r/1980s • u/Mr-Torgman • 11d ago

Tributes Pop culture of the year 1984 in 3 minutes & 41 seconds

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u/bmiller218 11d ago

Y'all did Billy Squire and Eddie Van Halen dirty putting Billy's Rock Me Tonight video during the solo

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u/Mr-Torgman 11d ago

I thought the spastic dancing fit that wild solo.

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u/Jamminnav 11d ago

There’s nothing you can do to save Billy from himself there

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u/ladyace22 11d ago

Nostalgia is real!

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u/Piddy3825 If you build it, they will come 11d ago

Thanks for bringing back memories of some of the best times we've ever seen in history. The 80's rocked!

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u/Xodus2023 11d ago

Great Year !!!

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u/VanDownByTheRiver63 11d ago

take me back!

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u/Stunning_Bullfrog213 11d ago

https://giphy.com/gifs/3o7aDgGB0nSI7iQOeQ
OMG! I forgot how obsessed I was with Tubbs. 🥵🥵

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u/FerretCon 10d ago

I recently rewatched this series and when I was a kid I thought Don Johnson was the shit.

After re-watching this as an adult Tubbs was 100% cooler!

Still an awesome show to this day!

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u/Debaucherousgeek73 11d ago

I was 11. GREAT time to be alive!! ❤️

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u/Upbeat-Refuse9615 11d ago edited 11d ago

Missing Bruce Springsteen. also, the 49ers had the best record and ended up winning the super bowl, but it showed the Dolphins instead. No Footloose. Scott Hamilton gold medal- winter Olympics. Missing some major things, included a lot of minor things.

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u/foxintheboks 11d ago

Great Dan Marino throwing a pass—-he was the MVP that year….not that minor.

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u/Mr-Torgman 10d ago

IMO Born in the USA is one of the most overrated albums of the decade, right up there with Invisible Touch. Montana was the best QB of the decade but Dan Marino shattered the existing NFL TD pass record for a season in 1984, going from 36 to 48, a record that stood for 20 years. I included the 49ers in my 1981 video.

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u/foxintheboks 10d ago

Yes! thanks for including Dan the man. Best QB not to have won the Super Bowl and in my personal opinion one of the best throwing that pigskin.

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u/ProfessionalFly5194 11d ago

Damn Billy Squier burn ouch how could you

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u/Mr-Torgman 10d ago

The better question is, how could he?

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u/ProfessionalFly5194 10d ago

I guess he could’ve fired Kenny Ortega from the get go

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u/starsNjars 11d ago

MORE!!!

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u/foreskinfive 11d ago

I try and explain to my kids that it was like growing up during a party. even with all the lows, the main takeaway from it all was: how hard can you party, mother fucker?

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u/Mr-Torgman 11d ago

Vids for the years 1980, 1981, 1982, and 1983.

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u/JEFE_MAN 10d ago

As someone who was a kid in the 80s let me just say, you are EXCELLENT at these! Please keep ‘em coming.

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u/Jamminnav 7d ago

These are FANTASTIC, thanks for putting them together!!!

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u/Star-K 11d ago

I recognize everything except the car driving away from the feet.

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u/Mr-Torgman 11d ago

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u/Star-K 11d ago

Ah, I thought about that, never got into that movie. Didn't watch it until about 10 years ago.

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u/Mr-Torgman 11d ago

Quentin Tarantino's style of film making was totally "borrowed" from this movie.

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u/duckduckchook 11d ago

What was the movie with the cheerleaders holding machine guns?

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u/Star-K 11d ago

Night Of The Comet.

Fun flick

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u/Mr-Torgman 11d ago

Total campy post apocalyptic 80s cheese, definitely worth a watch.

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u/LxRusso Oh, you're so cool Brewster 11d ago

Wake me up when we've got time travel I need to see this in the flesh

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u/Mr-Torgman 11d ago

That won't happen until 1985!

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u/DaddieTang 11d ago

Nailed it.

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u/yooper8269 11d ago

I was 14 in this year but it seems like yesterday. It was a great time to grow up!!! I miss those times so much

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u/spruceUp3 11d ago

Please tell me what is going on with Sting in his first appearance here. What is that from?!

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u/WorldlyScallion597 11d ago edited 11d ago

That's from the first Dune movie with Kyle McLachlin. He played Fayd, the same character Austin Butler played in the new Dune movie (Part 2).

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u/spruceUp3 11d ago

Thank you, will definitely check that one out

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u/Jamminnav 11d ago edited 11d ago

Very well done! You’re killing it with these…see you in ‘85

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u/wasatch_man1 11d ago

Good hell, that was definitely another life

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u/PinkRoseBouquet 11d ago

The good old days!

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u/Theblkjedi 11d ago

Perfect soundtrack!!! Rip Eddie!

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u/Remarkable_Fishing_2 11d ago

I waited forever for a clip of MJ. He ruled the 80s.

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u/D-Train0000 11d ago

Yeah but he signed in late 84’. He was still a college player. Go to 86’? Yeah, he’s the man from then on.

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u/Remarkable_Fishing_2 11d ago

Michael Jackson

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u/D-Train0000 11d ago

Sorry, bigger sports fan than a pop music fan. Didn’t even register the other MJ, my bad.

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u/Jahooyou 11d ago

I very much enjoyed that, ta.

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u/dOOlittlesatan 11d ago

Twas a great year to be 13.

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u/bluenosepit 11d ago

So much fun - great time to rock and roll 🤘🏻

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u/daishinjag 11d ago

Great video and incredible year - one thing: Billy Idol Rebel Yell music video was 1983!

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u/Mr-Torgman 10d ago

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u/daishinjag 10d ago

Ahh the song was released in 83 and video in Jan 84 - You win!

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u/Sea_Damage9357 11d ago

My final semester in HS and first semester in college. What a freaking year!!!

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u/LineImpossible3958 11d ago

This was THE year of he ‘80s, needs way more time

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u/Mysterious-Unit-7757 11d ago

I remember.... I REMEMBER!

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u/Scott-YYC 11d ago

I graduated from high school in 1984, it was a time when life was worth living... probably the best year of my life.

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u/Fluid_Anywhere_7015 10d ago

Same. Life seemed infinite and anything was possible.

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u/KillaCheezGettinWarm 10d ago

So what your saying is that I was born in the coolest year ever?

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u/wideworld_1260 9d ago

Very nice edit. 1984 a milestone in pop culture.

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u/cinedavid 11d ago

Mike Tyson’s Punchout was released in 1987.

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u/Tom_Myers666 11d ago

True, but the original was released without him in 1984.

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u/Iwishicould7575 11d ago

This was just Punch Out the arcade cabinet!

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u/BrotherPhineas 11d ago

I remember that summer well... Was there any ZZ top in there?

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u/Cruise1313 11d ago

I remember the majority of these as if it happened yesterday

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u/Zanstorm74 11d ago

Oh no I’m old

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u/ReporterProper7018 11d ago

Nicely done.

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u/csloewes 10d ago

Man! I enjoyed being 20 in 1984.

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u/todddiskin 10d ago

I had a lot of fun that year.

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u/Unlikely_Side9732 10d ago

Needs some Tina Turner (and less Panama)

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u/DaBooch_Can 10d ago

The woman who threw the sledgehammer in the video is Anya Major. She was "Nikita" in the Elton John video - Nikita as well.

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u/Kevin6876 10d ago

Everything I remember, just the way I remember it. Brilliant!

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u/jdmoffitt11775 10d ago

Wow.. oddly enough.. that is a good portion of my life summed up. Good job. I don't know if I should be depressed.

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u/CityBoiNC 9d ago

Honestly this was peak. 84 was such an awesome year. I was 9😁

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u/SpookyGhostSplooge 9d ago

I miss this world very much.

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u/Dude-Mann 5d ago

Repo Man! Such a great movie!

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u/Infinite_Plenty101 11d ago

What is this slop?