Official 1987 Thread (1 Viewer)

[Nipsey]

1987

 

[kupcho1]

Might have been the year I peaked.

 

[Courtjester]

Graduated from high school that year.

 

[Charlie Steiner]

1986 was actually a better year for me. Maybe that's why '87 seemed like a letdown at the time, even though I actually had the world by the tail and didn't realize it.

 

[Snoopy]

In college, another living hell.

 

[AAABatteries]

Might have been the year I peaked.

Let me tell you something - I haven’t even begun to peak. Because when I peak, you’ll know.

 

[Leroy Hoard]

1987: Prozac makes its debut

Popular Film: Three Men and a Baby

Popular Musician: Michael Jackson

Popular TV Program: The Cosby Show

What a wonderful time in history.

 

[Osaurus]

So many good albums released in 1987

 

[Mookie Gizzy]

Graduated from high school that year.

Same here.

 

[CGRdrJoe]

6th grade, man what a time...

 

[bigbottom]

I thought it was going to be this:

1987

 

[Ministry of Pain]

Guns n Roses releases Appetite For Destruction
7th grade, middle school, I wore out 2 copies of that tape before I finally bought the LP

I remember MTV and watching the Top 10 video countdown.
At the time it was a lot of Metal/Hair and some pop but you routinely would see Def Leppard almost every day on there.

Summer movies in '87 were pretty dismal with a few exceptions like Predator

 

[BeTheMatch]

Twins won the World Series. I was 15. Uncle worked for NBC sports, so we had seats among all the bigwigs for every game at the Metrodome and got to go to all these parties with celebrities and players. Time of my life.

I still tear up anytime I see highlights.

 

[zamboni]

MLB baseballs were juiced that year. As one example. Wade Boggs hit 24 HRs that year, the same amount he hit in 1985, 1986, 1988 and 1989 combined.

 

[urbanhack]

Graduated High School
Freshman Year at Purdue
Got drunk for the first time

 

[Drunken knight]

Also the year I graduated hs.

Very fun time…
Early acceptance to college so spring was pretty loose.
Friday afternoon club at the beach after practice
San Diego in the fall
Fraternity
49ers were fantastic

 

[Uruk-Hai]

I turned 25 that year. It was the '80s and I was rolling, so I remember very few details.

 

[Don Quixote]

Still have all of my 500 or so Topps baseball cards from 1987, that are all collectively probably worth $5.

 

[Osaurus]

Freshman year of high school and my introduction to “alternative” music.

 

[zamboni]

One of the great redemption stories in sports, when Steve Smith was handed the Stanley Cup by Wayne Gretzky after his memorable gaffe the year before on his 23rd birthday.

 

[Mookie]

Spent the summer after my freshman year in college on Martha's Vineyard, working in a small bed and breakfast in Edgartown. Get off mid-afternoon and would head to the beach or go windsurfing/fishing. Parties at night. Wake up early the next day, repeat. So fun.

 

[Gatorman]

Graduated from high school that year.

me too

 

[fantasy stud]

Guns n Roses releases Appetite For Destruction
7th grade, middle school, I wore out 2 copies of that tape before I finally bought the LP

I remember MTV and watching the Top 10 video countdown.
At the time it was a lot of Metal/Hair and some pop but you routinely would see Def Leppard almost every day on there.

Summer movies in '87 were pretty dismal with a few exceptions like Predator

pour some sugar on me spent a whole summer at number one on the dial mtv countdown if I remember correctly.

 

[DA RAIDERS]

The sunset strip was my playground.

 

[fantasy stud]

Still have all of my 500 or so Topps baseball cards from 1987, that are all collectively probably worth $5.

That was the first complete set I ever bought as a kid. Costed about $15? I remember the baseball card store owner saying what a smart investment I made. I still have them in my closet 36 years waiting for this smart investment to pay off

 

[kupcho1]

I think I made my best ever mixtape that year. I replicated it (and added a lot more since I was limited to a cassette tape) on Spotify.
1987 - Spinning on that dizzy edge
Great times.

 

[FairWarning]

Freshman year of high school and my introduction to “alternative” music.

It was a big year for it.

 

[Ilov80s]

I think I was in preschool that year. I was absolutely thriving.

 

[TripItUp]

7th grade...started to realize the advantages I was given in life...great time to be alive. Very happy year.

 

[zamboni]

Popular TV Program: The Cosby Show

Some real goodness here when it was all about network TV:

1986 - 1987 TV Schedule - Classic TV Database

1986 – 1987 United States network television schedule from The Classic TV Database.

www.classic-tv.com

 

[urbanhack]

Freshman year of high school and my introduction to “alternative” music.

I didn't discover it until a decade later.

:(

 

[Osaurus]

Freshman year of high school and my introduction to “alternative” music.

I didn't discover it until a decade later.

:(

Cruising around with upper classmen listening to Husker Dü, The Descendents, and REM was my introduction

 

[STEADYMOBBIN 22]

Smoked love boat for the first time. I was 10.

 

[Keith R]

Don't forget THIS happened too. An industry changer.

 

[urbanhack]

Timeline: 1987 - Iran-Contra, The Girl In the Well and The Untouchables

Welcome to Weird History's Timeline 1987. We're taking a look at the news, culture, sports, and entertainment during the year 1987. Going back to '87, the ma...

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[Drunken knight]

Timeline: 1987 - Iran-Contra, The Girl In the Well and The Untouchables

Welcome to Weird History's Timeline 1987. We're taking a look at the news, culture, sports, and entertainment during the year 1987. Going back to '87, the ma...

youtu.be

very into the untouchables, fishbone, etc around that time

 

[Todem]

What I would give to be transported back to 1987 again.

Junior year of high school.......life was grand. So blessed to have grown up in the 80’s.

 

[Dan Lambskin]

Don't forget THIS happened too. An industry changer.

I was there, dad got us floor seats, one of my best memories

 

[massraider]

Sophomore year. My best friend had an older sister at UMASS, and we started going up on weekends to hang out (lol our parents). Had a bunch of wonderful 'first time' and 'only time' experiences on these trips. Perspective is amazing, at that time I thought a dorm party was the coolest social event possible. Fast forward 3 years, I was disgusted by dorms.

 

[massraider]

I think I made my best ever mixtape that year. I replicated it (and added a lot more since I was limited to a cassette tape) on Spotify.
1987 - Spinning on that dizzy edge
Great times.

I had to check, when I went through your playlists before, which ones I downloaded. Definitely this one, 1988, 1996, 1994. Oh, and 1983. (That reminds me, I really need to make a 100 list of 1983 before someone else ****s it up.)

Looking at your list, this was the year I came closest to listening to metal. I really disliked everything about hair bands, but Guns N Roses and De Lappard that year....a great rock album is a great rock album.

 

[zamboni]

Sophomore year. My best friend had an older sister at UMASS, and we started going up on weekends to hang out (lol our parents). Had a bunch of wonderful 'first time' and 'only time' experiences on these trips. Perspective is amazing, at that time I thought a dorm party was the coolest social event possible. Fast forward 3 years, I was disgusted by dorms.

My son is finishing his sophomore year at UMass as we speak - the dorms are still gross.

 

[dickey moe]

I thought it was going to be this:

1987

I would pay good money to see you sit in with Steel Panther for an evening.

 

[dickey moe]

Still have all of my 500 or so Topps baseball cards from 1987, that are all collectively probably worth $5.

Just think how much all that gum is worth.

 

[zamboni]

Still have all of my 500 or so Topps baseball cards from 1987, that are all collectively probably worth $5.

Just think how much all that gum is worth.

It’s probably no staler now than it was back then.

 

[shuke]

Finished the K-8th Catholic school and transferred to the public junior high (7th-9th) that fall. An incredible, life changing year.

 

[shuke]

Still have all of my 500 or so Topps baseball cards from 1987, that are all collectively probably worth $5.

Only 500?

 

[Hov34]

Twins won the World Series. I was 15. Uncle worked for NBC sports, so we had seats among all the bigwigs for every game at the Metrodome and got to go to all these parties with celebrities and players. Time of my life.

I still tear up anytime I see highlights.

Graduated HS, went to basic training in early October - was working KP when they beat Detroit and we overheard the cooks talk about Twins/Cards WS. Didn't find out they had won until I heard a couple Drills talking about it at a range the day after game 7. Happiest day of 3 months of hell. No amount of pushups could have ruined that day.

 

[Manster]

You guys are a buncha codgers

 

[massraider]

You guys are a buncha codgers

You are just finding this out?

There's a gout thread, and a sitting down to pee thread, which get pushed off page 1 by young people suck these days, and I am not saying that because I am paunchy and out of touch, but because these kid REALLY suck thread.

 

[Manster]

You guys are a buncha codgers

You are just finding this out?

There's a gout thread, and a sitting down to pee thread, which get pushed off page 1 by young people suck these days, and I am not saying that because I am paunchy and out of touch, but because these kid REALLY suck thread.

I'm on my way to codgerdom......I was 11 in '87