80s appreciation thread - music, movies, TV shows...

[Zqa-]

True that.

[Bojan]

Falco!

[Beast]

Falco!

man i loved that song...

can't mention the 80's without the man himself

[Warik]

Probably THE one hit wonder song...

[maz]

Sade...
One of the 15 CDs in my car.

But sade have released 5 albums! You should have all 5 in your car!

[Bojan]

I have all of her best things on 1 :smile:

Anyone still remembers this?

[Beast]

Oh man... youth best friend.. a fucking stereo tape recorder.. a must for all parties (unless u have a rich friend who have a freaking HI-FI which was bigger then the Flat Screen 46 inch TV at least ) ... oh my wasted hours trying to record a TAPE hahaha

[Warik]

Oh man... youth best friend.. a fucking stereo tape recorder.. a must for all parties (unless u have a rich friend who have a freaking HI-FI which was bigger then the Flat Screen 46 inch TV at least ) ... oh my wasted hours trying to record a TAPE hahaha

Only for it to get chewed up about a week later from some sort of overuse? happened to me ALOT.

Did you do mixtapes for the girl you liked Beast? I think that has been revived lately due to some American TV shows. I tried to do one once, gave up half way through. I can still remember most of the songs I wanted to put on it though.

[Beast]

Only for it to get chewed up about a week later from some sort of overuse? happened to me ALOT.

Did you do mixtapes for the girl you liked Beast? I think that has been revived lately due to some American TV shows. I tried to do one once, gave up half way through. I can still remember most of the songs I wanted to put on it though.

sure as hell not only it was very romantic thing to do.. it was also cheap when u don't have any money prior to an occasion like Valentine..etc
.. what a long process.. picking up the songs.. then making sure u pick songs that cover the 60/90 minute tape then picking the songs that cover on 28/43 minutes depending on the tape u are using.. man u could spend the entire night to make one freaking mix tape

[Warik]

sure as hell not only it was very romantic thing to do.. it was also cheap when u don't have any money prior to an occasion like Valentine..etc
.. what a long process.. picking up the songs.. then making sure u pick songs that cover the 60/90 minute tape then picking the songs that cover on 28/43 minutes depending on the tape u are using.. man u could spend the entire night to make one freaking mix tape

I gave up tbh, pain in the ass it turned out to be. I can remember most of the songs I wanted, even who it was for...see that one picture from Bojan brought it all back...

Strange days then, when I think back. I didn't have the most fantastic childhood, it had its problems, but when I think that I was happy with just a stereo and a ball. Then I was a happy kid, didn't need no playstations, no ipods, I wouldnt of known what they were, games consoles rarely interested me. Spent most of my time playing football with someone...anyone, even complete strangers. Even 25-30 year olds would let me and my friends play football with them. Now parents would have a fit if they knew, and the older guys wouldn't let kids play.

If no friends or others were playing i'd just kick the ball against the apartment block wall for hours on end, left foot left foot right foot right foot, listening to music from the window...Any ball would do aswell, didn't even have to be a big ball, sometimes it was a tennis ball, even one of those small spongey balls that would rip easily and would get absolutely soaked through when it was raining...

[Beast]

..very strange thinking back now and reading what u wrote.. we made a meal out very small things.. a tennis ball.. hell we even played squash with that same tennis ball & our hands were the bats , slamming the ball into any wall .. we played with anything /anywhere .. that was really good times with nothing to worry about except maybe if u'll find enough friends around to play a match ...

[Warik]

Yep...and we'd make things last. If we lost footballs or anything we'd spend hours looking for it. If the sponge ball was ripped in half i'd have to make do with playing with half a ball. Now my daughter loses a ball in the woods behind the house, or kicks the ball into the road. I need to go retrieve it, but often she just says to get her a new one (I dont)...Back then my parentscouldn't afford new footballs every week. I'd spend hours looking for lost footballs. I'd just wander off and my parents wouldn't see me for a long time. I remember once I kicked the ball and it accidentally went into a truck. The driver came along and drove off before I could stop him. I then spent ages going around every apartment in every building nearby talking to the owners to see if they knew the truck owner. Even went back the next day just to talk to the ones I didn't speak to before.

Losing a football was like the world was ended. Now kids would give up and just ask for a new ball. We made our own fun and we actually took pride in owning things...respect for our parents for buying/giving us the money for them etc

[Beast]

Or worse.. shooting the ball into this Villa near by where the owners are pricks and never give u the ball back or open the door .. u had to wait till summer so they are out of the house so u jump off the fence and retrieve the lose ballS
it wasn't about affording a new football.. it was about the adventure.. needless to mention the stories kids made about that old man & his wife.. Jeeze i grow up with plenty of Stephen King jnr's :-)

[Warik]

Ah yes the older ones who used to moan at EVERYTHING, well it wasn't everything but it seemed like it back then. "Don't kick the ball against my wall" - "Don't play loud music" - "Don't make so much noise" etc etc. Hop over their wall, get my shirt caught on a branch and rip my shirt once, they came round with the remnants of my shirt, I couldnt jump high enough to retrieve it and they told my parents I had tresspassed, I got a bit of a hiding then. Usually I was stealthy though. nothing would separate me from my football if I lost it.

[House of Flies]

seeing you guys talk about this over here is bloody interesting cause things like these still happen in a 3rd world countries such as Thailand, India and Egypt. The consoles did mess a bit with the childhood there but as I remember, I used to do everything that you guys did back in the 80s but as soon as I stepped into NA, all that sense of adventure was gone.

I dont know what exactly it is but it could be just due to the fact that people really care over here about their reputation which doesnt really matter back home. Blah, i hate you guys for making me feel nostalgic