I missed the Eighties

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   Although I was conceived on the back seats of a Volkswagen Polo in October 1989, I was born on the front seats of the same car in June 1990, so I completely missed the Eighties. 

Tell me how much horrible they were.

Edited by Luca Pacchiarini - November 03 2009 at 15:29

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Luca Pacchiarini Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Reviewer page Forum Senior Member Joined: March 08 2009 Location: home Status: Offline Points: 530	Topic: I missed the Eighties Posted: November 03 2009 at 15:29
	Although I was conceived on the back seats of a Volkswagen Polo in October 1989, I was born on the front seats of the same car in June 1990, so I completely missed the Eighties. Tell me how much horrible they were. Edited by Luca Pacchiarini - November 03 2009 at 15:29

Queen By-Tor Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Reviewer page Special Collaborator Honorary Collaborator Joined: September 13 2006 Location: Xanadu Status: Offline Points: 16111	Posted: November 03 2009 at 15:48
	Sounds like you had a bad enough time in the 80s as it was

Dean Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Reviewer page Special Collaborator Retired Admin and Amateur Layabout Joined: May 13 2007 Location: Europe Status: Offline Points: 37575	Posted: November 03 2009 at 15:54
	Hey, I was young, free and single at University, I had a motorbike, money in my pocket and >600 albums already in my collection; Prog bands still toured and the live-scene was still vibrant, electronic music was in-vogue and if you knew about computers people thought you must be pretty smart/cool and you weren't called a nerd or a geek; a night on the town cost less than £10, no one laughed if you wore pixie boots and the only thing you needed to worry about concerning sex was was remembering to take your socks off first ... ... what's not to like.
	What?

CPicard Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Reviewer page Forum Senior Member Joined: October 03 2008 Location: Là, sui monti. Status: Offline Points: 10841	Posted: November 03 2009 at 16:00
	New Wave, Japanime, Iron Maiden, Reagan, the Lebanon War, the queues at Moscow, walk-men, aggressive commercials.

Epignosis Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Reviewer page Special Collaborator Honorary Collaborator Joined: December 30 2007 Location: Raeford, NC Status: Offline Points: 32530	Posted: November 03 2009 at 17:09
	As awful as they were for fashion and music and a few other things, the 1980s still has the trophy for my favorite decade... ...good cartoons, cereal with actual toys inside, the birth of home video games, action figures that were actually fun to play with, parents that didn't medicate you for being a kid, roller skating, country music (not as good as before, but not nearly as bad as later), professional wrestling was good campy fun and not PG-13 crap, film strips in school that sometimes malfunctioned and meant longer recess, Vanna White in her prime, Soul Train (which I never watched but for some reason is a fond memory), gasoline was under a dollar a gallon, and though I was too young to appreciate him then, Ronald Reagan.
	https://epignosis.bandcamp.com/album/a-month-of-sundays

TheCaptain Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Reviewer page Forum Senior Member Joined: January 04 2009 Location: Ohio, USA Status: Offline Points: 1335	Posted: November 03 2009 at 17:24
	Those last 5 months of the 80s were great. I probably did my fastest mental growing in that time.
	Curse your sudden but inevitable betrayal.

someone_else Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Reviewer page Forum Senior Member VIP Member Joined: May 02 2008 Location: Going Bananas Status: Offline Points: 24340	Posted: November 04 2009 at 06:12
	I don't miss the 80's at all...


Slartibartfast Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Reviewer page Collaborator Honorary Collaborator / In Memoriam Joined: April 29 2006 Location: Atlantais Status: Offline Points: 29630	Posted: November 04 2009 at 06:48
	The '80's are basically like any other decade I've lived through. The end of high school through my college years for me. Worked at a used bookstore, a brief stint in fast food, before moving on to jobs in my field. My first romance. The end of the LP era and the beginning of the CD era. Many classic prog acts went to sh*t, but there was still plenty of good music going on. Not sure that I'd want to relive that decade though. Once was sufficient.
	Released date are often when it it impacted you but recorded dates are when it really happened...

rushfan4 Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Reviewer page Special Collaborator Honorary Collaborator Joined: May 22 2007 Location: Michigan, U.S. Status: Offline Points: 66345	Posted: November 09 2009 at 09:02
	I can't complain. I grew up in the 80's. Ages 10 through 20. There wasn't much in the way of prog music, but I liked and still liked the music from that time. Iron Maiden, Metallica, Judas Priest, Rush, Yes, Ratt, Motley Crue, Twisted Sister, Def Leppard, etc... This is the music that I grew up on and still enjoy.