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 was in Quality save today and what comes on but 'Kiss me' by Stephen 'TinTin' Duffy!! I was born in 66 so I was very into 80's tunes - Duran Duran, Adam Ant, etc. Better than the rubbish we get these days (just NOT into The Wanted, JLS etc - sorry fans of those boy bands but only Take That floats my boat lol)

Story of the blues is a fantastic song.

I agree - I was a teenager in the 80s and the music was great - it was the variety that seems to be much more acceptable for teenagers to like then than now -

Agree that the politics was dreadful, the miners' strike and the closing down of practically everything in the North West of England in contrast to what we saw on the telly in the South and the era of the yuppy.

Lookng back actually, being a teenager was hard work and I'd not go back for all the tea in China.

In a fit on 80's nostalgia I bought St Elmos Fire DVD today from the £3 bargain bin in Asda.
Rob Lowe. Still would.

The music was both brilliant and crap in equal measures. I like the fact that I got to see lots of amazing bands at the Apollo in Glasgow when it was crumbling apart and that my first ever concert was Adam and the Ants (I am seriously cool). Like most eras there were lots of fantastic things about it and lots of crap things too.

Story of the Blues on 6Music now!

Can't resist coming back to this.

Massive big fuss about CB radio at one time.
Ah - Sun-in! Used so much my hair went orange.
Also should have had shares in Biactol and apres/apri? swiss facial scrub.

Getting ready to go out on a Friday with Brookside on.
Getting ready to go out on a Saturday to Blind Date with our lovely cilla.

Ah, the 80's were my decade. Being born in 1970 I went through my teens in it.

A-ha, Adam Ant, Duran Duran and far too many other fab things to listen to. Films like Lost Boys, starting to go to the cinema with my friends, learning to drive, getting a job...then there were the perms and hair gel, and don't get me started on the fashion.

But back to the music - it was brilliant, and anything after it to me has been a bit nondescript. And the stuff that comes out now is mostly just noise.

Or I could be getting to old fartdom

RedBlanket I have St Elmo's fire, The Breakfast Club, and About Last Night in a Box set.

I was born in 1965 so was a teenager in the early 80s. I remember dyeing my hair with those hint of tint sachets thinking I was so cool, then later progressed to henna, it looked and smelled like a cow pat. I also had a perm and looked like Crystal Tips.

Music was classic, I loved U2 [was a little in love with Bono ] The Jam, Pet Shop Boys, Frankie Goes to Hollywood, Human League, Heaven 17, The Cure and Spandau Ballet but was NEVER really into Duran Duran.
I remember getting a video and teletext and then soon after Channel 4 was launched and I loved the Tube on friday night and Brookside.

Oh happy carefree memories. It was the decade I started going clubbing and drinking cider and cinzano (not mixed , when alcohol made you all silly and giggly.

Omg I was a teen in 80s as well, it was brilliant, well remember Hennah, just the 4 shades, brown, black, Red and blonde. Was them all.

Duran Duran, human leagues ' hard times' best track ever.

No mobiles, no Internet, no iPod. We had ' ghetto blasters'

Padded shoulders, Dallas and dynasty, t. J hooker!!

Topped off 80s with my first baby born 1989 and then spent 90s in haze of childbirth, Nappies and littlies.

80s was FANTASTIC.

I turned 13 in 1985 so spent most of my teens in the 80s. My over riding memories are snow washed denim, perms, mullets, shiny suits and grey slip on shoes. 90's were much cooler.

Pixie Boots.

Yes yes, snow washed denim, pixie boots and denim gilets. Stilettos with a slant across the front. You could buy them in Dolcis or Manfield and then there were cheaper versions in Freeman Hardy Willis mainly in hot pink or royal blue.

Oh and that craze where blokes got their hair permed at the back.

Oh we had the best and the worst of music. We went every Friday night to a disco in a community hall and the DJ played everything from Duran Duran to the Cure and the Clash and all points in between. We lived for the "slow sets" and the snogs.

The fashion was something else. I got mildly into the goth scene because the goth boys were the coolest and had a dangerous air to them,and remember dying my hair (and half the bathroom and my skin) jet black, then carefuly shaving an ever increasing arc of baldness around my ears. We had no money,pierced our own ears, dyed our clothes black and wore pixie boots and studded belts. I remember applying make up over the stubble of many a butch teenage male friend in my bedroom before heading out to the disco. We then had to try to revert to vaguely normal looking for the nuns at the convent schol on the Monday morning.

To this day, a can of Elnett hairspray always reminds me of the backcombing.

Hehe, I pierced my own ears too.

I think Claudia Winklemans doing an 80's spesh on R2 fir the next hour.

Currently playing Fame!

Sparkling at your boxset. I've already got Breakfast Club but not About Last Night. Might go back tomorrow and have another rummage through the bargain bin.

Rob Lowe in About Last Night. I so would.

Cor

I had a flick hairstyle. Went short after getting a perm and hating it!

Have fond memories of making up a dance routine to Sister Sledge 'Frankie' and performing it on stage with my best friend.

Love letters to the good looking ones on Grange Hill. Ricky anyone?

Standing at the top of the road with my friend after school, discussing which colour jumper and matching socks we would wear later. Cerise pink or orange?

The first concert I was allowed to go to myself was Dead or Alive. My mum was very reluctant!

Got my first job, a paper round. I used to run round it so fast, because I needed to see Phillip Schofield in the broom cupboard!

I have a vague recollection of buying really gawdy jumpers from either Benetton or The Sweater Shop? or was that bit later on?

I was in my late 20s/early 30s in the 80s and it was the BEST time. I worked on music programmes - The Tube/Razzmatazz and got to hear music before it was released. Loved music then. Love it just as much now - never will grow out of it.

Oh god I was just SOOOOO cool in the 80's pouted my way round posing for england. EVERYTHING matched, even the lippy, I loved it we used to really dress up to go out in those days. gold eyeshodow, sequin bood tube, glitter ankle sox or footless tights anyone.