What do you miss most about the 80's? For me it's the 2600, it's inofensive happily immature movies like Better Off Dead and Ferris, it's the music fun new and complete with haristyles. It's believing the lies we told ourselves and liking it. It's Lucas and Spielberg still being cool.

How about the rest of ya?

Definitely the music, but my badger look hairstyle was a bit of a mistake.

I hated the music of the 80s. It's starting to sound better now though. Some great movies which have stood the test of time. My first job as a salesman, man, I was good! My first car, eating out in restaurants. Being able to eat whatever I wanted and remail skinny. However, in reality the 80s are my least favoutite decade. I'm in my favourite decade right now!

'87 was good for me.

Some OK movies, yes.

"May you live in interesting times."

The good quality of drugs, plentiful sex with nubile young ladies and my youthful optimism. Can't remember anything else.

The good quality of drugs, plentiful sex with nubile young ladies and my youthful optimism. Can't remember anything else.

Yes, the 80's gave us crack, now we know what happened Robski.

Apart from every street corner in England have a cheeky cockney chappie, holding out his wad shouting " Lotsa money "

I really rather enjoyed the eighties.

I enjoyed the 80s, but the part I miss most about them is my age. In fact, you could say the same for the 70s...

Apart from every street corner in England have a cheeky cockney chappie, holding out his wad shouting " Lotsa money "

I really rather enjoyed the eighties.

I have heard this before...cheely cockney chappie, what does it mean? Just a cockney guy who can't be trusted?

I think Dick Van Dyke as mentioned on the other thread has a lot to answer for in this regard. The false grin, the false ability to remember lyrics and who can forget the false ability to summon up an army of dirty cheeky chappies who home invade via the roof tops.

The comedy shows - some of the stuff that came out of the 80's was fantastic!

Loved the '80's especially the music although the '70's was more my style.

Got married okay it didn't work out but it was fun while it lasted.

Bought my first house and me and the wife spent most of our time doing it up as it was a bit run down (all we could afford). Listened to Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy serialised on radio while we redecorated the place.

Went on my first overseas assignments (Bahrain & USA).

Like suegha I could eat and drink whatever I wanted and remain slim.

Happy, carefree days partying without end.

My god Phil, apart from the overseas assignments, my experience was very similar.

Married in the 80's and divorced early 90's ....... the music went downhill, but the sex life improved.

Spent the whole of the eighties in Libya.

Great times - plenty of interesting work, darts night, bridge night, hash night, weekends on the beach, got divorced (first time), hundreds of East European nurses in the hospitals, DIY beer and spirits, tolerant locals. One time I went fifteen months without leaving the country, often nine months or more.

But for your sort of recollections I look back at the late fifties / early sixties.

Elvis, Jerry Lee, Chuck Berry, PJ Proby, Little Richard, Ivor & Basil Kirtchen's Big Band, Ted heath's band / Dankworth seven. start of the Stones, later the Who, Animals (at the Scene), Georgie Fame, Long John Baldry and others down the Cafe des Artistes, the Sous Sol in Earls Court Road, the Zodiac off Seven Dials, Ken Collyer's club. Ronnie Scott's original place and a thousand other people and venues.

But all those that are still alive are doddering old farts and the venues have been redeveloped as high-rise offices. So I'm all alone as the only teenager left who can remember it all (and I left my teens in the fifties).

It seems that most of the members here have more to say about the 80's........interesting, very interesting.

The 80s......effeminate men with poncey hairstyles and fluffy pirate shirts......the "new romantics".

It's no wonder grunge happened.

Actually, enjoyed both styles of music a lot and still do, but still avoid the fluffy pirate shirts.

In the very early eighties, Her Maj sent me to Berlin and gave me money to go into knocking shops.........................Joy eternal

( Sneeky beaky types were being compromised in afore mentioned establishments. Young man needed to be sent in, get gutted and see what happened. It was a tough job but somebody had to do it................No medal, but a nasty little itch which took some time to clear up. )

I was at school - it was crap

I was at school too until 1983, then hit Edinburgh big time. Sort of hazy after that..... Remember a good club called the Electric Circus.

Oh dear, the 80s. I have to admit it; I was Mr. chinos and polo-shirt, Docksiders and Filofax. My first wife and I were D.I.N.K.Ys and a company car was still worth having. Luckily (?) we were divorced and the house sold just before the arse fell out of the property market, remember? Have to admit to liking some of the music. The Cure, Teardrop Explodes, Talking Heads etc...

Max Headroom- Mtv( liquid tv) punk glam rock some awesome entertainment & Uncle CID - he died not to long ago , but he is not forgotten!

Getting high and watching The Young Ones.

Don't mention the beans.

Getting high and watching The Young Ones.

Yes!

Concerts Missed the Talking Heads stop making sense tour but saw U2, the Police and the Who. Saw the Red Hot Chili Peppers play in a bar in Santa Cruz, CA.

As a teen, midnight movies and the Rocky Horror Picture Show.

Straight skinny leg pants tucked into high tops, asymmetrical haircuts and gas that cost less than a $1 a gallon

Concerts Missed the Talking Heads stop making sense tour but saw U2, the Police and the Who. Saw the Red Hot Chili Peppers play in a bar in Santa Cruz, CA.

As a teen, midnight movies and the Rocky Horror Picture Show.

Straight skinny leg pants tucked into high tops, asymmetrical haircuts and gas that cost less than a $1 a gallon

Were they stone washed?

no, I didn't actually get into the whole stone washed thing.

no, I didn't actually get into the whole stone washed thing.

I wash my stones every day - for at least half-an-hour.

Furballs, Humph?

You Japanese gardners are all the same.....................