The Eighties

[chicoazul]

Wonderful times really. Everton were boss, for some of it anyway, music was electrofied and fashion could be ace.

Here's some of my favourite eighties things.

My first one, I think I told people I filled it and even believed that blag myself but on hindsight - it was about 20-30 short.

Great World Cup. Mexico was that hot and exotic that you could almost feel the heat coming through our old Ferguson TV with the big f off buttons. Grainy yellow scores that used to move on the screen and crackly commentary only added to it.

Lineker was ours, all ours. The bad tit.

Trabs. Couldn't wait to rag the arl ones out playing shooty so me mar would get me a new pair Id spotted in Gansgear.

Films. Anything and everything was possible.

Music. Great if you had a ghetto blaster.

Christmas songs, were Christmas.

Hair, you always need nice hair to kiss girls. The 80s was no different.

TV

Magazines, for girls this one like.

Sweets, half p chewies all over the show.

Transmission Ends.

 

[Bundy]

The 80's were boss cause I was born then. I remember legionaire caps, mullets and yo-yo's.

 

[McBain]

My memories of the 80's, in no particular order

Music

I have no idea why this was so popular

Listen to 'Dancing in the Dark' and tell me your not instantly transported to 1984.

Joel. They just don't make singer/songwriters like this anymore.

Defined commercial pop with one epic album.

Who didn't own a copy of their greatest hits at one time?

My earliest musical influence

 

[McBain]

movies

Who you gunna call?

Another Speilberg gem

Top movie still to this day

the pinnacle of 80's childrens films

I watched this at the Preston Odeon, it was that powerful a film I still remember it to this day.

 

[Rook]

I hated the 80s. There was no everton teams to watch on the tele, the music was horrid and so were the hair and clothes.

The only thing I liked about the 80s was that I thought it was a golden age of Sci-fi movies, fantasy and comic books. The special effects in 80s movies looked way more believable before fake-ass CGI ruined it all. Chewbacca would have been computer generated if Star Wars was made today.

D&D also saw the release of the DragonLance books and RPG campaign and The Dark Tower was the best board game ever.

Comics intern became more grown up. Frank Miller's Dark Knight was released. The Aliens comic books provided a storyline that should have been the template for the Alien 3-4. Mike Grell's Green Arrow was epic and no one drew NYC better than Eastman and Laird did in TMNT.

I wish MST3K was still around to do Krull.

 

[McBain]

fighting fantasy was ace

 

[McBain]

Or the choose your own adventures

 

[StDomingosGringo]

Born in the 70's, hate most things 80's but the good thing about the current revival is it's making all the folk younger than me look like complete divvies in badly fitting skinnies and winklepickers.

 

[Sharpys top lip]

Or the choose your own adventures

Mcbain, thank you mate for this...

I loved these books so much. They were my child hood. Inside UFO-54 i read that book over an over again. And Horror on high ridge.

Great stuff.

 

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[heatmeiser]

Never seen those McB but I was a bad nerd and read/played a lot of these before puberty.

 

[Gerard_Francis]

Live aid

SOS band

Teen Wolf

 

[McBain]

Growing up reading those books, I got goosebumps looking at them again.

 

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[Reidy's Bottle Of Grecian]

everton ski hats

"frankie" saying stuff

gorby

wonder lights

yts wages £26 p.w. an i've never been as well off

the fashion (australians see late 90's for same clothes)

mullets... or scally back-perms as we used to call them

that new aussie xxxx stuff

miami vice

unfolding stuff in benetton

getting a roof over us in the st. end

overturning 19 point xmas deficit's

the enclosure

football specials

Lee jeans

buying your tunes off pete burns

scratchcards for 36p that got you on the bus/train/underground

scully (even though r/s)

billy and icky

yosser