What are your favorite 80's memories?

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For all the truly old schoolers, let's hear what some of your fondest memories from childhood/teen years were regarding metal and pop culture....I am 30 and grew up with MTV back when they actually played videos....I remember the FIRST headbanger's ball and the like....here goes....

TED'S FAVORITE 80'S MOMENTS
1. Seeing Twisted Sister's WERE NOT GONNA TAKE IT for the first time
2. MOTLEY CRUE on top 10 video countdown everyday for weeks with Home Sweet Home. Somehow it always felt great to see that damn video...
3. PARACHUTE PANTS!!! I had 3 pairs. Black, Red, and Blue. Thought I was DLR, you know. I was like 12 or something.
4. Seeing your first horror movie...Nightmare on Elm St. was mine...AT THE THEATER, is what I'm going for here...not at home on vhs
5. the REAL vj's...RIP JJ JACKSON!
6. PORKY's!!!!!!!!! How many sleepovers did we have and watch that?!?!
7. 3 words...EDDIE MURPHY RAW!
8. The A Team/Dukes of Hazzard/The Fall Guy - now THOSE were must see tv!
9. Transformers/GoBots...these were the last toys my parents actually bought me. My last Christmas toy was "Jetfire"!
10. I guess the greatest part of all growing up in the 80's was getting to experience real metal as it was happenening before the classic bands started changing their sound and grunge reared it's cursed head.

What do you all think? What are your favorite memories?!?!?
 
I know i was born in the 80's but i can still do this! lemme think......uh...i remember many Saturday mornings eating Frosted Flakes, watching Ninja Turtles, Conan The Adventurer, Ghostbusters, Garfield And Friends and GI Joe, and playing on my friends' very own jungle gym, pretending we were our favorite Ninja Turtle(I was always Michaelangelo), and playing with my wide array of Batman, Ninja Turtles, Ghostbusters and GI Joe toys! And as soon as I got home from Pre-School, i would sneak into my brothers' room and play his Nintendo. He still doen't know...heheheheheh! And my favorite candy were candy cigarettes!....Before they took them off the market. Those bastards.
 
tedvanfrehley said:
yes! Candy cigarettes! the little red tip...hilarious!
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Yes! those ruled, didn't they? I remember that i used to walk around the house saying, "Lokk! I'm daddy! But i don't smell bad like him!" ah.....memories....
 
tedvanfrehley said:
10. I guess the greatest part of all growing up in the 80's was getting to experience real metal as it was happenening before the classic bands started changing their sound and grunge reared it's cursed head.
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I definitely agree with you on this (though I never had any hard feelings towards grunge - it simply didn´t interest me). After I had started buying metal magazines regularly in the middle of 1985, I discovered nearly each and every month new interesting metal bands and they all sounded different from each other. In most cases I could rely blindly on reviews of albums from my favourite metal-styles (speed/thrash/power metal). Somehow it all seemed fresh and new. I may be repeating myself here, but listening to Metallica´s :worship: "Fight Fire With Fire":worship: for the first time on the "Monday Rock Show" on BFBS in 1984 was like some kind of revelation, it was unbelievable, pure energy, like some kind of drug (yet without negative side-effects). I knew I just had to have this album!:yell: (And so I got it on Christmas 1984.:) )

Also my first three metal concerts (which were also my first three concerts ever) are among my favourite memories: Metallica in January 1987 (I think it was there first tour with Jason Newsted) with supporting act Metal Church, in September or October 1987 Anthrax on their "Among The Living"-tour with supporting act Testament, who had released their debut "The Legacy" (one of my favourite thrash metal albums of all times) just a few months before, and in May 1988 Megadeth with supporting acts Sanctuary, Flotsam & Jetsam (one of my favourite bands way back then) and Testament (again). I know that most of these bands are still around/back again, but I stopped buying their albums long since and I doubt that seeing them live now would bring back the feelings I had when seeing them way back then. (Probably also because my taste in music has changed somewhat over the years.)
 
Oh man, this list could be huge! :)

1.) Getting MTv added to our cable package and me and a couple friends watching it for 15 hours straight the first day.
2.) Getting my first VCR and taping as many metal vids off MTv as I could. :)
3.) Mowing lawns to have money to buy the new Krokus, Ratt, Black N Blue, whoever's record.
4.) Listening to every record I owned over and over and over until I knew every word to every song.
5.) Going to the theater to see "Ferris Bueller's Day Off" drunk off my ass. :lol:
6.) Snow days!! God I miss that feeling! On a snow day anything was possible, you never knew what kind of shit you could be into by the end of the day. Snow days made me feel FREE.
7.) Helping friends install cassette players in their cars. It always started out the same way.. "it should only take about an hour to get it in"... but 10 hours later there was always 8 guys standing around drinking beer trying to figure out why the fucking things not working. :LOL:
8.) good movies..... fun movies..... movies made by people, not computers.
9.) Those concerts that MTv used to play on Friday nights..... remember the Van Halen and Judas Priest ones?!!!
10.) Metal overall sounding fresh and new. How my head almost exploded the first time I heard Maiden and Metallica and Dokken.

I'll stop there for now, :)
 
All I remember from the 80s was going to amusement parks with my parents, playing house, and playing with Barbie dolls, lol. I was born in the 80s so I couldn't attend any of the cool concerts back then.
 
The 80's kicked ass !! I discovered pot, beer, girls, metal music, cars and much cooler things to do with my weiner than just peeing. I got my first part-time job at Captain D's. I finished high school, was an exchange student in Belgium, and MTV was actually cool back then.


Bryant
 
I felt the music, even though I was to young to buy tapes.

TRANSFORMERS!!, man, I am getting back to those now, buying the cheesy dvds and the way cool toys at toysrus, but man are they expensive.
If I could pick a decade to live in and be my paradise, it would be the 80's
 
Being born :Spin: Just kidding I was way too young to remember about the 80's I'm sure I remember some stuff from the late 80's but I can't recall.
 
my first concerts,
my first stage dives-at the onslaught /annihilator gig in 89.jeff waters smashing his v up on stage.that was cool.

watching my first porn movies.
copying my first porn movies and selling them to my school mates.

great days
 
I'm a young one but here are some things I fodnly remember out it!

- Parachute Pants!
- Revenge Of The Nerds, Porky's, Sixteen Candles, Fast Times At Ridgemont High, etc!
- Family Ties!
- Back To The Future
- BANANARAMA! Hahahaha!
- Having Transformers action figures! And the movie soundtrack with Kick Axe, Lion & Stan Bush!
- The Lakers' golden era with Magic & Kareem and their rivalries with the Pistons & Celtics!
- Having an obsession with buses for some reason (don't ask, I was a little kid haha!)
- Watching Beverly Hills Cop about 1000 times coz it was my fave movie as a kid, and Coming To America too haha!
 
Wicked Child said:
I know i was born in the 80's but i can still do this! lemme think......uh...i remember many Saturday mornings eating Frosted Flakes, watching Ninja Turtles, Conan The Adventurer, Ghostbusters, Garfield And Friends and GI Joe, and playing on my friends' very own jungle gym, pretending we were our favorite Ninja Turtle(I was always Michaelangelo), and playing with my wide array of Batman, Ninja Turtles, Ghostbusters and GI Joe toys! And as soon as I got home from Pre-School, i would sneak into my brothers' room and play his Nintendo. He still doen't know...heheheheheh! And my favorite candy were candy cigarettes!....Before they took them off the market. Those bastards.
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Same here, but I didn't own any GI joe's, I had barbies. But I was huge into Nintendo, Blades of Steel, Gauntlet, and Contra. That was about all I did, when I young. Damn, I wish I was older when some of my fav bands released LP's. I stil hate my mom for giving me a mullet in 1st grade.
 
Greeno said:
:lol: Scarred for life!! :lol:

That's funny Sinner..... got any pictures. :D
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Yes, my first grade pictures in school, those will haunt me for the rest of my life. They are a great laugh, but my scanner dosen't work so I couldn't post them.
 
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