Great things about the 1980s

Floyd-the-k · 10 June, 2006, 07:25:02 PM

the last time I turned on Neigbours, I saw some perky blond kids snogging. That's not what I see when I look around me here. Obviously Thryllseeker lives in Mount Waverley or the Gold Coast.

Yes, yes, the Smiths were a great thing about the 80s.

oh and the Rolling Stones did Undercover and Dirty Work, both of which I liked

ThryllSeekyr · 10 June, 2006, 08:03:56 PM

I used to love this song.

Link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XF0otWk2c04&search=everybody%20have%20fun%20tonight" target="_blank">Wang Chun

Carlsborg Expert · 10 June, 2006, 08:38:07 PM

Scarface.

Wils · 11 June, 2006, 12:29:42 AM

John Wagner's run on Detective Comics.

Grant Goggans · 11 June, 2006, 12:48:25 AM

The 80s must still be with us... I'm seeing Echo & the Bunnymen on the 20th and ABC on the 23rd!

Floyd-the-k · 11 June, 2006, 02:06:32 PM

Dogs in Space

Razorback

Tom of Finland · 11 June, 2006, 02:28:46 PM

hiring video nasties before the VRA

getting in at the ABC to watch a Warriors/Wanderers double bill while only 15

Double Diamond,Worthington E,Long Life,Trumans Best,

Hull FC signing Peter Sterling

Railcards

Sergio Tacchini tennis shirts

Keef Monkey · 11 June, 2006, 02:34:30 PM

Floyd, was Dogs In Space that movie with Michael Hutchence?!? Think I have a vague memory of flipping onto that late one night and really enjoying it but never seen it since.

ThryllSeekyr · 11 June, 2006, 02:56:23 PM

Is Corona beer still available.

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Wils · 11 June, 2006, 03:41:12 PM

Watney's Party Seven

Floyd-the-k · 11 June, 2006, 05:43:42 PM

Dogs in Space was indeed that movie with Michael Hutchence. He's pretty ordinary but I loved the movie which is all about inner-city wastrels in Melbourne. There's a lot of good music in it (including two versions of 'shivers') and a long party scene which is like every party I went to in the 80s.
oh and AC/DC rocked in the 80s

Quirkafleeg · 11 June, 2006, 07:42:19 PM

>Watney's Party Seven

Wasn't that more of a seventies thing? Like most 'keg' bitter thank god - though I do remember undrinkable electric Wards (the coming of the hand-pump for all bitter was a gift from god)

I do remember Royal Dutch larger... you could be gallons of it for not money at all. It was weak as hell but great for playing Pass Out as a skint student.

Guns 'n' Roses seemed great at the time

Wils · 11 June, 2006, 08:06:52 PM

Wasn't that more of a seventies thing?

Probably, but it was still being sold in the 80s when I discovered it. I remember at one party I was at, we were marvelling that someone managed to find a Party Ten to bring, then panicking as no one had a tin opener.

Quirkafleeg · 11 June, 2006, 08:41:53 PM

>no one had a tin opener

heh, real men use two screwdrivers...

I, Cosh · 12 June, 2006, 07:22:48 AM

Record shops in Glasgow, Virgin when it was acoss the road from Central Station and a shithole of a place, but an interesting one. Then the one up the street from it(was it Bloggs?). Records on the ground floor then a subterrean basement full of badges, tee-shirts and dodgy looking punters.

It was Fopp back when it was a record shop rather than a place to pick up classic albums for a fiver. You also had Tower, which was expensive but very well stocked (the only place I ever saw an Armageddon Dildos album), Missing when it sold new records, Echo on Byres Road and that Canadian place at the bottom of Byres Road.