1980's

wild_eyed

i miss the 1980's, looking at pictures, i wish i was 7 again to see the last few years of that decade go by, it seems like a really weird time, before the 80's were over nearly all of my brothers and sisters had moved out. i have dreams about living back then , but im aged 22, my current age, and i walk into my old room, which was small and i had to share it, but i walk into it, and in the dream the bed is very nigh off the ground, and i crawl underneath, and there is loads of rubbish under the bed, and i turn around and watch a younger me walk in, and sit down and read a book my parents gave me about the facts of life. i would really like to meet the innocent finn.
sorry for being insane, i just miss the 1980's

p.s. my old room is gone now, the wall was knocked to make another room bigger.

Makaveli

I don't miss the 80's.
Well except the cartoons, but they are gradually coming out on DVD so it doesn't matter.
I can't really remember much more though.

It seems you miss your childhood more than the 80's specifically.

Dude111

I miss the 80s as well.... BEST DECADE EVER!!!

Food was GOOD,good places to go rollerskating. GOOD MUSIC..


Whaever happend to the good days??

briany

This thread is making me nostalgic for 2004 too.

Sids Not

I'll never forget looking forward to Live Aid on the telly........All yer favorite bands ....................and U2.......:D

jackiebaron

I hit puberty in the 80's and as a young mod I used to ogle the punk girls in London when my ma took me on a trip there.
Dublin was fun but fairly crappy in the 80's. It was hard to get all the cool records that they had in England .. all that awesome ska, mod, punk, oi music. And as for buying the clothes such as Fred Perry's and two-tone jackets....forget about it. Arnott's, Burtons and Roche's stocked f**k all!
Murphy's on Mary St. copped on and started selling the gear but they were behind the times. And Simon Hart shoes on Talbot street used to carry cool loafers once in a while.


Things I miss about the 80's:

King Burger (this dank, dingy burger joint on North Earl Street that had space-invaders machines, haha)

Samantha Fox
Maria Whittaker
Roller Disco on Harcourt Street and brassy inner-city girls with New Romantic hairstyles who'd "wear tha face off ya" on the couches there.
The Jam
Cheap fish and chips...like 30p for a single
Cold War and all that mysterious kind of spy-like music from that era like 99 red Balloons, Drowning in Berlin, Vienna by Ultravox, Sweet Dreams by The Eurythmics, etc.
The Mayfair Grill and Sound Around Record Shop on O'Connell St.
Dandelion Market
My first ****

Then almost overnight it all went from this cool stuff to crappy, over-the-top, pseudo-glam sh!t. The styles changed to poxy baggy jeans, padded shoulders, quifs, perms, mullets, suit jackets with the sleeves rolled up (crappy), thin ties with piano keys printed on them (absolutely nauseating) and music by Wham, Rick Astley and Kylie Minogue. I guess the big money of the London Stock Market rally seeped into popular culture and music videos now had **** like Simon LeBon and his Duran Duran turkeys singing on yachts in the Caribbean with their abyssmal trilbies. Still, I kind of look back on even the crap with fondness.

Stopped watching football in the 80's. United were lousy and Liverpool won everything. I couldn't stand them (Liverpool), and I hated Ron Atkinson as well.

Sids Not

jackiebaron wrote: »

Samantha Fox
Maria Whittaker
Roller Disco on Harcourt Street and brassy inner-city girls with New Romantic hairstyles who'd "wear tha face off ya" on the couches there.
The Jam
Cheap fish and chips...like 30p for a single
Cold War and all that mysterious kind of spy-like music from that era like 99 red Balloons, Drowning in Berlin, Vienna by Ultravox, Sweet Dreams by The Eurythmics, etc.
The Mayfair Grill and Sound Around Record Shop on O'Connell St.
Dandelion Market
My first ****

QUOTE]

Sounds like Reasons to be cheerful..pt 3............:D..cept for the **** bit....

Welease

jackiebaron wrote: »

I hit puberty in the 80's and as a young mod I used to ogle the punk girls in London when my ma took me on a trip there.
Dublin was fun but fairly crappy in the 80's. It was hard to get all the cool records that they had in England .. all that awesome ska, mod, punk, oi music. And as for buying the clothes such as Fred Perry's and two-tone jackets....forget about it. Arnott's, Burtons and Roche's stocked f**k all!
Murphy's on Mary St. copped on and started selling the gear but they were behind the times. And Simon Hart shoes on Talbot street used to carry cool loafers once in a while.

There used to be a great mod clothes shop in Dublin.. I'm old and the memory is fading ... but the name Barry Andrews springs to mind beside an old car park..

Their plastic bags used to have "Stolen from Barry Andrews" plastered across them...

Used to sell lots of "Cavern" branded cloths..

the name is gonna bug me all evening now maybe someone else remembers..

Edit - I think the name is definately wrong.. Barry Andrews was someone completely different who i met.. damn this is gonna bug me now

Welease

Barry John's is the name in my head now ... Which I think it was...

baalthor

Dude111 wrote: »

I miss the 80s as well.... BEST DECADE EVER!!!

Food was GOOD,good places to go rollerskating. GOOD MUSIC..


Whaever happend to the good days??

In what way was the food GOOD ?

deelite

baalthor wrote: »

In what way was the food GOOD ?

Vesta Beef Curry and Rice:D

ciaburkie

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lord lucan

baalthor wrote: »

In what way was the food GOOD ?

I can only speak for myself but most of the food i ate as a kid was fresh food,ie. fresh meat,fresh veg and cooked fresh. The only thing i can ever remember my ma' buying from the freezer section was fish fingers and waffles. Compared to now were there's so much frozen stuff and a lot of food is processed to death it was a lot better back then. That's how i remember it,hopefully not some hazy nostalgia getting in the way!:)

Dude111

baalthor wrote:

In what way was the food GOOD ?

Well in the US here it was before they started adding alot of UN-NEEDED crap to food thus making it taste not as good!

jackiebaron

lord lucan wrote: »

I can only speak for myself but most of the food i ate as a kid was fresh food,ie. fresh meat,fresh veg and cooked fresh. The only thing i can ever remember my ma' buying from the freezer section was fish fingers and waffles. Compared to now were there's so much frozen stuff and a lot of food is processed to death it was a lot better back then. That's how i remember it,hopefully not some hazy nostalgia getting in the way!:)

I would concur Lord Lucan. My parents were from the bog and would always be getting sacks of awesome potatoes from brothers, friends, whomever when they went "down home". So we had fresh winter and new spuds year round. Also my ma always went to Buckley's Butcher on Moore St. They have really good meats and their sossies are the best. Vegetables were got from the greengrocer on Beaumont Road. Eggs were delivered to the house as was milk. The auld fella would take us out for a drive a couple of times a month to Howth and buy fresh cod from the trawlermen. The only processed food we ever ate were baked beans and fish fingers and even they are decent. My granny made the brown bread when she was up from the bog or my ma would make it as well. Dessert was usually stewed apples or stewed rhubarb and custard (loved that). As long as you didn't live on fry-ups or didn't eat beef everyday but got chicken and fish regurlarly and didn't plaster Kerrygold onto the slice of batch loaf, then the food was pretty damn healthy and free of chemicals and preservatives.
Of course it wasn't as exotic as some of the choices available today but mark my words, bite into a Tesco tomato and then sink your teeth into one that was for sale on the side of the road when you're driving down the bog and your eyes will roll back in your head at the flavour.

WindSock

baalthor wrote: »

In what way was the food GOOD ?

The sweets were sweeter. They used a myriad of probably now banned ingredients. It's not as if junk is good for you anyway, may as well have tastier junk, imo.

A V A

wish i was 17-23 in the 80's , IT IS THE BEST DECADE EVER



IM IN LOVE WITH IT :D AND IM O NLY 19 NOW

THE MUSIC

THE HUMAN LEAGUE , YAZOO , DEPECHE MODE , NEW ORDER , A FLOCK OF SEAGULLS, BAUHAUS , JOHN FOXX , OMD , SIMPLE MINDS , U2 , DURAN DURAN , SPANDAU BALLET , TALKING HEADS , THE SMITHS , THE CURE , DEVO , THE CLASH (IN THE 80'S:P) , THE POLICE ::D:D:D:D:D:D:D

jupiterjack

http://http://youtu.be/OE7KT4fnoMQ