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?

LookatallthesefucksIgive I remember Chocky the book. It was written by John Wyndham who wrote Day of the Triffids.

I also remember the tartan skirts with white polyester vests. They were around when I was little in the 70s.

But you're wrong I'm afraid, fudge yogurt was the best.

I'm 33 sometimes. Too young to have really been involved but old enough to remember the better bits. If anyone wants to talk about the 90's with the bodysuits, leggings, and oversized lumberjack/denim shirts then great! I have lots of happy 90's memories :o

I was kinda hoping that the silver lining to this recession was that people would start having cheapo fun like in the 80s, but sadly this time people just seem to do nothing if they can't have expensive fun - shame!

2 girls on my course at college were in the Pet Shop Boys 'West End Girls' vid.

Fudge I can live with. Hazelnut was the only lumpy yogurt I could stand. My mum used to eat lemon flavoured ones. They were vile.

Have loved reading this thread - the 80s were my entire teenage years (born in 1971). I had a dodgy perm (which was a foam perm my mum's friend used to do - it stunk and ruined your hair, I looked like I had a carpet on the top of my head). Batwing jumpers, twilight teaser bright pink lipstick from Boots 17 with matching nails, plastic earrings, pearl brooches at the neck of a cerise pink blouse (worn with matching cerise ankle socks)... the fashion was terrible but agree the music was brilliant and it's what I listen to most on my daily commute.

It was awful. All that aspiration yuppie shit, and all the hideous bling . i remember feeling quite pressured by all that at school, the agressive need to be fashionable and perfumed and groomed (well, backcombed and ellnetted!)when our water heating only ever got turned on twice a week. It was when people started getting selfish imo. Also:
teachers strikes on wednesday afternoons
tell sid gas privatisation
buyng your council house
Falklands conflict leading to extended news bulletins with names of dead soldiers
Most of the music was pretty rubbish (eg duran duran, all the SAW stuff etc) and we missed punk.

Nobody puts Baby in a corner!

There was a lot more crap music than good, most of it hopefully got buried!

My mum still laughs at photos of me from the 80's, a perm with a sort of half mullet (oh the shame!). Pink and blue eye make-up, pearl pink lipstick, that is after all the yellow shades had gone out of fashion. We really must have looked like clowns.

My friend saw a photo of me from '92, she was really shocked and said I look much younger now than I did then, wouldn't mind but my perm had grown out by then and I looked normal for the first time in years ( a little Madonna-ish, but this was unintentional).

I was born in '81 and think i got a pretty good deal.

The 80's was a fab time to be a child....the music at parties and school discos was very child friendly and yes we wore horrific clothes but don't care that much as i was under 10!

Then I got to enjoy the 90's in my teenage years which was brilliant

^ Oh yeah, gas privatisation. 'If you see Sid, will you tell him'.

In fact the 80's was probably the best time ever for adverts, Smash robots, Kia-Ora (I'll be your dog), TRIO, Milky Way proper advert for Red car and Blue car.

I remember thinking we were rebels because they let us play Frankie Goes To Hollywood at the school disco, well hard!

So... all you eighties veterans - Which singer/ actor / band defined the era for you?

LookAtAllTheseFucksIGive Bloody bodysuits! I slumped unconscious into my bed after a night out wearing one of those damn things, I forgot to unpop the press-studs and woke up with thrush (or a chaffed fanny)!

CJ2010 Wham, because I fancied George Michael (eww) and Curiosity Killed The Cat because I had my first sex dream about Ben the lead singer who I still think is fit, and I would still do him in a caravan in Wales

no in the 70's we had power cuts, national srikes, Tufty and The Green Cross Code Man - plus Roxy Musix and T Rex - the 80's where shite

I loved the 80's and if I could be transported back in time I would. Sun-In anyone?

'Iron Lady' (metallic pink) lipstick from Miss Selfridge anyone?

I mostly sun-ined in the 90s

Don't mind if I do, Fimbo! I was very blonde at the time anyway, but my boyfriend had kind of sandy curly hair and went REALLY orange with the Sun-In!

My hair snapped off with the amount of sun-in I put on it. Do you remember the disgusting smell of it yuk.

anyone remember the Mighty Wah, Story of the blues? Video is just bad, but what a fantastic song

Yes, got that single in the loft too (The Story of the Blues), love that one.

The Specials - Ghost Town was probably the defining song of the era IMO me. Just summed up everything really.

Overall though it was The Jam that had the biggest impact on me personally, they were the first live band I ever saw, in 82, I will never forget that, their songs take me straight back to that era.

I wasn't allowed to dye my hair. I craved to be like the other girls and be allowed to use Sun-In. My friend had a spectacular orange fringe that I was very jealous of.

I liked Pete Burns when he was in Dead or Alive and before he really started down the road of cosmetic surgery.