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The eighties craze

Keith

Keith

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This eighties craze that's been a phenomenon for five to ten years now has made me feel left out of the nostalgia. I'm a post gen-X'er (born 1985) and don't remember all this eighties pop culture suddenly becoming all the rage again.
 
You don't have to have been born in the eighties to enjoy the fun things it produced. I'm younger than you are and I love movies and stuff from that time.
 
I'm a 1979 baby, and I'm an 80s fiend. There's something about the sheer decadence of that decade that appeals to me, in the sense that people did what they liked, as long as it didn't hurt anyone (or at least I hope so!). I grew up in a radio station pretty much, my Dad ran a classic hits station for 40 years, so I have a thing for most decades of musical hooha. Plus, cheesy 80s music and clothing is fun! I think the whole decade gets over-analysed as a 'me me me' thing. Not being 'in the moment' for the 80s is the same as missing the 60s, 70s or the 1880s. You don't have to like it, you can avoid it if you want, you just end up liking what you like, regardless of the decade or century in which it eventuated :)

As a side note, the 80s now being 'vintage' makes me feel very old LOL
 
1980 arrived four months before I turned 20...MTV was new and for the first time we actually got to see our performers at any time of the day as MTV offered a music video only format that ran 24 hours a day...you got to know your VJs like family and had small parts of music news sprinkled in to add some sparkles...the music was fun,the movies were cornball classics and the age of the 20s added the rest of the good times...

:hearteyes: I want My MTV...:hearteyes:
 
I loved the 80's before it was a craze :P lol All these people are posers who do what everyone else is doing ...

When I was nine years old, I got into a lot of the 80's rock music because my dad gave me a huge box full of old cassette tapes but it was my aunt who got me into the 80's music videos on VH1 Classic :D
 
GoofKing said:
All these people are posers who do what everyone else is doing.
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One could argue that styling oneself to be "a hipster," as it's called in today's slang, is itself the act of a poseur, because everyone's doing it.
 
A few things:

A video rental store near my grandparents' Incline Village, Nevada townhouse used to have episodes of Transformers and G.I. Joe.

We got an NES when I was five. I eventually got all three Mario games plus The Legend of Zelda and Tetris.

I loved Ninja Turtles as a kid.

I watched Heathcliff and Inspector Gadget on Nickelodeon.

I always wanted to watch Duckula and Danger Mouse, but my bus came right after the theme song.

A local video store had what must've been the entire Dink the Little Dinosaur series on VHS.
 
I think I technically had a childhood at the end of the eighties if you start the 90's somewhere at 94 or 95 :P

I mean it's not like on December 31st 1989 that pop cultured suddenly changed and everyone acted differently because it was the start of the 90's, I think it more transited into the culture people are always associated the 90's to be. There seems to periods of this change ...
 
Was born in 1987. Even though I lived the last three years of the decade, I love most everything about it. :) Especially the music, it's so much better than what is produced today.
 
Good 80s music: post punk music like Gang of Four album 'Entertainment! Okay, technically that album came out in late '79...
 
Keith said:
This eighties craze that's been a phenomenon for five to ten years now has made me feel left out of the nostalgia. I'm a post gen-X'er (born 1985) and don't remember all this eighties pop culture suddenly becoming all the rage again.
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I was a 7 to 17 in that time and you know back then there was aloof nostalgia for the 60s and even 50s in the 70s (Greece the musical, Happy days) I wasn't alive in 50s and 60s but love films music and fashion from that time.
 
I have an Alvin and the Chipmunks special on VHS where the Chipmunks perform different rock and pop songs representing the fifties to nineties. Host Fresh Prince even provides an "analysis" of the nineties.

There was a promotion on the same video in which you could get a free kids T-shirt with the purchase of two videos. The deadline was sometime in 1990.

So...you're talking about the nineties as if it were an entirely new culture when it's...1990?

A November of 1990 episode of Tiny Toon Adventures features Babs trying to get people to go see Bosko and Honey cartoons by handing out fliers. She is then advised by a mysterious voice to use television because "this is the nineties".

Incidentally, Y2K did feel entirely different from 1999. When the year 2000 started it was like a whole new era.
 
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