Do you remember 20 years ago ...

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I often find it incredible when you think back how much escapes your mind but how much comes back when you give it a frame like "1986".

Apart from the fact that I was 20 years younger back then I remember that that was the year I went on holidays to Italy and heard "Falco" and "Modern Talking" in a discotheque.

I remember going to concerts in Germany from "Klaus Lage Band" and I remember a few movies from back then like "Trick or Treat" or "Star Trek IV" and unfortunately it was also the year of Tchernobyl.

Kraftwerk released "Electric Cafe" and I formed my first rockband. All in all that´s not much I remember from 1986 maybe.

What do you remember?

gerTheGreat

Don't remember a whole lot. But that's fairly understandable as I was only born in '85

Kojak

Couldn't remember 1986 - only born 1984

thejuggler

1986 was the year Wham broke up!

Joliegood

tj-music.com wrote:

I often find it incredible when you think back how much escapes your mind but how much comes back when you give it a frame like "1986".

Apart from the fact that I was 20 years younger back then I remember that that was the year I went on holidays to Italy and heard "Falco" and "Modern Talking" in a discotheque.

I remember going to concerts in Germany from "Klaus Lage Band" and I remember a few movies from back then like "Trick or Treat" or "Star Trek IV" and unfortunately it was also the year of Tchernobyl.

Kraftwerk released "Electric Cafe" and I formed my first rockband. All in all that´s not much I remember from 1986 maybe.

What do you remember?

The advent of SKY tv. Much different to what it is today. Pat Sharpe used to present a programme in the afternoon that had pop videos and stuff on. There was a mad character called 'Ronnie the Runner' on it. It was great craic. Also remember Top Gun was realeased that year, Guns'n,Roses 'Welcome to the Jungle', Berlin 'Take my Breath away' and that 'Final Coutdown' song, can't remember who sang it.

county

i remember being 8 and seeing my dad completly losing it when the"cheat"maradona scored with the hand of god

Zulu

Joliegood wrote:

and that 'Final Coutdown' song, can't remember who sang it.

Europe sang it - what a track!

DublinWriter

tj-music.com wrote:

What do you remember?

Oddly enough, I had a dream just last night where I had again the mullet that used to have when 16 in 1986. Maybe I'm just longing for a full-head of hair?

I remember a very macho mate of mine calling around about 11pm, in a state of desperation, looking to borrow some hair-gel because he'd run out of his own supply. That says it all about the 80's I think.

I also remember several conversations with mates, talking about the lack of jobs, and argueing if the then economic depression would ever end or not.

I remember being in my first 'serious' band. All the guys still play together these days on the wedding circuit and I still ocassionally sit in on drums when their regular drummer is having another kid.

I remember running my own small second-hand record stall in Temple Bar market, and the debate amoung the traders about whether CIE were going to knock the whole area and turn it into an uber-bus depot.

I remember my first pint aged 16 in The Summit in Howth. Furstenburg (what ever happened to that?!). Three pints and still change for the bus fare home out of a fiver. Sounds like something an auld one would say, but there it is.

I remember a sense of nearly anything being possible. These days, myself and my mates from back then are almost choking on the cold ash of our dreams as we try and coral our kids around B&Q or Tescos of a Sunday.

Joliegood

Zulu wrote:

Europe sang it - what a track!

Yeah, it's a classic. Think they were from Sweden.

brown*eyed*girl

I was 10.5 years old and in fifth class in school with a horrible teacher that I detested. Still hate her. She was an ultimate bitch. Also was the year I *if your squimish look away now* got my "things". The girls might only know what that means. Onto a lighter note I was best friends with a girl called Susan and we were "going out" with these twins from Dublin who visited their Nanny every few months. We were a bit obsessed by them to say the least. I was also obsessed by Madonna and Michael Jackson and I think it was around this time that he played in Cork. I remember my cousin going up to see him in concert. It was the Bad Tour. I loved to watch Blockbusters, Grange Hill and Who's the Boss on the tv. Supercans of coke were available I think. It was also a year I won 5 medals and a trophy in a feis for Irish dancing. I could go on but you'd be bored. I have a very good memory and can remember back to when I was around 14 months old.

NoreenMF

I remember having a white, kind of puffy, ski jacket that had zips on the sleeves so you could take them off and thinking I was the business. I was 10 and my friends called me "whitey" cause of the jacket. LOL

There are jackets very like it around these days - they still look cool! Except they are all in the mens shops so I can't really go in and buy one now:)

Joliegood

There was a great storm in August or September that year. The East Coast got wrecked. Think Phil Lynott died that year, Self Aid was on in the RDS (useless as it happens) and Ireland got a good draw away to Belgium in the Euro qualifiers. There were no jobs around at the time and emigration to London or USA was considered the norm. Still though, I think Ireland was a better place back then.

NoreenMF

Was the DJ Kat show on then aswell? I think so....

Joliegood

NoreenMF wrote:

Was the DJ Kat show on then aswell? I think so....

Don't remember that, what channel was it on ?.

NoreenMF

That was Sky aswell, and I think it had Pat Sharpe too. I loved it when I was a kid, but it was pretty awful!

Joliegood

NoreenMF wrote:

That was Sky aswell, and I think it had Pat Sharpe too. I loved it when I was a kid, but it was pretty awful!

Yeah,I remember his crazy mullet.

sandyg

Oh the style in those days. Bright make up - blue/pink with lots of blusher. The reversable duvet like sweatshirts, bright coloured socks with shoes, bright coloured earings, check shirts, coloured gel, perms, skinny leather ties, A-ha, whitney houston, bon jovi, mt usa every sunday! What a difference 20 years makes!!:D

Zulu

Joliegood wrote:

Yeah, it's a classic. Think they were from Sweden.

Indeed they were. If I ever get married, the only stipulation I'd had is for that to be played. I can't express how much I love that song. Air guitar hevan!

NoreenMF

sandyg wrote:

Oh the style in those days. Bright make up - blue/pink with lots of blusher. The reversable duvet like sweatshirts, bright coloured socks with shoes, bright coloured earings, check shirts, coloured gel, perms, skinny leather ties, A-ha, whitney houston, bon jovi, mt usa every sunday! What a difference 20 years makes!!:D

Not much of a difference to now really, still got the big earrings, overuse of gel and stripey loud coloured clothes!

Although I am very grateful not to have to look at mullets, steps and badly permed hair anymore!!

Blisterman

I was sitting happily in my mother's womb 20 years ago.

D-Generate

I was also born 20 years ago. Bet the rest of you feel old now!

DublinWriter

D-Generate wrote:

I was also born 20 years ago. Bet the rest of you feel old now!

Yeah...but rich

meldrew

Miami Vice was at its height , everyone cheering on Norn Ireland in the World Cup , Chris De Burgh No ! with Lady in Red ah what a year !

FatherTed

Ahh, 1986. The year I did the Leaving Cert. World Cup. Maradona. Space shuttle crash. Phil Lynott dies. Knock Airport. Emmigration in big numbers to the US. Barry McGuigan losing in the Vegas sun. Liverpool double.

Songs: Addicted to Love. West End Girls. Sledgehammer. Kiss. How Will I Know? Manic Monday. Papa Don't Preach. The Way It Is.

Degsy

I was in third year that year..self aid..the tagline was "lets make it work"!It didnt,obviously.I was on holiday wehn hurricane Charley came along,songs playing were "set me free" by Jackie Graham and "boys of summer" by Don Frey.Oh yeah and "camoflage" by Stan Ridgeway and "nightshift" by the commodores.You could get a flagon of Linden Village in Quinsworth in baggot st for £2.19 as well..

tj-music.com

meldrew wrote:

Miami Vice was at its height

and now they are bringing the film version with that muppet Colin Farrell :mad:

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'86 is one of my earliest memories, I remember thinking that there were spiders on the pitch in the Mexico World Cup.

Litcagral

Trying to study for the Leaving Certificate while the World cup was on in Mexico.

BrianD3

I was 8 years old in 2nd class. I remember that school year quite clearly also I remember family holidays that year very well. My da got a new Ford Escort that year but it was crap and kept breaking down with starter motor and clutch problems in particular. It's amazing the details that stay with people

As already mentioned it was the year of the Challenger disaster and Phil Lynott died that year.

In sport there was the World Cup and Nigel Mansells blowout at the Australian Grand Prix.

On TV I think 86 was the year the first MacGyver episode was shown here although that could have been 85 or 87

What I find strange and slightly scary is that it's now as far back to 86 as it was from 86 to 1966. To me the 1960s seem like the dark ages and that shows how much time has passed since 1986. And the changes in this country and society from 86-06 are probably as big if not bigger than those from 66-86.

LordSutch

Twenty years ago ~ I had just left these shores for the Big Smoke "London" because there was no work here, and I wasnt the only one by any means, the Mail Boat from Dun Laoghaire was usually full of people going one way only!

Music; Sledgehammer/ Peter Gabriel?/ Live Aid/ Big Hair/ New Romantics/ Duran Duran/ Reit Petite/ Kate Bush ....................

Ireland was in bad shape back then with the EMF nearly knocking on the door saying "Ireland Your bankcrupt" but we just avoided it.

I remember the traffic queues going North for cheap petrol and to shop in M&S / C&A/ etc, etc .............

I also rember the daily shootings & bombings up-North, which was slowly being turned into a wasteland
(thanks to the IRA/INLA):-(

I remember going to Grand Canaria the year before, for my first Holiday abroad (everyone went to the Canaries then).

No naughty mags on the top shelf of Easons ~ No Trams ~ No Condoms ~ No Ethnics ~ No TV3 ~ No Mobile Phones ~ No Computers!

In many ways, our little country has come along way in those twenty years!

Wish I had a time machine to go back for just one day:)

fuzzywiggle

I was born in 1986! .... man, I feel sooo old