Are the any DUers who love the 80s?

[dr.strangelove]

This weekend I took my wife to a great off-broadway show called The Awesome 80s prom.
I don't know if there are plans to take it on the road anytime soon, but if they do take it on the road, or if you come to NY anytime soon, I recommend going to see this show.

The show is in the same vein as Tony and Tina's wedding. When you arrive at the prom, the class president and his cheerleader girlfriend greet you. All you favorite 80s characters are there. There is the jock, the nerdy guy, the nerd girl who is beautiful after she lets her hair down and takes off her oversized retainer, the asian foreign exchange student, the tough kid from the wrong side fo the tracks, amd many more. (There is even the mean school principal and the crazy young teacher).

There is cheesy 80s music (We built this city) and cheerleaders walking around with 80s candy (nerds, fun dip, pop rocks and ring pops). The show is at Webster Hall in New York. We had a great time reliving a little bit of our youth. If you went to high school or colelge in the 80s, you should try to see this show. The web site for the play is http://www.awesome80sprom.com/

[kick-ass-bob]

1. I love VH1's "I love the 80's"

:D

[dr.strangelove]

2. I watched every episode

I think I'll get the series on dvd for my wife as a christmas present. I assume vh1 is sellign it on dvd. I'll go check now.

[short bus president]

3. That's maybe a bit old for me.

I mean, maybe if she had lots of money, and some serious diseases and stuff... :shrug:

[TeddyKGB]

4. God, no.

Bankrupt decade artistically and politically, generally. Good riddance.

Thank God for Clinton and grunge in the early 90's.

[DBoon]

5. I'll second that

What epitomized the '80s for me was expensive foreign sports cars with bumper stickers that said, "The one who dies with the most toys wins."

The "prosperity" of the 1980s was a combination of financial speculation and a runaway military spending boom. No trickle down during the Reagan years for me.

[Magrittes Pipe]

10. Your username is DBoon, and you have a Dead Kennedys avatar.

I mean, as a whole, you're right. The '80s sucked. But your entire DU persona revolves around '80s music.

I'm just sayin'. ;)

[DBoon]

21. Aaack!

I've been uncovered!

You had to be there to know they really sucked. What else can I say?

[dr.strangelove]

6. Hey, lay off the80s

We had the GoGos, Michael Jackson, Cyndi Lauper, Bon Jovi and Bananarama.
Oh wait, I guess you're right.

[no name no slogan]

8. But we also had U2, New Order, Echo & The Bunnymen, The Smiths,....

...and a whole slew of other 'alternative' groups, too-- many of whom got burried in the Grunge avalance of the early 90s.

There's gold/crap in every era. After all, the 50s gave us both Chuck Berry and Pat Boone.

[CAcyclist]

18. That's the stuff that made the 80s great for me

Oingo Boingo, Midnight Oil, the Clash, the Cure, REM,

[LifeDuringWartime]

20. dont forget

talking heads!!

although they were around in the 70s too

[tsakshaug]

7. Hold on now-

what decade are we in now?
I get so confused

[PleadTheFirst]

9. Thanks for the heads up!

My wife and I are both 80's kids, and we live in NE NJ. Sounds like a fun night and we'll give it a shot! :)

EDIT: and for the sake of my reputation, we're both ex-punks. The 80s to us means something very different from the Reagan "Greed is Good" types.

[Skittles]

11. no, it was a dreadful time of greedy, self-absorbed people

with overrated music and nasty rooster-like hairdos.

[ProfessorGAC]

13. I Am NOT Greedy!

The Professor

[Skittles]

17. LOL......Professor

ya Big-Haired academic you. :D

[pdx_prog]

12. I boycotted most of the 80's

The music sucked....politics sucked....

[FunBobbyMucha]

14. Whoa, whoa, whoa, folks.

The 80's were the decade I graduated from hs, met my wife, started a marriage of fun and romance that survives to this very day, graduated from college and started a career, made friends that I keep to this day, saw the Replacements eleven times, saw REM seven, saw the Clash once, fell for Morrissey, the Cure, and a hundred other bands I cherish, saw and loved Melanie Griffith in Something Wild, laughed and cheered for Ash in the first two Evil Dead films, read Cider House Rules and Hotel New Hampshire, and found my beloved beagle Max in a mall pet store (deceased now).

Yes, I hated Reagan, hated the greedheads, etc, but this was the decade of young adulthood. It's no better or worse than any other, at least anecdotally, for that very reason.

Bare minimum, at least rap didn't suck then (Run-DMC over Eminem ANY DAY OF THE WEEK!)...

[bloodyjack]

15. The 80s sucked ballz

Mainly because I was born sometime then

:(

The Cosby Show was great though :thumbsup:

[Ratty]

16. Yeah, the 80s was the only decade I loved

They had all the great music. I used to listen to music in the 80s, then I gave it up and never listen to music anymore. So the only music I ever really know anything about is from the 80s. They had good fashion back then too. Sure we look back at some of it and laugh but that's true of any fashion era. The Don Johnson look, rolled up suit jacket sleeves over pastel shirts. Hair was pretty good too. Hair gel, discovered in the late 70s reached its pinacle in the 80s. Levis 501s: people wore those in the 70s too but they really came into their own in the following decade.

I actually grew up in the 70s but even then I hated it. I hated the fashions with a passion, the music was okay but maybe a little harsh, seems heroin was at its ugliest then (with the 80s came cocaine). I still don't care to watch movies about the 70s or the Vietnam era, that whole dirty blue jeans, long hair tied back with a bandana, beards, sunglasses look ... so unattractive.

The 80s was also the decade of money, greed and me first. That was a very ugly aspect, but considering Enron, Halliburton, WorldCom, et al, maybe it wasn't so bad after all.

[auburngrad82]

19. It's the 70s for me

Motown at its Peak
Punk
David Bowie
Willie Nelson and the "Outlaw" country movement
My teenage years
My first years at college

I had hair then...

[texas1928]

22. THE 80'S ROCKED!!!

Give me Hair Metal. YEAH!!!

[flamingyouth]

23. I just found a compilation videotape I made from '83-'84

Various videos (good and bad - I think I was just so fascinated with the ideas of the VCR and music videos), including the hour-long Bowie concert special "Serious Moonlight" and a couple of episodes of Peter Ivers' "New Wave Theater." <-- ok, who else remembers this show??? :D

I've gotten back in touch with my inner '80s child!