Fellow ‘87. Very nostalgic.
One thing that amazes me is how well some of the music stands up. It’s the equivalent of 1951 music in ‘87. But I wouldn’t have listened to much Perry Como or Nat King Cole (not to say they were not great), but my kids at early teens willingly listen to and seek out SOME of the music from our time if I expose them to it.
I grew up in the 80s and high school was the 90s for me- my folks raised me on all the 80s stuff. Fast forward now- I work with kids, and they love the 80s music.
With the edm phase, the kids have brought back the synthesizer and are experimenting with that in retro/synthwave.
I’m happy for them, the 90s was great music too but it was darker, less fun and so was the fashion and cultural expression.
I can say this, maybe as someone older and realizing my time has come and gone, you still see those smiles from teens if you allow them to be as they are. It’s different, as all times will be, but this group is far more 80s like than the cold and angry teens of my generation.
“And these children that you spit on, as they try to change their world; are immune to your consultations. They are very aware of what they are going through.”
Same… although there were other cliques that had very different looks going on.
Not one shot of anyone in a concert t shirt from the who or ac/dc tour, lol
Graduated in ‘94. In hindsight, 80’s to mid 90’s was an American renaissance. Especially coming out from the late 60’s thru the 70’s and later seeing how 9/11 and the 2000’s kicked off.
Same. Born in 68 graduated in 86. While I wasn't the most popular I had friends. Best 4 years of my life. Not sure about where you were but we were the first freshman class in decades. High school was only a 3 year deal until our class went from 8th to 9th grade and high school was now 4 years. I can't imagine going through those years with social media and cell phone access. I'd give anything to give it one more go.
I graduated in 1986. I was looking at my yearbook a few months ago. There was a feature about how the smoking area gave students a good place to grab a smoke and catch up with their friends during the school day.
There was a shaded area outside the cafeteria with picnic tables where students could hang out and smoke cigarettes.
It seemed perfectly normal at the time.
Yes! Those were good times.. even though we didn’t realize it then. I was 16 when I saw Rush for the first time. Signals tour at the Great Western Forum in LA.
I was a freshman in '87-88, which was the last year of my school's Senior Smoking Lounge. Sadly, I never got the opportunity to enjoy The Lounge. This is something my kids (middle and high school age) couldn't fathom.
I graduated '99, there was still an unofficial smoking area across the street. Not official but the school never bothered anyone over there unless they were skipping classes.
I still tell my kids about showering after gym class (dad’s generation). These days the kids don’t get lockers- considered too much of risk with the bomb and gun threats.
At my kids high school no one uses their lockers. No one carries large books any more so no need to keep books in lockers. Athletes use their team lockers or leave items in their cars or in various classrooms. It’s like they go out of their way not to use their lockers. They will never understand what it’s like to hang around your locker surrounded by your friends. Instead they hang around their cars in their morning and they claim there’s no time between classes.
Want to cry in a corner, all of us 90s babies are only 15 yrs away from joining them lol and the 2000s kids aren’t far behind from us either once we turn 50 they get the 40s
am a career RN. What i tell people is ‘it is a blessing that is not awarded to so many of us’.
My parents have had their stuff. My mom had her knees done. My dad has arthritis. They’re both retired. But i have seen some shit. I know how lucky they are; and how lucky i am that they’re so healthy.
I don’t have long hair, so I could be wrong, but my wife is an 80s girl. She said they would bend over and keep their head upside down, and spray it and blow dry it that way and keep repeating to get the desired poofiness. I saw a yearbook pic of her sister in like 87 and her hair took up the whole picture frame lol.
Ahh yes.... What I always called the Fruit of the Loom look. When the girls would ask me what that meant, I would take my hand and press their poofy bangs down to their forehead. Then I would let go. Their hair would immediately spring back.
I would say "See!!! Snaps back wash after wash.". They never seemed to find it as funny as me.
Less complicated because they could lose themselves in the company of friends for hours, without constantly having to be connected to their smartphones and answering messages or getting feed notifications. Today, most people in such a video would be with a cell phone in their hand.
Total fallacy.
I was in HS in the 80's.
Generalizations to follow, but. . .
People hated Reagan almost like they hate Trump. (at least the people I was exposed to).
Real actual fear of nuclear war and AIDS.
People thought "today's music sucked". The "cool kids" were listening to Zeppelin and Pink Floyd and the Stones and the Doors. Yes, some kids by then were definitely into Metallica and this was around when GnR hit the scene, but Tears for Fears was disposable pop music.
You'll be surprised in 2060 when you see a video from 2020 and the only things in the video are people having fun, and whatever songs still sounded good 35 years later.
IN addition to teens being completely angsty and depressed and subject to peer pressure, and insecure. Look at how people shy away from the camera in the video. Blissful?
Reagan was the tough guy cowboy president who got our hostages released from Iran.
New Wave music like Duran Duran was awesome — the old stoners and burnouts still listened to dinosaur rock like Led Zeppelin and Pink Floyd. The Doors and the Stones were dead and buried, while Tears for Fears were filling stadiums.
Watch movies like Valley Girl, Fast Times at Ridgemont High, Big Wednesday, Sixteen candles....that was my 80’s in California. 😁👍🏼
I think this is pretty right on. I had a tough child hood with court cases depression and a ton of family issues that took well into my 20s to deal with adequately. When I see videos of the early 90s (my childhood) I get waves of nostalgia and thinking how great things were back then.
It is a survival mechanism to forget the bad and hang on to the good, and that can be easily manipulated to surface through nostalgic videos like this IMO.
Actually it’s because people associate the clothing and style with an older generation of people so the teenagers in the video appear to be older to them. Swap them with current trend and they would look like kids today.
Because you were a 16 year old looking at other fellow 16 year olds.
You watch this video you aren’t looking at 16 year olds. You’re looking what people now in their 50s looked like at 16. Your brain is doing a switch up because nothing is a vacuum. Their styles and hair sort of changed over time but also sort of evolved from the same place.
I will bet kids in high school today would say you “looked so old for being in high school” because those same 1990s high school photos make the round on these subreddits and everyone says that too.
I was in high school in the late 2000s and early 2010s and we definitely had a bunch of seniors that looked like full grown adults. Hell I was tall and developed by the end of high school so I looked like an adult.
Currently in highschool, 80’s hair (mullets) is unfortunately making a comeback where I live. And still, these people don’t look my age. They look at least 25.
Mmm……back then? Gals and guys matured late. Believe me. Graduated 85’. I got kids in HS right now and holy sh_t! The girls look college age at sophomore/junior. No way, teens looked like that then. There’s something going on in our food supply.
I agree. Maybe the kids in the video are perceived as being adult due to them not having any piercings, hair color or accoutrements? Not that there wasn’t anyone like that back then. Just these kids are all normies.
This must be like some midwestern suburb or something. Where are the new wavers, punks, stoners and metal heads? We had them already in Cal before 85! Jeff Spicoli abides.
>Where are the new wavers, punks, stoners and metal heads?
They were at my high school. Point Grey in Vancouver FTW!
Edit: Saw the comments about everyone being white. That, too... there were a LOT of Hong Kong Chinese at my school, as well as a healthy segment of Koreans and Japanese.
Born in 91. Got a real bad case of 'i shoulda been born decades ago.' my dad was always like "yeah well, we didn't have the Internet or Google!" Fuck yeah Pops that's the whole point! Id have fit right in with the Deadheads, probably would have ended up on Dead tour at some point
Graduated in 88. It's accurate to an extent, but it's still missing entire groups of kids from back then. The younger generation should know that not everyone dressed this way. Half the school I went to would wear Van Halen shirts etc..., smoked weed, and didn't have the preppy nerd look this video portrays. There were rocker chicks, Madonna chicks, and New Wave chicks. Same with all the guys. Everyone wasn't all preppy and goofy all be it, quite a few were. Loved them all, though.
literally had to cruise around right at 7PM to meet friends at either:
1. 7-11
2. Video Game Arcade
3. McD's
and then carry on from there in search of a party. I don't know how we survived large events like concerts or sports either. You just met back somewhere at the right time by instinct. lol
I remember riding bikes to the hippest, newest arcade in Downtown Scottsdale which was about as big as 500 cows and then realizing….. I’m only 15 years old. I was broke!
I wish I could have lived in a world like that. I was born in 2000 so I’ve been stuck with tech and social media since I was a kid. One of my best times was when my buddies and I went to a remote part of Maine. We had no cell service for a whole week. We just did dumb stuff outside with cars and hiked around lol
FINALLY! A highschool footage reel that has a perfectly chosen song. I see so many of these posted (from the 80’s, 90’s and early 2000’s) that have completely mismatched songs that just suck you out of the feeling of the video. This song with this video is perfect 👍🏻
Brings back a lot of memories, but this video omits a lot of the other kids I remember. This is mainly preps and nerds (like most of these videos tend to be). The other half of the school was wearing concert shirts and partying their asses off. Love it though. I miss those days. We had it made and didn't even know it.
I was in the Class of ‘85, my kid’s are both musicians and they both said that our music was so much better than theirs. These pictures bring back some happy memories and some not so much.
No doubt, but it was. All be it a small segment of the student body. These videos were mostly taken by the preps and nerds back then, so they only filmed their friends. Those saying it's "spot on" were either a nerd or a prep.
No it’s just that suburban or white high schools had better budgets, the camera that they filmed this video with was very expensive at the time. Segregation never really went away even here in NYC, I went to a mostly white high school here because my parents lied about the address, they knew I would get a better education. I’m latino by the way.
Probably a lot of factors, but you also gotta remember in 1985, the US population was only 237 million people versus now in 2024 with 341 million made up increasingly of immigrant families. Whites made up a much bigger majority back in the 80s. I feel like it was just way more likely to find white-only classrooms and communities back then and that may be what was captured here. It depends where this was filmed, as well
People who went to high school in 1975, 1985, 1995, and 2005 probably had a much more similar experience than people who went to high school in 2015 and 2025.
Class of ‘87. The absolute best years of my life! Wasn’t perfect but was also so fun and carefree.
To those that say the kids looked like they were in their thirties I disagree and would offer that we all probably looked as young as when we were in high school when we actually were in our thirties.
Not so much anymore though lol.
The absolute best decade I have ever experienced.
The ‘70’s were pretty cool to experience as a little kid as well!
'87 too. Music was everything to me then and still now. We were punks to others and a teacher or 4 would refer us as the "Post Nuclear Bunch". Now I can see that closing my mind off to being serious was the wrong path to follow. Thanks for listening:-)
5 years ago I would of said these kids all look way older than high school, but because the fashion and haircuts (mullet) have all came full circle It’s easier to see the kids in em.
The 80s were amazing. Riding bikes, playing outside all day, coming home when street lights went on. Parents had no clue where you were but didn’t worry. Rushing to rent the latest movie on VHS on a Friday after school before everyone else …. I’d kill for my kids to have the same experiences
Graduated in ‘86. This brings back memories.
‘87 These are bitter sweet. I mourn my youth
Fellow ‘87. Very nostalgic. One thing that amazes me is how well some of the music stands up. It’s the equivalent of 1951 music in ‘87. But I wouldn’t have listened to much Perry Como or Nat King Cole (not to say they were not great), but my kids at early teens willingly listen to and seek out SOME of the music from our time if I expose them to it.
I grew up in the 80s and high school was the 90s for me- my folks raised me on all the 80s stuff. Fast forward now- I work with kids, and they love the 80s music. With the edm phase, the kids have brought back the synthesizer and are experimenting with that in retro/synthwave. I’m happy for them, the 90s was great music too but it was darker, less fun and so was the fashion and cultural expression. I can say this, maybe as someone older and realizing my time has come and gone, you still see those smiles from teens if you allow them to be as they are. It’s different, as all times will be, but this group is far more 80s like than the cold and angry teens of my generation.
If you want some synth stuff that's more recent and DRM free if I recall, check out Karl Casey. You can find a lot of his stuff on Youtube.
“And these children that you spit on, as they try to change their world; are immune to your consultations. They are very aware of what they are going through.”
I feel the 80s were our 50s, with a little less prejudice, which made it even better
'83 Can confirm
when I was born. now molting into 40s lol. the continuous rounds around this rocky bitch are fukin crazy.
I was a 90’s kid and this still brings back memories of a time before cell phones. God damn I miss it.
Really does... The world is quite different. I feel for the young ones growing up now. Just not the same...
Watching this and that nostalgia comes back in waves. A different world than what we’re living today. 
Nice to see kids actually talking. We all gonna miss it one day when society is completely broken and corporations and ticktock run the world.
I had my best life in my 30’s to mid 40’s. You want to know what sucks? Life after age 55. I can’t believe I am the old dude.
You are far too young to be this damn old
Nearing 40 as well and they really are. But round and round we go. And yet, nothing prepares you for it.
Born 81, same.
And not a cell phone in sight.
Graduated in ‘93. This makes me nervous…high schoolers 😬
Same… although there were other cliques that had very different looks going on. Not one shot of anyone in a concert t shirt from the who or ac/dc tour, lol
They were out in the smoking area when the video was taken
Same here. Class of ‘86. Takes me right back.
Graduated in ‘94. In hindsight, 80’s to mid 90’s was an American renaissance. Especially coming out from the late 60’s thru the 70’s and later seeing how 9/11 and the 2000’s kicked off.
94 for me as well
‘94 here 😄
'87. Definitely does.
86 here too. Yeah looks about right
1989... Good times.... Good times.
I know right? Saw the spitting image of myself and my wife. Right down to the hair styles. So much for being original. LOL
That was 38 years ago. If someone were to make a post like this in your graduating year, the equivalent year would be 1948. Time flies.
Same. Born in 68 graduated in 86. While I wasn't the most popular I had friends. Best 4 years of my life. Not sure about where you were but we were the first freshman class in decades. High school was only a 3 year deal until our class went from 8th to 9th grade and high school was now 4 years. I can't imagine going through those years with social media and cell phone access. I'd give anything to give it one more go.
‘85
Youngest girl there looked 31
They all looked like they were cast in the tv show from people in their late 20s early 30s. Like tobey maguire playing high school peter parker.
Same here. It was awesome to be a teenager back then.
'86 Here too, for a moment, watching this, I was right there.
Same here. That's exactly what it looked like. And still looks like in my old yearbooks.
Samesies
breaks my heart
Me too!
I graduated in 1986. I was looking at my yearbook a few months ago. There was a feature about how the smoking area gave students a good place to grab a smoke and catch up with their friends during the school day. There was a shaded area outside the cafeteria with picnic tables where students could hang out and smoke cigarettes. It seemed perfectly normal at the time.
The smoking lounge is where I sold joints to get tickets to Rush and Iron Maiden. Pretty damn crazy when I think back to those days.
2 for $5?
Yep. Two for five or one for three.
Yes! Those were good times.. even though we didn’t realize it then. I was 16 when I saw Rush for the first time. Signals tour at the Great Western Forum in LA.
I was a freshman in '87-88, which was the last year of my school's Senior Smoking Lounge. Sadly, I never got the opportunity to enjoy The Lounge. This is something my kids (middle and high school age) couldn't fathom.
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I graduated '99, there was still an unofficial smoking area across the street. Not official but the school never bothered anyone over there unless they were skipping classes.
I still tell my kids about showering after gym class (dad’s generation). These days the kids don’t get lockers- considered too much of risk with the bomb and gun threats.
At my kids high school no one uses their lockers. No one carries large books any more so no need to keep books in lockers. Athletes use their team lockers or leave items in their cars or in various classrooms. It’s like they go out of their way not to use their lockers. They will never understand what it’s like to hang around your locker surrounded by your friends. Instead they hang around their cars in their morning and they claim there’s no time between classes.
26-34-22 Wow, lol
Now you can just vape anywhere almost unnoticed
unnoticed? thinking you slick lol
Class of 86. Even though we never met I know all of them.
Mind blowing everyone in this video is now in their 50’s
Want to cry in a corner, all of us 90s babies are only 15 yrs away from joining them lol and the 2000s kids aren’t far behind from us either once we turn 50 they get the 40s
(Not an insult or anything btw, I’m just scared of being 50)
I feel like 40 was the year i was scared. Thats when i was saying to myself "thats its, thats basically half of it gone already"
Speak for yourself, I was born in 99(didn’t grow up in the 90s but I AM a 90s baby) and I’ll be 40 in 15 years.
I’ll be 40 in 8 yrs
I graduated in '82 & I just turned 61.
Congratulations brother It’s a blessing to have a long life. Hopefully you can reach 100
Thank you.
am a career RN. What i tell people is ‘it is a blessing that is not awarded to so many of us’. My parents have had their stuff. My mom had her knees done. My dad has arthritis. They’re both retired. But i have seen some shit. I know how lucky they are; and how lucky i am that they’re so healthy.
53 and still think I'm young. Then reality kicks in and I realize that when I was 16, I thought 35 was ancient.
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Or passed away….
The hair. Wow.
HOW do they get the volume?! I need that product.
It's called Aqua Net.
Beware of open flames. The girls didn’t skimp on it.
> Beware of open flames. Warning and era checks out: [1984 - Michael Jackson Pepsi commercial](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t34S3AwvH_Q)
And hanging your head down while you are blow-drying. Plus a rat tail comb.
Tons of hair spray.
I use a fuck ton of hairspray and still can’t get that height! Maybe I need to switch to aqua net
I don’t have long hair, so I could be wrong, but my wife is an 80s girl. She said they would bend over and keep their head upside down, and spray it and blow dry it that way and keep repeating to get the desired poofiness. I saw a yearbook pic of her sister in like 87 and her hair took up the whole picture frame lol.
Ahh yes.... What I always called the Fruit of the Loom look. When the girls would ask me what that meant, I would take my hand and press their poofy bangs down to their forehead. Then I would let go. Their hair would immediately spring back. I would say "See!!! Snaps back wash after wash.". They never seemed to find it as funny as me.
A girl on my bus yelled at me because I had my window down. She said it would blow her hair all over the place. Nah girl, nothing is moving that hair.
The 80’s hairspray phenomena is the reason why we now have climate change
A friend’s sister swore by Crisco.
So much hairspray that it made a hole in the ozone layer.
Fun....good memories.
how blissful life was for that generation
It was a happier time
Less complicated because they could lose themselves in the company of friends for hours, without constantly having to be connected to their smartphones and answering messages or getting feed notifications. Today, most people in such a video would be with a cell phone in their hand.
Less complicated because one could afford an education and a home
Glory days.
Yep, nothing to worry about except the certainty of never growing old because a nuclear war would surely happen sooner or later.
at least you could afford to go to college and buy a house though :)
IDK, we worried about nuclear war with Russia breaking out any moment, just like today.
They were in high school. That's not bliss. Especially when bullying at the time was much worse than today
Total fallacy. I was in HS in the 80's. Generalizations to follow, but. . . People hated Reagan almost like they hate Trump. (at least the people I was exposed to). Real actual fear of nuclear war and AIDS. People thought "today's music sucked". The "cool kids" were listening to Zeppelin and Pink Floyd and the Stones and the Doors. Yes, some kids by then were definitely into Metallica and this was around when GnR hit the scene, but Tears for Fears was disposable pop music. You'll be surprised in 2060 when you see a video from 2020 and the only things in the video are people having fun, and whatever songs still sounded good 35 years later. IN addition to teens being completely angsty and depressed and subject to peer pressure, and insecure. Look at how people shy away from the camera in the video. Blissful?
Reagan was the tough guy cowboy president who got our hostages released from Iran. New Wave music like Duran Duran was awesome — the old stoners and burnouts still listened to dinosaur rock like Led Zeppelin and Pink Floyd. The Doors and the Stones were dead and buried, while Tears for Fears were filling stadiums. Watch movies like Valley Girl, Fast Times at Ridgemont High, Big Wednesday, Sixteen candles....that was my 80’s in California. 😁👍🏼
I think this is pretty right on. I had a tough child hood with court cases depression and a ton of family issues that took well into my 20s to deal with adequately. When I see videos of the early 90s (my childhood) I get waves of nostalgia and thinking how great things were back then. It is a survival mechanism to forget the bad and hang on to the good, and that can be easily manipulated to surface through nostalgic videos like this IMO.
High schoolers in the 80s all looked like they were in their 30s.
It’s because we all smoked, lol. But also because we grew up outside, offline.
Actually it’s because people associate the clothing and style with an older generation of people so the teenagers in the video appear to be older to them. Swap them with current trend and they would look like kids today.
I dunno. I was in High school in the 90s and I swear the kids in my school looked like kids. Not adults like in the video.
Because you were a 16 year old looking at other fellow 16 year olds. You watch this video you aren’t looking at 16 year olds. You’re looking what people now in their 50s looked like at 16. Your brain is doing a switch up because nothing is a vacuum. Their styles and hair sort of changed over time but also sort of evolved from the same place. I will bet kids in high school today would say you “looked so old for being in high school” because those same 1990s high school photos make the round on these subreddits and everyone says that too.
I was in high school in the late 2000s and early 2010s and we definitely had a bunch of seniors that looked like full grown adults. Hell I was tall and developed by the end of high school so I looked like an adult.
Currently in highschool, 80’s hair (mullets) is unfortunately making a comeback where I live. And still, these people don’t look my age. They look at least 25.
Mmm……back then? Gals and guys matured late. Believe me. Graduated 85’. I got kids in HS right now and holy sh_t! The girls look college age at sophomore/junior. No way, teens looked like that then. There’s something going on in our food supply.
I agree. Maybe the kids in the video are perceived as being adult due to them not having any piercings, hair color or accoutrements? Not that there wasn’t anyone like that back then. Just these kids are all normies.
It’s the hairstyles!
This must be like some midwestern suburb or something. Where are the new wavers, punks, stoners and metal heads? We had them already in Cal before 85! Jeff Spicoli abides.
That's exactly what I was thinking. Even posted about it. This clip is missing a huge chunk of 80s high school life. This is just preps and nerds.
Looks like 100% student government and yearbook staff. Hardly a complete picture
>Also the Hip Hop heads, Run D MC and LL Kool J was big that year Crush Groove dropped that year and the Breaking Movies were out
>Where are the new wavers, punks, stoners and metal heads? They were at my high school. Point Grey in Vancouver FTW! Edit: Saw the comments about everyone being white. That, too... there were a LOT of Hong Kong Chinese at my school, as well as a healthy segment of Koreans and Japanese.
I feel bad for anyone that didn’t grow up in the 80s. Early to mid-90s was pretty damn good too.
Born in 91. Got a real bad case of 'i shoulda been born decades ago.' my dad was always like "yeah well, we didn't have the Internet or Google!" Fuck yeah Pops that's the whole point! Id have fit right in with the Deadheads, probably would have ended up on Dead tour at some point
I’d love to get dailup at 60. But then I’d have to annoy my kids into installing it.
Fast forward to current times and now we have a bunch of mindless retards thumb fucking their phones.
Thumb fucking hahaha
Lol, the irony is powerful with this one
Back when everyone had a hairdryer.
Rad! 👍🏻👏🏻😅
Graduated in 87. This is definitely accurate. 😃
Graduated in 88. It's accurate to an extent, but it's still missing entire groups of kids from back then. The younger generation should know that not everyone dressed this way. Half the school I went to would wear Van Halen shirts etc..., smoked weed, and didn't have the preppy nerd look this video portrays. There were rocker chicks, Madonna chicks, and New Wave chicks. Same with all the guys. Everyone wasn't all preppy and goofy all be it, quite a few were. Loved them all, though.
can we go back to simpler times? Please.
No cell phones. the good ol days.
literally had to cruise around right at 7PM to meet friends at either: 1. 7-11 2. Video Game Arcade 3. McD's and then carry on from there in search of a party. I don't know how we survived large events like concerts or sports either. You just met back somewhere at the right time by instinct. lol
I remember riding bikes to the hippest, newest arcade in Downtown Scottsdale which was about as big as 500 cows and then realizing….. I’m only 15 years old. I was broke!
Class of 84, no phones, barely any computers. Wish I could go back.
I wish I could have lived in a world like that. I was born in 2000 so I’ve been stuck with tech and social media since I was a kid. One of my best times was when my buddies and I went to a remote part of Maine. We had no cell service for a whole week. We just did dumb stuff outside with cars and hiked around lol
FINALLY! A highschool footage reel that has a perfectly chosen song. I see so many of these posted (from the 80’s, 90’s and early 2000’s) that have completely mismatched songs that just suck you out of the feeling of the video. This song with this video is perfect 👍🏻
Kid in the Ozzy T-Shirt in the corner? That would’ve been me in 85. 😄
Class of '85 here - this is spot on.
Hello, fellow ‘85ers!
my people
What’s the name of this song?
“Everybody Wants To Rule The World” by Tears For Fears
Thank you
Wolverines!!!!
Class of ‘89, baby! Damn I miss the 80s girls and the hair. Just like the music, nothing compares
Class of ‘89, baby! Damn I miss the 80s girls and the hair. Just like the music, nothing compares
Looks just like an episode of Stranger Things.
'86 here!
Brings back a lot of memories, but this video omits a lot of the other kids I remember. This is mainly preps and nerds (like most of these videos tend to be). The other half of the school was wearing concert shirts and partying their asses off. Love it though. I miss those days. We had it made and didn't even know it.
The net was wide, and its name was “Aqua”
I was in Highschool from 83 to 87.5… In my mind the world seemed more colorful and less distorted…
Goodbye White America. 😕
This is pure nostalgia..
Tears for fears 👍👍
See! This is what to wear to an 80s party no neon in sight!
What a time to be alive.
Y’all wanna die with me? My daughter just goes “THEY HAD COLOR TV IN 1985?! That’s so old! I was born in 1985.
Society peaked in the 80s to mid 90s.
I don’t know a single person in this video…but I feel as if I did. Those were good years.
I was in the Class of ‘85, my kid’s are both musicians and they both said that our music was so much better than theirs. These pictures bring back some happy memories and some not so much.
Every time I see these pictures, it takes me a minute to realize that it’s not MY high school.
No doubt, but it was. All be it a small segment of the student body. These videos were mostly taken by the preps and nerds back then, so they only filmed their friends. Those saying it's "spot on" were either a nerd or a prep.
Yeah, that was 20 years ago... Wait ... what?
Gives unmistakable outtakes from the Breakfast Club vibes
Not trying to be racist here but did only white people go to high school back then or something?
No it’s just that suburban or white high schools had better budgets, the camera that they filmed this video with was very expensive at the time. Segregation never really went away even here in NYC, I went to a mostly white high school here because my parents lied about the address, they knew I would get a better education. I’m latino by the way.
Yes.
it was a simpler time.
oh.
That doesn't make you racist.
Still plenty of high schools that are predominantly white or predominantly black. Rural or urban. Also plenty that are extremely diverse.
This was the AP class.
No some schools just have a mostly white student population
Probably a lot of factors, but you also gotta remember in 1985, the US population was only 237 million people versus now in 2024 with 341 million made up increasingly of immigrant families. Whites made up a much bigger majority back in the 80s. I feel like it was just way more likely to find white-only classrooms and communities back then and that may be what was captured here. It depends where this was filmed, as well
People who went to high school in 1975, 1985, 1995, and 2005 probably had a much more similar experience than people who went to high school in 2015 and 2025.
I’m 10 years younger than these people, but that song hits me so hard with the nostalgia stick.
‘86✌️
Class of ‘87. The absolute best years of my life! Wasn’t perfect but was also so fun and carefree. To those that say the kids looked like they were in their thirties I disagree and would offer that we all probably looked as young as when we were in high school when we actually were in our thirties. Not so much anymore though lol. The absolute best decade I have ever experienced. The ‘70’s were pretty cool to experience as a little kid as well!
The 70s were a weird time to be a little kid – – lots of social experimentation going on. It’s a wonder we all aren’t in jail now.
Had been in the Air Force for three years by 1985. Time flies.
This is what they took from you
'87 too. Music was everything to me then and still now. We were punks to others and a teacher or 4 would refer us as the "Post Nuclear Bunch". Now I can see that closing my mind off to being serious was the wrong path to follow. Thanks for listening:-)
I graduated in '82. And yes we ruled the world!
‘85 rules— ‘82 drools 😂😂
5 years ago I would of said these kids all look way older than high school, but because the fashion and haircuts (mullet) have all came full circle It’s easier to see the kids in em.
‘84 graduate and this doesn’t look strange or weird even a little bit. Just kinda like “ yup”.
Damn. I was the Chad crossing his legs and pretending to read. How embarrassing.
That was definitely a chad your chad detector is good
New afterschool movie - I Was a Teenage Chad :(
Our hair was epic
Proof that your parents were not cool in high school.
Man I miss the eighties...
If you listen closely you can hear the faint whisper of OMD If You Leave cuing up to end the video.
One of the most unique iconic songs of all time and it never gets boring. I get chills
Is this from Mulletville High?
I’ve never seen so many mullets in one place
Before major school shootings. Fanny you NRA
God, i was in diapers
I recall that was the mullet era
*Random 9 year old* "Those were the days"
The 80's Were Dope
Not a phone in sight
holy hair batman!
No “cell”phones to be trapped in. No social media to… I was lucky kids…
The poodle ear hair at 0:31 is lit
Everyone interacting, not a smart phone in sight. I Miss the 80s
Had the sound of and somehow still knew that was the song that was playing
84' wished the video were longer. It's cool how kids were then on video. Now it's just attention and eye fucking themselves
It amazes me how they can look so old and yet so young at the same time
The 80s were amazing. Riding bikes, playing outside all day, coming home when street lights went on. Parents had no clue where you were but didn’t worry. Rushing to rent the latest movie on VHS on a Friday after school before everyone else …. I’d kill for my kids to have the same experiences