To wish I had been old enough to enjoy the 80s?

[CJ2010]

Just listening to some brilliant 80s songs on my iPod and was just thinking that I would have loved to have been in my teens/ twenties to have been able to enjoy the music, fashion, movies etc. I think the music especially, was brilliant, such a great mix of everything to suit all tastes. I was born in the eighties, so I can sort of remember the 90s, which were also fab, but the last decade I think, has been crap, music wise. AIBU?

I have a very clear memory of walking along [a distinctive road that will out me if I name it] listening to Live Aid on a ghetto blaster [actually a pretty rubbish portable stereo my lovely grandmother had bought me that was desperately uncool but the angst on that matter is another thread entirely]

It must have meant something because the batteries to run that behemoth would've cost a paperboy's entire month's wages :)

I was meant to be a vegetarian but I managed to scoff the platter of cold meats my mum had artfully arranged that morning, before she got back from work. Sorry Mum :(

Oh god remember Monty Don costume jewellery: fake acrylic jewels topped with pearls and bows finishing off new romantics outfit

Randomly, I was in Just Seventeen, I had a slightly older friend who wrote for them and it might have been the spy section - or something about Saturday Jobs? As she interviewed my about my Saturday job at Sainsburys . I was wearing - looking back a very random selection of clothes. A pair of jeans rolled up at the ankle, black school plimsols, a huge windcheater type golf jacket that I had nicked off my dad and a scarf round my (short in a type of quiff) hair. Oh and carrying a litte square mini suitcase thing as a hand bag. I think I was channelling a 50s tomboy vibe (this was around the era of the rockabilly boyfriend).

yes, I loved the 80's, l was 15 when they started. So it was a very memorable decade for me, especially for the music then, I loved going down to our local bar which had a massive video screen, (which we thought was amazing) and the d,j, used to tape top of the pops, and put videos on that people requested, I remember being so shocked the first time I saw Girls on Film - Duran Duran, one of my favourite groups at the time. I saw them this year for the second time with my daughter, who got a kiss off Simon for her birthday, she was she was very much brainwashed with my c.d's when she was small It's on youtube, I'll put the link on if anyone would like to see it.

In all seriousness I utterly love that people could wear their dad's golf jacket and their school daps and those were the things that made them cool.

gagafan Yes please!!

Well not everyone thought that sort of thing was cool, a lot of my school year were into Box Pleat skirts, Lady Di blouses, riding boots (black with burgundy tops), blond wedge type hair cuts and lots of gold beltcher(?) chains. But I never got bullied for my somewhat eclectic taste in clothes, a sort of grudging respect was given - although I did get called 'weird' a fair bit. In fact despite going to a pretty rough comp, we were all pretty tolerant of each others tastes, room for everyone, soul boys, rockers, punks, new romantics and geeks - made for an interesting selection of music in the 6th form common room .
I am loving the revival in 80's style at the moment. Not for me, but seeing teenagers putting things together with imagination, again, it makes me smile!

Mumzy - even a die hard Depeche Mode fan like me knows that "see you" is a really rubbish song!

So pleased you have been inspired to play the CD though!

sorry my link didn't work, my daughter and Simon are right at the end, Simon was introducing the band first. Wish I could have met him on my 21st - lucky girl.

The very first gig I went to was to see Adam and the Ants at the Manchester Apollo.

I see that he's playing at this year's Rewind Festival. After seeing the highlights of last year's festival on TV, I want to go!

I need to save up some money before all the performers get too old!

Oh how super, gaga!

Yabu! Don't wish yourself to be older than you are!

Late 70s, early 80s - when to be young was very heaven (to borrow a phrase.)
Not just music and hair. Also alternative politics. Who went to Greenham Common?

aw the 80s what a wonderfuk time, if only we had realised how great most of us had it at that time

Wonderfuk was a Freudian slip, no?

I had most of my wonderfuks in the 80s.

Angels, each to their own

YABU.
I was a child in the 80's but had an older sister who played a lot of Soft Cell and Yazoo, and wore purple lipstick (blee!)
The thing is, the stuff you see in 80's movies is just FICTION! It wasn't really like that. Most people didn't really look like Melanie Griffiths in Working Girl, or Simon Le Bon.
Rita Sue and Bob too is far more accurate a portrayal of the times.

All the stuff that is fetished by the young people now e.g crazy hair and make up, electro pop, was only a small part of it.
Most people had:

Terrible mullets
Horrible corkscrew perms
Ski Jackets
Vair high waisted tight trousers that made your arse/stomach look HUGE
Frosted pink lipstick
And in the late 80's HIDEOUS calf length skirts worn with socks, flat shoes and long baggy cardigans.
Even now when I see those long cardigans in shops, I feel a bit sick.

The 90's were pretty boring for fashion too. I spent them in trainers and flared leggings but at least we didn't get pissed off our faces in the street, as we were too busy doing E and dancing all night.

I am a bit jealous of the way the young people have re-created a sort of mythical version of the 80's, by taking all the best bits and making them a lot cooler than they really were.

I was music obsessed in the 80s. Born in 71, so just started getting into music in 81. I remember watching Live Aid, when my mum asked me to do something boring. I shouted back to the kitchen "I can't, I'm watching Live Aid!". Mum called back "Well you're not going to be watching it all day, are you". Err, yes I am Mum. Honestly, mums - they've got no idea of priorities in life .

I was a teen through the 90s,you had the rave scene,festivals were free & scarily exciting.Brit pop + all that, then there was Pearl jam,Nirvana,REM,Pixies,Levellers,INXS,Blur,RATM,RedHot Chillies etc.. but liked the music of the eighties through my childhood.Preferred 60s flower power clothes, had hippie leanings back then,although i wasn't able to stay all calm and lovey to everyone to wanna be one! There's good bits to pick from some of each decades music, just enjoy a wide range from each and you can't go wrong

In my History A level class circa 1985 we were a motley crew.

There was me going through my Smiths phase - so it was all my dad's old shirts, a string of beads and my mum's old suede jacket from the sixties or my dad's mac, my friend who was a punk and had a bright green mohican, another couple of girls who were gothicky types, completely white faces, eyeliner, all in black with lace gloves and crucifixes, another friend who was a hippy and then a collection of Perry Boys in farrah trousers,pringle jumpers and wedge haircuts.

No wonder the History teacher used to take the piss out of us all the time

Mrs Thatcher made the 80s amazing!

onehitwonder nobody ever knows who the fArmER's boys were I had the muck it out pig painted on my bedroom wall.
Saw them live in Norwich
Other 80s music I loved
Madness
The The
Soft Cell
Bauhaus
Smiths
Killing Joke
Japan
Mission
Sisters of Mercy
Cult
The Cure
The Glove
Dr and the Medics
Siousxie and the Banshees
Dead kennedys
Spear of Destiny
Fields of Nephilim
Pogues
Psychodelic Furs
I could go on
the 80s for me - black eyeliner, black lipstick and backcombing my hair with lots of hairspray

I snogged a Farmer's Boy.

which one?
baz mark frog or stan?
I never felt that need, myself

Snogging a farmers boy - good work!

I saw them live on the same bill as Aztec Camera once - it was either them or Aztec Camera used an ironing board as a synth stand. Twas at the late lamented Lyceum. A great venue where I also saw the Stray Cats and King Kurt (buckets of fish guts hurled into the audience anyone?) - mines a pint of snakebite and black