The "Unoffical TOL '80's Thread"

[Poly]

Ok, all you children of big hair and watchers of original MTV videos. This is the "Unofficial TOL '80's Thread."

It's all about the '80's, people.

Let's do this thing! :banana:

I'm going to start it off with the first video I ever remember seeing. Yes, I'm now a grandmother and can still remember this. And no, it wasn't on MTV. It was before MTV. (That's just how old I really am :doh: )

The first videos I ever remember watching came on late night on Friday nights. My cousin would come over and we thought these were awesome. Little did we know that 24 hours a day of video watching was just around the corner.

I looked for the original video of this on Youtube but they didn't have it. So I looked on the web and found this.

(clap, clap, clap, clap, clap, clap, clap, clap, clap, clap.... clap some more... clap again... just watch the video, you'll see what I'm talking about.)

http://www.videodetective.com/music/turn-it-on-again/933981

 

[SaulToPaul 2]

The 80s make me think of MTV, Rubiks cube, and wrestling on saturday mornings.

 

[patrick jane]

parachute pants - leg warmers - bi-levels (mullets)-perms - Izod -

 

[Granite]

Reagan. Walkmans. MTV. Cigarettes in shopping malls. Knight Rider. Unsolved Mysteries.

Are cartoons even on Saturday mornings anymore?

 

[Rusha]

The best decade of music and horror movies.

 

[Caledvwlch]

What was that awful Transformers knock-off? Go-Bots. I remember Go-Bots.

 

[Lighthouse]

I was born in 1980. Do I count as a child of the '80s?

 

[patrick jane]

I was born in 1980. Do I count as a child of the '80s?

yep you do ! 69 for me -

here's one - NO CELL PHONES ! !

 

[SaulToPaul 2]

Sixteen Candles
Breakfast Club

 

[Rusha]

I was born in 1980. Do I count as a child of the '80s?

Of course. Best decade over. I want to go back.

 

[SaulToPaul 2]

yep you do ! 69 for me -

here's one - NO CELL PHONES ! !

We didn't even own a push button phone.
All rotary.

 

[Caledvwlch]

This

 

[Caledvwlch]

We didn't even own a push button phone.
All rotary.

I remember using the rotary as a kid. Dialing numbers with lots of 8's and 9's was awful.

 

[SaulToPaul 2]

I remember using the rotary as a kid. Dialing numbers with lots of 8's and 9's was awful.

Painful redialing when the line was busy!

 

[Caledvwlch]

Painful redialing when the line was busy!

Oh right. Busy signals. Here's where text messaging wins.

 

[Caledvwlch]

Whatever is on these guys' heads

 

[genuineoriginal]

I remember using the rotary as a kid. Dialing numbers with lots of 8's and 9's was awful.

Painful redialing when the line was busy!

We had a party line in the 80's.
We would never know if the neighbors were on the line until we picked up the phone to make a call.

 

[Poly]

Remember when you waited for a certain time in the evening to make long distance calls because it was cheaper?

 

[GuySmiley]

Renting a VCR and a couple movies for the weekend.

 

[Ktoyou]

Def Leppard Hysteria Tour 1988