Hiyu Jules
I just noticed this thread ..
I know this thread is an oldie and has been quiet of late, but its a goodie I thought I would add a little to it

I like you, absolutely loved the 80's and **** I loved the seventies as well (yer om antique )
Life was possibly a little easier , free-er , not quite as fast perhaps and definately not quite as serious as it can be today for sure..

I have tons of memories of the 80's hot summer days and warm summer nights when I felt totally free for lots of reasons..

I recon we all thought the skys were bluer, the days longer back then, but a little voice in my head tells me that maybee this particular memory is a tad bias

Even taking a ride across the city back then on my VFI000 honda seemed a tad more carefree and casual ..
(the cops even seemed a little easier to get on with :-)

I think the thing to remember is that, to some extent, it was not so much that those years were much different, but it is that the periods of time (our younger years) that all of us go through in life, happen to us all at the similar age's.
I do find it a little hard to grasp the fact that 20 year olds today will possibly look back at 2008 in 15 years and remember them as the good old days ??? .. but, I spose they will ???

I also think that some of the differences between then and today can be measured in some weird but definate ways ... a very relative example that comes straight to mind is with our bikes today..
Near everything that comes off the production lines today is wickedly fast and handles well

In the earlly 80's we took our lives in our hands just trying to stay on the dam road because bikes were in general, if stock, bad hadling and over powered for the frame designs that exsisted then..
So the rides back then can be looked back on by me at least as very very different than today..

Music is one of the best memory triggers that we have..
Its amazing how the mind can instantly wander in delight when it hears a tune from a time when it (we) were feeling different than we do today ... a great feeling indeed

When the day comes that I cannot sit back with a cool drink and remember " the old days " with a smile, I think I will dig my own hole and jump in all by myself ...

I know some have said that the more mellow and perhaps sader songs are no so good, but I think they are not depressing at all and do stir the deeper feelings in us and give us a warmer fuzzy feeling inside, better that the rock and roll type of songs from back them ..
Dont get me wrong I love allll Rock ... " I am a seventies child "

I was going to put a ton of my favorites up , but I think just a few would be more appropriate

A few gentle tracks that moved me and I remember well Jules ...
Simply Red - Holding back the years
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kIZFO9y6ozI

Simply Red - The Air that I Breath
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ll7VH...eature=related

Otis Redding -Sittin on the dock of the bay
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rd3rA89VhtA

Since as I do and you seem to like the man a very lovely track from Phill Collins
- Take me home ... a very nice track ...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tJIqx...eature=related

Jules - The 80's , was a great time
and yu could burn gas by the gallonssss without going broke


At the end of everything , all that everyone has left is memories .
Cherrish them, they are what keeps us happy inside, warm at night when alone and are a beautiful place to go when feeling a little lost or down ..

 

That's ok missy...I am used to getting missed[X(]

Yer ..that track of Simply Reds is pretty special to me ... [X(]
the first lines kill me [X(] ...... but that was in another life hey Jules [8D]

"All I need is the air that I breath and to love you ..." [X(]