Posted on 12/30/2004 5:44:09 PM PST by psimpson2005
I'm not a big country fan (but I enjoy Toby Keith) but it's alive and well on radio around here. Akron, Cleveland, Youngstown, and Wooster all have 1 country station each.
I graduated in 1995 too.
What's kinda funny is that many country stars today "rock" harder than many "mainstream rock" acts do.
I still like looking at Alyssa. I did back in '88 and I do now! She's a lib nutcase, but she is a hooooot woman.
Best one is Master of Puppets with Kill Em All a close second.
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I've found that a lot of 80s acts, their new material sucks. It's either watered down versions of their older stuff (think Bon Jovi-who sucked anyways after "Living on a Prayer") or a pathetic attempt to sound modern (Metallica, anyone).
Sammy Hagar and Alice Cooper's new stuff is good though.
I like that song in a nostalgic way. It's kinda humorous.
* When a 21-year-old guy told me he thought "The Princess Bride" was some kind of chick flick or for young girls. I was born in 1975, a true child of the 80's. Those in their early twenties don't even know who Holly Hobby is. People think all teens are "Generation X," but the truth is, the youngest of "Gen X" are about 25, and the oldest are approaching 40!
* GI Joe Public Service Announcements make me feel terribly old. Isn't it convenient that GI Joe guys always showed up in a situation? "And knowing is half the battle." "GI JOOOOOOOOE!"
* Toys that I REMEMBER appearing at the local Sears in between visits are now legally old enough to drink! He-Man is 23, GI JOE: A Real American Hero is 22 & The Transformers are now 20!
* The man who was president during many of our births, Ronald Reagan, passed away on Saturday, June 6, at the age of 93. He was an icon of the 1980s, and he will be missed. God bless you Ronald Reagan, you made many of us 80s kids proud Americans!!!!
* Watching a late-80s episode of "America's Funniest Home Videos" a few months ago, and seeing a video on there with a child hugging an oversized Smurf at an amusement park, and the Smurf knocks over another child! I think it was Vanity Smurf!!!!
* Remember the little girl from "Savannah Smiles", well I just found out that she died back in 1997 at the age of 22. How sad is that?
* Remember "It's Flashbeagle, Charlie Brown"???? It was this cheesy but hysterical attempt to cash in on the whole "Flashdance" craze, and it looks like it couldn't possibly crawl out of the 1980s.
* does anyone remember 7up Gold? Also, I agree that Full House is NOT an 80s television show. The 5 year rule applies and besides, the tail end of the 80s were it's dimise into the 90s. 1980-88 were the years that mattered.
* Hearing 80s and 90s songs being played on oldies stations. Heard Pour Some Sugar On Me the other day on a classic rock (!) station. Nuff said.
* I'm only 19, but am an avid fan of everything 80s. The other day I certainly felt old when a younger friend of mine commented on how much she LOVED Jessica Simpson's "Take my Breath Away." (sidenote: GACK!) I told her the original is better. She looked at me like I'd grown two heads. Same goes for No Doubt's "It's My Life." Everyone I know doesn't know that it's a cover! I'm the only one who knows!
* I was born in 82 and grew up watching stuff like Gem, Pro Stars, Punky Brewster, Heathcliff, Garfield and Friends, Alvin and the Chipmunks, most of the old (cool) stuf Nickolodeon used to show, Captain Planet, Ninja Turtles, Family Matters, Saved by the Bell, Mario Brothers (all including Super Show, Mario world, and that other one; I liked all of them), The Legend of Zelda, Captain N the Game Master, those Saturday morning cartoons (now I don't look forward to anything on Saturdays), etc. I also remember playing Atari and regular Nintendo. I also remember how we only had the floppy disks for those computers. I don't really feel old because lots of people say I look around 17 or something. But what does make me feel old is knowing that the Americans with Disabilities Act was passed in 1990. I was only in second grade then, so I'm not sure exactly how much that affected me, but I feel like that should/would've been passed like in the 70's.
* Can you believe its been twenty years since we all heard "One,two Freddy's coming for you" and Molly Ringwald turned sixteen twenty years ago. To top it all off my cousin turns twenty on November 2, this all seems like yesterday.
* My little brother (he's 15) told me he loves downloading all that 'retro' music from the Internet...retro meaning Flock of Seagulls, Gary Numan, Depeche Mode, etc. I started telling him about the videos for Ah-ha's "Take on Me" and Dire Straits "Money For Nothing" and how when they came out they were so cool because of the animation. So we downloaded those and watched them. He wasn't very interested. "This was cool back then? It looks pretty lame." I guess compared to all the computer animation now, it does look pretty lame, but I still love watching them. I caught him downloading Cyndi Lauper once. He says he thinks the clothes they wear are really funny. One of my friends is a big fan of rap, yet has never even heard of Ice T, Kool Moe Dee, or Biz Markie. To him, old-school rap is Snoop Dogg and Tu Pac. On another note, I was discussing the Simpsons with an 18 year old friend of mine and mentioned how when they came out I was 11 and I used to try and draw them. He gave me the craziest look of surprise and uttered, "I was three." Before that he didn't know my age. Simpsons weren't really out in the eighties, but I realized just how old I was at that moment...I mean, he grew up with them and I remember sitting down to their first epsiode!
* Do you remember when you didn't have to wear seatbelts? I used to sleep in the floorboard, make a tent in the hatch back and you could sit on the arm rest up front or sleep in the back glass....You and your friends could stand up in the back of the truck, open your mouth and let the wind dry it out(at least until you swallowed a bug) Boy that was fun. No rules, just pure, innocent fun! Nowadays everybody is in your business and if a kid isn't strapped and buckled into a child seat the parents are fined. Okay, maybe it's safer now, but it sure isn't any fun.
* Video games never had ratings!
* Kids know more about computers than I do (I'm only 21)!
* Remember drive-in movies? I first watched the original Star Wars at a drive-in.
* Everything so far has reminded me that I am getting older every day! Holly Sh**!! When I had last talked with my 7 year old brother and he stated that Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles was being aired, I told him that show was on when I was just a kid. He looked at me with a dumbfounded look on his face... I remember the crystal Pepsi, all the cartoons mentioned and even the game systems. Atari and up.. For God Sake I felt old when my sister graduated in '03 AND IM 23 GOING ON 24!!!! You are deffinately an 80s child if you remember the Nintendo, Super Mario Bros, Duck Hunt and even God Forbid Nintendo Cereal with Super Mario and Legend of Zelda!! I agree with the comment about the song "I want Candy" By Aaron Carter. My 10 y/o brother had me download that song and he looked at me as if I were crazy when I told him that was a song from the 80s. By the way if you want a huge trip down memory lane Go visit 80scartoons.net Have Fun and Enjoy!!
I love the House of Hair!
Alex Keaton was my hero.
Wow...this brings back memories. Stryper rules!
Punky Brewster...mmm Soleil Moon Frye...I had the biggest crush on her...and even today I wouldn't throw her out of bed for eating crackers if ya get my drift...
To ram home something you may not have realized yet, allow me to be the first to congratulate you...
You're all old!! I mean, you people remember watching Ronald Reagan get elected! That was a long time ago.
And, I have to ask, because I really am curious. What in the world are those moon-shoe things you people are talking about?
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" * Freaking hilarious. I'm a little older than you, so for you to feel old amuses me. I turned 21 in 1985 but I don't really feel old. I feel masterful because I remember so much, have seen trends come and go and can predict now with startling accuracy what's going to happen next. Awesome feeling to have lived through four decades. It helps to still look young, unlike Kelly Ripa. Anyhow, enjoy your ripeness and remember. This is the 21st century. As insistent as the boomers are in not looking old, in a few short years they'll be a machine for you face that will blast off all the wrinkles and tighten you up with the flick of a switch. ; )
* I turned 12 in 1980. I was a child of the 70's and the 80's but think myself more a child of the 80's as in pre-teen child. I read much of the stuuf that people have said in here and to them I say....BLAH BLAH BLAH. Stop yer cryin. Te he he. Try being mid 36 in 2004. Both the 80's and the 90's make me feel old. Sigh, alas...my youth has fluttered away like a flock of seaguls into a blue monday somewhere near Allentown just north of Erotic City and not tooooo far from the landing sighht of the Jefferson Starship. AGH! Someone hold me. Hold me now!
* Me and a buddy were at a bar for a wing night and summer of 69 came on and a 22 yr old kid said great song who sings it
* New coke, Crystal Pepsi, dancing flowers, beginning of MTV, John Hinkley Jr., Pitfall, Frogger, Dexy's, the Cure, Christian Slater was born the same day I was and he will be 35 in August.
* Remembering a time when there was no Internet and being the last of a generation to buy vinyl records when they were still being sold new in record stores.
* I was born in 86 and still remember the 80's! I still have care bears and popples. I like the big hair and the great music. KISS still rocks!
* I remember and revere the late Falco! He is my favorite Pop star of all time! I even have a Falco fansite at http://www.sandbat.batcave.net/falco/falcoshrine.html Other 80s artists and bands I still listen to: Prince, Duran Duran, Bauhaus (any goth children of the 80s here?) Love and Rockets after Peter Murphey went solo, and Depeche Mode. I still think 80s rap is the best rap. Groups like Public Enemy, Afrika Bombatta, Salt-N-Pepa, Digital Underground, and rappers like Sir Mix-A-Lot, Biz Markie, Grandmaster Flash and Fab 5 Freddie were where it was at! I remember when Michael Jackson was black. I remember when he was considered respectable, and it seemed that his popularity would never fade. Whether or not we think he's guilty of what he's accused of, most people agree that the King Of Pop is an unrecognizable shadow of his former self. I remember the Iran-contra scandal with Ollie North. I remember WHY it was such a scandal, and I see what is going on in Iraq and the Middle East today as Reagan cold war policies gone horribly, horribly wrong. I remember when SWATCH watches and Guess Jeans were the height of fashion, I remember the Swatch commercial that had "Rock Me Amadeus" in it (as any loyal Falco fan should) and I remember the Pepe Jeans commercial with T'Pau that pretty much caused that band to tank. I was absolutely enamored of the Transformers, I got in the Ninja Turtles Bandwagon (and I remember when kids at my junior high used to wear TMNT band-aids as a fashion statement!) My friends and I (all proud children of the 1980s) still play games on our original grey Nintendo consoles. When I was very young, we had an Atari, and we would actually gather around the TV as a family to play PONG. I remember when WARGAMES and GOONIES were considered the coolest movies EVER. I also remember fondly watching Michael J. Fox vehicles such as TEEN WOLF and the Back To The Future films. And now all of this stuff is coming back. I see it being pushed as "Nostalgia" at the Hot Topic store every time I go to the mall. As one other poster here put it: We children of the 80s are the new "Old School.""
Last Temptation is probably my favorite, but I love Brutal Planet and the new Eyes album. Matt thinks BP is too hard for him (wimp). Alice Rocks! What is scary, is his 1980's Trash album was his "comeback".
mine too, in a way. Hubby rebelled against his lib parents by wearing a dress shirt and tie to HS, and reading Milton Friedman. He also had a pic of Reagan in his room (his mother hated THAT).
I'm going to get hammered for this, but I liked "Clones (Aren't We All)" back in 1980. I was a pretty big Cars fan at the time.
I can remember the song being debuted on that variety show hosted by "Pink Lady" (the two Japaneese women who could barely speak English).
There were some other good songs on the album as well.
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