continuation...

[gemfyre]

94.5 played all these in a row. Before sticking on Can't Get You Out Of My Head by Kylie Minogue which pulled me out of the glorious 80's.
Hip To Be Square - Huey Lewis & The News
Video Killed The Radio Star - The Buggles
Kiss - Tom Jones
You Took The Words Right Out Of My Mouth - Meatloaf


..."1983?!" She said aloud, but softly. There was no-one in the house to hear her anyway. If it's 1983 then I am 3 years old. CD Players are REALLY expensive. Her lips turned up in a smirk, My Little Ponies get released in Australia this year... But toys weren't really the main thing playing on her mind as she scanned her room for any traces of distinctive ninetiesness. Her tank top had a Tommy Hilfiger logo on it. Who was he in the 80's? Not much of anyone really, especially not here in Australia. The perfume bottles on her dressing table were definetly non-eighties also. Tommy Girl and CK One. She pondered if she would open her wardrobe and be confronted with her usual attire. Or a riot of denimn and lycra and sparkles and flourescent colours. She looked over at the radio that had started it all. Yep, double cassette, CD player. She remembered she had got that in 1993. 10 years from what the date was meant to be but 10 years AFTER what the calendar confirmed.

Instead of find out she prefered to remain in the daydream. Images of Back To The Future and American Psycho in her head...

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[lotus79.livejournal.com]

I remember that CD player!

we both got the same one for Christmas 93... mine is completely fuggered by now ;)

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[gemfyre.livejournal.com]

The sound on mine isn't what it used to be...

Western Power had a surge and that made it go funny, but they covered fixing it (as well as fixing/replacing every transformer in the house that also died).

The play button broke off. I got it replaced. It broke off again, must be a design flaw. Doesn't matter, I just stick my finger in the gap and press the bit of metal inside and it plays fine.

[lotus79.livejournal.com]

well, I melted the speakers of mine within about a month of having it, then two years later I sold it back to Mum for $50. She gave it to my brother, and he finished it off.

[ant8472.livejournal.com]

1983 was the year. I remember it so well.

Madonna shot into stardom with her number one hit Holiday, Michael Jackson was thrilling people with his new album and his astronomical rocket into stardom. Boy George was on fire with Karma Chameleon. Cindy Lauper just wanted to have fun and made us cry with Time After Time. Duran Duran and INXS were becoming icons in the pop scene and *everybody* was either wearing Madonna outfits or white gloves like Michael Jackson. Breakdance was also becoming popular and hip hop was screaming up the charts with bands like Rock Steady Crew rapping their way to fame. Movies like Breakdance and Electric Bogooloo inspired people to start twisting on their heads or backspinning on vinyl. I was 12. I remember the year well.

Psuedo echo were making noise in the UK, so was Echo and the Bunnymen, Howard Jones "What is love" and Bryan Adams started to sneak his in around this time.

Australia had it's fair share too. Icehouse, Cold Chisel, Australian Crawl.

Nena with her 99 luftballoons, an originally German song jumped into number spots after a few short weeks catching people by surprise. If I haven't got my years wrong, the following tracks all made number 1 that year : Total Eclipse of the Heart - Bonnie Tyler, 99 Luftballoons - Nena, I just called to say I love you - Steve Wonder, Reckless - Australian Crawl.

It was really the year music entered a new revolution and new era. You know how sometimes things just 'click' that year it all happened. Not to this day have we seen the kind of talent that all culminated in the early 80s, particularly 83. It was a great year.

[gemfyre.livejournal.com]

My earliest memories come about in 1984.
I remember our last trip to Melbourne, which was probably mid 1984. And I remember well my 5th birthday which was October '84. After that memories are pretty vivid for me.

My year(s) for childhood music are '87 to '91.

I lived the early 80's vicariously through my older brother and sister (I spent many hours laying on my brother's bed with his big headphones on listening to his tape of Choose 1985). I repossessed that tape (and a bunch of others) and it's now a bit chewed. :(

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[ant8472.livejournal.com]

Late 80s were quite good too.. There seemed to be a minor musical and cultural revolution around 1989 and 1990 too.