Does Anyone Here Remember The 80s

[zombie goat fetish]

Yes I was born in 83.

 

[CrazyGirl17]

I was born in the tail end of the 80's, so I don't remember all that much. They did have some great movies, though....

 

[F'Angus]

80s! I hardly remember the 90s

 

[GigaHz]

Eh, born 86, and can't remember much of it. What was better? The animations are just "better" because of nostalgia, we had no internet, ugly clothes, ugly hair and some pretty stupid television (though we still have that now).
The music was awesome, though.

Pretty much this.

I still think 80's music sounds more futuristic than most of the modern stuff on the radio. Tons more creativity and experimentation, that's for damn sure.

 

[sukotsuto]

Born in 1986. All I could remember about the 80s is that my dad has a mullet, my sister has a famicom, and I watched GI Joe on TV lol.

 

[Verlander]

80's was good for films and music, bad for fashion and politics. Everything has its ups and downs.

I remember the 80's but as a child I couldn't care much. The 90's didn't suck as much as people make it out to have, and remember, about 10 years ago everyone was banging on about how bad the 80's were. Soon everyone will be slamming the 00's

 

[trooper6]

what about the pictures from "i love the 80s" of people walking down the street smiling in wacky clothes with the boomboxes, and dancing to micheal jackson, and the movies like E.T, and whatnot. I always hear people say stuff like, "man, those were the days..."

"I love the 80s" is one of the main things I blame for this distortion of the 80s. The point of any TV show is to deliver eyes to advertisers. Advertisers don't like to be associated with things they think won't get people in the mood to buy their product. And "I love the 80s" or "I love the 70s" that actually told it like it was, wouldn't match the "funny, happy, cheesy" vibe the show is trying to sell.

how was america not in any threat in the last decade? the people who died in the WTC were just everyday Americans who happened to be in the wrong place at the wrong time. No one knew if this was going to happen again, or where it was going to happen. Who is that not intimate?

Funnily enough, I was also alive for the 90s, 00s, and now...so I remember all of that, too.

And about 9/11. There was terrorism before 9/11. Airplanes were brought down regularly (Air India Flight 182, Pan Am Flight 103, UTA Flight 772, and on and on). There was the Beirut Barracks Bombing. And if you weren't American is was worse. I remember watching the news all the time as a little American kid and seeing regular reports about terrorists attacks by the IRA against London and all the troubles in Northern Ireland. And in Germany the 70s and 80s saw regular attacks by the Red Army Faction and the Revolutionary Cells, Italy had the Red Brigades, Spain had the ETA.

Also hot wars like Afghanistan and Iraq...I was in the Army during the first Gulf War in 1990. And you know the thing about the Cold War is that involved lots of little wars...the US involvement in the Lebanese Civil War, Grenada, Panama. There were death squads raping nuns in El Salvador. The 80s was full of conflict around the world.

And I have to say, none of those things were as scary and disturbing that the threat of nuclear armageddon. Because that would have destroyed the *entire world.* Not just 500 here or 1000 people there...but *everything.* That is a level of heaviness that is hard to imagine if you didn't live through it.

There is a reason why the end of the 70s, beginning of the 80s brought us some unhappy music--punk, new wave, metal...then there was all the alternative like Joy Division, The Smiths, Tears For Fears, The Cure. Those were some heavy times.

 

[tehfeen83]

Born in 83, so all I really remember about the 80's is He-Man cartoons, Wham bars and having my gloves attached to my jacket with string. Good times.

 

[Arsen]

In the 1980's we had a rather prominent heavy metal scene growing. Iron Maiden, Slayer, Metallica, the best incarnation of Black Sabbath, etc, gave us this awesome musical genre which still grows to this very day.

The 1990's gave us Nirvana, Pearl Jam, Radiohead, Tom fucking Morello, and horrible music in general. It was musical stagnation at its height. The only good band to come out of that decade seems to be Alice in Chains and other notable metal acts from Europe.

I scoff at the 90's.

 

[antidonkey]

Child of 1975 here. Ah....the 80s. Terrible fashion, hair, and cars. Great music though.


And break dancing!
and parachute pants!

Many fond memories.

 

[Major_Tom]

I lived in the 80s for about 10 months so the answer should be no, but the 80s didn't come to South-Eastern Europe (and Canada) until 1993. and I remember everything.

 

[Shotgunjack1880]

Yes I do. Was there a certain question you wanted to ask....?

 

[Buzz Killington_v1legacy]

I'm ancient, so I remember the 80s...and yeah, what other people are saying about the threat of nuclear war constantly hanging over your head is right. The end of the Cold War felt amazing in terms of the relief we all felt.

 

[Toriver]

I was born in '85 so the only real memories I have of the '80s were my parents constantly watching Schwarzenegger action movies (specifically Terminator and Total Recall) on VHS, and me watching TMNT and Thundercats.

But I was the prime age for all the '90s kid fads. I remember Trapper-keepers, Tiny Toons and Animaniacs, Power Rangers, pogs, '90s Nickelodeon, the peak of the Pokemon craze, Digimon and other electronic pets, Starter jackets, Britney, 'NSync and all that other crappy pop, Goosebumps books, and trying to collect Beanie Babies 'cause someone said they'd make us rich someday. THAT was my childhood.

 

[Gunner 51]

I remember the 80's seeing how I was born in '83. I remember being cold all the time and everyone griping about Maggie "Milk Snatcher" Thatcher. Work was scarce, everyone was poor and there was much political unrest in general. (What's changed since then, eh?)

But on the plus side, I do remember people being much friendlier, the gaming, films and the music a whole lot better than it is now. I also remember analogue TV which only had a few channels but usually had something good on between the four channels Even the children's television was still fairly edgy. (See Knightmare... It was naaaaarrsty in places.)

But today, everything is disposable. The music and films these days are completely forgettable. The friendliness has gone and while you got loads of television channels - there's rarely anything on worth watching. With the exception of Family Guy, American Dad, Casualty, Holby City and NCIS. (The last one is my guilty pleasure, so feel free to mock me for it!)

The 80's were cool in their own way. Culturally, I think they were better - technologically, they sucked Barbie Dolls.

 

[OmniscientOstrich]

Born in '92 and while I have a bit of an affinity for the 70's (mostly the music), I wouldn't want to live there as we much higher standards of technology, social tolerance and acceptance, ethics, morality and general life quality in our current era. Not to mention we still have all the media that people love from their favoured decades as well as many modern masterpieces to appreciate which are all easy to find and get a hold of thanks to contemporary technology so I can enjoy the best things from all decades. If I have my cake, I want to fucking well eat it too. The 80's has some nice stuff as well but I don't really have the same affinity for it and again, wouldn't want to live there due to the reasons above.

 

[Monshroud]

I was born in the 1970's, so I remember them quite well. It was an interesting time, so much was changing in the 80's and 90's...

 

[Sir Thomas Sean Connery]

I remember that time well.

I was pretty small and it was warm and dark and wet, but at least I had a few million brothers around me at all times.

Every now and then there would be an earthquake and a whole bunch of them would leave frantically.

 

[JPArbiter]

I was born in 83, so I really only have memories of 85-90 and even so it is the pop culture, more then political events and personal things.

Transformers, Michael Jackson, and Arnold Schwarzenegger were big.

The De Lorian was the cool

Arcades were the place to go for fun.

and the holy sextet of Nintendo games were Mario, Metroid, Kid Icarus, Castlevania, Megaman, and Contra.

 

[Mareon]

I was born 1985-02-12. I have one hell of a memory of one hell of a firecracker celebrating the new decade. I also really liking the Socjet national anthem, but if that us because me remembering the damn thing or me just stumbeling on to it dure to youtube is anyones guess.