Let's relive the 1980's

[Scarecrowe]

I can understand your dad getting hooked on Skona's @plasmo    very easily done.....

If I ever come across one I will let you know...............

[Scarecrowe]

Love that song @greenpea 

whenever that song comes on people just get up and dance and start singing................

TIN ROOF..................................RUSTED!!!!!!!!!   

[Scarecrowe]

@CheerBear 

yes the golden gaytime was very popular as well......my friends loved them but I was not a fan so all my friends thought I was weird cause I did not like them.....but I was happy as I was enjoying my skona!!!!!   

[Scarecrowe]

I don't think us kids would have survived without Countdown @greenpea   It was on Sunday night and then Sunday's show was repeated the following Saturday night........Countdown was a religion..............If you did not watch that you were not cool!!!!   lol!!!!

[Scarecrowe]

I was always taping songs off the radio onto my cassette tape @CheerBear   sit there with your finger on the pause button to push down when the song started.....and if you did not like the song you would press stop and rewind back to where you were ready for the next song, whatever it may be......

For my birthday I got a double cassette player, , none of my friends had one, so I could record tape to tape.....so I would tape songs off the radio onto cassette and then my friends would bring blank tapes over and I would record my tape onto theirs.......wow modern technology..........................

Exactly right, kids have no idea how easy it is to listen to your fav music, it is their at their fingertips.......wasn't for us that is for sure..................

[eth]

Hi @Scarecrowe @greenpea @CheerBear @plasmo @silverspoon  and anyone else here.  Absolutely loving the stroll down memory lane.  What an era it was.

Had a great laugh at the Jane Fonda video.  I finished school at 16 in 1979 so the 80s were totally my  hey day....

God we thought we were so cool.  I had a cross between a mullet, Madonna and Debbie Harry hair ... teased and orange on top and down to my chin on one side, shaved on the other side and black at the back with a long rat's tail of course!  Used to hang out at the Manzil Room in Kings Cross if anyone remembers it.  My boyfriend was a roadie and lights director for a few bands - Fat Time, D D Smash, Hoodoo Gurus and even Dire Straits when they came out here.  Wild days indeed!  Lots of parties I can only remember bits of, like the Hoodoos having an all-in wrestle with some girls in my lounge room! (have a photo of that one).   Either all black garb with a denim jacket so tight I couldn't do it up, or huge backless dresses, and had quite a collection of winkle toed boots.  Also lived in a flat a block off the main drag at St Kilda at one stage.  

couldn't find anything like the dresses we wore.  Shiny red stretch pants were one of my trademarks too.

Loving this thread @Scarecrowe !!!

[Scarecrowe]

Hey @eth  glad you are liking this thread.   I am SO glad I started it now.....it has been a blast and we haven't even scratched the surface of what was around in those days.......

So enjoy the ride to come everyone!!!!!

Wow you had an interesting time in the 80's!!!!   I would love to sit down with you and listen to your stories.................I love the Hoodoo Gurus.....saw them live here once......so I am really jealous of them wrestling in your lounge...OMG!!!   

Love your look you had, very well described, could totally see it...and  typical 80's lol......and those boots you showed, I want a pair, boots and jackets are my weakness then and now...........yep go the rats tail!!!!!   And you are right, we thought we were the bees knees!!!!!!   We had no cares, we wore what we wanted and no one judged, it was just the way things were back then...............miss those days............

Thanks for sharing your memories...............

As I said lots more to come............................

[eth]

Right into Talking Heads, Brian Eno, Violet Femmes .... so many memories coming up

@Scarecrowe @CheerBear @greenpea @plasmo @silverspoon 

How about a prawn cocktail, followed by deep fried camembert with cranberry sauce?

an absolute favourite :  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OjM2DKUQUnc&list=PLfimnwaZdumiiqczUzr2NXLZA9aR9KA1i

More songs about buildings and food, Talking Heads - it came out in 1978 but I was in a central queensland town at the start of the 80s and everything took a while to get there.

I have to admit that me and a couple of friends were pretty much groupies at the time!

[Scarecrowe]

Oh yes @eth  Talking Heads, what a band.

One of my mates had an older brother who was mad Talking Heads fan and so she got into them and passed on her love of them to me............and I love the Voilet Femmes, can't remember Brian Eno though.....got me stumped there........

I know the feeling about things taking awhile to get to you....I'm in Tassie................back then we were like 30 years behind everyone else........we had two tv channels the ABC and one commercial station that showed a combo of shows from channels 7,9 and 10.   We were so far behind in getting tv shows that when we finally got Neighbours they started with the episode of Jason and Kylie getting married (don't watch the show so not sure of their character names) so we were not way behind, which we still were even starting at the wedding episode.......and there was a huge uproar that we were not getting the show from the very beginning......................

https://youtu.be/cl3B_FTDKD0

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how about 70s and 80s ? @Scarecrowe  was in highschool mid to late 70 Punk was good at the time lol @plasmo @Bill16