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?

Sorry.. lol.. but I love this thread.

Has anyone seen the film "Rita, Sue and Bob too"...

It was set in Rochdale, and pretty much sums up life in the early 80's so well. Certainly for me as I come from that area.

Not so much what actually happens in the film, but the fashions, housing, furniture, music, and way of life to a certain extent.

squeaky Lawks yes, hands hovering over the "play" and "pause" buttons to miss the inane chatter :)

Live Aid was just immense wasn't it? I don't think I realised it's enormity at the time.

First moble phones, the size of a small holding.

Do people still listen to the charts anymore? I was obsessed with it and used to record it every week.
I used to listen to John Peel every night, I discovered Smiths through listening to Peels Festive Fifty.

I wanted to be able to enjoy the 70's music scene. Unfortunately I'm a 90's child

Ha! Rita Sue and Bob Too is a TOP film

"I thought I were GREAT!"

A lot of the music was pretty shit really. I do remember that at school in the early eighties (before Indie really took off) you were a Durannie or a Spandau fan and us all dressing up for the disco putting white stripes on our noses to be Adam Ant.

I also have a vivid memory of loads of girls crowded round a transistor radio listening to the Top 40 on a Wednesday lunchtime and being told Duran had gone straight in at number one and everyone shrieking and jumping up and down in excitement

I do think now with Twitter, phones, Facebook etc there just isn't that exciting wait for news anymore and just no anticipation.

I do remember, ironically, spending a lot of the eighties fervently wishing i'd been young in the sixties.

The 80s were the best. I was born in 1970 and would agree with another poster - nothing particularly stands out from the 90s.

I'm going to an 80s music festival on Saturday - China Crisis, Toyah, Modern Romance, Go West, Heaven 17 and Billy Ocean are all part of the line up - can't wait

Er the 80's were shocking. I realised this and it was my hey day (10 -19years). I much preferred the 70's (cool and fun) or the 90's (much better tunes).

Quite liked the citrus summer for fashion because I like yellow and orange and neon. Being "posh" was fun with all the balls and champagne about but music was shite and it was the start of conspicuous consumption which was tedious.

Den & Angie! Lofty!

Beetlejuice!

I feel old. The 80s was the worst decade, though this one is shaping up to be just as shit fashion and music wise. imho.

I remember crying trying to straighten my hideous perm - then i used a crimper on it to make it look even worse.

I also remember visiting Liverpool Uni on my own, wearing a bright red beret, a bright blue long double breasted coat two sizes too big for me, a long very tight blue pencil skirt, red polo neck and red tights with blue court shoes.
I thought i looked fab.

bringbacksideburns - hell yeah I can see you in Just seventeen now! I'd have been in awe - you sound very matching. I could never get my electric blues to match anything.

Loved the 80s, music was great.

The smiths
Queen
Madonna
A-ha
Jacko

I've just had this convo with a friend on FB

Bleaching your own jeans - screwing them up and soaking them in the bath in domestos and no matter how many times you washed them they still stunk.

Also wanting skin tight jeans so we used to sit in a bath full of water wearing them thinking they would shrink to fit!

My ex from 84-88 found a photo of me the other week.

Electric blue stilletoes, some sort of cliny electric blue and black dress with Dynasty style shoulder pads... curly perm... electric blue chunky necklace and matching earrings, and clutch bag... shimmery pink lipstick, and electric blue eyeliner and electric blue fishnet tights...

The worst bit about it... I was a size 8 then... sobs.....

Clothes cost a bomb, so we had to customize what we had and try to turn it into the latest style. I made ra-ra skirts with fabric from the market, and took in old flared jeans to make drainpipes. Can't believe how many younger women can't even sew a button on.
There was some really awful music too, The Birdy Song, Agadoo (I think the same group sing the Gang Bang song in Rita, Sue...), So Macho - Sinitta, Star Trekkin across the Universe, Shadupp a your Face to name a few.

Percy.. lol.. I used to by my jeans (Lee or Brutus) and then take them in even more using my mums sewing machine.. I also had the ones with the piping down the outside leg.

I dont recall clothes costing a bomb. They were certainly not as cheap as they are today, as we didnt have Primark, but I lived in Bury and the markets in Bury/Bolton/Cheetham Hill, were really good. Nobody gave a shit about designer labels really back then. Certainly not the girls. The boys did in a way, as everything they wore had to be designer, but girls really didnt care as long as it was fashionable, and market clothes were never seen as being cheap or tacky back then.

Perfumes were also very limited. I had Sunflowers/Vanderbilt/Poison and Limara bodyspray..

Crickey I'd forgotten about taking old flared jeans in to turn them into drainpipes. I did that too.

I begged my dad for a sleeveless denim waistcoat. When I first saw jeans with ankle zips I thought I'd died and gone to heaven.