What was your favorite 80's memory (I'll start it off)

[supreme_math]

This is one of mine. I remember when hip-hop was new and raw and real. Nig's used to rock the gazelles with the suede kangols...I remember fly shell toe adidas (costing a whopping $45.00) I remember chasing the icecream truck in the summer of nyc. But most of all I remember this...

http://youtube.com/watch?v=c8aWc_4IVx0

What was your favorite 80's memory?

 

[supreme_math]

Oh...forgot...I remember when the USA seemed to be the good guys...remember that? Hind sight is a muthafucka! If only we would have known the truth

 

[SWATLANTA]

I was age 4-14 during the eighties and I remember going school shopping and waking up at 7am every Saturday with a bowl of fruit loops/cheerios/frosted flakes to watch cartoons. I also remember my mother interrupting my cartoon watching and giving me chores that had to be done before I could resume my cartoon enjoyment. We lost a lot of dishes during the 80's

 

[Blunt]

Oh...forgot...I remember when the USA seemed to be the good guys...remember that? Hind sight is a muthafucka! If only we would have known the truth

You thought the USA was the "good guys" during the Iran-Contra scandal (in the '80s)?

Hate it when people keep making up this phony nostalgia. It's not enough just to say you remember the '80s fondly because you came of age then (and really knew little about the world), but folks always have to idealize their favorite time and always try to justify it by claiming it was somehow better than today. That is never true.

 

[simtoon4]

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If it doesn't work assit please


http://tfisher420.imeem.com/music/PiuuNUau/70s_80s_remix/

 

[Da Brown Hornet]

Not my favorite, but it damn sure ranked up there...That shit was like a movie...but it wasn't.

 

[PEOPLES]

dude i remember sit and spin, rockin the poker dealers hat when u came back from the amusment park, rockin vans back then, i remember all them damn anita baker songs. and dude the chors me and my older sister had to clean the bathroom i got the toilet and she did the sink lol. we was poor when i was lil but it seemed we had a lot back then playin duck hunt and the only person that could beat mario bros was my sister, but i miss the 80's man back when i didnt have shit to care about

 

[Q-vo]

Saturday & Sunday afternoons on TV.

For my L.A. and Southern Cali peeps, damn near every channel had it going on and kept you entertained with some classic cinema.

Channel 5 (KTLA) had all the Planet of the Apes series and Godzilla flicks.

Channel 13 (KCOP) showed the war classics (Dirty Dozen/Naked and The Dead) and the best westerns (Good,Bad,Ugly/Wild Bunch)

Channel 9 (Before it became KCAL) had Elvira and "Black Belt Theater". Used to go out and play in the streets with the neighbors early in the 'noon and I'd always come back right in time to see Bruce Lee fight Chuck Norris or Kareem!

 

[wmjj47]

Buying my Nintendo! I remember it was the summer of 88' and my dad bought it from Rose's dept store. I played that thing all night and woke up at about 5 am and played it all day!!! I also remember (summer of 88', too!) my next door neighbor blasting Rob Base and DJ EZ Roc - It Takes two EVERYDAY!!!

 

[cbm_redux]

Oh...forgot...I remember when the USA seemed to be the good guys...remember that?

No. I don't remember that. You must be talking about the 1940s! In the 80s Reagan (AKA the devil) and Bush 1 were doing all manner of dirt... arming the contras, Saddam Hussein, Osama Bin Ladin and Manuel Noriega just to name a few high lights.

 

[Ratt]

Walking into a store with $1 and coming out with:
2 Chico Sticks
30 Fish (gummy)
1 pack of Now & Laters
2 Atomic FireBalls
1 box of LemonHeads
1 box of Boston Baked Beans
2 Super Bubbles
1 pack of Fun Dip

Also: Miami Vice, Thundercats, Transformers, He-Man, Remington Steele.

...all for now!

 

[Kratos]

My favorite memory is break dancing and swede pumas. Sucker Emcees, 5 Minutes of Funk, The Message. The movie Beat Street, Motown 25 and MJ doing the Moon Walk. Cats driving around bumping good Hip Hop; Slick Rick, BDP, P.E. Southern Rap being non-existent. Ah the memories.

 

[PEOPLES]

1 pack of Fun Dip

i remember that shit i bought some yesterday

 

[B ILLA]

1 pack of Now & Laters
2 Atomic FireBalls

O0H SNAP

 

[ThaBurgerPimp]

on saturdays back in the day after i got done w/ my toon viewing(as well as american banstand/soul train and the occasional ABC Weekend special LOL) id bounce to the mall..naturally this was the one place i would go after browsing in stores

i remember when this game first came out,there would be crowds gathering to watch people play it..i just wanted to kick the screen in whenever i would fuck up

 

[bigirl]

Morningside park jams, Crotona park jams, Bronx River Center, The Roxy, The World, Mks, Danceteria, East River Park, the Skate Key, Washington Square Park, Tompkins Square Park, the duece when it was still the duece, PLAYLAND!!!!, buying fake IDs that actually worked next door to playland, getting parking tickets and ripping them up and nothing happened, playground at 202 and Murdock, a Grateful Dead show the day before E became illegal and the hippie boys in skirts were running around with huge African wooden bowls of it for free and the whole arena including the band did a giant om circle and the local residents thought the aliens were coming from the noise. CBGBs the Bad Brains. Native Tongues. House of Haring. Pacman, Galaga, Centipede, Qbert, PINBALL! Franklin Ave Shuttle. Haha the trains ran FAST back then too. I could keep going on and on.....

 

[DickDastardly]

Eddie Murphy...

 

[bigirl]

Eddie Murphy...

"you got no ice cream, you got no ice cream, you can't get none cause yo momma on the welfare...."

 

[prowess]

i CUT GRASS IN MY HOOD FOR dj EQUIPMENT. Then I started doing parties, receptions ect. Then my boy got a car and when I didn't have a gig we would ride around until we found a party. I miss house parties!: going up in some strangers shit; mingle, drink, and next thing ya know I'm grinding on lil sis when the slow song comes on! Violence has destroyed the house party

 

[Noketown]

I was young(between my birth and the age 9) but I have some memories...People weren't sagging and their clothes actually fitted them...The box and the gumby hair cut... Cross Color and them baggy ass Yield pants ...Conscious rap like Fight The Power by Public Enemy... The Thriller album (Micheal Jackson was still somewhat normal)

 

[Kaffeine]

Waking up EARLY Saturday morning...

Eating...

And Watching...

Then its outside from Noon till night for some....

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[coolie569]

playing punch ball or stoop ball on saturdays only stop at like 2 or 3 to go watch the karate flicks on channel 5. Then be right back out side after that shit went off and beating kids ass in Skelly. Man these kids today don't know what they missing. I tell me kids they can't go outside and they are like whatever. They got all the entertainment they need in there rooms. Man if my Pops told me I couldn't go outside.. you might as well have killed me.

 

[cooliojones]

Hands down:

www.nonicard.com

no nee kard dot kom...dat's wassup!

click on some links...just not everyday!

I didn't know they had a movie planned out!!

http://www.brutesquad.com/Movies/Thundercats/index_noframe.htm

 

[EPDC]

i remember watching saturday morning toons and following that with kung fu flicks. but what i really loved was watching USA network for this, if anyone else remembers:

http://youtube.com/watch?v=e3kc9ZLfA2s

http://youtube.com/watch?v=FAlf66u5YZw

http://youtube.com/watch?v=LgK8sChHQvY



please assist

 

[bigirl]

Double feature matinees at music palace.

 

[MaximusBlaque]

My favorite memories of the 80's were when we did simple shit like going outside to play with ya friends. No XBOX, PS3 or internet. Just a bunch of kids having fun. Riding ya bike down to the corner store for one of those Flintstones Push-Ups. And no matter how hot it was outside, you never cared. All you wanted to do was play..Didn't matter whether you played basketball, football or kickball. You just wanted to be outside. Kids today don't do that shit. They're missing out on a bunch of lifetime memories by being stuck inside on the internet or yapping on their cell phones.​

 

[supreme_math]

No. I don't remember that. You must be talking about the 1940s! In the 80s Reagan (AKA the devil) and Bush 1 were doing all manner of dirt... arming the contras, Saddam Hussein, Osama Bin Ladin and Manuel Noriega just to name a few high lights.

Dude I was in single digits in the eighties...lol...all i know was Hulk Hogan chanting..."USA-USA!" in the ring. Rambo and Commando was American soldiers fighting for justice. The Russians were the "Evil Empire" Man the only thing I knew about the middle east was the "Iron Sheikh" from WWF, and that song that they played on MTV all the time by the CLASH "Rock the Casbah" (Shareef dont like it... so lets rock the casbah, rock the casbah!)

speaking of the CLASH, Nigga look what I happened to find on youtube

http://youtube.com/watch?v=OAkfHShATKY

Blame it on the weed!

 

[Ratt]

Dude I was in single digits in the eighties...lol...all i know was Hulk Hogan chanting..."USA-USA!" in the ring. Rambo and Commando was American soldiers fighting for justice. The Russians were the "Evil Empire" Man the only thing I knew about the middle east was the "Iron Sheikh" from WWF, and that song that they played on MTV all the time by the CLASH "Rock the Casbah" (Shareef dont like it... so lets rock the casbah, rock the casbah!)

speaking of the CLASH, Nigga look what I happened to find on youtube

http://youtube.com/watch?v=OAkfHShATKY

Blame it on the weed!

I read Clash and thought of:

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In case embedding doesnt work:
http://youtube.com/watch?v=MWLZ1dciMgQ

 

[ThaBurgerPimp]

i remember watching saturday morning toons and following that with kung fu flicks. but what i really loved was watching USA network for this, if anyone else remembers:

http://youtube.com/watch?v=e3kc9ZLfA2s

http://youtube.com/watch?v=FAlf66u5YZw

http://youtube.com/watch?v=LgK8sChHQvY



please assist

commander USA was a trip..i also liked USA Up All Night w/ gilbert gottfried and rhonda shear,as well as night flight

also remember tuning the cable on the very first day this channel went on the air
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for you Cali BGOLers..ever go to school w/ ppl who talked like this lol
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quoting lines from Porkys..this scene had me dying
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GIcSuyZjjIM

 

[Noketown]

Hands down:

www.nonicard.com

no nee kard dot kom...dat's wassup!

click on some links...just not everyday!

I didn't know they had a movie planned out!!

http://www.brutesquad.com/Movies/Thundercats/index_noframe.htm

I was a kid in the 80's and the cartoons were off the hook

 

[MistaFlynt]

I Remember Going To The "Starlight Six Drive-In" (ATL Heads Know What I'm Talkin About...Hell, It's Still Open) With My Parents When Berry Gordy's "The Last Dragon" Came Out

All Of Us Lil' Kids Were Outside Of The Cars Chanting "LEROY!!!! LEROY!!!" After Bruce Leroy Whupped Sho-Nuff's Ass At The End

Good Times....Good Times

 

[supreme_math]

But what I miss most about the eighties was the music man...black people was doing their thing in every genre. And they were so creative and innovative. Not cookie cutter like whats going on now. They were doing their thing in hip hop, pop, rock, new wave fam you name it. Im talking about when NYC still looked like this...http://youtube.com/watch?v=UNZ4SLPlul0

I mean you had a wide spectrum of hip hop like this... (Im about to blow y'all minds right now!

http://youtube.com/watch?v=rt-ZE3OtKH0

http://youtube.com/watch?v=k-hRqN0h9Y8

http://youtube.com/watch?v=zy1BmQNMSTg

Real R&b that made you want to fuck...remember this?

http://youtube.com/watch?v=ebVlTPZO4Xg


Pop
http://youtube.com/watch?v=2y64EFugUt4
http://youtube.com/watch?v=6yGc8ZULQP4&mode=related&search=

New wave
http://youtube.com/watch?v=9h6pcqC6wrI
http://youtube.com/watch?v=S7dAxvj2mlU
http://youtube.com/watch?v=MILWYGnLnBY
http://youtube.com/watch?v=Jn8nXLI0xWI

Rock and Roll
(Living Colour)
http://youtube.com/watch?v=RZ5SVDYBNrY
(Fishbone)
http://youtube.com/watch?v=CY-PaxC2MXs

and of course micheal and prince

Damn I miss my child hood

 

[thebxbomber]

KRS - 1 ,Ill WILL (the slap dem up king ) & D- NICE = the BDP CREW!
the bridge is still over!
THE GREAT ADVENTURES OF SLICK RICK
KUNG - FU THEATER!
THE FIRST TIME I GOT HIGH @ THE LOWES PARADISE ON FORDHAM RD
JAMS IN THE PARK.... MUZIC PROVIDED BY THE KIDDDDDDDDD CAPRI.... back then he was pooche! lol

 

[supreme_math]

But most of all it seemed like once and for all we were going to get over that black vs white shit. Back then if you were black and listened to cindy lauper or eurythmics it was okay (Boy George and George Micheal was pushing it) While White people was loving Prince, Micheal, Lionel Ritchie, Whitney Houston. And everything was alright.

 

[ThaBurgerPimp]

a few of the movies i loved back then..
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@ peter(optimus prime) cullen doing the voiceover
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