80's-90's MEMORIES

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  • Bluejam25

    • loved that DVDfadein11
    • This is great. I have the Michel Gondry too.Morning_star
    • I’m sure I still have thisimbecile
    • I had those DVD's.NBQ00
    • what ever happened to him?inteliboy
    • lol, pretty sure that was in the 2000sshapesalad
    • the dvd came out in 2003 I believe but most of his music videos were from late 90'sNBQ00
    • That DVD and the two others of the series the one of Gondry and the other from Spike Jonze are deliciousGabriel
    • they should make 4k version of it...neverscared
    • Mike Mills dvd was my favourite from that series.shapesalad
    • Mike Romanektank02
    • Mark RomanekNBQ00
    • I dearly wished he had a Kubrick/Warner Bros style relationship... so we'd get to see what he could do with a decent budget... never too late mind!LukeO
    • I have the first 3. I had no idea made so many more.fooler
    • Ha, forgot about these. Gondry, Jonze, Cunningham were the best.garbage
    • ^ Those are the 3 I have. Tower Records.i_monk
    • nice I've got the gondry, jonze, cc onesprophetone
    • this was like the second DVD i ever bought. i still remember that day. amoeba records on hollywood blvd. that place has since movedscarabin
    • Some rumors said he made a zombie movie and chose not to release itdrgs
    • Awesome. Got a few of these too.MrT
    • still got that box set, Gondry, Cunningham and Jonzeautoflavour
    • mind you, don't have a DVD player anymore ;)autoflavour
    • All 3 are sitting in my loft right now. Good shit is hard to throw away even when having nothing to play them on.Hayzilla
  • Elwin7418

    • best. show. ever._niko
    • Here ya go https://www.youtube.…scarabin
    • Yes! I used to throw around my mom's disc-shaped measuring tape and pretend it's a yo-yo bomb.bezoar
    • damn, thanks scar, brings back so many memories, also forgot mark was voiced by Kasey kasum_niko
    • +Wordsworth
    • Remember watching this on tv when I was a kid.pango
    • I loved this!Chimp
    • In the socialist hellhole of Denmark, 6 yearly weeks state-guaranteed vacation, not counting all the bank holidays. Great success.jagara
    • < wrong thread, sorryjagara
    • Science Ninja Team Gatchaman!!!necromation
    • Every night on the abc down under in the 80s.... Followed by The Goodies and Monkey!sab
    • This & Ulysses 31 where the dog's bollox back in the dayfaxion
    • Excellent. And the theme toon, and the Ullyses theme toon.MrT
    • And now I'll have the Ulysses 31 theme in my head all day, espeically the Nono breakdown.Nairn
    • The physics of 'fiery phoenix' still bothers me.Brabo_Brabo
    • oh... https://gatchaman.fa…Brabo_Brabo
    • seems things were dumbed down for gaijin san.Brabo_Brabo
    • best cartoon ever!microkorg
    • All pilot helmets should be shaped like bird heads.misterhow
    • this was pretty much the 'gold standard' for cartoons when i was a kid. christ i loved this one so much.exador1
    • Loved this!formed
    • Wait wait wait... I thought some of you are much older than me. How come we all watched it as kids? Was I watching re run?pango
    • Yes. It's from the early 70s, redubbed for whitey in the late 70s, repeated numerous times since.Brabo_Brabo
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  • BonSeff21

    Found a 1996 Honda CR125 on FB for cheap and decided to restore it. It was "clapped out" as they say.. meaning pretty trashed.

    Tore it down to the frame to rebuild correctly and inspect/replace all that needs it. It's the only way to truly trust and ride a bike this neglected

    Lots of work done to the frame and motor

    More progress

    Finally got it together




    Then came the fun part. Designing out the graphics for it. A shit ton of time measuring, getting it into illustrator, printing it on regular paper, mocking it up on the plastic, tweak this, tweak that, do it over again. Prolly 3 rounds. Hope I get it right. It printed today and I am excited to put it on when it arrives. I gave the Qoob some love. Also dropped a Fabuloso logo on there because my shit is clean and also I thought it would be random as hell and funny.


    • Sweet!YakuZoku
    • Fantastic.ideaist
    • Sicknb
    • Radical!!futurefood
    • Wow! I am currently seeking to shoot with such a machine. Admire your skills to rebuild.SimonFFM
    • what's the weird vertical strut sticking up on the lefthand side of the handlebars?hans_glib
    • not a 80-90s memory. I hope it explodes tomorrow.robthelad
    • Oh my God, the yellow Qoob logo is amazing. This is a landmark event.CyBrainX
    • This is what I want retirement to look likemisterhow
    • love it, what a project_niko
    • What a cool projectstoplying
    • That's fucking dope.

      @hans It's a snap wrap built into the number plate.
      garbage
  • PhanLo25

    Digging potatoes with my Granda.
    He'd sometimes hide sweets in the soil so I could dig them up.
    He was a full time gardener all over the city, but none of his kids learned how to keep a good garden.
    -

    • I drive past this house now and that area is a concrete drive way.PhanLo
    • awesomeKrassy
    • utopian
    • neverscared
    • Where is it?SimonFFM
    • The whole country is concreted over to park cars.shapesalad
    • My childhood street used to have lovely front gardens full of roses and hydrangeas - now flattened, concreted our and cars parked. Looks miserable.shapesalad
    • My Paw had a garden, but it was more of a "get out here and pick beans you little shit" type of situation. +1 for your Granda.garbage
    • This is lovelyStoicLevels
    • @SimonFFM it's North Edinburgh, still looks fairly similar now apart from as Shapesalad says loads of cars, almost end to end.PhanLo
    • My family had a Facebook group in lockdown where they shared old photos, here's another my aunt found
      https://i.imgur.com/…
      PhanLo
    • I thought I posted here? Minds me of my Gran's bit, PhanLo - shingle rows with orange tile tops and privet hedgerows and rockeries out front, veggies back. :.)Nairn
  • mort_18

    Late nights trying to get Windows, Cubase and sound card to play nice. De-fragging hard drive. Unplugging dial-up modem. Installing more RAM. Praying.

  • Continuity19

    God, did I ever adore this when I got it for Christmas in '80.

    • oh yeaaah..!spl33nidoru
    • I had this set! I forgot all about it til I saw the craters.lemmy_k
    • I had this too!Chimp
    • Always wanted that one. Never had craters :(microkorg
    • yupGuyFawkes
    • Still got this set in a 30 gallon drum full of Legos at my moms house somewhereGuyFawkes
    • I had this set too!instrmntl
    • Oh man! I had this. Glad to see this thread is still thriving.YearzOne
    • ❤ ❤ ❤helloeatbreathedrive
    • Still got this one tooemphor
    • There was something about those base plates with craters that I really loved.lnu
    • +1monospaced
    • I won 2nd place in the Lego magazine ‘84 Olympic torch building contest. First loser!ben_
  • BonSeff16

    Update from an earlier post of my 1996 build. Graphics came out great, and all the work I put in on the template die lines paid off.






    • <3JackRyan
    • Fabuloso!YakuZoku
    • I also see a QBN sticker nice!YakuZoku
    • It’s...

      ...beautiful!
      ideaist
    • Radicalthumb_screws
    • Man this is great, well done. Awe for your determination.stewart
    • It looks fantastic! And I am just looking for such a machine and have a hard time finding someone to let me shoot with it for just 15 minutes. Damn!SimonFFM
    • Congrats on your great!SimonFFM
    • I have my daughter's Dora the Explorer 4wheeler. I may need to follow your leadmisterhow
    • Simon, where are you located, where are you looking to shoot? I may be able to help.BonSeff
    • BonSeff, North of Fuerteventura, Canary Islands. December 8th.SimonFFM
    • This would be amazing!SimonFFM
    • Oh, wow. That is going to be very unlikely. But I will ask around on some moto boards I am on.BonSeff
    • @misterhow - Let's get some flames on that thing!BonSeff
    • Awesome decal work!brandonp
    • Thank you, BonSeff!SimonFFM
    • Keep the cows away from it!Akagiyama
    • So cool!ben98
    • Fabuloso!stoplying
    • so coolcanoe
  • Ramanisky218

    • No Ma'am!YakuZoku
    • "Hi honey. Did you miss me?"
      "With every bullet so far."
      Akagiyama
    • Copy of "Big 'Uns" hidden in couch cushionsstoplying
    • To think it was the conservatives who hated this show at the time. Heads would explode in college classrooms if you showed this today.hotroddy
    • You know it’s a perfect system when, over the years, a liberal turns into a conservative without even noticingtoemaas
    • I think the exact quote is, “without changing their values”toemaas
    • Uhhhh, no, PegBuddhaHat
    • Looks like TOO MANY COOKSIanbolton
    • didn't much like the show as a young guy when it was on.. showed it to my kids a while back and they hated it..lol..exador1
    • Psycho dad, psycho dad!Elwin74
    • https://thumbs.gfyca…Krassy
    • Other than Friends, this must be the most overrated TV show of all time.CyBrainX
    • Hands down the most chauvinist show on TV; the jokes were at the expense of a lazy wife or a slutty teen age daughter. in an era where you could polk funhotroddy
  • imbecile15

    • Love this song. I remember how my buddy hated this on the first listen because it was “A Chick” singing and the instrumentals sounded weird to him.Ramanisky2
    • saw them live at Lollapalooza in the 90s ..for only 1 song, cause some cunt tossed a bottle at Kim, hit her on the head, and the band walked off stage. Bummer!Krassy
    • my daughter absolutely loves this tune :)exador1
    • seen them at Lollapalooza in Mountain View ages agoYakuZoku
    • Spitting in a wishing well
      Blown to hell, crash
      I'm the last splash.

      Fantastic.
      ideaist
    • This was posted a few months back I believe but whatevsNBQ00
    • Love it! I had a huge crush on Kim Deal in the late 80's/early 90's. Didn't everyone?elahon
    • The Deal sisters both still put out great music.fooler
    • they're kind of a big dealKrassy
    • A bona fide pixie bred breeder right tharstoplying
    • Me love me some Kim dealGnash
    • +1ben98
    • 90's One Hit Wondersutopian
    • +1 and +another for Vaughan Oliver RIP.MrT
  • Beeswax15

    • +Krassy
    • We played this game called "power"GuyFawkes
    • what's power?_niko
    • we used to play pottsies, where you dig a cup sized hole and tried to shoot the marbles in, who ever shot the last one in got all the marbles._niko
    • ^ played this game growing up in Sofia, Bulgaria.Krassy
    • Yup that one tooGuyFawkes
    • Isn't this more like 30s-40s memories. No I'm not going to put in stupid apostrophes for plurals.CyBrainX
    • Early 80s the playground was marbles, garbage pail kids, muscle toys, every once in awhile some kid would sneak in a Transformer or a GI Joe vehicleGuyFawkes
    • "Power" had the hole too, you make it in, your marble now has the power and you keep the other marbles you hitGuyFawkes
    • In Uruguay these were called “bolitas”. The game had some rules. We dug holes in the ground and shit.maquito
    • I once noticed my neighbors had some bolitas made of plaster, and my brother went into a fist fight for it. Bolitas could only be glass.maquito
    • I wonder where did the Uruguayan bolitas come from.. did Spanish or Italian kids play with those rules?maquito
    • You had to kick other bolitas off, and also put some bolitas into the holes in the ground. Ffs! Triggered.maquito
    • Glad to read that _niko and Krassy had some similar rules.maquito
    • https://cdn.shopify.…maquito
    • Gallery open!monospaced
    • Have marbles had a recent trend in schools? Seems to be cyclical... or has the internet ruined that?inteliboy
    • Every kind of marble had a name and different value to it. We played it like this. Everyone puts their marble and take turns to hit the head of the line to winBeeswax
    • We played klikeri in Serbia too, the hole was called roša. To win, you had to put your marble in the hole, hit the opponent's marble and then in the hole again.Milan
    • I had bags of marbles and remember trading and whatnot, but never actually playing a game.i_monk
    • Yes maquito, is calling Guá, and we played with "canicas"!Miesfan
    • ooo yesssmilfhunter
    • Same here, i_monk. From memory, they were mostly used for throwing at each other, particularly from high up on housing blocks... :\Nairn
    • Here in Portugal also played with marbles. Sometimes were replaced with bearing balls (more durable)dmay
    • We set up "galleries" with intricate arrangements that we flanked with our legs. Kids would line up to play and win/lose marbles. School allowed it for 2 weeksmonospaced
    • Beauts, alleys, cats eyes, boulders (big ones) blue moons, ball bearings, crystals, galaxies, this is what Names I remember of the various marbles_niko
    • I remember "knockers" when kids would take those fake grape decorations from their grandparents living roomsGuyFawkes
    • Dinosaur eggs (speckled), monsters (the big ones), oilies (had a gas-like sheen), and there were milky white ones with a colour streak, can't remember the name.i_monk
  • Gardener18

    I love digging through boxes of stuff I would have kept for one reason or another and lo, I just came upon a box a old ticket stubs! I was a prolific gig goer mainly in the 80's/90's and glad I kept many of these (something for my kids to sell on eBay one day haha)
    I probably went to more concerts where I didn't keep the stub - maybe coz I was too stoned or otherwise occupied, 13 Glastonbury Festivals and only managed to bring home the odd programme and fuzzy memories. If your curious about any of the shows in these stubs I will try to remember best I can.

    • and another lol
      https://i.imgur.com/…
      Gardener
    • Two things spring to mind: 1/ I still miss The Astoria & 2/ Me and you have been in the same room on many occasions and you're not even one of my stalkees.Wolfboy
    • we have great taste!Gardener
    • Nice. I’d always put the ticket stubs in the corresponding CD case when I got home. The good ol’ day’s.BH26
    • I had a load of these, plus a few signed and my parents threw them out.Chimp
    • I would keep them in the CD or tape but a lot of them were on thermal paper that would turn completely black if left my car.
      GBV in the 90's is awesome!
      fooler
    • Rad. Just found mine as well while cleaning out my old desk. definitely some in there I can't remember going to. lol Derp.sea_sea
    • Kids today will never understand this or holding and reading booklets of albums for hours while listening to it on your bed doing nothing elseBennn
    • Love the ORB! Orbus Terrarum is a great album to work to... Also Goldie's Saturnzreturn "Mother" is a cinematic masterpiece. So many gems in your collection!!!!antimotion
    • Who were the special guests with Beck?calculator
    • It may have been a band called Sukia, they were on Mo Wax at the timeGardener
    • Cool, I had their Mo Wax stuff at the time.calculator
    • https://www.youtube.…Gardener
    • Oh you fucker - I'd love to have seen Calexico. Oh well, next lifetime, perhaps.Nairn
    • support were a great band called The Kingsbury Manx tooGardener
    • The ORB + Aphex Twin same show? Whoa!Krassy
    • yes that was quite a night, the Warp Lighthouse gig was incredible as it was the only time I saw Boards of Canada + Aphex, saw Bjork wandering wandering about!Gardener
  • Gardener21

  • milfhunter15

    • geography classtank02
    • Caught red handedbabydick
    • Loved seeing this roll in.sea_sea
    • Haha, the best :)Gnash
    • remote control watches were amazing in these classesESKEMA
    • my geography class had their own betamax player..._me_
    • @eskema Haha yes, good timesfuturefood
    • we had every type of tv/vhs/cassette recorder/midi tower at home, whatever the teacher wasn't be able to operate... :D
      everything to waste those 45 mins
      sted
    • Volume was always at max, speakers buzzing and all.monospaced
    • AV ClubDRIFTMONKEY
    • smh @ babydick's racist trollingsarahfailin
    • Future/Past Blockbuster Employeesutopian
    • This was either an easy lesson, or a hellish one with some awful embarrassing sex ed thing going on, and assholes at the back of the class being assholes (me)Nairn
    • sarahfalafel -- I'm a comedian and I can say shit like that. COMEDY. Allah is great.babydick
  • utopian17

    • I can smell this pic.DRIFTMONKEY
    • ++Krassy
    • carefully empty cap gun caps into a pile, get your dads hammer and hit the pile of gunpowder on the side walk for a nice loud bang.shapesalad
    • ^Krassy
    • +GuyFawkes
    • Back when Promoting gun culture was acceptablehotroddy
    • Named with dignity and valor... let’s go and pretend to kill people!PonyBoy
    • Not just people. Indians!hotroddy
    • I take that incendiary comment back. Plenty of us pretending to kill cowboys toohotroddy
    • *gigglePonyBoy
    • the good stuffmilfhunter
    • Hotroddy had really sad childhood.utopian
    • I’ve seen your posts and Your adulthood is way sadder.hotroddy
    • shapesalad - nailed it! I used a mini sledgehammer and blew up entire boxes at once.davey_g
    • Kids didn’t play cowboys and Indians in the 80smonospaced
  • Bluejam9

    • Ah, the smell!Nairn
    • and such useful containers once you'd shot the film...hans_glib
    • Great for weed :)mrAtor
    • As a kid, I'd use them for coins. If I recall correctly, Canadian $0.25 coins are a perfect fit for spent 35 mm film containers.Continuity
    • Also handy to then take said coins to the arcade!Continuity
    • Great for weed!MrT
    • I still have tons of thesenb
    • From last week even hahanb
    • ^Add weed stickers, sell them as "Smell proof containers" on eBay, cut me in 10% cheers bro :0mrAtor
    • Late aughts memories. I think I still have about 40 undeveloped rolls sitting around somewhere.garbage
    • where is my weed!+%?sted
    • great for rat poisonsection_014
    • I used them to store nib tips when drawing comics. What memories!OBBTKN
    • Great for oxtail soup and bleach.mort_
    • Not great for glock dookiesbabydick_
    • Why am I not surprised that babydick brings up glock dookies?garbage
    • Great for weed!!!YakuZoku
    • Great for holding your weed!elahon
    • I heard people put film in these?kaiyohtee
    • I'd no idea what a glock dookie was until I googled it.
      Needless to say, the regret will stick to me like napalm.
      Continuity
    • When I started in photography, 35mm film still came in aluminum cans, not the plastic ones.boobs
    • Ya put yer weed innitbezoar
    • Back in the day I would always have my film hand-checked when going through airport security. Scanners can fog your film.garbage
    • Never was a problem for years, and then one day the TSA refused to hand check all of my film, said I couldn't board the plane if they get to x-ray my film.garbage
    • Long story short: Don't argue with the TSA. They ruined a dozen rolls of film and I got a nice patdown / oil check in a security cubicle..garbage
    • ..then had to run across the terminal Home Alone 2 style and arrive to my seat as a sweaty, pissed-off mess.garbage
  • Akagiyama13

    • The classic setupRamanisky2
    • Haha, yupGnash
    • You could gather the village around this in the winter with the amount of heat it put off.Akagiyama
    • YupYakuZoku
    • The mechanical noises...Wordsworth
    • ... and the smooth action of the knobs.MrT
    • The Cure - Disintegration on repeatKrassy
    • Double cassette deck please. But still looks nice!SimonFFM
    • Sonos is cheaperdoggydoggdog
    • Sonos won't still be running after a few decades. My dad has a Pioneer system that's 46+ years old with huge wharfdale speakers. All still works.microkorg
    • Pioneer and wharfdale - my dad had the same. And now I have it. The pioneer amp was fixed by my dads old school electrician mate when a led blew. He said it wasshapesalad
    • .. super solid build and properly made, to last for decades. No digital shit in it.shapesalad
    • The haptic feedback on the large knob when tuning in a channel was pleasureful.utopian
    • the cassette decks opened so silent and in slow motion.api
  • Krassy17

    • wow forgot about this song but here I am singing along 30 years later._niko
    • :)Krassy
    • here he is now. I think. He always looked old
      http://tinyurl.com/j…
      _niko
    • one of the coolest songs of all time! what a vibeKrassy
    • I can only connect this song to HACKERS.ideaist
    • Fucking awesome pull. I've got a playlist called Rave Hangover which all stuff adjacent to the big nights... this is on it!DaveO
    • Nice <3PonyBoy
    • Super great album! Very uplifting.canoe
    • https://youtu.be/K41…prophetone
    • @prophetone I know it’s cheesy and doesn’t hold up BUT when released it was perfect for me and made me feel like my nerdery was common.ideaist
    • I would have been 12; born in ‘83!ideaist
    • Classic. Even after the dark days of Carphone Warehouse ads.MrT
    • HACK THE PLANNETT!!prophetone
    • @DaveO do share said playlist!Krassy
  • Morning_star19

    The LTJ Bukem brought back memories of this.

    • Yes again.MrT
    • Strange for me. LTJB never really figured on my radar. It was all about Roni Size for me. A shame I never got to see him live.detritus
    • yes!Krassy
    • This tune got me into music. Move it to this day.scruffics
    • This was one of the first DNB records I ever bought.section_014
    • *lovescruffics
    • Found the 12'' single in a charity shop last year. Was well chuffedscruffics
    • Saw them perform live at Coachella. Ace!Krassy
    • leave roni size out of this!docpoz
    • I spun the fuck out of Reprazent and Underworld's Beaucoup Fish back then.DRIFTMONKEY
    • I feel oldMrT
    • Mr Size is playing New Forms live in Margate at the end of August!dee-dubs
  • Continuity17

    That clicky Morse Code-like interference that would come over your cheap computer speakers just a second before the mobile phone on the desk started to ring.

    • https://freesound.or…Continuity
    • +1OBBTKN
    • I remember taking a train in the late 90s and hearing this on my Walkman.Chimp
    • I even bought some clip on ferret rings to shield my wires and that didn't work.fooler
    • Mad, forgot about that sound!mort_
    • Wasn’t there some really cheesy house track that used that sound in it?dee-dubs
    • https://youtu.be/xph…dee-dubs
    • I remember that interference just a couple years ago...and I thought it was just aliens trying to communicate with me.utopian
    • My car at the time was a 1985 ford and it that sound was so fucking loud in the car stereo hahaha.nb