Stratus Dance Club (Revisited) Circa 1986-1987 - Part 2 [Top 80's Electro Synth-Pop & Funky Fashion]

Quite possibly the coolest club of the 1980's! "Footage from a California new wave synthpop club is mesmerizing and awesome" - Dangerous Minds.
00:00 - State Farm - Yazoo.
03:31 - You're so Fine - Egyptian Lover.
06:50 - I Touch Roses - Book of Love.
10:11 - Native Love (Step by Step) - Divine.
12:47 - Go - Tone on Tail.
15:47 - Trans-X - Living on Video.
Isabella Ibarra at the Southeast Career Technical Academy deserves full credit for an excellent compilation she put together featuring the patrons of the Stratus Dance Club in the San Diego area (actually Spring Valley) in 1986 and 1987. The clips were quite chopped and muddled so I set them to the music playing in the club, updating the video and replacing the audio in the process.
This was East County, and Stratus was a club that catered heavily to the new romantic and goth crowds-these videos are all labeled “The Metro Beat and Club Sanctuary Nights” which was an 18-21 event and a regular rendezvous for the new wavers in the area. Jane’s Addiction actually played Stratus right during this period, in the spring of 1987.
The clips start us off with the Cult’s “She Sells Sanctuary,” there’s a good deal of Divine (both “Shake It Up” and “Native Love (Step by Step)”) and Sexual Harassment (”I Need a Freak”) and Strawberry Switchblade’s version of “Jolene” and Trans-X (”Living on Video”) alongside more enduring faves.

[@Rivet_Head242]

Not a god damn cell phone in sight and I love it . We were so much happier in the 80's !!!??

[@scottlarson1548]

Not if you lived in a small town with 24% unemployment.

[@ringfahnderostseeschatzsuc7647]

yes

[@martisellarsChill_Trance]

At 13:15 I’m dancing in the background but I move to dancing with straw hat girl. So cool!!! I’m 57 now! To see myself at 21 again having so much fun truly made my day thank you

[@Yungrexy]

I see you, you look so cool. I made this a few years ago and technology has since advanced (as has my editing skills) so I was recently considering upscaling the raw footage to HD and remaking it. I will tag you in it if I do. There is a part 1 to this, you should check it out as you may appear in that one too... Judging by your username you might actually enjoy a lot of the content on my channels, this one is mainly for early trance, pop, hip hop etc and my other (rem:trecords) is mainly for early and obscure ambient trance & experimental. So happy you have found this bit of nostalgia, I make these things for a hobby and it's very rewarding when when it reminds people of previous happy times.

[@martisellarsChill_Trance]

@@Yungrexyyes I started listening to EDM & Trance very young! As you see! I’m not in the other video I checked. However this was so awesome and a time to remember for sure. I look forward to hearing more

[@norbertrivera]

There are many girls at this point., are you the blond girl with white hat and sunglasses? cool . i'm 57 too i'm from class 1984. Did you meet with your friends of Stratus? They meet in "My space" and now on Facebook.

[@BEACHDUDE71]

I was 15 and not allowed to go 😂

[@Gardneronthewater]

@@BEACHDUDE71I was 15 and I was there! 😂😂

[@kentrow7010]

TransX and Book of Love, and Depeche Mode, and Erasure, and New Order/Joy Division, the Cure, Dead or Alive, Bronski Beat, the Smiths, OMD, tin tin, Human League, TSOL, the Specials, Oingo Boingo, Bauhaus, yep, I was there! 80s club scene in California. Untouchable! Never to be repeated in the History of the world. Totally Unique time! The fashions, expression, and music 🎶!Yep!

[@rolandomichel2070]

Little did we know, how perfectly Cool it was, never to come again... but we LIVED it, so there!

[@sl4983]

Ave there was so much more than even that!

[@abelmontalvo4052]

Don't forget Ministry. Front 242 nitzer ebb. Church and INXS

[@thra5herxb12s]

Ha. I'm 61 now and still dancing like this.😁

[@rjfscorpio711]

The 80's were a new era in music. British alternative and American rock. MTV actually played music videos and awesome talk and game shows. A great time to be in your 20's.

[@user-xc2pu3df8f]

Yes people ,I was 17 in 86 and I loved the new wave seen, I was that robot dancer electric sounds well cool peace n love

[@diamond13130]

I was 15 in 86’ and was at every teen dance there was. Lol

[@loribollinger2457]

So many pretty people,I’m turning 59 next month,to be young again ,thank you for posting this video❤

[@missboheme3466]

If I don’t style my hair, it’s naturally all frizzy and crazy looking. In the 80s it would have actually been cool! 🤣

[@kellispreppingkitchen]

Whoever was filming this iconic decade was a genius. I wish I took AV classes in school. Those students were the OG vloggers of their time. I see every one of my eras in this club: punk, skater, new wave, Mod, preppy, jock, jazzercise,😂 Good times.

[@Ed_Okin]

That’s an interesting list of people from the 80s! Do we all remember this one? “The sportos, the motorheads, geeks, sluts, bloods, wasteoids, dweebies, dickheads - they all adore him. They think he’s a righteous dude.”

[@ms.elegant4571]

Even some Psychedelic era vibes going on

[@sl4983]

Totally!

[@jacknjill3000]

Yeah and bc not many had video cameras or too big to carry around all the time, we didn’t get to document our generation as easily as the current generation. So yeah, the ones who did were the film and video students.

[@teacherondabeat]

Ça me rappelle tellement de bons souvenirs! Ouf! La bonne musique qui explosait de partout, les gens qui s’habillaient avec style au lieu de se déshabiller, les téléphones qui n’existaient pas alors on vivait vraiment la «vibe» au lieu de la filmer et de se prendre en photo: quelle époque!🙏

[@bicyclist2]

I love Yazoo. It was started by Vince Clarke, who left Depeche Mode after their first album. This song is on the album, "Upstairs at Eric's". Thank you.

[@Khomebaker]

I love Yaz. ( American here haha) Alison Moyet still brings me to tears. The late 80’s and 90’s were the best times in history. We all accepted each others uniqueness and celebrated along with each other. I remember dancing the entire 4 to 5 hours in the club. Thank you for letting me relive this!

[@Laine2539]

Gen. Jones! In my twenties during the 80’s. It was a great decade. 🎉

[@martisellarsChill_Trance]

I’m in the video at 13:15 I be dancing in all white long light brown curly hair with girl in straw hat I begin there and go forward a minute

[@alpacino92780]

Proud to be Gen X ...

[@flower4915]

Золотое время было!

[@jacknjill3000]

Yup and we shaped the style for the following generations. Also took all the risks bc now many of the shocking thing back then are normal now. Thanks to Gen. X.

[@rosecarey8522]

Me too

[@1mmafrka]

After watching a lot of this videos I’m starting to see familiar faces and that’s how it was back then when clubbing you would see regulars.

[@robinsss]

Panorama 80 is web radio a station that plays synth pop they cover several styles on that station including , New Wave | Italo disco | Electro | Minimal Wave | EBM | Synthwave | Techno | New Beat | |. spread the word here's a link laut.fm/panorama80

[@danielroque8504]

My era, youth~~God bless all these beautiful people...turn the volume up~~dance, dance, dance, keep that body, mind moving~~

[@step4798]

All the people you see in this video are fantastic!! it was a time in history that needs to be recorded for prosperity!! It was a time of change from 80s music to more disco and eventually EDM but still had the punks and the romantics at the club :)

[@ms.elegant4571]

Actually, disco died in the 70s as metal bands became popular. The 80s picked up where Andy Warhol and the Alternative 60s left off, then became too popularized via bands like The Smiths, U2, The Clash etc, leaving it open to what we have today.

[@flyingsquad63]

Great times great music

[@SharonGoewert]

We had the best time dancing in the 80`s I`m now 57 yrs, old. Thank you you for this video brings back such good memories!

[@robdelany7636]

Love this. What a great time. And this video has just introduced me to Tones On Tail - Go - AMAZING!

[@chrisp1232]

I was in the woods driking beers and listening to Slayer with a Bon fire. So this is what the dorks were doing.

[@csilt]

Literally one of the best videos on KZbin and I've watched a ton. Nostalgia fest for sure!

[@mr.petster3182]

Bring these clubs back

[@sl4983]

Yes

[@lynetteminute]

clubs are still here, but the desire for this kind of fun is missing in the youth.

[@jackrussel853]

Great videos and music, i was 17/18 and on the other side of the pond where much of the music originated, good times for sure.

[@Truthseeker1515]

Really miss not having participated. A 13 year old in 1986, only allowed to go clubbing in the early 90s as folks would not allow me out during HS! The music scene had somewhat moved on by then with Eurodance/techno the dominant trends. Very different beat. By the early 90s, fashion had also changed, girls were Amy Grant lookalikes with baggy jeans. Big hair was out. And for guys, flannel shirts, stonewashed or ripped jeans. The Seattle grunge look. No one would have looked that smart with so many diverse fashion genres on show. That went out by 1991 and the mighty recession. What remained the same, however, is the fact there were no cellulars, you had to find a pay-phone to call your folks to pick you up or find someone to give you a ride back home. We also smoked as much. Gen X all the way and no regrets.

[@Gardneronthewater]

Omg it was so cool seeing so many of my friends! I’m in there 19:20 haha! Awesome! The generation that killed it!

[@alexriddell8918]

Uhm, nice try. tmThat is not you. It's actually me and my two best friends who are brothers. If you know them tell me their names. I still hang out with them. I still live next to the building that was stratus in Spring Valley.

[@seriejohnson698]

@@alexriddell8918The flock of Seagull twins?

[@Mira-en9sv]

When androgynous was totally acceptable in the clubs...amazing times..unsurpassed

[@MegaEmmaJay]

Androgynous? You should read this book. www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B07L7XPWKP 1980s. Boy meets another boy. The first boy is straight. The second is a stunning blond(e) wearing red lipstick...

[@vintuitive7627]

It would still be accepted if they were trying to push children into it. No one has a problem with adults doing any of it.

[@angiepanjie]

I had a big birthday recently and friends sent me photos of these days. Not a single cleavage to be seen in any of them…hadn’t even realised until now. We wore big shirts and dead people’s clothes mostly at the clubs I went to.🤣

[@andrewramsay4832]

Early 90,s shits on these morbid stiffs

[@kentrow7010]

Yep, it will never be like the 80s again, in the history of the world 🌎. Totally unique time on the Earth 🌎, never to be repeated! The 80's club scene in California! Bitchin! 👍💥

[@ilan40]

Good chemistry of the 80s

[@mintythemoose]

I cannot believe I was somewhat involved in this scene. Barely believable, 36 years have passed. We are dying off now, quietly. 😄

[@discosecret6363]

Takes me back to my late teens, at Todd’s, Ledernacht/the City Club + the Shelter, in Detroit.

[@robinsss]

Panorama 80 is web radio a station that plays synth pop they cover several styles on that station including , New Wave | Italo disco | Electro | Minimal Wave | EBM | Synthwave | Techno | New Beat | |. spread the word here's a link laut.fm/panorama80

[@dylanr.4602]

Haven't heard State Farm in like 30yrs... It's amazing how your brain supresses songs and gets triggered the minute u hear a old song

[@ShellyBomb]

🎶 ~ I loved dancing ALL night in the 1980s; specifically at Club iD with Trevor Watson DJ'g & later at Mannequin ... The Best Times in San Diego!!! 💋

[@oswald1068]

those were the days!

[@speakertreatz]

thanks very much for uploading

[@aavalestormiconicperformer]

I love th3 80s swag. It was so wild and free. The New wave/synthpop/ electronic/experimental age. Look at that fab hair!!

[@tonyrains8822]

Wow talk about great memories ,these were the best yrs to be alive . And Alive we were

[@mrjim1973]

"Now's the time on Sprockets when we dance!"

[@carolannpacificadam1944]

I remember dancing in the club in the 80s. Man I'm old

[@amberdawn5756]

My spirit was in these clubs back then while my 7 year old self was stuck at home daydreaming about having a green mohawk.

[@anagogo9465]

This brings back a lot of memories. Most people were so stuck up at this time. lol Cooler kids were around. Notice the less neat the hair, the more real the expressions on the faces. hah

[@TL....]

10:38 is alex riddell he commented on another upload that he is 55 now and still lives in the neighborhood where stratus club used to be these were under-21 events in san diego

[@alexriddell8918]

You are correct! It's me 😊

[@andyninja949]

Totally awesome days was 22 in 1986 👏👌👌

[@Oskanderstine]

Ah, such good times then. A myriad of amazing styles.

[@MakeMineMelodic]

Very clever edit at 13:38!

[@Yungrexy]

Ha, well spotted :D there's few quirky little edits in there and I wondered if anyone would even notice. Tbf that was synched in the original footage (as was most of 'Living on Video') but 90% of the footage is of them dancing to completely different songs.

[@JackbenimbleJackbequick-dc9lj]

I loved those times! It was always Halloween at the club and nobody gave a shite!

[@rhiannas1355]

The gum chewing is what gets me LOLOL

[@54droptop]

Best time in history for dance and fashion with Clovis

[@robinsss]

Panorama 80 is web radio a station that plays synth pop they cover several styles on that station including , New Wave | Italo disco | Electro | Minimal Wave | EBM | Synthwave | Techno | New Beat | |. spread the word here's a link laut.fm/panorama80

[@cjboyer4355]

The “fashion” was unique I’ll give you that but that dancing is the most cringe shit I’ve ever seen lol

[@diebackmischung503]

Is it just me or did they have way more style variants? Today is all white shirts and black pants lol

[@Yungrexy]

Individuality was the way... People were not afraid to express themselves, this was obviously before social media made people overly self conscious and more likely to blend in rather than stand out.

[@dianelaag2944]

We had more stores/boutiques then. Some wore thrift shop clothes but they knew how to put their outfits together.

[@missdamned_1]

@14:55 she’s so fierce back then, her moves/style, it’s what I like still today when I see it, bc nowadays such authenticity doesn’t exist much anymore. I love her!! 🥹❤️‍🔥

[@martisellarsChill_Trance]

I was in that video!!! A friend of mine Christoph sent me link and said “you are in there”.. I watched and yes I am in video!!

[@Yungrexy]

Brilliant. Glad you have found it. It looked like such good fun and it's great to hear from people who were there. What time in the video are you?

[@Mr-Angelo0U812]

12:50 remember this song in the movie Grosse Point Blank with John Cusak 🤘✌

[@phil9079]

Nice to see some popping in the video!

[@jonfklein]

Green hair in the '80s! That's pretty bold. Don't think I ever saw that.

[@RonnieOwens-kv4oe]

I had blue. We loved dyes! 😊

[@Laine2539]

I had a pink streak, and once got my hair dyed for a Vidal Sassoon hair show. It was dark but in the sunlight looked green. 😅

[@pablofernandez7772]

It was a tough time too for a lot of people, the aids epidemic, the Cold War, etc. Music and dance was an escape and brought people together.

[@Yungrexy]

I have said the same to dipsh!ts who think that everything was rosy and people were oblivious to politics back then... Culture was way more politically charged/driven than it is now... That's why art had feeling & emotion back then.

[@arag7023]

Well growing up in SoCal Upland in the 80s i can remember riding my BMX bike around the neighborhood being worried about the night stalker and herpes. I did always seem to find random stacks of porno mags laying around where we explored as kids lol

[@ericv7720]

We need to bring back the hawk mullet, now!

[@user-lq6vz1sd9q]

I touch , wow what a song

[@WilliamAshleyOnline]

timeless still so much great energy.

[@aliciabourn2753]

I’d love to see what some of these youngsters look like now. Like are they still this cool ? This is my age group but I was extremely sheltered. I hate I missed events like this. Also, I’m wondering how many people got cigarette burns while dancing 🤣

[@Yungrexy]

Hairspray and smoking in clubs was a recipe for disaster, saw a few impressive fireballs myself back in the day 🤣

[@jekku4688]

Ahhh....before technology stole our lives away....before hair straighteners, cell phones, duck lips, fake nails, the internet, etc. When people actually HID from the camera! All those songs take me back!!!

[@scottlarson1548]

Oh man fake nails were everywhere where I lived!

[@Richter13]

Hab ich die Szene geliebt. Heute Regierungs Sklaven 😂😂😂

[@ElRelojDeHillValley88Mph]

I'm totally in love with the blonde girl 10:38 and 20:52 (I think it's the same person) for her I would travel in time rather than for a sports almanac ....

[@dmitriyaleksandrovich5024]

i WANT to Be There !!!

[@richardsingh5827]

Great time to be alive

[@niico76]

1:06 looks like Christina Applegate when she was on the tvshow "Heart of the City" in 1986

[@Ilovecats-bb8de]

LOL. Guy @00:40 looks like one of the vampires from The Lost Boys.

[@Yungrexy]

He he, I don't know why but he reminds me of Ray Liotta... With bleached 80's hair :D

[@dimidewitte5202]

After this period, 'new beat' came :-)

[@Yungrexy]

Acid was already starting at this time... Trance was just about to appear (1988, KLF - What Time is Love?) & dance/rave was just a couple of years away... I miss the days when we would get a new genre every few years :( Disco, Punk, Hip Hop, New Wave, Acid, Trance & Rave all happenned within a 15 year period.

[@oddomadic]

Looks like the place to be if I’m being completely honest.

[@despinasid7694]

❤Die besten Zeiten ich vermisse das alles

[@amalilla]

11:19 guy moves so well! ♥

[@scubaguy007]

My teenage brain in the 80’s: "Target acquired" 😍19:00 🥰 Reality in the 80’s: Negative Ghost Rider the pattern in full. My teenage theme song... "Some guys have all the luck." - Rod Stewart

[@Yungrexy]

Ha ha... I follow that good buddy :D P.S. Same girl looking devilishly cute @10:21 btw ;)

[@moneyc5567]

I swear Gen z the lamest why we don’t dance like this 😂

[@Yungrexy]

Because now you know that big brother is watching you 👀 That video of the girls laughing at the chubby kid dancing in the club was brutal... These people had no fear of being dragged on socials, the likelyhood of being filmed in the bars/clubs was slim to zero back then. Thankfully, that is why people felt free to express themselves back then. Now all you have is a homogeneous bland blend of conformity.

[@imverydeadd]

@@Yungrexy big brother is watching you

[@Tdub0911]

Oh crap, did I see myself in there somewhere. This seems like when I was a Freshman (84) though. I thought we had pretty much moved out of that New-Wave, late Punk colored hair thing by 87. Kinda feels Valley Girlish.

[@wasted8541]

I love their smiles

[@Yungrexy]

The innocence of youth mixed with simpler times in terms of social media influence... wish I was back there again, I thought I was quite bold in my fashion sense but these kids make me look reserved.

[@wasted8541]

@Practicalicalicalica what anime

[@theblackpearlofbraavos]

Omfg...thank you for this❤

[@Yungrexy]

You're very welcome, so glad you enjoyed the videos.

[@LadyStudio1]

When the Dexy was pure

[@flashted]

Clove cigarettes and cocaine with MDMA coming on the scene, and PCP for bad boys memes..Less than zero in the theatare's, with flowing flocking seagull hairs.. Self-destruction at its finest. and the Berlin Wall falling in the end, with this wonderful time never to extend.. Yes, a truly remarkable time. I wish I would have lived it better. Play this vid in 2X speed for a new experience..

[@flte8xcunq399]

какие красивые девушки просто супер

[@danielroque8504]

The girl at 19:00 (minute mark) she is beautiful....

[@AngelOfDarkness01]

Was, my friend, she was. Who knows what she turned into by now?

[@irenawilson1572]

@@AngelOfDarkness01I think I saw in another comment her name is Trish. She was wearing red.

[@mikebarkett8401]

​@@irenawilson1572er name is jeanne marie

[@dattind2173]

she's freaking gorgeous. great eye movement too

[@evandrozzz]

It was the music of the 80s that saved humanity from depression with the deaths caused by the coronavirus covid

[@ShellyBomb]

P.S. No cell phones or endless selfies, Botox or filler - everyone looked amazing 🤩

[@Sensei.shonuff]

I was born in 86 so i wasnt their....but i was their at heart ..... And i was watching.....and judging all of ur clothes

[@katashley1031]

*there. Their is possessive. There refers to location. They're is a contraction of they are.

[@Sensei.shonuff]

@@katashley1031 i don't remember asking

[@janetkoulis7887]

Clean innocent fun.

[@jeacks100]

BEST

[@Kkidzz]

Tones On Tail FTW...... ❤❤❤

[@jlouis4407]

I knew that was Egyptian Lover he was huge

[@petertorok9489]

19.09 it's beautiful❤

[@Lilac914]

It’s crazy to think that these people are now in their 50-60’s

[@ccwoodruffgmailcom]

Yea I am one of them! Its crazy to think I am almost 60!! Those days were as awesome as they look! Everyone could dress or act however they wanted and NOBODY gave a crap!! What is really funny is seeing everyone try to have their cool, straight face on but every once in while you see them break into smiles :-) Love it!!

[@sagnbaby]

Im 50 and I miss these days!!!

[@diamond13130]

53 and still tearing up that floor! ✌️💯

[@RonnieOwens-kv4oe]

I'll be 55 in July. Bad back but can still get down when the jam comes on.

[@KN-fy4vv]

The Metro in Cincy, Mean Mr. Mustards/Crazy Mama’s in Cbus, 9 of Clubs in the Cleve.

[@kamranshayanfar9905]

I wish I was in my peak in these years but then again that would make me like 50-60 now and F that with a bag of chips

[@jessicafashionlover2148]

Clubbing bsvk then was just fun barely any fights just good music i started clubbing at 15

[@daveoleary8173]

Now here are the original tracks

[@CosmosZeroX]

The last song is so fucking cool

[@Yungrexy]

*'Trans-X - Living on Video'*

[@sl4983]

It is!!!

[@RonnieOwens-kv4oe]

Band from Canada. Great song!

[@plainsimpx1662]

All these guys and gals are in their late 50s and early 60s now 😮

[@sl4983]

Birth year 64 and prior is baby boom, so yes them and gen x

[@jimmybonifacio6734]

@5:07 shoutout to Mikey & his Wayfarers!

[@illel-zorro9527]

The chick at 15:59 looks so awesome!

[@gigio.zimmerman]

🔥

[@AngelOfDarkness01]

If someone offered me a button to push to take me back in this best decade ever I would push it without hesitation. Even and preferably if it sent me in a neverending loop of those 10 years. ❤❤❤

[@kboldin]

Good God, now I need a Jakarta.......

[@chrisjenek952]

Best times we were so lucky to experience this before this bs

[@ringfahnderostseeschatzsuc7647]

Nice Girl, No Smartphone, Nobody Fat! Happy People, Real Human and not Bio Roboter!

[@ssss-df5qz]

@10:31 - gorgeous! she looks timeless.

[@Yungrexy]

They're all gorgeous imo but the girl that you timestamped seems to be the star of these videos... She appears 3 or 4 times & every appearance has been timestamped a thousand times, lol.

[@ssss-df5qz]

@@Yungrexy would love to hear all their stories