My first two concerts (I can't remember which came first) were Echo & the Bunnymen and Sha-Na-Na.
My third when I was about 13 was going to see John Kay & Steppenwolf with my parents at the Del Mar Fair.
My first concert without parents was the Motley Crue "Dr. Feelgood" tour.
I still, to this day, regularly listen to Tears for Fears, Duran Duran, The Cure, Joy Division, Echo & the Bunnymen, Bad English, Culture Club, Eurythmics, U2, etc.
I'd have to look up songs I remember to see when they came out, but most of them I was listenting to in grade school, and I was a year ahead in school. Some of teh stuff you guys are talking about I barely remember, some of it is very clear. I'm on that weird GenX/GenY (or "millenial" if you prefer" cusp.
I was in 6th grade I think when NKOTB hit. "Please don't go girl". I was going to marry Joey McIntyre, who's now this ultra conservative Christian singer. Guess we weren't such a great match afterall!
I see a lot of the 80s fashion out there now and it kills me because I hated it the first time around. The thick tights under skirts, or tights with a long shirt -- matching your nail polish to your clothes, etc. I saw some young kids wearing the massive hair bows a few weeks ago, and a few kids with them had the "flock of seagulls" asymmetrical cut.
Ok, random things I remember. Hopefully I'm not the only one. Not saying they originated in the 80s, just that I remember them from then.
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Jem
The water pinball games, forget what they're actually called, where you pushed the button over and over trying to "puff" your balls into a net, or get your rings on a stick, etc.
Denim jackets, preferrably with as many buttons as you could fit.
Using weird things like plastic coils as belts.
Wearing mom's dress shirts belted, like that made it a dress, with my Madonna style booties.
Sea-Wees (man how I loved these in the bath or pool)
My Little Pony, Rainbow Bright, Carebears (all of which are retro now, boohoo). I learned how to braid from reading the back of the MLP box and practicing on their tails.
Teddy Ruxpin
Cabbage Patch Kids!
Atari
Malibu Musk and Love's Baby Soft. God, did anyone NOT wear Love's?
Guess jeans. The size-smaller-than-you-really-wear, terribly bad fitting, overpriced jeans you HAD to have.
Jeans with some generic leg embellishment, e.g. the size zipper, or the back was cut out and held together with denin bows, or front buttons, etc.
Rememebr when fabric puff paint came out, and everyone had "customized" thirts, shoes, sweatshirts?
Colorforms, shrinky dinks...
I -layed with boy toys and had a giant collection of transformers, go-bots, Mastesr of the Universe, popoids, etc.
Pillow People, Puffalumps, Smooshies...
Aww crap I'm old.
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