80's Kids and Teenagers.

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80's Kids and Teenagers.
OP - August 21, 2009, 11:58 AM

Right then! This post is mainly directed to those who are over 30 and would have fallen into the above category.

What were your favourite telly programmes?

What pop groups and songs did you like?

What were your favourite movies of that decade?

Fashion disasters?

I'll start.

1 - I think it goes without saying. Knight Rider and the A-Team.

2 - This is shite but I liked WHAM and Duran Duran.

3 - Favourite movies were E.T, Goonies, Police Academy and Back to the future. There were many others that I can list but I'll wait for others to contribute.

4 - Well! I had a mullet and wore grey Farrah pants with pink or yellow cardigans.
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Reply #1 - August 21, 2009, 12:04 PM

1) A-team, thundercats, wrestling on a saturday afternoon with Big Daddy, Hulk

2) Micheal Jackson, Madonna, Wham

3) Movies I could go on forever - Predator, Alien, Evil Dead, Goonies, Rocky, Rambo, Hammer Horror, Kung Fu stuff and of course dodgy European hard core porn which I hid under my bed

4) I wasn't that experimental fashion wise, that started in the 90s for me.

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Reply #2 - August 21, 2009, 09:56 PM

Quote from: 20yearstoolong on August 21, 2009, 11:58 AM
Right then! This post is mainly directed to those who are over 30 and would have fallen into the above category.

What were your favourite telly programmes?

I don't remember too much. I remember watching Scooby Doo, Smurfs, Different Strokes, Give me a Break, and a lot of old shows from the 50s, 60s & 70s like Bewitched and Brady Bunch because this was before we had cable and cartoon channels so that was what was on after school. I remember watching Dallas and Falcon Crest. I never saw Knight Rider, A-Team and those other shows.

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What pop groups and songs did you like?

Duran Duran, or D2 as we called them. Culture Club. I liked all that 80s cheesy pop, new wave, and R&B music, and I still do. Also, I liked goth and that stuff, like Siouxsie and the Banshees and the Cure.

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What were your favourite movies of that decade?

The Goonies! Ghostbusters! All those John Hughes movies like Ferris Bueller, Breakfast Club, 16 Candles, Pretty in Pink. I still love all these movies.

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Fashion disasters?

I had a perm. I wore sweatshirts that came to my knees and had florescent paint splatters on them. I would layer two types of socks with trainers, so like one pair of pink and then another layer of yellow. Acid washed jeans. I put sun-in in my bangs to make them "blonde". I ended the decade as sort of a skater-goth chick, so I would wear lots of black Bennetton clothes, and rat my hair up a bit.

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Reply #3 - August 21, 2009, 10:01 PM

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I had a perm. I wore sweatshirts that came to my knees and had florescent paint splatters on them. I would layer two types of socks with trainers, so like one pair of pink and then another layer of yellow. Acid washed jeans. I put sun-in in my bangs to make them "blonde". I ended the decade as sort of a skater-goth chick, so I would wear lots of black Bennetton clothes, and rat my hair up a bit.

I remember at the end of the 80's I was 15. I started to grow the then fashionable "curtains" with a step in the back. That lasted into the mid-nineties. A quiff with sideburns and a designer stubble took over, shortly followed with a caesar cut (obligatory designer stubble) circa 2001 started losing hair so decided to shave it all off. Now have no choice!
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Reply #4 - August 21, 2009, 10:26 PM

I'm a 60s and 70s kid so I shouldn't post - but being a 60s and 70s kid it means I break rules and don't care lol

1. Telly programmes - Monty Python, Top of the Pops and The Sweeny

2. Pop groups - T. Rex, Pink Floyd and The Incredible String Band

3. Favourite movies - Magnum Force, High Plains Drifter, Clockwork Orange.

4. Fashion disasters - Flairs, tank tops and Mohair.
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Reply #5 - August 21, 2009, 10:27 PM

Right about the last year or so of the 80s, I got an asymmetrical haircut where one side is longer than the other and the underneath is razor cut or shaved a bit. In the 90s, I was sort of a hardcore punk kid and I had shaved hair (asymmetrical, I would keep long hair to cover the shaved bits if I was going for a job or something). Of course, when I started to practise Islam, I learned that my hair cuts were all haram (it's haram to razor or shave part of your hair and leave the rest of it long). I also had extensions made of human hair at one point in the 90s which is super haram. (http://muttaqun.com/hair.html)

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Reply #6 - August 21, 2009, 10:52 PM

Quote from: 20yearstoolong on August 21, 2009, 11:58 AM
Right then! This post is mainly directed to those who are over 30 and would have fallen into the above category.

What were your favourite telly programmes?

What pop groups and songs did you like?

What were your favourite movies of that decade?

Fashion disasters?

I was just out of my teens when the 80's started. Well I turned nineteen in 1980 anyway so I squeezed a few months in.

1/ The Goodies and Doctor Who. I used to come home from work, chuff down a few bongs and watch those two before the news and dinner.

2/ Zappa and the Mothers, Led Zep, JJ Cale, Santana. None of this poncy New Wave stuff, mate.

3/ Shee_it. They had movies in the 80's? I must have seen some of them. Ghostbusters totally rocked., 'specially teh evil wench in stilletos.

4/ Grotty jeans, biker boots and a black leather jacket. Hair down to my waist, which was followed after a few years by a #4 after I went riding and partying for a few days without brushng it and decided it was time for a change. The beard stayed though.

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Reply #7 - August 21, 2009, 11:20 PM

I was 19 in 1980 as well - "poncey new wave stuff " ?!!! what's wrong with you ? Killing Joke , Theatre of Hate , the Banshees , the Cramps , DAF, Birthday Party /Bad Seeds , Laibach , not remotely poncey ...

I didn't watch that much tv in the 80s but there were a couple of dramas that stood out - 'Boys from the Black Stuff ' , 'the Monocled Mutineer' , and for guilty post pub viewing 'Prisoner Cell Block H '
Films - Taxi Driver , Eraserhead , Mephisto , Hellraiser ,Letter to Brehznev

fashion disasters - shoulder pads I guess , otherwise not many , I spent the whole decade in black , you can't go too wrong with that
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Reply #8 - August 21, 2009, 11:23 PM

Oh yeah Taxi Driver was classic weirdism. Also some of Peter Jackson's early films before he started doing hobbits and Cate Blanchett with pointy ears. Bad Taste and Brain Dead were awesome.

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Reply #9 - August 23, 2009, 04:08 AM

In 1980 I was 11 so I literally went through my teenage years during the 80's. Love the 80's!

Mtv was my best friend and I would hurry home from school to watch.
*Duran Duran (I'm still in love with Nick Rhodes), Poison, Peter Gabriel (Sledgehammer rocks), Pat Benetar (my favorite female singer of all time), Journey, REO Speedwagen, Styx, Culture Club - the list can go on forever

Movies- Top Gun, Breakfast Club (my 18 yr old son loves this movie), Ghostbusters

TV Shows- Yup, The A Team was awesome, Cosby Show (can't stand to watch it now but back then I liked it), so many more.

One of the biggest events for me in the 80's was the space shuttle exploding. I stayed home from school and watched it live.

By far the happiest years of my life were in the 80's.

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Reply #10 - August 23, 2009, 06:21 AM

I first saw Taxi Driver in the 80s too, but it's really not an "80s" movie because it came out in 1976, several months before I was born.

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Reply #11 - August 23, 2009, 11:27 AM

Ok, I'm in my late 20s so I'll sneak into this thread with my fake ID

1 - ALF, Star Trek the Next Generation

2 - New Order, Guns N' Roses

3 - Return of the Living Dead (scared the poop out of me when I was 7)

4 - I was in elementary school when the 80s ended, but my "deathlock" bangs in 1993 was pretty cool.

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Reply #12 - August 23, 2009, 12:52 PM

Right! I was born in'78 so I got hit with the 80's pretty early on but my older brother helped me out a lot as well and had a BIG influence on my tastes at the time.

Fave movies: The Goonies (filmed in my home state), Ghostbusters, John Hughes films, all the serial horror films that came out at that time.

Fave telly programs: ALF, Knight Rider, Airwolf, A-Team, Wrestlemania, all the after-school cartoons like the Smurfs, He-Man and the Masters of the Universe, You Can't Do That on Television ( a Canadian skit show featuring a young Alanis Morrisette) and some oldies like Dennis the Menace, Saturday Night Live.

Music: Duran Duran (f*cking HATE them now!), WHAM, George Michael, Van Halen, Guns N Roses, Metallica, Siouxsie, The Cure, Depeche Mode and thanks to my parents, Pink Floyd, Led Zep, Rolling Stones and other classics.

Fashion faux pas: I struggled with my hair which was long back in those days but would NOT do ANYTHING I wanted it to do. When I had my hair cut to shoulder-length and got bangs in the late- '80's I tried to style the bangs which only ended with my burning my forehead with my curling iron and the god-awful corkscrews hanging down in front of my face. Later on I shaved the back of my head and bleached the front white-blonde and was uber metalhead/goth by the late '80s-early '90's.

Before the metalhead/goth stage though I was the queen of bright electric pink spandex. I dressed every day as if was of to aerobics class. Usually a large, baggy t-shirt or sweater over leggings and trainers with bright socks and my hair up in a sideways ponytail.

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Reply #13 - August 23, 2009, 08:40 PM

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