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1. Best movies: "The Breakfast Club," "Ferris Bueller's Day Off," and... "Better off Dead!"

All together now... "Frahnch Fries, Frahnch bread, Frahnch dressing... and to drink, Perroo!"

"Two dollars! I want my two dollars!"

And in the immortal words of Ferris Bueller: "Life moves pretty fast. If you don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it." also "It's stupid and immature, but so is high school."

2. Bands: hair metal like Skid Row and Def Leppard! Also Duran Duran, Heart, Adam Ant, Cyndi Lauper! Madonna back when she was actually good! The Go-Go's and later, Belinda Carlisle!

3. "Shout" by Tears for Fears. "Girls Just Wanna Have Fun" by Cyndi Lauper. "Rio" by Duran Duran.

4. My faves: "True Colors" by Cyndi Lauper (who could forget that newspaper dress?) "These Dreams" by Heart (great imagery for the fantasy addict.) "Land of Confusion" by Genesis (great puppets; remember Ronnie Reagan and the gorilla?)

5. The Dukes of Hazzard. Bar none. I wanted to be Daisy Duke.

6. I had big hair, but not as big as some! I had a charm necklace, and acid wash jeans, and a pair of Reeboks! Anyone else remember Bobos (slang name for Converse sneakers?) and leg warmers a la "Flashdance?"

7. Yeah, I had all those too. And I went to the roller rink a lot. Ha!

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You must know I change these answers every week, so you are only catchign me at this moment in time...

1. The Breakfast Club, Lost Boys, Top Gun, and Back to the Future

2. Guns N' Roses, Bon Jovi, Prince, U2 (to an extent, anyway)

3. there is no way I could ever decide upon that... forgiveness, forgiveness...

4. I miss videos! *sobs* Um... er... "Living on a Prayer", "Little Red Corvette"... I'm sure I'll think of more after the coffee gets into my system...

5. *long pause* Let's revisit this one...

6. ...no. *grin*

7. Skates, telephone cord things (yeah, what WERE those things, anyway?) and a hula hoop... But bangles got on my nerves. *grin*

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>1. What is/are the quintessential 80's movie(s)?

The Breakfast Club

St Elmo's Fire
Pretty in Pink
Ferris Bueller's Day Off
16 Candles
Weird Science
Mad Max
Mad Max 2 The Road Warrior
Mad Max 3 Beyond the Thunderdome (90's I know)
2010
Carrie
The Lost Boys

ahhh.... can't remember more.... I know there were so many more...

>2. Bands?

Duran Duran
The Cure
The Pixies
Spandau Ballet
The Communards
Eurythmics
Shakespeare's Sister
Baltimora
Sting
A-ha

err....

>3. Songs?

Don't get me started....
too many to mention here
Basically the singles released by the bands I mentioned and by others sum up the 80s for me...

the Fame theme was one of them... definitely...

>4. Videos? Remember when MTV actually played
>videos instead of endless repeats of "The Real
>World?"

Money for Nothing
The Communards' one big hit (title=?)
Here comes the rain again
Girls just wanna have fun
Like a virgin
These dreams by Heart
Buffalo Stance by Nene Cherry
Take on Me by A-ha ! :))

>5. TV shows?

Miami Vice ! :))
Fame
Cosmos (popular science show)

What more ?

>6. Did you have big hair? A mohawk? Acid-wash
>jeans?

Yes I had big hair... and acid wash jeans and pink sweaters and glitter make up and white lip stick ! lol
oh the horror, the horror !

>7. How about roller skates? ("All-skate, change
>directions!") A hula hoop? Those stretchy
>telephone-cord things everyone wore? The stacks
>of bangles that drove teachers mad?

Stacks of bangles, chiffon things in hair, pink gloves, telephone cord key chain X_X, but no hula hoop or roller skates... huge loopy ear rings, very ugly looking low cut boots, white jeans and jacket and white boots... X_X...

don't make me remember. Now I know why wearing all white looks slightly perverse to me.

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hidetomatsumoto.livejournal.com

Hmm... I don't think I can answer these. I'm not sure I was *in the loop* enough to know what would be considered quintessential. I've always had an *offbeat* interest in pop culture--among other things.

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Hmm - will you accept partial answers that are also personal? Meaning: my answers will be given purely from personal, not the entire decade's quintessential perspective.

1. What is/are the quintessential 80's movie(s)?

- The Dark Crystal
- Labyrinth
- Amadeus
- ET
- The Last Emperor

2. Bands?
- Hanoi Rocks
- AC/DC
- Meatloaf (okay, I deserve to be pureed for that)
- A-ha (couldn't really avoid them in Scandinavia!)
- Duran Duran

3. Songs?
- Thriller by Michael Jackson
- Hungry like a wolf by Duran Duran
- Ashes to Ashes by David Bowie (still gives me goosebumps)
- Time after Time by Cindy Lauper (loved the video too)

4. Videos? Remember when MTV actually played videos instead of endless repeats of "The Real World?"
- Time after Time (see above *g*)
- Arghh...too many visual memories, not enough names here. Sorry. Like for instance - what the hell was that Peter Gabriel video called with the dancing chicken?

5. TV shows?
- Dallas and Dynasty! (not that I really followed them) - now if that's not 80's...
- Knight Rider
- Battlestar Galactica (never missed an episode!)
- The Muppet Show

6. Did you have big hair? A mohawk? Acid-wash jeans?
- I had...(os gaaawd, do I /have to/ confess to this?)...permed, big, blond hair. There. Hope you're happy now.

7. How about roller skates? ("All-skate, change directions!") A hula hoop? Those stretchy telephone-cord things everyone wore? The stacks of bangles that drove teachers mad?

- Had those thin bangles on both arms, plus a flimsy shiffon scarf tied to my neck. *shudder* (thanks for this. Now I'll have nightmares).

- Also had a denim jacket with a Hanoi Rocks logo emblazoned on the back. I think I thought I looked cool.

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LOL! Yes, Top Gun! The 1.5 hour-long music video! And the start of an interesting career for Anthony Edwards.

It was nice when MTV played fun stuff, wasn't it? And who could forget Adam Curry's hair?

So you didn't do the big hair thing. :P Well, the telephone cord definitely qualifies you as 80's! :)

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16 Candles. Molly Ringwald's shining moment. Never saw "Carrie," but the book was great!

>Yes I had big hair... and acid wash jeans and pink sweaters and glitter make up and white lip >stick ! lol oh the horror, the horror !

*laughs* Yes, but we all need to thank God that we are where we are today, and you can't do that without remembering your embarrassing past.

>don't make me remember.

I just did! ;)

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Poor Hideto, lived in a cave throughout a very tacky decade. :)

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lol, how could I forget ET? Well, I do admit that I was about six when I saw it, and I cried through the whole thing. :)

>4. Videos? Remember when MTV actually played videos instead of endless repeats of "The >Real World?"
> - Time after Time (see above *g*)
> - Arghh...too many visual memories, not enough names here. Sorry. Like for instance - what > the hell was that Peter Gabriel video called with the dancing chicken?

"Sledgehammer" was the name of the video. Peter Gabriel was one of the most innovative artists in terms of visual effects in his videos. I also remember "Digging in the Dirt" and "Steam" as being ahead of their time visually.

>6. Did you have big hair? A mohawk? Acid-wash jeans?
> - I had...(os gaaawd, do I /have to/ confess to this?)...permed, big, blond hair. There. > Hope you're happy now.

Awww.... well, I had big blond hair too, so join the crowd. Lots of bleach. :)

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silvereni.livejournal.com

I was born in 1982, so perhaps I'm not wonderfully qualified to answer this poll. Ahh! I'll give it a go.

1. Films?
The Lost Boys
Labyrinth
Lethal Weapon
Gremlins
The Goonies
Terminator
Return of the Jedi
Ghostbusters
American Werewolf in London
The Fly
Back to the Future

2. Bands?
Spandau Ballet
Madonna
Queen
Duran Duran
Eurythmics
Culture Club
Wham!

3. Songs?
Sledgehammer - Peter Gabriel
Sweet Child o' Mine - Guns 'N' Roses
Money for Nothing - Dire Straits
Let's Dance - David Bowie
True - Spandau Ballet
Sweet Dreams (Are Made Of This) - Eurythmics
Golden Brown - The Stranglers
Livin' on a Prayer - Bon Jovi
Cherish - Madonna
A Kind of Magic - Queen
House of Fun - Madness
Beat It - Michael Jackson
Addicted to Love - Robert Palmer
Walk this Way - Run DMC and Aerosmith

And...
Girl You Know It's True - Milli Vanilli (oh dear... but it's very 80's)

4. Videos?
Money for Nothing - Dire Straits
Thriller - Michael Jackson
Sledgehammer - Peter Gabriel

5. TV shows?
Knight Rider
The A-Team
(I could also name loads of children's programmes of the time.)

6. Clothing?
I was too young. I missed the hairdo's and outfits.

7. How about roller skates?...
I had loads of chunky plastic bangles and a hula hoop, but mostly I missed out on this one too.

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Duran Duran! How could I have ever forgotten Duran Duran?! Oh how awful I feel... I need another Pop Tart...

Hey, I had bright pink scrunchies and a denim jacket, does that count? *grin*

MTV sucks... or, as Scary Movie puts it, EmtyV... Thank whatever power exists that there is a VH1... even though that's slowly starting to become bad as well. But I'm hanging onto the dream that maybe, just maybe, it won't die yet... I want to believe!

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I forgot to mention the "Cherry Pie" and "California Girls" videos... I giggle uncontrolably every time I see them. *grin*

How could I have forgotten Ferris Bueller's Day Off?! It's a favorite. As are the Mad Max flicks. Evil, just evil, my mind...

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Good thing you mentioned Back to the Future, that was also very (end) 80's !

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Missed out on all the fun of the Tacky Years.

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(FireC bows to SE's knowledge of the 80s)

How could I forget the Goonies, Terminator, Wham, Sledgehammer, Addicted to Love ?

You know a lot about the 80's to have been too young to have done the clothes. :)

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*reads other responses and quickly makes a note to buy Labyrinth on DVD* It's sad that I should need a reminder of David Bowie in a dream outfit...

Every once in a while, I need to watch the Back to the Future movies. It's just one of those things. Luckily TBS plays it so often, there's not much need to rent. *grin* The shoes, it's the shoes! Alright, and everything else. Just one of those great movies with some pretty good sequels. Don't find that often.

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You're right about that... BttF is one of the few movies that comes to mind that actually had decen sequels that made sense with the time travel an everything. It's rare...

Oh I agree with your comment to the previous thread... girl girls can be such a pain in the b¤#" when you grow up.

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