NationStates Jolt Archive

1) Eddie Murphy was still funny

2) Men Without Hats liberated an entire generation by assuring us that "we can dance when we want to, we can leave your friends behind"

3) The A Team

4) Mad Max, Paul Hogan and Men at Work (http://members.aol.com/babsjdonne/menatwrk/discog/lyrics/downund.htm) sparked an interest in Australian culture (http://www.chott.com/album/halloween_2.jpg).

5) Regan announced that the bombs would start dropping at midnight.

6) Pee Wee's playhouse was on Saturday morning TV

7) Crack epidemic started allowing folks to buy home electronics and jewlery for under $5.

8) I was born.

Talking about Eddie Murphy, I heard he's divorcing his wife because he came out of the closet..no joke.

8) I was born.
No shit? I always thought you were older than me.

6) Pee Wee's playhouse was on Saturday morning TV

*has flashback*

3) The A Team
I love it when a decade comes together :D

No shit? I always thought you were older than me.

Gee, thanks, I guess. I'm 22.

Gee, thanks, I guess. I'm 22.
I guess I'm older but just more immature.

I guess I'm older but just more immature.

Yeah, well, as long as you're older. :p

We should be clear on this: just because Homer Simpson and rocket science are each incredibly powerful and cool forces within our world in their own right does not mean that mixed together they will turn out to be anything other than a disaster.

The same principle applies to the '80's. There were good parts, yes, but no one should ever wish to go back to that decade on the whole. The '90's were so much better.

Ah, yes…the Eighties *reminisces*

The Clash

The Ramones

Cindy Lauper

The Dead Milkmen

Fast Motorcycles

Beirut :( (American Embassy guarding and Barracks blowing up etc.,)

Thinking I had to have a shot of whiskey with 'every' beer :rolleyes: :p

Remembers the sorry state of BIG hair and overdone makeup and Blondie being blown out of her head stoned… :(

We should be clear on this: just because Homer Simpson and rocket science are each incredibly powerful and cool forces within our world in their own right does not mean that mixed together they will turn out to be anything other than a disaster.

The same principle applies to the '80's. There were good parts, yes, but no one should ever wish to go back to that decade on the whole. The '90's were so much better.
The Nineties were very overrated. Could you see Nancy Reagan sitting on Mr. T's lap on television in the '90s?

5) Regan announced that the bombs would start dropping at midnight.

http://www.zetaminor.com/images/dvd_review_images/sweeney_s4/sweeney_s4_regan.jpg

"If you weren't who you are I'd kick your arse up to your shoulderblades."

Gee, thanks, I guess. I'm 22.
i thought you were older than that as well lol
guess you just seem mature and stuff :P


also in the 80s: ghostbusters, all the great dan akroyd films, comedies were still funny, i was born too (yay), and great metal music from the states

but they were bad (bad, bad, bad, bad, bad) because of Thatcher imho, so its a mixed blessing

Television:

A-Team
Doogie Howser MD
St. Elsewhere
LA Law
Hill Street Blues (start humming the song... you know it)
Alf
Cosby Show
Cheers
Dynasty
Falcon Crest
Bo & Hope falling in love on Days of Our Lives
Growing Pains
Who's the Boss
The Wonder Years
Unsolved Mysteries (Stack)
Rescue 911 (Shatner)
Family Ties
Jake & The Fatman

The Nineties were very overrated. Could you see Nancy Reagan sitting on Mr. T's lap on television in the '90s?

No amount of first lady canoodling can make up for hair metal bands, DCD.

i thought you were older than that as well lol
guess you just seem mature and stuff :P

I guess I'll just have to start acting more stupid since it hasn't sufficed so far.

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles

Thundercats

He-Man

GI-Joe (though I didn't watch it myself)

The Karate Kid movies

Rocky movies (???)

The Terminator

Monty Python's Meaning of Life

synthesizer keyboards in song choruses (e.g. Summer of '69)
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The eighties rocked. The nineties were just a bad spin-off.

Talking about Eddie Murphy, I heard he's divorcing his wife because he came out of the closet..no joke.


Yeah Right If he's gay then i'm :confused:

i dont understand why pee-wee lost his show just cause he got caught wankin in the theatre. its not like he was getting a BJ from a minor or something! like hes the only guy in america that pulls his pud! CMON!!!

80's music was great..and MTV was still worth watching. it actually had music videos people,and it wasnt all rap either!!!!

The reason the 80s was not the greatest decade ever? Two words: Air Supply. :D

do do do do dooo do do do dooo do do.....

oh wait.. this is the 80s... umn... pschodelic furs are amazing.
80s had great music.

Movies of the 80s
Flashdance
The Right Stuff
Ferris Bueller's Day Off
Sixteen Candles
Gandhi
On Golden Pond
Raiders of the Lost Ark
A Fish Called Wanda
Who Framed Roger Rabbit?
War Games
Working Girl
Pee Wee's Big Adventure
Gremlins
Cocoon
Wall Street
The Last Emperor
Fast Times at Ridgemont High

I remember it well. The 80s were my adolescence.

The reason the 80s was not the greatest decade ever? Two words: Air Supply. :D


Air Supply Rules!

Movies of the 80s
Flashdance
The Right Stuff
Ferris Bueller's Day Off
Sixteen Candles
Gandhi
On Golden Pond
Raiders of the Lost Ark
A Fish Called Wanda
Who Framed Roger Rabbit?
War Games
Working Girl
Pee Wee's Big Adventure
Gremlins
Cocoon
Wall Street
The Last Emperor
Fast Times at Ridgemont High

I remember it well. The 80s were my adolescence.

eddie and the cruisers I & II - i wonder if im the only one that liked them? great music in both movies...

Air Supply Rules!
Rules my toilet bowl maybe! :D

While all these things are true, all that need be said is G.I. JOE

eddie and the cruisers I & II - i wonder if im the only one that liked them? great music in both movies...
There was an Eddie and the Cruisers 2?!?!?! Why was I not informed of this before?

No amount of first lady canoodling can make up for hair metal bands, DCD.
Motley Crue was a hair band, and they rocked. Plus the 80s gave us Guns N Roses, Metallica, Megadeath, Pantera's first four albums, and many more. Plus the nineties had some pretty lousy music too. Just didn't have a name for it.

The 80's pwned. Sitcoms were still funny, Saturday morning cartoons still had some actual quality, and the US actually produced decent music.

Aah, nostalgia.

Breakdancing.

Plus the nineties had some pretty lousy music too. Just didn't have a name for it.

"Post-grunge" :p

"Post-grunge" :p
And although some people will try to crucify me for this, another example of really bad 90s music was Pearl Jam.

And although some people will try to crucify me for this, another example of really bad 90s music was Pearl Jam.

I won't though. I never really found them anything special. Next to their contemporaries, they were rather plain.

Well, here's my additions:
I was born
The Wall came down

One reason why the 80s sucked though:
Tchernobyl :(

Well, here's my additions:
I was born
The Wall came down

One reason why the 80s sucked though:
Tchernobyl :(
But now we know that Chernobyl wasn't so bad.
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,13509-1768368,00.html

8) I was born.

Me too! Except, you're two years older than me. :(

There was an Eddie and the Cruisers 2?!?!?! Why was I not informed of this before?

omg! the second one is as good as if not better than the first. the music in the second one is great stuff...

check it out, you must watch it:

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0097262/

1) Eddie Murphy was still funny

I can assure he wasn't, I've seen his 1980's material, and frankly, its worse than the modern material. However, its true, the 80's were the greatest decade of the twentieth century; Thatcher, New Romantics, Reagan and ostentatious hair cuts, genius!

I can assure he wasn't, I've seen his 1980's material, and frankly, its worse than the modern material. However, its true, the 80's were the greatest decade of the twentieth century; Thatcher, New Romantics, Reagan and ostentatious hair cuts, genius!
Come on! You mean to tell me you don't think Eddie Murphy's "Raw" and "Delerious" weren't funny to you? Oh, and that music video "My Girl Wants to Party All the Time". Unintentionally hilarious!

Come on! You mean to tell me you don't think Eddie Murphy's "Raw" and "Delerious" weren't funny to you? Oh, and that music video "My Girl Wants to Party All the Time". Unintentionally hilarious!

I don't know if you're Britsih or not, but Blackadder and the Young Ones are more my thing, Eddie Murphy isn't overly subtle at times

I don't know if you're Britsih or not, but Blackadder and the Young Ones are more my thing, Eddie Murphy isn't overly subtle at times
I'm from New Jersey, USA. Tried watching Blackadder a couple of times on public television in the '80s, but it wasn't my thing. Benny Hill and Are You Being Served? were more to my liking. Oh, and Monty Python. Can't forget them.

But there was a certain M Thatcher....

But there was a certain M Thatcher....

Precisely why it was an exemplery decade, long live Thatcherism! :)

Hammer Time!

Hammer Time!
Don't forget Ice Ice Baby

Generation 1 Transformers. They made the 80's great. The current Transformers can't hold a candle to the originals.

The toys even had DIE-CAST parts! You just don't see that sort of quality today.

Motley Crue was a hair band, and they rocked. Plus the 80s gave us Guns N Roses, Metallica, Megadeath, Pantera's first four albums, and many more. Plus the nineties had some pretty lousy music too. Just didn't have a name for it.

Pantera had releases before "Cowboys From Hell" (1990)?

Pantera had releases before "Cowboys From Hell" (1990)?
Aparently they did. I just learned about it today myself. I was trying to see if "Cowboys" was 90s or early 80s and found this.

http://www.kickedintheface.com/reviews/Pantera-Projects_In_The_Jungle.htm

Aparently they did. I just learned about it today myself. I was trying to see if "Cowboys" was 90s or early 80s and found this.

http://www.kickedintheface.com/reviews/Pantera-Projects_In_The_Jungle.htm


Huh, cool. That's really interesting. Thanks.

I particularly like music from the 70s - I think it was better...but the 80s was great as well [Iron Maiden, the Police, AC/DC save their Jailbreak album, etc.].

Mr. T!!!

check out this rap video... his early-mid 80s look is hilarious:

http://www.ifilm.com/ifilmdetail/2667017?htv=12&htv=12&htv=12

click on "Watch This" (or whatever)

5) Regan announced that the bombs would start dropping at midnight.


"I just signed into law legislation that will make the Soviet Union illegal forever. We drop the bombs in ten minutes."

That may have been the funniest line ever spoken, considering who said it and when.

for me the 80's were my glory days
the government in all civilized nations were liars and conspirators
but that gave us something to rally against anarchy
the music for the most part was droll with an upbeat
even the dark stuff could find me doing the pogo in the corner
everything that was completely over-the-top and full
of abandon prepared me for my life as an adult
movies, songs, sitcoms, commercials, fashion:
they were all great because they were mine
kinda like how your parents relate well with the 60's
or whatever
there will never be another decade that appears as
captivating
***and for god's sake-pink is not the new punk***

i was born and all the crazy fashions that are fun to laugh at

Reagan: "We begin bombing in five minutes" (http://www.wavsource.com/snds_2005-09-19_501265659487512/people/politics/reagan_bomb_x.wav)

Ah the 80s. Back when we were the good guys. :(

Precisely why it was an exemplery decade, long live Thatcherism! :)
Hell I hate her.

Generation 1 Transformers. They made the 80's great. The current Transformers can't hold a candle to the originals.

The toys even had DIE-CAST parts! You just don't see that sort of quality today.
Dude I totally love Optimus Prime! HE ROCKS!!!! :D

Freddie Mercury was alive
Tina Turner was dynamite
Michael Jackson was black
Prince was called Prince

Back to the Future
Star Wars Ep. 5 & 6

And last but not least: my Commodore 64!

The Army was WAAY bigger then, and I was in it (until the 1990s).