TOTP 2 : 80' s Special

Splottboy
Splottboy Posts: 3,694
edited May 2010 in The Crudcatcher
OMG! Did I actually survive this period?

Mullet? Check! Big huge collars? Check!

Baggy pants with loadsa zips? Check! Dancing ALL NIGHT? Check!

Yes...yesI did ! And I'm BLOODY proud of it too!

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  • Tel39
    Tel39 Posts: 243
    I was there too fella.... Disco's with cocktail bars, now that was sophistication!
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  • Splottboy
    Splottboy Posts: 3,694
    I worked as a "bouncer" in Bananas in Cardiff, with a cocktail bar!

    The guy who made them was Tony, who once gave me a cocktail to try.
    It was his own concoction, and he called it "Marilyn Monroe".

    When I asked him why, he said, "It's got loads of body!"

    ( Oh, and I forgot the Platform shoes. Think I'm still suffering...)
  • D-Cyph3r
    D-Cyph3r Posts: 847
    I fucking hate 80's electro/pop/new romantic music with a passion...
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  • stumpyjon
    stumpyjon Posts: 3,983
    My wife was watching that earlier, right cheesy, still remember Tiffany though, what was that about her doing some interresting photos when she was older?
    It's easier to ask for forgiveness than for permission.

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    Can I buy a new bike?...No - no result
  • Splottboy
    Splottboy Posts: 3,694
    Yeah, too bad. Without this music, you wouldn't have House, Garage, Rap, etc, etc, etc....

    Without the Past, there is no Future.
  • blister pus
    blister pus Posts: 5,610
    edited May 2010
    exactly.

    coming out of the 70s into the 80s there was some of the finest sounding 'electro pop' 'new romantic' ever / made
  • whyamihere
    whyamihere Posts: 7,716
    Splottboy wrote:
    Yeah, too bad. Without this music, you wouldn't have House, Garage, Rap, etc, etc, etc....

    Without the Past, there is no Future.
    You say that like it's a bad thing...
  • fletch8928
    fletch8928 Posts: 756
    Lived my teens in the 80s. For me the style slick. Puma cardigans(wooly/hairy), Pastel yellow or green shirts, thin leather ties, Pepe "stonewash" jeans or wool trousers with coloured flecks in them, often worn with patant leather slip ons or white Puma trainers. oh and not forgetting the leather jacket often with sleeves roled up.

    Puma was the be all in my home town, until these new fangled trainers from Nike came out. They had air and not foam/rubber in the soles!!!! Like that was ever to catch on!!
    fly like a mouse, run like a cushion be the small bookcase!
  • Anonymous
    Anonymous Posts: 79,666
    D-Cyph3r wrote:
    I ******* hate 80's electro/pop/new romantic music with a passion...
    How old are you, out of interest?
  • Splottboy
    Splottboy Posts: 3,694
    I was lucky enuff to work in two really cool clothes shops, so had 1/2 price on everything!

    Luomo silk lined Italian pants, Ben Sherman shirts - the nice ones! - and choice of any jackets, ties, shoes etc. All alterations were free too.
    God, I looked like a Mafia Don!!!

    We had a sales code "BROWN SAUCE" so B= 1 to E = 0 etc, so as I was selling stuff I could see that the punters were paying at least twice the cost price!
    Glad it wasn't me paying full whack! Commission for sales was good too.

    Also worked at a private fitness club, all the staff got free usage, the punters were paying over a Grand per year, and this was in 80/81.
  • fletch8928
    fletch8928 Posts: 756
    Oh and I forgot the Chinos with a Blazer, had to be double button affair. i tend to think my hometown of Whitby got it slightly wrong.
    fly like a mouse, run like a cushion be the small bookcase!
  • Andy
    Andy Posts: 8,207
    Bryan Adams - Summer of 69
    Bon Jovi - Livin on a prayer
    Culture Club - Karma Chameleon
    Charlie Daniels Band - The Devil went down to Georgia
    Def Leppard - Photograph
    Dire Straits - Sultans of swing
    Duran Duran - Rio
    Eagles - Hotel California
    Michael Jackson - Billie JEan
    Queen - Another one bites the dust
    Kenny Rogers & Dolly Parton - Islands in the stream
    Bruce Springsteen - Dancing in the dark
    Toto - Africa

    All of those say the 80's rule.

    Then if you are still in any doubt, 1987 = Guns 'n' Roses - Appetite for Destruction

    No further questions your honour.
  • CXXC
    CXXC Posts: 237
    Andy wrote:
    Bryan Adams - Summer of 69
    Bon Jovi - Livin on a prayer
    Culture Club - Karma Chameleon
    Charlie Daniels Band - The Devil went down to Georgia
    Def Leppard - Photograph
    Dire Straits - Sultans of swing
    Duran Duran - Rio
    Eagles - Hotel California
    Michael Jackson - Billie JEan
    Queen - Another one bites the dust
    Kenny Rogers & Dolly Parton - Islands in the stream
    Bruce Springsteen - Dancing in the dark
    Toto - Africa

    All of those say the 80's rule.

    Spandau Ballet - Gold
    Europe - Final Countdown
    Fergal Sharkey - A good heart

    ahhhhh great music :D
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  • nicklouse
    nicklouse Posts: 50,673
    I was about to add "I Don't Like Mondays" but that was the '70's :oops:
    "Do not follow where the path may lead, Go instead where there is no path, and Leave a Trail."
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  • Stevo_666
    Stevo_666 Posts: 61,693
    stumpyjon wrote:
    My wife was watching that earlier, right cheesy, still remember Tiffany though, what was that about her doing some interresting photos when she was older?
    Got a link? :)
    "I spent most of my money on birds, booze and fast cars: the rest of it I just squandered." [George Best]
  • nicklouse
    nicklouse Posts: 50,673
    From
    album-tiffany.jpg

    to
    tiffany.jpg

    :cry:
    "Do not follow where the path may lead, Go instead where there is no path, and Leave a Trail."
    Parktools :?:SheldonBrown
  • Snelly
    Snelly Posts: 140
    Nice - her 80's rival Debbie Gibson was also in Playboy in 2005.
    Fortes fortuna adiuvat.
  • Splottboy
    Splottboy Posts: 3,694
    Tiffany or Ti Fanny?...

    Sounds like the name of a bike or frame.
  • tgardi
    tgardi Posts: 32
    Flock of Seagulls- Awesome !!!
    The Jam
    Bowie - Scary Monsters
    The Cars
    The Cure
    Fun Boy Three
    Haysi Fantayzee
    The Police

    To name but a few
  • Stevo_666
    Stevo_666 Posts: 61,693
    nicklouse wrote:
    From
    album-tiffany.jpg

    to
    tiffany.jpg

    :cry:
    Oh dear - looks like it was quite a lot later in her career :( Clearly hadn't had any chart hits for a while....
    "I spent most of my money on birds, booze and fast cars: the rest of it I just squandered." [George Best]
  • Andy
    Andy Posts: 8,207
    I'd give her a couple of hits...
  • Splottboy
    Splottboy Posts: 3,694
    Career? What career? She only had 2 or 3 records out.

    Think the most famous one, "Think we're alone now" probably refers to her conversation with her invisible friends at the Hollywood Re-hab Centre for never-have-beens...

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