The Love Boat -- better than Lost (HAHA!)

This is the show that made the 80's "livable"! Haha! How can life be dull on Love Boat day? There were some who described the show as cheesy. How could we believe in anything that was so lovely and happy? But its cheesiness worked! How can The Love Boat work for today's audience? What kind of people lived in the 80's anyway?

No, life on TV today is full of reality -- the heartaches, gruesome murders, twisted minds etc. But, I say who cares for the people who are LOST on the island when you can be lost in a love boat?

I feel sorry (again) for those who have never experienced life on The Love Boat. Everybody should know the words to The Love Boat. The Love Boat was like a status symbol for actors then. It felt that if you were somebody on the TV scene, you would want to be a guest of the week on The Love Boat.

Now I remember the time I used to rush to sit in front of the TV set at the sound of the theme song....

Love....

Exciting and new

Come aboard

We're expecting you....

Moonlighting -- Bruce Willis & Cybill Shepherd At Their Best

Nights were so exciting when Bruce Willis and Cybill Shepherd lighted up the TV screens with their fireworks!
And Al Jarreau sang one of my favourite songs ever!
Moonlighting.

Duran Duran - My Teenage Obsession

What is the 80's without Duran Duran?

This band was one of my life's obsessions and was I kept busy collecting their posters!

My favourite was Simon Le Bon. I even sketched a portrait of him. It's lost now!

But my schoolmates and I were constantly fighting over who was cuter. Most of them liked John Taylor. Such a sissy. It was always Simon for me.

Not only were they so full of personality, they played excellent music. Let me just try to find some of my favourite Duran Duran songs and post them here.

At that time, music of that era with the British bands in the forefront were described as New Romantic. And sound that got everybody grooving was New Wave. Beautiful.

Save A Prayer -- one of the best songs ever written. See it here

A View To A Kill -- who could write a better James Bond theme song than Duran Duran -- surpassed expectation!!!

Come Undone --who could write more romantic, amazing lyrics than Duran Duran & Madonna.

I Am Missing The 80's

Two nights ago, I happened to be surfing the TV channels and chanced upon Airwolf showing on a channel I rarely watch!

I was so excited that I had to alert my old schoolfriends on facebook. Cos you see, those were the times we fought over those gorgeous male TV stars and superstars!

I just couldn't get over how happy life was on TV back then in the 80's. And soon, the theme music began echoing in the minds of my facebook junky friends. It really brought back memories of great theme songs and great-looking guys!

Yep, that was when I was a teenager. A normal, full-blooded, aging woman wouldn't admit this so readily. But, yes, it's like that famous question I have to ask: "Where have all the flowers gone?"

TV shows were such a part of me then. We didn't have that many TV channels, if you remember, and so it was easy to memorize the TV guide.

Even though TV shows are good today, but they are different. Where are those famous theme songs? Those happy feelings? Now, it's all gory gory gory dark dark dark -- even the comedies. Where are those great sitcoms? Family Ties, The Cosby Show, Cheers, The Greatest American Hero, Growing Pains...

Yes, those were the times of the big curly hair and puffed up shoulders. But those were great times on TV and in music. Hey, that was when Michael Jackson and Madonna showed up in a big way, don't forget! Now in 2009, even after Michael's passing, people are still playing Beat It and Billy Jean.

Well, for those folks looking for a little magical memory jolt amongst the dreariness and charmless TV of the 90's and 2000's, I will do my best to bring back the happy 80's by digging up the old files in the archives of my mind, heart and soul. Let me surf the world wide web and do my part for society.

Meanwhile, let me leave you with one of my favourite songs: theme from The Greatest American Hero. (Everyone should know this song)

Look at what's happened to me

I can't believe it myself

Suddenly I'm up on top the world

Should have been somebody else

Believe it or not

I'm walking on air

I never thought I could feel so free

Flying away on a wing and a prayer

Who could it be

Believe or not

It's just me!