Popular Nostalgia

Hall & Oates – I Can’t Go For That (No Can Do) (1981)

Rob — Fri, 17 Feb 2012 14:41:46 +0000

Daryl Hall & John Oates – I Can’t Go For That (No Can Do) – a classic 80s track that rolls back the years even though it was made a year or two before I was born! This track came out in 1981, and was by Hall & Oates. I can go for that! Lyrics [...]

Sabrina “Boys, Boys, Boys”

80s Child — Mon, 13 Feb 2012 11:04:58 +0000

Its the 1980s, and you’re a boy, so what better to learn than that Sabrina is looking for a good time? This track will take you right back to those 1980s summertime holidays. Or, you’ll watch the video and remember that it really was quite revealing. Either way, reminisce with us about Sabrina, Boys Boys [...]

what a classic sweet – liquorice pipes

Sweet — Thu, 02 Feb 2012 17:01:11 +0000

lovely liquorice pipes sweets that are now available online and in store in all good sweet shops. sweet greetings from shildon This post was submitted by Sweet.

Tamagotchis

Stephen — Tue, 10 Jan 2012 21:48:54 +0000

Tamagotchis came around in the mid-90′s as the alternative to actually owning a pet, for children it was very exciting period and these were all the rage in a time when digital was relatively unknown. They weren’t popular for long, like most things in the 90′s they were swept along on a wave of new [...]

Ask Jeeves

Rob — Wed, 21 Dec 2011 20:27:12 +0000

Does anyone remember a time when, as well as Googling something, we might, just, once in a while, Ask Jeeves. I do. Jeeves was an imaginary butler who would go away through the internet and find your query in double-quick time. Except, more often than not, because they used a version of Google from about [...]

Cadbury’s Aztec

Kurt Whelan — Fri, 02 Dec 2011 15:12:12 +0000

Sometime in the late 1960s the Cadbury chocolate company was advertising a new line which they called Aztec. Their TV campaign used the historically correct fact that chocolate, in some form was known to the aztecs of ancient mexico. I remember a setting of temple-pyramids and actors dressed in ornate feather costumes dancing and singing [...]

RETURN OF THE CATS!

Ana Thorsdottir — Tue, 20 Sep 2011 18:02:30 +0000

RETURN OF THE CATS A 1980s favourite is set to become this year’s Christmas ‘must-have’ as retailer demand outstrips supply of the new Thundercats action figures and vehicles. The retro cartoon – with celebrity fans including Jonathan Ross, Chris Moyles and Paulo Nutini – has been updated and recently released on British TV screens. The [...]

Trumpton

Elsie — Mon, 08 Aug 2011 16:36:32 +0000

This programme made me SO happy even though I grew up in the eighties! Trumpton (1967) is a stop-motion children’s television show from the producers of Camberwick Green first shown on the BBC in the 1960s. The third and final series in the sequence was Chigley. Trumpton was narrated by Brian Cant. The animation was [...]

The Herbs

Elsie — Mon, 08 Aug 2011 16:36:24 +0000

THE most AMAZING children’s programme. Following info care of Wikipedia. The Herbs was a television series for young children made for the BBC by Graham Clutterbuck’s FilmFair company. It was written by Michael Bond (creator of Paddington Bear), directed by Ivor Wood using 3D stop motion model animation and first transmitted from 12 February 1968 [...]

Heartbreak High

Adam Walker — Thu, 16 Jun 2011 18:40:40 +0000

Aaah its 6.30 its the late 90′s its channel 2….its time for Heartbreak High. dont remember much other than Drazick was a Badass and they played a lot of pool. This post was submitted by Adam Walker.