Some 80s Nostalgia: Nominate your fav. movie, CD, crush, anything fashion!

[jon1jt]

let's come to terms with this fundamental fact: the 1980s was the best decade of the 20th Century. :lol: and if you didn't live it you certainly heard about it. for all the interesting music that's followed, there's no denying that the 80s music has stood the test of time, with even The Sopranos final episode finishing with Journey anthem Don't Stop Believin.

don't be shy all you 80s Children (i know who you are!) or not ~ list your favorite movie, CD, quote, or fashion piece! or maybe you had a crush on Rob Lowe or Demi Moore?

feel free to post pix too! ---
The (Un)Official Anything 80s Thread.:lol:


here's my picks:

Best Album: Diver Down ~ Van Halen; AC/DC ~ Back in Black
Best Song: Walking on Sunshine ~ Katrina & the Waves

sexiest female fashion piece ~ Leg Warmers :lol:
For male ~ The Izod shirt :lol:

Fav Movie ~ The Lost Boys

My crush ~ Ally Sheedy
(and then Winona Ryder came along) :p


Best movie line ~
"You know how you said before, how your parents use you to get back at each other? Wouldn't I be outstanding in that capacity?" -Bender to Molly Ringwald's character, The Breakfast Club

[Demian]

Boy, the 80's seem like a decade more innocent than the fifties in today's post 9/11 world. In the 80's we didn't have to worry about terrorists or cyclones. The only thing we had to worry about was really big hair. I vote for A Flock of Seagulls here. Their hair was truly distressing.

[SleepyWitch]

sexiest female fashion piece ~ Leg Warmers :lol:


baaaaah, the 80s were one of the most tacky decades in the history of mankind! legwarmers being one of the main reasons (the others being aerobics clothes.. what do you call them? leotards?, leggins, carroty jeans and bushy hairstyles.

fave 80s song: Girls Just Wanna Have Fun by Cyndi Lauper

[manolia]

Wasn't 80's the decade with the worst haircuts?? :lol:

[crisaor]

I hate the aesthetic of the 80's. Other than that, I had a happy childhood in it.

I believe the main 80's nostalgia element for me are the cartoons & series I watched: He-Man, Transformers, Thundercats, The Smurfs, Super-friends, The Batman series with Adam West, Alf, Sledge Hammer, Benny Hill, Get Smart, The A Team, McGyver, Knight Rider, and perhaps others.

Those were good times.

EDIT And I should've never forgotten Looney Tunes or the Pink Panther.

[Nightshade]

SEsame Street!!!!!!!

[Lyn]

I nominate Queen's 'Its a Kind of Magic' 1986, and, of course, Highlander, as the perfect match....

[Riesa]

http://i71.photobucket.com/albums/i121/RiesaRiesa/0815182644Stray20Cat20Head.jpg

http://i71.photobucket.com/albums/i121/RiesaRiesa/SlimJimStrayCats.jpg

http://i71.photobucket.com/albums/i121/RiesaRiesa/strayinteraktiv.jpg


Okay, I'll quit. ;)

[Idril]

Best Album: a tie between R.E.M's Green album and the Replacements' Pleased To Meet Me

Best Song: I just think that is way too hard to pick but a couple of ones that come to mind right away are Never Say Never by Romeo Void and I Know What Boys Like by the Waitresses.

female fashion fad: tight rolling jeans
male fad: parachute pants

Favorite Movie: Purple Rain

Crush: Well, there is the ever present David Gilmour but just to add a little bit of variety, I'll go with Stewart Copeland of the Police this time. :D

http://i15.photobucket.com/albums/a371/IdrilCelebrindal/copeland01.jpg

http://i15.photobucket.com/albums/a371/IdrilCelebrindal/36120107_cfb0097c54.jpg

And just so I don't have to feel unfaithful to Dave: :p
http://mysite.orange.co.uk/Silverfoot67/images/3-picture3.jpg

[Lily Adams]

*cries tears of joy at the fact this thread was made*

You're right on the dot, my friend.

I like the early '80s. But it all looked like it rocked.

Movies:

AMADEUS being a big one. Back to the Future, Beetlejuice, PeeWee's Big Adventure. And all the neat TV shows. Blackadder, PeeWee's Playhouse. Ahhhhhhh...

As for music, new wave all the way. It's all about DEVO. Even though they started in '72. *expert*

But I like Depeche Mode and some random one-hit-wonders like "Cars", "Take On Me", "Sweet Dreams (Are Made of This)", etc. I like one-hit-wonders a lot.

DEEEEEEVVVVVOOOOOOO. I even have an enormous crush on the lead singer. I do, I do, I do. So there's my crush.

http://i198.photobucket.com/albums/aa144/shesoutofsync/spuds.gif

http://i198.photobucket.com/albums/aa144/shesoutofsync/lookatme.jpg

http://i198.photobucket.com/albums/aa144/shesoutofsync/justlikeyou-1.jpg


I like going through my mom's old clothes drawer cuz she has classic excercise spandex junk and leg warmers. All vintage. All bought in the 80s.

My favorite fashion piece?

...

Whatever DEVO wears. @_@

http://i198.photobucket.com/albums/aa144/shesoutofsync/combthepomps.jpg

http://i198.photobucket.com/albums/aa144/shesoutofsync/showoff.jpg

[Shalot]

The eighties:

Mall Bangs:

http://i108.photobucket.com/albums/n25/Shalot_bucket/mallbangs.jpg

Wham (My uncle told me George Michael was gay and I went to school and repeated this informaton and an eighth grader got very irate about that. "George Michael is not gay," she said):

http://i108.photobucket.com/albums/n25/Shalot_bucket/Wham.jpg

The Shoulder Pads power suit for the eighties working woman:

http://i108.photobucket.com/albums/n25/Shalot_bucket/shoulderpads.jpg

Ms Pacman:
http://i108.photobucket.com/albums/n25/Shalot_bucket/MsPacman.jpg

and Motley Crue (Nikki Sixx :banana:)

http://i108.photobucket.com/albums/n25/Shalot_bucket/motleycrue.jpg

[Lily Adams]

The eighties:

Mall Bangs:

http://i108.photobucket.com/albums/n25/Shalot_bucket/mallbangs.jpg

Wham (My uncle told me George Michael was gay and I went to school and repeated this informaton and an eighth grader got very irate about that. "George Michael is not gay," she said):

http://i108.photobucket.com/albums/n25/Shalot_bucket/Wham.jpg

The Shoulder Pads power suit for the eighties working woman:

http://i108.photobucket.com/albums/n25/Shalot_bucket/shoulderpads.jpg

Ms Pacman:
http://i108.photobucket.com/albums/n25/Shalot_bucket/MsPacman.jpg

The first three made me laugh. XD

YEEAAAAHHHH Classic 80s arcade games! GALAGA. CENTIPEDE. I flock to them at Golf 'n' Stuff. I always am stuck to them. They rock. I have a couple on my computer, too.

A lot, actually.

[jon1jt]

How about those Whitesnake videos?!

[Telegram Sam]

The 80's wasn't all leg-warmers and hair bands and assortments of annoying color schemes; I have three (or two and a half) words for all of you: The Princess Bride.

http://www.filmnight.org/images/pbride.JPG

Any decade that spawned such a movie (not to mention myself, or Spinal Tap, or any number of overlooked 80's masterpieces) is alright in my book.

http://content.answers.com/main/content/wp/en/6/6a/Labyrinth_movie.jpg

Need I say more?

[Lily Adams]

The 80's wasn't all leg-warmers and hair bands and assortments of annoying color schemes; I have three (or two and a half) words for all of you: The Princess Bride.

http://www.filmnight.org/images/pbride.JPG

Any decade that spawned such a movie (not to mention myself, or Spinal Tap, or any number of overlooked 80's masterpieces) is alright in my book.

http://content.answers.com/main/content/wp/en/6/6a/Labyrinth_movie.jpg

Need I say more?


SECONDED. Expecially Labyrinth. <3

[Demian]

I remember New Years Eve, I think it was 1984 and I was watching MTV's New Year's Bash. At midnight they dropped about a million ping pong balls on the audience and Jefferson Starship took the stage to sing 'We Built this City'. Grace Slick was pelted innumerable times. You could tell she was pissed, but she couldn't walk off stage. Adam the V-jay was hit by one right in the face and he pointed at the houligan who did it, yeliing,"Oh, I'm gonna get you after the show." And of course that Suzanne Vega looking V-jay, I can't remember her name, congratulated the producers for suggesting the ping pong ball thing. It was defintiely a quintissential eighties debacle, and one of the greatest New Year's memories of my life.

[SleepyWitch]

Girls just wanna have fun (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tqf9PuKi63E)

oh my gosh, is that the original video? how tacky can it get?
I mean did people really find those haircuts and clothes cool?

[RobinHood3000]

I hate the aesthetic of the 80's. Other than that, I had a happy childhood in it.

I believe the main 80's nostalgia element for me are the cartoons & series I watched: He-Man, Transformers, Thundercats, The Smurfs, Super-friends, The Batman series with Adam West, Alf, Sledge Hammer, Benny Hill, Get Smart, The A Team, McGyver, Knight Rider, and perhaps others.

Those were good times.

EDIT And I should've never forgotten Looney Tunes or the Pink Panther.You missed Swat KATS and Voltron! :p

As for me...

http://content.answers.com/main/content/wp/en/d/d9/Thriller_Video_Clip.jpg

[papayahed]

oh heavens, where do I begin...

[crisaor]

You missed Swat KATS and Voltron! :p
I actually didn't watch any of those, although seeing Voltron reminded me of Mazinger Z, which I had forgotten. Heathcliff was another one I left out.

[Bakiryu]

Old Anime! Akira was made in the LATE eighties

(The guy in the girls just wanna fun video looks like my stepddad! Is like a doppleganger or something)

I love the eighties hair! My hair would have been so cool back then and the clothes are pretty cool.

Most of my family still dresses a bit like that.

and the dresses are similar to the one's my family in Spain make.

[jon1jt]

Girls just wanna have fun (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tqf9PuKi63E)

oh my gosh, is that the original video? how tacky can it get?
I mean did people really find those haircuts and clothes cool?


awesome video, thanks! i think the lauper video is an embellishment of the times, not many people dressed that way, though lauper was quite the trend setter. for guys it was mostly levis and t-shirts. cordoroy pants were in too. workboots were worn for a rugged look. there was the bandana, of course.

i do remember everything, esp. jeans, being worn obscenely tight. nowadays clothes make the curves. in the 80s, the curves made the clothes. :nod:

am i right that stretch mini-skirts were a favorite for women back then?

how many of you remember or have seen the Madonna black washer braclets?

[Shalot]

how many of you remember or have seen the Madonna black washer braclets?


Are you talking about those bracelets made of like, rubber or something and they were really, like thin and people wore like twenty at a time?

And wasn't the eighties like when people starting saying like, like all the time?

[jon1jt]

oh heavens, where do I begin...



you can begin with George Michael's Faith song. :lol:


Are you talking about those bracelets made of like, rubber or something and they were really, like thin and people wore like twenty at a time?

And wasn't the eighties like when people starting saying like, like all the time?

i think it was a "valley girl" phenomenon inspired by that movie with Nicolas Cage. and let's not forget the quintessential 80s song by Modern English that came out of that movie: I'll Stop The World And Melt With You. :thumbs_up

[Lily Adams]

i think it was a "valley girl" phenomenon inspired by that movie with Nicolas Cage. and let's not forget the quintessential 80s song by Modern English that came out of that movie: I'll Stop The World And Melt With You. :thumbs_up

Ha ha. That song was playing the other morning on my radio alarm and it woke me up...

[jon1jt]

Ha ha. That song was playing the other morning on my radio alarm and it woke me up...

c'mon, hum along with me now:

hmmm hmmm hmmm
hmmm hmmm hmmm hmmm
hmmm hmmm hmmm
hmmm hmmm hmmm hmmm

:lol:

great song!

[TheFifthElement]

The Goonies!

[RobinHood3000]

I actually went as Data to an 80s dance, trench coat and all. :cool:

[Bakiryu]

I'll Stop The World And Melt With You. :thumbs_up

I actually have that in my ipod :blush: :blush: the rock version, of course: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LDOPlf0uAmM


and for all you 80s people: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DnYm0EmyDVU

[bluevictim]

c'mon, hum along with me now:

hmmm hmmm hmmm
hmmm hmmm hmmm hmmm
hmmm hmmm hmmm
hmmm hmmm hmmm hmmm

:lol:

great song!It just occurred to me that the hmmm hmmm hmmm part is the same as the NBC chimes.

[jon1jt]

I actually have that in my ipod :blush: :blush: the rock version, of course: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LDOPlf0uAmM


and for all you 80s people: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DnYm0EmyDVU


:eek: oh my god how does a wanna-be band like that ruin such a great song?!!?!!!!! :lol:

okay folks, introducing...the real...Modern English:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gn8o_c6pGhI&mode=related&search=

and if you're really daring, you'll sneak a peek at the best song of the 1980s...and a pretty cool video too. I'll give you a hint: A-Ha! :p

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CUod3jGQt0U

[papayahed]

School Hose Rocks:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RhHpJ45_zwM


http://content.answers.com/main/content/wp/en/thumb/9/92/180px-Mötley_Crüe_Shout_at_the_Devil.jpg

http://www.ellabeebaby.com/catalog/gag-spoon-lg.gif

http://www.splatt.com.au/blog/blog_images/MaxHeadroom.jpg

http://content.answers.com/main/content/wp/en/4/4f/Frankie_says_relax_t-shirt.jpg

http://www.members.shaw.ca/lost80s/dukes.jpg


And as Jon mentioned George Michael:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio2/images/artists/gmichael/gm_gallery4.jpg

I couldn't find a pic of just his butt from the video so here's the video, check out the best butt of the decade:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LPEX81R8ihY

[Nightshade]

And who could forget Live aid?

[manolia]

Why i like the 80's

http://i166.photobucket.com/albums/u106/manolia_niki/the_police_1.jpg

Prince Jareth is already mentioned, but here are more images

http://i166.photobucket.com/albums/u106/manolia_niki/david4.jpg

http://i166.photobucket.com/albums/u106/manolia_niki/david1.jpg

http://i166.photobucket.com/albums/u106/manolia_niki/david3.jpg

Some of my favourite Alice Cooper records were made in the 80's

http://i166.photobucket.com/albums/u106/manolia_niki/alice_cooper_1.jpg

[AdoreroDio]

The Goonies!

I love the Goonies!

[Bakiryu]

:eek: oh my god how does a wanna-be band like that ruin such a great song?!!?!!!!! :lol:


How dare you! :flare: That band rocks! Specially the part with the Kazoos!

[jon1jt]

Best Sitcoms of All-Time were in the 80s

1. Facts of Life. (who was your favorite Facts-girl? :lol:)
2. Family Ties

almost forgot about

3. Cheers


How dare you! :flare: That band rocks! Specially the part with the Kazoos!


the kazoos are fun, true. but i think they should have had the fat guitarist dude rolling around on the car hood at the end of the video! :lol:

[Lily Adams]

http://www.splatt.com.au/blog/blog_images/MaxHeadroom.jpg


MAX HEADROOM, OH MY "BOB". He is awesome.



c'mon, hum along with me now:

hmmm hmmm hmmm
hmmm hmmm hmmm hmmm
hmmm hmmm hmmm
hmmm hmmm hmmm hmmm



great song!

Yeah, it was a real treat! I thought, "Oh, that's nice. Yay, '80s!"


and if you're really daring, you'll sneak a peek at the best song of the 1980s...and a pretty cool video too. I'll give you a hint: A-Ha!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CUod3jGQt0U

I LOVE that song. The singer has an amazing voice.

Video Killed the Radio Star! First music video shown on MTV when they actually played music videos. I love their choice.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6LB6Q_oycfQ&feature=PlayList&p=DE9D5E64978DCF36&index=7

*jams*

[Shalot]

Best Sitcoms of All-Time were in the 80s

1. Facts of Life. (who was your favorite Facts-girl? :lol:)
2. Family Ties

almost forgot about

3. Cheers




the kazoos are fun, true. but i think they should have had the fat guitarist dude rolling around on the car hood at the end of the video! :lol:

What about Full House and Uncle Jesse. TGIF??? Not the best but certainly noteworthy

And who could forget The Cosby Show?

[crisaor]

Add Parker Lewis Can't Lose to the list.

(Hmm, apparently I watched a lot of TV back then :lol:)

[Shalot]

Let's talk eighties home decor. Picture this:

Living Room:black leather sectional wrap-around sofa. Glass topped end tables and coffee tables. The walls are painted red.

Bedroom (guy):
red comforter
black and white checked sheets with some red, blue and yellow geometric shapes scattered here and there

Collection of tapes featuring poison, ratt, motley crue, whitesnake, guns n roses, beastie boys

Bedroom (girl)bass bedframe and vanity

white wicker dresser and nightstands

pink and white floral comforter

lots of teddy bears.

poster of wham above the bed, or maybe poison

Liz Claiborne perfume in the triangle shaped bottle on the dresser

rave hairspray and curling iron on the vanity

keds and slouch socks on the floor.

[RobinHood3000]

YEEEAHHH, Poison!!

[jon1jt]

Let's talk eighties home decor. Picture this:

Living Room:black leather sectional wrap-around sofa. Glass topped end tables and coffee tables. The walls are painted red.

Bedroom (guy):
red comforter
black and white checked sheets with some red, blue and yellow geometric shapes scattered here and there

Collection of tapes featuring poison, ratt, motley crue, whitesnake, guns n roses, beastie boys

Bedroom (girl)bass bedframe and vanity

white wicker dresser and nightstands

pink and white floral comforter

lots of teddy bears.

poster of wham above the bed, or maybe poison

Liz Claiborne perfume in the triangle shaped bottle on the dresser

rave hairspray and curling iron on the vanity

keds and slouch socks on the floor.


Guys room you forgot to include:

for jocks ~ favorite football player poster

for burnouts ~ favorite velvet glow-in-the-dark poster of Eddie from Iron Maiden or Judas Priest (i wonder how those burnouts would have taken it to know that Mr. Screaming For Vengeance was actually...gay!) :lol:


Girls Room:
Posters included:

Pat Benetar or Prince & The Revolution

The Love Boat hunk (he later played in The Nerds movie and Al Bundy's neighbor in Married With Children! i forgot his name. :lol: i wish somebody would post that famous poster of him since i don't know how to post.) :lol:

George Michael's or Bruce Springsteen's butt :lol:

[papayahed]

for burnouts ~ favorite velvet glow-in-the-dark poster of Eddie from Iron Maiden or Judas Priest (i wonder how those burnouts would have taken it to know that Mr. Screaming For Vengeance was actually...gay!) :lol:

We didn't realize it then but looking back how obvious was he???? My best friend had a blacklight Led Zepplin tapestry.


The Love Boat hunk (he later played in The Nerds movie and Al Bundy's neighbor in Married With Children! i forgot his name. :lol: i wish somebody would post that famous poster of him since i don't know how to post.) :lol:

Ted McGinley - who, by the way was also on Happy Days.

http://generallee.punt.nl/upload/ace.jpg



And what self respecting 80's chick didn't have this poster:

http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/I/51B6Q2Y0QFL._AA280_.jpg

[SleepyWitch]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tZuXEnQzajQ
Fantasy Girl by Johnny O, another fave :)

[dramasnot6]

*cries tears of joy at the fact this thread was made*

You're right on the dot, my friend.

I like the early '80s. But it all looked like it rocked.

Movies:

AMADEUS being a big one. Back to the Future, Beetlejuice, PeeWee's Big Adventure. And all the neat TV shows. Blackadder, PeeWee's Playhouse. Ahhhhhhh...

As for music, new wave all the way. It's all about DEVO. Even though they started in '72. *expert*

But I like Depeche Mode and some random one-hit-wonders like "Cars", "Take On Me", "Sweet Dreams (Are Made of This)", etc. I like one-hit-wonders a lot.

DEEEEEEVVVVVOOOOOOO. I even have an enormous crush on the lead singer. I do, I do, I do. So there's my crush.

http://i198.photobucket.com/albums/aa144/shesoutofsync/spuds.gif

http://i198.photobucket.com/albums/aa144/shesoutofsync/lookatme.jpg

http://i198.photobucket.com/albums/aa144/shesoutofsync/justlikeyou-1.jpg


I like going through my mom's old clothes drawer cuz she has classic excercise spandex junk and leg warmers. All vintage. All bought in the 80s.

My favorite fashion piece?

...

Whatever DEVO wears. @_@

http://i198.photobucket.com/albums/aa144/shesoutofsync/combthepomps.jpg

http://i198.photobucket.com/albums/aa144/shesoutofsync/showoff.jpg

w00000t! DEVO!!! I'll second Lily in that nomination.

[dramasnot6]

I love the 80's-
Music:
David Bowie
The Who
The Rolling Stones
DEVO
Style:
RETRO! I love the retro look/feel.

My favorite book from the 80s- Margaret Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale
I'm also a big fan of the second wave feminism that fuelled the huge shift of women into the workplace.

[SleepyWitch]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n7CuJ8cR9sg
Forever Young by Alphaville... hey, I just looked them up on wiki and was surprised to learn that they are German. i thought they were American.
do you guys know this song at all?

weird, I love 80s syntho music but i absolutely can't stand the hairstyles, clothes or anything else to do with the 80s

[Lily Adams]

w00000t! DEVO!!! I'll second Lily in that nomination.

YESSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS. *foams at mouth*



I'm also a big fan of the second wave feminism that fuelled the huge shift of women into the workplace.

Ha ha, aw, Drama, I luff you. I'm not surprised. Yes...the power suits...


I love how it was cool to like the 18th century in the 80s. That is awesome.

Calculator watches!!!!

[jon1jt]

I love the 80's-
Music:
David Bowie
The Who
The Rolling Stones
DEVO
Style:
RETRO! I love the retro look/feel.

My favorite book from the 80s- Margaret Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale
I'm also a big fan of the second wave feminism that fuelled the huge shift of women into the workplace.


second wave? i'm still waiting for the tsunami? :p

that women into the workplace thing reminded me of the 80s film, Working Girl.

[jon1jt]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n7CuJ8cR9sg
Forever Young by Alphaville... hey, I just looked them up on wiki and was surprised to learn that they are German. i thought they were American.
do you guys know this song at all?

weird, I love 80s syntho music but i absolutely can't stand the hairstyles, clothes or anything else to do with the 80s


i always wondered who sang that one, thanks!!! :thumbs_up

[Lily Adams]

People, I feel bad.

I feel really bad. Terrible.

http://i198.photobucket.com/albums/aa144/shesoutofsync/oingoboingo2.jpg

How could I FORGET Oingo Boingo?!?!?!?!! I love them! I didn't say ANYTHING about them before. I suck.

And they were the first band I liked a lot that I discovered on my own. And I probably wouldn't have discovered DEVO, either, had I not known about Oingo Boingo.

It's the '80s, idiot!

[jon1jt]

People, I feel bad.

I feel really bad. Terrible.

http://i198.photobucket.com/albums/aa144/shesoutofsync/oingoboingo2.jpg

How could I FORGET Oingo Boingo?!?!?!?!! I love them! I didn't say ANYTHING about them before. I suck.

And they were the first band I liked a lot that I discovered on my own. And I probably wouldn't have discovered DEVO, either, had I not known about Oingo Boingo.

It's the '80s, idiot!

i would think Oingo Boingo has the record for most soundtrack tunes.

:lol: Oingo Boingo 80s Trivia, are you ready?

What is the name of the 80s movie in which Oingo Boingo performs?
Hint: Kinnison :argue:


i just thought of more 80s trivia: !

NAME THIS TUNE: "Out on the streets, that's where we'll meet..."

[Idril]

I don't know the Oingo Boingo question but I do know those lyrics, Round and Round by Ratt. I'm a tad bit embarrassed to say I actually like that song. :blush:

[papayahed]

I don't know the Oingo Boingo question but I do know those lyrics, Round and Round by Ratt. I'm a tad bit embarrassed to say I actually like that song. :blush:

uh oh. Then I think I should be doubly embarrassed for knowing most of their songs....:(

[Riesa]

oingo boingo (what's the movie when the two geeks create a woman? yes wierd science) reminded me of Toy Dolls, Violent Femmes and Hoodoo Gurus, not to mention the B-52's.

[Lily Adams]

:lol: Oingo Boingo 80s Trivia, are you ready?

What is the name of the 80s movie in which Oingo Boingo performs?
Hint: Kinnison :argue:

Back to School, with Rodney Dangerfield...

Here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iypUpv9xelg&feature=PlayList&p=6170C836B7693A5F&index=1

"I'm all dressed up with nowhere to go." :D

I have ths friend at school who just started randomly singing the "Dooooon't run awayyyyyy, it's only me!" part and he has a really deep voice normally so it was ROTFLOL-worthy.



And then they did the theme for Weird Science.

My mommy has a crush on the lead singer, Danny Elfman, which I think is funnier than poo knuckles.

When I tell people my age my favorite bands, they either say, "Who?" or they laugh at Oingo Boingo's name. I think they think it's a dirty word or something. :lol: Their loss.

Why were the '80s so awesome? It's hurts to think about it because it's so cool.

[Larimar]

Oh, Top Gun, Tom Cruise....

[Lily Adams]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VPgHbt0ODr4&feature=related

Fwiggen Cool.

Qua qua, ah diddly qua qua, ah diddly qua qua!

[Kafka's Crow]

I am an 80s boy, the class of '85 to be exact and don't like when folks talk about that decade disrespectfully. It gave us George Michael, Michael Jackson, Madonna, Prince, Sulaman Rushdie, DM Thomas and break dancing in the streets. What I like about the 80s:

My favorite 80s song: Big Area by Then Jericho:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qw4kPe1UOp0

My favorite 80s band: Wham

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e9f4YC4xN08

Favorite 80s book: The White Hotel by DM Thomas:

http://www.amazon.co.uk/White-Hotel-D-M-Thomas/dp/0753809257/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1218114413&sr=8-1

Films: Secretly watched this with my (then) girlfriend at the tender age of 17 (we went on to get married 9 years later in 1996) How we all loved Brooke Shields!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cbKojoL2-vU

This is the time when being cool meant being outrageously stylish and outré. The 90s enthroned the loser: Beevis and Butt-head, Jackass, the Simpsons, the Rugrats. 80s were all about style, confidence and winning. This was the decade when things happened, things that lasted long, long time (when will Madonna stop?). Compared to the 80s, 70s seem like some prelapsarian age of innocence when boys wore sneakers and sleeves-less jumpers that their moms knitted for them, compared to the 80s, the 90s seem futile, transient and ineffectual. 80s rule!

[EricP]

Best Album: "It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back" -- Public Enemy
Best Song: "The Message" -- Grandmaster Flash

sexiest female fashion piece ~ hoop earrings
For male ~ Kangol hats

Fav Movie ~ Do the Right Thing

My crush ~ Molly Ringwald


Best movie line ~
"You know what capitalism is? Getting f--ked!" -- Tony Montana ("Scarface")

[Shalot]

80's Nostalgia - I used to get off the bus from school and turn on MTV, whichplayed actual music videos at the time. They'd play Bon Jovi and Guns N Roses videos, especially on Dial MTV. Most of the videos on Dial MTV were hair bands ~ men dressed like women and women with poofy Rave hairspray bangs and acid washed, ripped jeans.

Whenever an 80's metal (hairband) song comes on, my husband sings "Panama" even if it's actually Ratt singing "Round and "Round," which is actually on right now. We're actually watching VHI Classic Videos and they're playing the videos I saw in the 80s when I got home from school. And my husband says "Panama" to every one of them.