Children of the 80's

[Donny_B]

Solid Gold and the Solid Gold Dancers (a weekly tv show hosted by Rick Dees, Dionne Warwick, and Marilyn McCoo and Billy Davis Jr. where artists lip synched to music with scantily clad dancers, for those who don't remember)

Primetime soaps: Dallas (Who Shot J.R.?) and Dynasty

New Wave replaces Disco:
Devo (Whip It) was really big at frat parties
A Flock of Seagulls (I Ran)
Alan Parsons Project, etc, etc

The Beta Max VCR complete with wired remote control!

New 24-hour cable channels: Cable News Network, CNN Headline News, the Weather Channel, ESPN, Superstation TBS and WGN, MTV, VH1 and the birth of the music video

The death of vinyl records and turntables and the birth of compact discs

New Coke was short-lived and pitched by Max Headroom, but replaced by Coca Cola Classic

 

[Mrs K 2004]

Side of the head pony tails
Using a Scrunci (before they were called that) to hold your shirt up all cool!

I think I am the one person who actually liked Clear Pepsi!! I Loved it! (My aunt lived in Chicago and brought me a b unch for Christmas one year!!) But New Coke was gross!

 

[RabidYeti]

I remember most of the things mentioned and I'm only 18 :/

I had a very odd childhood

 

[secretdawn]

The Brat Pack!

 

[secretdawn]

the 80's ruled...sorry i loved it...(aside from the hair and makeup, thank goodness I was too young for that)

 

[msjones21]

Okay here are some more...someone mentioned Kylie Minogue. Who remembers:

~Big haired Kylie Minogue singing the "Do the Locomotion" remake?
~Mighty Casey's hotdog fast food restaurant. The home of the Frosted Orange
~Burger Chief
~Bubble skirts (did I mention those already?)
~The Sylvania light bulb commercials with the glowing dude
~When Nutra Sweet made it's debut
~Hallmark's Rodney and Rhonda Reindeer
~Pee-Wee's Playhouse
~Land of the Lost
~Saturday morning's Cartoon Express USA
~Mr. Wizard's World
~Velour pants
~Belted sashes around your waist to turn an oversized t-shirt into a stylish dress
~Old School Soul Train
~Duran Duran
~Peter Gabriel videos were the most high-tech thing we'd ever seen on television
~Computers you had to hook up to your television set to use
~Berets
~Satin jackets
~When you actually looked forward to waking up early on Thanksgiving day to watch the Macy's Day Parade.
~Garbage Pail Kids

 

[msjones21]

I think I am the one person who actually liked Clear Pepsi!! I Loved it!

You're not alone sister! I loved that stuff. I used to have Pizza Hut bring me a 2 liter bottle every time we ordered a pizza. I think they should bring it back.

 

[Lil_Miss_Fire]

I miss Pepsi Clear it was good. But not that many peoplel iked it, no wonder it didnt last long. Awwwwwww man how i miss the 80's Im still stuck in them (well i dont dress or do my hair or make up 80's still) but i love the music, movies, tv shows, toys, ect......

 

[augimatic]

I miss Pepsi Clear it was good. But not that many peoplel iked it, no wonder it didnt last long. Awwwwwww man how i miss the 80's Im still stuck in them (well i dont dress or do my hair or make up 80's still) but i love the music, movies, tv shows, toys, ect......

Um Jenn? weren't you born in like 1983? So technically are you a child of the 90's?

Just a thought, I mean don't let me be the bubble burster but hey, I think I just bursted your bubble

 

[Lil_Miss_Fire]

Um Jenn? weren't you born in like 1983? So technically are you a child of the 90's?

Just a thought, I mean don't let me be the bubble burster but hey, I think I just bursted your bubble

Ur lucky they dont have a BAH face here LoL. And so yeah i was born in the 80's i still grew up in the 80's I remember the old school 80's Niners football team, when they actually played well Thats when i first srated to love football. I remember the shows, and ect... ect...ect....

 

[augimatic]

Ur lucky they dont have a BAH face here LoL. And so yeah i was born in the 80's i still grew up in the 80's I remember the old school 80's Niners football team, when they actually played well Thats when i first srated to love football. I remember the shows, and ect... ect...ect....

Jenn, you were 2 when the Joe Montana won his first super bowl!!!

[banghead] LOL ROFLMBO (bubbles allowed here)

 

[Lil_Miss_Fire]

Jenn, you were 2 when the Joe Montana won his first super bowl!!!

[banghead] LOL ROFLMBO (bubbles allowed here)

<BAH> And ur point LoL.... we taped it. So i still have it here at home somewhere. ROFLMB(ubbles)O

 

[Breetai]

Duran Duran I still don't know why I like them. Good music and they're cool I guess.

 

[msjones21]

Duran Duran I still don't know why I like them. Good music and they're cool I guess.

You like them because they rock! I have their greatest hits CD. It's awesome. LOL Nick Rhodes was my first true love. Never mind the fact that he's more than twice my age and wears makeup.

 

[Injured Soldier]

Okay here are some more...someone mentioned Kylie Minogue. Who remembers:

I think it was me who mentioned Kylie, probably because that's the only Australian 80s staple people from all over the world may remember, unless the subject of Angus Young with a guitar in a private school boy's uniform in front of thousands of angry AC/DC fans comes up. But I'll mention a few other Australian 80s reminisces, and see if anyone else knows them.

- Bob Hawke's most repeated sound byte phrase, anyone remember what it was?
- The Comedy Company
- The Yahoo Serious movie, Young Einstein
- The Peacock and Howard battle for leadership of the Liberal Party
- Home & Away started in the 80s if I'm not mistaken, but that's not what I most remember. It's the line "flamin' kids!" I remember
- Redgum's song "I was Only Nineteen"
- The 12th man and Wired World of Sports records
- Countdown
- Tony Barber on "Sale of the Century"
- Hey Dad!

 

[Breetai]

"Her name is Rio and she dances on the sand......" I think I sound better in the shower. The acoustics in there are great.

 

[michiganst8fan]

-Red Dawn (the most anti-USSR movie) well Rocky IV takes a close second
-Iron Eagle
-Micro Meals
-car phones...not cell phones...car phones...aka phone in a bag
-everyone TRYING to moonwalk
-GI Joe
-Transformers
-Saturday morning = GOOD cartoons...not these HORRIBLE wanna-be's now!
-Cosby Show, Family Ties, Silver Spoons, Diff'rent Strokes
-Spuds Mackenzie
-We Are the World
-Major League Baseball pullover jerseys (versus button ups)
-Delorean
-RUN DMC
-Leaded Gasoline
-Mary Lou Retton

 

[Breetai]

Who can argue with these mean pants?

 

[Lotar]

Thundercats
Alf (I wasn't allowed to watch it though )
Mullets were cool
Parachute pants
Hip Hop was clean
Shaving the lines on the sides of you head
Slick Rick
Depeche Mode
The Original Nintendo
Super Mario Bros 3 (the best game ever)
Final Fantasy (the original, and it was actually fantasy)
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
Big Trouble in Little China (perhaps the greatest movie ever made, I had it memorized when I was a kid)
Disney still made good animated movies
Charlie the Lonesome Tiger was on tv sunday at least once a month
Constructs
Garbage Pail Kids
Muscle Men
Amiga
Double Dragon 2

 

[KeilCoppes]

It brings a smile that the "children of the 80s" were born in the late 60s or 70s. :^)

-kc

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May 3, 1968 - a child of the 80s is born....