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?

Duran Duran.

Exactly Carabos.. I really cant honestly remember anything happening in the 90's that was of major interest.

And I am not putting it down... I was only in my 20's. I went to the Hacienda a few times and liked a few of the 90's bands, but to me it really didnt have any sort of impact that the 80's did.

The 80's also had Live Aid, which will always stand out to me as one of the biggest gigs of all time.

The Thompson twins were triplets who weren't related I think?

I was a teen in the 80's, music was my thing and it was brilliant but you can't leave the politics out because that was totally crap and dominated day to day life.

Those 80s silk scarves were perfect for covering up the hideous love-bites us teenagers got! Do teenagers still do love-bites?!

My mum worked for a big bank in the city, in the days when you could smoke in your office and once she was on the phone and she set her hair on fire! Dodgy eighties perm with blonde highlights (using the Cap method)

Yes to music up to about '86 but '87 was virtually unmitigated shite.

My haircut was also unspeakably awful.

His loss, Shakey, that sounds soooooo gorgeous

Where your red beads from Clockhouse? We used to spend all Saturday afternoon in there every week.

music was the main indicator on what sort of person you were, i loved depeche mode before all of you lot so am supercool

Iconic films... of which there were loads

Smash Hits - floppy singles!!!

TV channels that didnt go off at midnight!

Boy George? Only if you are into imprisoning rent boys and tying them to radiators???

Music of the mid to late 80s was horrific...insipid Stock Aitken and Waterman trash filled the charts...the Hit Man and Her on TV...Pete Waterman and Michaela Strachan presenting the most prominent music show? Seriously?

Southeast I saw Depeche Mode live in 1981, so am I cool too?

Oh I loved depeche mode too south Actually the 80's was pretty cool really. Loving this thread.

Music was definately my thing too. We went to clubs because of the music, and clubs themselves were defined by the sort of music that they played..

I spent many good nights in Space City in Bolton, Rebeccas in Bury, and City Lights in Farnworth... if anyone else from that area remembers them!

And Sundays in my home town used to be 50p shot nights... you could go out with a tenner and get shitfaced!!!... (and that was 20 years before the DM got the idea that all teenagers were binge drinkers!!)

I saw U2 in 1981 = probably not cool

I wish I was young enough to say I wish I was old enough to enjoy the 80s.

It was ok, but like a lot of things looks better looking back at it.

velma you are ridiculously cool. I didn't get to see them live

ha velma you definitely are more supercool than me, i saw them at hammersmith odeon in 1983 i remember wearing red snakeskin shoes from dolcis

I used to go out with £20, £5 for my taxi and £15 for drinks and a kebab on the way home. You can barely get a round in for that these days.

RedBlanket ah yes Clockhouse at C&A, so trendy in it's time. I remember Falmer jeans being THE denim of choice. Kickers, Adidas trainers.

Clothes were REALLY expensive compared to now. You saved up for ages for one item that had to last.

Music wise, I adored Frankie Goes To Hollywood, their Pleasuredome album was fantastic. Lionel Richie, Wham, Soft Cell, The Smiths. Such a mix.

Kim Wilde - kids in America!

Did any of you go to the Live Aid concert?

I wish I was young enough to say I wish I was old enough to enjoy the 80s.. Me too
U2 early 80's = very cool. U2 90's to date = not cool

One of my schoolfriends put some videos up on FB that he took in the 80's. I honestly do not remember any of us having a video recorder then, but clearly he had one.

It is really bizarre seeing film of us all from then. The hairstyles, make up, attitude, everything really was so dated.

There was a fair bit of swearing, but it was also with lots of giggles, especially the girls, and you can tell it was bravado coupled with "oh god my parents will kill me if they saw this"... it was so dated really, but kind of nice in a way. We still had a heck of a lot of respect for our parents back then, even while pushing boundaries.

Going back to the music, Top of The Pops was a must.. as were the charts on a Sunday afternoon. We would all stay in until we knew what was No.1. and being top of the charts then really was a major thing. I remember using my cassette recorder (it was a Sharp, and was red, and I loved it sooooo much!), to record the charts, blipping out the voices inbetween the songs, usually missing the ends and starts of the songs.

Somewhere I still have my "July 83" tape, that I remember playing on the 482 bus from Bolton to Bury, and I can still remember most of the songs from that week..

Baby Jane - Rod Stewart
Whos That Girl - Eurythimics
War Baby - Tom ??
AIEOU - Freeze?
Southern Freeze
Flashdance

God I loved that decade!!!

Ahhh kids in America CJ I remember sitting at the back of metalwork classes with my tweenie friends learning the words to that. Failed the exam in the end but still know all the words now

I missed the middle chunk of Live Aid as had to go to work I was at Wembley the week before though to see Bruce Springsteen and it was his stage that he left for Live Aid. So I sort of saw it live