Songs for anyone looking: 0:00 Egyptian Lover - You're So Fine 0:08 Blondie - One Way or Another 0:25 Divine - Native Love 1:24 Colourbox - You Keep Me Hangin' On 2:00 Strawberry Switchblade - Jolene 2:58 Vicious Pink - Fetish 3:30 Debbie Deb - When I Hear Music 3:37 Nu Shooz - The Point of No Return 3:43 Expose - The Point of No Return (there seems to be some confusion about this in the comments -These are two COMPLETELY DIFFERENT SONGS. Just similar titles, lol) 4:00 Colourbox - You Keep Me Hangin' On 4:07 Timex Social Club - Rumors 4:15 The Cult - She Sells Sanctuary
Or how many are still alive 😶 Idk why but my mind always goes there when I watch old footage. Update: I'm NOT saying these people must be ancient now. Did we forget death can get you at any age? This is a reminder to enjoy every single day while you can!
I wonder how many of them are boring, middle-aged parents, who wear khakis and button-up shirts, and drive their kids to soccer practice. Probably most.
Freaks, goths, preps, jocks, weirdos all in one place vibing together to good music = Heaven. And to think these kids are in their 50s and 60s now. What a time it was to be alive.
Pretty much, and clubs were the acceptable place to mingle in late teens early 20s in the 80s but outside of that people pretty much stayed in their cliq
YES! So many women I would like to get to know in this vid, some I wouldn't, each to their own. But the Men, non of them, I feel sorry for the women of the time :)
I understand you. I recommend 80s partys, meetings and to meet some 80s fans (with the Internet its simpler). Its really better than leaving alone and missing.
Let me let you in on a little secret, sometimes I DO cry about it. My life was fantastic back in 81-88, best years of my life. High quality years. Oh well I guess that's how it goes.
Can you imagine people in the future looking back on 2000s the same way we look back on the 80s and early 90s? Nope me neither. Just be glad you didn't miss it.
@@arkadiusztrzesniewski4237 lol no doubt the 60s and 70s were church bazars and tea parties politically. hell just look at roe vs wade, one of the 80s most decadent court rulings that changed america forever
@@justanotherguy469 lol another moment in time no other moment before holds weight against there is no way there was dissent from the onset, no papers written discussing the attitudes and law changes of the day. i dont think there was ever a civil war or anything of the like or even sweeping changes to the constitution or bill of rights before 1913, or after.
To all the 50+ year olds... I'm in my early 40s and was always jealous of you guys back in elementary, middle school and high school. Shit, I still am!!! I had teenage "new wave" cousins who got me into Depeche Mode, Pet Shop Boys and New Order, at such a young age. I always wanted to be older and be a teen in the 80s. Sadly, I was not but being so young with all this 80s music, formed who I am now. My kids know all these bands and their songs. A couple of days ago, my 9 year old was on the verge of tears... "Why couldn't I have been in the 80s! It was so much funner and not so boring like now". Sad but true. Good times... Good times... We sure were lucky and especially you 50 years olds!!!
I'm a Millennial in my 30s, and my parents are Baby Boomers who can't stand New Wave/80s pop (they're more into 70s rock), so I wasn't really exposed to it growing up. Well apart from some of the mainstream chart hits. I discovered the more underground/alternative stuff myself online in the early 00s and fell in love. Now in my mid 30s and it's my favourite era musically. I also wish I could've been a young adult in the 80s, especially in the UK scene.
@@bogantellectual Your parents must have had you at a later age. Boomers are now in their 60s and up. This was was GenX music, most of us are in our mid 40s - late 50s now, we love it. Most of our parents were/are Boomers. My mom (younger boomer) loves this kind of music too though lol.
I agree ,,,every brainless robotic imbecille glued to their phone ,or sitting in darkened rooms on their computer slagging off everyone and everything that's done something with their lives ...and the "offended by everything brigade " waiting to pounce to show how right on they are ...damn shame
Social media and 9/11 changed everything. Somewhat related, but I watched a video on here earlier that had me in tears. It was a family holiday video filmed in the 60's on my small home island, and in it, the island is still green and lush, the roads are nearly empty, the beaches are covered in colourful deckchairs and filled with people enjoying their holidays, and now? Steel and glass offices, and rich cnuts in suits attending board meetings and the never ending enactment of legislation and red tape.
@@KumaBean that's so sad. I know how you feel. Sometimes I watch TH-cam videos about life in the 50s and 60s and it makes me so sad. It was so simple back then and everyone in the videos looks happy. They're talking to each other instead of staring at their phones. Little kids are riding bikes and playing ball. There was no fear or paranoia. Nothing like society today.
When all the "freaks" and "weirdos" who didn't need a label gathered in one place, danced with nobody in particular and preferred to dance alone, did not care who thought what of their movements and got just lost in the music and did what felt good. Ah, I miss it.
I'm 51 and very active. I hate cell phones hate carrying them, hate people bothering me with them. In fact when I leave the house I am happy most days when I leave it at home all day by accident.
@@loveplurlovemolly Sometimes after I dance with a girl, I asked her number but there wasn't no pen or paper around, but she carries a lipstick write the number on my forarm, or I'd take an ashtray full of cigerete ashes dip my finger to write her number on a napkin
I can’t believe how addictive this series of videos has become today for me. I’ve literally been teleported mentally back to 1986 when I was 19 years old and living the dream going to a club like this on the Southside of Atlanta at a place called Jitterbugs. I was only able to go from Summer 85 to June 86 because I was paralyzed in a car accident June 26th and spent a long time in recovery. I assure you from Fall of 87 until the early 2000’s I was dancing my ass off in my wheelchair at some club or another. Life can sometimes throw you a hard curve, but if you lean into it just right... at minimum it’s a base hit. So stay young, live your dreams, and remember the 80’s may have been the best time to be alive, but life is better than death, if you don’t believe me ask any dead person they’ll tell you I’m right. For the record, the auburn haired hottie in the devil horns 0:25 would have been the object of my desires back then, apparently I’m not alone in this notion either. 🥰😉🖖🏼🤙🏼
All this footage is a gift from the gods! I'm an OG club DJ (I started my career in 1981) and I literally played 90% of these songs those same years. But it was the club MAN RAY in Boston/Cambridge, and the crowd looked exactly like this too. But the sad part: NO footage was ever shot of the club. And I'll tell ya: no other decade will ever best the 80s for the sheer breadth of creativity and various genres that ruled those incredible 10 years!
As silly as they look, the 80's was the last decade that HUMANITY actually LIVED! The 90's started the "internet revolution"...Now Humans are just a "plastic" reminder.
Bobobobi Bobobobo I don’t know man, I was a kid in the 90’s and people would still socialize and kids would play outside and make friends. It’s the 2000’s that ruined it all, late 90’s is when music started becoming shit with all these plastic pop artists.
@@gaboltl I agree. The 90's were great, up until 96-97. That is when the internet started to gain popularity with "regular" people. But, the internet was still very niche for 'the corporate world'. It wasn't until PC's started to rapidly increase their 'production power' , that the internet became a "THING".
Born in 63. Army from 81 to 88. Meet wife back home in 86 she was 18 and i 23. Crazy times. Great times. Sit around and get buzzed watching mtv then hit the bars and clubs at night.
I was once one of the people in this crowd. This is my era. I loved the 80s! But don’t any of you think that it was that much different than it is today. Whether it is social phobia, social butterfly, or social media-every era has similar insecurities and desires: to be desired, popular, and accepted. Nearly every person in this video was self-conscious in that way. (I didn’t think there were that many good dancers, either. They’re all doing the same arm swing and two-step. Lol) In every era the good dancers are the ones who dance from the heart with no self-consciousness, imho. I may be totally wrong comparing the 80s to current times, though. I haven’t been out to a dance club since the late 90s. Lol
My best dance move from the early '90s (college) was hand in one pocket, beer bottle in other, slight sway of body, and bob head. Still break it out today when I occasionally dance. Can't touch this.
If you lived in the 80s , like myself, we have had a life of pre internet, and internet. So awesome to have been so free , yet now reconnect with those people from our youth. No Generation , before or after ,will ever experience what we did.💚
Okay sorry if I rude but why does someone make a dance club called “ before the 90 before internet “ where you can’t come in if you got a iPhone or anything like that.. and the rules is you got to buy something in the bar .. talked with another people and dance, dance, dance.. maybe it’s not gonna work or maybe it’s will.. remember that playing board games is popular because we want a break from technology now and then.. so after this thing we have.. give it a shot..
Même si il existe des clubs années 80 ...en sortant c est fini. Il n y a plus cette atmosphère et cette mentalité des années 80..qui continuait en sortant de la boîte avant.....
I loved the music back then , and the clothes and hair styles , to me was not trashy at all , some people took it to extremes though , but seriously that was and still is pretty cool , it is an artistic statement , it did after awhile get repetitive with people copying everyone eles but I loved it and still do .
Yes i agree, i used to go to Europe , and over there depending on what country , i always thought it was more ahead of the states at the time, , but i think in the 90's when hip hop and rap and grunge took over the top 40 , the Europeans started copying the music here in the sates and i totally lost interest in fashion and the music, it was very dissapointing.
@@bluepuppydan Europe was gone after mid-90s musically. U2 Achtung Baby was Europe's last great album (aside from Britpop claasics but that wasn't the Euro sound).
I don't know how exactly I stumbled on this, but I was there back in 1985-86. It was crazy! The most popular song they played then was The Cure The Walk. I hear that song to this day, and I can still smell the leather jackets, Jakartas, and all the girls wearing Poison perfume. You just can't buy memories like that!
i wonder if we can make an 80's comeback, those hair styles, the outfits, the mood, THE MUSIC....i was born in the 90's but i wanna experience that sensation
Well, I have noticed the 80's fashions coming back for women: high waisted jeans, stirrups, stuff like that. The music though, is not the same. But that's fine. We're in a good R&B vibe right now...
@@hjillumi880 Lolz, that attitude is soooooooooooo 80's Stratus Era! My best friend from that scene still says things like that all of the time. He still thinks he's a trend setter after all of these years!
Crazy that most of these kids are now in their 50's! I hate time! That 80s era should've never ended! Time fly's soo fast, live life to its fullest with no REGRETS!!!
Music broke through a huge milestone in the 80s... creativity was everything. Nobody sounded the same. Lisa Lisa was one of my favorites and I was born in 93.
anyone remember having this much fun WITHOUT being wasted, or having to worry about being f-ing shot or robbed? what the hell happened? real music, real people. products of the 80s unite!!! Thanks for the great memories!!!
Yeah, my bad. Half of them probably are. I was kinda speaking from a personal standpoint. I've never needed to use drugs or alcohol to have a good time....
I'm in generation Z trust me sosial media and games like xbox,playstation an PC took us by storm we have what we typically call a playstation "party" to play online with known or unknown friends.
Because everyone wasn't going to the same people on social media and following all the trends. People actually wanted to be different and have their own style not just copy "influencers". Or jump on hype trains. Everyone today wants to be the same and have the same trending stuf they seen online.
The trend back then was to be unique to a point, but you could chase what interest you. I recall changing gears from hard rock, techno, new wave, kind of mainstream stuff, country, a little rap (fun rap).
23 years old at the time...this was my time and my scene. I miss those times too. So much freedom! I danced in clubs from NYC to Long Island to London! Great times!
Everyone is different. The hairs ,the dance their face ..all the attitude. They are not clone-type (copy- paste) like these years. Κι επειδή στα ελληνικά είμαι καλύτερος θεωρώ ότι το μέλλον θα είναι πιο ζοφερό.
@187 Macabee They are not wierd, they are People that show what fun is supposed to be. I bet you listen to rap music and dont get what tallent, freedom and fun is
John_2084's builds i agreed until you said the thing ab rap:/ talent comes in many shapes, sizes, and sounds.. i love all music. its so beautiful!! :))
My goodness, this is like looking at my high school graduation party in 1987.Lol. I was into hard rock and heavy metal back then but I still frequented clubs as a lot of my friends were into techno. Life held so much promise back then despite all the problems that were around. Wonderful memories growing up with family and friends and I would give anything to go back but sadly those days will never return. Thank you for uploading this clip.
Unfortunately that joy and freedom doesn't exist anymore. Just few 80s party's here and then, but is not the same. All we can do is keep those memories alive in our mind and heart. But dont worry. The 80's will live forever. And they will back after this period of human kind.
@@annother3350 No everyone today would be glued to their phones and dancing to shitty music. Nothing can beat how they partied in back in the 80s and 90s.
@@csowner2048 a few percent of idiots are glued to their phones. If you go to the right clubs it can still be amazing. Tony humphries last year was one of the best nights of my life.
My generation and music, thanks👍still love it in 2020 when people and music were a little bit more original and new👍thank you 4 sharing love and blessing to all.
Those were good days to be that age. Back then. The attention to hairstyle to express one’s individuality was just as important as the clothes and the music. I do miss those days sometimes. But I’m glad I have the memories. Thanks for the videos.
see the only difference in NYC at this moment would have been the fact that the club would have been filled with EVERYONE. B-Boys, Punks, Goths, Breakers, Rastas - we all used to hang out together back then and dance to every genre. There would have been no Expose either lol.
I went to clubs like this one and some that were more towards the alternative side/new wave/industrial. Back then, clubbing was a great resource for finding music. They didn't play most of the club stuff on the radio.
Uri aka moron, you say you wouldn't listen to expose but you actually DID earlier. So nice Try. Everyone knows the east coast and outside of California sucked in music and style. >>Uri Dalal4 months ago >>omg I would have had the biggest crush on the girl at 4:00 back then. also I haven't heard 'Point of No Return' by Nu Shooz I think since 1987 lmao >Chris Mason3 months ago That's PNR, yes but by Exposè.
You can see an innocence here, these kids all smile at some point and are a little camera shy ☺️ Oh and we would dance all night and sweat, not wanting to miss a moment!
+Twaddles McGee yeah it was a tragic moment when they banned it. Depends on where you lived. Denver was still smoking in the early 2000s and when they proposed it, the bars had on outrage in fear of losing business (no one would stand outside to smoke in freezing weather). People still do it in NYC depending on the place.
Rhett Bice I remember Djarum cloves well. Smoked a few packs, they were harsh! I usually smoke Kool Kings though, and everyone hated menthols, lol. According to Google, 2009 was the banned on cloves, but companies has skated around the law by selling different versions and calling them "cigars". I smoked a clove "cigar" a couple years ago that a GDF had bought. It was the same IMO.
0:00 Egyptian Lover - You're So Fine 0:08 Blondie - One Way or Another 0:25 Divine - Native Love 1:24 Colourbox - You Keep Me Hangin' On 2:00 Strawberry Switchblade - Jolene 2:58 Vicious Pink - Fetish 3:30 Debbie Deb - When I Hear Music 3:37 Nu Shooz - The Point of No Return 3:43 Expose - The Point of No Return 4:00 Colourbox - You Keep Me Hangin' On 4:07 Timex Social Club - Rumors 4:15 The Cult - She Sells Sanctuary
I still go to clubs quite often and do some of these dances and I usually end up with a partner. In an ‘80s or retro-future DJ event I dance like this and soon the younger ones who have come start doing the same. The music created these dances, some of them goofier than others but always fun.
@@ildiego1185 You will have to take a guess. I did not have the present hair color when I was a senior in high school.... and I was BIG into alternative, punk rock, and goth music. That is all you get. Others are guessing as well. LOL!!
Moments of a great period in time immortalized! I love seeing the same people spread over these videos and just wondering who they were/are, where they were at in life in these moments and who they became.
0:49 lady in black gloves, red shirt, and candy Caine pants is grooving man! Love her back there! She’s to the left of Susan from accounting with the “I want to speak to your manager” haircut. All jokes aside, I love these videos
That's what is all about in the eighties listening to music and dancing. Every generation had the music they listened to. So as life goes on music will be there for everyone. 😊♥️♥️♥️
The girl at 0:25 seems to have been a regular at Stratus back in the '80s, and has gathered somewhat of a cult following here on TH-cam some 30 years later lol. Anyone here know her back in the day, or now? #foxy
Apparently she’s been located on Facebook. Profile name is Jeanne Marie. She even has a link to another spot on a video of her dancing so who knows. She single handedly made me miss the 80’s in the worst way.
![Stratus Dance Club (Revisited) Circa 1986-1987 - Part 1 [Top 80's Electro Synth-Pop & Funky Fashion]](http://i.ytimg.com/vi/N3cDi9dgJ6g/mqdefault.jpg)
Songs for anyone looking:
0:00 Egyptian Lover - You're So Fine
0:08 Blondie - One Way or Another
0:25 Divine - Native Love
1:24 Colourbox - You Keep Me Hangin' On
2:00 Strawberry Switchblade - Jolene
2:58 Vicious Pink - Fetish
3:30 Debbie Deb - When I Hear Music
3:37 Nu Shooz - The Point of No Return
3:43 Expose - The Point of No Return
(there seems to be some confusion about this in the comments -These are two COMPLETELY DIFFERENT SONGS. Just similar titles, lol)
4:00 Colourbox - You Keep Me Hangin' On
4:07 Timex Social Club - Rumors
4:15 The Cult - She Sells Sanctuary
Thanks.
@@markthorne6927 No problem!
Wow thank you ! i've trying to find tthis songs for moths
Thank you so much for making these Stratus Dance Club track lists. You win a free ride in the Time Machine!
@@MakeMineMelodic No problem and yay!
I wonder how many people in this video have no idea that they are on TH-cam...
Or how many are still alive 😶 Idk why but my mind always goes there when I watch old footage.
Update: I'm NOT saying these people must be ancient now. Did we forget death can get you at any age? This is a reminder to enjoy every single day while you can!
Nathan The Initiation Love it!
The great Punisher are you in this video ??
***** Death doesn't care about age...
I wonder how many of them are boring, middle-aged parents, who wear khakis and button-up shirts, and drive their kids to soccer practice. Probably most.
Freaks, goths, preps, jocks, weirdos all in one place vibing together to good music = Heaven. And to think these kids are in their 50s and 60s now.
What a time it was to be alive.
Hey, I resemble that description... 😆😅
True
Pretty much, and clubs were the acceptable place to mingle in late teens early 20s in the 80s but outside of that people pretty much stayed in their cliq
YES! So many women I would like to get to know in this vid, some I wouldn't, each to their own. But the Men, non of them, I feel sorry for the women of the time :)
Don’t forget the sportos, the motorheads, geeks, sluts, bloods, wasteoids, dweebies and dickheads
I graduated High School in 1987 and now I'm a grandmother. I love every second of my life !
I think you are a young grandmon.
time flies doesnt it.
@Zazoo Kluk I'm 51 my daughter is 27 and my granddaughter is 7. I don't feel young after work. Only on days off 😆😂
Here! Here!!👏
wait for alzheimer
I miss the 80's so much that it hurts.
I understand you.
I recommend 80s partys, meetings and to meet some 80s fans (with the Internet its simpler).
Its really better than leaving alone and missing.
I. Could. Almost. Cry
Let me let you in on a little secret, sometimes I DO cry about it. My life was fantastic back in 81-88, best years of my life. High quality years. Oh well I guess that's how it goes.
It hurts so much that I missed it.
Can you imagine people in the future looking back on 2000s the same way we look back on the 80s and early 90s?
Nope me neither. Just be glad you didn't miss it.
2020 and still thanking God for allowing me to live the 80s
AMEN!
Yep.
Best ever!!
Yessss
Yep
The music, the hair, the excess....no f social media, no broken country...simpler times. Miss em.
1980's was decadent era which kick started downfall of current global economy. Think about that.
No broken country? The 80s was all about politics
@@arkadiusztrzesniewski4237 No that started in 1913 with the creation of the "Federal" Reserve and the External Revenue Service!
@@arkadiusztrzesniewski4237 lol no doubt the 60s and 70s were church bazars and tea parties politically. hell just look at roe vs wade, one of the 80s most decadent court rulings that changed america forever
@@justanotherguy469 lol another moment in time no other moment before holds weight against there is no way there was dissent from the onset, no papers written discussing the attitudes and law changes of the day. i dont think there was ever a civil war or anything of the like or even sweeping changes to the constitution or bill of rights before 1913, or after.
The 80"s was the best era glad I was able to be a part of it.
I’m happy you did too
Ok boomer
Me too
@@Tooold2dieyoung idiot?
Selina Calderon of course you would think that everybody is going to think their era was the best
To all the 50+ year olds... I'm in my early 40s and was always jealous of you guys back in elementary, middle school and high school. Shit, I still am!!! I had teenage "new wave" cousins who got me into Depeche Mode, Pet Shop Boys and New Order, at such a young age. I always wanted to be older and be a teen in the 80s. Sadly, I was not but being so young with all this 80s music, formed who I am now. My kids know all these bands and their songs. A couple of days ago, my 9 year old was on the verge of tears... "Why couldn't I have been in the 80s! It was so much funner and not so boring like now". Sad but true. Good times... Good times... We sure were lucky and especially you 50 years olds!!!
i went out clubbing at 15 age as looked older dated alot older girls today alot younger half my age but live like still 15
I went exactly through the same thing! Now being 42, and a mom of 4, I’m still envious of the 50+!!😩🤩
I'm a Millennial in my 30s, and my parents are Baby Boomers who can't stand New Wave/80s pop (they're more into 70s rock), so I wasn't really exposed to it growing up. Well apart from some of the mainstream chart hits. I discovered the more underground/alternative stuff myself online in the early 00s and fell in love. Now in my mid 30s and it's my favourite era musically. I also wish I could've been a young adult in the 80s, especially in the UK scene.
@@bogantellectual Your parents must have had you at a later age. Boomers are now in their 60s and up.
This was was GenX music, most of us are in our mid 40s - late 50s now, we love it. Most of our parents were/are Boomers.
My mom (younger boomer) loves this kind of music too though lol.
You get more time on this earth
Everything went downhill after the year 2000. We will never, ever be this carefree again because of what technology has done to society.
I agree ,,,every brainless robotic imbecille glued to their phone ,or sitting in darkened rooms on their computer slagging off everyone and everything that's done something with their lives ...and the "offended by everything brigade " waiting to pounce to show how right on they are ...damn shame
Social media and 9/11 changed everything.
Somewhat related, but I watched a video on here earlier that had me in tears.
It was a family holiday video filmed in the 60's on my small home island, and in it, the island is still green and lush, the roads are nearly empty, the beaches are covered in colourful deckchairs and filled with people enjoying their holidays, and now?
Steel and glass offices, and rich cnuts in suits attending board meetings and the never ending enactment of legislation and red tape.
@@KumaBean that's so sad. I know how you feel. Sometimes I watch TH-cam videos about life in the 50s and 60s and it makes me so sad. It was so simple back then and everyone in the videos looks happy. They're talking to each other instead of staring at their phones. Little kids are riding bikes and playing ball. There was no fear or paranoia. Nothing like society today.
@Mad dog Conlon you must be a sorry little millennial
J Bro: you got a pnt !!! ☝
80's was the best era. All that music was awesome. We'll never hear anything like it again. God I wish I Could go back in time.
Me too
You can, bro....worrrrrmmmmmhollllle
Yasss.. I have to agree with you on that .
It really was a remarkable time. The 1960`s times 10,000.
@@ChoppedFender5 that’s not what a wormhole is
When all the "freaks" and "weirdos" who didn't need a label gathered in one place, danced with nobody in particular and preferred to dance alone, did not care who thought what of their movements and got just lost in the music and did what felt good. Ah, I miss it.
I take it you are the kid rockin the Flock of Seagulls near the end, eh? ;)
Many just danced alone and no one cared. You just went on the floor and moved cuz that's what the floor was for.
I was 20 in 84, these people were the farthest thing from freaks and weirdos, this is as mainstream 80's clubbing as you could get.
This is what freedom looks like, carefree people, nobody thinking about the possibility that they could be viewed by the whole world 🌎
Yet they are...lol
DJ Scott you cant everything, can you? 😂
Made a musicvideo with some of these people in it. The Song is written inspired by them th-cam.com/video/cDFEL6uRi7g/w-d-xo.html
These people all thought the world was watching them in their own heads anyway. This is self conscious cringe
Nathan Bellamy the inner universes of humanity has always watched itself.
This footage is amazing. God bless the 80s !!
These kids never realised there dancing would become this legendary.
What dance? They can’t even dance
funny as - like moonwalking in class
Also back in 1986, I was twenty six. Now here I am and soon to be my sixty first birthday on February 25th 2020...and I'm still rocking it!🤫
Will Jessica maskiell. Here's some of my 80s music mixes
Check out my TH-cam channel
You might get some flash back
Memories lol
@@djlouis2150 80s rule
You go, Jessica!!
ditto those were really fun and exciting... i hear the music and feel the same way
hello Jessica ☺
That's why I loved the 80's u could dance any way u wanted. No one judged.
Same thing today.
yuri paz people always judged no matter the year or day
@@Carlos-xz3vi, you wish.
U can tell from this vid that nobody cared everyone was just having a good time
Absolutely now everyone is judging someone
Back in the days where people are actually "clubbing", now all you see are people on a phone in a club.. so boring 👁👄👁
Yup....like they're all business owners & the fate of the world depends on "that call". 🤭🤢🤮
I'm 51 and very active. I hate cell phones hate carrying them, hate people bothering me with them. In fact when I leave the house I am happy most days when I leave it at home all day by accident.
@@whathandleUtalkabt --- Well... maybe take it with you, in the case that you actually have an accident..
In the future robots will have phones built into their faces, and we will dance without taking our eyes off them
@@Liofa73 yeah i agree, lol u should have your phone with you at all times, but enjoy the clubbing without your phone 😁
When people used to go to a dance club ....to dance
Ranaes Mendoza have you gone to a club recently?
OK BOOMER!
@@Carlos-xz3vi Boomers rule. Millennials drool.
...wtf do you do at the club if you aren’t dancing or drinking?
gothsyrup You see a bunch of people sitting at tables on their phones instead, that’s what.
All these people are in their 50s now, can you imagine.
56 )))), I miss those days a lot :
@@gpuertas Only 52 lol
Or dead!
Me too Bob Anderson
Bob Anderson , if you lucky you gonna get there2😉
I was a DJ/VJ back then. Such wonderful memories, such wonderful music.
Ditto, first doing DJ live events in clubs and conventions halls with turn tables and then doing Much Music's VJ road shows with TDM.
Those were the days when no one had a cell phone and you'd had to carry a "pen" and a notepad to "write down" a chicks phone number.
ElvisnRick damn. sounds like shit. who would want to do that?
@@thedudeperson not the crappy generation of today that for sure.
@@thedudeperson somebody who wanted a number?
@@loveplurlovemolly Sometimes after I dance with a girl, I asked her number but there wasn't no pen or paper around, but she carries a lipstick write the number on my forarm, or I'd take an ashtray full of cigerete ashes dip my finger to write her number on a napkin
Slothrope people who aren’t trying to get called out on the internet which is apparently a big hit nowadays
Not a cellphone insight, just people living the moment.
clearly a few pagers
Lotta yayo
Insight lol
@@madjiofcimmeria HAHAHAH TONY MONTANA HAD VIP PASS OF THE CLUB
Wanker.
How is literally everybody in this video one of the coolest ppl I’ve seen in my life 😳
Awwwe! That makes me sad, kiddo.
I adore these videos. It’s like getting in a time machine. Everyone is having fun, so carefree, just being themselves.
I love how most of them didn't give a shit about the camera. The world wasn't obsessed with technology yet. Fight the power
It's called COCAINE, LOL! Do ya really think we all chewed gum like girls in a 50's flick for no reason?!
It's so cool that they were just trying to do their thing and the camera was interfering.
@@michaelchitwood389 Maybe a few but these people are seriously dancing, not perspiring wet party loungers.
Michael Chitwood like they don’t do cocaine or harder drugs today.
Well they did, but today is a very different ball game
I can’t believe how addictive this series of videos has become today for me. I’ve literally been teleported mentally back to 1986 when I was 19 years old and living the dream going to a club like this on the Southside of Atlanta at a place called Jitterbugs. I was only able to go from Summer 85 to June 86 because I was paralyzed in a car accident June 26th and spent a long time in recovery. I assure you from Fall of 87 until the early 2000’s I was dancing my ass off in my wheelchair at some club or another. Life can sometimes throw you a hard curve, but if you lean into it just right... at minimum it’s a base hit. So stay young, live your dreams, and remember the 80’s may have been the best time to be alive, but life is better than death, if you don’t believe me ask any dead person they’ll tell you I’m right. For the record, the auburn haired hottie in the devil horns 0:25 would have been the object of my desires back then, apparently I’m not alone in this notion either. 🥰😉🖖🏼🤙🏼
funny - its called hauntology - the 80s will not let us go - its spooky but true the virus did it
Son nom est Jeanne Marie. Elle q un regard qui accroche 😅😅😅😅
I was 19 years old too turning coming soon to 57. Those videos are spread in the web with different songs,very popular .
I can smell the hairspray from here.
LOL
Thomas Smith
Aqua net
and the poppers
And the Drakkar Noir
I feel bad for the generation after Gen X. You guys missed out on some simple but great time's.
Im so thankful i am gen x. I didnt miss it. But i do miss it .
Yes and I think this is why Stranger Things is popular with so many age groups.
@@ALLIENYC, the 80's were a time when we were innocent but still enjoyed playing with fire. 😂
And they call us boomers, God I fucking hate millennials they truly are stoopid, everyone is ok boomer
@@trentdawg2832, the brats call Gen X boomers? 😑... really?
All this footage is a gift from the gods! I'm an OG club DJ (I started my career in 1981) and I literally played 90% of these songs those same years. But it was the club MAN RAY in Boston/Cambridge, and the crowd looked exactly like this too. But the sad part: NO footage was ever shot of the club. And I'll tell ya: no other decade will ever best the 80s for the sheer breadth of creativity and various genres that ruled those incredible 10 years!
Looks like a typical day in my high school in 1985 😆
As silly as they look, the 80's was the last decade that HUMANITY actually LIVED!
The 90's started the "internet revolution"...Now Humans are just a "plastic" reminder.
Bobobobi Bobobobo I don’t know man, I was a kid in the 90’s and people would still socialize and kids would play outside and make friends. It’s the 2000’s that ruined it all, late 90’s is when music started becoming shit with all these plastic pop artists.
@@gaboltl agreed
@@gaboltl I agree. The 90's were great, up until 96-97. That is when the internet started to gain popularity with "regular" people. But, the internet was still very niche for 'the corporate world'. It wasn't until PC's started to rapidly increase their 'production power' , that the internet became a "THING".
...for Corporations.
after the 'corporate hand' (and money) got a taste, the internet was forever corrupted.
The 'Dark Web' was there before chat rooms.
Born in 63. Army from 81 to 88. Meet wife back home in 86 she was 18 and i 23. Crazy times. Great times. Sit around and get buzzed watching mtv then hit the bars and clubs at night.
Nowadays people don't even have sex
I don't know how I stumbled on this but I'm glad I did. Lol
I don’t know anyone in this video, but I recognize everyone.
I see the equivalent of all the regulars from the local place, Sparks, in this! :)
That is one of the best comments I’ve seen! 😀So true.
I was once one of the people in this crowd. This is my era. I loved the 80s! But don’t any of you think that it was that much different than it is today. Whether it is social phobia, social butterfly, or social media-every era has similar insecurities and desires: to be desired, popular, and accepted. Nearly every person in this video was self-conscious in that way. (I didn’t think there were that many good dancers, either. They’re all doing the same arm swing and two-step. Lol) In every era the good dancers are the ones who dance from the heart with no self-consciousness, imho.
I may be totally wrong comparing the 80s to current times, though. I haven’t been out to a dance club since the late 90s. Lol
Good points!
My best dance move from the early '90s (college) was hand in one pocket, beer bottle in other, slight sway of body, and bob head. Still break it out today when I occasionally dance. Can't touch this.
If you lived in the 80s , like myself, we have had a life of pre internet, and internet.
So awesome to have been so free , yet now reconnect with those people from our youth.
No Generation , before or after ,will ever experience what we did.💚
Same thing with the 90s since there wasn't much on the internet pre 2000 other than Geocities and Angelfire pages.
Okay sorry if I rude but why does someone make a dance club called “ before the 90 before internet “ where you can’t come in if you got a iPhone or anything like that.. and the rules is you got to buy something in the bar .. talked with another people and dance, dance, dance.. maybe it’s not gonna work or maybe it’s will.. remember that playing board games is popular because we want a break from technology now and then.. so after this thing we have.. give it a shot..
Même si il existe des clubs années 80 ...en sortant c est fini. Il n y a plus cette atmosphère et cette mentalité des années 80..qui continuait en sortant de la boîte avant.....
I loved the music back then , and the clothes and hair styles , to me was not trashy at all , some people took it to extremes though , but seriously that was and still is pretty cool , it is an artistic statement , it did after awhile get repetitive with people copying everyone eles but I loved it and still do .
Yes i agree, i used to go to Europe , and over there depending on what country , i always thought it was more ahead of the states at the time, , but i think in the 90's when hip hop and rap and grunge took over the top 40 , the Europeans started copying the music here in the sates and i totally lost interest in fashion and the music, it was very dissapointing.
So much genuine style
@@bluepuppydan Europe was gone after mid-90s musically. U2 Achtung Baby was Europe's last great album (aside from Britpop claasics but that wasn't the Euro sound).
I dance like this even now and I'm 25 but my mum always taught me her best 80s dance moves
Ahhhh, the 80's, era of hairspray, one tube every night hahaha
Everyone looked so slim.
And omg at 1:29 The Grinch! 😁
Hahahaha!!!! Good one! 🤣👍🏼
@TransferAir
😂😂😂
STIFF STUFF
Hahahahahah 🤣
Or Perez Hilton
I don't know how exactly I stumbled on this, but I was there back in 1985-86. It was crazy! The most popular song they played then was The Cure The Walk. I hear that song to this day, and I can still smell the leather jackets, Jakartas, and all the girls wearing Poison perfume. You just can't buy memories like that!
The 80s will always look like the future to me
There are definitely some more futuristic looks from back then that aren't done much nowadays!
i wonder if we can make an 80's comeback, those hair styles, the outfits, the mood, THE MUSIC....i was born in the 90's but i wanna experience that sensation
it´getting quite annoying that all eras and all cultures we grew up in are being imitated like people pretending to be us
Well, I have noticed the 80's fashions coming back for women: high waisted jeans, stirrups, stuff like that. The music though, is not the same. But that's fine. We're in a good R&B vibe right now...
@@hjillumi880 Lolz, that attitude is soooooooooooo 80's Stratus Era! My best friend from that scene still says things like that all of the time. He still thinks he's a trend setter after all of these years!
Comeback??? In my life, New Wave never went away.
Man, the 80s was the best. best music best atmosphere
Not one person holding a stupid cellphone just having fun dancing with real music 👍👏
because they weren't invented. When you went out you were free..
Cocaine 80s
and no one watching the the dj...
Real music? Blah ha ha..that's funny
No cell phones back then!
Crazy that most of these kids are now in their 50's! I hate time! That 80s era should've never ended!
Time fly's soo fast, live life to its fullest with no REGRETS!!!
some millenial somewhere will be watching this and going "Mom??"
This is a great comment.
Or saying it's not good for their mental wellbeing so can you take the video down
Yeah, my daughter!! LOL! 😁
evancortez2 Nah, I’m a millennial and my mom dance in clubs in the 60’s.
😂😂
More time styling hair, less time 'networking' on the phone.
God, I hate this century.
Yh this century is the beginning of the end of society
Music broke through a huge milestone in the 80s... creativity was everything. Nobody sounded the same. Lisa Lisa was one of my favorites and I was born in 93.
anyone remember having this much fun WITHOUT being wasted, or having to worry about being f-ing shot or robbed? what the hell happened? real music, real people. products of the 80s unite!!! Thanks for the great memories!!!
i suppose...
If you think half of these people are sober, you're hilarious
Yeah, my bad. Half of them probably are. I was kinda speaking from a personal standpoint. I've never needed to use drugs or alcohol to have a good time....
It's a teen club! They were sober.
The are all on Scooby snacks, everyone is chewing gum and big eyes
Why can’t parties be like this anymore?
Mariely Ortiz they are
Yeah I know. Partys today everyone just stand around
I'm in generation Z trust me sosial media and games like xbox,playstation an PC took us by storm we have what we typically call a playstation "party" to play online with known or unknown friends.
Cus they they "too cool"
@@djlouis2150 why you looking at my girlfriend from the sidelines, lol
No phones in sight. Beautiful. 🥲
Wish I Was A Teen/Adult In The 80s But I Was Not Born Soon Enough😞, The 80s Looked So Much Fun Like The Best Times Ever! 😥
It was!!! My best memories took place in 80s night clubs.
They WERE THE BEST!! 🙂
@Veryunhappyman
Me too! 😩
Dancing, the music and the fashion can’t be compared to. It was the best of times for most and the music is still playing at clubs 30+ years later
the two girls at 1:19 = EVERYTHING.
I like how these people looks so different nowadays everyone looks the same
Yeah, that's right.
Because everyone wasn't going to the same people on social media and following all the trends. People actually wanted to be different and have their own style not just copy "influencers". Or jump on hype trains. Everyone today wants to be the same and have the same trending stuf they seen online.
We respected individual style...it wasn't cool to be a clone.
@@Cerebrosity That was so true! How I miss those days!
The trend back then was to be unique to a point, but you could chase what interest you. I recall changing gears from hard rock, techno, new wave, kind of mainstream stuff, country, a little rap (fun rap).
God i wish i was there
Mommento Moore Me too but that would mean I’d be old now lol.
I was . With a kilo! Bump?
Hottie alert 0:29!
@@TheKingOfHalo
Hey, wait a minute!! I AM that old!! 😳
Or 60!
The girl with the red horns was cute ❤️
She was horny as hell.
Hell yes ! I wanna suck on them toes and breathe through my nose!
She’s in a bunch of these vids and is def a fan fav. Everyone notices her.
she she looks like pam from the office
I’m in!
23 years old at the time...this was my time and my scene. I miss those times too. So much freedom! I danced in clubs from NYC to Long Island to London! Great times!
Everyone is different. The hairs ,the dance their face ..all the attitude. They are not clone-type (copy- paste) like these years.
Κι επειδή στα ελληνικά είμαι καλύτερος θεωρώ ότι το μέλλον θα είναι πιο ζοφερό.
This is so damn true...
@187 Macabee They are not wierd, they are People that show what fun is supposed to be. I bet you listen to rap music and dont get what tallent, freedom and fun is
Γκοθαδες, πανκαδες, ροκάδες, 'φυσιολογικοί', οταν πρόκειται για μουσικη και χορο δεν ειχε καμία σημασία
@@maria-mm3ui είναι (ήταν) έτσι ακριβώς.!!
John_2084's builds i agreed until you said the thing ab rap:/ talent comes in many shapes, sizes, and sounds.. i love all music. its so beautiful!! :))
My goodness, this is like looking at my high school graduation party in 1987.Lol.
I was into hard rock and heavy metal back then but I still frequented clubs as a lot of my friends were into techno.
Life held so much promise back then despite all the problems that were around. Wonderful memories growing up with family and friends and I would give anything to go back but sadly those days will never return. Thank you for uploading this clip.
0:25 The most beautiful girl I've ever seen. And I was just born in 1987. And somehow I got stuck there to this day :D
Indeed, "Jeane Marie" was the classiest.
BCRadio
And now we are almost elderly, i can't believe it!
You're definitely seniors. You get all kinds of discounts. That's for sure. Lol
@@djscott9207Ti ringrazio per i tuoi chiarimenti, quando è il tuo turno, se sono ancora vivo e non una mummia, ti invierò un buono sconto. Lol ...
@@p.g.3419 Lol...I'm just joking. I'm 44.
😳😫😪. I know!!
Any 50+ Dating site. Hahaha every 80s teen knows better.
Unfortunately that joy and freedom doesn't exist anymore.
Just few 80s party's here and then, but is not the same.
All we can do is keep those memories alive in our mind and heart.
But dont worry.
The 80's will live forever.
And they will back after this period of human kind.
No they will not. In 2028 the debt ceiling will collapse for the final depression.. What will then follow is worldwide global fascism.
Best decade! Glad I was a teenager in the 80s! No cellphones, no social media! Just everyone having a good time and meeting new people in person!
People dancing to good music. You don't see that very often these days!
You need to get out more
@@annother3350 nah everything sucks today
@@annother3350 No everyone today would be glued to their phones and dancing to shitty music. Nothing can beat how they partied in back in the 80s and 90s.
@@csowner2048 a few percent of idiots are glued to their phones. If you go to the right clubs it can still be amazing. Tony humphries last year was one of the best nights of my life.
@@annother3350 a few percent? haha get off the crack..more like majority of people. And also the music is terrible now. So you're wrong
I'm a so lucky to have lived thru this awesome decade. I was in highschool hitting the clubs from 87- 90! Awesome memories.
My generation and music, thanks👍still love it in 2020 when people and music were a little bit more original and new👍thank you 4 sharing love and blessing to all.
Crazy times in southern California...miss the 80s
People in 1986 - 1987 danced far better than people in 2013 - 2014.
E Drew they only dance with their smartphones....sad.
Absolutely! I hope club music and dance style can make a change. Since the late 90's electronic music and dance styles haven't changed much.
white people always dance the same. like they are seizing
💯💯
We definitely were more creative with our clothes and style than kids today. Nothing exciting about clubs and kids today,,,NOTHING!!
Those were good days to be that age. Back then.
The attention to hairstyle to express one’s individuality was just as important as the clothes and the music.
I do miss those days sometimes.
But I’m glad I have the memories. Thanks for the videos.
see the only difference in NYC at this moment would have been the fact that the club would have been filled with EVERYONE. B-Boys, Punks, Goths, Breakers, Rastas - we all used to hang out together back then and dance to every genre. There would have been no Expose either lol.
Yeah, I didn't get the Expose or Stacy Q bits and especially Bon Jovi! Those would have been a no play at the clubs I went to!
I went to clubs like this one and some that were more towards the alternative side/new wave/industrial. Back then, clubbing was a great resource for finding music. They didn't play most of the club stuff on the radio.
Uri aka moron, you say you wouldn't listen to expose but you actually DID earlier. So nice Try. Everyone knows the east coast and outside of California sucked in music and style.
>>Uri Dalal4 months ago
>>omg I would have had the biggest crush on the girl at 4:00 back then. also I haven't heard 'Point of No Return' by Nu Shooz I think since 1987 lmao
>Chris Mason3 months ago That's PNR, yes but by Exposè.
Ya you kooks just had miami sound machine, boring freestyle and weak shit like that.
Uri Dalal we only danced to our sub cultures music in the UK
0:25 there's that chick everyone likes on these vids. She's got her devil horns on, 😆
She is a cutie!
@James Nicholson No. But thanks
That dann smile
indeed, you can see her on many vid's. Really like it
She is super pretty
You can see an innocence here, these kids all smile at some point and are a little camera shy ☺️ Oh and we would dance all night and sweat, not wanting to miss a moment!
Hairstyles back then were like freedom of expression
They still are...along with face tats, however.
This is how a small group of people looked in 1987 and the other group had mullets or regular cuts you see today.
We were so influenced by MTV and music videos at this point! Love it! Love the 1980's!
I keep coming back and watching these. : ')
the cigarette smoking while dancing really brings back this era. I think they outlawed smoking in clubs in the late 1990s
+Twaddles McGee yeah it was a tragic moment when they banned it. Depends on where you lived. Denver was still smoking in the early 2000s and when they proposed it, the bars had on outrage in fear of losing business (no one would stand outside to smoke in freezing weather). People still do it in NYC depending on the place.
Those were the good ol' days. Smoking at 17 in a club with real music and culture.
They were mostly clove cigarettes, which were banned in th early 90's.
Rhett Bice
I remember Djarum cloves well. Smoked a few packs, they were harsh! I usually smoke Kool Kings though, and everyone hated menthols, lol. According to Google, 2009 was the banned on cloves, but companies has skated around the law by selling different versions and calling them "cigars". I smoked a clove "cigar" a couple years ago that a GDF had bought. It was the same IMO.
I smoked menthol cloves...
Nothing like the 80' and Early 90's,Thank GOD THIS IS WHAT I GREW UP WITH❤❤❤❤❤🎶🎶🎶🎶🎶🎶🎶
When the time machine becomes available, my first trip will be in the 80's
No fcks no care. Just pure dance. That's it. That's life.
We were in our prime then and never thought we would get old. Damn the time and gravity...
0:00
Egyptian Lover - You're So Fine
0:08
Blondie - One Way or Another
0:25
Divine - Native Love
1:24
Colourbox - You Keep Me Hangin' On
2:00
Strawberry Switchblade - Jolene
2:58
Vicious Pink - Fetish
3:30
Debbie Deb - When I Hear Music
3:37
Nu Shooz - The Point of No Return
3:43
Expose - The Point of No Return
4:00
Colourbox - You Keep Me Hangin' On
4:07
Timex Social Club - Rumors
4:15
The Cult - She Sells Sanctuary
Oh how I miss the 80s. I was having the time of my life and the last time I had no worries. Sigh...🥺
Does it feel like a long time ago?
I still go to clubs quite often and do some of these dances and I usually end up with a partner. In an ‘80s or retro-future DJ event I dance like this and soon the younger ones who have come start doing the same. The music created these dances, some of them goofier than others but always fun.
Thanks for Quick advice. I must go to a Club now and must dance that im no longer a Virgin because im a really good dancer 😉
How dare you not invite me lol
🤗 The '80, the absolute BEST of times, grt presentation tkx!
It was a competition for whoever had the largest shoulder pads😭👍
Or biggest hair
And now there's none of that CAUSE THERE IS NO MORE STYLE!
....and the most pleats on the baggy pants. 👍✌️
I was born in '86, its great to have a glimpse at life the year I was born, thanks :)
This is beautiful. It really is.
Just so carefree, sweaty & young. Not a bloody cellphone in sight. Give anything to feel that way again
God, can we go back to the 70’s and 80’s? And just stay there.
LOL.... I am in that video!!! That is hilarious! Best times of my life.
Really, where?
@@ildiego1185 You will have to take a guess. I did not have the present hair color when I was a senior in high school.... and I was BIG into alternative, punk rock, and goth music. That is all you get. Others are guessing as well. LOL!!
My sister and I are in this video! I can't believe it !! 😂
The hair 😂 it's all bout the hair 😂
yes, jajajajaja, how many hours they dedicate to comb hair!
A person with green hair must have been such a wild sight in 1986!
It's all about the girl with the devil horns, homie. She fyne
Like in GTA Vice City radio says: Get a Hair from the future, not the past!
Oh shit I wanna jump in and dance!!😢💃🕺I wish more clubs played this kinda music😍❤️
Moments of a great period in time immortalized! I love seeing the same people spread over these videos and just wondering who they were/are, where they were at in life in these moments and who they became.
Thought the guy at 1:24 was Perez Hilton but it's not, he was about 8 or 9 at the time.
I thought the same thing, I was like, ooh.Perez is in this?? Lol
1:04 Guy Fieri before becoming a professional chef.
Magic Shazam and a very unique dance style
Unfortunately that guy died recently. :(
kasa aww what happened ?
@@horrorfan2000 No idea. I stalk the Stratus FB page every now and then.
Meine tiefe Stimme, dass es aus meiner Zeit diese authentischen Vudeos gibt:-)( kussis
1:58 im tryna do my hair like that son. on point!
Those brows, though...
Bring it back! You can do it, and I just wanna let you know we’re all counting on you. 😉
0:49 lady in black gloves, red shirt, and candy Caine pants is grooving man! Love her back there! She’s to the left of Susan from accounting with the “I want to speak to your manager” haircut. All jokes aside, I love these videos
Majestic Potato 😂😂😂
That's what is all about in the eighties listening to music and dancing. Every generation had the music they listened to. So as life goes on music will be there for everyone. 😊♥️♥️♥️
The girl at 0:25 seems to have been a regular at Stratus back in the '80s, and has gathered somewhat of a cult following here on TH-cam some 30 years later lol. Anyone here know her back in the day, or now? #foxy
MCcheck97 damn cute
She's really cute thats for sure
Girl on the left @ 1:40 should have a cult following imo.
Apparently she’s been located on Facebook. Profile name is Jeanne Marie. She even has a link to another spot on a video of her dancing so who knows. She single handedly made me miss the 80’s in the worst way.
@@scubaguy007 TFW when I dont do Facebook.....