I think the 80s was a time when we got complacent, it was the golden summer after Vietnam and before the Gulf and Balkans wars. The USSR folded and the Berlin wall came down.

Peace in our time, we thought it would last forever.

And who can forget the Cure?

(just to disprove the theory that it was ALL about being optimistic )

Ah, yes... the decade of the New Romantics. Those were the days!

You could look like this (Phil Oakey) and get away with it...

I'm downloading the entire Miami Vice TV series at the moment. Sadly or not i loved that show in my youth. Never missed an episode. The only depressing thought for me is that the first episode aired 26 years ago. I don't want to sound like my dad but time does fly toooooooo dam_n fast.

The Joshua Tree - U2

Reason for Edit......This has felt like time travel....and all of a sudden I look up

and my time for reading and posting is gone.....Thanks to eek for starting this thread

This thread is making me feel old.

the 80s are about...FAILED RELATIONSHIPS!

1984: split up with the love of my life after 9 years together, she was a law student at UC Berkeley and so became early infected with PC then demanded that the entire basis of our relationship be revised...

1986: met a nice young woman, an accountant in SF who was desperate to get married and I hadta end it as it wasn't right...after the suffering that I caused and the associated guilt I thought that I'd never enter into a serious relationship again

oh, why did someone haveta bring up U2's Joshua Tree as it corresponded with this disaster

1988: met, then married a scheming, dishonest european woman who made my life a misery for the next 10 years, I insanely kept thinkin' that things would improve...she still has my son so I haven't yet got shot of her...

the 80s?...YEW CAN FCKIN' HAVE 'EM!...

No decade is going to be good for everyone!

No decade is going to be good for everyone!

I thought yew were my fren' ...I can't help it if the evil european was irish...we were married in Dublin at St Michael's in Inchicore and before the ceremony I saw her mum praying alone for a successful marriage an' I vowed then not to let her down...

my ex saw this an' incorporated into her evil plan...it was a grey an' somber day in Dublin in July 1988...

Ah well, 1988 was the year I left Dublin so I can't be held responsible!

ps yes you are my friend.

No decade is going to be good for everyone!

I thought yew were my fren' ...I can't help it if the evil european was irish...we were married in Dublin at St Michael's in Inchicore and before the ceremony I saw her mum praying alone for a successful marriage an' I vowed then not to let her down...

my ex saw this an' incorporated into her evil plan...it was a grey an' somber day in Dublin in July 1988...

I got married in 1980, it lasted 21 years and it was an abusive relationship from the beginning. I don't consider them wasted years though, you can't say that your life would have been different if you'd gone down another path.

I know the skills I acquired in trying to keep her happy have served me well since.

Guys, it's easier simply staying single!

One of my favorites that eek already mentioned

Oooh an Eighties music thread! They say that you develop your main musical tastes during highschool, and that the music from then will always hold the main part of your heart. This is definitely the case for me!

I remember the eighties as a much darker time than a lot of the top 40 music would describe. Recovering from the poverty and demoralization of the oil crisis of the Seventies, but stuck into the depths of the cold war, with nuclear annihilation seeming a distinct possibility, I remember feeling that we were in better shape than before, but the future seemed bleak. With typical teenage angst, I honestly thought that I wouldn't live to see my twenties. I think my musical tastes reflected that, but I also think that some of the best music came from then.

Some of these are a little early, but they are the songs I listened to during the early eighties on the fledgling CFNY radio station out of Toronto. Sorry that I put so many, these are just a few!

Don't feel old jamie, I don't.

Anyway, the 80's were my teenage years; high school, college, missed the 90's as I lived on a little island without a whole lot of outside communication at the time.

I look back on the music with fondness but also like a lot of the music that has come out in the past few years. the styles are a different story, fortunately for me I never went the Madonna route, (whew! saved by good taste)

or the flashdance route,

but did favor big coats and skinny leg jeans in college. Earlier in my youth I went the preppie route and wore polos with the collar up

Guys, it's easier simply staying single!

Married men live longer. (Unless they're caught screwing around).

Married men live longer.

I think that statistic assumes they are not engaged in serial nightmare marriages.

I want to know how to embed!!!

1984, Legend album.....

Jaaa.

(Edit after SBK's advice....)

sure harcourt, like this

[ youtube ] QrY9eHkXTa4 [ / youtube ]

without the spaces. You want the text in the link that comes after the v=

sure harcourt, like this

[ youtube ] QrY9eHkXTa4 [ / youtube ]

without the spaces. You want the text in the link that comes after the v=

Cheers .... sorry, I didn't ask politely.

Thanks.

in the 80s I decided to rediscover popular music...the last records I bought were 70s Linda Ronstadt (popular with loggers in the NW) and when I returned to LA from Oregon my hip friends were amused; they were into the club scene and 'pogo'ing with Jello Biafra...

I bought the Police, Peter Gabriel and U2 and was mildly entertained...the Talking Heads were good an' I bought the Stop Making Sense video but they are derivative...

someone said that Elvis Costello was supposed to be cool but then I heard that he called Ray Charles a 'blind, ignorant nigger...'

never got away from the blues, rhythm and blues, motown and 60's guitar music with Jimi, Cream, Led Zep and etc...

'who-eee baby, baby...bring me one mo' half a pint...' Big Joe Williams he be talkin' about cheap whiskey...

Thanks sbk !!!! It worked.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ShN8UIk5-mw

Suppose you all forgot that song whilst disco dancing around in rather suspect eighties gear? And your handbags?

Just joking, i did the same. And he was rather nice, if i can remember....

sure harcourt, like this

[ youtube ] QrY9eHkXTa4 [ / youtube ]

without the spaces. You want the text in the link that comes after the v=

Cheers .... sorry, I didn't ask politely.

Thanks.

No worries, enthusiasm is nice

an 80s thread an' no one has mentioned Michael Jackson, Thriller, etc...an 80s icon if there ever wuz one...

Eddie Van Halen laid down the riff for 'Beat It'...he's a home from Pasadena...

tutsi is a square...

when I went back to school in the early 80s I did work study at the audio/visual center lookin' after the equipment an' deliverin' films an' projectors to classrooms around campus (got fired an' ended up cleanin' toilets at the student union, but that's another story...then got caught stealin' draft beer from the SU bar; can't win fer losin' )

the staff at the A/V center were hip an' got excited when the band Journey did a local concert (Steve Perry vocalist?)...I looked up an' said 'Journey? whozzat?' I think that contributed to gettin' me fired as they were a local band that made it big...an' there was me hummin' "searchin' searchin' fer a heart of gold..."

And what about his awesomeness?

the kids just wanna talk about the music, although I haveta admit that Prince was good, but his stuff resonates from a different time and was an 80s anomaly....

what about the great films of the 80s? Just finished watchin' my new DVD of Raging Bull that I bought recently to replace my old video cassette...nothing less than magnificent...

then there was Jean de Florette and Manon de Source (also old video cassettes replaced by DVDs)...those films give me so much pleasure that tears flow when I hear the plaintive harmonica introduction/theme...

Dance with a Stranger...Kiss of the Spider Woman...

haveta admit that Ferris Bueller was entertaining...

And what about his awesomeness?

Awesomeness? You pooor old lady