A lovely bit of 80s nostalgia. This was the period when things were really taking off, we had computers we enough power to start to do some really amazing stuff. Games like Monkey Island and programs like Deluxe Paint started to show what computers were capable of.
I remember seeing this artwork reproduced in magazines, and it so typifies the era.
Forgotten action movies of the 1980s
This was really good. Had the scale model kit of the aircraft as a kid
Ok, little bit further down the rabbit hole with Australian music in the 1980s.
Some of these were a little before my time in 1980 – bit too young for music then but so many great bands that were the soundtrack for our teenage years.
Check ’em out!
Just went down a little bit of a rabbit hole on the old Kerb and Gutter (Comb and Cutter Hotel, Blacktown).
I know a lot of Aussie bands played their in the 1970s and 1980s like Cold Chisel, Midnight Oil, INXS, the Radiators and the Angels, but I didn’t know The Cure played there in 1980!
34 years. Still love this song – hugely underrated
Tonight I’m listening to Shabooh Shoobah and I’m transported back to 1983. Songs like Don’t Change and The One Thing invoke such a strong memory of growing up in the 1980s, watching Donny Sutherland’s “Sounds” and listening to the radio – no iPods or even CDs then.
Music is such a powerful memory cue, just listening to certain tracks can evoke a strong emotional response. I can remember the first time I saw the video clip for Original Sin, or Hungry Like the Wolf with a Raiders of the Lost Ark rip-off video that I thought was so cool.
I do find however that sometimes my memories play tricks on me, for the longest time I thought the Don’t Change was the intro music to Sounds, looking just now it was Men at Work. Also if I listen to a particular song repeatedly the memories are harder to recall, that recent familiarity seems to overload the memory which I’m trying to grasp like a thread. Sometimes the emotions are strong, like for some reason Hold Me Now by the Thompson Twins – memories of being 13 come rushing back. All of the dreams and desires. Powerful stuff.