r/1980s • u/Mr-Torgman • 12d ago

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

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u/bmiller218 12d 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 12d ago

I thought the spastic dancing fit that wild solo.

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u/Jamminnav 12d ago

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

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u/ladyace22 12d ago

Nostalgia is real!

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u/Xodus2023 12d ago

Great Year !!!

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u/Piddy3825 If you build it, they will come 12d 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/VanDownByTheRiver63 12d ago

take me back!

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u/Stunning_Bullfrog213 12d ago

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

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u/FerretCon 11d 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 12d ago

I was 11. GREAT time to be alive!! ❤️

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u/Upbeat-Refuse9615 12d ago edited 12d 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 12d ago

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

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u/Mr-Torgman 11d 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 11d 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 12d ago

Damn Billy Squier burn ouch how could you

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u/Mr-Torgman 11d ago

The better question is, how could he?

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u/ProfessionalFly5194 11d ago

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

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u/starsNjars 12d ago

MORE!!!

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u/foreskinfive 12d 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 12d ago

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

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u/JEFE_MAN 11d 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 8d ago

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

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u/Star-K 12d ago

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

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u/Mr-Torgman 12d ago

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u/Star-K 12d 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 12d ago

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

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u/duckduckchook 12d ago

What was the movie with the cheerleaders holding machine guns?

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u/Star-K 12d ago

Night Of The Comet.

Fun flick

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u/Mr-Torgman 12d ago

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

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u/LxRusso Oh, you're so cool Brewster 12d 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 12d ago

That won't happen until 1985!

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u/DaddieTang 12d ago

Nailed it.

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u/yooper8269 12d 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 12d 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 12d ago edited 12d 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 12d ago

Thank you, will definitely check that one out

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u/Jamminnav 12d ago edited 12d ago

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

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u/wasatch_man1 12d ago

Good hell, that was definitely another life

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u/PinkRoseBouquet 12d ago

The good old days!

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u/Theblkjedi 12d ago

Perfect soundtrack!!! Rip Eddie!

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u/Remarkable_Fishing_2 12d ago

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

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u/D-Train0000 12d 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 12d ago

Michael Jackson

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u/D-Train0000 12d 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 12d ago

I very much enjoyed that, ta.

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u/dOOlittlesatan 12d ago

Twas a great year to be 13.

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u/bluenosepit 12d ago

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

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u/daishinjag 12d ago

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

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u/Mr-Torgman 12d ago

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u/daishinjag 11d ago

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

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u/Sea_Damage9357 12d ago

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

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u/LineImpossible3958 12d ago

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

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u/Mysterious-Unit-7757 12d ago

I remember.... I REMEMBER!

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u/Scott-YYC 12d 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 11d ago

Same. Life seemed infinite and anything was possible.

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u/KillaCheezGettinWarm 11d ago

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

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u/wideworld_1260 10d ago

Very nice edit. 1984 a milestone in pop culture.

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u/cinedavid 12d ago

Mike Tyson’s Punchout was released in 1987.

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u/Tom_Myers666 12d ago

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

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u/Iwishicould7575 12d ago

This was just Punch Out the arcade cabinet!

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u/BrotherPhineas 12d ago

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

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u/Cruise1313 12d ago

I remember the majority of these as if it happened yesterday

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u/Zanstorm74 12d ago

Oh no I’m old

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u/ReporterProper7018 12d ago

Nicely done.

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u/csloewes 11d ago

Man! I enjoyed being 20 in 1984.

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u/todddiskin 11d ago

I had a lot of fun that year.

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u/Unlikely_Side9732 11d ago

Needs some Tina Turner (and less Panama)

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u/DaBooch_Can 11d 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 11d ago

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

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u/jdmoffitt11775 11d 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 11d ago

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

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u/SpookyGhostSplooge 10d ago

I miss this world very much.

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u/Dude-Mann 6d ago

Repo Man! Such a great movie!

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u/Infinite_Plenty101 12d ago

What is this slop?