April 25, 2007
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Teen Revisited
Memof6 said that she/you should ask me all sorts of questions. Feel free! I like to jabber about myself. The questions can be her happy-birthday-on-Friday present.
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I have become a fan of the band Reliant K now. They are a contemporary
Christian band, and they have lyrics which really tickle me. What I
like about them is that I often get the jokes and the kids don’t. In one
song, In Love with the 80s, they say, “When you’re president of the Breakfast Club” which my kids totally didn’t understand. The chorus of that song is catchy.
And I’m only gonna pierce my left ear.
And I’ve been working on this mustache all summer long.
And my favorite band will always be Tears for Fears.
And I’m gonna wear a pink tux to the prom…
Now, my date my sophomore year wore a pink ruffled shirt to the prom. Does that count? Do you remember Tears for Fears? The Breakfast Club? What is your favorite 80s memory? Band? And for all of you youthful readers who will sarcastically quip, “My birth” or “I wasn’t born,” what things did you like about that awesome decade?
Teacherperson goes to the prom–1985, age 15.
P.S. Yes, I still have the dress.EDIT–I was going to leave this bit as a comment, but I decided to edit instead.
Since we are yapping of bands–The Police, Adam Ant, Duran Duran, Stray Cats, Huey Lewis and the News, Eurythmics, Depeche Mode, Cutting Crew, Wham, Billy Idol…Plus, my favorite high school song (or one of them) was actually by Tears for Fears–Shout, shout, let it all out, these are the things I can do without… I also had a copy of a cassette by The Dead Milkmen and The Beastie Boys (No sleep ’til Brooklyn!) Motley Crue’s Girls, Girls, Girls was a must-listen.
Songs stick in my pea brain more than anything else, it seems.
INXS (in exceess–remember?) did this one I liked because it had my name in it.
Mary, Mary you’re on my mind,
The folks are gone and the place’ll be mine,
Oh, Mary, Mary wanna be with you,
And this is what I’m gonna do,
I gonna put a call to you,
‘Cause I feel good tonight,
And everything’s gonna be right, right, yeahI’m gonna have a good time tonight,
Rock n’ Roll music gonna play all night,
Come on baby it won’t take long,
Only take a minute just to sing my song.Golly, we were lame, eh? Oooh, Top 40! Casey Kasem! I didn’t delve in to Pink Floyd, the Who, and Queen until I hit college.
Comments (41)
Megan would go nuts over your dress. Absolutely nuts.
(She just came up to me and saw your dress. In awed tones she said “love the dress“.
I know her other pretty well, don’t you think?
Gosh, you bring back tons of memories for me. In terms of bands, I used to listen to lots of “rock” bands of the time – and I am not necessarily saying that proudly. They included Lynyrd Skynyrd (sp?), REO Speedwagon, Loverboy, Yes, The Who, Kansas, Creedence Clearwater Revival (CCR), before I switched over to the comtemporary Christian side – Keith Green, Kansas, Petra, and so on. So, yes, when I am driving in my car on long trips and happen to scan across the FM stations and hit what is now called a “classic rock” station, I can recognize and sing along with many of the songs. What a skill (right up there with “nunchuck skills, computer hacking skills,…” and so on).
By the way, you were certainly attractive back then (I even like the wrist corsage). I obviously made a good decision back in the late 1980s!!!
Oh, my goodness, Mary. I didn’t realize you were so young. I’m afraid the “good ol’ days” you remember are too new for me to remember. I was way out of the loop of contemporary culture in the 1980s.
Too funny, DoctorJ.
That is an AWESOME dress! Did you keep it? My daughter would go nuts.
Credence, Kansas, Eagles, and of course Bob Seeger, always.
I also liked Meat Loaf and The Knack–anyone else remember those one-hit wonders?
They’ve never seen that movie? And the good doctor has some good taste in music.
That is some pink dress…
I remember Punky Brewster, neon colored everything, shoelace barettes, The Eagle’s (still my favorite secular band) and BIG HAIR! Mmm, the carefree days of my adolescence are over, thanks for sparking some memories!
awww i love your dress!!! So Cinderella. If they had a dress like that in the store now, I would so buy it.
Your dress looks like the one I wore to my prom…eeeek.
Yes, I am sorry to say that I DID buy and sell the same house. We were living there on the construction loan for 9 months and when it finished we had to buy it… the conventional mortgage *including the land which we were NOT paying on before * came to more than we wanted to pay. We went from the title company to the real estate office! Stupid but that is what we did.
Wow, while you were wearing that pink dress to the prom, I was picking out a white one in almost the same exact style for my wedding. (I guess I’m old.) The bridesmaids were in mauve, and groomsmen all had mauve ties; although no pink ruffled shirts. The 80′s: I remember The Breakfast Club, Murder She Wrote, and favorite band: The Alan Parson’s Project. Well, I know you were hoping non-Xanga’s would post, so I thought I would make your day, but alas, you won’t see me here too often. I am too busy trying to explain to my kids why they need to stay off-line, they’d flip out if they knew I was posting!!
He looks like Daniel Peck!
You look like a southern belle!
In high school, I liked Duran Duran. We didn’t have any good Christian radio where I lived, but I did know who Amy Grant, Michael W. Smith & Petra were.
My favorite memory from the 80′s would have to be my wedding. I wore my mom’s wedding gown (from the 50′s), but I wore a hoop under it, and my attendants all wore big poofy gowns, too.
Oh my, Mary! You are so young! My first two children were born in the 80′s, 1981 and 1982, so of course those were among my favorite events. I was already past my 10th high school reunion by 1985 (didn’t attend). In 1986 I became a Christian, so that was another highlight.
The realization that I was in graduate school while you were going to your prom zapped all memories of the 80s from my brain. This information is so devastating because you are so much more mature than I am. Also the fact that my oldest is about the age of your youngest tells me that some people get their act together quicker than others.
Fortunately, some of your commenters brought back some memories. I stick with the one from brought back by Memof6 — I became a Christian in ’87.
I just saw the movie Music and Lyrics with Hugh Grant and Drew Barrymore. It has a great music video throwback to the 80′s. I guess that is why I liked it so much. My prom dress was off-white with a HUGE butt bow in the back! But I was stunning if I do say so myself. Or at least my bow got me some attention!
Ah yes, how could I forget Tears for Fears and The Breakfast Club. I also remember the infamous heavy metal hair bands, but my mom successfully scared me enough that I believed if I listened to them I would become a satanist. So I was more into the pop rock…Phil Collins, Journey, Survivor…but of course, Tears for Fears! Keith Green was forced upon me, but I hated his music until I got saved.
Oh wait, did you like The Karate Kid and New Kids On The Block? The guys hated them but it seemed like all the girls loved them.
Yay, we can comment now!! I was thinking of getting a xanga…but decided against it since I have 3 other blogs already…
And my favorite memory from the 80′s would have to be when Jeremy (in his ocean pacific tee) got a bloody knee on his skateboard in the half pipe in the backyard one Tuesday night. Not like I was even alive in the 80′s, but hey…
My date at that same prom had a pink ruffled shirt too! His tux was a light gray though.
I don’t know if it is my favorite memory but in the late 80′s my little sister called me and begged me to go to a Poison concert with her because she wouldn’t be allowed to go if I wouldn’t because she was too young to go herself. I realized that if I ever went to a concert again I must take ear plugs. And I don’t like crowds.
But “Mood Rings” and “Sadie Hawkins Dance” are still better…..
A note on the non-Xanga comments… I’m pretty sure the required e-mail is just for the site owner to see; it doesn’t get published for all the world.
I am one of those young readers born in the 80′s, but my 7 years of life in the decade afford me a few memories. Slap bracelets and leg warmers were favorites, but I was too busy being a tomboy to really care about fashion and culture trends. Mostly I remember thinking about how my sister’s crimped, poofy hair and bangs resembled a poodle. She also wore tons of blue eyeshadow.
I really didn’t know your age before this post (nor had I really considered it), but this puts things into perspective… you’re only 2 and 3 years old than my brother and sister respectively.
I was born in ’82…..so while i “grew up” in the 80′s….it didnt really count since i was 8 when the 90′s came around……. now i think i had my teen years in the wrong decade….i love the 80′s….i love all the “I Love The 80′s” shows on VH1….. I love all the 80′s movies like “The Breakfast Club”….. and so on….. 80′s music rocks….. i miss the 80′s clothes….haha…… slap bracelets….i had them……so yeah….. while i didnt get to enjoy the 80′s like i would have if i was a teen…… i still think they rock…..
I can’t resist a comment just to say I love the dress.
Any chance you were only about 5′ 2″ when you wore it?
The 80′s. . . *shivers*. I cannot stand the 80′s! Not the music, not the fashion, and assuredly not the hair. Although, I think that prom picture of you is adorable.
One thing I like about the 80′s is that my parents were married in them, and I was born in them. That’s about it.
HA! We’re the same age…that’s awesome! I remember ALL the bands and songs you listed, and the ones others listed. I think I have a very similar pic of me in a dress almost identical to yours, except that mine was yellow (lol)!
The eighties were a rough decade for me, so I try not to remember too much from it, but the ONE THING I will never forget is the day I found out that Jesus was ALIVE and that I could have a personal relationship with him!! I jumped into that relationship with two feet running!! That was in summer ’85…and I remember being so ecstatic over this revelation that I laughed and cried as I ran and skipped up and down the nearest hill. Then, a friend bought me an ice cream cone to celebrate! Trials began immediately following that day, but at least that day was INCREDIBLE!!
Even though I wasn’t alive in the 80′s either, I agree very much with Sylvia!!!
Libby ;^)
I love the dress! What a wonderful picture!
Oh dear…looks like a dress that I wore to the prom…in the early 90s…I still have mine in a closet somewhere too!
Hi Mary,
Had to add my 2 cents also. My date to the junior/senior prom (1986) when I was a soph (he was a senior) wore a purple and white tux and the next year’s date wore pink and gray (different guy – just went as friends b/c Joe was off armying at Fort Drum in New York). I also wore a similar style pink dress to that dance. Actually Joe wore a pink and gray tux for our wedding in 1989. My brothers (hee hee) wore pink and gray too. I think it’s the only time in either of their lives they wore pink!
I liked Square Pegs, Facts of Life, Smurfs, the Guiding Light (only b/c of Phillip, Beth and the snobby blond lady whose name I can’t remember). Fortunately our watching that cesspool only lasted a summer. Do your remember the Honeycomb Kid’s clubhouse commercial? My friend, Jodi, and I were going to create our own cereal and have a similar commercial. Note – peanut butter balls rolled in cherry jello DO NOT taste good when you put them in a bowl of milk. I don’t know how we planned to package the stuff.
We listened to Cyndi Lauper (scarey), Tiffany, Madonna, Wham – wake me up before you go go (whatever did that mean?) and I remember watching music vidoes when they were semi tame – there was one song about a desert moon that showed a carload of kids driving to a beach but I can’t remember the name. I remember the Breakfast Club, Top Gun, St. Elmo’s Fire, and that movie w/ Kevin Bacon trying to bring dancing into town. DId they have Kmart in Curwensville or Clearfield? I remember buying 45s in the record section at State College Kmart which is where Lowes now sits. I remember Top 40 and Casey Kasem. Oh and I remember feeling quite stylish in my new velour top in 7th grade.
As I type this I wonder if I would think some of this stuff tame if my kids were interested in it. And I hear Abbie getting into the fridge so I’d better get back to 2007 before she decides to pour her own apple juice.
Mercy me……………..I was married and having children in the 80′s! That decade doesn’t really stand out for me. I remember the 70′s alot better. Isn’t that funny? I think I got my first contacts in the 80′s.
I do remember the Breakfast Club. Isn’t that about the time of St Elmo’s Fire? I liked both of those very well.
Ooh you are so cute! We didn’t pay much attention to the eighties….very busy around ’85. Quartus did wear a prom dress from that era when he played Flute, (or was it Lute) in Midsummer Night’s Dream. It was for his role as Thisbe. He was wonderful.
Okay, I had to comment! You looked dazzling as did your date (V.G.—really sweet guy). Can you believe it’s been that long ago??? And our class reunion is coming up, too! Wow!
See ya…michelle
that dress is ridiculously amazing. i’m so jealous. and i have to agree about relient k; i adore them!
I have a question for you: What are your earliest memories? I have several, all from the year I turned five. One of them was on the day this picture was taken–I remember being so excited, and could barely contain myself from giggling.
That’s quite a dress. Ever hear the peter paul and mary song “pretty mary”? Got your name all over it. Also, the good doctors spelling of Lynyrd Skynyrd is correct.
None of these petty debaucheries or drunkenness for me. Uh-uh. I’m one floor up from the big bad himself.
That dress is faaaabulous. Are there hoops under there? I wore a big criniline skirt with mine. Good times. Good times. Or to quote Styx, The Best of Times.
Hey, its a good song.
Do not EVEN get me started on the 80′s!!!! I can’t even think to add more than you have! You like have like all the awesome bands like listed. I’ll have to dig out a picture of my black velvet and gold lamee drop waisted dress. It had a monsterous bow on the front hip! Not to mention that all of the global warming can be blamed on our use of Aqua Net. Like Totally!
Memory lane is so much fun!!! I like Reliant K as well.
God bless you.
Let’s see. 80′s….I think I was pretty much nonexistent back then, so it’d be pretty hard to remember something. Just going by what I’ve seen, however, there is no decade between 1960 and 1990 that I’m disappointed to have missed.
Yes, I’ve been taking voice lessons since this fall, and I absolutely adore them.
Definitely a highlight of my year!