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

[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.








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. @_@

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?

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!!!

[Lily Adams]

People, I feel bad.

I feel really bad. Terrible.



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.



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.

Oingo Boingo 80s Trivia, are you ready?

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


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.

[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.

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]

Oingo Boingo 80s Trivia, are you ready?

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

Back to School, with Rodney Dangerfield...

Here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iypUp...693A5F&index=1

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

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. 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-...8114413&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!