in the 80s it wasnt as important what color you were or how much money you had..only if you were a mod. preppie, new waver, punk or metaller....and if you had PoT..you were big time back then.
Its funny for us that grew up in the 80's we did not realize how special of a time it was until we were older and our kids wished they had grew up in that time. To us it was just a fun time being a kid and teenager with cool music and the same world drama as today. c/o 88
@choinumni4 Yes it was a special time. It was such a fun time to be a high school kid. I will never forget the great music, friends and awesome times..This song and all 80's music reminds me of the best days of my life.
Awesome! I've watched this movie so many times I can't count! I love this movie! You could find yourself in at least one of the scenes. There was something you did or a friend did. Everytime you see this movie with someone you can say," Yeah girl, I remember when we did that." lol
Cuts the fog and confusion of technology from life as we know it now. Too many are distracted by it all to be very true to themselves anymore. John Hughes was on to that even when he made his movies. He'd have no idea what to think of modern life now.
Oh my gosh...cuz..I am bawling..thank you for this AWESOME B-day 'movie memory' shoutout all the way from Italy to Dixie...You really know how to get to me..sniff sniff...("JAAAAKE!") I love you!!
I saw this movie when I was 16... It was like heaven back then. I miss John Hughes. If I could go back to any time frame, it would have to be '80-'84, my high school years. I most relate to Anthony Michael Hall's charactor. Oh well, enough day dreaming for today, back to '11 and all the crap that comes with it ;)
This is my second favorite - first was Pretty in Pink with Molly Ringwald and Jon Cryer, James Spader, Anthony McCarthy etc. LOVE THE ENDING SONG of Sixteen Candles! Thanks for adding it :-)
I was 14 Y/O when this movie came out and I LOVED it then, like I do today. John Hughes..he did have the best high school movies..He also made The Breakfast Club..right? I LOVED this movie too...today is my birthday....
I loved these John Hughes films back in the day. I've tried to introduce them to my teenagers and they don't get them. I don't get why. They were classic teenage films. Seeing Molly Ringwald as a mom on the Secret Life probably doesn't help.
I was 8 when this movie came out! I'm from northwest suburb of chicago & drive by the areas where this movie was made (northern suburb of chicago) I often see the church & high schools & immediately play in my head that "Jake Ryan" is about to pull up in his porsche! John Hughes all your movies are golden! May you rest peacefully & be remembered infinitely! I feel blessed & honored to have grown up in the '80s with real & talented movies & music! My son's name is "JAKE", obsess much?!?! ; )
This final scene in 16 candles is probably the most perfect moment in any 80's teen movie. It's a classic. I can't believe nobody has bothered to post the finale to this movie considering how many other movies are posted in their entirety on youtube. The song by Thompson Twins is perfect for the end of this movie too.
I first watched 16 Candles when I was 9-10 yrs old. I recently watched it again as I didnt' think I really understood it all those years ago. So watching it as a 33 yr old I actually shed some tears when Molly's chracter got the guy hahaha Man I wish too to go back to the 80's life was so simple as a kid...
Funny, while playing this song my 11 year-old walked in all in a huff about something and stopped cold in his tracks and says: "...what is this song?". That's interesting because he hasn't the same connection to it that I have. Wow.
I had my daughter watch this with me she is 13 and told her about me jumping up and going towards the t.v. when this part started. She is so left brained I didnt think she would understand but she did and she did think Jake was cute. I can close my eyes and it takes me right back. Love it!
I still get chills.I remember watching this movie on the floor in the living room and when this part started I got up and walked toward the t.v. So much emotion after all the years. I like it! I guess I'm still alive!
I love Skoben2000s post i love those movies and that post is so true i mean these movies are nothing like wat we watch now nd imn under 16 but the perfect movie and sonngs go together like pb and J
The 80s were SO GREAT to live in. I GUESS I GOT TO GET IN THE GARAGE & GET THIS FLUX CAPACITOR FIXED ON THE DELORIAN SO I CAN GET MY AZZ BACK TO THE 80s .... where the times were simple, life was good, and a real " romantic " encounter was actually possible. WHEN I GET IT FIXED I'LL PICK YA'LL UP !!!
If you watched one of last year's wonderful movies, Easy A, there was a bit of a John Hughes tribute to the romance of that time. The sneaky thing if you noticed was this song (If You Were Hear) was playing on the radio when Woodchuck Todd was giving Olive a ride home after her disastrous date.
My daughter saw '16 candles' for the 1st time. And she loved it. It's a testament of sorts to the writers that the movie is timeless and speaks to all generations. I'm just suprized hollywood has't tried to remake it yet like they do everything else...
@Maxharddrive64 it's a great movie but you know if they did a remake today they'd have to end it with Jake and Sam in bed...cause that's what real love is....or so they think. This is a great movie. Hughes was great! Innocence is underrated today.
@Loopster88 I think your right on that call..They'd ruin it of course by doing that, but they'd think it was great, what Huges understood in his ending in the original was that he left it up to your imagination, which is what all good movies usually do and unfortunately , IMAGINATION seems to be in real short supply nowdays in Hollywood.
This is a moving song whether in the 80's or now. Was very much a Thompson Twins fan. Have recently separated from my wife after a long marriage and it is nice to listen to this sort of music now to bring back memories from my youth!
@tayhoke1 Hope you had a great birthday! How cool that you watched this on your 16th birthday! I saw this for the first time on my seventeenth birthday when it was still in the movie theatre!
I'm watching 16 Candles right now. And Its a total classic. I think I was born in the wrong generation. I was born in 1997 I wish I was born in the 70's . . . I'm stuck in the past. . . (SIGH)
To Emily - may all your birthdays have happy endings and perfect theme songs. Thank you Heidi for making me think of it. And to you Sheri, who loved this moment as much as I did!
such a beautiful song!! im so jealous of those that were teens during this decade- you experienced great movies and awesome music! I hated being a teen during the 00's...damn it sucked =/
@Carina08x no it didn't. every decade has its ups and downs. we got to see the invention of youtube/facebook. the first black president. every decade "sucks" until it's gone.
@thesportsdude90 well obviously you liked it, but people have different opinions and my opinion is that it sucked lol. and facebook isn't even that great, it gets everyone in either trouble or murdered! youtube is great though, i must agree with you on that, but still i'd trade it all to be around in the 80s, sorry! x)
@Carina08x well, guess what, living in the past is a waste of time. you cant go back so enjoy what we have now because by 2020 you'll be syaing damn I wish it was 2004.
@thesportsdude90 I see a lot of comments like Carina's on Youtube. Actually this is the first generation in which significant numbers of young people want to go back to their parents time, and that says a lot about contemporary culture. Prior to this, younger people didn't want anything to do with their parents time (We certainly didn't in the 80's).
The 80's were an amazing and idealistic time to grow up, but I doubt that a modern teen would survive if they were transported there. No, internet, no cell phones (except for the very rich) most people didn't have Cable t.v. just the 7 main television channels (including PBS) and most of those would go off the air when it got late haha.
Life was just MUCH slower. If you've ever admitted to being bored during the 2000's you wouldn't make it.
@Califacience At the same time, humans can adapt to almost anything. Eventually the joy derived from Angry Birds and Facebook would be replaced with something else. It's like when we suffer a loss (in this case it'd be technology), we move on, and make the best of what we have. Personally I'd never want to go back to the 80s; everyone looked so... hairy?
@Califacience I grew up in the 80s and it wasn't that great. Lots of 80s kids were in love with the 60s and wished they could go back to that time. And music like this was really dismissed by a lot of people...not unlike the backlash against Bieber. Yet, at my reunion this was kind of music was the most requested and for some reason I like this music far more than I ever did back in the day. Music is a powerful way to reawaken feelings of youth, even not so great music.
Well I grew up in the 80's as well, enjoyed it, and happened to have never met any of these kids that wanted to grow up during their parents time.
But ofcourse there were Punk kids and others who hated this stuff
By the way, i'm not the first to remark on the unique nature of this generation's fascination with the past, it has been written about by others. I'm sure there have always been a certain number of young people that have longed for some other time, the issue is extent
In my experience, it is usually the Cynic that grew up in and enjoyed the 80's the least.
and it is only naivete that is unable to discern the stark level of cultural deterioration that we have undergone over the past 25 years and is able to "relativize" it into a matter of generational preference.
All the more so when this generation is clever enough to see past such an idea.
Loved the 80"s!!! Friday night videos! spiked hair! vanns, down suspenders, parachute pants and the birth of MTV!!! 1984 was one of the best years of my life! Brat pack movies! Thank god I was a teenager then!
This brings back so many memories I saw this movie when I was a teenager and I always loved this song in the movie. This will always be by far my favorite movie. Thanks 80sand70sMemories for uploading this video. I just took a walk down memory lane and I loved it!!!!!!!!!
I love this movie. I remember when it was in theaters in 1984. I own the dvd, and I love how One Tree Hill did a remake of this movie. What a classic!
@peekaboosmom I was in class of 87 and we rocked. I remember everything in that era. Skinny jeans, polos, oversized shirts and tight pants with clear plastic shoes, neon colored shoestrings, the rat hairstyle (long thin hair with the short hair). I miss it.
I really wish I grew up in the 80's. I love EVERYTHING 80's no matter what it is lol!! I love Pac Man, Pin Ball, Space Invaders ect. I love all the 80's movies and music. I think I truly belong in the 80's! The 80's seems like it was a really fun decade and I wish I was born in 1971 so that I could've been a teenager in the 80's lol! :)
@stefanybody that is true. I wasn't really politically aware of things back then. Being a teen and all that. I loved the music. More upbeat then. I still dress 80's though.
I have oversized shirts and tight pants. I have polo shirts and shoes from that era.
I don't like keeping up with the times. I am more retro than ever. I love 1950's clothes. Even the cars,music is great then. I was born in '68 and that was a rough year.
@brittanynicolefield1 Call me stupid but can you download pacman,centipede,space invaders, donkey kong, super mario online? I never played it online but I know there is a way to do so.
This was and still is my favorite Thompson Twins song. I always thought it short and sweet it seems over so soon. I always found it quite and emotional song and melody a but sad. Great lyrics and such an amazing keyboard solo. One listen is never enough. Magic stuff and it makes me feel nostalgic.
Isn't it amazing the impact a perfect song has on a perfect ending to envoke such emotion in someone DECADES after production? This was my high school years. To this day, some of my HS friends and I still quote movies of the Brat Pack movies as we listen to these undying classics that even later generations can't help but to love and wish they could have been a part of. Breakfast Club, Pretty in Pink and the Psych Furs...These were the times of my life. Thank god I turned out to be me! ;-)
@ Skoben2000...I was thinking along those same lines about the song. For such a small part of the film, the impact of the song and the scence stands out.
80's... wow... the best decade for EVERYTHING!!! It was sooo awesome. Movies like this, (RIP John Hughes :-(. ), songs like this, nostalgia remains true...
Ooops, I forgot to mention on my post how much I also loved this song. When I first heard it back in the 80's, I just fell in love with the song and wanted to know right away who the artist was. I'd just listen to it over and over again. Oh how I miss the 80's, movies and songs like this..
Yes the most wonderful time to be a teenager I was 17 years old in 1988. My daughter was born the next year and coincidentally some of the music she likes has an eighties rhythm.
Hahaha.. I had acid wash jeans with suspenders when I was little. Summer of 1988 I believe. I was only 3! lol I wore them with a tacky 80's sweatshirt underneath and red converse shoes haha..
You ain't lyin!!!! I am so happy that I grew up in the 80's because life now is so different..if you think about it hard enough it will make you sad at the fact there is nothing like it now.
Dear Mr. Vernon: We accept the fact that we had to sacrifice a whole Saturday in detention for whatever it was we did wrong. But, we think you're crazy to make us write an essay telling you who we think we are. You see us as you want to see us: in the simplest terms, in the most convenient definitions. But, what we found out is that each one of us is: a brain . .
Anyone notice the license plate on the Porsche reads 21850 -- John Hughes birthday. Ah man, it's all in the details. :) P.S. I love Jake! But then, who doesn't. lol
@nomadiq get the Fuck off my dick asshole I wasn't talkimg to u omg so rachid
Jbirdrules3818 13 hours ago
music was so original and fresh in the 80's
spaceorbison 2 days ago
beautiful song for a beautiful but funny movie. Thank you John Hughes for my childhood movies..love them all !!
PurpleStarzMe 3 days ago
i was born in 1981... i don't kno if i should call myself an 80s kid or not
Kirochi80 4 days ago
Being an 80's club kid....all these movies...all the music....best ever....glad I was part of that scene.
OKAUNT3 2 weeks ago 2
Thank you John Hughes!!!
neuroplastixxx 2 weeks ago
Jake Ryan? He doesn't know you even exist!
LouManati 2 weeks ago
These are The Psychedelic furs my friends.
RAMSASS 3 weeks ago
@RAMSASS actually it's the thompson twins..but good guess.
peanutavalon 3 weeks ago
@peanutavalon OH shit you're right, I confused this song with Pretty in Pink
RAMSASS 3 weeks ago
Best era ever-3 Class of 84!!!
mcrhawtness24 4 weeks ago
I really feel sorry for the younger generation when I think how we had the chance to witness true talent not just boy bands and bubble gum music..
soundpimpproductions 1 month ago
in the 80s it wasnt as important what color you were or how much money you had..only if you were a mod. preppie, new waver, punk or metaller....and if you had PoT..you were big time back then.
gumbeet 1 month ago
Thanks for getting my undies back...
Marcr0 1 month ago
Its funny for us that grew up in the 80's we did not realize how special of a time it was until we were older and our kids wished they had grew up in that time. To us it was just a fun time being a kid and teenager with cool music and the same world drama as today. c/o 88
choinumni4 1 month ago 2
@choinumni4 Yes it was a special time. It was such a fun time to be a high school kid. I will never forget the great music, friends and awesome times..This song and all 80's music reminds me of the best days of my life.
peanutavalon 3 weeks ago
@Jbirdrules3818 No offense, but get your own decade! Oh but yeah, your movies suck... So I guess I can let you have this, just this once.
nomadiq 1 month ago
I just turned Sixteen 2 days ago and I watched this with my boyfriend and we made out to this song . Best birthday ever L))
Jbirdrules3818 2 months ago
Awesome! I've watched this movie so many times I can't count! I love this movie! You could find yourself in at least one of the scenes. There was something you did or a friend did. Everytime you see this movie with someone you can say," Yeah girl, I remember when we did that." lol
felder55 2 months ago
Sad thing for me growing up in the 90's my family would only watch 80's movies so in away I felt like I grew up in the 80's.
MrProjectZombie 2 months ago
Cuts the fog and confusion of technology from life as we know it now. Too many are distracted by it all to be very true to themselves anymore. John Hughes was on to that even when he made his movies. He'd have no idea what to think of modern life now.
ascpgh1 3 months ago in playlist eli
Oh my gosh...cuz..I am bawling..thank you for this AWESOME B-day 'movie memory' shoutout all the way from Italy to Dixie...You really know how to get to me..sniff sniff...("JAAAAKE!") I love you!!
JessWyler 3 months ago
i have the movie in my channel
y00toobsukz1 3 months ago
Fire crotch
BENCHIPED 4 months ago
I am still listenning this in... oh who gives a flying fuck. 2011 sucks balls anyway.
Dearhunter43 5 months ago
I saw this movie when I was 16... It was like heaven back then. I miss John Hughes. If I could go back to any time frame, it would have to be '80-'84, my high school years. I most relate to Anthony Michael Hall's charactor. Oh well, enough day dreaming for today, back to '11 and all the crap that comes with it ;)
bigdsears 5 months ago
This is my second favorite - first was Pretty in Pink with Molly Ringwald and Jon Cryer, James Spader, Anthony McCarthy etc. LOVE THE ENDING SONG of Sixteen Candles! Thanks for adding it :-)
AmericanWoman1231561 5 months ago
@AmericanWoman1231561 andrew mc carthy not anthony
vitweb 4 months ago
I was 14 Y/O when this movie came out and I LOVED it then, like I do today. John Hughes..he did have the best high school movies..He also made The Breakfast Club..right? I LOVED this movie too...today is my birthday....
ourtwicebabies 5 months ago
@ourtwicebabies Yup, he also did Pretty in Pink. Rest his soul :(
Iceindra 3 months ago
I loved these John Hughes films back in the day. I've tried to introduce them to my teenagers and they don't get them. I don't get why. They were classic teenage films. Seeing Molly Ringwald as a mom on the Secret Life probably doesn't help.
ls1959 5 months ago
really makes me want to be an 80s child watching this movie..:)
EmerX13 5 months ago 2
I automatically think of sixteen candles when I hear this. R.I.P John Hughes
ltngirlll 5 months ago 13
I love being a 80's child !!! Best years & movie's music !! Etc !! Nice post bro !!!!
AMGRULEZ 5 months ago 2
Brings Back so many memories back in the 80's when i saw that movie. Wanna go back to the 80's too!!!
BIGJIM70VLP 6 months ago
TOP Movie 80s :)
30MaXo 6 months ago
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1simplymeonly 6 months ago
The attitude towards gingers sure has changed since the 80's
Tactual 6 months ago
Oh man perfect BIrthday song for me....Where is my Jake Ryan at????? LOL Love this one!!!!
peasebabyz1 6 months ago
OMG who wasn't in LOVE with JAKE RYAN?! lol
cheifschik 6 months ago 4
I was 8 when this movie came out! I'm from northwest suburb of chicago & drive by the areas where this movie was made (northern suburb of chicago) I often see the church & high schools & immediately play in my head that "Jake Ryan" is about to pull up in his porsche! John Hughes all your movies are golden! May you rest peacefully & be remembered infinitely! I feel blessed & honored to have grown up in the '80s with real & talented movies & music! My son's name is "JAKE", obsess much?!?! ; )
nenaqs 6 months ago 2
Excellent movie. Even though Ringwald was a serious fire crotch.
BENCHIPED 6 months ago
This final scene in 16 candles is probably the most perfect moment in any 80's teen movie. It's a classic. I can't believe nobody has bothered to post the finale to this movie considering how many other movies are posted in their entirety on youtube. The song by Thompson Twins is perfect for the end of this movie too.
SuperMusicizmylife 6 months ago 4
Skoben2000: SO AGREE!!!! My high school years too! Also I see your b-day is one day before mine. Cool. (Leo) ;)
Anyway, ALWAYS loved this song and still listen to it. I have it on a compilation cd. :)
feedURsoulwithmusic 6 months ago
Pleae put me on a time machine , i wish i were Jake Ryan back in my High School years :) School was cool .
sidstarr 7 months ago
Besty song of deceit yet happy loviness! Nice!
kalialex23 7 months ago
i'm born in 85 and i'm proud to be a product of this golden age :D
Gruenkreuz100 8 months ago
I first watched 16 Candles when I was 9-10 yrs old. I recently watched it again as I didnt' think I really understood it all those years ago. So watching it as a 33 yr old I actually shed some tears when Molly's chracter got the guy hahaha Man I wish too to go back to the 80's life was so simple as a kid...
u2chicky 8 months ago 36
Funny, while playing this song my 11 year-old walked in all in a huff about something and stopped cold in his tracks and says: "...what is this song?". That's interesting because he hasn't the same connection to it that I have. Wow.
JDanLatta 9 months ago
Give me some JAKE!!!! He is SOOOOOOO HOT!!!
clazzylady38 10 months ago 2
@clazzylady38 lol...get in line haha
OCButterfly99 9 months ago
This was one of my all time fav movie songs... Yeah I was an 80's teen. The time of the best teen movies!
V2myvette 11 months ago 2
This was one of my all time fav movie songs... Yeah I was an 80's teen. The time of the best teen movies!
V2myvette 11 months ago
TGHE CURRENT GENERATION HAS NO MUSIC TO PASS ON BECAUSE RAP IS NOT MUSIC !!!!!!!!!! SO DAMM SADD
KAIYA006 1 year ago
hi im a teenager and i love this song and movie i was born in the wrong decade.
samurixDchic 1 year ago 3
one of best song of love..do you remember???
mattloris1 1 year ago
I had my daughter watch this with me she is 13 and told her about me jumping up and going towards the t.v. when this part started. She is so left brained I didnt think she would understand but she did and she did think Jake was cute. I can close my eyes and it takes me right back. Love it!
elizabeth313 1 year ago 3
I still get chills.I remember watching this movie on the floor in the living room and when this part started I got up and walked toward the t.v. So much emotion after all the years. I like it! I guess I'm still alive!
elizabeth313 1 year ago
john hughes did not direct my life :(
1anonymousmouse 1 year ago 2
I love Skoben2000s post i love those movies and that post is so true i mean these movies are nothing like wat we watch now nd imn under 16 but the perfect movie and sonngs go together like pb and J
13579jessica 1 year ago
I remember being surprised the first time I paid attention to the lyrics... So not a love song, despite soundly lovely.
kerthwap 1 year ago
Closed my eyes and went back in time......
shadowstorm7 1 year ago 4
being a parent now I hope my boys will have the same memories that I did.
joseph95407 1 year ago
Ah the good ole days when we were young, I sure miiss the 80's .
joseph95407 1 year ago
John Hughes captured teenagers and adolescent existence like no one ever will again.
mardisaurus 1 year ago
The 80s were SO GREAT to live in. I GUESS I GOT TO GET IN THE GARAGE & GET THIS FLUX CAPACITOR FIXED ON THE DELORIAN SO I CAN GET MY AZZ BACK TO THE 80s .... where the times were simple, life was good, and a real " romantic " encounter was actually possible. WHEN I GET IT FIXED I'LL PICK YA'LL UP !!!
anonymousent 1 year ago
If you watched one of last year's wonderful movies, Easy A, there was a bit of a John Hughes tribute to the romance of that time. The sneaky thing if you noticed was this song (If You Were Hear) was playing on the radio when Woodchuck Todd was giving Olive a ride home after her disastrous date.
carl75205 1 year ago 3
i want to go back
walkingupsidedown 1 year ago 3
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ninaastarlight 1 year ago
My daughter saw '16 candles' for the 1st time. And she loved it. It's a testament of sorts to the writers that the movie is timeless and speaks to all generations. I'm just suprized hollywood has't tried to remake it yet like they do everything else...
Maxharddrive64 1 year ago
@Maxharddrive64 it's a great movie but you know if they did a remake today they'd have to end it with Jake and Sam in bed...cause that's what real love is....or so they think. This is a great movie. Hughes was great! Innocence is underrated today.
Loopster88 2 months ago
@Loopster88 I think your right on that call..They'd ruin it of course by doing that, but they'd think it was great, what Huges understood in his ending in the original was that he left it up to your imagination, which is what all good movies usually do and unfortunately , IMAGINATION seems to be in real short supply nowdays in Hollywood.
Maxharddrive64 2 months ago
I got my teenage daughter watching Sixteen Candles, Pretty in Pink and Breakfast Club
pettyfan67 1 year ago 4
I was out shopping with my teenage niece and showed her the DVD Sixteen Candles. She said 'ooh, that's old! I don't want to see that!!' lol
Well, I bought the DVD anyway and convinced her to watch it.
She absolutely loved it! And has watched it more times than she'll ever admit.
This movie is a classic
RIviolator26 1 year ago 4
omggg i absolutley love this song, its the best love song
melissa21906 1 year ago
Awesome use of synth. Before synth became generic sounding as it is today.
brightbite 1 year ago 3
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brenan6 1 year ago
i love this movie and also the 80's even though i was not born in that year
i wish i was :(
purple16ify 1 year ago
I also feel so blessed to have been a young man in the 80's,
but the only real bad thing was the emergence of AIDS.
So unknown and scary at the time. Thank God we had the
music to mitigate that awful scourge.
sunquestor 1 year ago
This is a moving song whether in the 80's or now. Was very much a Thompson Twins fan. Have recently separated from my wife after a long marriage and it is nice to listen to this sort of music now to bring back memories from my youth!
cambelt2001 1 year ago 2
call me lame or whatever this song is still EPIC!!!
Dezymezy 1 year ago
I'm 16 now and in the same boat as Skoben2000 even though granted different era this stuff will never die! <33
Theywantyoursoulx 1 year ago
I've always told myself I would watch this movie on my 16th birthday, well its my sixteen birthday today, and I'm watching it!
tayhoke1 1 year ago 25
@tayhoke1 Hope you had a great birthday! How cool that you watched this on your 16th birthday! I saw this for the first time on my seventeenth birthday when it was still in the movie theatre!
bloofan06 1 year ago
@tayhoke1 happy belated bday than.lol
ReeseDepp8 6 months ago
@ BLACKIEWACKIE1983
Lol! That's what i heard as well!
stevieslillove 1 year ago
"if you were here i could deceive you"???
BLACKIEWACKIE1983 1 year ago 3
I'm watching 16 Candles right now. And Its a total classic. I think I was born in the wrong generation. I was born in 1997 I wish I was born in the 70's . . . I'm stuck in the past. . . (SIGH)
LACL671 1 year ago 2
Well said Skoben2000.
JDthreeseventeen 1 year ago
To Emily - may all your birthdays have happy endings and perfect theme songs. Thank you Heidi for making me think of it. And to you Sheri, who loved this moment as much as I did!
beanster77 1 year ago
perfectly perfect
treadley 1 year ago
such a beautiful song!! im so jealous of those that were teens during this decade- you experienced great movies and awesome music! I hated being a teen during the 00's...damn it sucked =/
Carina08x 1 year ago 4
@Carina08x no it didn't. every decade has its ups and downs. we got to see the invention of youtube/facebook. the first black president. every decade "sucks" until it's gone.
thesportsdude90 1 year ago
@thesportsdude90 well obviously you liked it, but people have different opinions and my opinion is that it sucked lol. and facebook isn't even that great, it gets everyone in either trouble or murdered! youtube is great though, i must agree with you on that, but still i'd trade it all to be around in the 80s, sorry! x)
Carina08x 1 year ago
@Carina08x well, guess what, living in the past is a waste of time. you cant go back so enjoy what we have now because by 2020 you'll be syaing damn I wish it was 2004.
thesportsdude90 1 year ago
@thesportsdude90 ok whatever, like i said, that's your opinion
Carina08x 1 year ago
@thesportsdude90 I see a lot of comments like Carina's on Youtube. Actually this is the first generation in which significant numbers of young people want to go back to their parents time, and that says a lot about contemporary culture. Prior to this, younger people didn't want anything to do with their parents time (We certainly didn't in the 80's).
Califacience 9 months ago
@Carina08x
The 80's were an amazing and idealistic time to grow up, but I doubt that a modern teen would survive if they were transported there. No, internet, no cell phones (except for the very rich) most people didn't have Cable t.v. just the 7 main television channels (including PBS) and most of those would go off the air when it got late haha.
Life was just MUCH slower. If you've ever admitted to being bored during the 2000's you wouldn't make it.
Califacience 9 months ago 2
@Califacience At the same time, humans can adapt to almost anything. Eventually the joy derived from Angry Birds and Facebook would be replaced with something else. It's like when we suffer a loss (in this case it'd be technology), we move on, and make the best of what we have. Personally I'd never want to go back to the 80s; everyone looked so... hairy?
paperbed 9 months ago
@Califacience I grew up in the 80s and it wasn't that great. Lots of 80s kids were in love with the 60s and wished they could go back to that time. And music like this was really dismissed by a lot of people...not unlike the backlash against Bieber. Yet, at my reunion this was kind of music was the most requested and for some reason I like this music far more than I ever did back in the day. Music is a powerful way to reawaken feelings of youth, even not so great music.
linzie78 6 months ago
@linzie78
Well I grew up in the 80's as well, enjoyed it, and happened to have never met any of these kids that wanted to grow up during their parents time.
But ofcourse there were Punk kids and others who hated this stuff
By the way, i'm not the first to remark on the unique nature of this generation's fascination with the past, it has been written about by others. I'm sure there have always been a certain number of young people that have longed for some other time, the issue is extent
Califacience 6 months ago
In my experience, it is usually the Cynic that grew up in and enjoyed the 80's the least.
and it is only naivete that is unable to discern the stark level of cultural deterioration that we have undergone over the past 25 years and is able to "relativize" it into a matter of generational preference.
All the more so when this generation is clever enough to see past such an idea.
Califacience 6 months ago
These are the endings you dream about of your life..
Arionelove 1 year ago 3
all these years and I never knew it was the thompson twins, huh
1thess523 1 year ago
It's always 1980-something 'round my house
bigdsears 1 year ago
love this song and this scene. here is to my girlfriend. Happy Birthday baby. It's my birthday too. : )
8-4 Leos forever
ultragroove1 1 year ago
Loved the 80"s!!! Friday night videos! spiked hair! vanns, down suspenders, parachute pants and the birth of MTV!!! 1984 was one of the best years of my life! Brat pack movies! Thank god I was a teenager then!
eyeeatpussy2 1 year ago
This brings back so many memories I saw this movie when I was a teenager and I always loved this song in the movie. This will always be by far my favorite movie. Thanks 80sand70sMemories for uploading this video. I just took a walk down memory lane and I loved it!!!!!!!!!
trainette 1 year ago
Cute guy, birthday cake, dim lights, Thompson Twins song - what more could a girl ask for?
YOUrmypal68 1 year ago
This is one of those pretty songs that has lyrics that entirely don't suit the occasion.
kerthwap 1 year ago
This was my first dance. :)
TheBaldBastid 1 year ago
I was born the same year this film was released, another one from The Brat Pack era.
MeBenHalpin 1 year ago
A favorite of mine from High School :) thanks!
curious880 1 year ago
I was born in '88 and this is my FAVORITE movie of all time. I guess the crap I've grown up hasn't been as good.
Princessvia911 1 year ago
yes the 1980s were the best! I wish i were still there. better times than now (for me at least personally)
popmusic1967 1 year ago
I love this movie. I remember when it was in theaters in 1984. I own the dvd, and I love how One Tree Hill did a remake of this movie. What a classic!
abcfan72 1 year ago
Skinny jeans, hi-tops, graphic tees - we invented that stuff! The '80's rocked!
peekaboosmom 1 year ago
@peekaboosmom I was in class of 87 and we rocked. I remember everything in that era. Skinny jeans, polos, oversized shirts and tight pants with clear plastic shoes, neon colored shoestrings, the rat hairstyle (long thin hair with the short hair). I miss it.
robbiesyohn 1 year ago
@robbiesyohn Yup, class of '87. Big hair and good times!
peekaboosmom 1 year ago
the 80s were the best fun times.
stefanybody 1 year ago
I adore this movie- and was/am obsessed with this song... this picture says it all- its an amazing movie & story!!
retrogurl80 1 year ago
Max A. Santa Monica College 1984
momlovesgod 1 year ago
I really wish I grew up in the 80's. I love EVERYTHING 80's no matter what it is lol!! I love Pac Man, Pin Ball, Space Invaders ect. I love all the 80's movies and music. I think I truly belong in the 80's! The 80's seems like it was a really fun decade and I wish I was born in 1971 so that I could've been a teenager in the 80's lol! :)
brittanynicolefield1 1 year ago
@brittanynicolefield1 the 80s were the best amazing time, im 29
we could always turn the world like that again, but people suck lol
stefanybody 1 year ago
@stefanybody you wouldn't want reagan and bush back in again though! They were horrible.
robbiesyohn 1 year ago
@robbiesyohn yea but things were better,
stefanybody 1 year ago
@stefanybody that is true. I wasn't really politically aware of things back then. Being a teen and all that. I loved the music. More upbeat then. I still dress 80's though.
I have oversized shirts and tight pants. I have polo shirts and shoes from that era.
I don't like keeping up with the times. I am more retro than ever. I love 1950's clothes. Even the cars,music is great then. I was born in '68 and that was a rough year.
robbiesyohn 1 year ago
@brittanynicolefield1 You missed out on a wild era. Clothes,music,etc was fun. There were some bad times too.
robbiesyohn 1 year ago
@brittanynicolefield1 Call me stupid but can you download pacman,centipede,space invaders, donkey kong, super mario online? I never played it online but I know there is a way to do so.
robbiesyohn 1 year ago
God i miss the 80's
morace250 1 year ago
I wish I had grown up in the '80's . I love '80's teen movies
Inahzi13 1 year ago 4
This was and still is my favorite Thompson Twins song. I always thought it short and sweet it seems over so soon. I always found it quite and emotional song and melody a but sad. Great lyrics and such an amazing keyboard solo. One listen is never enough. Magic stuff and it makes me feel nostalgic.
FeedbackPete 2 years ago 5
The 80s was my favorite decade - wow, what great times back then.
CaneFu 2 years ago 33
Isn't it amazing the impact a perfect song has on a perfect ending to envoke such emotion in someone DECADES after production? This was my high school years. To this day, some of my HS friends and I still quote movies of the Brat Pack movies as we listen to these undying classics that even later generations can't help but to love and wish they could have been a part of. Breakfast Club, Pretty in Pink and the Psych Furs...These were the times of my life. Thank god I turned out to be me! ;-)
Skoben2000 2 years ago 84
@ Skoben2000...I was thinking along those same lines about the song. For such a small part of the film, the impact of the song and the scence stands out.
bdub24j 2 years ago
@Skoben2000 Better words were never spoken! Kudos!
dbua27 1 year ago
@Skoben2000 right there with ya
GirlPaint 1 year ago
@Skoben2000 awesome. so true.
ultragroove1 1 year ago
ME TOO.PEACE
dirtydogg45 1 year ago
@Skoben2000
I completely agree about the impact of this song so many years later.
gummoboy69 10 months ago
80's... wow... the best decade for EVERYTHING!!! It was sooo awesome. Movies like this, (RIP John Hughes :-(. ), songs like this, nostalgia remains true...
Imzalas 2 years ago 3
Makes me think of an old love...that I just started talking to again....man I miss how the 80's made me feel....
avalonconsulting91 2 years ago 3
Ooops, I forgot to mention on my post how much I also loved this song. When I first heard it back in the 80's, I just fell in love with the song and wanted to know right away who the artist was. I'd just listen to it over and over again. Oh how I miss the 80's, movies and songs like this..
Kimeraldzbaby 2 years ago 6
I love this movie so much! Thank god for dvd's, I can watch it over and over again..anytime..:)
I too had a crush on Jake Ryan (aka Michael Schoeffling)..He was so cute!!
Kimeraldzbaby 2 years ago 2
they did that scene in One Tree Hill a couple days ago! actually, they dedicated the episode to John Hughes, and referenced a lot of his movies!
Simer1003 2 years ago
As a guy I have to say that this is undoubtedly my favorite chick flick.
ivanahumpalot420 2 years ago
what a tune. the 80's must have kicked soo much ass.
ivanahumpalot420 2 years ago
This song makes me melt when I hear it and when I heard it back then. I love my husband!
ColochoH 2 years ago
Always dug this song. Indeed, I remember it so well at the end of "Sixteen Candles." Ahh, the memories from that period. I grew up right in it.
cvjucla3 2 years ago 3
Gosh,I love this movie so much. I'm 16,and I'm still waiting for my Jake Ryan to come:)
sweetmelii5100 2 years ago 5
I saw this when I was 16.... Time flies so enjoy 16 while you can...
My name is Joel Goodson. I deal in human fulfillment. I grossed over eight thousand dollars in one night. Time of your life, huh kid?
bigdsears 2 years ago
Everytime I hear this I think of the man of my dreams...... Jack Ryan!! *Swoon*
blackbird2020 2 years ago 5
it's JAKE ryan
arizonaleigh 2 years ago
@arizonaleigh LOL exactly.
blackbird2020 2 years ago
Jeessshh i love this movie...and probably i have watched more than a thousand times....lovely end =)
franbabygirl 2 years ago 6
Yes the most wonderful time to be a teenager I was 17 years old in 1988. My daughter was born the next year and coincidentally some of the music she likes has an eighties rhythm.
lemonadesqueeze71 2 years ago 2
it'd be awesome to go back.love this song.freaking love this movie
questionalheart 2 years ago
Best movie ever!
& I wasn't even born in the 80's.
One of my favorites.
:)
lilwhitt09 2 years ago 4
Aambrosiaa1....don't forget the tight roll jeans and acid wash jeans. Ahh....the 80's....what a fun decade!
coomancoo 2 years ago 5
Hahaha.. I had acid wash jeans with suspenders when I was little. Summer of 1988 I believe. I was only 3! lol I wore them with a tacky 80's sweatshirt underneath and red converse shoes haha..
bittersweetist 2 years ago
You ain't lyin!!!! I am so happy that I grew up in the 80's because life now is so different..if you think about it hard enough it will make you sad at the fact there is nothing like it now.
avalonconsulting91 2 years ago 2
Dear Mr. Vernon: We accept the fact that we had to sacrifice a whole Saturday in detention for whatever it was we did wrong. But, we think you're crazy to make us write an essay telling you who we think we are. You see us as you want to see us: in the simplest terms, in the most convenient definitions. But, what we found out is that each one of us is: a brain . .
bigdsears 2 years ago
I would've loved a sequel, to see what happened to their relationship. Blown opportunity!
gdwme 2 years ago
John Hughes I salute you for making the 80's a great time to be a teen.
calibenz68 2 years ago 3
Anyone notice the license plate on the Porsche reads 21850 -- John Hughes birthday. Ah man, it's all in the details. :) P.S. I love Jake! But then, who doesn't. lol
kiwicherryprincess 2 years ago 4
the girl in sixteen candle isnt she the mom on secret live of america teen will something like that
mickey141480 2 years ago 2
Yup, she sure is!
MiaSays 2 years ago
YESS SHE IS
JennipherSujey 2 years ago
one of the finest slices of pop ever on a soundtrack. its impact on that moment, in THAT movie, is unforgettable. sigh...
almadora 2 years ago
Farewell, John Hughes
anglodaisy 2 years ago 2