Xela Posted November 23, 2019 Share Posted November 23, 2019 80's is so broad though as early 80's has no resemblance to late 80's whatsoever. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Seat68 Posted November 23, 2019 Share Posted November 23, 2019 But still maintains its awfulness throughout. 2 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
theboyangel Posted November 23, 2019 Share Posted November 23, 2019 I was born in the 70s so most my childhood was in the 80s and I can’t stand the ‘chart’ music from that era (along with the fashion) but do believe there is some gold amongst the muck! much prefer the 90s along with the 60s, 70s. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chrisp65 Posted November 23, 2019 Share Posted November 23, 2019 80’s music is whatever you want it to be. Yes there was a lot of shite over produced big haired Americana, but that’s awful whatever the date. If you like Dexys and Blondie, Beastie Boys, House and Techno, it was a fine time. From sweaty clubs listening to stomping soul to jumping up n down in a field it was perfectly good fun. Top of the Pops may well have been shit, but that’s your fault if that’s where you’re at. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mjmooney Posted November 23, 2019 VT Supporter Share Posted November 23, 2019 6 minutes ago, chrisp65 said: If you like Dexys and Blondie, Beastie Boys, House and Techno, it was a fine time. There's my problem. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Seat68 Posted November 23, 2019 Share Posted November 23, 2019 27 minutes ago, chrisp65 said: 80’s music is whatever you want it to be. Yes there was a lot of shite over produced big haired Americana, but that’s awful whatever the date. If you like Dexys and Blondie, Beastie Boys, House and Techno, it was a fine time. From sweaty clubs listening to stomping soul to jumping up n down in a field it was perfectly good fun. Top of the Pops may well have been shit, but that’s your fault if that’s where you’re at. I have a lot of good and bad memories of the 80s. The bad outnumber the good. I prefer to focus on now not like friends who seem obsessed about going to see the a quarter of Johnny Hates Jazz in a field in Cheshire. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ferguson1 Posted November 23, 2019 Share Posted November 23, 2019 20 hours ago, A'Villan said: My birth mark. Just had to be on my willy, didn't it? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chrisp65 Posted November 23, 2019 Share Posted November 23, 2019 1 minute ago, Seat68 said: I have a lot of good and bad memories of the 80s. The bad outnumber the good. I prefer to focus on now not like friends who seem obsessed about going to see the a quarter of Johnny Hates Jazz in a field in Cheshire. Yes, that about sums it up. As much as I enjoyed chunks of it (if you can’t enjoy your teens and twenties there’s no hope), I have no interest in going to see ‘From the Jam’ or two blokes from Run DMC etc.. By the same token, I’ve found an old Dexys CD today and there really are some excellent tracks in amongst the stinkers. Plus some excellent New Order stuff has had a spin today. All on a little portable CD player too, to get that authentic shitty 80’s radio sound. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post ferguson1 Posted November 23, 2019 Popular Post Share Posted November 23, 2019 (edited) 22 hours ago, Xela said: Love it myself, but then I did grow up in the eighties. Nostalgia innit. Same here. Born in 75, so growing up in the eighties with Star Wars and Action Man toys, owning a BMX etc. Football was exciting to watch on the telly and a real treat if I got taken to a game. Going to the local youth club in my yellow Slazenger jumper, grey flecked trousers and grey slip on shoes. Shell suits and reebok pump high tops later. Big block of Panini stickers in the pocket. I was fighting them off!! Moving into the nineties as a teenager was also great. Brit pop and indie music exploding onto the scene. Watching The Word on telly and starting the pub and club scene. Curtain hair, tucked behind the ears, thinking I was someone from the Happy Mondays or the Stone Roses. Still fighting them off!! Two fantastic decades. Edited November 23, 2019 by ferguson1 7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post sidcow Posted November 23, 2019 VT Supporter Popular Post Share Posted November 23, 2019 (edited) On 23/11/2019 at 16:20, useless said: I've seen it suggested that the reason that the whole eighties revival is being pushed in popular culture is because the decades since the 90s have pretty much become indistinguishable from one another and don't really have their own identities in the same way that previous decades had done I was thinking a few years ago, that if someone from 1995 walked down the street or into a pub in 2015, no one would blink or be able to identify them. That's a 20 year gap. Now imagine someone from 1975 walking into that pub or down the street in 1995, they would stick out like a sore thumb. The world has definitely gone bland in the last 20 years. As an aside both my teenage kids wish they had grown up in the 80s. Even when I say no social media or mobile phones, they still seem keen. No idea why. The 80s is my decade for sure and I have an almost encyclopedic knowledge of the music (up until about 1988 when it went so far downhill I got into 1950s Rock'n'Roll). The 80s also had some truly brilliant music also, same as any decade. Generally fashion was pretty awful looking back but then again I think the 1970s is by quite a long distance the worst decade fashion wise. Thatcher gets bad press I think but today's people don't realise just how bleak the 70's had become, the never ending strikes were bringing the country to it's knees, Britain was falling behind the rest of the world, something stratospheric had to happen. For me the modern world began in the 80s. Not just computer games but deregulation of TV and Telecommunications. It's seen as a time of greed by many but there was a sea change going on which had to happen which could only come from entrepreneurs. For the first time America didn't seem like some gleaming otherworld where they had all this amazing stuff we could not have and the playing field was leveled to some extent. Imagine people today putting up with no electricity for days after days or being unable to walk into a shop (which you could only do Monday to Saturday 9 to 5) to buy bread. The horror of the recent bin strikes lead to meltdown but used to be a regular occurrence. So for me the 80s was a watershed where the somewhat dour old fashioned past was cast aside and more freedom, opportunity and a shinier future became available. Edited November 25, 2019 by sidcow 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PompeyVillan Posted November 24, 2019 Share Posted November 24, 2019 9 hours ago, sidcow said: I was thinking a few years ago, that if someone from 1995 walked down the street or into a pub in 2015, no one would blink or be able to identify them. That's a 20 year gap. There is so much that I like about this idea. What if it was someone who was a regular at the pub from 1995 to 2005? Amazing. I think the biggest tell would be their choice of bar snack. Or the copy of Loaded magazine under their armpit, and the Kappa poppers they would be wearing. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sidcow Posted November 24, 2019 VT Supporter Share Posted November 24, 2019 1 hour ago, PompeyVillan said: There is so much that I like about this idea. What if it was someone who was a regular at the pub from 1995 to 2005? Amazing. I think the biggest tell would be their choice of bar snack. Or the copy of Loaded magazine under their armpit, and the Kappa poppers they would be wearing. Let's not forget that before the 80's they would be forced to leave said pub by 10.30 and wouldn't be walking in there in the middle of the day at all. Seems so archaic now (and did at the time) 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PompeyVillan Posted November 24, 2019 Share Posted November 24, 2019 21 minutes ago, sidcow said: Let's not forget that before the 80's they would be forced to leave said pub by 10.30 and wouldn't be walking in there in the middle of the day at all. Seems so archaic now (and did at the time) I've just realised that if they were a regular, they might end up having a pint with themselves. I love a time travel paradox, especially in a pub. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ingram85 Posted November 24, 2019 Share Posted November 24, 2019 If time travel was real wouldn't we know about it by now? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sidcow Posted November 24, 2019 VT Supporter Share Posted November 24, 2019 11 minutes ago, PompeyVillan said: I've just realised that if they were a regular, they might end up having a pint with themselves. I love a time travel paradox, especially in a pub. Just to keep this on topic, time travel paradoxes really piss me off. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chrisp65 Posted November 24, 2019 Share Posted November 24, 2019 Anybody that doubts the existence of time travel just needs to go to Bangor, where it’s perpetually 1983. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ingram85 Posted November 24, 2019 Share Posted November 24, 2019 Why do all YouTube unboxings have to be done with Billy from Predator's knife? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
villaglint Posted November 24, 2019 Share Posted November 24, 2019 10 minutes ago, Ingram85 said: Why do all YouTube unboxings have to be done with Billy from Predator's knife? If you mentioned this as your opening question to 1995 pub man it would make for an interesting look on his face. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Xann Posted November 24, 2019 Share Posted November 24, 2019 Started looking at 2019 albums retrospectively. Even given the slightly wonky 'smarter' search engine skew, there's a lot of 90s sounding tunes being made. Finding things I like, but they're not really new. That Dominik Eulberg track I put up a couple of weeks back is almost vintage Royksopp. Reckon a bit too much of the wonderful modern audio tech we enjoy these days is employed to mimic music past. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Davkaus Posted November 24, 2019 Share Posted November 24, 2019 Washing and tumble drying a duvet, only for it to turn out that it's "suitable for washing and tumble drying" in the same way a hatchback is "suitable to be driven in to the sea". it may as well advise you to save yourself the effort and just put it straight in to the bin. Bastards. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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