To Want To Go Back To 1983?

[GondolaQueen]

Just seen some video clips from the time that made me nostalgic.

Surely it’s not so far away that we can’t just reach out and grab it ?

I just started reading the Beastie Boys memoir. I definitely want to be in New York in 1981. Kids with boom boxes on every corner, having to actually go out and talk to people to communicate, the potential for betterment. It seemed a lot better than now to be honest. Of course they were looking back with nostalgia glasses, so the poverty, violence and drugs were mentioned less. But the energy and life force of the young was real.

I liked it, but I was older and in the full on push stage of my career.

I do! But first time around with cheesy discos, TOTP and my sister’s Smash Hits magazines (and stickers) and records was more fun.

Not to mention waiting for what was number one!

No thanks! 1983 was one of the worst years ever.

@SprigatitoYouAndIKnow , I was in NY then, and I worked (and played) full on and flat out. It was wonderful, and I learned so much, including how hard work feels. Which is great, stimulating, rewarding but exhausting.

Ahhh amazing! Now I just need a time machine and to be 20 years younger and I am good to go. Good to hear you loved it.

Which side of the wedding, before or after?

I was 15 and quite depressed, struggling socially and academically at at school, my dad was chronically ill and my mum working full time. I often had days off to be a carer for dad. My relationship with my mum was terrible, lots of heated arguments and cruel words.

I did love the music and TV programmes though.

My mum (bless her) was 38 in 1983 and looked 58. Everyone did. Mums had short perms, wore horrible clothes and didn’t work, or if they did it was a mum job.

Not all mums aged early, my mum looked younger, as did DGM, blessed with good genes, healthy diet ( DGM still cooked like wartime), but the clothes they wore look dated by our standards, as will ours in time. They were the norm for then. Not all kids wore fashionable clothes, hand me downs were normal. Clothes were in real terms more expensive and more would have been home made than now though.
DM and DGM both worked, though.
I had one or 2 items of fashion clothes but that was it.

It wasn’t so much the genes, it was the hairstyles and the fashion that was ageing.

I gained my professional qualification in 1983 so it was the year of the start of a whole new life for me. I met my (2nd) husband the year before and married in 1986 and my children were at that lovely age where they were interesting, fun, and discovering new things daily. They are adults now with children of their own but I do miss the days when they were small. For me, the 80s were a good decade.

I was in my 20s and having a great time. Earning enough to go clubbing non stop , hitting new clubs , great new bands , dressing up . New Romantics were such fun

That’s so interesting. I always think of the 80s as a very negative and depressed time, when people in the UK were generally miserable (not me personally, as I was born in 1978, but the country as a whole).

When I think of optimism I think of the 90s, esp mid to late 90s.

I wonder if it’s just about the age any particular person was at the given time?

Mmm maybe go back and buy the dress I now regret not buying but otherwise it was good, still married 41 years this month no regrets other than the dress

I was three, so no real memories, but my general remembrance of the 80s and early 90s is a lot of brown.

Everything - food, decor etc - was mostly quite brown.

I'd definitely like to relive the mid-late 90s, though, that was fun.

Me neither! I'm a 1985 baby 😬

The decade from 1988 - 1998 simply rocked

1983 - one of the worst years of my life!

mine is 2006 september when just beginning uni, thats when id like to go back too

although the cold war era is intriguing era

I was a bit too young to remember 1983 for anything beyond a weekly trip to the newsagents with my granny to get a tube of Smarties and Twinkle magazine.

If I could go anywhere it would be 1995, if only to hear some of the music for the first time again - the Massive Attack / Leftfield era was the start of something fresh for me. It was no coincidence that was the year I'd got a job and a brown Metro, so the world was my oyster.

I'd like to go back to about 1997. I was early 20's, had no responsibilities, cheap rent and was a size 8 😄

This is a great song about that nostalgia for the time when you were young & carefree
https://open.spotify.com/track/3dTehOwkyIxAVyF33ICF0O?si=SyWZLkBZT3aslIo9bMKx_w&context=spotify%3Aalbum%3A0NZiSZCcq7TkhaMYZjVKbG

I don't think we ARE desensitised to it. I think we brush it under the carpet and pretend it's not happening. Because the constant bombardment is too much to bear and makes the world feel like a terrifying place. So we're aware it's going on, but we don't like to think about it.

God yes. I'd go back like a shot. Life was more optimistic - there was genuine hope for the future. It feels as if the world is much more dangerous and volatile place now. We have lost such a lot of freedom, too, and so very much privacy.