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John Cougar-before he tacked Mellencamp on to his stage name. Jack & Diane, Little Pink Houses, and Hurts So Good,

The whole Footloose Soundtrack, if I hear any of those songs now, it transports me back to our school trips and those songs being played on a boombox the size of a window air conditioner.

And most of all Bruce Springsteen WOOHOO!! Born in the USA. When I was a college freshman, I waited in line for 3 days-SERIOUSLY 3 DAYS for tickets to his concert. For no one else, would I sleep on a campus sidewalk in a sleeping bag, unbathed for 3 days for the chance to listen to him, from a 100 feet away.

I also loved Hall and Oates. I've seen them in concert over the years 4 times. I saw them when they had a full cast pyrotechnic concert back in 1984, to a few years ago, when it was just the two of them with their guitars on a small stage. I gotta say, they still got it. "Rich Girl" and "Sarah Smile" always have me turning up the radio.

1. What song or band epitimizes the 80's for you? PRINCE -Purple Rain
   
2. What was your favorite thing about MTV? (You know, when they actually played music videos) I wasn't allowed to watch it. (The Canadian version we had)
3. Who is the big music act that you say now "What were we thinking to listen to that and love it?" Debarge. ROFLMAO!
   

1. What song or band epitimizes the 80's for you? ANYTHING Journey. Even the songs from the late 70s were still played a lot in the 1980s.
2. What was your favorite thing about MTV? (You know, when they actually played music videos) Just getting it at all!  We did not get it until 1985, just in time to watch Live Aid.
3. Who is the big music act that you say now "What were we thinking to listen to that and love it?" Umm...none?  I still love the same stuff I loved then.  

@SandyThePoet: Ditto on the Hall and Oates. And while cleaning out our garage the other day, my husband found a prized possession of mine from the 1980s.  A HUGE boombox with dual casette players.  That's right, I could both record straight from the radio (instead of holding a cassette player in front of the radio to record it) AND I could copy casette tapes.  That was my seventeenth birthday present from my parents...and it came from Montgomery Ward!

(I'm cheating by two years to play).

1.  The epitome of 80's band:  Survivor.  2nd runner up:  REO Speedwagon

2.  Favorite thing about MTV:  My town didn't get it until the late 90's.  But when I did see it, I'll say Dweezil Zappa and the video for Nobody's Fool by Cinderella

3.  Biggest 80's WTF:  Richard Marx.  Non-musical:  Big permed or feathered hair, especially on men.

4.  One you didn't ask:  Favorite 80's style icon:  Lisa Bonet as Denise Huxtable.  I wanted every outfit she ever wore.

What song or band epitimizes the 80's for you?

Sister Christian!!!!!  duh!

What was your favorite thing about MTV? (You know, when they actually played music videos)  

Sister Christian Video, Journey Video or Bon Jovi video

Who is the big music act that you say now "What were we thinking to listen to that and love it?"

What are words for - Missing persons! LOL  love that video! 

Thanks for the thread! :)

I would like to change the song choice to

"come on eileen"  LOL  I heard that on hte radio today and i was like.... I gotta change that!!!! :) 

so thank you!