Screamin' 80's  

I was born in 1980as well. It was the good times to me-Michael Jackson!! I did not listen to the same bands as you mentioned, but the 80s were good.

Lol, oh god, the dreaded 80's! I was born much earlier but I became teenager in the early 80's. I was even in a hair band for a few years...(no, not posting pics, lol). Things I remember thinking were pretty cool back then:
The "walkman"
the "rockman" (a tiny headphone guitar amp
Finaly got a microwave
VHS tapes and machines
My first computer.....a commadore 64 lol.
Music was probably the biggest thing impacting my life at the time. I am a musician so I supose thie is natural. My tastes varied. I was a huge fan of the 70's hrder edged rock like early def lepard, judis priest, as well as progressive stuff like styx, kansas and rus. I was in to the hair band music a little, but was really more atracted to a new emrging type of music in the 80's, "speed metal". I was really in to metallica, slayer, anthrax, overkill and the like. I liked it because it was a natural progression from earlier influencesx like motor head, pile driver, venom and such
Thanks for the nostagia.

I started jr. high school in the 80's and the coolest thing, like you said was the clothes and the hair!
I remember this mini skirt outfit I had that I wore with leg warmers!! lol
And dressing like cyndi lauper and madonna....it was a great decade!
Guys with mullets everywhere!!
Fun times!

Hi Princess. Every decade seems to have it's unique coolness, yes? In the 80s I was in my 30s, but my oldest daughters were coming of age, so I do remember those things you've mentioned as favorites of theirs, which I also enjoyed with them...from a mother's perspective, of course. And there's not been a single decade through which I've lived that I did not fall in love with some of the music, styles, etc.

My own coming of age was the decade of the 60s, but I'm thinking most by now are familiar with that era and all the changes, civil rights movements, innovations and protests and the music and such that came with it.

Karen

I graduated high school in 1984, and I remember that decade very well. Izod shirts, parachute pants, skinny ties, and crayon shoes. Hair Bands, Rubik's Cube, The Challenger explosion, and the start of Mtv. It all had a profound effect on what was to come. :)

Oh what comes to mind....

Atari, my family owning its first VHS player and microwave, jelly shoes, florescent clothing, the beginning of hyper color clothing, teased/ratted hair, synth pop, wearing a tank top under a tank top that's gathered in the back between the shoulder blades, D.A.R.E., Care Bears, plastic charm bracelets and necklaces, John Hughes movies, Nintendo, The Goonies, when Adam Walsh disappeared and how many kids got scared after seeing the made for tv movie about it, TMNT, all of the music groups named in the original posts, those little cardboard framed mirrors that were given away at carnivals with pictures of metal groups on them, The Lost Boys, Girl Scout lock ins / overnight events at the local mall, Pee Wee Herman movies and Pee Wee's Playhouse (gag!!!!), ALF, WGN and some station out of St. Louis were the biggest stations broadcasting on cable (where I lived anyway), late night horror flicks on tv instead of informecials, cheesy horror/thriller flicks (I watch some of the crap that scared me back then because I was little today and just laugh at myself), MTV actually played music videos - California Girls by David Lee Roth is the first one I ever watched on MTV, Beverly Hills Cop & Die Hard movies.... pouofy skirts, Punky Brewster, how people used to dress up in big costumes from shows like the Smurfs or that silly robot (alfie?) and go to malls and fast food places to do meet and greets, after school specials, saturday morning cartoons actually lasted until 11am or noon, Rainbow Brite, Moondreamers...Gummi Bears.... holy I think I ran out of ideas!

That was a really bad period in my life. I had gone through a bitter divorce and lost everything in a one sided property settlement, and so turned to the bottle. To cap it all off my ex moved houses without telling me, and I had to find my ywo children. A period of my life I'd rather forget. Give me the fifties, or sixties anytime.

The 80's were all right, but NOTHING compares to The Man From U.N.C.L.E. of the 1960's TV!

I remember the movie, "Sixteen Candles" but I don't remember the others you mentioned. That was a good movie, though. I also remember "The Breakfast Club" and "La Bamba". Those were both good movies. I had a bookstore from 1984 to 1986 and we rented movies and vcrs. We had The Breakfast Club. Oh yes, I remember Cyndi Lauper. Her picture was on the front of a lot of magazines we had. I thought she was cute but I didn't particularly like her wild style. I guess I'm a little old fashioned, lol! I remember the curly permanents becuase I had a couple of those. Kathy.

The 80's = Metal.

Judas Priest, Scorpions, Ozzy, Dokken, Motley Crue...