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

  1. 09-08-2007, 03:49 AM #16
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    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.
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    Girls just wanna have fun

    oh my gosh, is that the original video? how tacky can it get?
    I mean did people really find those haircuts and clothes cool?
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  3. 09-08-2007, 09:54 AM #18
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    Quote Originally Posted by crisaor View Post
    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!

    As for me...

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  5. 09-08-2007, 05:25 PM #20
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    Quote Originally Posted by RobinHood3000 View Post
    You missed Swat KATS and Voltron!
    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.
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    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.
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  7. 09-08-2007, 11:52 PM #22
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    Quote Originally Posted by SleepyWitch View Post
    Girls just wanna have fun

    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.

    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?
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  8. 09-08-2007, 11:55 PM #23
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    Quote Originally Posted by jon1jt View Post

    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?
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  9. 09-08-2007, 11:56 PM #24
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    Quote Originally Posted by papayahed View Post
    oh heavens, where do I begin...


    you can begin with George Michael's Faith song.

    Quote Originally Posted by Shalot View Post
    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.
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  10. 09-09-2007, 12:19 AM #25
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    Quote Originally Posted by jon1jt View Post
    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.
    Ha ha. That song was playing the other morning on my radio alarm and it woke me up...


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  11. 09-09-2007, 01:02 AM #26
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    Quote Originally Posted by Lily Adams View Post
    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



    great song!
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  12. 09-09-2007, 02:02 AM #27
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    I actually went as Data to an 80s dance, trench coat and all.
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    Quote Originally Posted by jon1jt View Post
    I'll Stop The World And Melt With You.
    I actually have that in my ipod 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
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    Quote Originally Posted by jon1jt View Post
    c'mon, hum along with me now:

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



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