So, how do you get your 80s fix?

I propose a very dangerous question: How do you get your 80s fix?

Back then, I was ages 3 - 12, and I remember things very distinctly:

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[li]Episodes of Airwolf with Jan-Michael Vincent and Ernest Borgnine on cheezy plots.[/li][li]Z100 in New York City playing Duran-Duran, Devo, and heavy metal ballads.[/li][li]Weird stuff about a country named “Libya” and a old guy named “Reagan”.[/li][/ul]

That’s okay. I live them old times by:

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[li]Railing against the Communists and Soviet Bloc. . .[/li][li]Listening to Duran-Duran, Devo, and an assortment of heavy metal ballads like Poison, Motley Crue, and VanHalen (DLR stuff)[/li][li]Watching Knight Rider and The A-Team[/li][/ul]

Oh I’ve got more, but I don’t want to appear as some total 80s freak or something. I’ve moved on (or so I think). . .

Tripler
A pure product child of the 80s.

Grand Theft Auto: Vice City

80’s throwback heaven (plus a lot of fun!)

I watch Pretty In Pink, The Breakfast Club, Top Gun. . . listen to Poison, Guns N’ Roses, and some other hair bands. . . then I tease my hair and wear blue eyeshadow and leg warmers while I clean my apartment. :wink:

Oh my, I was 12 - 22 in the 80s. Some would say, in my prime. They would be mistaken, but I do love the 80s.

How do I get my fix?
Best of Crowded House in my CD player.
Dance clubs that play “oldies” like New Order and Siouxie and the Banshees. (These are becoming harder to find in Boston - suggestions welcomed!)
John Hughes films, and anything with John Cusack.
Playing Trivial Pursuit.

Devo? I’ve got them filed under the '70s, along with Taklking Heads, Elvis Costello the Sex Pistols and the Ramones.

So, I passed that era as a 26-36 year old. Geez. I can’t fire up the ‘80s Houston Oilers (knockin’ on that door), but I can spin a Van Halen LP on the turntable. I’ve even missed the Soviet punching bag (but not all that much).

The spread of pubs in the U.S. is associated with that period. I don’t care to get another flash of '80s credit card use and abuse.

Today I was riding down the Beltway to a meeting, talking with a broker and a co-worker about said co-worker’s 16 year old daughter’'s burgeoning singing career, and it led me to think that all my exes are 45-50 year old women.

Well, they were babes in the '80s (well, I thought so, anyway; at least for a while).

And, of course, DOS, BASIC and Space Invaders.

I just start up my Atari 2600 emulator and play games like Missile Command, Space Invaders and Pac-Man (flickering ghosts and all!)

Musically, the 80s to me was heavy metal hair bands and I have plenty of CDs from this genre.

lavender eyeshadow- duran duran- buttons with Simon LeBon and Boy George

centipede, wham, white oxfords, iroc, prom dresses with hoop skirts hairspray nightmare on elm street Spree motor scooters

Here’s a second to Vice City. There’s just something about running people over to Cum On Feel The Noize that’s just…right.

I just ‘am’. That’s good enough.

Wimp, Slade did it better.

For me: ‘80s on 8’: Channel 8 on XM is all 80s all the time.

And I’ve got Tron and Wargames on DVD.

I put my favorite New Wave bands on the stereo and clean house! Woo Hoo!

The Cure
The Smiths
The Housemartins
ABC
Adam Ant
BowWow Wow
etc…

Jonathan beat me too it. “80’s on 8” is on of the main reasons I wanted an XM radio. The Showtune channel was the other reason. :slight_smile:

Hmmph, I was 19-29 in the 80s. If I really need an 80s fix, I just pout on Reanimator and Hellraiser on the DVD player or fire up a Smiths CD.

How do I friggin’ get away from the 80s?

I mean, the Classic Rock stations go all the way up to the 1980s. And the soft/contemporary stations in my area, like Mix 107.3, play stuff going back as far as the 1980s. For instance, I can count on hearing at least one U2 song from the 1980s on the radio every day, usually two or three. And I don’t listen to the radio at work or at home, just in the car.

‘The kids today should defend themselves from the 70s!
It won’t work for you!’

I watch the Breakfast Club, and/or work out with Gun’s N’Roses, or Ride the Lightning, or And Justice with Metallica

So, no-one here has ever seen “We Are The 80’s” on VH-1 Classic? That must be like admitting to watching porn or something.

This was exactly what I was going to say. Seems like every radio station around has “80’s Lunchtime” or “80’s Friday Night” or “80’s Flashback Sunday Morning” or…

So music is NO PROBLEM.

Lots of those “Where are they Now” type shows are good for reliving those days and seeing old clips of how ridiculous we all looked.

For your listening/viewing amusement, I submit the song “19 Something” by Mark Wills. It’s a country song, but it’s a kind of list of how things used to be in the 70’s-80’s. The video itself is funny because there are clips of kids with spiked hair, parachute pants, etc. Looking ridiculous. And there’s a line in the song “looking back now I can see me, oh, man did I look cheezy”.

I think that pretty well sums things up.

Mostly I listen to my collection of '80’s music. Other than that, I get together with someone else my age and play " 'member when?" Kind of like now.

(My hubby asked me what I wanted for Christmas–CD versions of the albums I have on cassette tape!)