Your generation!
 

Let's do something fun, think of things that were popular during your HS days or youth, things that identify you as your generation. Such as songs, movies,bands, etc... this can be fun for sure!

Mine are:

Movies- Pretty in Pink, Ghost, Back to the future, Big

Bands- Def Leppard, Whitesnake, Wham, Van Halen, Billy Idol, U2, Madonna, Prince

Songs- Mony mony(Billy Idol), Love bites (Def Leppard) Black Velvet( Alana Myles?)
Is this love (Whitesnake) Like a virgin (Madonna) When doves cry (Prince)

Trends- rolled up jeans, acid wash jeans, big teased hair, jelly bracelets, heaven scent perfume, converse all star shoes

News- Berlin wall came down, Colombia exploded, Global warming started, Desert Storm war started year I graduated HS.
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Who's next?;)

Geez how could I forget "The Breakfast club" movie?:embarass: :slap:

Re: Your generation!
 

Movies- Pretty in Pink, Porky's, ET, Halloween, Nightmare on Elm St.

Bands- Madonna, Duran Duran, The Police, U2, Prince, Wham, Men at Work

Songs- Planet Rock, Hungry Like the Wolf, Careless Whisper, 1999, With Or Without You, Safety Dance, Who Can It Be Now

Trends- Jellies, Rubber o-ring bracelets, big belts, big hair, flashdance sweatshirts, leg warmers, Thriller makeup

News- President Reagan shot, MTV makes its debut, Live-Aid, Grenada

Who's next???

This is fun!:dancing: Ahh memories:glasses:

Consider what happens today and add it to my list!
I´m lucky! 30 years from now, if someone asks me this question, I´ll have the pleasure to say Creed was the band of my generation! :)

Movies- Saturday Night Fever, Grease, The Rocky Horror Picture Show, Kramer vs. Kramer, Apocalypse Now, Life of Brian.

Bands- Bruce Springsteen, Crosby, Stills and Nash, Styx, Pink Floyd, Led Zeppelin, Queen, Kansas, Boston, Meat Loaf..the list goes on.

Songs- Dust in the Wind, Hangman, Bohemian Rhapsody,
Paradise by the Dashboard Lights, More than a Feeling.

Trends- Candies, pants tucked in high boots, gauchos, feathered hair, dressing up for the Rocky Horror Picture Show.

News- Iran hostage crisis, Vietnam takes over Cambodia, the fall of the Shah of Iran, Three Mile Island nuclear accident, Voyager sends pics of Jupiter.

Most of mine are similar to your answers Dogstar. Let's see if I can think of a few others -

Movies - Endless Love, The Blue Lagoon, Ordinary People

Bands - Bee Gees, Blondie, Earth Wind & Fire

Songs - My Sharona, Night Fever, After the Love is Gone

Trends - New Wave music, skateboarding, pet rocks

News - Elvis passing away, Mount St. Helens erupting and President Reagan being shot (the year I graduated high school)


Wow, what a walk down memory lane. Thanks, Jen.:)

I did ehnd up watching that when Teri reccomended it too me it was pretty good :P

LOL, Sheila, I must have a couple of years on you because I remember Ordinary People around my freshman or sophomore year in college. Excellent flick!

Jen, this is a fun thread. You always come up with good ones!

when I was in high school.....

movies-Risky Business, Silkwood, Terms of Endearment, Return of the Jedi, National Lampoon's Vacation, Fast Times at Ridgemont High, Weird Science, Beverly hills Cop, Romancing the Stone, The Terminator, Ghostbusters

Bands- Men at Work, Eurythmics, John Cougar Mellencamp, Duran Duran, Ozzy, Scorpions, Motels, AC/DC, Van Halen, U2, Oingo Boingo, Madonna , Prince, Def Leppard, Bon Jovi, Journey

Songs- Hurt So Good/John Cougar, Hungry Like a Wolf/Duran Duran, Crazy Train/Ozzy, Love You Like a Hurricane/Scorpions, Suddenly Last Summer/Motels, Back in Black/AC/DC, Jump/VanHalen, With or Without You/U2, I Like Little Girls/OingoBoingo, Holiday/Madonna, Little Red Corvette/Prince, She's a LIttle Runaway/BonJovi and sooo onnn.....

Trends-Big Hair, Heavy Makeup, low waisted belts, guess jeans, acid wash jeans, bleached jeans, holy jeans, bead necklaces, big earrings, checkered Van's shoes, pumps with baby doll socks.

News- First woman in the Supreme Court, Princess Diana and Prince Charles royal wedding, Ronald Regan was shot, Seven deaths due to cyanide-filled Tylenol capsules, The first successful artificial heart transplant took place at the University Of Utah Medical Center. Comedian John Belushi died of an overdose of cocaine and heroin. Elvis Presley's Memphis home, Graceland, was opened to the public. President Reagan challenged the country's weapons engineers to create a Star Wars system which would ward off nuclear attack with armed satellites. Singer Marvin Gaye was shot and killed by his father out of self-defense during a violent argument at the home they shared in Los Angeles. During an audio level check prior to his regular radio address, President Reagan joked that the U.S. had launched a nuclear attack on the Soviets. Although the remark was not broadcast on radio stations, the Soviet Union went into a brief state of red alert because they were monitoring the White House's communications satellite channel.

I will come back here when i am about 30-35 :lol:

Yeah, that was a great movie. Mary Tyler Moore sure played a different role in that movie than on her show, huh?

Yes, she sure did! And pretty well, I might add. She was really believable.

Movies: Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom, Gremlins
Music: Culture Club, Wham, Journey, Styx, Madonna, Prince, Bruce Springsteen, Rush
Trends: Big Sprayed-up Hair, Big Belts, Designer Jeans, Acid Washed Jeans, Shoulder Pads, Turned-up collars, Parachute Pants

This was fun; aahh the memories! Some things I'm sure I forgot, I'm startin' to feel old, thinking about stuff from the early to mid-eighties!!

I forgot all about shoulder pads!!! I was NEVER without shoulder pads. I looked like a fullback all the time but I looked so damn cool!! Can't believe I left off Culture Club and the Eurythmics and any of the Indiana Jones movies!!

Dogstar, I have to laugh. I saw Grease about 150 times in one month. It was back when HBO was first starting out and they would show the same movies over and over and over. In one weekend I watched it 6 times alone. Also, Bohemian Rhapsody, we remember that when it ORIGINALLY came out. The younger set all thought that was originally done for the Wayne's World soundtrack. I remember all the kids running out to buy that "cool new song, Bohemian Rhapsody" when Wayne's World came out.