DJs deliberately talked during the opening parts of a song because they knew that people would record songs off the radio. By talking over the first bits, they were protecting the copyrights of the songs. That way if you wanted a clean recording, you’d have to actually buy the record. But I remember certain stations would play an entire album once a week without commercial breaks specifically so we could record it. That was great.
Born 1968, everything you said is what i remember, fist fights no big deal it was a way to communicate. Cooking when you get home even making meatloafs, burgers, chicken all before my mom get home. My mom was the best parent an even my dad admits she was good, she once sewed a needle into her finger came and took me to baseball practice me and my brother was like mom lets go get the needle removed later when dad got home he pulls it out of her middle finger. My mom was a great mom. You just bringing back memorys thanks.
Being in my 50s now and looking back, my dad was the same way, and had a list of chores for when I got home from school, but after the millennials started working with me,while I hated it as a kid, I’m glad he pushed me with the chores, and I wasn’t aloud to sleep in past 7 on the weekends, the entire morning was for chores, and the slower I was, the less time I had to play with my friends, so no screwing around, get it done, and get it done right. The Brillo pad was another thing I had to use on the white walls 😂
Great subject WHAT DID I HATE ABOUT the 80’s ,ok here’s my 1 bugaboo about the 80’s “HAIR PERMS” in the very early 80’s it was a thing for guys to perm their hair yup it was. So I got one WORST MISTAKE I EVER MADE at the age of 16 ,shortly after my hair rapidly started to fall out it was so embarrassing going to school the next few yrs was tuff. This is all true no BS by the time I was getting my Senior pics taken the photographer told me we’re not doing Teachers photos yet I had to tell him I was a student. But the one positive thing I was able to purchase alcohol 🍺 at the age 18 and not get carded.
Shoulder pads - I had a job where I had to dress 'nice'. I hated the shoulder pads too, and you couldn't buy anything without them. I used to remove them, then the shoulders would fit funny. Worst was Princess Diana's wedding dress with those huge, puffy upper sleeves. For a while, ALL blouses were made with those stupid sleeves. We didn't like them, we had no choice.
The thing I hated about the 1980s was the hatred for the 1970s decade. I was born in 1975 so I really didn’t have to deal with inflation or malaise as an adult, but I never got the whole disco sucks movement. I guess I had to be a few years older to understand. I thought the music in the 1970s whether rock or disco was better than in the 1980s.
You missed the best of the 70s. So much more than disco. Disco was a fad for 3 years. Let me suggest a few 70s items for you: Pink Floyd - Dark Side of the Moon (1973) whole album Al Stewart - The Year of the Cat (1978) Ace - How Long (1974) Foghat - Fool For the City (1975) Carole King - It’s Too Late (1971) Todd Rundgren - Hello It’s Me (1971) Eagles - New Kid In Town (1977) Enjoy!
@@audionmusic2787 Thanks for the list. The songs you listed by the Eagles and Al Stewart have always been favorites of mine. I really also like ELO. They are my all time favorite group. Steely Dan , Boston, Earth Wind & Fire, and Styx were also great. Too many great songs to really list. In the 1980s most of what I listened to was music from the 1970s. There were still great vocalists in the 1980s like Phil Collins and Whitney Houston, but something was lost when the synthesizers came in. I liked the orchestral sounds of pre 1980 disco. Instrumentation is important to me. My favorite groups from the 1980s are probably Van Halen and Bon Jovi though.
The Day After, which was a mid 80's made-for-TV movie, really shoveled the fear of a nuclear war. Yeah, 80's movie fashion was not reality. Calling radio stations was a thing because I liked the music! Top loading VCR was high-tech. Having an after-school job was not expected, but I enjoyed the money. Having your own vehicle in high school made you cooler. I had a Yamaha street motorcycle, and no one expected me to roll in to school on that. Fun times!
Depends on the movie. Obviously a teenage comedy or an adult centric drama is going to look more like reality in the here and now than a sci-fi movie or children’s fantasy movie. But even in the 80s, there were still independent alternatives to mainstream Hollywood movies, and home video made it easier to see them if you didn’t live where they actually played in theaters. Those movies will be more likely to reflect the way people actually dressed back then.
Growing up "operation essential" never stopped, you'd hear them coming in 24/7. If the weather was nice we would run out to watch 'em. Four triangles, that be a BUFF... almost all were BUFFs locked and loaded. We loved them! (Bonus if you understood that!) Surrounded by WII pilots, mostly retired or of high rank, and industry folks... well, us locals were not very worried. Especially after they examined the Defected Mig 25 Foxbat (1976. (Wright Pat). Bonus: Hurricanes, everything you can imagine, from all branches would fly in (I'm sure they still do to the day). A Harrier went down right next to the I675 freeway in a field in the 90's. They were there, avoiding a Storm. In the '90's I pulled over on a clover leaf ramp (Rt4) to watch a B2 bank onto final. Silent and slow, all her stuff hanging out, magnificent. The OSP who pulled in behind me, I hadn't noticed (looking up on a freeway), he stopped to look too. An "F'ing A right Bubba" was shared. Nope we knew are stuff was so much better. Yup, the gym pants sucked, on boys, that is. That couch smelled of Winstons and Kools, hid stains and burns too boot, Hideous.
🤔...Are you ready my memoirs?! LOL I remember the B-52 bombers circling our town. As for "Red Dawn?' The original with Patrick Swayze, Charlie Sheen, etc. The best. By the way. I had that same shirt!!! LMAO 😂😅😂 Also. Wiring the line out of the radio to the microphone to that tape recorder didn't work that great. Lol
Cold War stuff - Dude, I'm a boomer, born in the 50s. I grew up with that Sword of Damocles hanging over our heads. This isn't new with the 80s, it just continued on from whenever it started before I was born. I remember us watching Kennedy's address to the nation bout the Soviet missiles stationed in Cuba. Terrified everyone. I don't remember a lot of movies and tv shows about that, but it was ever-present. Even drills at school, preparing for a nuclear attack. Interestingly enough, I have Russian friends who are not much younger than me who remember those times. THEY were terrified that WE were going to attack THEM.
Eighties arcades were great. VHS tapes hardly ever failed to play - unlike an easily scratched DVD disc. 80's music was so much more diverse and interesting than the crap being put out now. Star Wars was still cool. The movies were more epic. Soda Pop was made with actual sugar rather than corn syrup (and it tasted much better for it). Pizza Hut made incredible pizzas (not the budget stuff they make now). Some of the 80's clothes were really cool - and some were more like "WTF were we thinking!?!
One thing I didn’t like about the 80s was that we only had one TV in the house and my parents dictated what we would watch the vast majority of the time. So if I didn’t like the show that my parents were watching, I had to go do something else until something I wanted to see came on. Also, my dad was a Baptist preacher and a firm believer in the “Satanic panic” that was condemning most children’s programming as subversive. So lots of stuff was banned from our house and we weren’t allowed to watch it or even show any interest in it. Mainly stuff like He-Man and D&D. In fact Star Wars was banned in our house until 1984, when it came on TV and my parents got to watch it and see that it was just a wholesome, fun adventure story.
Lmao @ trying to record a track while the DJ yapped on. That was so annoying. If I was lucky to record without chatter that was a success and I'd trade tracks with friends.
Things i hated about the 80s.. The intolerance even among peers. Stupidity was lauded, and bullying was the norm. Having to spend 20 dollars on a cd you only knew 2 songs on. The cool music was hard to find and i mean that literally. Same with great books and adult materials. I can remember driving 70 mins to rent adult and cult films. Oh yeah and infomercials being the death of late nite tv. Boom boxes that were plastic and whose handles would snap if they got too cold. The satanic panic and the pmrc. AIDS of course. Being inundated with led zeps 4th album but also freestyle. Upstate ny kids affecting brooklyn accents and treating city kids like foreign exchange students.
Ha ha, I love it 😅! Gym shorts sucked a**. Shoulder pads originally had a point to promote equality in the workplace but became a tacky fashion trend 😅. Ugh, DJ Douchebag got us all at some point 😢. I remember how they always had to feature breaking news from Russia during the current events and homeroom. I can't really remember them going over much else except for the weather. And don't get me started on the AIDS epidemic. The positive was they raised awareness to help prevent the spread of it. The negative was it made people become snooty, judgmental, and suspicious of others. At its worst, it disparaged a whole sexual orientation by targeting gay men. Even though infections are more likely to spread certain ways more than others, AIDS does not discriminate and we shouldn't have either. It made those that had it look dirty, and that wasn't usually the case. They talked about HIV and AIDS together, but failed to mention that AIDS really pertains to a low white blood or T-cell number. I learned a lot from knowing someone that had it and survived, but back in the 80s, it was seen as more of a death sentence supposedly because of the cost and availability of treatment. One thing you forgot was those bad after school specials we all hated to love. The 90s adult versions of those for women was Lifetime... still is (guilty pleasures 😅).
To me the after school specials were comedy gold. Who can forget John Travolta before he was sweat hog as the boy in the plastic bubble? There was a wild one about a teen wetting his bed and his mom hanging out his pissed on bed sheets, and he had to run home to take them down before his school buddies saw it. The ending was he runs away and falls asleep at matress store that was closed, and he didn't piss the mattresses in the store. Good job son. Who wrote this delusional drival ???
Those gym shorts didn't leave much to the imagination for sure. But, your nuts fell out? You know to wear underwear with them right? I'm scratching my head on that one honestly. I was born in '69. I remember all of these things and agree with you an several of these. I loved the tech though. The Apple IIc was great, after you learned to write code for it. I grew up across the river from Portland, OR. Which was very different from the post apocalyptic wasteland it is now. So, I did see a lot if the movie style fashions on the street. I thought it was dumb then as I do now. My highschool girlfriend (now my wife of 34 years) has a brother 4 years older than me. He's blonde. He kept his hair shoulder length with the tips dyed aqua blue. He'd spend over an hour in the bathroom with a crimping iron and a can of hairspray every Friday night. He'd come out with crimped hair sticking straight out like a dome. Chunky rings on every finger, several earrings in each ear and a nose stud. A bright pink polo with the collar popped and leather pants and a fingerless glove on one hand. Used to crack me up so bad. He was 5'11 and weighed about 150 lbs at the time. 😂😂😂
Hmm, I lucked out and wasn't required to wear the shorts. Did you not wear underwears under 'em? I also 'missed' the whole upchuck-cheese's thing. I'm not sure I've ever been in one. Hmm, maybe once, but just briefly. Or was that on a TV show? I forget. I wasn't annoyed by the cold war messaging, so much as I was annoyed that human put themselves into this existential situation. AIDS, yeah, it was a pretty big deal. I wasn't directly affected by it until about 1990. Shoulder Pads!! OMFG Hey, now, don't go knocking crimped hair!! Movie clothing styles, yeah...Often pretty lame! '69 Mustang! *CLASSIC*!!! I just saw one the other day, midnight blue, looked in great condition. So nice to see! Boxy cars, lame! And the style lasted so long! ugh! Tape recorders! Radio DJs that talk over the song should be SMACKED!!! And speaking of '80s tech, remember how some of the first home computers used tape recorders to record programs onto? It works sooooo badly! Basically useless! "Just say no" - If you want rebellious people to *DO* something, tell 'em they shouldn't do it! _Brilliant_ move. TV Remotes? Hmm...I think after about '82 every tv/cable/vhs we had came with a remote. Chores, must just be a family thing. I didn't have chores until I was in my late teens. Well, maybe I did, but they were never enforced. I love the shirt! :)
I had a female teacher in the late 80ies with shoulder pads. But the other female teachers had more "normal" clothes but with more textile than today. Today the material seems to be more expensive so the factories put in less textiles. Understand what I mean?
Indeed, the fashion in the movies, esp. the cheap TV productions was different to the clothing in real life. In my country the 80ies hairstyles are namend vokuhila btw. That means vorn kurz hinten lang. Short ahead and long at the rear. But when that was too strong.... that person would be seen as a b o g a n. When I see people with moustache I say "He is stuck in the 80ies".
The 80s were too cool from 1980 - 82. From 83 onward it was a shit show. Music and fashion were the worst in the rock era, although looking back now, all that 80s synth pop and rubbish hair metal sounds like a golden age compared to the talentless trash of the last 20 years. Movies and TV were hit and miss, although the great stuff was truly great. Comedy was brilliant too. Eddie Murphy was the king and Cheers is still the funniest sitcom of all time. Musically, the 80s became relevant again in 88 and 89 with the Manchester and Seattle scenes beginning to pop. But yeah, there was lots to hate between 83 and 87.
80’s music sucked! The 60’s 70’s had lots of great music then the 90’s and early 2000’s had some really good music but since about 2010 even before music was crap too
DJs deliberately talked during the opening parts of a song because they knew that people would record songs off the radio. By talking over the first bits, they were protecting the copyrights of the songs. That way if you wanted a clean recording, you’d have to actually buy the record. But I remember certain stations would play an entire album once a week without commercial breaks specifically so we could record it. That was great.
Born 1968, everything you said is what i remember, fist fights no big deal it was a way to communicate. Cooking when you get home even making meatloafs, burgers, chicken all before my mom get home. My mom was the best parent an even my dad admits she was good, she once sewed a needle into her finger came and took me to baseball practice me and my brother was like mom lets go get the needle removed later when dad got home he pulls it out of her middle finger. My mom was a great mom. You just bringing back memorys thanks.
Being in my 50s now and looking back, my dad was the same way, and had a list of chores for when I got home from school, but after the millennials started working with me,while I hated it as a kid, I’m glad he pushed me with the chores, and I wasn’t aloud to sleep in past 7 on the weekends, the entire morning was for chores, and the slower I was, the less time I had to play with my friends, so no screwing around, get it done, and get it done right. The Brillo pad was another thing I had to use on the white walls 😂
Great subject WHAT DID I HATE ABOUT the 80’s ,ok here’s my 1 bugaboo about the 80’s “HAIR PERMS” in the very early 80’s it was a thing for guys to perm their hair yup it was. So I got one WORST MISTAKE I EVER MADE at the age of 16 ,shortly after my hair rapidly started to fall out it was so embarrassing going to school the next few yrs was tuff. This is all true no BS by the time I was getting my Senior pics taken the photographer told me we’re not doing Teachers photos yet I had to tell him I was a student. But the one positive thing I was able to purchase alcohol 🍺 at the age 18 and not get carded.
Shoulder pads - I had a job where I had to dress 'nice'. I hated the shoulder pads too, and you couldn't buy anything without them. I used to remove them, then the shoulders would fit funny. Worst was Princess Diana's wedding dress with those huge, puffy upper sleeves. For a while, ALL blouses were made with those stupid sleeves. We didn't like them, we had no choice.
The thing I hated about the 1980s was the hatred for the 1970s decade. I was born in 1975 so I really didn’t have to deal with inflation or malaise as an adult, but I never got the whole disco sucks movement. I guess I had to be a few years older to understand. I thought the music in the 1970s whether rock or disco was better than in the 1980s.
You missed the best of the 70s. So much more than disco. Disco was a fad for 3 years. Let me suggest a few 70s items for you:
Pink Floyd - Dark Side of the Moon (1973) whole album
Al Stewart - The Year of the Cat (1978)
Ace - How Long (1974)
Foghat - Fool For the City (1975)
Carole King - It’s Too Late (1971)
Todd Rundgren - Hello It’s Me (1971)
Eagles - New Kid In Town (1977)
Enjoy!
@@audionmusic2787 Thanks for the list. The songs you listed by the Eagles and Al Stewart have always been favorites of mine. I really also like ELO. They are my all time favorite group. Steely Dan , Boston, Earth Wind & Fire, and Styx were also great. Too many great songs to really list. In the 1980s most of what I listened to was music from the 1970s. There were still great vocalists in the 1980s like Phil Collins and Whitney Houston, but something was lost when the synthesizers came in. I liked the orchestral sounds of pre 1980 disco. Instrumentation is important to me. My favorite groups from the 1980s are probably Van Halen and Bon Jovi though.
The Day After, which was a mid 80's made-for-TV movie, really shoveled the fear of a nuclear war. Yeah, 80's movie fashion was not reality. Calling radio stations was a thing because I liked the music! Top loading VCR was high-tech. Having an after-school job was not expected, but I enjoyed the money. Having your own vehicle in high school made you cooler. I had a Yamaha street motorcycle, and no one expected me to roll in to school on that. Fun times!
😅😅😅
Depends on the movie. Obviously a teenage comedy or an adult centric drama is going to look more like reality in the here and now than a sci-fi movie or children’s fantasy movie. But even in the 80s, there were still independent alternatives to mainstream Hollywood movies, and home video made it easier to see them if you didn’t live where they actually played in theaters. Those movies will be more likely to reflect the way people actually dressed back then.
Those were the best couches to make forts
Growing up "operation essential" never stopped, you'd hear them coming in 24/7. If the weather was nice we would run out to watch 'em. Four triangles, that be a BUFF... almost all were BUFFs locked and loaded. We loved them! (Bonus if you understood that!)
Surrounded by WII pilots, mostly retired or of high rank, and industry folks... well, us locals were not very worried. Especially after they examined the Defected Mig 25 Foxbat (1976. (Wright Pat).
Bonus: Hurricanes, everything you can imagine, from all branches would fly in (I'm sure they still do to the day). A Harrier went down right next to the I675 freeway in a field in the 90's. They were there, avoiding a Storm.
In the '90's I pulled over on a clover leaf ramp (Rt4) to watch a B2 bank onto final. Silent and slow, all her stuff hanging out, magnificent. The OSP who pulled in behind me, I hadn't noticed (looking up on a freeway), he stopped to look too. An "F'ing A right Bubba" was shared. Nope we knew are stuff was so much better.
Yup, the gym pants sucked, on boys, that is.
That couch smelled of Winstons and Kools, hid stains and burns too boot, Hideous.
I was going to say how much I hated shoulder pads as a girl in in the 80's. They looked so bad. I used to cut them out of the shirts, jackets, etc
I turned 21 in 1985. I can say, in spite of Reagan trying to start WW3 and other stuff, that decade was a blast.
🤔...Are you ready my memoirs?! LOL I remember the B-52 bombers circling our town. As for "Red Dawn?' The original with Patrick Swayze, Charlie Sheen, etc. The best. By the way. I had that same shirt!!! LMAO 😂😅😂 Also. Wiring the line out of the radio to the microphone to that tape recorder didn't work that great. Lol
Cold War stuff - Dude, I'm a boomer, born in the 50s. I grew up with that Sword of Damocles hanging over our heads. This isn't new with the 80s, it just continued on from whenever it started before I was born. I remember us watching Kennedy's address to the nation bout the Soviet missiles stationed in Cuba. Terrified everyone. I don't remember a lot of movies and tv shows about that, but it was ever-present. Even drills at school, preparing for a nuclear attack. Interestingly enough, I have Russian friends who are not much younger than me who remember those times. THEY were terrified that WE were going to attack THEM.
I recomment the movie One Two Three from 1961.
@@Hoellenreiter80 Hadn't heard of that one, will check it out. THANKS!
@@SpookMrsSpooky James Cagney..... Billy Wilder.....
@@Hoellenreiter80 Yeah looked it up. It's definitely on my list of must watch!
In Europe the Ford Fiesta was affordable.... it looked ridiculus.
Eighties arcades were great. VHS tapes hardly ever failed to play - unlike an easily scratched DVD disc. 80's music was so much more diverse and interesting than the crap being put out now. Star Wars was still cool. The movies were more epic. Soda Pop was made with actual sugar rather than corn syrup (and it tasted much better for it). Pizza Hut made incredible pizzas (not the budget stuff they make now). Some of the 80's clothes were really cool - and some were more like "WTF were we thinking!?!
Ford mustang L. 4 cyl. Owned it. Got the t-shirt...t-shirt was worth more than the car.
One thing I didn’t like about the 80s was that we only had one TV in the house and my parents dictated what we would watch the vast majority of the time. So if I didn’t like the show that my parents were watching, I had to go do something else until something I wanted to see came on.
Also, my dad was a Baptist preacher and a firm believer in the “Satanic panic” that was condemning most children’s programming as subversive. So lots of stuff was banned from our house and we weren’t allowed to watch it or even show any interest in it. Mainly stuff like He-Man and D&D. In fact Star Wars was banned in our house until 1984, when it came on TV and my parents got to watch it and see that it was just a wholesome, fun adventure story.
Until about 1992 we did not have cable TV. That meants we had about 5 channels in the 80ies and about 20 in the 90ies.
11:31 yup!
"i remember how somber school was the day after we watched the tv movie "The Day After".
I forgot about that...
Disco, Disco Duck-Disco, Disco Duck - I couldn" t get away from that Rick Dees and his cast of idiots 😮😢😢
remember the day after red dawn great movie
We had that exact same couch! My parents moved the damn thing clear across the country instead of getting a new couch!😂
Lmao @ trying to record a track while the DJ yapped on. That was so annoying. If I was lucky to record without chatter that was a success and I'd trade tracks with friends.
Things i hated about the 80s..
The intolerance even among peers. Stupidity was lauded, and bullying was the norm.
Having to spend 20 dollars on a cd you only knew 2 songs on.
The cool music was hard to find and i mean that literally. Same with great books and adult materials. I can remember driving 70 mins to rent adult and cult films. Oh yeah and infomercials being the death of late nite tv. Boom boxes that were plastic and whose handles would snap if they got too cold. The satanic panic and the pmrc. AIDS of course. Being inundated with led zeps 4th album but also freestyle. Upstate ny kids affecting brooklyn accents and treating city kids like foreign exchange students.
Apple 2.. 2 big, 2 expensive, 2 slow, 2 limited in software....somethings never change
Switching from lps to cds
Ha ha, I love it 😅! Gym shorts sucked a**. Shoulder pads originally had a point to promote equality in the workplace but became a tacky fashion trend 😅. Ugh, DJ Douchebag got us all at some point 😢. I remember how they always had to feature breaking news from Russia during the current events and homeroom. I can't really remember them going over much else except for the weather. And don't get me started on the AIDS epidemic. The positive was they raised awareness to help prevent the spread of it. The negative was it made people become snooty, judgmental, and suspicious of others. At its worst, it disparaged a whole sexual orientation by targeting gay men. Even though infections are more likely to spread certain ways more than others, AIDS does not discriminate and we shouldn't have either. It made those that had it look dirty, and that wasn't usually the case. They talked about HIV and AIDS together, but failed to mention that AIDS really pertains to a low white blood or T-cell number. I learned a lot from knowing someone that had it and survived, but back in the 80s, it was seen as more of a death sentence supposedly because of the cost and availability of treatment.
One thing you forgot was those bad after school specials we all hated to love. The 90s adult versions of those for women was Lifetime... still is (guilty pleasures 😅).
To me the after school specials were comedy gold. Who can forget John Travolta before he was sweat hog as the boy in the plastic bubble? There was a wild one about a teen wetting his bed and his mom hanging out his pissed on bed sheets, and he had to run home to take them down before his school buddies saw it. The ending was he runs away and falls asleep at matress store that was closed, and he didn't piss the mattresses in the store. Good job son. Who wrote this delusional drival ???
@@captlazer5509 OK, now I'm tempted to find some of these movies. And no, I did not know that John Travolta played a boy in a bubble!
@jlynngambler The Loneliest Runner 1976. Has the dad from Family Affair. It's on YT, enjoy the absurdity!
@@captlazer5509 Ha ha, I'm gonna watch some of these on my day off!
I always hated the "Very Special Episodes" that 80's sit coms did. I'm still traumatized by Dudley being diddled by the boss from WKRP. :)
Yeah, I’m sorry it wasn’t Gary Sandy, too.
Those gym shorts didn't leave much to the imagination for sure. But, your nuts fell out? You know to wear underwear with them right? I'm scratching my head on that one honestly.
I was born in '69. I remember all of these things and agree with you an several of these. I loved the tech though. The Apple IIc was great, after you learned to write code for it.
I grew up across the river from Portland, OR. Which was very different from the post apocalyptic wasteland it is now. So, I did see a lot if the movie style fashions on the street. I thought it was dumb then as I do now.
My highschool girlfriend (now my wife of 34 years) has a brother 4 years older than me. He's blonde. He kept his hair shoulder length with the tips dyed aqua blue. He'd spend over an hour in the bathroom with a crimping iron and a can of hairspray every Friday night. He'd come out with crimped hair sticking straight out like a dome. Chunky rings on every finger, several earrings in each ear and a nose stud. A bright pink polo with the collar popped and leather pants and a fingerless glove on one hand. Used to crack me up so bad. He was 5'11 and weighed about 150 lbs at the time. 😂😂😂
We wore boxers back then, not the greatest support.
I hear you snowball..😅
Hmm, I lucked out and wasn't required to wear the shorts. Did you not wear underwears under 'em?
I also 'missed' the whole upchuck-cheese's thing. I'm not sure I've ever been in one. Hmm, maybe once, but just briefly. Or was that on a TV show? I forget.
I wasn't annoyed by the cold war messaging, so much as I was annoyed that human put themselves into this existential situation.
AIDS, yeah, it was a pretty big deal. I wasn't directly affected by it until about 1990.
Shoulder Pads!! OMFG Hey, now, don't go knocking crimped hair!!
Movie clothing styles, yeah...Often pretty lame!
'69 Mustang! *CLASSIC*!!! I just saw one the other day, midnight blue, looked in great condition. So nice to see! Boxy cars, lame! And the style lasted so long! ugh!
Tape recorders! Radio DJs that talk over the song should be SMACKED!!! And speaking of '80s tech, remember how some of the first home computers used tape recorders to record programs onto? It works sooooo badly! Basically useless!
"Just say no" - If you want rebellious people to *DO* something, tell 'em they shouldn't do it! _Brilliant_ move.
TV Remotes? Hmm...I think after about '82 every tv/cable/vhs we had came with a remote.
Chores, must just be a family thing. I didn't have chores until I was in my late teens. Well, maybe I did, but they were never enforced.
I love the shirt! :)
I never saw any girls or women with the giant shoulder pads. I think they were spending all their money on hair spray.
Oh yeah ... I forgot about the hair spray. Lol
I had a female teacher in the late 80ies with shoulder pads. But the other female teachers had more "normal" clothes but with more textile than today. Today the material seems to be more expensive so the factories put in less textiles. Understand what I mean?
Power suites were a form of birth control.
Indeed, the fashion in the movies, esp. the cheap TV productions was different to the clothing in real life.
In my country the 80ies hairstyles are namend vokuhila btw.
That means vorn kurz hinten lang. Short ahead and long at the rear.
But when that was too strong.... that person would be seen as a b o g a n.
When I see people with moustache I say "He is stuck in the 80ies".
Well, I have a moustache. But I am also kind of stuck in the 80's I guess. Lol
100%
The 80s were too cool from 1980 - 82. From 83 onward it was a shit show. Music and fashion were the worst in the rock era, although looking back now, all that 80s synth pop and rubbish hair metal sounds like a golden age compared to the talentless trash of the last 20 years.
Movies and TV were hit and miss, although the great stuff was truly great. Comedy was brilliant too. Eddie Murphy was the king and Cheers is still the funniest sitcom of all time.
Musically, the 80s became relevant again in 88 and 89 with the Manchester and Seattle scenes beginning to pop. But yeah, there was lots to hate between 83 and 87.
80’s music sucked! The 60’s 70’s had lots of great music then the 90’s and early 2000’s had some really good music but since about 2010 even before music was crap too
I like the 80's cars. The Mustang Mach-E isn't a Mustang.