1980's jennifer 1.You owned a *real* Rubik's cube. 2.One word: Izod. 3.You remember when MTV didn't exist. Alternatively you remember when the M stood for Music, not Mundane. 4."Alternative" music actually was...and not popular Top 40 tunes. 5.You were a "wanna be". Madonna, Duran Duran, Michael Jackson, Cyndi Lauper, Boy George, etc. 6."Where's the beef?" 7.You know how to use a rotary phone. 8.Max Headroom was cool. 9.You know how (or wanted to be able) to Moonwalk! 10.Atari, IntelliVision, TelStar and Coleco were the ultimate gaming systems to own. 11.Leg warmers and headbands alá Pat Benatar once looked really cool to you. 12.You remember when Jordache jeans with a flat-handle comb in the back pocket was cool. 13.Jelly bracelets & shoes! 14.Your hair defied gravity. 15.You are still baffled by the "day glo" clothing trend. 000508 ... old bird alternately (or alternatively?) *. You know all the words to all the songs on the Violent Femmes first album and feel the goofy urge to sing along to "Blister in the Sun" *. You remember when he was Prince and not a symbol, and he had a band called The Revolution *. You had more than one piercing before it was a common thing and some of them were safety pins *. You don't want to admit that you tight-rolled your pantlegs. *. CD's were still a specialty item and vinyl albums and cassettes still took up most of the space in the "Record" stores. *. even though they both came out in 1979, The "Rock Lobster", and "Tainted Love" were frequently requested of the DJ at the school dances. *. constantly dressing in black and wearing dark makeup was actually unusual (especially if you happened to be a boy) 000508 ... guitar_freak Def Leppard. Guns n' Roses Metallica 001102 ... Barrett *He-Man *Zing (non-alcoholic beer) *When Coca Cola actually came in a "glass" bottle. *$.05 = 2 pretzel rods *$.35 = a pack of gum *4 percent sales tax(in Michigan anyway) *Decepticons and Autobots *GoBots *Hawk, McGill, Cabellero *Head Bangers Ball *Antmusic *"The Stroke" 001102 ... Barrett Cartoons: G.I. Joe Dungeons and Dragons Shirt Tales Smurfs Snorks M.A.S.K. He-Man and the Masters of the Universe 001110 ... kurt loder STRYPER!!! 001110 ... jem when metallica was actually good snap bracelets neon pink gimp bright lip stick synthesizers laser effects colourful rap dirty punk commodore 64 ninja turtles 010313 ... firehunden jennifer....i think you said it best. cassettes...not CD's nike......not reebok breakdancing....not the macarena digital watches were cool cola flavored gum came out mountain bikes were undiscovered skateboarding was rare prom dresses sucked no computers in high school (we typed on typewriters!) big hair syndrome motley crue van halen journey commodore 64 my first car the shuttle blew up on TV run dmc the berlin wall came down i lost my virginity i smoked weed i graduated high school ('88) i stopped being a teenager... and started hating life 010314 ... sixfingers Ronald Regan cold war flock of seagulls Turtles in a half shell, turtle power!!! 030103 ... sixfingers oh. i had a watch with a calulator on it ... it thought it was like soooo cool!! 030103 ... User24 let me guess, one of those black ones with the gold writing on the buttons that were far too small to press? heh.. good idea firehunden; we all know what the 80's comprised of, but what did people actually do? well, for a start, I was born (82), so by the time I was aware enough of the world to care, it was at least 88, I remember loving to "this corrosion" (though I didn't know what it was called at the time), I remember my brother having a fascination with Madonna, I remember Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (AFAIK, later known as 'hero' turtles, because ninja was too violent a name (!)) I remember awful wash n go adverts, black, red and white zig zag curtains, hmm.. not much else.. Knightmare on TV, still the greatest show ever.. city of gold.. dungeons of dragons of course, but someone already said that.. I remember the Gulf War starting, and Karl explaining it to me as "A very bad man wants to blow us all up".. I remember when Mars bars came in paper wrappers, and when you could still get penny sweets (I know you still can, but they're usually pre-bagged - :( that's no good at all..) I remember when Freddo's cost 5p, and when Walkers crisps were around 20p (stretching my memory, feel free to correct me) I remember ancient looking Pepsi cans, and the whole Puma King thing (that was mid 90's, though) yeah. 031019 ... oops. "loving to" ahem.. bad editing on my part.. I was going to say dancing to, but then changed my mind, as I didn't actually dance to it (I would have been about 5 or 6) 031019 ... User24 oh yah, and nimbus computers. wow, they really kicked ass. 031019 ... oE i used to have this weird duality of intense emotional attachment and revulsion of her pop techno dance tunes and her outrageousness..the whole cultivation of her image that she so brilliantly orchestrated..but her ballads really showed a different side of her..especially the one from the movie she did with sean penn..hated the movie loved the song..was going thru some heavy stuff..the adolescent trying to wear the mantle of manhood..i still love her ballads..but i never was never overtly physically attracted to her..she does actually have a pretty decent voice and it is remarkabley well preserved..yeah the 80's..alternative music was the best thing that ever happened to that garish and meretricious decade..oh and also molly ringwald..yeah she stopped my heart.. red heads..man.. big shouldrs and big hair..and the whole androgenous under current.. ... 031019 ... minnesota_chris Cyndi Lauper just made an album "At Last", she's singing show tunes. She does a nice version of Etta James' "At Last." She even does it in a higher key. 040619 ... TalviFatin My Little Pony 080730 ... oren Big_hair Shoulder_pads Mechanical_bull PeeWee_Herman Max_Headroom Hall_and_Oates Duran_Duran Stirrup_pants Aerobics 080731 ... z some things about the '80s that did not suck: missing foundation the normal polyrock the ordinaires the pixies two tone ska ad hoc rock plasmatics glen branca bush tetras lounge lizards james chance and the contortions gang of four 080820 what's it to you? who go blather from