The 80s

As a whole , ye ok. But some of the fashion and music that was around was , lets just say , AWFUL.

I don't remember much about the 80s, was only 5 1/2 when they ended!

I *do* remember Kylie and Jason though, and Saturday morning cartoons.

THE WHOLE STOCK AITKEN & WATERMAN THING WAS SORE ON THE AUL EARS

Blush_01 wrote: »

Was "Long wave Atlantic 252" an 80s or 90s phenomenon. It was the only "cool" radio station to listen to, according to my older cousins.

That was mad popular when I was in first year (97), so maybe it was both?

Tri wrote: »

Ha ha - yeah, s'pose. Lots of colouring. But the normal every month one's were pants.

Sorry Dudess.

What was the other one called? Maybe that's the one i'm thinking of.. Think it begins with F. One was a blatant rip off of t'other and it was sh1te.

I remember an "f" one too....


Ann and Barry
The Beautiful South
The Cure
Halloween being safe for animals and kids- none of this torture/ mugging stuff
Other peoples parents feeding you, minding you and giving you jobs
Starting school
Church sweets (yup, my parents bribed us)
Staying up till 9 being very late and a total treat
Mrs Pepperpot
Cartoons on a Saturday in the cinema
Never thinking that people would ever hurt other people on purpose
Collecting for the "black babies" at lent
Those weird fake smartie things...
5p sparkles
Knowing all of your neighbours
The worst thing a teenager could do was be loud or get drunk
Polly pockets and proper my little ponies
Collecting those little fancy note-pads.
Kids reading and playing outdoors- not sitting round watching telly, playing computer games and getting fat
Candied fruit slices

I could go on for ever

God the 80s were great........

therewillbe wrote: »

THE WHOLE STOCK AITKEN & WATERMAN THING WAS SORE ON THE AUL EARS

Not as sore as your caps are on my tired old eyes.

Unfair to pick on SAW as exemplor music of the period. There were a lot of very interesting things happening in the early-80's, and I'm not taking about the Birdy Song.

Having spent my teenage years exclusively in the 1980's, I can say with certain authority that the era was shit. It both sucked and blowed in just about every aspect you can think of. We were poor, poor but unhappy.

Put it this way, we nearly wet ourselves with excitement when RTE aired MT USA, basically an hour of music videos every Sunday afternoon. This was the essential viewing back in the day. When MT USA was aired, the streets were deserted and no crime was committed.

More galling was the fact that while the UK was booming, we were living in one of the most economically depressed backwaters in Western Europe.

Computer Games? Try telling any player of WOW or Crysis that we had to make our own entertainment while we waited around for seven minutes for games to load via cassette onto ZX Spectrums and C64s. This I think is the sole reason my generation never suffered from ADD.

Cuttting a long story short, the only things I miss about the 80's are my hair, my weight (lack thereof) and the fact that being a smoker didn't put you in the same social exclusion bracket as child-molesters.

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Duffle coats.
Going to mass.
Glenroe.
Freezing classrooms.