View Full Version : Living in the Eighties!
Blue Cow
04-12-03, 01:00 AM
I'm often accused of this :blush: , and it could be justified!
I've just discovered an album called "I :love: 80s" in my CD collection. My OH must have bought it a while back and I had no idea. It's got loads of good 80s hits including ones from Dead or Alive, Adam and the Ants, Kim Wilde (!), Nik Kershaw (!!), Simple Minds(!!!).
It's taking me back to the days when I used to wear plastic jewellery and thought that St Elmo’s Fire and the Breakfast Club were the best films ever.
It's definitely going in my car tomorrow :lol:
Anyone else still living in the eighties?
I was looking at a book that was published in 1985 today with my boy and he asked 'is this an old book?' When I showed him the date I asked him, 'Well, do you think that's really ancient then...?' (as a joke) and he said 'yes, it's really, really old!' :o :blink:
I felt ancient then, cos I remember getting that book as if it were yesterday :cry: :lol:
Well, what I really wanted to say was that I hated 80's music and fashion - all that dayglo stuff and stripey knitted things - eeek! 8-X
That's what turned me 'indie'. So I should be grateful really otherwise I would never have got into the Smiths, The Cure, U2, Mighty Lemon Drops, 10,000 Maniacs... :) :thumbs:
all sounds good to me!
I like a lot of the stuff from the 80s, makes me feel old coz we listen to radio 2 in the car and sing!! just like my dad used to!! :lol:
didnt like the clothes though, those shoulder pads, ughhh, loved my leg warmers though!
Annabel
05-12-03, 11:02 AM
Oooohh yes, the 80's, i was at senior school then. some of the music was absolutely great, like spandau ballet and wham and duran duran, so many hunky blokes for a teenage girl to ogle :lol:
i must say i was quite torn between the new romantics and the previous punk and mod stuff so i liked all sorts of stuff, but i was totally into UB40...I still think their music is top quality stuff. :notworthy:
some of the later stuff from the 80s was terribly naff, like kajagoogoo, nick kershaw etc, so thank goodness the smiths and U2 came along !
and the fashions went a bit ri********, like rara and the puffball skirts, but i do miss leg warmers, i thought they were excellent under/ over a pair of white fringed boots.... :rolleyes: :D
oh the good ole days going up the pink elephant with me mates with all me hair backcombed, lots of black eyeliner on and the flounciest skirt, with me white high heels on!!!! drinking pernod and black and dancing round our handbags!
it is quite scary to think i left school in the mid 80s and that was nearly 20 years ago! :hihi:
The 80's, brilliant time too.
However, my time was in the mid-latter 70's :punk: :punk:
Jimmy Somerville - That song song gets me moving straight away oh and Andi Bell.
I hope time has been kinder to us all that it has to the lead singer of Dead or Alive!! (Is it Pete Burn or something similar?)
Did anyone see him recently on Never mind the Buzzcocks 8-X
i am still living in the eaighties ...or being in it for first time :P ...like those john hughes films and they had good music ! :D
"under blue moon" ...by i think echo and the bunnymen ...top tune!!
"my name is luca" also great song..susan vega /methinks....i think there is loads of great songs from the era which are hardly known at all nowadays ....prolly coz the clothes were so bad :P
I was busy raising kids then, in between trips to the South Atlantic, very rough seas is my strongest memory.8-X
I do remember the shoulder pads though, Sue Ellen Ewing had to lead the field there, quickly followed by Red :blink: Ouch!
Is this the chap? Pete Burns?
(looks like a lady!!) :huh:
ah yes, a very thourough google search and it came up with this "chap"
that pic had the best lip angle! :lol:
the weirdest thing just happened!.....
went down to pop the kettle on and there was an advert on the goggle box for hits of the 80s....and who was singing.......yep, dead or alive, like a record baby right round!!
que twilight zone music!! :unsure:
Thats the one Beth :lol: :lol:
Thanks for the picture too ;)
What does he think he looks like??
SP now gone off to the parallel universe. Can you think of the 6 numbers for next week please and post them here ;)
Just thought maybe he's trying to look like Steve Tyler ;)
Annabel
08-12-03, 11:26 AM
And apparently Pete Burns is married, has been for ages and is a heterosexual...as mad as that seems! they must have an unusual marriage! the husband is more of a girly than the wife :hihi: :lol: i bet she gets fed up with him borrowing her tights and eyeliner :lol: :D
Annabel, Is that for real???? :lol: :lol:
Can any one remember the song form the early 80's that is not possible to dance to??
Come On Eileen.
Brilliant song. :thumbs: :thumbs: :thumbs: :thumbs:
Also, a funny story (for me anyway)
Carma Cameleon was playing as I went in the car to church to get married, sang it all the way to myself walking down the aisle.
The when I got to the alter, the choir came out in their cassocks and suddenly I started humming Madness "Wings of a Dove".
Vicar wasn't impressed neither too was the future hubby :lol: :lol:
Thought I would just share that light hearted moment with you all.
Sorry :blush:
Maria
When they take me out of the church i want "bat out of hell" playing so whatever you want SP you have. Who cares what those left think. Its your day :punk:
The theme to X-files at a wedding!!!!
Whats that go like HN?
Can't watch it, it gives me nightmares !! Come to think of it, so do memories of MY wedding day :lol: :lol:
My favourite music from the 80 has to be Dire Straits, very cool indeed.
Blue Cow
20-12-03, 06:35 PM
Hi -P- and welcome ;)
Glad to see that I'm not alone and that someone else is living in the 80s too!!! ;) ;) ;)
Blue Cow
Originally posted by Blue Cow@Dec 20 2003, 5:34 PM
Hi -P- and welcome** ;)
Glad to see that I'm not alone and that someone else is living in the 80s too!!!** ;)** ;)** ;)
Blue Cow
Hi Blue Cow and thanks for the welcome, tis great to be here. :thumbs: