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Nostalgia alert!
This post is a dedication...to the poor girl that was subjected to hours of music video VHS tapings and mix tape marathons in the early eighties...not to mention the nicknames that I created for her.
Brace yourself...you haven't seen some of these in 20+ yrs. I've left out some of the super obvious (DD) and have included some Night Flight faves...I have tears!
P.S. After posting these I realized we didn't really listen to much American music in the early/mid 80's...thank god we dodged that "Hair Metal" bullet...but you did have that Huey Lewis phase that we will never let you live down...
Big Country- In A Big Country
Didn't this always play in your head when we rode ATV's in the country? Ha!
Ultravox - Reap The Wild Wind
Remember buying this album for a quarter when Gibson's closed in the early '80's...guess no one else in Marshall knew who they were..haha! I also bought the silver tape and black plastic that we covered my room with on the same shopping trip...good times. That was an extreme home makeover...we were so ahead of our time!
Blancmange - Living on the Ceiling
JoBoxers - Just Got Lucky
Dream Academy - Life in a Northern Town
Cabaret Voltaire - I Want You
This video used to come on at 3am on Saturday nights...when we lived in the old house on Jefferson...I was sure someone was staring at us through the window!
Haircut 100 - Boy Meets Girl
Depeche Mode - People are People
King - Love and Pride
'Member when I had this hair?
ABC - Poison Arrow
The Beat - Too Nice To Talk To
The Smiths - Stop Me If You Think You've...
We both sported these glasses at different points in our formative years...nerd girls rule!
Kate Bush - Cloudbusting
Do you remember the cassette for Hounds of Love was marbled pink and grey? Kate's so classy!
This post is a dedication...to the poor girl that was subjected to hours of music video VHS tapings and mix tape marathons in the early eighties...not to mention the nicknames that I created for her.
Brace yourself...you haven't seen some of these in 20+ yrs. I've left out some of the super obvious (DD) and have included some Night Flight faves...I have tears!
P.S. After posting these I realized we didn't really listen to much American music in the early/mid 80's...thank god we dodged that "Hair Metal" bullet...but you did have that Huey Lewis phase that we will never let you live down...
Big Country- In A Big Country
Didn't this always play in your head when we rode ATV's in the country? Ha!
Ultravox - Reap The Wild Wind
Remember buying this album for a quarter when Gibson's closed in the early '80's...guess no one else in Marshall knew who they were..haha! I also bought the silver tape and black plastic that we covered my room with on the same shopping trip...good times. That was an extreme home makeover...we were so ahead of our time!
Blancmange - Living on the Ceiling
JoBoxers - Just Got Lucky
Dream Academy - Life in a Northern Town
Cabaret Voltaire - I Want You
This video used to come on at 3am on Saturday nights...when we lived in the old house on Jefferson...I was sure someone was staring at us through the window!
Haircut 100 - Boy Meets Girl
Depeche Mode - People are People
King - Love and Pride
'Member when I had this hair?
ABC - Poison Arrow
The Beat - Too Nice To Talk To
The Smiths - Stop Me If You Think You've...
We both sported these glasses at different points in our formative years...nerd girls rule!
Kate Bush - Cloudbusting
Do you remember the cassette for Hounds of Love was marbled pink and grey? Kate's so classy!
posted by amor fati at 12:39 PM
3 Comments:
Wow, blast from the past! Thanks for the post, T. Those were the days. I loved hanging out in your room listening to DD, Depeche Mode, Frankie..'til we fell asleep. I remember times when you'd wake me up, just to hear a certain song. People can say what they want about 80s music, but I think it was a great time to grow up...other than the mullets & glasses you mentioned! And you're right, I guess we really didn't listen to much American Music, although I did love some Cyndi Lauper when I was 11! Did you hear that Timbaland is working on the new DD album? Never thought I'd see the day. I would love to reminisce some more...you planning to come home to MO for the holidays?
Abnero Montalban,
Glad you dig the post. Damn it's fun to watch these again. It reminds me of all of the nights we spent in my room reading Rolling Stone and Star Hits counting the days until we were 18 and could get out of that town...to find folks "like us". Ha! I think I may pull together a nostalgic post part deux...just for shits and giggles!
Anyway...no MO for Xmas...Hallam and his gang o'boys will be in town over Xmas/New Year...so playing hostess. But plan to drive out at some point after January to get my furniture out of storage. I'll keep you posted...
Love ya, B.I!
T
Lookin to move beginning of the yr.
trying to avoid brooklyn but think it is where I will end up... as I need more space. blah!
Cheers for the Style Council nod...I wish that someone would have a word with Mr. Weller about his excessive tanning... he is beginning to look like George Hamilton!
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