In the 80s I went to a few Depeche Mode concerts.....and then somehow almost 20 years flew by and I am going to see them in December in NYC. The new album is awesome and for some reason, even though it has not been released yet, you can listen to it at

http://www.myspace.com/depechemode

Denise

Wow I was only 3 when the 80's ended...sad. I may not be child of the 80's, but I'm a product of the 80's!!!

Pole Position

Jelly bracelets (the first time around!)

Strawberry Shortcake/Care Bears (yet again, the first time around)

wearing a scrunchy on your wrist---it was fashion!

Guess? jeans

Denim cutoff shorts

DUCKHEAD

Roxette

Police Academy movies

the Karate Kid---and you owned the bandanna he wore too.......

Chic

Damn. I feel ancient now. :D

Okay now what about the neon pink mini skirts with lime green polka dots - can't forget that fashion statement.

Of course there was also the sight of girls wearing pumps with their jeans.

All the one hit wonders of the 80's.

Good old MTV VJs Downtown Julie Brown and Martha (can't remember her name but she does an 80 music commercial now).

ON TV - the first cable system in Los Angeles that I remember.

The Tshirts that we tied up using a little plastic round belt buckle thing (old age is catching up to me I can't remember what they were called).

Fame the TV series - I used to love that show. Wish some station would pick it up in syndication.

Different Strokes

Lite Bright (I still have one :p)

L.A. Gears (mine were the white ones w/pink & silver shoelaces)

Double Dare (An old TV show for kids)

16 Candles & Valley Girl (I finally get all the jokes & sexual overtones that I completely missed as a kid watching that w/my older sisters)

Correction: With their TAPERED leg jeans. ;)

-Dynasty (the Alexis and Krystle catfights are classic)

-Fun House (J.D. Roth was (and still is) a hottie)

-Finders Keepers (the screaming kids)

-Care Bears

-My Little Pony (I had my My Little Pony lunchbox, ponies, and video)

-Tina Turner's booming solo career

-We are the World, we are the children
We are the ones who make a brighter day
so let's start giving
There's a choice we're making
We're saving our own lives
It's true we'll make a better day
Just you and me

-My Buddy and Kid Sister

-Gloworms

-California Dreams Barbie

-Barbie and the Rockers

-Barbie and the Sensations

-Jane Fonda workout

-torn sweatshirts at the collar

-Star Search

One more thing:

PEE WEE'S PLAYHOUSE!

Wearing black bolero hats a la Ms Gibson

Fingerless gloves, a la Madonna

Shredded jeans

Spectravision and On TV - the precursors to cable!

Friday Night Videos

Wired, not wireless, remotes

Dangermouse on Nickelodeon

Sweet Valley High books (with illustrations on the cover, not photos of the TV actors)

Jelly bracelets - I remember looping two together so it would look like you were wearing a bracelet and a ring. That hurt!

Tinted moose for your hair - there was a gold one for blonde hair and a red one for brunettes.

I also remember when the first CD player came out, and the day that a strange "VHS" section popped up at our local video store.


I think the 80s are a nice place to visit, but I wouldn't want to live then (again).

Ooh, I forgot...

Guess? Jean jackets

Liz Claiborne purses

...If you weren't sporting those at my school in 1987, your ass got kicked (or at least ridiculed). :rolleyes:

Judy Blume books!

Popples

Swatch and Coca-Cola shirts

Top Gun

Portable electric keyboards

Commodore 64

Just watched "Risky Business" on AMC. Joel opens a beer that has a pull off tab rather than a pop top, and he wears top siders with no socks throughout the movie. Oh, and Tom Cruise was normal back then.

21 Jump Street

Cabbage Patch Dolls

Cabbage Patch dance

Day-glo anything

Breakdancing

Spandex in neon colors

Has anyone else ever seen cassette tapes (no, not floppies) used to store data?

Yup. I worked at a place in college had an ancient machine for backing up data. It used a tape drive.

Make that TAPERED, IRONED, and/or DRY CLEANED jeans!

LOL!!!

I have to admit, I NEVER liked Tom Cruise! He was always just... full of himself, I guess.

Now that's something we can be nostalgic about. Anyone else see All The Right Moves when it was in the theater? Or go buy Ray Bans right after seeing Top Gun? (Hoping they'd make me look like Kelly McGillis. They didn't.)

Here's a song you guys might find funny...

BOWLING FOR SOUP 1985


Woohoohoo
Woohoohoo

Debbie just hit the wall
she never had it all
one Prozac a day
husbands a CPA
her dreams went out the door
when she turned twenty four
only been with one man
what happen to her plan?

She was gonna be an actress
she was gonna be a star
she was gonna shake her ass
on the hood of white snake’s car
her yellow SUV is now the enemy
looks at her average life
and nothing has been alright since

Bruce Springsteen, Madonna
way before Nirvana
there was U2 and Blondie
and music still on MTV
her two kids in high school
they tell her that she’s uncool
cuz she's still preoccupied
with 19, 19, 1985

Woohoohoo
(1985)
Woohoohoo

She’s seen all the classics
she knows every line
Breakfast Club, Pretty in Pink
even Saint Elmo’s Fire
she rocked out to wham
not a big Limp Bizkit fan
thought she’d get a hand
on a member of Duran Duran

Where’s the mini-skirt made of snake skin
and who’s the other guy that's singing in Van Halen
when did reality become T.V.
what ever happen to sitcoms, game shows
(on the radio was)

Bruce Springsteen, Madonna
way before Nirvana
there was U2 and Blondie
and music still on MTV
her two kids in high school
they tell her that she’s uncool
cuz she's still preoccupied
with 19, 19, 1985

Woohoohoo

She hates time make it stop
when did Motley Crue become classic rock?
And when did Ozzy become an actor?
Please make this stop
Stop!
And bring back

Bruce Springsteen, Madonna
way before Nirvana
there was U2 and Blondie
and music still on MTV
her two kids in high school
they tell her that she’s uncool
cuz she's still preoccupied
with 1985

Woohoohoo

Bruce Springsteen, Madonna
way before Nirvana
there was U2 and Blondie
and music still on MTV (woohoohoo)
her two kids in high school
they tell her that she’s uncool
cuz she's still preoccupied
with 19, 19, 1985

Just look at my bright yellow shirt that says I Love The 80's or look at 3/4 of my tapes that are in my car....all 80's but I am sure I could list other reasons.

"Where in the World is Carmen SanDiego?" :)

TV dinners that you heated in the oven for 45 minutes.

Or frozen entrees that came in boil-in-bags. It was all I ate freshman year, since the dorm did not yet have a microwave.

OMG, I had those same things!

Hot pink and wore them with flowered jeans.........

Star Wars

(the ORIGINAL, in the theater)

Jellies. :D They were my favorite.

Had totally forgotten about those...