What were you into in the 80's?

[Cascadian]

Poll question: What were you into in the 80's?

I am not really into labels or grouping people but I wanted to have a bit of fun with this one. All you children of the 80's out there. What were you into during those crazy, Reagan dominated days? Music and socially I mean?

[asthmaticeog]

1. Nerd-punk hybrid.

Which left me perfectly positioned for reasonable social success in the '90s. :bounce:

[Cascadian]

4. I crossed over a bit.

I went through the preppy phase initially and then I went through a Smiths-Joy Division phase though I never considered myself a Goth. Then I moved into the world of the Mod and Ska then gravitated over to Punk and returned to Ska by the end of the 80's and early 90's!


I guess I could say I finally say I have come full circle. I still like the music from those days though and I do like going to punk shows so in that regard I have not changed too much.


John

[Hugin]

2. Whatever it was I was doing, I wore 'MembersOnly'...

and parachute pants.

:rofl:

[unsavedtrash]

36. LOL

:rofl:
Right there with you.

[Maddy McCall]

3. Where's the "Totally awesome, hot and foxy, big-haired chick" category?

:shrug:

:D

[Cascadian]

5. Like I said, I only had so much room!

I would place it in the "Other" catagory.

John

[Maddy McCall]

11. In the eighties...

I was the "Totally Awesome, hot and foxy, big-haired chick" who hung out with the wannabe rockers and punks. One guy in our group did go on to run sound for Whitesnake and some lesser known bands, and now for Marilyn Manson and sometimes for NIN.

The rest of the group became everything from Peace Corp members to business executives. One ended up in prison.

Thanks for provoking me to think back about those days. :hi:

[graywarrior]

6. The Fools

http://www.thefools-band.com/

[meegbear]

7. I was just pissed off because the 80's sucked ...

Ronald Reagan, Phil Collins, Cory Haim, need I say more.

[Cascadian]

9. In all honesty, I can say I liked the 90's better.

I had more money back then and I had more fun but that's just me.

Maybe I will make a 90's poll sometime!


John

[Cascadian]

8. Wow! A lot of one-time Goths in the place!

I can almost smell the clove smoke wafting in the air! Anybody remember smoking those? I never did believe it or not but then again, I never wore a mullet either!


John

[Maddy McCall]

13. Honestly, I didn't know that there were goths in the eighties.

I thought that was more of a 90s thing.

Silly me!

:D

[Cascadian]

16. No. They existed but if I remember correctly they were called....

Deathrockers.


John

[fizzgig]

10. other

i was a kid in the 80s, spent the entire decade under the age of 10

[libnnc]

12. Band geek. And tried everyday to get my hair

to look like her's


edit to add:
Now it looks more like his! I keep it very short. But at least I still have some :P

[Cascadian]

14. All you who were Valley Girls or Neo-Hippies back then.

Just place yourself in the Other catagory. I am sorry but I did not forget you. Just place yourself in the Other catagory and proclaim yourself on a posting. Once again, I am sorry for excluding you. It was unintentional.


John

[Deja Q]

15. From what I recall people telling me, nerds/geeks/dorks/dweebs...

[johnnie]

17. I was still a beat

[1gobluedem]

18. Preppy

In fact, I think I still am. But I now prefer to think of it as a 'classic' look.

[stuntcat]

19. nerd

followed by goth followed by raver followed by pretend Grown-up :+

[KitchenWitch]

20. Goth/Punk

[taterguy]

21. Big Star the Replacements Minutemen Golden Palominos

Along with other groups that I could spend all afternoon writing about

[Critters2]

22. I was going to grad school in suburban Boston

I was awash in preppy-ness.

[AllegroRondo]

23. D&D Geek

[carly denise pt deux]

24. I was a chameleon in the 80's

At the beginning of the 80's I was stoner chick/headbanger, actually looked alot like Joan Jett.

In the mid 80's I dumped all that, went into my Valley Girl phase.......skirt sets, leg warmers, big hair, gag me with a spoon.....

Then I went into a Madonna phase....that was an interesting phase.......

Then in the late 80's, I got married and had a kid, so I sported the overscheduled mother look.
Carly

[HughBeaumont]

25. I wen from rap nerd to band nerd to hardcore fan to fucking thrash fan.

Pretty logical transformation.

I still like thrash.

[Lydia Leftcoast]

26. For most of the 1980s I was a college professor

:shrug:

[blockhead]

27. I think they called us loadies.

:smoke:

[Hosnon]

28. Diapers and then Transformers. nt.

[GenDem]

53. Yeah, me too.

With two in diapers and then on to tranformers and "Masters of the Universe". Good years!:hi:

[NewWaveChick1981]

29. Strangely enough, New Wave....

and punk and alternative music... Oh, and in the immortal words of Ian Dury, sex and drugs and rock & roll... :P :hi:

[HughBeaumont]

30. I started off the 80s with rap and New Romantics/Punk/No Wave stuff.

Then I saw a Husker Du video in 1985. The end.

[NewWaveChick1981]

31. Gotta love Husker Du!

:hi: :bounce: :woohoo:

[grace0418]

32. I was New Wave too. With a pinch of punk and some leftover disco from

the seventies.

[NewWaveChick1981]

74. Cool!

:hi: I was anti-disco, but New Wave and punk were mine too! :D

[idgiehkt]

34. I was wondering if you'd show up here

Most people were into new wave I think, though it's not a poll choice. Alt radio was mostly all new wave; some of the other categories hadn't really evolved yet until the very end of the 80's and early 90's like techno and goth.

[NewWaveChick1981]

76. Hi, idg!

The best radio station around was my college radio station. They played the best obscure stuff, and to this day, I thank them for being around when I needed them. :D

[SPKrazy]

45. All My Brain And Body Need

imagine that

:shrug:

:P

meh too

and lots of other things depending which of me woke up that day :rofl:

[NewWaveChick1981]

77. ...

:rofl: :hi: :loveya:

[SPKrazy]

79. "Sex Is Like Pizza"

I forgot the rest of your sig line and I just looked at it

So i'll make up my own ending to it.

Sex is like pizza, it is messy, tasty, and even when it's good it's bad. (close enough for DU)

:loveya:

:evilgrin:

[martymar64]

63. Hit me with your rhythm stick

HIT ME!

Sorry NWC, I couldn't help myself.

I started as a metalhead ( til motley Crue fucked it up.)
Then I discovered punk and the Grateful Dead simultaneously ( anything can heppen in Venice Beach)

[ikojo]

73. I lived in Springfield IL and discovered

the Grateful Dead via the Monkees of all things...I had a live Peter Tork tape and on the tape of that show he sang Casey Jones. I loved the song and he had said the song was originally done by the Grateful Dead. A friend at work, knowing how OBSESSED I was with the Monkees and all things 60s at the time, said I'd make a good Deadhead. She made a copy of an Alpine Valley show and I was hooked. Started buying Relix magazine and got into tape trading.


"I'll send you two blanks (maxell XLIIs ONLY) for a killer NYE show"

Ah, those were the days.


Saw my first Dead show in April 1989 in Pittsburgh. Thanks to a toll free number I was able to call in sick from Johnstown PA, remember this was way before average Americans had "car phones."

[martymar64]

98. Ah, those were the days!

I have many great memories of roadtrips to the Bay Area or to Las Vegas or to Eugene, OR for a weekend of fun and frolicking. My first show was in 1987, Dylan and the Dead at Anaheim Stadium in the home of Mickey Mouse. My last show was in 1994, Seattle.
On a side note, I used to sell beers in the parking lots, made fat bank!!!

[NewWaveChick1981]

78. Oh, don't apologize!

:hi: :rofl: Ian Dury was fantastic!

At least you came to your senses and left metal in the dust... :rofl: :P

[martymar64]

99. Metal just got too silly

I lived in L.A. during the whole glam-metal scene (Poison, Warrant, Winger . . . GACK!!!) It was simply bubblegum with crunchier guitars.
Oh course, I still occasionally play Blue Oyster Cult on my iTunes. :headbang:
As for today, punk is more relevant than ever, and I don't mean that silly emo nonsense. I just added the Weirdos (We got the Neutron Bomb) as myspace friends along with Lee Ving from Fear.

[ForrestGump]

92. Looks like we think alike on this

:D

Though, of course, who could blame us.

[ForrestGump]

91. Excuse me

Do you mind if I hit you with my rhythm stick a while?

:P

[jpgray]

33. My ma's uterus

[Anarcho-Socialist]

35. I was a child then

If I had been a young adult then I would have been New Wave/New Romantic.

[Wapsie B]

37. It was my period of awakening

such that it was. A little behind the curve, but better late than never I say.

[Crabby Appleton]

38. the sixties

[querelle]

39. Preppy

I went to a prep school with a strict dress code so I really didn't have a choice. But on my own time, I listened to the Ramones, Sex Pistols, Clash, et al. Around the age of 19, I discovered opera (thanks Dad!) and have been a devotee of the genre ever since. I still haul out the punk stuff every now and then when I'm feeling nostalgic though.

Q

[appal_jack]

40. anarcho-hippie

The 1980's were middle-school and high school for me. I guess I had grown my hair long in around 9th grade as I gravitated toward hippie-dom. I got politically involved when Reagan wanted to build a Navy Port with nukes on Staten Island (my home town). Lucky for me, I was going to high school in Manhattan by then, and discovered The Anarchist Switchboard (then later other awesome squats/community spaces after the Switchboard closed) on the Lower East Side. Though the Switchboard was predominantly punk/squatter, they tolerated us hippies OK...

-app
:hippie: :hippie:

[Guava Jelly]

41. Thrash / Heavy metal

[idgiehkt]

42. there ya go.

:hi:

[Guava Jelly]

44. Yup and i was a long hair until december 2005

:hi:
when i sold out :)

[xchrom]

43. punk, new wave, new romantics and techno.

[dysfunctional press]

46. post-punk.

r.e.m. and the like.

[SPKrazy]

47. A Lot Of Different Things

some new wave
the stones
moody blues
beatles
even a stint at country, wearing boots and everything :shrug:
alternative
hard rock
classic rock

depending which one of me woke up that day is what I'd listen to.

:wtf:

[GenDem]

50. Mostly I was changing diapers and reading stories

But, when I did have the time to listen to music it was -
Pink Floyd
The Eagles
Heart
Jefferson Starship
Robert Plant
Duran Duran
Jackson Browne
Bob Seger
The Police
REM
Eurythmics


Unsure of the genre :shrug:

[GenDem]

51. Meant to post to the OP -- sorry

[SPKrazy]

57. No Big Deal

I thought you were posting to me :cry:

jest kiddin'

:hi:

[SPKrazy]

54. Multi Genre

I can't see anything there I didn't listen to either

:shrug:

eclectic tastes!

[GenDem]

59. I have to admit, I did the country thing, too.

Husband was in the Marine Corp in the early 80's, and that's what everyone was into in NC. I would never admit it to my 19 year old daughter who is heavy into country now. We forever argue about radio stations when we are in the car together. I'm trying to turn her onto alt-country, which I believe is a much better genre.
:toast:

[CrownPrinceBandar]

48. Jock/Geek Hybrid.......

Running during the week, mad D&D skillz on the weekend. But, some would say that I was a full-on geek in that cross-country running was thought of as a geek sport in my HS.

Musically, I was into a bunch of stuff. Off the top of my head (but not an exclusive list): REM, Springsteen, U2, 10,000 Maniacs, Lou Reed, Talking Heads, Prince and anything cool I spotted in Rolling Stone.

[Shine]

49. Those were my h.s. and college years. Enough said.

:D

[BarenakedLady]

52. Artsy-geeky-cheerleader-nobody (n/t)

[SPKrazy]

56. WTF?

artsy geeky cheerleader nobody?

:shrug:

[BarenakedLady]

62. Yup

All of the above. I'm an odd duck (monkey). :rofl:

[SPKrazy]

80. Well I Knew You Were An Odd Duck

that's part of your charm BNL

the rest of your charm is your humor and well, your chicken legs, and your eyes.


:hug:

[NC_Nurse]

55. New Wave, punk, alt

REM
Psychedelic Furs
dB's
Talking Heads
Elvis Costello
Pretenders

Local bands:
X-Teens
Human Furniture
The Gillete's
The Knobs
Lisa Uyanik and the Mobile City Band
The Bad Checks

[mitchum]

69. What? No Accelerators? Othermothers?

:)
I also saw all of those NC bands and played on the same bill with some of them. That was a cool scene.

[Kali]

58. hmmm a lot of changes!

early 80's - a lot of partying. 82 got married (more partying), 85 first kid, 86 moved to ranch to take care of Grampa, 89 second son born and Granmpa died. That went by fast, but the 90's went even faster.

[TheBaldyMan]

60. rude/punk/crusty

I used to dress in black and have a luxurient head of spiky peroxided hair, it used to freak people out.

In between times I also was a skinhead, it used to freak people out.

Finally I settled for a crusty hippy look, it used to freak people out.

Then I stopped worrying about what people thought about my appearance because they seemed to freak out no matter what I looked like.

[Dean Martin]

61. U2, Stones, Midnight Oil, Psychedelic Furs, Prince.....

Michael Jackson, Rod Stewart, The Cure, The Fixx, Eddy Grant, Madonna, Billy Ocean.....

[otherlander]

104. I love Midnight Oil.

Can't stand Madonna.

[Taverner]

64. Metalhead-> Stoner-> Hippie-> IndieRocker

[QMPMom]

65. There was music in the 80's? I was birthing and raising babies.

[Nikia]

66. Blocks, Barbies, Bikes

My Little Poney, children's science kits, swimming, kickball, double dutch, reading.
I mostly listened to whatever my parents did which was a variety of things.
I was mostly a little nerd.
The 80's were when I was 2-12 years old.

[mitchum]

67. Adrogynous junkie chic

[Xipe Totec]

68. Rocket Scientist

literally.

[femmocrat]

70. Yuppy! Social-climbing "snob."

Think "Dallas", "Dynasty", and big shoulder pads!

[ikojo]

71. I was into Dr Who, Star Trek and Star Wars

and in 1986, thanks to MTV, I got hooked on the Monkees!

[haf216]

72. Freak

Across between goth/punk/nerd

[GoneOffShore]

75. Waiting tables

Drinking bourbon, smoking pot, looking to get freaky. Not being political(My bad).

[u4ic]

81. Indefinable

;-)

[Guava Jelly]

89. I thought you were a trianglist

:rofl:

[u4ic]

103. I

matured into one. ;-)

[Redneck Socialist]

82. I loved me my metal

In the beginning of the eighties I loved me some metal. :headbang: By the end of the eighties I loved me some Grateful Dead. :hippie:

Hey, people change, what can I say. Iron Maiden and Jerry and the boys still have a place in my CD collection.

[Common Sense Party]

84. Most of 80s: Maiden, Priest, Scorps, Ozzy, Dokken, Fastway, etc.

By late 80s: U2, R.E.M., Smithereens, Smiths, Replacements, Husker Du, etc.

[Rabrrrrrr]

83. A Romulan informant

[MrSlayer]

85. I'm still a Headbanger.

"It's just a phase" they said.

[ghostsofgiants]

86. Infant/toddler.

[Starbucks Anarchist]

87. G.I. Joe and Transformers.

[Seabiscuit]

88. None of the above. Preparing for the California Bar Exam

while listening to classical music and jazz (and some 60's & 70's albums).

I never even paid enough attention to the stuff you listed to sort any of it out - all AM radio junk noise to me.

Oh... and my activities left me no room for a social life.

[Unperson]

90. Surfer/stoner

[ForrestGump]

93. Being an individual

Anti-trendy, but not self-consciously so (meaning that if I happened to wear or do something that was trendy or became trendy while I was already wearing or doing it, I didn't care), denim-clad, sometimes leather-clad, traveling, exploring, walking, schooling, photographing, motorcycle-riding, kung-fu'ing, sailing, running, expatriating, TV-appearing, Elvis-loving (along with much of the other music I love today...most of it from the '70s or before, though I did like some of the iconic '80s stuff like the Born In The USA LP and Mikey Jackson), observing, vagabonding, mostly-loner, heartbroken kinda dude.

I don't categorize well.. :D

[deepthought42]

94. Rainbow Brite, Smurfs, Popples, Barbie dolls, TMNT, etc

Strawberry Shortcake, My Little Pony, and so on! Did I mention that I was born in '82?

[azmouse]

95. I was younger and thinner and single for most of the 80's.

Ok, so now I'm older, chubbier and about to celebrate my 20th wedding anniversary. I wouldn't go back to the 80's for any amount of money. Life is so good!

[trogdor]

96. Class of '81 here.

We were into REO Speedwagon and Loverboy in those days. Yuck.

Then I went to Ohio State and got into progressive rock - a decade too late.

Nearly flunked out because I liked video games (wocka wocka) and beer more than I liked studying, and spent the remainder of the 80's in the Army. Missed three whole seasons of TV serving in Europe (turns out I didn't miss much), then went to Fort Jackson, South Carolina, where they had an entirely different attitude toward partying all the time (no...fun...at...all).

So I finally got my degree from Regents (now Excelsior) College in 1992.

So much for the 80s.

[Little Wing]

97. Good Metal and Samantha Fox

[SacredCow]

100. Listening to maudlin music....

The Smiths, The Cure, Love and Rockets, etc....

I guess my crowd would have been considered Goth by today's standards, but that doesn't exactly fit.

[fudge stripe cookays]

101. I went through TONS of phases...

Started off digging stuff like ELO as the decade began...

1981-82 was metal year, and stuff like April Wine and Toto :cry:

83 saw the birth of the New Wave chick. Listened to stuff like The Plimsouls, Flock of Seagulls, Gary Myrick, Romantics...

85- Got a job in a record store (and nothing would ever be the same!) Got into REM, Midnight Oil, Lone Justice...THEN my first college boyfriend got me into TONS of stuff I'd never heard of before, like The Jam, The Velvet Underground, The Church...and from there the sky was the limit! I'd pretty much give everything a try once.

89- KGSR started in Austin. Didn't affect me much in the 80s (since they started as a jazz station), but as the 90s started, they turned to Texan music and singer songwriter stuff, which is what I enjoy the most now.

[BlueJazz]

102. Same as I am now...Jazz.

[otherlander]

105. I was still in my mom.

I wasn't born yet, so I know I don't have the right to judge, but I'm going to say it anyway: What a horrible, horrible decade. Reagan was a symptom, but it was more than that. It was like some collective disillusionment. Even the counterculture suffered, became harsher. There was a dream that smashed into reality and died, and I don't think America ever really recovered.