Remember the 80's

[freecybermag]

OK so let's go back in time and reminisce. What's your favourite thing about the 80's and why?

My fave 80's programme was the Fall Guy. I loved the stunts that Lee Major's used to perform and needless to say I copied them on my mother's furniture along with a slapped arse.

My Fave 80's movie was Lost Boys. Why, I have no idea. I can't put my finger on why it was so great but it was and probably still is.

I also used to love the Um Bongo chew bars :P and the Highland Toffee bars. Remember them? mmmm

Chris

[Jayne]

Grease! Leg warmers and big hair...Oh and don't forget Roland Rat :lol:

Jayne

[freecybermag]

What? You used to grease your leg warmers to put on your hair. :shock:

Always said funny folk in Yorkshire :lol:

Chris

[Coding Monkey]

I can just about remember....nope, it's gone.

I have no recollection of the 80's. Mind you, I can't really remember what I had for breakfast

[Jayne]

What? You used to grease your leg warmers to put on your hair. :shock:

Always said funny folk in Yorkshire :lol:

Chris


No, we use lard in Yorkshire :lol:

[freecybermag]

Not quite sure if this is 70's or 80's but do you remember the song "Land of make belive" by Bucks Fizz.

I loved that song and still do. I sing it all the time. (and I still pretend to be Superman lol)

Chris

[Jayne]

And you are admitting this on a public forum :lol:

Brave man!

Jayne

[freecybermag]

Hey don't mock the Fizz, they're cool lol :lol:

[Jayne]

I'm still making my mind up?

Jayne :lol:

[clairemackaness]

I have three great quizzes on my PC at work. Retro Toys, Kids TV and name that band.

If anyone wants them please e-mail me and I'll send them to you Monday.

They really will bring back your 80's memory

[Eagle]

The Cold War.

I'm serious. I felt much safer then than I do now...

[emubill]

Have to agree with Jayne - Grease! was the best - when it was re-released in the cinemas to celebrate 20 years I took wife and daughter of 4 and nearly got thrown out for dancing in the aisle. Yes I'm that bad at dancing. Wouldn't have minded but including us there were only 7 people in the cinema.

Does anyone Texan bars - the best.

But I must admit I prefer the clothes or nearly clothes that women wear today rather than the high collars, big jumpers, leggings, ankle length skirts and all the other flesh covering, curve reducing fashion they wore then.

I've come over all hot now. I'm going to have to have another beer.

Nige

[Jayne]

Nothing wrong with clothes in the eighties :lol: I had a pair of those black spray on type, satin trousers...sadly I used to love them! And the big hair :lol:

By Eck! All coming out now.

Jayne

[Admiral Collections]

80's the year I met my first love!!!!! Would like to say he was my last but he wasn't.... :roll:


Film has got to be Ghost! I cried my eyes out to that and I loved Dirty Dancing too, how could I have ever thought Patrick Swayze was cool?

Song: Prince 1999 because it seemed so freakin far away at the time!

Hairdo: I had a dodgy perm going on, but I loved it.

Clothes: Got to be Hunza dresses, did anyone have one of those?

Pin Up: George Michael. I loved him, I was going to marry him. I was in Blackpool when I found out he was gay. I hate him now for misleading me through my teens and how could I have ever thought he was straight?

Toffees: Fizz bombs, wham bars, kendal mint cake in a silver little tray thing, toffee cigs.

Tele: I agree with Jayne, Roland Rat, only because he annoyed the hell out of me.


Nic :wink:

[confused]

Toffees: Fizz bombs, wham bars, kendal mint cake in a silver little tray thing, toffee cigs.
what about spangles ! or were they pre 80's?


and of course my all time favourite band - Japan, late 70's early 80's

[CG Effect]

Hey I liked the Cold War too!
When I was at school I was always looking out the window wondering when the first 60 mega tone Nuke was going to go off.

[SillyJokes]

The Jam,
Sisters of Mercy,
The The
U2
Brothers in Arm by Dire Striats

Making mad clothes out of charity shop finds
Using soap and sugar water to make my hair enormous

Soft top golfs

[Hayles]

Dollar.... I loved David Van Day.

What a pratt he turned out to be.... :cry:

[Admiral Collections]

Hi

Spangles were 1970's I think.

What about Germolene bubbly, or was that just for us demics in Bolton?


Nic :wink:

[multilingual]

Grease came out in the seventies!

The eighties was all about the New Romantics, Dallas, tapered trousers and winkle picker shoes, white socks (ugh), big hair (I had the John Taylor from Duran Duran hair style :oops: ) grandfather shirts with no collars, black shirts and ties with piano keys on them.

Girls were all called Sharon and Tracey and wore white stilleto shoes and the lads were called Kevin or Neil and had stupid pencil moustaches.

All the boys claimed to love Madness and Bad Manners, but secretly liked Culture Club and Spandau Ballet.

It was an era of Pop videos and flambouyant clothes. It was about a man called Marilyn and girl called Alf.

It was a time when Marathon bars and Opal Fruits were sold in the school tuck shop. When no self repecting kid would leave the house without his Rubiks Cube and no self respecting home would be without a Soda Stream.

It was also a time when the school computer room consisted of three BBC machines and you had to be on first name terms with the headmaster just to get in!

The rest of us had to put up with the ZX81, then the ZX Spectrum, and the Commodore 64 was the best computer on earth.

The Escort XR3 and the RS Turbo were THE cars to have and anyone who drove a Mercedes was an old timer who just kept going on about how good it was in the old days.

So here I am, 36 years old driving a Mercedes and listening to 80's music. It was all so much better back then!

:wink:

JB

[Jayne]

Oh JB, you are exactly the same age as me, no wonder I know what you're on about for a change..

I had big hair and the white shoes, everything you said is all too true :lol:

But the Ford Capri was the big seller here.

Jayne :D

[uksbc]

this feels so good,

my circle of friends and all previous girlfriends have been younger than me and none of them remember the eighties!! its great to read all the things i remember!!

nic - i was brought up not far from you and in the early eighties germoline bubbly was fantastic

[uksbc]

i just read my last post back and want to make the following statement as it made me sound like a perv

i meant previous girlfriends were born in the early to mid eighties hence not remembering NOT that they were born in the early nineties

just had to point this out as i know a few of you know i am 30

dont want to win the award of "Most Like Gary Glitter" :!:

[freecybermag]

Does anyone remember such classics as Thundercats, Grange Hill (with Mrs McClusky), Button Moon, Rent-a-ghost.

Oh those were the days my friend, we thought they never end, la la la la la la la la la la.

:lol: :lol: :lol:

[uksbc]

i once took my two younger brothers to see Button Moon LIVE!!

[Jayne]

Yes all of them...I can go right back to the Klangers and the real Bill and Ben :lol:

Jayne

[uksbc]

real Bill and Ben

flobolobolobolob (or words to that effect)

[Hayles]

Rent-a-Ghost! Class..! I still can't take Audrey seriously on Corrie :lol:

Tucker Jenkins - soooo cool. I was going to marry him.

Hayles

[uksbc]

the big question for all blokes in the eighties......

Tiffany or Debbie Gibson?

Speaking of which why did Tiffany only ever do gigs in shopping centres??

[Jayne]

real Bill and Ben

flobolobolobolob (or words to that effect)

It's like being in a Time Warp :lol:

Lets do the time warp again...take a jump to the left and a step to the rrrright, put your hands on your hips and bend your knees in Time...

Bet you wanted to dance then, didn't you :lol:

Jayne


Oh and Tucker was cool. :D

[multilingual]

Grange Hill - Fantastic!

What about Roland Browning and that girl who always called him Row-land!

Zammo with his 'just say no' campaign,

Gonsh with his money making schemes and Ziggy from Liverpool :)

Rent a Ghost was pure class, as was Paddington Bear.

But I have just remembered the best TV programme of the eighties......

Anyone remember 'Monkey'?

(They said it was in India)

With Chipitaka, Sandy and Pigsy!

Class


8)

JB

[freecybermag]

I've got that bloody song in me'ead now :lol:

"it's a pelvic thruuuust, that really drives you in saaaaaaane"

All together now

"LET'S DO THE TIME WARP AGAIN"
"LET'S DO THE TIME WARP AGAINNNNNN"

"It's just a jump to the left la la la la la

[Jayne]

| Love that song :lol:


It's MONKEY MAGIC :lol:

Jayne

[uksbc]

i loved monkey - they showed a re-run recently and it reminded me just how good it was

how can you not like a guy who can pull a fighting staff out of his ear and has a flying pink cloud!

tripitaka - supposed to be a man, played by a woman - WHY

[Jayne]

Who cares :lol: it was bloody brilliant, it was the only time me and my sister were quiet in our house, when Monkey was on.

Jayne

[freecybermag]

Does anyone remember "The Fall Guy" & "Chips"

I was dead young then and always remember after tea, going to have a bath, then in my Pyjama's watching those two programs. :( I'm sad I'm all grown up now :cry:

[Hayles]

JB - Zammo and Roland weren't the REAL Grange Hill!!!

Tucker and Trisha were the real thing.

Now I feel very, very old :D

[Hayles]

Ahh don't be sad...... you're not at all grown up :wink:

[WelshPixels]

So on Saturday mornings were you a Multi Coloured Swap Shop kid or a TISWAS kid.

Me it was TISWAS all the way.

Two words on what the best TV programme was "Danger" and "Mouse". nuff said

[multilingual]

Hayles,

You must be older than me because I can barely remember Tucker.

I seem to recall him having a sidekick called Benny, but I remember that from Tucker's Luck which was the follow up show.

They did a show recemtly where they tried to get the old cast together, and they found Zammo working in a locksmiths shop in the East End.

Don't know what happened to Tucker though. Someone told me he had a rough time with Drugs and ended up HIV positive, then his wife died and he ended up running a fruit and veg stall for a few years. I gather he is now in the Police force! Not very cool now is he! :P

[uksbc]

the obvious choice for tv in the eighties will always be the A Team!

does anyone remember Streethawk? - was basically it tried to be Knightrider on a motor bike

now i am a fan of motorbikes but you just can not beat a Trans Am that talks and the HUGE hair of David Hasslehof!! :shock:

[multilingual]

Swap Shop was my Saturday Show, couldn't stand all that custard pie and noise on TISWAS, used to do my head in.

Almost as bad as Cheggars Play Pop!

JB

[Jayne]

I liked the Bionic Man best and Hart to Hart :lol:

Jayne

[freecybermag]

Ahhhh Hart to Hart....I loved that program

Jennifer was well sexy :P :P :P

[Jayne]

Ahhhh Hart to Hart....I loved that program

Jennifer was well sexy :P :P :P


All women everywhere wanted her hair do :D

Jayne

[multilingual]

What about that programme called Kaleidoscope with a box that opened up whilst it was going round on a turntable, with bright lights shining on it and a strange Hamond organ musical intro. (Bit surreal if I remember)

What about Fingermouse?

Rhubarb and Custard?

The Wombles?

The Muppet Show?

Can anyone hum the gallery music fom Take Hart?

(Could be here all night)
:?

JB

[Hayles]

Tales of the Unexpected! Great music.... great dancing (rather rude I thought).

Or was that the 70's?

[Jayne]

Wombles of Wimbledon wombling free...forgot the rest.

I had a Womble, my Mam worked For Dennis Fisher toy factory, we had everything before everyone else :D

Jayne

[multilingual]

Tales of the Unexpected was good, I used to like that :)

I also have a personal favourite, but I don't know if anyone else will remember it:

It was a programme on Channel 4 circa 1986 called 'Prospects'

I used to love that programme and always watched out for the repeats but they never put them out again.

Myabe that's becuse there was only me watching it :?

JB

[Jayne]

Never watched the prospect one..but I was a big fan of Tales of the unexpected. My favourite one was when a man turned into a bee after eating too much honey.

Jayne :D

[Hayles]

My favourite one was when there was a plague of rats taking over the countryside - they ate humans I think. The last shot was a man and woman going upstairs with tea strainers over their heads. I think. :? :D

[freecybermag]

Prospects....OMG...forgot about that one. It stared Craig Charles and the other guy out of 2 points 4 children. I used to sleep down my mates grandfathers house every week and we used to watch that before going to bed. Oh I remember Prospects :D

[WelshPixels]

Was "Prospects" the one about the two guys on a council estate trying to come up with schemes to make money?

I think the dad from 2.4 Children was in it but I cant remember who the other guy was.

[freecybermag]

Yeah that's the program

[multilingual]

Yes, that's the one!!!

Prospects was Gary Olsen (2.4 kids) playing Jimmy Pince (Pincey), and the other one was the actor out of Gimme Gimme Gimme (the posh one who lived next door with his silly girlfriend). He played Billy Pearce.

There was that Gangster called 'Stretch' and they got into all sorts of capers, very funny. Plus the music was fantastic: When the programme ended there was a sunset over the Docks and the music was

"is it just another day, or will prospects find a way, on the crumbling City streets, were working for tomorrow"

The best episode was when they tunnelled into the Natwest Bank vault and got a top 'cracker' to get them into the massive safe, only to find that they had tunnelled into the wrong building and the safe was in fact a butchers fridge! The get away driver was all revved up for a fast exit when he saw Stretch, Pincey and Billy running towards the van carrying three frozen pigs!

ahhh, I am getting all nostalgic now :)

Where is my Duran Duran album?

jb

[Admiral Collections]

Did anyone watch Tuckers luck? If you did, am I right in thinking that his girlfriend in that was the woman who recently was in Eastenders and couldn't hack the jungle? It's driving me insane wondering if it is her

Nic :wink:

[SillyJokes]

Nescafe Gold Blend advert, "Have you got any.....coffee?"


Aids - Don't Die of Ignorance

and the song by the cast of Grange Hill about not taking drugs, "Just say no, NO"

[Admiral Collections]

Oh no Silly Jokes I cant get that song out of my head now.

NO, just say No la la la

That's so funny. If I played that to my little boy now he would be like 'what the hell is that'

Nic :wink:

[Jayne]

If anyone's on AOL broadband Gold or above, they have a great 80's radio station :D

Jayne

[CG Effect]

Download itunes for free off the apple website . Thats got an mp3 quality radio for 70's and 80's.

[Asteeleleith]

What a true blast from the past it has been reading through some of these threads.

my most memorable TV series

the A-team
The Full Guy
Chips
Knight Rider
Air Wolf
Juliet Bravo (loved it on Friday)


Music
Don't you forget about me, Simple Minds, the Glitering Prize
REMs losing y religeon
soft cell.

And who can forget the greatest band of modern times Queen.

To me the 80s was the magical era. I don't know what happened in the nineties and now. But the 80s def had that magic about it.

Al

[CG Effect]

You should have a go at GTA Vice City it was far better driving around Miami with the radio on in those days.