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?

no national curriculum so if you were a girl you had to do 'girls' subjects at school

Not true in my school which was a standard comp (very much like Grange Hill), as I did woodwork, metalwork and also took GCSE Technical Drawing. The boys at my school did sewing, typing and home ec.

Yep, same here!

I was, you didn't miss anything :)

I was born in 1970..loved the 80's

Teardop Explodes/The Clash/Frankie goes to Hollywwod! Adam and the Ants swoon

Making my dad take me to the cinema to watch Grease about 10 times

although would gladly bypass the dreadful neon clothing/ra-ra skirts and doily bopper memories!

Mine too Squeeky. The boys did Home Economics and the girls did woodwork, metalwork and my favourite technical drawing.

At my all girls Grammar school my Headmistress was a doctor and promoted engineering, just as well as my only triumph in needlework was machining my already tight Pepe jeans to obscenely tight tubes.

I saw the Thomson Twins live.

I also went mental to Fame and Footloose.

The 80's rocked.

And to redress the balance, I thought Mrs Thatcher was an inspiration.

yabu!

I was a teen in the 80s.

I danced to Wham.

I had a perm

I had to cut out shoulder pads out of everything, as I am 6ft, and looked like a man with them.

I have pictures of me wearing white shoes

with socks in them

While we are talking about 80s fashion - I used to love Clockhouse and kept trying to make my parents buy me clothes from there. They never did :(

Just remembered more.... being totally additcted to Dallas/Fame and Neighbours when Kylie and Jason were in it!

Killing Joke was the second band I saw live. (Big Country were first.) Jaz Coleman (accidentally) kicked me in the head [proud]

Last name, I packed in Guides because it was on the same night as Dallas, it was ^required viewing>

Can you remember going to school the night after Boy George and Madonna were on TOTP? Nothing else was spoken of.

squeaky, you must have been end of the 80s though if it was GCSEs not O levels

tbh right now it feels like we've been dumped unceremoniously back in the 1980s.

My memories are all the miners' strike, Falklands, the IRA (and them being shot in the back in Gibraltar, the battle of the beanfield, loads of my older friends being unemployed - be glad you missed it . . .

I was born in 65. Loved the late 70's and mid 80's. 86, my 21st year was just the best. I had my first boyfriend in tow, he was totally gorgeous and I remember being in a pub with a video jukebox in (very swish back then). Jermaine Jackson, We Don't Have to Keep Our Clothes On (dire track) was one of the tracks I remember best.

Went to see the Communards live as my first ever concert. Hated Thatcher; loved Squeeze and Elvis Costello. Favourite band was Madness. It was a sad time for fashion, but a great time for music imo. I liked the early 90's too...Oasis, Blur, Suede, The Longpigs, Gomez...all favourites. In the noughties, it was the Monkeys (Arctic...though I confess I did see the Monkeys (60's boy band) in the 80's along with Bananarama, Mickey Jackson, Kim Wilde and others, too naff and too numerous to mention).

I loved Frankie Goes to Hollywood and Teardrop Explodes, Beautiful South and Kate Bush. I am feeling a bit old this morning though, cos I don't know much modern music beyond Adele and Ed Sheeran (panics at thought of becoming middle aged, even though I really truly am :))

Crap music? You were listening to the wrong stuff then.

Bauhaus Big Audio Dynamite The Smiths

Ah, my youth [misty eyed]

The Falklands, that was another thing , I lived near Portsmouth and remember all the ships coming back, we saw the one that had a torpedo through its hull, can't remember it's name.

I also remember the excitement of having a day off school to go to the beach and watch the Mary Rose being raised

Not true in my school which was a standard comp (very much like Grange Hill), as I did woodwork, metalwork and also took GCSE Technical Drawing. If you were doing GCSEs you were post introduction of the national curriculum, so late 80s

No - i saw The Smiths. They made me realise people could make briliant music!

I cried at the bus stop on a field trip because my mother wouldn't let me get straight legged jeans. She made me wear dark denim flares with a white cord belt. I also wanted a denim jacket and tucker boots and she thought they were common.
She was regretting it later on in the decade though, when i shaved my head and wore kilts and doc martins. Haha! She alwys wanted me to wear nice skirts and have nice handbags.

Do you remember those puff ball skirts and i had those massive black elasticated wide belts that fastened on hinges and pulled your waist in.

Was watching Roadhouse last night and Patrick Swayzee is the only man i know who could rock a mullet. Gorgeous!

I'll shut up now.

YABVU the 8o's were shit, awful music, fashion and politics. Well maybe the Smiths were OK but they hardly saved the whole decade.

I was a young child in the 80's, My uncle was an 80's mod and him and his friends were very like the gang from This is England.
Even though they were ultra cool they were lovely to me, let me follow them around a bit, sit on their precious scooters and taught me all the lyrics to The Jam songs and named me 'Mini-modette' I wanted to be them so much.
I still adore Paul Weller to this day.

Breakdancing! NEVER again nor before has there been such a cool dance

I wasat Uniin the early ish 80s, and at school boys did needlework, girls did woodwork. The captain of the Rugby team was brilliant at needlework, I was rubbish. I did though get the comment that I was good at " a traditionally boy's subject" though.
I remember worries about getting jobs, Uni departments being closed, riots, some people having lots of money, but also the miners strike (and collections on campus to help them).
Of course we were always being told how fab the 60s had been, and we'd missed our.

I think like every decade it depends where you were and what you were doing.

Depressed midlands ex-steel town: 80s seemed pretty shit

Went to university in the late 80s, so big city etc then had a job & some cash: 90s seemed much better :)

Things I remember (I was born in 1970) are making dresses out of pillowcases, neon shite, spray on trousers, listening to the top 40, people being at number one for fucking months like Jennifer Rush and all that shit.

I was never a Duranie nor into Spandau, I liked Paul Young

I watch the movies now and one thing that strikes me is that the idea of a pretty woman back then is very different to the idea the media have now.

The 80s were great, it's true.

I would have liked to have been old enough to be a teen in the 70s though.

Ah, Bauhaus, The Cure, Siouxsie and the Banshees, Joy Division, Sisters of Mercy... I still listen to them now when in the right mood.

Sashh more or less what I was going to say. I will add that it looks like we are heading back that way. Don't worry if you missed the 80s very soon you can live through it again. Hey at least we will have the internet this time...

The 80's were fab and the music was ace...I miss the 80's!!