What were good things from the 80's

[BootinUp]

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Reagan bad.

Scandal Good!

[TexasTowelie]

1. Ecstasy?

Rick Astley?

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[BootinUp]

2. Spoil sport!

[Fearless]

3. The 90's?

[kentauros]

4. King Crimson!

[liberal N proud]

5. We don't have to go back

[brooklynboy49]

6. Movies

The '80s were a great decade of movies. I would argue second only to the period from the mid-'30s to the late '40s.

Just off the top of my head -- Body Heat, Airplane!, The Princess Bride, The Verdict, Dead Poets Society, Stand by Me, Romancing the Stone, Platoon, Wall Street, War of the Roses, Sixteen Candles, The Breakfast Club, Pretty in Pink, Chariots of the Gods, Amadeus, The Sure Thing, Just One of the Guys, Can't Buy Me Love, A Passage to India, Out of Africa, One Crazy Summer. And I haven't even scratched the surface. Not all of these were Oscar caliber movies, but they were entertaining. Which is more than you can say for most of the crap they're rolling out these days.

[DamnYankeeInHouston]

32. Ferris Bueller's Day Off?

80s or 90s. Decades blur.

[caraher]

36. Definitely '80s <nt>

[Jenoch]

40. I'll add Midnight Run 1988,

with Robert De Niro and Charles Grodin.

[brooklynboy49]

44. Very funny movie

Charles Grodin never received the critical acclaim he was due IMO. He was outstanding in Midnight Run, and just as good, if not better, in The Heartbreak Kid. He was always a lot of fun and good for a lotta laughs when he did the late night talk shows. A very funny and very talented man.

As for the previous post, of courses Ferris Bueller! And a few dozen more no one else has mentioned. How about Missing for starters?

[Jenoch]

45. I would put Ferris Bueller's Day Off,

Stand By Me, and Midnight Run in the category of films which I uaually watch if I run across them on cable and can pick up on them at any point of the film. Other 80s movies in that category are Big and The Manhatten Project. That last movie is kind of cheesey, but I still like it.

What is interesting about the '80s and movies is that VCRs were still quite expensive. My kids don't really believe me when I tell them that a VCR could cost more than $300. I bought a stereo VCR FROM Best Buy in 1985 for $350 and it was a returned unit. That $350 is more than $750 in today's money.

I don't remember the movie Missing. I looked it up and it sounds interesting.

[BootinUp]

48. Missing is a great flick

As to the price of VCR's, they had a lot of parts in there.

[pipi_k]

7. Good things?

I dunno about good things, but I do know that I loved every minute of the 80s (even though I was into my 30s by then) and still do.


Everything was so wonderfully...cheesy

music...movies...those stupid jelly shoes...big hair...shoulder pads that made ordinary people (even us ladies) look like football players...leg warmers

Yeah, there was bad...there always is.

But I guess, seeing as it was during the prime years of my life, I tend to only remember the fun.

[dawg]

8. I still love 80's music.

Lately, the "cool kids" have taken to labeling the 80's as a lost decade for music. But I don't think that's fair at all.

[My Good Babushka]

9. Don't Let's Start!

[progressoid]

15. YES!

They also play the theme song for The Daily Show. (but I don't think they wrote it)

[SwankyXomb]

19. Written by Bob Mould.

[Tom Ripley]

10. The return of psychedelics

acid punk

[Aristus]

11. While the 80's are remembered negatively for big hair and lots of mousse,

I liked the shorter, neater styles of the decade over the loose, copious, shaggy hairdos of the 70's. Not to mention the disappearance of biker beards and porn-staches in favor of a more clean-shaven look for men.

Everything was a little neater and clean-looking in the 80's. The clothes, the hair, even the skin. If you look at pics of models from the 70's, a lot of them seemed to have really greasy skin.

[Wait Wut]

12. ...LET THERE BE ROCK!!!!!!!!!!...

...and MORE ROCK!!!!!!

http://www.retrojunk.com/article/show/1026/80s-rock-bands

[Arugula Latte]

13. My youth.

Great music -- not the top 40 crap, but the altenerative "college radio" scene was incredible.

[progressoid]

20. Yeah,

Youth and energy and optimism and hair and great music and

... sigh ...

Where did it go?

Oh well. Embrace the expanding waistline and receding hairline I suppose.

[LanternWaste]

14. My Members Only jacket.

My Members Only jacket... and I *will* figure out a way to make them popular again.

[geardaddy]

16. Post-punk and Ska

[Iggo]

17. 80s chicks.

[sakabatou]

18. I was born. Does that count?

[BootinUp]

25. absolutely yes.

[whistler162]

21. 12/31/1989 11:59:59

[LeftOfSelf-Centered]

22. Skateboarding!

Anything with the Bones Brigade in it!

Back then I had a Mike McGill "Skull & Snake" deck, which I gave to my best friend when I got a new one. But I still have my '89 Lance Mountain "Family" deck, which still rides beautifully.

[steve2470]

23. the hair on the dude in Flock of Seagulls ? nt

[lastlib]

24. The fact that they ended on 1/1/90.

[Jenoch]

27. What does Drake and Josh (I had to look it up)

have to do thith the 1980s?

(Other than Dan schneider, producer, who was in a TV show in the 80s).

[sakabatou]

38. Nothing.

Started in '06. Maybe it's the two leads were born in the 80s? No idea really.

[raccoon]

28. MTV played music videos! Lots of them. nt

[pipi_k]

29. Loved MTV!

It was always interesting to see video interpretations of the music. Often it was way different from the way I imagined them.

[Arugula Latte]

30. This clip is a bit long, but it addresses the lack of music on MTV these days. Pretty funny:

[Rambis]

31. Blue jeans cost 14-19 dollars

and they were comfortable to wear for me not so now

[OriginalGeek]

33. I remember when I could do this with my hair

[Stingray steve]

34. Love this, and still listen to it

[Boomerproud]

35. I never felt the 80's and I were a good fit

I mean, I had to live through 8 years of Reagan...but compared to the 21st century, it seems like paradise.

[antiquie]

37. The 80s were work around the clock

and stuff to help work around the clock.

Turned out neither was worth it.

[wyldwolf]

39. LOVE Patty Smyth (first vid, check out Jon Bon Jovi on guitar)

[flvegan]

41. Horsepower returned to cars in the US.

Just one example: 1987's Buick Grand National. (you kids will have to Google)

[LeftyMom]

43. A smart guy would have said "my girlfriend"

A. You get brownie points with the girlfriend
B. You get to brag about your younger girlfriend.

But nooooooo, you have to brag about a car you owned decades ago. I see how it is.

[flvegan]

46. Why? I don't need to brag

I don't need to boast, I'm intercontinental when I eat French toast.

Yep, all 3 Beasties on that one.

But then dogs love me cuz I'm crazy sniffable.

I crack me up.

[LeftyMom]

47. sigh

[jmowreader]

49. I didn't think you ate French toast

[Wounded Bear]

42. My daughter was born in the 80's...nt