80s nostalgia

[sasguru]

- Spending your pocket money on the latest Smiths album from Our Price
- Trying to avoid the football hooligan violence after a match at Watford
- Saving up for the latest home computer/games/accessories
- Not being able to wait for school to end so you could finish your program in BASIC combined with Commodore's PEEK and POKE semi-assembler-like commands
- During the news, seeing the balloons superimposed on a map of England labelling the thousands of jobs lost in a particulat area.
- Enjoying the top 40 countdown on Sundays, before the like of Stock, Aitken and Waterman and Simon Cowell commercialised pop music forever.


Any others?

[Mich the Tester]

- Spending your pocket money on the latest Smiths album from Our Price
- Trying to avoid the football hooligan violence after a match at Watford
- Saving up for the latest home computer/games/accessories
- Not being able to wait for school to end so you could finish your program in BASIC combined with Commodore's PEEK and POKE semi-assembler-like commands
- During the news, seeing the balloons superimposed on a map of England labelling the thousands of jobs lost in a particulat area.
- Enjoying the top 40 countdown on Sundays, before the like of Stock, Aitken and Waterman and Simon Cowell commercialised pop music forever.


Any others?

Sisters of Mercy, Pixies, Fields of the Nephilim, Yamaha RD350LC, bones that healed in a few weeks, clearasil, Ian Botham, nights out in shoegazing clubs with loose birds, ...

[sasguru]

Sisters of Mercy, Pixies, Fields of the Nephilim, Yamaha RD350LC, bones that healed in a few weeks, clearasil, Ian Botham, nights out in shoegazing clubs with loose birds, ...

Is that a synth?
And yes 80s clubs were quite dire ...

[MarillionFan]

Is that a synth?
And yes 80s clubs were quite dire ...

Watching parents having a mid life crisis as they got nostalgic about the 60s!

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[thunderlizard]

Oggie oggie oggie! Oi oi oi!

[TestMangler]

Is that a synth?

[kandr]

Spectrum 48k

Rocky

The Cure

Beverly Hills Cop 1,2,3,4,5

[thunderlizard]

Carpe Pecunia

Pecuniam

[Mich the Tester]

Is that a synth?

No, it was an irresponsibly affordable, unfeasibly fast motorbike designed by a psychopath and marketed to 17 year olds as a method of Darwinian selection. Those who survived were either;
- incredibly talented motorcyclists or
- provided by their genes with a remarkably durable skeleton

You see the trouble was that up to about 5 or 6 thousand rpm, it felt like a slow, quite civilised motorbike. Above that all hell broke loose and it turned into Beelzebub's rocketship. Now, if you went into a bend in, say, third gear, and then accelerated out, you would often hit the so-called 'power band' (the point where the motor's power suddenly rises toward a peak) before straightening the bike, and the back would simply break out; alternatively, if it was a warm day with lots of grip the front wheel would rise, giving no steering, and you'd hit a tree.

The chaps at Yamaha sorted the problem on later models with a so-called power-valve (YPVS), which adjusted the airflow into the cylinders to ensure a more gentle and predictable supply of power; obviously, that meant anyone with a YPVS model was a bit of a wimp.

[RichardCranium]

Cue the classic: Hey, Hey, 16K

SFW but there is music & singing.