(09-17-2014 03:08 PM)pharaoh0 Wrote:  

(09-17-2014 03:01 PM)LSU04_08 Wrote:  

(09-17-2014 02:41 PM)pharaoh0 Wrote:  One of my earliest memories of the 80s was the Thriller jacket.

My parents wouldn't let me have one. My mom said I'd get beat up and robbed. HAHAHA!

lol... it was the 80s and was put in one...not real leather though.

I bet you thought you were it. I wanted one so bad.

Reagan, Cruise/Top Gun, Springsteen, regular guys jacked up on streroids.

(09-17-2014 02:28 PM)EverRespect Wrote:  

The kids in the series aged for 2 movies and then began getting younger.

Oh yea, Ghostbusters, ET, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (you know, the cartoon before they ruined the series), Hulkamania, Commando (Arnold movie), Nintendo, Duck Tales, and so on.... Fun time to be a 6-8 y/o kid. Before I was 6, I don't remember much about the culture of the time, other than wrestling and Sesame Street.

(09-18-2014 12:42 PM)ClairtonPanther Wrote:  Oh yea, Ghostbusters, ET, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (you know, the cartoon before they ruined the series), Hulkamania, Commando (Arnold movie), Nintendo, Duck Tales, and so on.... Fun time to be a 6-8 y/o kid. Before I was 6, I don't remember much about the culture of the time, other than wrestling and Sesame Street.

shhiiittt, i had a dukes of hazard poster up in my crib

(09-17-2014 03:08 PM)pharaoh0 Wrote:  

(09-17-2014 03:01 PM)LSU04_08 Wrote:  

(09-17-2014 02:41 PM)pharaoh0 Wrote:  One of my earliest memories of the 80s was the Thriller jacket.

My parents wouldn't let me have one. My mom said I'd get beat up and robbed. HAHAHA!

lol... it was the 80s and was put in one...not real leather though.

No love for the glove?

And Thriller ruled the charts....that album had so many iconic hits its not even funny.

(09-18-2014 01:07 PM)Lush Wrote:  

(09-18-2014 12:42 PM)ClairtonPanther Wrote:  Oh yea, Ghostbusters, ET, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (you know, the cartoon before they ruined the series), Hulkamania, Commando (Arnold movie), Nintendo, Duck Tales, and so on.... Fun time to be a 6-8 y/o kid. Before I was 6, I don't remember much about the culture of the time, other than wrestling and Sesame Street.

shhiiittt, i had a dukes of hazard poster up in my crib

Till the cousins came in that show was legit as hell. Vance and Coy...c'mon man...

(09-17-2014 03:10 PM)gdunn Wrote:  

Loved that show.

There was this channel called MTV...and they showed these things called "Music Videos", which had nothing whatsoever to do with following drunken over-tanned kids from New Jersey.

Someone posted a Goonies picture upstream. My wife is very annoyed that I don't love that movie, which is one of her all-time favorites. I prefer "The Hunt for Red October" myself.

The 80s had some great movies..

The Goonies
Back to the Future
Ghostbusters
Harry and the Hendersons
Weird Science
The Breakfast Club
Rocky III and IV

(09-19-2014 11:48 AM)gdunn Wrote:  The 80s had some great movies..

The Goonies
Back to the Future
Ghostbusters
Harry and the Hendersons
Weird Science
The Breakfast Club
Rocky III and IV

War Games
Ferris Beuhler
Die Hard

But something a friend pointed out to us, even movies that kids were going to see had a lot of swearing in them. I didn't remember it that way, but re-watching them as a parent I was shocked.

I DVRed Breakfast Club for my older son, but then deleted it b/c of the language. BTTF, War Games, Last Starfighter...all had quite a bit of swearing, even though kids were certainly going to watch them.

They did.. More than what you see now.. I think that's what drove us to see them.. However, I never used that type of language around my parents. These days it seems like kids are speaking like the Goonies were, and the parents let it slide.

(09-19-2014 11:29 AM)BewareThePhog Wrote:  There was this channel called MTV...and they showed these things called "Music Videos", which had nothing whatsoever to do with following drunken over-tanned kids from New Jersey.

Someone posted a Goonies picture upstream. My wife is very annoyed that I don't love that movie, which is one of her all-time favorites. I prefer "The Hunt for Red October" myself.

MTV used to show music videos

Headbangers Ball
Yo! MTV Raps
Club MTV

...shows with music as the show.... what a concept!

For me the greatest rock song ever.

http://www.artistdirect.com/video/def-le...n-me/48882

My biggest TV memory from the 80's "At this moment"

in Family Ties, the breakup between Alex and Ellen... Greatest love song I ever remember from that time period.

Even if i hear it today, I still get a little misty-eyed, cause it was part of the break-up of the PERFECT couple.

If you haven't seen it, see it.