80s cultural icons - what got you through the Reagan years?

[ulysses]

[CO Liberal]

1. I Still Drank Back Then.....

:-)

[ulysses]

3. that'd do it, yes.

:)

[Kikosexy2]

6. Actually...

"Dynasty" got me through the 80s. Somehow, Alexis and Blake Carrington reminded me of Nancy and Ron. Can it be because they were rich, spoiled and dysfunctional with dysfunctional, messed up children as well?? Aaaaahhhh! I miss that show!

[playahata1]

28. Ron, Jr., turned out okay.

Patti's had her issues, but she is righteous. Don't know about Maureen. Michael -- P-U!!!

[Kikosexy2]

32. Ron Jr. ...

the ballerina?? Throw a tutu and tierra on him....okay? We'll call him "Steven Carrington".

[MrBenchley]

18. Beer and a shot...

usually Wild Turkey....

[terrya]

2. I liked Prince duing his "Little Red Corvette" days.

"Purple Rain". A big fan of his.

Not anymore, though.

[ulysses]

7. thanks for the earworm

;-) Memories of hs band trips...

[terrya]

10. Yikes...hs bands doing "Little Red Corvette"...

Now, I have the earworm.

:-)

[ulysses]

13. no, no, no

We just sang to Prince tapes on the bus. We did do a pretty rocking version of Edgar Winters' "Frankenstein" my senior year, though.

[terrya]

16. Oh. I'm glad that was cleared up.

My bad....

[pink-o]

39. And don't we all wish...

We could party like it was (still) 1999:toast:

[daligirrl]

45. Prince. ..

Sorry. . .I was a major groupie.

[Lavender Brown]

4. Jem.

She was truly outrageous.

[supernova]

5. Bill and Opus

They made so much more sense than the world I was living in. Kinda like now, as a matter of fact.

[Kikosexy2]

14. Can't forget..

Bill & Opus--absolutely funny and outrageous!!! Love them!!

[flamingyouth]

27. Bloom County

Me too! I was just thinking of that great Regan carols strip this week. I've got to dig my book out...

[GOPisEvil]

34. Don't Blame Me - I voted for Bill and Opus!

:bounce:

[htuttle]

8. If you wanna hang out, you've gotta take her out:

Cocaine....

I drank like a fish, too.

I gave up both those things by the time Clinton was elected.

[AspenRose]

9. Any of the teen movies of the time

"Sixteen Candles," "The Breakfast Club," "Pretty in Pink," "Ferris Bueller's Day Off," "Weird Science," etc.

[ulysses]

11. ah, John Hughes

"Hey, we're a generation!" :D

[ChompySnack]

12. Black Flag and Dead Kennedys

Punk Rock finally hit the US

[rbnyc]

20. Dead Kennedys!

Jello was one of my first real heroes.

[TexasBushwhacker]

22. YUP - I WAS DRUNK ON PUNK

new wave and alternative. There was some damn fine music:

Elvis Costello
The Cure
The Clash
Joe Jackson
Robert Palmer (before he started wearing suits)
Dave Edmunds
The Ramones
Blondie
REM (the early stuff)
The Police (ditto)
Eurythmics (Annie and Dave rocked!)
The Cars

Oh, I'll stop now.

[pink-o]

41. Please don't!!!!!

I loved all that stuff too. In fact, played in an all-girl band just before the Go-Go's came onto the scene.

Remember the Stray Cats??? LOVED Brian Setzer and his hollow-bodied Gretch guitar!!!!

[TexasBushwhacker]

49. Stray Cats!

OMG, those guys had some serious tattoos, way before everyone else did. Gretch has Brian Setzer signature models now. John Rzeznik from the Goo Goo Dolls has 3 that he uses on tour. They sound great and they're pretty too!

For another bit of 80's flashback, remember the movie Valley Girl? Great soundtrack AND Nicholas Cage's first staring roll. It was a punk Romeo and Juliet!

[fudge stripe cookays]

50. That's me...

You could tell the minute you walked into my dorm room at NTSU--

The 1 roommate had a poster of the Levi's guy and Alabama. The other roommate had a poster of Rick Springfield and a poster of George Strait.

Me? I had a psychedelic poster of the Cure and a psychedelic poster of REM.

Add The Jam, The Church, Hoodoo Gurus, Midnight Oil, The Replacements, and some other folks too...

FSC

[TexasBushwhacker]

57. LOL - George Strait

He went to Southwest Texas State University at the same time I was attending in the late 70's - early 80's. I never ran into though. He was an agriculture major.

[Solly Mack]

15. Fontane

thank Whoopi Goldberg.

[NoPasaran]

17. Doobies. Lots and lots of doobies.

Also Late Night with David Letterman.

But mostly the doobies.

[greatauntoftriplets]

19. Booze.

Still works for me.

[Howardx]

21. hardcore punk

and drugs

[MrSlayer]

23. Lots of Heavy Metal.

Much of it was themed on the Cold War and quite a bit of it was anti-Reagan.

[playahata1]

29. Speaking on Metal, from your screen name, I can guess

that you are a huge fan of SLAYER.

[MrSlayer]

31. Yes indeed.

[Nevernose]

58. Anthrax! Anthrax! Anthrax!

After the Beatles and the Grateful Dead, my all-time favorite band. Metallica of course rocked, and I've posted elsewhere about the infamous Slayer "pig's blood" album, but Anthrax had that wicked combination of hard-hitting music and witty lyrics.

[wyldwolf]

24. My first girlfriend

yowsa!

[parasim]

25. for me it was...

Talking Heads
Reefer
Hypercard

[Demeter]

26. My Youthful Optimism and the high interest IRA CDs

also I am 100% stubborn Pollack. The real question is: what's going to get me through the current situation? I'm older, tireder, have a teenager in full rebellion and a disabled adult child at home. Bush has destroyed my business with his economy and war and other piracy. I have no significant other, most of my family has died, and even if I went looking, the odds of finding a compatible man are zilch.

[AspenRose]

30. "Is that a Twisted Sister pin on your lapel?"

heh

[GumboYaYa]

33. The Butthole Surfers, drugs, and alcohol......

[ikojo]

35. Not an 80s cultural icon but Dr Who got me through the

Reagan years. Attended MANY Dr Who conventions. I wasn't really into music

[Sentath]

55. That makes two of us

"Dr. Who" was my immediate response to the poll question.

{rlg}

[kodi]

36. herb, and plenty of it.

oh, that's not a cultural icon?

it was to me.

[Amaya]

37. Big hair and spandex pants

What else? :)

[buddhamama]

38. Like A Virgin -- Hey

gapped front teeth and all ;-)

i was discovering Frank Zappa, The Grateful Dead and
some more obscure shit in the 80s too.

[cosmokramer]

40. Bloom County was AWESOME!

[SheWhoMustBeObeyed]

42. RAW Magazine

[tjwash]

43. I drank and smoked a lot of pot back then.

And played in a few hair bands, before my hair fell out.

[Jade Fox]

44. SPY Magazine in its heyday....

I also remember the 80's as an era of one hit wonder bands. There
were a lot of great singles that came out by bands who weren't
neccessarily very good or long-lived.

[m-jean03]

46. I was kind of oblivious to Reagan at the time

Since I was too young for political awareness. . . That having been said, what got me through the 80s was my man MacGyver. . .

Oh, and Sade. I loved Sade.

[starroute]

47. Having little kids and getting off on their stuff

My sons were born in 1978 and 1982. We watched a lot of Sesame Street together, followed around 1984 by a lot of Saturday morning cartoons -- He-Man, Voltron, GI Joe, Spiderman and His Amazing Friends, Jason and the Wheeled Warriors, Transformers -- and then towards the late 80's (or early 90's?) there was Duck Tales, Darkwing Duck, Count Duckula, Danger Mouse . . .

Hey, don't knock it. It beat most of what was going on in adult-land.

[MissMillie]

48. Two words

'til Tuesday

[mac56]

51. Springsteen.

Also beer.

[Droopy]

52. Metallica and Stephen King

I think they may have saved my life. I came of age during the 80s and those guys really helped get me through some rough times. Both were better back then than they are now, too.

[mitchum]

53. LSD, slingheads, cocaine, speed, Gun Club, Tex & The Horseheads...

teenage girls, Prince, Husker Du, Werner Herzog, Grandmaster Flash, PIL, Birthday Party...all helped me block out the 80s

[Feanorcurufinwe]

54. Dead tour

[No2W2004]

56. Beer

and pot.