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Dustis unregistered Posts: 2120 |
posted 04-06-2004 04:06 PM
I LOVE THE 80s - that's an undeniable fact - growing up in the 80's - now in my mid 30s and seeing all the 80s revival around us today (TV shows, TV specials, Music stations etc.) got me to think what a great decade this really was ! Yes, and I still watch "Dallas" and see 'ol J.R. wheelin' and dealin' - just like in the good 'ol days ! Back in September 2003 in Chattanooga, TN ClearChannel started an 80's radio station - all 80's - aaaalll the time (needless to say that's the only station I now listen to at work, at home etc.) - anyway it gave me the idea of 'rounding up' all the great songs that were in the 80's and make a CD - well, some months later I managed to gather a very comprehensive collection of 80s songs, spanding over 25 CDs of music ! Unfortunately the CD changer in our Prowler only fits 6 (bugger) BUT just cruisin' around with the top down, listening to 'A Flock of Seagulls' or 'U2' or all the other great songs from that time makes me feel like I'm driving in a Prowler-time-machine back in time (kinda like in "Back to the future" ) with so many great memories ..........just great ! Point being - if anyone is just as excited about this amazing decade, go ahead - do some 'time travel' and remember some of the great memories from an 'easier' time where the biggest concern only was "how am I gonna gas up the car on friday" and "what are we gonna do on the weekend" ! And oh yeah, if you're looking for a certain 80s song you can't seem to find anymore - let me know - chances are I got it and could email it to you ! Where are all the 80's "boys and girls" ??
quote: ...and courtesy of our IPOD THIS is no longer an issue........  ...... This message has been edited by Dustis on 08-07-2005 at 12:22 PM |
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rsterling78 Prowler Junkie Posts: 286 |
posted 04-07-2004 10:59 PM
I still have some skinny '80s ties in my closet, waiting... |
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tangled up in BLUE Prowler Junkie Posts: 11086 |
posted 04-07-2004 11:09 PM
the eighties......post disco, I didn't and still don't care for most of the music....car payments, house payments....small kids, working everyday and answering to "the man"....muscle cars were a thing of the past and Vipers were only a gleam in someones eye.....no, I didn't like the 1980s....I flash back to the SIXTIES.....not exactly carefree, but a decade of great change.....it's what ever makes the individual happy, and the best times are usually when you are young.....the 80s were so boring to me I hardly remember the details..... |
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dpena Administrating Kat Posts: 5359 |
posted 04-07-2004 11:45 PM
Thunderbird1970, Have you checked out this webstation??? This is what I listen too at work... I love the 80's aswell... Thompson Twins, Darrol Hall and John Oats, Twisted Sister, Cindy Lauper, Billy Idol, Duran Duran, Culture Club, Men at Work, Adam Ant, Huey Lewis and The News, Spandau Ballet, Tears for Fears, Dexy's Midnight Runners, A Flock of Seagulls ,Billy Ocean and on and on and on.... Click this link to listen too All 80's baby!! LAter... This message has been edited by dpena on 04-07-2004 at 11:46 PM |
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Dustis unregistered Posts: 5359 |
posted 04-08-2004 06:25 AM
Thanks a lot DPena ! I really appreciate the link and I will check it out as soon as get to work ! The artists you listed are EXACTLY the reason I love the 80's ! ------------------ |
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rsterling78 Prowler Junkie Posts: 286 |
posted 04-08-2004 07:06 AM
I remember this matching pair of jeans and jeans jacket I had. Dark grey with light grey accents. I thought I looked so cool. I was the biggest geek within two dozen zip codes. Some other '80s memories: The Commodore 64 computer. The break dancing fad. Bobby Brown and Whitney Houston pre-felony and substance abuse days, respectively. Star Wars: The Movies. Star Wars: The Proposed Missile Defense System. V: The Miniseries. Lee Iacocca. Duran Duran. Parachute pants. Reagan, Thatcher, Gorbachev. And, of course, Madonna. |
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Dustis unregistered Posts: 286 |
posted 04-08-2004 07:49 AM
Yes, Rsterling 78 that's what I'm talking about !!Great stuff ! Have you seen the "I love the 80's" series on VH1 ?? Hilarious ! If you haven't seen it and would like to see it let me know - I recorded it on DVD ! ------------------ |
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DR PROWLER Prowler Junkie Posts: 4079 |
posted 04-08-2004 08:33 AM
80'S certainly was THE decade to remember.Finished University,travelled a lot after a few relationships finally met my wife,had a couple of kids(1 was born in the 90's).Still remember the Berlin wall coming down and the Cold War pretty much ending. Great music,great friendships,cool times. 80's rock! Just yesterday I booked a couple of tickets for Blondie coming to Toronto in may.Talk about remembering the 80's... |
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Dustis unregistered Posts: 4079 |
posted 04-08-2004 08:58 AM
DR PROWLER You really got the chance to see Blondie ?? No way ! Enjoy it - I'm sure it'll be a blast !! I just recently watched "Bands reunited" on VH1 - they reunited the original members of "Berlin" and "A Flock of Seagulls" - oh boy, what would I give to see either of them live, just 1 time !!! Thanks DR PROWLER for 'remembering' the 80's ! |
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Dustis unregistered Posts: 4079 |
posted 04-10-2004 06:37 AM
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rsterling78 Prowler Junkie Posts: 286 |
posted 04-10-2004 11:53 PM
I've seen some of the VH-1 "I Love The '80s" series. Brings back some cool memories. Here are a few more: The movie "The Day After." The Pac Man Fever album (a vinyl record, of course). Debating whether Darth Vader really was Luke's father. The Gipper's "We start bombing Russia in 5 minutes" joke. When MTV actually played videos...including ones that WEREN'T hip-hop! The October 1987 stock market crash. Amadeus: the song, the video, and the movie. When the Soviet Union started going through about one 75+ year old premier a week before Gorby came along. Watching Night Flight on the USA Network. The Atari Video Game System (Later renamed the Atari 2600). You'd load a cartridge into the machine, which was hooked up to your TV set, and then play Combat or Defender or Pitfall. The TV program Sledge Hammer. "Trust me...I know what I'm doing..." Watching GI Joe and The Transformers after school. The K-car. Teenage girls with "mall hair" that was visible from orbit. The Castle Greyskull playset. Pop Rocks candy. Watching an INXS video and trying to figure out how the heck you pronounce "INXS." |
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Dustis unregistered Posts: 286 |
posted 04-11-2004 08:09 AM
Thanks again rsterling78 - now THAT's some great stuff you remembered ! "The movie "The Day After."
Watching an INXS video and trying to figure out how the heck you pronounce "INXS." Great stuff rsterling78 - thanks for remembering !! ------------------ |
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Marty Usher Prowler Junkie Posts: 13833 |
posted 04-11-2004 08:52 AM
quote: thunderbird - I was amazed at how well Berlin still sounded. Of the three Bands Reunited episodes I have seen -they were undoubtedly the best. There are a lot of cool things about each of the decades for me. I still have my first cell phone stored somewhere - the kind you carried in a bag. Marty |
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Dustis unregistered Posts: 13833 |
posted 04-11-2004 10:23 AM
Marty, yes, I remember the "Cell phone" - was more like a back pack communication device !? Berlin WAS amazing - the singer still as hot as ever ! ------------------ |
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Black Tie 161 Prowler Junkie Posts: 3563 |
posted 04-11-2004 11:48 AM
I'm sorry, ...really, I'm sorry....but the 80's SUCKED! The lamest decade out of them all. Wear a Members Only jacket and skinny tie now and see if you don't hear laughing. The only thing that makes the past nice or cool is nostalgia. That's why fashion trends repeat themselves every 20 years...nostalgia. "Happy Days" and all the 50's shows were popular in the 70's..... etc. etc. etc. Kinda Freaky if you think about it too long...LOL. (BTW: INXS = pronounced "In Excess" ...IE: killing yourself with fatal autoerotic asphyxiation...IE: What Michael Hutchence did for Kix...but that's another band from the 80's...LOL) OK no more coffee for me today.... ;p |
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Black Tie 161 Prowler Junkie Posts: 3563 |
posted 04-11-2004 11:51 AM
Oooops, I remember one great thing about the 80's...Standing 5 feet away from Stevie Ray Vaughn as he played his *** of in a college gym! |
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Marty Usher Prowler Junkie Posts: 13833 |
posted 04-11-2004 11:51 AM
quote: I thought her (Teri Nunn's) voice was every bit as soulfull as two decades ago. I understand she is now in a group on tour called Voyeur - or something like that. As far as 80's cars go, remember when the big thing was digital dashes? And the '88 Corvette came out with the first factory car with 17" wheels? |
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Dustis unregistered Posts: 13833 |
posted 04-11-2004 11:59 AM
Marty, sure remember that ! WOW - digital dashes and than THOSE HUGE, HUGE wheels (17") Nowadays if you don't have at least 20's you're screwed ! Hey Black Tie 161 - you sure got a lot of caffeine this morning, didn't you ?? ------------------ This message has been edited by thunderbird1970 on 04-11-2004 at 12:08 PM |
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Black Tie 161 Prowler Junkie Posts: 3563 |
posted 04-11-2004 12:50 PM
quote: Digital dashes...another "gee whizz" invention you never see anymore. Nothing beats a good analog gage visually. The newest state of the art cars have nuthin but analog gages now. Now the Billy Ray Cyrus remark...that hurt....LOL. You take that back or no mods for you! T-Bird: You I like, but I'm sorry, but I hated the 80's...I really really did. The only thing worse than the 80's was the early to mid 90's. But hey maybe that's a personal thing. Let's just say things didn't get fun until 1996.....and I'm almost 40.... To be honest I think I'm peaking with being a Prowler owner! |
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Dustis unregistered Posts: 3563 |
posted 04-11-2004 12:59 PM
To be honest I think I'm peaking with being a Prowler owner! There you go, Black Tie 161 - we found something we both can agree on !! Well, there's another one - the early/mid 90's REALLY were tacky ! ------------------ |
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Black Tie 161 Prowler Junkie Posts: 3563 |
posted 04-11-2004 01:02 PM
quote: AMEN! It's a party wherever you go in a Prowler... |
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cnote6 Prowler Junkie Posts: 10955 |
posted 04-11-2004 01:06 PM
I was born in 1970. How about Parachute paints and Kepa shoes. Millers Outpost? This message has been edited by cnote6 on 04-11-2004 at 01:07 PM |
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Dustis unregistered Posts: 10955 |
posted 04-11-2004 01:29 PM
Welcome CNote6 - join the 80's fun ! You still have or by any chance still wear YOUR parachute pants ?? ------------------ |
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rsterling78 Prowler Junkie Posts: 286 |
posted 04-11-2004 02:45 PM
The Day After was a 1983 TV movie about World War III. It was set in Kansas and showed how a community tried to deal with life after a nuclear holocaust with most machines ruined by the blast's EMP (electromagnetic pulse) and the problems of nuclear winter caused by the fallout. It was a very disturbing movie. INXS was an Australian rock band. Their first hit in the U.S. was the 1988 single "I Need You Tonight." INXS is pronounced "in excess." I didn't know that when I first saw their video in 1988. I tried, with little success, to phoneticize "INXS" before learning how the word was pronounced. |
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Dustis unregistered Posts: 286 |
posted 04-11-2004 04:15 PM
Right ! Now I remember the 'Day after' - was made like a 'mini-series' - yes, I remember - it WAS disturbing ! ------------------ |
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