The 80s thread

[UNDEAD FRED]

The 1980s had some of the best horror movies, MTV didnt suck, they had the Head Bangers Ball, the Brat Pack, Michael Jackson did the Moon Walk, and wore only one glove, Miami Vice. What are your favorite things from the 1980s?

[MobileDeceased]

favorite part of the 80's ( from what i have heard ) all the radical movements. And less focus on nationalism and racism... everyone just enjoyed life. it was way farther then what we have today. That's the part i would love to come back... though we can leave MJ out of the pickings today... him and his one glove.

[HEDSHOT45]

Saturday morning cartoons, the video game revolution, cereal with real toys in the box, watching my sister’s hot rocker chic friends.

[nirvroxx]

Saturday morning cartoons, the video game revolution, cereal with real toys in the box,.

saturday mornings? what about every morning before school!! im with ya on the real toys in cereal boxes...


my favorite things about the 80's:
thundercats
gi joe
the real ghostbusters
mask
small wonder
transformers

[hatefuldisplay]

The 80's punk was awesome. None of this Good Charlotte boy bands with spiked hair and lipstick bullshit.

There were great cartoons: Thundercats, Jayce And The Wheeled Warriors, Voltron, Go-Bots, Transformers, GI Joe, Blackstar, Thundar The Barbarian, The Galaxy Rangers.... I could go on and on. I love that my daughter showed interest in most of these so I can still watch them now.

There were some great horror films then too. I still think the 70's tops them, but what can you do?

More music: Twisted Sister, The Scorpions, Billy Idol, Quiet Riot.... Yeah. Some good stuff.

[UNDEAD FRED]

One of the best music videos from the 80s


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S6e8aOdPxhI&feature=related

[Boozbie]

That is a kickass album! So many good bands came from the 80's almost all of the good metal and ALL the good punk came from the 80's! Every generation had something cool going on during it except this one what are we going to look back on hip hop, boy bands/pop punk boy bands, Sept 11 and the war on terror, paris hilton, Emo!

[hatefuldisplay]

One of the best music videos from the 80s


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S6e8aOdPxhI&feature=related

Dude, that's great. Man, now I want to break out my Twisted Sister VHS tape. It's got about 6 videos or so on it: I Wanna Rock, Be Cruel To Your School, Leader of the Pack, and We're Not Gonna Take it for starters.

Did anyone catch their Christmas reunion tour? I caught it in Baltimore. They still kicked ass.

[UNDEAD FRED]

Another classic from the 80s


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rxH39QlRuhg

[C J]

In San Francisco (1983) the 49er's had just won the superbowl and the song "Celbration" by CATG was being played.


Even though I'm a Chargers fan.

[jackskellington]

Gotta agree with Hatefuldisplay. The 80's punk was outstanding! Plus, there were movies like The Decline of Western Civilization 1 & 2, the original Suburbia and other cool shit to watch. Don't get me wrong...There are some GREAT punk bands out right now, but I just don't see any "legends" in the making like Mike Ness, Tim Armstrong or Ian Mackaye anywhere.

[Victor Clark]

I know I'm going to be made fun of for mentioning this, but how about all the great pop one-hit wonders of the 80s? That decade brought some of the best pop songs around from artists like Michael Jackson (before he went crazy), Blondie, A Flock of Seagulls, The Human League, Wham!, Hall & Oates, Cindy Lauper, and dozens of other artists from that catchy era! Now if you excuse me, I'm going to listen to Duran Duran on my computer.

Also a great 80s moment: KISS performing without makeup! :lol:

[DarthJoe8]

Who didn't want to be a Goonie?:drinking:

[Darkness]

I know I'm going to be made fun of for mentioning this, but how about all the great pop one-hit wonders of the 80s? That decade brought some of the best pop songs around from artists like Michael Jackson (before he went crazy), Blondie, A Flock of Seagulls, The Human League, Wham!, Hall & Oates, Cindy Lauper, and dozens of other artists from that catchy era! Now if you excuse me, I'm going to listen to Duran Duran on my computer.

Also a great 80s moment: KISS performing without makeup! :lol:
"I was at one of those shows! It was the first one preformed in California without make-up. That was the weekend I first met Kiss and started hanging out with them." :)



"And while you're listing good old 80's bands, don't forget about Missing Persons." :)

[UNDEAD FRED]

Heres a little unkown one hit wonder


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

[hatefuldisplay]

Who didn't want to be a Goonie?:drinking:The wife and I watched that the other day. Now, if I can just get her to sit down and watch Monster Squad with me....

[ZombiesAteMyDog]

Jayce And The Wheeled Warriors -

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FFEv2mmiRWg

man does that bring back some memmories, what an underated, forgoten classic, sure ninja turtles and gi joe and thundercats rocked , but jace and the wheeled warriors was just as awesome as any of "the big kids on the block"

Now, if I can just get her to sit down and watch Monster Squad with me....

dude, the wolfman has nards !!! :lol:


just about everything was better in the 80's, atari, nintendo, damn good music, great cartoons, ALF, Macguyver, the A team, fall guy.

and of course , without a doubt, the single greatest thing from the 80's - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fJNC3dgreaU

the 90's built upon some of the things from the 80's but once we got past say 96 / 97 it was just one big down hill slide into the shit pile we are in now , TV and especily music just flat out sucks balls nows, everything is reality TV and hip hop and horseshit.

[devourthesun]

Oingo Boingo
Monster Squad
A ton of awesome horror movies
Thrash Metal
Early Death Metal
Goth *before it became utterly pretentious and annoying*
Punk *read the above about goth but replace Goth with Punk*
He-Man
Transformers
GI Joe
The Empire Strikes Back
The Indiana Jones trilogy

[Barbara]

Two words : Billy Squire.

Yes.

[dead and loving it]

Even though I had a lot of fun in the 80's (I was in my teens/early twenties) I don't like most of the music and fashions from the era. There were a lot of great movies though. Also, most 80's cars suck.

[Dearth]

Thrash Metal
Early Death Metal
Goth *before it became utterly pretentious and annoying*


I agree with all of the above - takes me back....

Metallica
Slayer
Anthrax
Napalm Death
etc.
Plus:
The Sisters Of Mercy
Bauhaus
Fields Of The Nephilim

Great music.

:)

N.

[devourthesun]

course, the sad thing is, Since I'm 22, I had to experience a lot of this great 80's stuff later *though I do remember watching reruns of GI-Joe and such*

[zmbvan]

Yo meng. This video is about the 80's Dirt Nasty 1980 (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xfNluQ888g4). I wish I could have experience the 80's more than 3 years though...

[DarthJoe8]

Pac-Man :) All these smiley's look like pac-man relatives:think:

Great fun, the wife and I play it all the time. Well Ms Pacman mostly, mostly.

Along with Dig Dug, Galaga, Space Invaders, Jungle Hunt, Phoenix the list could go on.

[nirvroxx]

80's pop ala
the cure
the smiths
human league
80's micheal jackson
billy idol
dramarama for that one song
soft cell

that shit is fun to dance too!

etc, etc...

[ZombiesAteMyDog]

im sure my cool factor ( assuming i have one at all :lol: ) will go down a few notches for saying this but ...

from the 80's, I really love all of huey lewis and the news music :doh:

[zmbvan]

im sure my cool factor ( assuming i have one at all :lol: ) will go down a few notches for saying this but ...

from the 80's, I really love all of huey lewis and the news music :doh:

Don't worry, It's Hip To Be Square!:lol:

[vortec1]

What year in the 80's I go from 9 to 19 in the 80's and they were all good!

[UNDEAD FRED]

What year in the 80's I go from 9 to 19 in the 80's and they were all good!


Yea but did you Bust A Movie way back when?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xy4FXhkm6Nw

[hatefuldisplay]

im sure my cool factor ( assuming i have one at all :lol: ) will go down a few notches for saying this but ...

from the 80's, I really love all of huey lewis and the news music :doh:Can't say that I love it, but I could listen to it again at some point.