So...ive recently found myself enjoying watching old 80's movies, some 80's music, and even having a smile at some 80's clothes (that last one is stretching it a bit though).

Im enjoying the upbeat vibe from a lot of the movies and music. Looking back at a lot of 80's movies and music, it seemed to be about fun and feeling good.

So..im wondering, am i the only one feeling some 80's appreciation? Or do you guys (like most people) still cringe when you look back?

I was born in the 80s so my only memories are really about tv shows I used to watch. But now I looooooooooove 80s music and 80s movies and other funky 80s things.

Are you a Geordie, popmybubble?

I missed the 80s, not through drugs but through work. Two jobs, long hours, bringing up family...

Subsequently the music doesn't do much for me, I'm a 50s rocker at heart so i like the Boss and that's about it.

Some great movies came out of that era though.

Hmm, well I call myself a geordie but there's a few people (mainly MACKEMS) who say people from South Shields aren't geordies We do have our own name though - Sand dancers

Hey Moonrakers,

You could have found a real version of wake me up. With young men in tight t shirts.

Now I have to brave the elements with that song going round and round in my head.

Yes, i was 20ish in the eighties and loved it. The clothes, the music, the discos, and I still have the BIG HAIR. Well not really, it gets a bit static and stands up on its own.

And George Michael has aged well too..... through thick and thin. (tongue in cheek humour) Stop it, Patsy....

Me Mam's a Geordie.

A real one from Newcastle though.

Sorry patsy, didn't think to check. Perhaps this will make up for it though:

And here's some more 80's cheese, just for good measure:

sceadugenga and popmybubble, you brought back some memories for me when you mentioned Newcastle. I lived there for just over a year when i was 18/19. Was thinking to study there at some point, but things changed (actually ..i ended up getting married there..at 19 yrs old HAHA!). I was seriously into rock at the time and Newcastle was an amazing place for me then (around 1992). I would head out to the Mayfair club, and rock my little socks off..or well, my six inch heeled boots off!

..and talking of the Mayfair, some years later I met Spike from the Quireboys at a private club in Cumbria (yes, private club in Cumbria does sound a bit silly..i know!). After he came off stage, drunk as a newt, he ran over to me with his arms outstretched and gave me a big hug saying "Baaaabyyy, what you doin here?!". In his drunken state, he thought i was his girlfriend, who apparently i looked like. Anyway, after the shock (both of us) he turned out to be a lovely, albeit extremely drunk, man. I recorded his acoustic set actually, and at one point during the show he gets a phone call...turned out to be Slash..! I got it all on tape. I have that recording somewhere. Should hunt it out and upload it.

Anyway..im a tad off topic on my own thread..OOPS..!

Love the youtube links!

Heres a couple to add (so i also get back on topic):

Falco - Rock me Amadeus

Duran Duran - Hungry like the Wolves

Isn't fun, or strange, that you remember all the words to these songs?

Off i potter to the shops in a blizzard, singing hungry like a wolf? There must be some brain cell in head that stores all this up. Frightening..

By the way "club tropicana" is not allowed in my country!!!

Yeh Patsy! I recall SO many lyrics! But I always seem have a lot of capacity for useless junk in my brain.

To add to the music..here are a few 80's movies that i think are CLASS..

Ferris Buellers Day Off

The Breakfast Club

The Goonies

Indiana Jones

Shes Having a Baby (I cried!)

Somewhere in Time (I cried again!)

Spaceballs (I cried. ...laughing)

Stand by Me (man..what a beautiful movie)

This is Spinal Tap ()

Tron

Off i potter to the shops in a blizzard, singing hungry like a wolf?

OH! i posted the wrong music video..wanted the original!

THATS BETTER!

No one has mentioned Frankie goes to Hollywood

Yeh Patsy! I recall SO many lyrics! But I always seem have a lot of capacity for useless junk in my brain.

To add to the music..here are a few 80's movies that i think are CLASS..

Ferris Buellers Day Off

The Breakfast Club

The Goonies

Indiana Jones

Shes Having a Baby (I cried!)

Somewhere in Time (I cried again!)

Spaceballs (I cried. ...laughing)

Stand by Me (man..what a beautiful movie)

This is Spinal Tap ( )

Tron

Some classic there, Ferris Buellers day off is one of my all time favourites.

How could you not mention 'The Lost Boys' though eek.

OMG ...remember the controversy "Relax" caused? Well in the UK anyway. I remember my brother bought the 12" and had to hide it away. I also remember that amazing record cover.

Found it:

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Heres a little bit of an 80's rock classic...teamed with a daft 80's classic sitcom:

Motorheads "Ace of Spades" on The Young Ones:

and to tame it down again..hows about:

Flashdance!

Some classic there, Ferris Buellers day off is one of my all time favourites.

How could you not mention 'The Lost Boys' though eek.

DO'H!! So right.

And our old friend sbk,

who admitted in another twed that she was present when the Red Hot Chilli Peppers did the *Sock Song*

Perhaps that was in the nineties----

^ WoW!

The 80's as a memory are a bit strange to me. In '85 I was fresh off the banana boat from Fiji, and as naive as a 21 year old could be. So my impressions were that of shock. I loved the movies (but thought the characters were very forward and naughty in general), but I didn't get into the pop music. I was into reggae.

But now that you mention it Eek, I can understand what your OP is about...they were upbeat times.

The hair styles though......I can't see them being revived!

wow eek, you got married in Newcastle? It's great for a night out, just hate the taxi fare home

Love those film choices, i'd like to add though-

Big Trouble in Little China (mmm kurt russell is so good looking in this)

Sweet Sixteen

Labyrinth

Neverending Story

Flash Gordon

Judge Reinhold!! Fast Times at Ridgemont High, Vice Versa

80s horror... nightmare on elm street, poltergeist, friday 13th...

80s action! Stallone, Schwarzenegger, van damme

so many mint action films- Running Man, Commando, Predator, First Blood, Cobra, Over the Top, Rocky IV, Kickboxer, Terminator, Tango & Cash, Road House

John Carpenter movies The Fog, Escape from New York, The Thing, They Live

I could watch cheesy 80s action ridiculousness all day

haha got a bit carried away there

then there was the quintessential 80s novel, AMERICAN PSYCHO...the narrator kept on about 80s zeitgeist, Huey Lewis and the News, etc...

fer me, my humanity was trashed by Ronald Reagan and the brutality of engineering school (I was always a liberal arts kinda guy but I hadta learn a trade) and I abandoned my previously comfortable Northern California surroundings in 1987 'forever to drift', etc, etc...political correctness also started in the early 80s...

ended up in Newcastle briefly 10 years later, btw...not a bad place, great pubs and granite architecture...and was amazed that there is no draft Newcastle Brown Ale in Newcastle...

I spent the first half of the 80s sailing round the world and the second half getting over it

Ah, the 80's, can barely remember any of it - must have been good though! My lost decade...

So here is tha man

The 80's for me was about graduation, young love and not knowing what the future would hold.

Going to school, trying to find my way in the world, trying not to fall in love too many times at

the same time. Wrote a few songs, started collecting wine….not in that order……the distance

grew between me and my childhood friends……the calls home were less frequent…..staying

out all night just because I could……

Philistines.

How can you forgot Billy Idol in all his awesomeness?

Nice day for a WHITE WEDDING.

Great thread!

I spent the early '80s playing bass in Liverpool bands including the earliest version of Dead or Alive, and in an earlier Liverpool band called Pink Military Stand Alone (see pics). They sacked Holly Johnson as their old bass player to put me in, and he went off to form Frankie Goes to Hollywood, so he wasn't too depressed.

Superb times, and some great memories.

I walked out on Dead Or Alive as they were in the studio to do a demo for their first recording contract. The reason? I'd had enough and wanted to do my A Levels!

Still kept in touch with Pete Burns until a few years ago.

Photos of yours truly as a 17 year old bass player in Pink Military, playing at Erics club in Liverpool attached.

Jayne Casey, looking like a female Pete Burns, is the singer - I only got this photo sent to me last week funnily enough, from the ex-drummer, as I'm writing a memoir.