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Da Eighties
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« Reply #1 on: November 02, 2016, 02:13:15 pm »
I loved the 80's, best time in my life-my single 20's.  Some of the best music and movies out of the period.
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« Reply #2 on: November 02, 2016, 02:13:58 pm »
I'm a child of the 80's, born in 76.
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« Reply #3 on: November 02, 2016, 02:22:48 pm »
Quote from: mirraflake on November 02, 2016, 02:13:15 pm
Some of the best music and movies out of the period.

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Re: Da Eighties
« Reply #4 on: November 02, 2016, 06:46:04 pm »
Quote from: mirraflake on November 02, 2016, 02:13:15 pm
I loved the 80's, best time in my life-my single 20's.  Some of the best music and movies out of the period.

Yep!!!  :beer:
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Re: Da Eighties
« Reply #5 on: November 02, 2016, 07:13:02 pm »
Early 80s was new wave


www.youtube.com/watch?v=obAtn6I5rbY

Late 80s was hair bands.


www.youtube.com/watch?v=8O317T6Zlno

Those were top 10 radio play bands. I was going to concerts like this and listening to WRIF out of Detroit and WWWW out of Toledo


www.youtube.com/watch?v=yYIUih1I9JU

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Re: Da Eighties
« Reply #6 on: November 02, 2016, 07:17:12 pm »
@Cripplecreek you saw the talking heads live?

 :da man:
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« Reply #7 on: November 02, 2016, 07:24:09 pm »
The breakfast club resonated with our generation not because it was a great movie but because so many of us recognized ourselves in at least one of the characters.

Truly a masterpiece in that respect.



I was the Judd Nelson character all the way but I would have been chasing Ally Sheedy weirdness.
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Re: Da Eighties
« Reply #8 on: November 02, 2016, 07:26:49 pm »
Quote from: Freya on November 02, 2016, 07:17:12 pm
@Cripplecreek you saw the talking heads live?

 :da man:

Talking heads weren't my thing then but I did see them live in Lansing at MSU when my sister was going to school.
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Re: Da Eighties
« Reply #9 on: November 02, 2016, 07:36:20 pm »
Quote from: RAT Patrol on November 02, 2016, 07:32:15 pm
OK well, I saw Huey Lewis and the News at a small club just before they hit the big time.  I also saw Missing Persons, Billy Joel, and B. J. Thomas (I met him).  Um..I won tickets to Michael Jackson filming the Pepsi commercial as well as to some other concerts but was unable to go.  How is that for a blast from the past list?

I saw the Police and the B52s in Philly before they were really famous in fall of 80. I'm probably the only girl from NJ who never saw Springsteen or Bon Jovi, but I did see Sinatra at Resorts intl with my folks.
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« Reply #10 on: November 02, 2016, 07:36:22 pm »
'Nother victim of the 80's here. High school, US Navy and then got out and became a long haired hippie trash guitar player (see username!). Once played for a couple thousand people and opened for Molly Hatchett.  Was a really good decade...and @Cripplecreek, may the Metal gods reign forever! :thumbsup2:
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« Reply #11 on: November 02, 2016, 07:38:45 pm »
Da Eighties were not all great. Here is a perfect example....

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Re: Da Eighties
« Reply #12 on: November 02, 2016, 07:39:49 pm »
Quote from: RAT Patrol on November 02, 2016, 07:38:08 pm
Wow.  Did you sense they were on the rise?  You could certainly tell Huey Lewis was going places.  He was fantastic.

No..wasn't into him. Really wanted to see Asia but they didn't come to my college. Bummer. We really tried to get them.
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Re: Da Eighties
« Reply #13 on: November 02, 2016, 07:40:24 pm »
Quote from: Frank Cannon on November 02, 2016, 07:38:45 pm
Da Eighties were not all great. Here is a perfect example....



Remember new coke ?
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Re: Da Eighties
« Reply #14 on: November 02, 2016, 07:46:28 pm »
Quote from: RAT Patrol on November 02, 2016, 07:44:20 pm
Now I want to buy a Huey Lewis and the News cd. 

BTW, my husband and I also liked Foreigner.  "I've been waiting for a girl like you" was our song.

I think of that band from the 70s for some reason. The first time I heard of them they were on Saturday Night Live with the real good cast, John Belushi etc, and they did "Cold as ice"

P.S. that's a nice song for a romantic song.
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Re: Da Eighties
« Reply #15 on: November 02, 2016, 07:51:20 pm »
For the gentlemen
//youtu.be/PSoOFn3wQV4]
http://youtu.be/PSoOFn3wQV4
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« Reply #16 on: November 02, 2016, 07:52:33 pm »
Quote from: Axeslinger on November 02, 2016, 07:36:22 pm
'Nother victim of the 80's here. High school, US Navy and then got out and became a long haired hippie trash guitar player (see username!). Once played for a couple thousand people and opened for Molly Hatchett.  Was a really good decade...and @Cripplecreek, may the Metal gods reign forever! :thumbsup2:

I grew up in an isolated rural town where we were hard rock pretty much all the way.


www.youtube.com/watch?v=vDVLMS_Yhe4
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Re: Da Eighties
« Reply #17 on: November 02, 2016, 07:56:08 pm »
Dang it . I can't get my video to work properly.

It's the Bangles.
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Re: Da Eighties
« Reply #18 on: November 02, 2016, 07:57:58 pm »
Quote from: Freya on November 02, 2016, 07:40:24 pm
Remember new coke ?

Right there you go. The decade was worse than the Depression in my opinion. Remember smelly denim jackets...

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« Reply #19 on: November 02, 2016, 07:59:11 pm »
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Right there you go. The decade was worse than the Depression in my opinion. Remember smelly denim jackets...



Remember "Video killed the Radio Star?"
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Re: Da Eighties
« Reply #20 on: November 02, 2016, 08:00:45 pm »
Quote from: Freya on November 02, 2016, 07:56:08 pm
Dang it . I can't get my video to work properly.

It's the Bangles.

Psycho Killer is a personal favorite Talking Heads tune.


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Re: Da Eighties
« Reply #21 on: November 02, 2016, 08:03:04 pm »
Quote from: RAT Patrol on November 02, 2016, 08:00:40 pm
I liked the preppy look of the 80s.  But the 70s had cool suede/fringe jackets.  Other than that the 70s were a fashion disaster.


I was a total preppie in the 80s and 90s. Never once had big hair around where I lived. Only saw it on TV, on Peg Bundy and Marge Simpson.
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Re: Da Eighties
« Reply #22 on: November 02, 2016, 08:04:50 pm »
Quote from: Cripplecreek on November 02, 2016, 08:00:45 pm
Psycho Killer is a personal favorite Talking Heads tune.


www.youtube.com/watch?v=dJ6fjGS1lRg

I think it's everyone's favorite Talking Heads song, with "And She Was" as number two
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Re: Da Eighties
« Reply #23 on: November 02, 2016, 08:07:39 pm »
Quote from: RAT Patrol on November 02, 2016, 08:00:40 pm
I liked the preppy look of the 80s.  But the 70s had cool suede/fringe jackets.  Other than that the 70s were a fashion disaster.

I do have a collection of bad leisure suits and I do where them on occasion to dinner parties to irritate people.
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Re: Da Eighties
« Reply #24 on: November 02, 2016, 08:15:58 pm »
@RAT Patrol is that a Pacer?
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