Come with me back to 1984...

[LadyOfTheCanyon]

I don't know whether it's simply nostalgia or whether as you get older you are able to see the past more clearly, but I was 14 in 1984 and I was simply in love with Eden by Everything but the girl ( massively underrated album!) The Unforgettable Fire by U2, The Smiths first LP had just come out, Brilliant Trees by David Sylvian- Rattlesnakes by Lloyd Coke and the commotions, Hatful of Hollow (remember waiting outside OurPrice in Hammersmith for that one!)

I was wearing DMs and dyeing my Levi's black because I couldn't find any in the shops, cutting sleeves off my brother's shirts and buying studded belts from Kensington Market. Taping The Tube on Friday nights before going out to meet my friends.
Free festivals in London Parks in the summers, saw so many great bands between 84-86. The Pogues, The Men they couldn't hang, The Boothill Foottappers, The Style Council, The Frank Chickens, The Communards...

Was just thinking about those years and wondering what other people's memories were of those years... no judgement here !

Silly Mumsnet...

A 3 bed semi on one civil servants wage as my mums income was considered irrelevant as she was pregnant with my brother?

I got married in 1984, we had a 3 bedroom house, but no furniture. I was training to be a lawyer and worked stupid hours. He was an office manager. We never saw each other, let alone had time for music or gigs. We eventually split up and moved on, and because of the crash had nothing to show for it.

I was 14 in 1984 too. Big shirts, belts and ankle boots!!

I loved Howard Jones and also Forever Young by Alphaville. Worried about the N bomb a lot .

I was 14 in 84 too, this is bringing back good memories.
Was a goth then, so much hairspray

It was around the time that Eastenders started on the telly, highlight of the week though was Dallas

I was 17, nearly 18 in 1984, and young for my age. I went horse riding every saturday and helped at the stables too.
Learnt to drive in a Daihatsu Charade and also my mum’s mini clubman. Once I passed my test I was allowed to use the mini in the evenings but had to put £3 petrol in it every week
went to the local radio disco with a girl I knew from the stables every friday night (I think, maybe it was once a month) and remember them playing ‘Relax’ by Frankie Goes to Hollywood - it was a hit - it was banned by the BBC
I loved Nick Heyward and haircut 100
I got highlights in my hair for the first time
I wore really tight jeans and pixie boots
I got my first job as an office junior at an engineering firm

I was just about to turn 12, loved Duran Duran and fluorescent things.

Just discovered boys, brace yourself world....

1984 for me was the final year of primary school. I was incredibly proud of my Wham! Make it Big album on vinyl (we just called it a record) and played in on the stereo system in the living room (which was a wooden cabinet with the bottom half a space for storing records and a tape deck, radio and record player on the top half). I also really liked Madonna but I wasn't allowed her album as my mum thought it was inappropriate for children. My friend had the Like a Virgin album so when I stayed over at her house we made up dances to it and dressed up in her older sister's lace gloves and beads etc. The school disco was the height of excitement and required weeks of outfit planning and practising make-up tips from Jackie magazine.

I was 15 in 1984 I had a red leather jacket and white leather boots. We all had our hair perked and wore it soaked with wet look gel!!
I wore bright blue eyeliner and bright blue mascara and twilight tearer lipstick with lashing of rollerball lipgloss over the top!!
Every day was near potatoes and veg no ready meals existed followed by bread pudding or rice pudding
Every sunday I taped the top 40 on my cassette player. I bought smash hits look in just 17 and mizz
TV consisted of lots of game shows 321 generation game play your cards right the price is right etc etc

*permed

I was 13. I did a paper round and spent my money on a batwing electric blue and black jumper from Clockhouse at C&A. I had a mullety haircut.

We had a Breville toasted sandwich maker and French bread pizzas.

We went on lots of big CND marches and our lodger went to Greenham Common a lot. She volunteered for rape crisis.

If the phone rang and my mum was at a neighbours I would answer and sometimes have to go and get her. Answerphones came later.

I would go back in a shot

You were cooler than me in 1984 OP. I turned 14 in May of that year, so was in third year for most of it. I still liked Wham and Duran Duran! I actually liked Karma Chameleon which was no 1 that year.

I also liked Eurythmics.

A year or two later I'd be into the Smiths and Lloyd Cole and wear a uniform of black jeans and doc martens with a long cardigan from M&S (menswear).

I had a friend who loved Howard Jones and she went to see him in concert and fainted because she loved him so much.

I was 16 in the summer of. 84. Loved culture club ! Just left school and starting college in the Autumn.

I was 19, just moved out of home into a terraced house with 2 friends. The rent was £12 a week! I remember playing Frankie Relax on my record player, smoking my first ever cigarette ( big mistake ) and loving my first taste of freedom! We had lots of wild parties. I remember being there on my own one time and I got woken up by an air raid siren going off at 6am. The scariest 5 minutes of my life!

I was 11 and a huge Madonna fan.
Me and my best friend used to spend hours trying (and failing) to customise our clothes to look like her.

Loved grease the film too and tried to make our own pink ladies jackets.

Used to spend hours poring over smash hits learning lyrics to songs with my friends while drinking my once a week treat of cherry coke.

Saturdays were spent getting the bus to my local town as there was a big Debenhams where we used to ride the escalators up and down before going to the music section to look at all the new release tapes.

I was 16 in 1984, I loved my blue suede Robin Hood boots, jeans and leather jacket, I had short hair and used Country Born gel to gel it up and over at one side and into a DA at the back. I loved Wham, George Michael, Dexy’s Midnight Runners, Frankie Goes to Hollywood, Nina and Duran Duran. I read adjust 17, Mizz and Smash Hits. Makeup was from Boots, I can’t remember the colour of the lipstick but it was a dark pink (everyone had it in my circle of friends) and Leichner foundation…. My perfume of choice was L’Air Du Temps or Anais Anais that I pinched from my 18 year old sister.

I was 18 and just started university.Me and my new mates likes wearing pastel coloured pencil skirts, Pamplemousse tops and matching canvas boots. We looked fab going to the poly disco or local nightclub.

Aw I went to Glasto in 1984 too. Ian Drury and the Blockheads, Elvis Costello, the Smiths and Billy Bragg.
Spent lots of time on CND protests and was utterly convinced that I could change the world.
I do wish that I hadn't wasted my slimmest most gorgeous years wearing Army Surplus though!

Heather shimmer lipstick @WinterWitchy ?

I was 14 in 1984. Was very into Duran Duran but had to fancy Nick Rhodes as my older sister and her friend had already bagged Simon Le Bon and John Taylor.

Aw, 1984. I was 23; living in ( our nearest) city with my sister. Trainee CA! Had fab red suede pixie boots and a black leather jacket I picked up in a flea market in Paris. The man I thought I would be with for ever and I were nearing the end of our road, just didn’t really know it.
Work was crazy busy, but I worked with a bunch of people who meant a lot to me, including my future DH. Good times.

Best fucking year ever - I was born!!!

The Unforgettable Fire was the first ‘grown up’ album I ever purchased (a record shop in Chipping Norton). I loved it, still do, BAD is my favourite all time song. I was 16.

I was 8 and in second year of junior school. Hobbies were playing the recorder, Brownies and disco dancing classes (although I was hopeless as I didn't know my left from my right!) I used to collect rubbers and was desperate for some scented lens, but wasn't allowed them (my Mum said it would lead to glue sniffing!)

My favourites clothes were my ski pants, worn with a reversible jumper and pixie boots and my school bag was a jelly bean bag. I used to get my Mum to crimp my hair for parties and I had glitter gel from Avon to put on my face.

For Christmas I wanted a Care Bear and the Barbie with the long hair you could curl.