I love the 80s most and foremost for the incredible dark and sexy UK inspired new wave music - Depeche Mode, Duran Duran, The Cult, Bauhaus, Sex Pistols, Siouxie and the Banshees, etc. Although my taste is vast and all the kitshiness that came with it. Today I stand alone after traveling all over the world and still, when I want to hear something to bring my mood alive, I still listen to my 80s. Even now, having returned from China after 2 years there, I put on the TV to the Retroactive channel and just sing along with the irresistable songs! I was born in 1977, so I remember being a little girl dancing along with the music my parents were playing, which went from Thompson Twins to the Waitresses to Madonna and I remember the first time I went into NYC at around 3 years old and saw the super funky, weird creature man with a gigantic mohawk and feeling so happy! At 4 years old, I was given my first vinyl: Cindy Lauper "Girls Just Wanna Have Fun" and what a noisemaker I was!! I still rock legwarmers and my plastic bangles! And I loved all the 80s movies: "Pretty in Pink" and "Fast Times at Ridgemount High" - these movies expressed all the self consciousness and wildness of growing up as a teenager! Basically, I miss those crazy, super creative, hyper expressive times when to be a costume character was normal and spurred on! Thank God for 80s online radio stations!! Hail to the 80s fans and all who miss those times!!

I was born in 1966, so I graduated high school in 1984. I still own legwarmers, neon shoestrings, and entire (almost) album collections of Prince, Pat Benatar, Bon Jovi, The Scorpions, Madonna and "The Breakin' Soundtrack" - complete with breakdancing instructions! :^} I still have a couple of really over-shoulder-padded dresses that I drag out every now & then for theme parties. I drank 3 bottles of Boones Farm Strawberry Hill til I puked one night(1982?) after getting home and sneaking in after curfew. I used "Sun In" on my hair to lighten it and it ended up this orangey-copper, not really blonde color which I thought looked GREAT! However, the pictures I have from that time period convey a quite different reality. EEK! I started smoking Virginia Slims 'cause they were cool and so was I - Ha! My friends and I would go every Sunday night to "Gandalf's Disco 94"... we were all only 13 or 14 but Sundays it was "Teen Night". My god, I forget how many of my girlfriends lost their virginity in the parking lot after making out to "Open Arms" by Journey. Like, gnarly memories, ya know? But, I feel lucky to have been a teen in the 80s - .our parents would buy liquor for us if we promised to stay in, we were not yet afraid of sex because of AIDS, nobody really cared if we smoked pot or loitered in Burger King till midnight. There was still a "looseness" and innocence and sense of random "no one is watching us to closely" back then. That doesn't seem to exist now. Parents today are paranoid and overprotective and hover over their kids a little too much. Glad I don't have any (kids, that is!). I still occasionally go out and dance till dawn; just now it's not with the help of any white powdery substance and I'm doing it for the exercise - this has been fun to share!

I was born in 1989 and I don't remember anything from the 80s but when I see a movie, a TV series, or I listen to 80s music, I want to go back in time and go to those wonderful years! I love the rock n' roll style of the time and actually I have an 80s hairstyle and most of my clothes are older too! That's me! And I actually own a t-shirt from 1987!

This is very cool! I was born in 1979,so the 80s were my childhood! The 80' was the best decade ever! I watched everything: 227,Alf,Just The Ten Of Us,Family Matters,Family Ties,Growing Pains,Cheers,Solid Gold,Puttin' On The Hits,Buck Rogers,Soul Train,Star Search,Gimme A break!,Happy Days,It's A Living,Golden Girls,Hill Street Blues,Cagney And Lacey,The Hitchiker,Amazing Stories,Small Wonder,Double Trouble,Knight Rider,Manimal,Airwolf,Silver Spoons,The Hogan Family,WWF Wresting,G.L.O.W.,Three's Company,It's A Living,The Jeffersons,Full House,Perfect Strangers,Facts Of Life,Different Strokes,Punky brewster,Jem,Thundercats,Heathcliff,Garfield,Charlie Brown and Snoopy Show,Silverhawks, He-Man,G.I. Joe,Dallas,T.J. Hooker,Dynasty,etc. Saturday Mornings were an event! Kidd Video,Smurfs,Mr. T, Punky Brewster (animated),Galaxy High,Muppet Babies, Saturday Supercade,The Wuzzles, Foofur,Kissyfur,Snorks,American Bandstand,Pound Puppies,Monchichis,Pac-Man,Rubik,The Littles,Bugs bunny,Get Along Gang,etc. The toys were awesome: She-Ra,Jem,Barbie,Maxie,Rainbow Brite,Smurfs,Voltron,Easy Bake Oven,marbles,Rubik's Cube,Atari,Colecovision,etc. The music was amazing! Prince,Michael Jackson,Madonna,Janet Jackson,Van Halen,Cyndi Lauper,New Kids(ha!), New Edition,Pointer Sisters,Hall and Oates,Debbie Gibson,Tiffany,Martika,Expose,The Jets,Mary Jane Girls,Rick James (RIP),etc. I wish I could go back!

August 2nd 1984, 4:09 pm, in a discount retail store, I walked up to a shelf my little hands picked up a box that sparked my imagination. It appeared to be a toy truck, yet at the same time a robot. I'd never seen the like of it before. The front of the box featured a name. That name was Optimus Prime. From that day my life changed and apparently so did the world as far as animation and science fiction were concerned. It was an era that I will never forget, never. The sites and sounds live on in my memories of a time unique to all.

I was born in 1972 and have to say the three greatest things that happened to me in that era were: 1) Telephone poles- we could play in the streets between a set of telephone poles any sport we wanted to and the people driving their cars would actually wait until the play was over and asked us if we could move; and of course the moment the lights came on it was time to go inside. 2) Older cousins- they provided me with all the pornography and hints on what women like, the correct way to use curse words & derogatory phrases. 3) Entertainment- Movies, music, television, & Nintendo (I could write a 5 page paragraph about this subject)!