The 80s ruled

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80's had the best saturday morning cartoons and toys pertaining to those cartoons. The music really was actually pretty good. The movies were really bad and the clothes were too, so were the electronics they sucked; a walkman was like the size of a small child.
 
Ah yes, I really loved the 2 months that I lived in the 80s... :D

Honestly now, I really like a lot of the music from the 80s. Other than that.... yea, i don't really know. >_<
 
This may not end being a high post count thread... but truly it is a good thread.

Indeed sir, indeed.
 
Nothing good ever came from the 80s.

Well actually, that's a bit too rude.

But god man, people thought that stuff was unironically cool.
 
The 80s had the best cartoons. That was about it.

Worst hair styles, clothes/fashion, and cars. Oh god, the worst cars ever produced by man. Every model of every car was the absolute worst in the 80s...
 
I'm proud to be a child of the 80's (~5 - 15 y/o). So awesomely goofy with great cartoons and arcades everywhere.
 
ah, I spent my High School days in the early eighties. all but the clothes I remember fondly, and I was quite the clothes horse back then.

A worst memory was sitting alone on 12:01 am 1984, listening to David Bowie's "1984" while the girl I loved, my beautiful half Cherokee GF at the time was upstairs doing the no-no with some motherfucker. one of my first lessons on relationshits, :Cry: :Cry: :cry:

"Someday they won't let you, so now you must agree
The times they are a-telling, and the changing isn't free
You've read it in the tea leaves, and the tracks are on TV
Beware the savage jaw
Of 1984 "


Otherwise, I had a blast! weeeeee!!!
 
No, that song is pretty shitty too.

And why hasn't Burger King made of a parody of this yet.

You know since we're now seeing the 90s being poked fun at (well, only really the first half with the whole grunge phase), you got to wonder what the 00s culture will be known for. We'll probably look at all of the pearly oversimplification of our electronics and the whole Web 2.0 stuff and laugh while we telepathically message each other over the extranet.
 
norinrad21 said:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yXL9AkXzlt8

I was listening to this while stuck in traffic today on a jazz station, I kept singing it in the car like a crazy man :)

ah memories like the corners of my mind
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I had the youtube video playing while I was doing something else. I've never heard that song, but I thought it was El Debarge. I click the youtube tab and see some chick singing! :lol Oh El Debarge you feminine sounding bastard.

I love 80's music especially the pop classics like this

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7z9bPrUark4

and this

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6LB6Q_oycfQ

and this

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xHPikUPlRD8
 
Fusebox said:
The 80's rocked. Of course you really need to be born in the 70's to appreciate them.
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At the very least born in the 70's. I was born in 1983 and can't figure out why so many of my peers have fond memories of the 80's. Past life regression?



At least we have an excuse for liking Knight Rider.
 
the 80s rocked to be a child in. If you were a 20 something it was nearly fatally lame.
 
Dark Octave said:
The 80s had the best cartoons. That was about it.

Worst hair styles, clothes/fashion, and cars. Oh god, the worst cars ever produced by man. Every model of every car was the absolute worst in the 80s...
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You, sir, are wrong!

Also, you guys need to title your youtube links. I get blocked, but would love to know which songs you are talking about.

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Well I was in diapers throughout the 80's and was thus too young to really appreciate them.

But I really do think it had the 90's beat. Hard. I'm a surrogate child of the 80's. Synth-pop all the way!
 
As great as the 80's were (although I can't really talk from experience as I was only born in '86), it's getting pretty tiring hearing everyone raving about it now. The 80's have become some sort of craze for music stations whenever they do special shows (never a 70's show or anything) and just about every cartoon from the 80's has been remade into a new cartoon or live action movie in the last 10 years as well. From 2010 onwards we'll be getting the same thing with the 90's, presumably.

Most 80's cartoons make me cringe now, though (with the exception of Trap Door, Count Duckula and...not much else). I can't bear to watch Transformers, Thundercats, He-man or any of those beyond the intro music (the only memorable thing about any of them) and the animation was bloody terrible. 70's cartoons were worst, but 90's cartoons were better, although that could be me being raised in the 90's saying that.

No denying though, the 80's was the greatest decade for movies. So many classics.
 
catfish said:
the 80s rocked to be a child in. If you were a 20 something it was nearly fatally lame.
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Everyone loved the 80s.

Drug addicts: for them cocaine was everywhere (this probably includes your parents!)
Teenagers: best era for teen movies and the music was awesome
Kids: cartoons, movies, and the death and rebirth of console videogames
Old people: OK it sucked to be old or crazy in the 80s, but hey it will always suck to be old or homeless

The 80s were definitely more fun than the 90s overall.
 
I may not have been around much in the 80's but boy is it a great decade. I don't like pop music much but I really prefer the pop music of the 80's over the 90's and current stuff, that shit i hate (especially that new crap) but a lot of the 80's pop is pretty listenable. The 80's and 70's are my favourite decades, for many reasons.
 
Endorsed. The 90s were balls comparatively, which I always found strange since the boomers tend to prefer the 60s to the 50s.
 
mac said:
At the very least born in the 70's. I was born in 1983 and can't figure out why so many of my peers have fond memories of the 80's. Past life regression?



At least we have an excuse for liking Knight Rider.
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I was born in the 80's and have fond memories of them. Maybe your friends just have older siblings, like me, who were really the source of so much immersion and awareness of 80's pop culture... or maybe you just have a bad memory.

I remember all the music my older brother and sister loved. I also remember the hair styles and fashions both my older brother and sister were all about. I'll ask girls the exact same age as me or older if they remember the little voodoo doll-like hair pins or treetorn shoes and they'll look at me like "how old is this guy".

Bourbon Cowboy said:
Synth-pop all the way!
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Fuckin' right!
 
PrinceAdam said:
I may not have been around much in the 80's but boy is it a great decade. I don't like pop music much but I really prefer the pop music of the 80's over the 90's and current stuff, that shit i hate (especially that new crap) but a lot of the 80's pop is pretty listenable. The 80's and 70's are my favourite decades, for many reasons.
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Most 80s music hasn't really aged well, but fucking A 90s pop is like being sonically neutered.
 
mac said:
At the very least born in the 70's. I was born in 1983 and can't figure out why so many of my peers have fond memories of the 80's. Past life regression?
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I was born in 1983 as well and I would agree to some extent. I was a huge fan of Transformers and He-Man and GI Joe...but I was under the age of 7. I look back on a lot of the music and wish I was more into some of the new wave stuff, but that's mostly because I'm bigger into dance music. I also think 1986 was probably the best time to be an angry young white man, because you had Master of Puppets and Reign in Blood.

But yeah, I think nostalgia is overrated. Though I will agree with the sentiment that the 80s were more fun than the 90s, though that isn't all that tough.
 
I was actually born in 1980, so I caught it all. Best decade of my life. I'd actually rate my life in the following order. 80s -> 90s -> 00s. Not a coincidence.
 
The 80's were the greatest, not that I know much cause I was a baby most of the time but I love everything of the decade. My favorite music is 80's music way too many awesome songs to even list them. The movies kicked ass, there were real action movies being made in the 80's. Many of the all time classic games came out in the 80's.
 
One of the things to be careful about when reviewing 80's music is to watch out for 70's bands that tried to release an album in the 80's.

I'm looking at you Airsupply.
 
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