What best represents the 1980s?

[Deja Q]

President Reagan
Garbage Pail Kids
Kelly Bundy
Snot colored grunge toys

What else!

[Pierre.Suave]

1. Madonna

in all her variations through the 80s.

[malta blue]

2. really bad hair bands

pegged jeans
shoulder pads

[Pierre.Suave]

3. you forgot

leg warmers!

:rofl:

[malta blue]

7. so true!

:rofl:

And the off the shoulder shirts....

[Pierre.Suave]

8. Like I said

Madonna completely encompasses all that is the 80s.

[LanternWaste]

12. I'm curiously aroused remembering shoulder pads...

I find myself curiously aroused remembering shoulder pads and leg warmers and off-the-shoulder-shirts and bubble gum lipstick and...

:blush:

Sigh. Iamnotgettingold! Iamnotgettingold! Iamnotgettingold! Iamnotgettingold! Iamnotgettingold!

[AwakeAtLast]

15. With jelly shoes!

:rofl: :rofl:








Um, not that I ever wore that particular ensemble, mind you. :yoiks:

[DarkTirade]

19. Really bad hair.

[JI7]

24. bad hair but good music

[logosoco]

4. And to go with the shoulder pads and tight jeans...

white high top tennis shoes (with velcro straps on the ankle part).

[ReliantJ]

5. Phil Collins!

[femmocrat]

6. To me, Reaganomics.

'nuff said.

[LanternWaste]

9. My Members Only jacket

My Members Only jacket (I still have it-- never wear it, probably too small these days).

My feathered hair.

My girlfriend's BIG hair.

My girlfriend's Gloria Vanderbilt jeans topped with a fuzzy pink sweater.

Those horrible 80's bands (Duran Duran New order, etc) that I still hate, but listen to more than just about anything else.

MTV playing videos-- which brings us to The Police videos-- no story, structure or acting, just some goofballs jumping around in a studio. but By Golly! It worked!

And, the cherry on top: Polo Classic cologne, which I still wear :)

[Dervill Crow]

10. Side ponytails. nt

[begin_within]

11. Neon shirts, gravity inversion boots and teal-colored house trim paint

[applegrove]

13. headbands.

[OhioChick]

14. Jordache jeans

Big hair and mini skirts! :D

[MrSlayer]

16. Heavy Metal, Madballs, Alf, Commodore 64

[flvegan]

17. Excess.

Of everything.

[Wapsie B]

18. Disco

[ROFF]

20. Greed is Good nt

[Tabasco_Dave]

21. Wine coolers

Fear of a nuclear war
computers that only had a DOS operating system
cocaine
men who wore pink
new Coke
Miami Vice
Yuppies
and this commercial http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PuCfmuNXC1E

[cherish44]

22. Class of '85 here!

One thing I noticed when looking through my yearbook recently is that every girl in school had the same haircut...



Yes the Almighty Mullet with Poufy-Hairsprayed-To-Hell Top accompanied with dangly earrings :)

[JI7]

23. Kelly Bundy is more 90s

[Broken_Hero]

25. Transformers,

GI Joe, He-Man, Superfriends, Metallica, and pockets on my shoes! :D

[Noodleboy13]

26. John Hughes movies

"without lamps, there'd be no light."
-John Bender-



Peace
Noodleboy

[LSdemocrat]

27. In an overall package? The movie "Back to the Future"

Fine commercial pop, a Delorean, youth angst, use of a shopping mall as an important backdrop, mild escapism, a depiction of homelessness, rise of Japanese car brands, skateboarding, prominent use of a camcorder and a walkman, and of course the LIBYANS!!!

[struggle4progress]

28. I remember the 80s as a long political struggle against Reaganism by

a sort of ill-matched coalition that included hard-nosed leftwing jerks (who were usually correct) and very nice touchy-feely political nitwits, with a smattering of cynics who were tagging along in hopes of getting stoned or laid

[enigmatic]

29. Love Is A Battlefield"- Pat Benatar

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j9J9rTZJBmw

[MilesColtrane]

30. the bolo tie

drum machines and too much reverb
creeping fascism

edited to add: The Young Ones

[JCMach1]

31. The Movie, "Wall Street"

[ipfilter]

32. I Ran, I Ran So Far Away

[SoxFan]

33. Mullets

Not just for rednecks in the 1980s:

[Arugula Latte]

34. "Members Only" jackets

Bartles and Jaymes wine coolers (Gawd knows I sucked down my share)
Dyed and spiky mohawks
Preppy, plaid, lime-and-pink abomination of clothing
Synthesizers in songs

[DS1]

35. another vote for Madonna

[Doc_Technical]

36. Fawn Hall action figure.

Shredding machine sold separately.

[DemBones DemBones]

37. Spiral perms and big hair,

along with the big shoulder pads, pegged jeans, jellies, and neon colors in clothes. Also, parachute pants.

[LNM]

38. Zubas? The ugliest pants I've ever seen. nt

[LNM]

39. Dallas

and SueEllen's big shoulder pads. :rofl:

[Tommy_Carcetti]

40. Very little that is good.

Hence, why I identify myself as a child of the 1990s and not the 1980s.

[geardaddy]

41. Skinny ties

Jeans with sportcoats with the sleeves rolled up.

eeesh...

[nomorenomore08]

42. Patrick Bateman from 'American Psycho.' In the book moreso than in the movie.

To me he exemplifies the mixture of predatory, sociopathic capitalism and encroaching Fascism that lay and still lies at the root of the whole "Reagan" ideology - he's sadistic, hateful, fathomlessly cruel. And yet at the same time he's wealthy, good-looking, a ladies' man and the life of the party. With mountains of cocaine and a gloriously cheesy/kitsch soundtrack to match.