Posted on 10/03/2001 8:06:14 PM PDT by Alkhin
Since so many on here are 'pairing off' into their own generational groups...and I cannot join any of them because I a member of the loathed GenX group, *I* am going to start a thread of my own, featuring MY website. JimRob, if this is not suitable for your site, I understand if you take it off, but I cannot help myself. The others are having just too much fun!
So, my fellow 80s children, what was your fav music/event/fashion/movie from the decade that featured the best darn President of the 20th century, Ronaldus Magnus????
You'll have to go to my website to see mine!! *wink* *wink*!! LOL
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But for the REEEEALLY weeeeird shows, A&E couldn't be beat. I remember a show, it reminded me of the Nena video for 99 Luftbaloons, it was called Stations. Just weeeeird. It rarely made any sense. And it was also on with another crazy "show" called Swan Lake, Minnesota. I think the closest I could get to describing them would be The Prisoner. Just the non-linear, ephemeral story.
Nah, Night Flight on USA was way cooler!
NBC's Friday Night Videos was cool too. I remember them playing "Maniac" by Micheal Simbello (sp?) and dancing around like I was Jennifer Beals! LOL!
I specified DeLorean in memory of one of *my* fav movies, "Back to the Future" which features a DeLorean as a time travel machine. I guess the producers figured it had to be good for something!!!
I had a friend who was SO INTO Adam Ant...and we constantly scrabbled for pictures/articles and other ephemera on Harrison Ford. I had an entire corner of my room plastered with his pictures. I find his fame in the 90s patently silly when his BEST work was in the 80s and he was the "anti" celebrity...now his name falls from Joan Lunden's lips like it was some kind of holy mantra, and all the elite women in hollyweird and mainstream media giggle like they were schoolgirls at the mention of his movies....gah! Like I haven't been there, done that, y'know!!!
Anyway, I was a Men At Work fanatic. Don't ask me why...I thought they were REALLY REALLY cool, and their videos among the best, simply because you could tell they didn't take themselves as seriously, like U2 (which I liked, too).
I also liked Big Country (Stuart Adamson's voice!!...he is now living in the US in Nashville and has teamed up with Mark Hammond...I think that is his last name...they call themselves The Raphaels...and their first album came out earlier this year. Hammond, I have read, wrote songs for Dixie Chicks, Michael Martin Murphy, and other C/W musicians...)
Lets see...A-ha had THE BEST video...and the most gorgeous looking lead singer...its those Nordic boys,you know...I liked all the 'one-hit wonders', it seems...Talk Talk, Spandau Ballet...I also liked Peter Gabriel, Cyndi Lauper, B-52s, Stevie Nicks (I STILL want to dress like her, but how do you explain to your seven year old why you are the one wearing ribbons in your hair, dress in black and wear legwarmers and sing about white wing doves????), Huey Lewis and the News, Simple Minds..oh so many others...
OH, someone mentioned RUSH!!!! I didn't get into RUSH until I started dating the hubby, and he was a major fan...we still are...VERY VERY good music, although the last album I really took an interest in was Roll the Bones...Anyway, RUSH WAS COOL! We went to the Presto! Tour...the Inflatable rabbits out of the hats was really neat!! Best concert I went to...
I remember the really cool jackets, sleeveless shirts, the retro-40s, 50s and 20s looks, the Japanese styled shirts that buttoned up on the side and/or shoulder, the military look, THE HATS!!, the MULTITUDE of rock buttons and the button laden vests we wore to show them off, the really freaky makeup and hairstyles...
I remember the day we were told Reagan had been shot. I remember the Challenger being blown up and being really angry with the bimbos in my dorm who were b*tching and moaning about missing their soap operas. I remember standing in line to see Empire Strikes Back...and the shocking news that Luke had a SISTER...I remember going to DC ostensibly to watch Reagan's Second Inauguration, and getting frozen out...the Inauguration was moved to take place inside the Capitol Rotunda...we ended up staying in the hotel room watching it from TV.
Thanks guys, y'all are great!!!
Thought you two would be interested in knowing that the director, John Milius, said that "I wanted to shake Americans up and show them what war would look like on their soil." In response to those who charge that the portrayal of teens in a war situation is unrealistic, Milius said in 1984, "I must remind them that a story exactly like this is taking place in Afghanistan every day."
A wave a nostalgia just hit me. I was into punk and the bands you named. I also memorized the songs from "License to Ill"...
PIL, Helmut, Henry Rollins (B.F.), The Smiths, Echo and Bunny Men, etc. takes me back.
I'm from Philly and was able to catch a lot of the scene.
Nickelodean is replaying Family Ties...I am having a blast watching it again...Michael J. Fox looks so young!!!! Family Ties, I think BEST describes the GenXers situation...we Love conservatism, to the horror and dismay of our hippie parents...I think Family Ties was one of Reagan's favorite TV shows!
Men dancing to Michael Sembello wearing those pastel thigh warmers...not a pretty picture.
I could go on and on and I wil probably chime in again as I think of more stuff.
Like, I have foot-in-mouth disease, y'know?
I MEANT TO SAY, I was not as good as some of the other people I grew up with at pulling together a total outfit...I was clueless, as I said...
Preppy sweaters (tied and draped of course) and docksiders anyone?
What about the whole 'Ninja' movie craze? Not to mention The Karate Kid.
Heck, we still had a drive-in theater operating back then ...
BUT I WANTED TO BE HER!!! I just didn't have the guts. LOL That's too funny.
OOOO...how 'bout ANDREW MCCARTHY!!!! WHAT A BABE...
They've already been mentioned, but I must reiterate the memories of Friday Night Videos. We'd be in the cabin up north and I'd drive them nuts staying up all hours to watch that.
I remember when the hostages were released from Iran. We had a tiny transistor radio in the school office, listening to the inauguration. The secretary got on the PA and you could hear the cheers from the gym/lunchroom.
When the Challenger blew up, I was supposed to go to the doctor's that afteroon. It was my birthday, too. We sat in the waiting room just watching the TV, even after they had called me back into exam.
man I should have kept more of my stuff....*sigh*...didn't think the 80s would come back with such a vengeance...
Anyone remember the old 12" floppy disks that held something like 120K?
I'm laughing at all the memories this is bringing up.
Haven't seen SCTV mentioned yet, so I'll mention it. Letterman used to e funny too back then. I got a kick out of Harvey pekar and Larry Bud. I don't think that stuff would fly today. TV was a bit more experimental back then.
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