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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!!!

OP posts:
ilovesooty · 26/12/2016 19:58

Perhaps if you're not happy with your life you could make some changes

Get a new job
Shop in different place
Develop a more positive mindset

elQuintoConyo · 26/12/2016 20:09

M80 are you in Spain Lweji ?

Love that channel Grin

I was 5-15yo in the 80s. So much fun.

downwardfacingdog · 26/12/2016 20:12

Yanbu to be frightened as you must have slipped into a parallel dimension. I don't see or hear all that much eighties stuff unless I'm hanging out with friends in their 40s, some 80s fashion, but also 90s and fashion is always cyclical. Christmas songs never really change as everyone enjoys the nostalgia, but there are some from most decades.

downwardfacingdog · 26/12/2016 20:15

Oh and I was born in Jan 1980 so am as old as any 80s baby can be and I'm still 36 for a couple more weeks so you are being VU to say it was 40yrs ago!

dingdongdigeridoo · 26/12/2016 20:17

You're going to hate the next year then. Lots of 80s fashions are coming back. We are heading for a big revival.

The80sweregreat · 26/12/2016 20:21

God no! 80s clothes were not great.

Namechangeemergency · 26/12/2016 20:21

donut OMG I LOVED jumble sales.
Car Boot Sales are just not the same.

Shenanagins · 26/12/2016 20:31

Rather than knock the 80's (and there is a lot to knock), look at what was really good.

People were engaged in politics in a way that just doesn't happen now - most people could name the people in key cabinet and shadow cabinet positions.

Fashion was hit and miss but being an individual was to be embraced rather than looked upon as being an oddity.

Music was hugely diverse as bands were allowed to cut their teeth on the circuit with less pressure to have a massive hit first time around.

Also look at the clothes female musicians were wearing in what was much more overtly misogynistic times, they were not flouncing around scantily clad in order to get media attention.

So maybe when we are remembering the 80's we are remembering a time that it was ok to be an individual in a now grey and bland world.

maggiethemagpie · 26/12/2016 20:32

YABU. They stopped making decent music and films in 89.

Lweji · 26/12/2016 20:36

God no! 80s clothes were not great.

True. But the music was.

Lweji · 26/12/2016 20:37

M80 are you in Spain Lweji

Next door. :)

LagunaBubbles · 26/12/2016 20:41

Nothing wrong with Simple Minds Scary clown, they are still a fantastic live band.

SnatchedPencil · 26/12/2016 20:41

Decades come back into fashion after about thirty years or so. We've had sixties revivals, seventies revivals, now it's eighties revivals. As with the other two, it's shit clothes, shit music and shit films. Thank God the 90s are due a revival in a few years, shit clothes still but some great music and great films.

I think it is down to 40-somethings having the money and cultural influence to try to recapture their youth. A golden, rose-tinted view of their youth.

Lorelei76 · 26/12/2016 20:51

I can't think of much good 90s music,for 80s, 00s, 10s, loads.

NoCapes · 26/12/2016 20:52

Lorelei hello?! The best group ever Spice Girls!?! Grin

Sparklingbrook · 26/12/2016 20:54

Um I think it's stretching it a bit to call the Spice Girls 'music'. Grin

NoCapes · 26/12/2016 21:02

Shock wash your mouth out sparkling!

amispartacus · 26/12/2016 21:12

I do wonder what music will be played in 20 years time. A lot of modern pop music just sounds the same Grin

It's not frightening though. Frightening is the politics of now.

Sparklingbrook · 26/12/2016 21:15

i can't remember a single 1D song now let alone in 30 year's time. I have no idea who my DC's generation will be sad about when they die.

sansoucitherednosedcariboo · 26/12/2016 21:24

Even my dc love 80s music. It was varied and exciting and good to dance to. Post-punk, alternative rock, New Romanticism, Cold Wave, New Wave, Ska and of course, pop. Hip-hop became more widespread, and rap began, as did house...

HarveySchlumpfenburger · 26/12/2016 21:25

I think I need a bit of help with my maths too. I've just tried to work out how long ago the 80s was. Totally unnecessarily since I was born in that decade. Blush

sansoucitherednosedcariboo · 26/12/2016 21:26

What's not to like about 80s music?

amispartacus · 26/12/2016 21:29

I do wonder what care homes will be like in 30 - 40 years time when the generation of the 80s end up in them? What nostalgic music will be played?

www.thedailymash.co.uk/news/society/teenager-buys-cd-of-wartime-songs-for-44-year-old-aunt-20161205118399

amispartacus · 26/12/2016 21:30

Let's not forget the 70s...

The Carpenters
Abba

Grilledaubergines · 26/12/2016 21:36

Growing up in the 80s was amazing. We don't have enough of the 80s in my book.

Bring on the findus crispy pancakes, shoulder pads, Dallas, Fame, spandau, Wham, Black Forest gateau, New Romantics, Lady Di haircuts.

Nothing now matches it.