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Original poster

To find the persistent 80s really frightening

126 replies

scaryclown · 26/12/2016 17:36

Its frightening me how stuck our world is in the 80s.. its 40 years ago!. . ie its like in the 80s all commercial radio, tv , shops all being 1940s war songs.. but in the 80s it was mostly 80s music too! ...

AIBU to think that loads of the country are like psycholohically stuck in a scary mental time-fix??? even the christmas songs are the same!!!

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KayTee87 · 26/12/2016 18:46

I was born in 87 and am only 29 thank you very much! So on that point alone yabu.

LiviaDrusillaAugusta · 26/12/2016 18:46

And like several pps have said - every era goes through the nostalgia cycle and it just so happens to be the turn of the 80s.

As for Christmas music, the most popular tracks are from the 70s.

BillSykesDog · 26/12/2016 18:48

My DH is always moaning that modern music is just rip offs of 80s stuff. Just like my Dad used to complain it was all ripping off 1960s stuff a couple of decades ago.

Madonna had a whole 50s phase in the 80s with True Blue etc didn't she?

Lweji · 26/12/2016 18:48

every era goes through the nostalgia cycle and it just so happens to be the turn of the 80s

Yes, I blame the parents, really.

noeffingidea · 26/12/2016 18:48

Agree with frostywind. The 70's were so much better. The 80's were a bit naff really.
It all depends on when you were a teenager, really. Apparently most people's musical tastes are fixed by the age of 17, and thats what you notice. It's just confirmation bias.

BillSykesDog · 26/12/2016 18:50

Sorry, the fact there are people born in the 80s who are still in their 20s has made me feel unfeasibly young and happy.

Aftertheraincomesthesun · 26/12/2016 18:50

70isalimitnotatarget - Thank you for referencing the Associates. Good work!

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scaryclown · 26/12/2016 18:53

The fact That the world is going to shit, we have a celebrity for a us president, a right wing female prime minister and a desperate need for poverty and bleakness to become fashionable again to protect us from plummeting self esteem from having barely enough money to live on...is hardly an argumemt against feeling stuck in an 80s scary timewarp!

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NoCapes · 26/12/2016 18:54

Erm I was born in the 80's and I'm 27!
40 years ago?!

Also - where the fuck do you live?? Never heard 80's music in clubs unless they're actually themed clubs and never heard it in the shops Confused
You just need to go to better places tbh

Newbrummie · 26/12/2016 18:57

Just typed 80's into
YouTube and Rita, Sue and Bob too popped up Confused
That can pop right back into its box
I think the 90's were far far superior

DonutParade · 26/12/2016 18:57

namechange yup. Not just charity shops but proper old jumble sales.

The80sweregreat · 26/12/2016 18:58

Billsykesdog, me too! Im 51 and its refreshing they were born in 'my era' and still young! Still hope for me..
My ds's are 90s born and know a lot of 70/80 artists and actually like them.
Not heard any 1940s music in shops though..?

KayTee87 · 26/12/2016 19:02

billsykes glad I could be of service Grin

Flingmoo · 26/12/2016 19:04

Actually YANBU although it's boring rather than frightening. I'm 27 and literally my whole life has been full of 80s nostalgia. When I was a kid in the 90s my parents would listen to 80s music. And the radio stations would play 80s music. Now decades later it's 2016 and the crappy local radio stations are still playing mainly 80s stuff although they're starting to branch out into shit 90s and early 00s stuff.

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scaryclown · 26/12/2016 19:05

How can people born in the 70s be nearly 50 and 80s kids be around 20??? its not right!

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NoCapes · 26/12/2016 19:06

GMamushka but they're not? Confused
What radio stations are you people listening to?

KayTee87 · 26/12/2016 19:06

scary I think you need a bit of help with your maths Grin

Lweji · 26/12/2016 19:07

1989 - 27 years old
1970 - 46 years old - could be 47 in January.

helensburgh · 26/12/2016 19:08

Because things go round in cycles.

We are back in that sort of thing again

I hated he 80s. No central heating. 3 channels.on telly..rubbish food.

The80sweregreat · 26/12/2016 19:08

Another ten years and everyone will go mad for the 00s ..not that i know any of those groups/ singers? Mystery to me.
Black box on the other hand, know all the lyrics..

Lweji · 26/12/2016 19:11

Where I live there's actually a radio that specifically plays 80's music. M80. It plays 70s and 90s too. Many people with cars listen to it. :)

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scaryclown · 26/12/2016 19:22

hangon..maybe i shouldn't have got rid of my telly. A d i have no CH...hmm

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Str4ngedaysindeed · 26/12/2016 19:46

I got very sad the other day when a Gary Numan song was described as an 'oldie'. I was 16 in 1980 and did all my growing up, leaving home independent type stuff in the 1980's and had my first DC in 1990. I loved the decade 😞

LiviaDrusillaAugusta · 26/12/2016 19:48

My point OP is to wonder why you find it 'scary'. You might not like 80s things but to call it scary is slightly concerning. Are you okay?

INeedSomeHelp · 26/12/2016 19:55

There are some maths issues going on here. I was born in 1969 and I'm 47 so I'm not sure how people born in the 1970s can be in their fifties?!
I love the 80s (having been 16 in 1985) but I don't recognise anything the OP has said. I do listen to 80s music sometimes but only if I purposely choose a particular radio station. I don't hear much of it on the normal commercial radio station I usually listen to.