Remembering how excited everyone at school was knowing the new channel called MTV was starting up that day! First song, The Buggles, Video killed the radio star.
Most millenials should remember when MTV played music- TRL was the highlight of my afternoon when I came home from school in 6th and 7th grade. I also enjoyed watching VH1s pop up videos for all of the little trivia about the making of each music video.
@@thisisme2476 🤣🤣🤣 my college roommate called in with a request and asked the DJ not to talk during the intro. The DJ laughed and hung up. Never played the song. The request was for “Jessie’s Girl,” by Rick Springfield.
This actually made me chuckle.. I remember jumping from the upstairs to the landing to the downstairs and running into my room coming from the kitchen to save a tape.
@@stoopidbastid6420actually you can clean the pinch roller and the head in a cassette player using rubbing alcohol as long as it's 90% alcohol (less water in the stronger rubbing alcohol), swab with q-tips and let it air dry. The only time I experienced my tapes going crinkle cut French fry on me was when the cassettes themselves wore out, became tight (due to age, humidity chages, and repeated playing). I actually had some success salvaging some of my cassettes that became crinkled. I usually bought random cassettes, unscrewed them, switched out the spools, and labeled them, artist/album/year. It was tedious, sure. But those cassettes lasted me clear until 2012, then finally became oxidized due to their age. I managed to transfer a handful onto CD, then put them onto my MP3 players. I dubbed nearly all of my LP'S onto CD, then transferred those to MP3 and the same for my 8-track cartridge tapes, which by 85' those were being phased out entirely. They were a novelty to me and my hobby when I was 12 in grade school. 😊 Do I miss those tapes? You bet! I held onto my beloved Kiss 8 tracks, Alice Cooper and Black Sabbath. The only 8 track players I owned were LLoyds (crappy home units in all actuality), one Weltron space helmet, one Weltron "Aquatron" both units wore out completely though. I believe those were sold for looks back in the day and less about quality and performance. The best 8 track player I owned later on was a Panasonic Dynamite (plunger style) red portable one, and a home unit, Realistic. Those actually lasted me several years since I maintained them well. Most all of my stereo stuff was either given to me and others I'd buy from thrift shops. It was always like striking gold if I found anything by my favorite bands or found another 8-track tape that I didn't have already. My first 8-track tapes were: Alice Cooper- Goes to Hell (my mother's tape), Cheap Trick- In Color (still have this, belongs to my mom), Kiss- self-titled 1974 (contains Kissin' Time so it's not the extremely rare pressing), Kiss Alive!, Kiss- Love Gun (fixed this myself at 12 years old and it played okay), Kiss- Dynasty ( I bought this for a huge .25 cents in 89' from an overpriced junk store), Kiss- Alive II both vol. 1 and 2, ZZ Top- (truck stop bootleg album, black cartridge with a generic label), .38 Special, Jim Croce- best of hits. My favorite was always the first Kiss album on 8-track. I loved hearing the rich, full music from a pair of those clunky pillow cushion headphones. I also had the big adapter to hook up modern headphones too. In way of music, we had it! In fact, growing up we had good music. 😊
We also had the antenna on a pole on the back porch so we were also responsible for opening the back door and turning the pole until the station was coming through clearly. They would shout at us through the door, a little more, now back a little…. Lol
Welp I'm 1000% in the club as I've had/done/lived every one of those requirements. And also adding to the list: 1) watched one of your parents pump $0.87 leaded gas into their car while smoking a cigarette. 2) Watched Saturday morning cartoons like it was a religion. 3) Road your bike all day through town and country without once having to "call home". 4) Then make sure your butt was home BEFORE the street lights came on! 5) Had a boombox so damn big it took 2 people to carry it.
And you'll remember how OPEC decided to screw everyone over and the long lines at gas pumps that resulted? Do you remember your parents only being able to gas up on certain days within certain hours based on the last number on their license plate(s)? I remember a lot that is built into my generation and it isn't all giggles and grins. Some of it is ugly as sin and we've not done a thing to change it.
We had a Ford Falcon station wagon and there was always a fight for the back seat (The Dickie Seat) on the trips to visit the Grandparents, who lived hours away!😂
Saturday morning cartoons, into pro wrestling and then into American Sports Cavalcade on TNN to watch drag racing and NASCAR highlights. It will always be the Winston Cup to me.
I've had children ask me if all my fingers are double jointed because I text so fast. Child, I'm 50. I learned a long time ago where all the letters are on the keyboard and can do it without looking.
If you never heard the national anthem played on your television and then it turn to snow....for hours because that was ENOUGH TV for er body..SIT DOWN!
I remember waking up early, turning on the TV just before 7am, watching the snow turn to inspiring shots of beaches, waterfalls, etc as the national anthem played before my favorite cartoons started.
OMG. The Challenger explosion experience. Our science teacher, who had served in the military, got the note from the principal's office, returning to his lecture his reaction was the equivalent of, "Well, that just happened." He was so calm and nonchalant that I didn't understand that they were dead until class was over and we went to assembly. Afterwards, I saw him sobbing alone in the hallway. We were raised with bizarre levels of emotional incompetence.
Millennial here, but I think this fits. If you never experienced the joy of hitting record exactly when the song you like starts playing on the radio when making your mix tape sit your ass down. - Bonus: The joy of getting that perfect recording where the radio hosts did not start talking during the instrumental bridge of that song - Double bonus: Knowing why radio hosts started talking during the instrumental bridges of a song.
Watching the original Star Wars movie in the theater. And rode in the first muscle cars, jammed in with 12 people and laid in the back window dash or in the back of a pickup box with no worries in the world. Trying to get cigarettes out of the cigarette machine without making any noise. Playing outside all day, building tree forts and ramps to jump your bike. Walking to town by yourself to get milk for cereal and didn't worry bcuz all the mothers in the area kept an eye on you. When you could go into a bar with a parent and stay all day and nobody cared. MTV's Headbangers ball late at night was my favorite. And watching my first METALLICA video, my favorite band to this day. Going to the pizza joint and playing music on the jukebox. Going to the arcade with a roll of quarters. Going to the 5 and dime store to buy penny candy.
Bicycle from barn roof on a dare... Attempting to ride a Hereford bull in a pen... Learning why your dad said do not put your new pocket knife in an outlet...he's crying , and if he's crying, he's breathing...he'll be fine.
@@1011skarn Bullshit! And neither Boomers, nor Xers would agree with that. Both were the original participants in generational warfare, and essentially hate each other more than any Millenial or Zoomer possibly can. F(orget) Boomers! Their time is up!
With a big o'bowl of the best sugary cereal in the world. Fruity Pebbles, Cap'n Crunch, Fruit Loop..my list is endless. I take that back, wasn't a fan of Honey Smacks😂
Yep! And watched it pop on after midnight special. There might have been one other programming thing, but after that it was the pattern screen until the very next morning, waiting for the cartoons to come on. A typical Saturday morning went something like this for me: Cartoons, American Bandstand and Soul Train. I would switch back and forth throughout the hour. And then at night, Saturday night live or Monte python and midnight special hosted by wolfman Jack.
Born in 1985. I was starting to wonder where my car people are. I also remember my parents saying, “Get in the car. We’re leaving” after a family gathering in the middle of summer only to have to sit in that stuffy air for several more minutes while the parents still talked. Eventually, we learned to wait until the last second and keep the doors open.
1. Multi-story schools without elevators because anyone that couldn't climb the stairs went to a different school. 2. Collecting 12 oz glass pop bottles and trading them in for money to buy candy or baseball cards. 3. When going to the park wasn't complete without throwing up at least once (merry-go-round), having burns from the slide, or blisters from the monkey bars. 4. Skating Rinks were the place to be. 5. Walking to the concession stand at the drive-in alone and then trying to find your parent's car in what essentially looked like a giant used car lot.
If you never had to sit and wait for your cassette to rewind, and then tried to play/stop/rewind to find the start of your favorite song on the tape, please sit down.
Having text books for every class AND having to use a brown paper bag to make your own book cover. Watching the tv channels come online every morning with the national anthem playing and watching the tv channels end their day with the national anthem and going to the test bars.
I used the brown paper bags, too. But as I got older, I got fancy. I would put the comics from the Sunday newspaper over them for some color. Then I could read them during class.😅
You are not invited if you've never washed a chalkboard at the end of the school day or took the erasers to the cleaning machine OR better yet, asking a live operator to connect your call
I loved hearing it, bc I knew the good stuff was about to come on, my granny only had 4 channels, and my aunt was about to leave so I could hog her TV! Lol
For me, I felt it was more like, "Do you know where mom is at?" My sister & I were always home when it got dark. I was always in charge (doing all the work)
I am laughing my butt off because I remember every single thing listed. I remember watching He-Man while eating my Capt. Crunch on a Saturday morning. Saturday morning cartoons were the greatest during the eighties.
As an older Millennial, I loved watching the Smurfs and Fraggle Rock. Some of my favorite music is from the 70s, 80s and 90s. We had a rotary phone in our garage and a phone on the wall in the kitchen. I used to watch Brady Bunch, Chips, The Andy Griffith Show and the Munsters reruns.
We got cable in the house because my mom won a 1 year cable subscription in a drawing. I was so excited when MTV started. I watched the very FIRST music video MTV every played when they came on the air. It was "Video Killed The Radio Star" by the Buggles 😂
And as we got older, our parents suffered as well😎 My brother and I were a year (+5 days) apart. We worship music and play drums and guitar. Grounding became more infrequent in favor of heavy-chore punishment.
OMG! I forgot about that stupidly expensive toy that basically nobody had. I only know one child that had one. But Cabbage patch kids were everywhere and people were obsessed with those ugly dolls.
Lol we had one and I still have nightmares of it going crazy after playing "shout at the devil" in it, it couldn't handle it and the animatronics went out.
Wow, I said "get out your Math book" at the same time you did... what a memory that turned out to be, ey? How about... Can still sing the jingle from Mutual of Omaha's Wild Kingdom? Forced to participate in the annual TV event that was "The sound of Music"? Ever heard of Certs "with Retsyn?" Remember the life changing day that "Cable" came to town.
Stink bombs on the heaters at school; roller skating every weekend; ethnic joke books in the bathroom; smoking area for students; fist fights announced in the morning and the whole school attended after school; cruising; Sun-In and crisco for sunbathing; Jams shorts; Big Wheels; Aqua Net and perms; you got dressed up to fly in an airplane and when you got to your destination you smelled like an ashtray. Fun times!
Pictures solid black cause lens cap left on, blurred out, 2 pictures blended together, a finger, your feet/ground by accident, bad lighting, so all you see are red eyes, a glowing head, but no background at all, and then telling the developing store you used that you don't want to pay for any pics from the list above! Oh yeah, and then finding a roll you forgot about 10-20 yrs later, so you know you lost some pictures, but can't remember what they could be!
Yes!! Walmart photo desk was the spot in our college town about a week back from spring break!! So many memories and seeing groups of people immediately thumbing through all their developed pics
And hated each other because one forgot to take the used up roll of film out, the other one forgot to check, if the roll was already finished, so we had regularly two events overlapping on one photo 😂 Why did those rolls even rewind and allowed to be photographed over again?
@@williambryan3346 Too expensive to get film for people living on peanut butter and jelly, and you got more than twice the pictures on 35mm! 110 cameras were cheap, with a built-in flash, also 35mm cameras were free, if the parents sat through a 90min seller's pitch for something they weren't going to buy!
Love this. Although I was born on the "baby boomer/gen x borderline (Jan 1963) I completely relate to this. I tell people all the time how fortunate I feel to have grown up in a country where you could purchase firearms, ammo, explosives (fireworks), live animals and chemistry sets containing a chunk of U235 through the mail!!! God help us. Lol
If you didn’t have to sing in the fan for entertainment, making mud pies outside, having to watch the 5pm world news and jeopardy with grandma….yeah go sit all the way down pls 😂.
Those were the days. Old commercials... Nair : " who wears short , shorts?...we wear short, shorts. Bandaid : " I am stuck on Band-Aid Brand cuz Band-Aids stuck on me" ! Oscar Mayer : " My bologna has a first name, its O-S-C-A-R...."
@@phoenixspirit9530 That is INSANE! I has just humming the band-aid jingle this morning over and over and then asked myself "why?" Spirit animal. . can you hear me!!??
I remember the Highway Patrol coming into our driver's ed class and showing VERY graphic pictures from traffic accidents. No blurring, editing or anything. Just blood, brains and twisted metal.
😂♥️Gen X here 1965. My friend and I bought cartons of cigarettes for our Moms and chewing tobacco for her Dad and no note was needed in 1975 in Chicago. They didn’t care or ask. Our phone was on the wall in the hallway and it’s cord did indeed reach all over the house 😂🤣😁. Ah what Great Times. Truly the Best Years of My Life 🥰
What do these items all have in common: house slippers, flip flops, wooden spoon and/or spatula, skinny long tree branches, fly swatters, and rolled up magazines/ newspapers.... not a comprehensive list here😆
As an older millennial, grew up with all of this. I still have my atari and the cartridges. My tv, until middle school, was the black and white box floor tv; had pliers next to it to change the channels. First computer was a typewriter. Had both the rotary phones and wall phones, with cords long enough to walk through half the house, while you twirled the cord around your fingers. Didn't care for smurfs or fraglerock, but loved Thundercats. Memories...😊
Oh, man, the Benny Hill Show! I loved that show! It came on after my bedtime, but my babysitter would let me stay up and watch it. The only condition was that we had to keep an eye out for my mom’s headlights coming up the driveway so I could dive into bed and pretend I was asleep. Ah, memories… 😊
Remembering the first opening song when MTV hit the air! Also listening to MTV 24 hours a day in the summer. Remembering when cable was first introduced.
I remember cabbage patch but never had one. I do remember collecting garbage pale kid cards and stickers. I had them hidden! My mom would’ve been grossed out and disappointed. And then I would have been grounded.
We used to look in the back of the TV guide at what was showing on HBO or CINEMAX. Write a letter to our grandmother who lived out of state with our movie requests. She would record them on VHS and ship UPS to us. We had a massive library and all our friends wanted to know what new movies we got.
I remember all if this. Remember watching Mountain Saint Helena's blowing its top. Seeing the Berlin wall coming down, or trying to memorize the The Declaration of Independence , or even the Gettysburg speech by heart. Learning REAL history not the watered down crap, the politically correct version they want you to know. Love all of your reasons & love them ❤
If you have never owned a Walkman, played in the sand ash trays at the end of the grocery aisle or knew that Mikey would try anything. Please dont let the door hit ya where the good lord split ya.
Honestly I heard a lot about 8 track and was familiar with it but never grew up with them. We had records and cassettes. I was born in 1975 my memories of the 70's is limited.
I was on the beach in Florida and watched the shuttle blow up in real time without a tv… then we had military helicopters telling us to leave said beach because of the debris falling from the sky! It is one memory from childhood I will never forget!
@@stephy369 I wish we could've had a choice, but in middle school it was mandatory. So 9 wks of home ec, 9 wks of shop, 9 wks of art & 9 wks of computer - in which getting to play the OG Oregon Trail was the highlight of the wk.
@@1mouseman I was forced to do "keyboard skills" in middle school & sucked at it, so skipped typing in high school. I still can't type, but my kids being brought up on comps, well they can out type me any day lol.
I still remember my friends, parents phone number to this day. And my mom until just recently got rid of her landline that we’ve had since I was a kid and I don’t remember her cell phone number. But I still remember the landline number. Some of my old friends were still calling my mom‘s house when they couldn’t find me.
I'm on periphery of some of this cause born in 61, but didn't get cable til I was 22 - summer of 84:) The Challenger thing was horrific - I was in a group therapy and came in late, to have them all be talking about it in shock - but look at me and say, you know what happened right, to which I did not know yet! I was 24, so not as awful as if I'd been in a classroom alot younger:(( I remember seeing D.A.R.E. everywhere on t-shirts, but all the phone/t.v. stuff for sure. My mom had quit smoking earlier, but my grandma lived with us, she bought her own salems though. We chased her on the porch to smoke cause of hard time breathing. Music was fantastic. I mostly liked Ms pacman , climbed trees, tried to dig a tunnel underground til the parents found out a few days later, lots of good candy at cheap prices, wax bottles with some kind of juice inside to drink:) etc etc if I think of more it'll be too long, lol
1966 here and no DARE program here. But my Gen Z daughter won the DARE essay contest in elementary school. I do remember "Scared Straight." But the one that really terrified me way "Stranger Danger".
It's not an "old school" map.... it's an actual, folded paper map. We're not charting the seas for a northern route to fuckin' India to trade exotic spices.
Calling the movie theater and listening to a whole ass recording to find out a showtime. Or calling for the local Time and Temp 😂 I would call time and temp just because I was bored
Firm GenX here. Our phone cord was not long. You were not allowed to take it anywhere. It was on the wall, and anything you had to say on it had to be said in front of whatever family was there. We had no cable at all as a kid. I dont do CCR. Parents were silent Gen. I grew up with Sinatra. As far as the list: -You came home when the street lights came on -Your school playground had all metal jungle gyms and monkey bars built on concrete for that extra incentive to not fall -Your dad's car still had an 8 track player -You recorded songs off the radio cursing that the DJ would shut the hell up and not talk over your song
