I missed the Eighties
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Topic: I missed the Eighties
Posted By: Luca Pacchiarini
Subject: I missed the Eighties
Date Posted: November 03 2009 at 15:29
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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.
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Posted By: Queen By-Tor
Date Posted: November 03 2009 at 15:48
Sounds like you had a bad enough time in the 80s as it was 
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Posted By: Dean
Date Posted: November 03 2009 at 15:54
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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? |
Posted By: CPicard
Date Posted: November 03 2009 at 16:00
| New Wave, Japanime, Iron Maiden, Reagan, the Lebanon War, the queues at Moscow, walk-men, aggressive commercials. |
Posted By: Epignosis
Date Posted: November 03 2009 at 17:09
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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" rel="nofollow - https://epignosis.bandcamp.com/album/a-month-of-sundays |
Posted By: TheCaptain
Date Posted: November 03 2009 at 17:24
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Those last 5 months of the 80s were great. I probably did my fastest mental growing in that time.
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Posted By: someone_else
Date Posted: November 04 2009 at 06:12
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I don't miss the 80's at all... ------------- 
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Posted By: Slartibartfast
Date Posted: November 04 2009 at 06:48
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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... 
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Posted By: rushfan4
Date Posted: November 09 2009 at 09:02
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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. ------------- 
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