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    Who was lucky enough to be around during one of the coolest decades ever the 80s

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    • ghettomedicG
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      I miss the 1980's a time when it was cool to be cool.Dr Martens to creepers,New order to The Smiths. For those that know exactly what i'm talking about this song should take you back.

      Detroit, murdercity where the week are killed and eaten.

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      • organisysO
        organisys
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        I was/am a big fan of New Order, but the 80s weren't all good, for example:

        Pride of Japan :-)

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          Why are you referring to the 1980s as though it's in the past?

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          • Megatron1505M
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            Any chance of some stone washed 634's @Giles ? And perhaps a tutorial video on how to attach Grolsch bottle tops to our Wesco's like those loveable rogues from Bros?

            Made in England, clothed in Japan, fed in America and drunk in Belgium !

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            • winterlandW
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              Its funny I find many people always talk about 80's music negatively. Like most decades there is a good and there's bad. The end of the 80's here but were definitely part of the eighties sound. Wearing my Doc Martens today.

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              • winterlandW
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                Always associate Tears for Fears with the 80's of course and being in a shopping mall. As a good experience even. Great song.

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                • mclaincauseyM
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                  The problem with a lot of the pop 80s music for me was Shiny Ball Syndrome around samplers, sequencers, drum machines, and the like. I always admired how Pink Floyd made timeless music with bleeding edge, immature technology, and a lot of 80s music exemplifies the polar opposite of that restraint. The technology wasn't mature enough to sound natural and they didn't want any part of an organic sound anyway.  And then often when you had a decent band, like the Smiths, you have a front man who ruined it, like Morrissey. That band should have taken off AFTER the insufferable drama queen left instead of imploding thereafter.

                  I do like Talking Heads, Joy Division, Simple Minds, A-Ha, Tears For Fears, Duran Duran, and some others, but generally don't dig on non-punk or non-metal from the era.

                  Think it, be it.

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                  • ghettomedicG
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                    Yes not everything from the 80's was cool but the whole underground movement the music was assume .The average person had no clue listening to top 40 garbadge.You had to be in the know and not a member of the heard.The amount of awesome music is staggering and the average person had no clue.My first cassette was years for fears also,crazy.Movies like pretty in pink and breakfast club are examples of how cool the 80's were.

                    Detroit, murdercity where the week are killed and eaten.

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                    • ghettomedicG
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                      I wore big johns back then,didn't even know anything about denim,just liked the tapered fit with my TUK creepers.

                      Detroit, murdercity where the week are killed and eaten.

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                      • xtcclassicX
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                        I graduated high school in 1988. I mostly remember stonewashed denim, including denim jackets covered in patches and pins from every metal / hair metal band you could think of, as well as parachute pants, perms, wine coolers, and Guns 'n' Roses. And mullets.

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                          Oh yeah I was out of school in the 80s wearing some dodgy clothes and a dodgier haircut.  Lois corduroy jeans.  But some cool music

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                          • FinksterF
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                            Doc Martens / Vespa / Psychobilly / Ska / Punkrock - I had a lot of fun  😘

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                            • jock1624J
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                              Cover of the track thrown up earlier in the thread :

                              I don't think the 80s were brilliant , but it seemed a lot more  innocent ( likely due to youth and naivete )  compared to the shite we get daily now (curse and blessing of the interwebs - more access to info not necessarily making us better/smarter…)

                              I remember getting ridiculed for trying to play a Fugazi and Primus tapes in my friends car , was tired of his narrow taste in music . Years later he turned me on to different bands . The kids now are listening to all these new bands , that to me sound like the ones I liked in the early to 80s...

                              Mirthing my way through life.

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                                @TrickHell:

                                "I survived the 80s one time already / and I don't recall it all that fondly"

                                a man of my own heart. But to each their own! Am glad some of you enjoyed it - makes me feel good to know it wasn't a total waste of 10 years globally 🙂

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                                  For those who do enjoy the time and place;

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                                  • neph93N
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                                    @TrickHell:

                                    "I survived the 80s one time already / and I don't recall it all that fondly"

                                    Gotta stay positive 😉

                                    “Some of those that work forces
                                    Are the same that burn crosses”

                                    • Virginia Woolf
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                                    • mclaincauseyM
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                                      Hehehe.

                                      http://www.sciencealert.com/science-finds-that-the-80s-was-the-least-diverse-decade-for-music

                                      Think it, be it.

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                                      • Sheepdog149S
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                                        Yup, great times and tunes…

                                        Sent from my SM-G920P using Tapatalk

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                                        • harley daveH
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                                          i was but i dont remember much of it  😉

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                                          • 501IH5
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                                            My denim memory of the 80s is how everyone wore them in a fit that would be considered two sizes too small today. 501s had just been relaunched, and they fitted you right when you had to lie down flat, exhale hard, and go through all sorts of contortions to get them just barely buttoned.
                                            I laugh about it today myself, and grin, just a little, when someone tells me my jeans are too tight…..

                                            Keep your jeans on–-and let nothing come in between you and the denim !

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