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"The public has a fascination with royalty, and in the 1980s, Princess Diana became the latest 'it girl', being lovingly referred to as the 'people's princess'."
"The soundtrack is like they use synthesizers and shit like it's back to the 80s hardcore."
"We write the music we grew up with. Our similar background is metal, but one thing we all have in common is the classic hard rocking metal from the 80s."
"The 1980s marked one of the first times where designers consistently transcended surface level changes."
"The spirit of collaboration started in the 1980s."
"Diana's massive Cinderella dress cemented her status as the fashion icon of the decade."
"The F-117 became a symbol of the '80s and is quite possibly the most iconic aircraft of all time."
"He was the best-selling artist of the 1980s."
"YSL Lip Colors: purples and fuchsias were all the rage in the vibrant 1980s."
"Chanel's Coco: a floral spice-forward scent that defined the extravagance of the 1980s."
"1980s beauty products will always leave a mark on our lives, transforming beauty standards forever."
"The film would rake in over 45 million dollars in total by the end of its 1983 run."
"Nintendo essentially created the gamer lifestyle in the 1980s."
"Child's Play is a great and fun horror movie of the 80s and it has lots of enjoyability."
"This album is a landmark of death metal considered to be the best album of all '80s death metal."
"The 80s was the period for transforming passenger cars into campers."
"They made an '80s superhero movie... but it wasn't authentic."
"Gaddafi was in a weakened position in the 1980s."
"It's mob ties though, now last one on this side, we got all me versus legend. That's all me, I touched down in '86, knew I was a man by the age of six."
"Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles became a household name in 1987 and continued on well into the 1990s."
"Buffalo chicken wings rose to prominence in the 1980s."
"High C enjoyed a huge surge of popularity in the 1980s."
"Lean Cuisine's pre-prepared and calorie-conscious frozen meals debuted in the U.S. in 1981."
"This is a 1988 Porsche 959 and it is one of the greatest cars manufactured in the 1980s."
"It's pure 80s nostalgia, and that's why I love it."
"That's a record for the '80s as the most streamed number one and number two hit of the decade in the same week."
"Shockwave at Six Flags Magic Mountain opened in 1986."
"It was in 1985 that Nakahata released 'Michael TV,' a LaserDisc featuring 45 minutes of various music videos."
"He hit the big time in 1982 with his weirdo novelty smash, 'She Blinded Me with Science.'"
"Retro today but was absolutely revolutionary back in '82, Daniel brings together elements of mime and breakdancing to his performance."
"It has the classic 80s sound with those beautiful yet melancholic melodies."
"Even today, her 80s look is still one of the first ones that I think of."
"It's so amazing how on top of the game Honda was in the 80s."
"Stranger Things never disappoints when it comes to 80s nostalgia."
"We wish there were more shows set in the 80s. The aesthetic is just perfect if you ask us."
"1988 produced a lot of influence and quality music that paved the way for rap music to be as big as it is."
"It's easy to see why 1988 is singled out as one of the greatest years ever for hip hop."
"The 80s were crazy, if it was fun, and it was the culmination of a lot of hard work."
"Animatronic restaurants were all the craze in the 1980s."
"The '80s didn't enjoy to see a new wave in music, but also in computing."
"When your resume features starring roles in Ferris Bueller's Day Off and Dirty Dancing, you must be an 80s darling."
"Life Force was released in June 1985, competing against 'Cocoon.'"
"Randy Savage taunted opponents with some of the greatest promos of the 1980s."
"The crack era seemed to come out of nowhere. You know, somewhere in the early '80s, all of a sudden, you know, everywhere in America, people would be out on the street selling and using crack."
"Layouts from the 80s: variations on a theme, limited only by available programs."
"The mall setting also gives the fight a genuine '80s vibe, which is always welcome."
"The mid and late 1980s saw the involvement of two esteemed academic figures: Harvard psychiatrist John Mack and historian David M. Jacobs."
"The symbiote first appeared in the '80s Secret Wars."
"Heathers, 1980s movie, another cult classic."
"Rick Springfield became the early 80s heartthrob and an icon."
"I found 'Easy Lover' during the pandemic by myself while looking for '80s music videos."
"I really enjoyed Flash Gordon. It came out Christmas of 1980."
"Evil Dead 2: One of the greatest horror movies of the 80s."
"Nike Air Force One: became synonymous with the high energy, competitive spirit of 1980s basketball."
"Clearly Jason Voorhees is a man with a backstory that doesn't make sense because it was the 80s."
"It's one of the most spectacular neighborhood displays you'll find anywhere in the world, and it's a tradition that was begun in the 1980s by Lucy Spata."
"It's a great car... they actually upped the 4x4 ultra high performance 4x4 game in the 1980s to a whole new level."
"the vanishing of will buyers" - Stranger Things was largely inspired by the works of Stephen King, Steven Spielberg, and everything 80's.
"Money became a big factor in the 80s and the bgds got heavier into pushing weight."
"The 80s was the first example of a pop culture retro boom."
"But then all of a sudden with the debt and everything, but then guys that were three, four years younger than me, it started farming in the mid-80s."
"On that morning in 1987, 20-year-old Jay Cook and his 18-year-old girlfriend, Tanya van Cuylenborg, set off from Victoria, BC, for what was supposed to be an overnight trip to Seattle, Washington."
"The dynamic was largely reminiscent of what we've seen in the country in the 1980s."
"Def Leppard is one of only a few acts in the 80s to have had two Diamond Studio albums."
"It wasn't just Reaganomics, it was voodoo economics."
"I had a million dollar net worth and I was making $20,000 a month in 1983."
"Steve being okay with Robin's sexuality is huge as homosexuality was looked down upon in the '80s."
"Stranger things season 1 doesn't just lazily bring back the iconography of the80s it brings back why we remembered any of that iconography in the first place."
"Look, the comic came out in the 1980s, it was a huge hit."
"Laser tag, a novel form of entertainment that emerged in the 1980s, quickly became a favorite pastime among young tech enthusiasts."
"It's a must-have for any type of 80s collector."
"It came to be a defining breakfast time staple of the 1980s."
"They're just trying to have a good time and hit your Nostalgia 80s feelings."
"The car has pop-up headlights, which are cool, wonderful things, a very 1980s quirk or feature."
"Nothing embodies the 1980s mustache like Tom Selleck."
"It was this drive and the abandonment of the fear of selling out that allowed these artists to rule the 1980s."
"Blue Monday is one of the most important tracks to come out of the 1980s."
"Participating in group aerobics classes like jazzercise was all the rage in the 1980s."
"My little 80s heart is pretty dang happy right now."
"The really great comics are originals... in the '80s, there were a lot of hacks."
"This was one of the better storylines WWF produced in the late '80s."
"You have this appeal from this like nostalgia 1980s crowd but those people are now all in their 50s. It's old. Yeah, they could care less at this point."
"Michael Myers is not really considered a horror icon of the 1980s in my books when you look at the numbers."
"Memorial Valley Massacre comes to us from 1989 and it certainly carries a pro-environmental message way before movies like Birdemic made it cool."
"The groundbreaking action figure Line featuring the hero called Sun man first hit toy store shelves in 1985."
"A toy this massive could only have been produced in the mid 1980s, the glory days of playsets that have sadly passed us by."
"The adventures of KITT were featured on one of the coolest shows of the 1980s, Knight Rider."
"The '80s I swear has some of the best movies."
"The 80s: the decade of big hair, Miami Vice, and epic montages."
"If you lived under a rock in 1982, Ford would probably have pushed a brochure underneath it!"
"He-Man and the Masters of the Universe: a hit in the 1980s, influencing countless generations."
"The Ferrari 328 is an object of pure beauty and is the ultimate variant of the attainable two-seat V8 powered Ferrari of the 1980s."
"To me, this is a perfect album of the 1980s."
"I think your makeup is excellent. I think all you all were born in the '80s, so you're like feeling that era because that's the era that came out your mama's. Your hair is so '80s."
"New York in the late 1980s was a completely schizophrenic divided city."
"Especially for probably that, I don't really know because I don't know '80s were amazing. I think, as far as that era, the horror aspect was very, I think, well done. It was very inventive."
"For many kids in the 1980s, this was their first exposure to real Japanese anime."
"Overall though Robotech's macro saga is not only the strongest Robotech series but arguably the strongest cartoon of the 1980s."
"The Smiths became an instant success in the UK, offering a completely different vibe to other acts of the 1980s."
"I love sports cars from the 1980s. It's my favorite era for the automobile and nothing screams opulence and decadence and just outright outrageousness quite like a flat-nose 911."
"It's amazing when, like, now I watch any movie almost between 1981 and 1989. And you're just like, oh, this was like a coke fucking rampage."
"To a young lad like myself growing up in the 1980s, this was the very epitome of hot motoring."
"The 1980s were the heyday of Canon Films run by Manahan Golan and Yorum Globus."
"The band has no regrets about their overblown looks, both their albums in the 80s went double platinum and they're still doing what they love most, making music."
"Mötley Crüe got together in LA back in 1981, sprayed up their hair, painted their faces, and soon became one of the decade's most infamous and influential bands."
"Better off dead remains a cult classic from the 1980s"
"Take away the Halloween moniker and just call it Season of the Witch and it's one of the best and bleakest horror movies of the early 1980s."
"I don't know if the 80s one was from the 80s, I don't know, I'm not doing Barbie research."
"It's still attracting new listeners, it's one of those go-to songs for other cultural mediums when trying to create that perfect aura of the 1980s."
"It screams 1980s but in a good way."
"Celery is nostalgic to me. Celery says, 'It's the '80s, we have options, we have opportunity.'"
"In July 1982, Diane Downs began an affair with Robert Knickerbocker, a fellow co-worker who was married."
"Let's get back to the 80s. This week's review covers a popular vehicle from 1987, the Cobra Wolf."
"Ninjas had supplanted kung fu as the new fad by 1984."
"Voltron stands out from a lot of other cartoons for several reasons in the 1980s even its American contemporaries for one the cartoon actually has a meta plot."
"Your wildest dreams was The Moody Blues' biggest single in the U.S. since their 1972 reissue of Nights in White Satin."
"Overall, 'Your Wildest Dreams' was a huge MTV video hit. We saw a lot of airplay, especially in the summer of '86."
"1985, Cyndi Lauper, European 12-inch maxi single, 'The Goonies are good enough.'"
"1986, reissue of the 1980 cure album, Boys Don't Cry, this is a UK press of it."
"I just love it already, it's set in the 80s top tier."
"1982, The Clash, 'Rock the Casbah.'"
"It's so 80s that, like, it's like the world premiere of El DeBarge's 'Rhythm of the Night'."
"The 80s was a decade of greed, self-interest, laissez-faire capitalism, and there almost cultish level of individualism."
"I love Gremlins. Once again, another one of the classic '80s films."
"Money for Nothing by Dire Straits is one of the defining pieces of Pop Culture media of the 1980s."
"This video was groundbreaking stuff at the time."
"Money for Nothing was released as a single on June 28, 1985 in the United States."
"If you were a kid in the '80s, then you will know."
"Seiko: Probably one of the most famous digitals would appear in 1980."
"It's like an 80s glam rock type villain with the big shoulder pads. I find that quite fun."
"Paul Coffey, one of the best roving players of the 80s."
"Phil Collins blared out of boom boxes everywhere."
"Mid-sized family sedans ruled the road."
"Back in 1984, this would have been the most expensive motorhome that you could purchase."
"I became a winning machine during the '80s."
"It's kind of that '80s minimalist vibe."
"I'm a child of the 80s, I had like all the Star Wars figurines."
"1980s baseball was great. I grew up on 1980s baseball."
"Thriller is almost universally accepted to be the best music video to come out of the decade."
"It's difficult to know how crazy that record sounded back in 1982."
"We were starting to invent things in the 80s, you can invent things."
"Kramer is such a cool classic 80s brand."
"I love the like Universal monsters all mixed together with The Goonies, Lost Boys, and all this great feeling from the '80s."
"It's got some really great '80s music in it which I think ties it all together with that great '80s feeling."
"A total ban on further clearing of native forest was introduced in 1984."
"Now for the late '80s, the specs on this car are really quite impressive."
"In the 80s Van Halen famously requested M&Ms with all the brown candies removed backstage at their shows."
"Debbie is a decorative collector's doll by Bradley from 1980."
"Castle Byers. I love that. God, I miss being a kid in the 80s."
"We built our own home back in 1985."
"The 1980s was one of the most influential decades for motion pictures."
"Back to the Future, Raiders of the Lost Ark, Ghostbusters, Terminator, RoboCop - the list goes on and on."
"There was a magic in the 80s, and the way the films entertained while still taking it all very seriously."
"I think 80s music sometimes takes a lot of heat, but I love it, I think some of the greatest hits of all time coming to the 80s."
"The '80s, what a time to be alive."
"There's just something about the '80s that reminds all of us of a better time."
"80s horror films... brought us a chance to face our fears in a safe environment."
"Every seventies band that I liked, when they got to the 80s, if they were continuing to make music, I didn't like their 80s stuff."
"I see an 80s thing kind of happening here, let's lean into that."
"It's Saturday morning in May of 1980. You pour yourself a bowl of powdered donut cereal, the console TV turns on, and you hear the sweet hum of static."
"Thank you for making my '80s horror memories a pleasure."
"There's a lot of nostalgia for you '80s movies buffs."
"It was the all-new front-wheel drive hatchback layout of the 1980s that resulted in the Escort taking over the world."
"The Mark IV looked far more fresh, youthful, and in keeping with the aerodynamic age of the mid-80s and early 90s."
"Really cool '80s stylish vampire movie."
"The return of Godzilla was one of several movies to be produced in 1980s era Japan that dreaded the outcome of the Cold War."
"We all know how tremendous the WWE was in the 80s."
"1980s Halloween knockoff Friday the 13th would become a surprise mega success."
"Well, we are into the '80s now... and things are changing in the music scene."
"It's just a perfect album, one of the best to come out in the 80s."
"This sweet spot between 1980 and 1990 really there was a lot of innovation in the 80 class."
"Unlike the modern mini class where several of the bikes can trace their roots back to the Bush administration, the mini-class offerings of 1987 were full of fresh blood and innovation."
"Hulk Hogan's reputation in the 80s was to have a real superhero."
"Pasha featured on 924s, 928, and a few 911s in the 1980s."
"Willow was a classic '80s fantasy movie."
"I think the 80s were the best decade for film."
"This thing is just such '80s fun."
"The 80s were a great time for young people and kids due to serious advances in technology."
"It was a time when people not only accepted but fully embodied daring decisions and a willingness to take risks."
"It started the portable music scene, which was everything back in the '80s."
"Ghostbusters is a film that personifies the 1980s."
"Beverly Hills Cop flew against typical action film fare, swapping out the macho bravado supercar for something more chaotic and comedic."
"The 1980s, a decade that contained a lifetime's worth of evolution."
"This is everything about the 1980s which was brilliant."
"Globalization deepened with the liberalization of capital markets in the 1980s."
"Danny Sullivan is a great driver. He is world famous for the spin and win in 1985."
"She became a pop behemoth in the 1980s."
"We had the space shuttle, we had all the technology, computers, the boom, CDs, just the greatest, MTV started."
"It's amazing too, you watch the old videos during the '80s, nobody had phones, no devices."
"Southern California became a breeding ground for backyard punk rock parties in the 80s."
"By the early 1980s, they continued that momentum, now doubling their stores to over 260 and posting 165 million dollars in sales."
"1988 was an amazing year for the Ninja Turtles. It was the beginning."
"He was super involved in the AIDS movement in the 1980s."
"It just captures the moment of like the '80s metal head better than anything I've ever seen."
"Cobra Commander is the most important comic book villain of the 1980s."
"The '80s only had one idea: an excess of excess."
"Back then in '88, I was basically the best player in the world, hands down."
"What a great game, and I started playing that Dune all in the 1980s."
"Saturday mornings were a special time for a kid in the '80s."
"Cereal in the '80s was pretty awesome."