbs ("Because We Ride", "No Turning Back")

I'm sure there were others........

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I think that Gil needs to loose the stretch pants, and start jogging again.

I was born in the thirties-------enough said!

My god man how did you avoid the sabertooth tigers and tyronasourus rexs' long enough to make it to the 21st century ? just kidding :-)

" * I consider myself a child of the 70s, 80s and 90's because I was born in '74, and finished school in 1992. All of the memories shooting to the front of my mind right now are almost giving me a headache! Some of these things I haven't thought about for a decade or more. What makes me feel old, though, are the young people who talk about remembering things from their childhood that I remember not happening until I was grown.

* In July 2004 I was music directing a kids' show consisting of mostly 12 to 15 yr olds. Michael (the director) kept calling one of the girls "Brooke" when her actual name was "Blake." She asked me, "Why does Michael keep calling me Brooke?" I told her, truthfully, "Because you look a lot like Brooke Shields." All I got in response was a blank look and "Who's that?"

* Most of the things I remember have been said already...Cabbage Patch dolls...Glo Worm...My Sized Barbie (I had one..but I beat her up... :/ ) Dream Date , *She's a maniac MANIAC on the floor..and she's dancing like she's never danced before*...2 more things...Degrassi (the ORIGINAL is always the best...but I do watch TNG to see how Spike and Snake and the gang are doing...) and let me think..can you say...Pogues?! I'm a 1986 kid and I already feel old....remember Joe Blow and Big League Chew?...*wipes tear from cheek*

* When today's kids refer to me as "sir" or "mister", it makes me feel old (and I'm only 24, born in 1980 on the tail end of Generation X.)

* I felt old when Keanu Reeves went from being a dead head teen actor who said "Whoa" in every movie he starred in to being a doctor in "Something's Gotta Give." I still can't take him seriously.

* The mugshot of Michael Jackson looking like a freak of nature showing up on every news outlet and on the Internet. It's unbelievable that in just a matter of 20 years, he went from being a skinny black guy who grabbed his crotch, wanted to "Rock with You," and shocked us with "Bad," "Thriller," and "Beat It" to someone that we couldn't stop making fun of, all because of his scary face!!!!

* Talking about nostalgia, this weekend I was going through old vcr tapes and found a tape with the following: The Monster Squad, Nightmare on Elm Street, The series finale of Family Ties and last but not least the NBC TELEVISION PREMIERE Ferris Bueller's Day Off. This tape was from 1989 I find it hard to beliwve it's been 15 years and Sloan still looks hot!

* This fall, the new high school freshmen will be born in 1990. That's right...the nineties! They didn't live a single day in the 80s. And the following year, kindergarteners will be born in 2000.

* I remember when the Yankees sucked and the NY Mets owned NY.I remember when Michael Jackson was black(Amazing isnt it?)HeMan ,Thundercats,Muppet Babies,Punky Brewster,Fresh Prince,Breakdancing,Graffiti that basically sums up the 80s.If I could live through it ALL over again Id do it in a second!!!!

* Voltron. The Exxon Veldese. Coli-co-vision. Intelevision. Fraggle-Rock. Muppet-babies. The Hobbit cartoon on video or VHS. David the gnome. Mr. Wizard a.k.a Herbert something on Nickelodeon. Hardees's promo for the first Gremlins movie was on vinyl records. The Beastie Boys License to Ill, and ruining other records trying to immitate them. Constructs. Grocrey-getters! You think that the quality of the new scenes added to the Star Wars flicks degraded the quality of the orginal. Laserdisc players, that took like 4 twelve inch "CD"'s to play 1 movie. The astronaut guy and a chain saw on MTV. Ronald Reagan the actor becoming President of the USA, and Bush vs. Dukakis. Advanced Dungeons & Dragons. Mask. Supersoaker 50, 100, and 250.

* Seeing the band "Survior" doing coffee drink commercials on tv now. I love how they used the "eye of the tiger" tune in the commercial. They must be hard up for cash. LOL

* Ya know your an 80's kid when the only music you like is the stuff they sell on TV!! LOL. Also you listen to the House of Hair with with Dee Snyder and remember listening to the same music at all the high school keg parties. I remember with AC/DC's "you shook me all night long" came out in 1980. Being born in 1969, I remember my 80's years the most. The Cars like the Trans Am's and the Camaro's and also when the "Yugo" came out. We laughed a lot about that one. I still wear deck shoe's today but I don't roll my pant legs like I use to. And I still buy the Nike "Cortez" tennis shoes...LOL. I miss the 80's sooooo much. The old girlfriends and their hair styles and clothes. And I still remember when the Dairy Queen "Blizzard" first made its appearance!!

* I suppose I'm a semi-child/baby/wee-kid of the 80s, born in 1984. It's hard to say, I don't really identify with kids today born in the 1990s and later 80s, perhaps because I'm the oldest child in my family, or maybe they're all at awkward ages right now that I can no longer relate to. But-- What made ME feel old, you ask?! Babysitting an 8 yr old kid last year, I took my Gameboy with me, because *everybody* loves Nintendo (I took a Gameboy Pocket, my original was lost over 10 years ago)-- I brought Mario and Zelda to play and share with the kid. So I put in Mario and he took the gameboy from me and handed me his Gameboy Advance. He started to play Mario and asked "What's this game? Where'd you get this?" Yeah...they're not even the 'original' versions of the games; and I remember playing Zelda on floppy disks. I wonder what he'd think of the Nintendo "light gun"? Every time I think of that, the first thing that comes to mind is "Ew, you have to use your hands? That's a baby toy!" ;) Also, my little cousin, born in 1990, will be starting high school next year. Yikes!! :o The other day I found my beloved "My Little Pony" collection melting in the summer heat of my grandparents attic. Yep, I brought 'em all home with me that day. My "Pony Palace" is long gone, I'm starting to regret getting rid of it, and the glittery star on the cheek of my Rainbow Brite doll is nearly completely faded, my Cabbage Patch doll is mildewy. I don't know where my Lite Brite got off to... I sold my Easybake Oven for $5.00 at a yard sale, and my slapbracelets and sole pair of pink jelly shoes for $.50 most likely. And then there was the incident where I saw on eBay one of my favorite movies as a child ("Scruffy," about a dog) went for $40.00 as "rare" and "old." Oh, and going to 7-11 at night with my father to play Tetris and Pacman. I had to stand on a milk crate to see the games. Yeah that makes me feel old too! I'm sure most of you here probably were playing Tetris and Pacman when they were new, so really I can't talk.

* Ok seeing Cheers, Threes company, Cosby, Full House and Roseanne on Nick at Night!! They are now considered "modern classics!" Man I grew up with those shows, I feel so old! (1984)

* If you're a girl, you probably kept at least one of your talking dolls so you could scare the living daylights out of your children with it. "Look kids, this is mommy's Cricket/Teddy Ruxpin doll! This is your NEW COMPANION!"

* When I realize how dumb I was for being freaked out by my Cricket doll. God, that doll was my constant companion when I was 4 years old. When I was 7, I left the rewind button pushed to rewind the tape, but forgot to push the stop button (this was in the days when cassette players didn't automatically pop the rewind/fast forward button after the tape was finished doing so). I woke up to a strange humming noise, and when I put my ear to the doll, it was humming strangely. I played the tape, but the voice was so distorted (the button ran down the doll's batteries)! I was so scared that I didn't touch the doll for 2 years.

* Remember the final words spoken on every Cricket tape..."But for now, I'll be talkin' to ya!" as that cute music faded out? Yeah, I had a Cricket doll. Best $100 my grandparents spent to see my scream "OH MY GOD!! CRICKET!" (in a good way, of course)

* All I have to say is......THUNDERCATS!!!!!!!!!! HOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!

* I'm 25 now. I remember during my senior year in high school, I was at church. The speaker brought up the "Hands across America" campaign and "We are the world" song from about 80's. I was 17 back then at church, but when he asked if anyone here remembered that time period to raise their hand, I was literally the only person to raise my hand in a room of 100+ people. Looking back my peers that day in church couldn't have been younger than 13. But talk about feeling like the only guy to remember such a great time period. To my younger friends, the 80's were a blur. To me, they were a time of innocence, prosperity, and the feeling that life couldn't get any better as long as you had your GI-Joes, kool-aid, and your bmx bike which you'd ride all day to 7-11 for slurpees. *sigh* Long live the 80's!!"

The Ramones' parody video of it for their song "Something to Believe In"

I totally love that video I got it on thier lifestyle of the ramones tape and I played it so much I got tired of every video in it except that one. Hands across your face lol classic

The Cars (of course)

The biggest mystery of the 80's was how in the hell did goofy looking Rick Ocazak(sp?) get Paulina Porizkova?

Who by the way still looks hot today

Duran Duran is playing at a casino in our state this spring. A real sign that they are now an "oldies" act. Yes this thread does make me feel old, I grew up in the 80s (born in 70) what a GREAT decade.

Thats a good point. I remember in the 80s there was an interest in the 60s (to some extent) from my generation. Its a 20 year thing apparently. We'll probably see a real resurgence in 80s stuff real soon.

Parachute pants anyone?

We should hold up the 80s like the Boomers do the 60s.

Hey, it was "Hip to be Square"!

Somewhere out there is a video of me wearing parachute pants while playing with my band at the time. I fully expect a blackmail attempt.

I have had LIR/DRE preprogrammed for so long I hear that Spanish station every day when I flip through. Sad...