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[Weilthain]

Massive frames on people’s glasses. I look back at photos when was a young child and every adult had glasses that cover half the face. Usually tinted glass as well.

 

[GreyHorace]

English New Wave Music

Saturday Night Live comedians in movies

George Lucas and Steven Spielberg

Robert Zemekis

John Hughes

80's Miami

AHNOLD

 

[slugbahr]

Eye of the Tiger
Arnie
Hair metal
Stallone
Eddie Murphy
Murray & Akroyd
The Final Countdown

 

[pramod]

We all had a crush on Tiffany.

Wow, and I thought I was the only one.

 

[SantaC]

I was a video game nerd and didnt get any girls back then

 

[petran79]

-wwf wrestling
-non-crowded places for summer camping
-empty beaches with no beach bars at all
-imported products from socialist countries
-drugs
-Iran-Iraq war
-hardcore soccer hooliganism
-arcades
-ultra expensive computers and console games
-Challenger disaster
-Chernobyl (Europe was affected especially)
-school bullying is regarded as normal
-teachers slapping kids, parents don't complain
-aids
-short tv news, no live
-2-5 TV channels
-Satellite TV gate to a new world
-recording radio songs to tapes

 

[TTOOLL]

This thread warms my heart, thanks GAF!

 

[Birdo]

AIDS
Acid Rain
War in the Gulf
Ronald Regan
Communists

 

[MickeyGodzilla2854]

I will tell you one Michael Jackson The King of Pop he defined the 80s with his iconic hit songs Michael Jackson became a global superstar with Beat It, Human Nature, Billie Jean, Thriller, The Way you Make me Feel, Bad, Dirty Diana, Man in the Mirror all iconic songs from the King of Pop himself he defined music and characterized the 80s.

 

[MetalAlien]

We all had a crush on Tiffany.

 

[Javthusiast]

 

[highrider]

I was born in 1967, so the 80s were when I came into young adulthood. It was a magical time. Hip Hop was becoming a powerful force in culture, and by that I mean graffiti and dance as well, not just musically. There were these things called bands where musicians would form in to groups to make dope music, you still see them sometimes.

Cocaine. Tried snorting it once, didn’t really like the feeling. Took me outside of myself. I went in the Army in 85 and was in Germany for several years before I visited family back home. Every peer I had was either addicted, in rehab, or in jail. It’s hard to impress upon people how hard it hit. It was not only socially acceptable, but almost a status/baller thing as well. I felt fortunate that in Germany it really wasn’t available without serious legwork.

New York City.

I’m from DC but this was the epicenter for me. I went to New York every chance I had. I was obsessed with graffiti art and b-boy culture. I’d buy the latest Puma gear that Rock Steady Crew had. It wasn’t prohibitively expensive for an artist to live in Manhattan. You could be Jean Michael Basquiat and make it. Hanging out getting stoned in Washington Square Park, all the characters there. Watching the trains to maybe catch a full car burner from Seen or Dondi. I was 16 having these experiences and I wish I hadn’t taken them for granted at the time.

The 80s were a great time to come up for me. Taught me a lot about people and creativity.

 

[MickeyGodzilla2854]

I was born in 1967, so the 80s were when I came into young adulthood. It was a magical time. Hip Hop was becoming a powerful force in culture, and by that I mean graffiti and dance as well, not just musically. There were these things called bands where musicians would form in to groups to make dope music, you still see them sometimes.

Cocaine. Tried snorting it once, didn’t really like the feeling. Took me outside of myself. I went in the Army in 85 and was in Germany for several years before I visited family back home. Every peer I had was either addicted, in rehab, or in jail. It’s hard to impress upon people how hard it hit. It was not only socially acceptable, but almost a status/baller thing as well. I felt fortunate that in Germany it really wasn’t available without serious legwork.

New York City.

I’m from DC but this was the epicenter for me. I went to New York every chance I had. I was obsessed with graffiti art and b-boy culture. I’d buy the latest Puma gear that Rock Steady Crew had. It wasn’t prohibitively expensive for an artist to live in Manhattan. You could be Jean Michael Basquiat and make it. Hanging out getting stoned in Washington Square Park, all the characters there. Watching the trains to maybe catch a full car burner from Seen or Dondi. I was 16 having these experiences and I wish I hadn’t taken them for granted at the time.

The 80s were a great time to come up for me. Taught me a lot about people and creativity.

Out of curiosity how do you upgrade to from Neo Memeber to Offical Memeber just wondering

 

[MickeyGodzilla2854]

Eye of the Tiger
Arnie
Hair metal
Stallone
Eddie Murphy
Murray & Akroyd
The Final Countdown

Michael Jackson as well layed a significant role in the 1980s he ruled music along with Prince them 2 were the Top 2 Musical Artists of the 1980s MJ deserves a spot in there

 

[highrider]

Out of curiosity how do you upgrade to from Neo Memeber to Offical Memeber just wondering

It’s a certain number of posts, I don’t remember but it’s not a lot. Just need to make sure you act right

 

[MickeyGodzilla2854]

It’s a certain number of posts, I don’t remember but it’s not a lot. Just need to make sure you act right

Also the posts must have effort put into them not just one word right

 

[#Phonepunk#]

i recently rewatched Empire Strikes Back and that film is GOAT. the whole thing gives me feels. i have very strong early memories tied to this film. that scene of Luke eating the soup in Yoda's house, I can vividly remember sitting in the kitchen while mom makes lunch for me and my brothers and the Dagobah stuff was on a TV. the ending of the movie stirs up so many emotions for me, with Luke and Leia looking out at that spiral galaxy.

there is also something so grand and operatic and kind of comic booky about all the spaceship shots in the film. Kershner really went out of his way to portray his subject matter as cool as possible. just look at the imagery from the first time the Imperial March is used:

 

[highrider]

Also the posts must have effort put into them not just one word right

And of course I must personally approve it. Well, me and JareBear: Remastered . We form the nucleus of The GAF COD. Committee of Dunderheads.

 

[Mr Hyde]

Freddy Krueger

 

[#Phonepunk#]

oh yeah i remember seeing rape scenes in pretty much everything. Conan the Barbarian? rape. random tv movie on USA? rape. Supergirl the movie? yeah the first thing that happens to her on landing to earth is she tries to get raped. you saw that less in the 90s and mostly not at all aftewards but for a while it felt like if an attractive woman was on screen alone, she was in trouble.

 

[Trogdor1123]

Shoulder pads

 

[nkarafo]

Computer ads in game/computer magazines promoted by well dressed men or suits in computer ads in general. There was even shit like this (sorry for the low res):

Look how excited this business man is for having sound in his games!

 

[Alfen Dave]

I will tell you one Michael Jackson The King of Pop he defined the 80s with his iconic hit songs Michael Jackson became a global superstar with Beat It, Human Nature, Billie Jean, Thriller, The Way you Make me Feel, Bad, Dirty Diana, Man in the Mirror all iconic songs from the King of Pop himself he defined music and characterized the 80s.

It took 2 pages to hear somebody finally mention MJ.

This forum is gone lol.

 

[HarryKS]

A lack of skepticism, For all the no-future blablablah, it was still a decade where you could act like a normal human being and like normal things. It almost stretched to the 90s but that one was cut short around 1998.

 

[King of Foxes]

My country was still occupied by the soviets. So the 80s were rather bleak for me.

I did touch my first pair of tits in 88 though, that was pretty good.

 

[TrainedRage]

Synth and Neon

 

[Nitty_Grimes]

Airwolf
The A Team
V
Knight Rider

 

[Ar¢tos]

My vague memories of the 80s are coming home from school and watching Les Mystérieuses Cités d'Or, Tom Sawyer, Thundercats and a weird German cartoon with an ant that wore a red scarf (never knew the name of it).
That's all I remember, everything else is kinda fuzzy.

 

[pramod]

I'm trying to imagine myself going back in time and try to explain to people in the 80s that in the future everyone thinks the best superhero movie of all time in 2018 is Black Panther because it has black people in it.

 

[K1Expwy]

 

[#Phonepunk#]

music wise i like how rock n rollers were still trying to do the cool crooner thing. lots of pop songs and synth pop and rock that have baritone singing in it. sometimes it came across mopey (The Smiths) but all in all it was a vocal style that conveyed a romanticism and yearning that is a bit old fashioned. feel like The Doors were basically an 80s band in the 60s, with how influential Jim Morrison's vocal register ended up being.

.

 

[#Phonepunk#]

also i like the pop sheen given to greed and money. these are themes represented throughout history. but there is something really decadent and fun about 80's portrayal of the eternal vices.

 

[Ar¢tos]

I had one of those! I took it everywhere and my family was always annoyed with me because I was ALWAYS jumping.
It eventually broke, but it lasted a few good years.

 

[MickeyGodzilla2854]

And of course I must personally approve it. Well, me and JareBear: Remastered . We form the nucleus of The GAF COD. Committee of Dunderheads.

Thank you very much man I highly appreciate it and I love this website thank you guys

 

[Devenport]

Just think about how a nerd was a loser back in the 80's and how a nerd is cool now. Maybe cause everything is cool now...

 

[Heimdall_Xtreme]

this amazing animation with amazing ost




and pretty music

 

[Jaxx_377]

Nintendo
Saturday morning cartoons
Steven Spielberg movies
John Hughes movies
Friday the 13th
Nightmare on Elm street
Schwarzenegger
MTV was fun
You can't do that on Television
Top Gun


Pheobe cates

 

[hariseldon]

Optimism.

 

[Mihos]

We all had a crush on Tiffany.

Debbie Gibson > Tiffany

I remember the time I kicked the railing at the roller rink and my friendship beads on my shoe string broke and they had to close early because everyone kept falling. That shit went everywhere.

I also remember making out with the hot roller guard in the Pole Position sit down machine at that rink during a lock in.

 

[RAÏSanÏa]

Arcades in shopping malls
Smoking in shopping malls
Coleco
Thrash Metal
Satanic panic
Scrambled porn

 

[HarryKS]

I disagree with people who disliked the hair in the 80s. It's better than the flat look of the 90s or the tryhard 2000s-2010s.

Mullets aren't great but feathered and big hair have never been a bad thing. Volume is nice.

 

[MetalAlien]

It took 2 pages to hear somebody finally mention MJ.

This forum is gone lol.

I was born in 71 and honestly only liked Thriller..sorry!

 

[#Phonepunk#]

Dirty Pair intro/outry injects 80s into my veins

 

[MetalAlien]

Dirty Pair intro/outry injects 80s into my veins

 

[pramod]

I'm trying to imagine myself going back in time and try to explain to people in the 80s that in the future everyone thinks the best superhero movie of all time in 2018 is Black Panther because it has black people in it.

I forgot to add, and if you disagree then you are labelled a racist.

 

[DetectiveBananas]

For my small town...
Action Movies (Stallone, Arnold)
Cartoons/Cartoon Toys
MTV
Hair Metal, Pop Music
Drive In Movie Theater
McDonalds / Happy Meals
Nintendo
Video Rental Stores on Friday Night
Kids Sports (before every Parent thought their Kid was going pro)
Being Respectful to the Elderly
Doors rarely being locked
Politics not ruling every aspect of my family’s/neighbor’s life

 

[cryptoadam]

Smoking everywhere LOL.

Also anyone who was a kid in the 80's remembers going out till late hours at night. Playing all day until the sun goes down.

Now a days kids can't move without checking in with their parents 20 times a day. And thats if kids go outside at all rather than play Ipad or Xbox.

Oh and skinny people. Fatties were pretty rare back then. Sure the trade off was a lot of pancake butt, though I think its worth it over the Kweeens we have to deal with now a days.

 

[Schrödinger's cat]

 

[EverydayBeast]

80s are right there with the 70s and 90s so memorable its hard to pinpoint one thing to define or characterize the decade, some of the best rock and roll.

• The Beastie Boys.
• Bon Jovi. ...
• Milli Vanilli. ...
• Run-DMC. ...
• U2. ...
• Fine Young Cannibals. ...
• R.E.M. ...
• New Order.

 

[Breakage]

Music videos where the men wore more makeup than the women: