Does retro make you sad?

yenoah

Just heard Matt Munro singing Born Free on the radio. Reminded me of being a child with all the bitter sweet baggage that that entailed. Makes me sad, reminds me of the march of time and all the things that have been lost since.

Does this happen to you?

xzanti

Of course..

I think there'd be something wrong if a bit of nostalgia didn't pull at your heart strings..

Certain Christmas songs always remind me of my Parents on a Christmas Eve when I was a youngen.. I can still hear them shuffling around up in the attic with Shaken Stevens playing downstairs to try and drown out the sound of them bringing down our presents..

Whenever I hear those songs I'm taken straight back to those times.. and does make me a little sad.. but they're happy memories all the same

The Princess Bride

I'm inclined to agree with xzanti.

I love listening to Friday Night 80s on TodayFM and feel like I'm actually in a different place and time in my life again.Some songs evoke different memories than others ,but regardless,it's mostly good.

Funnily enough,if Phil Cawley presents,it's always a better show ,in my opinion,as he's closer in age to me and I feel it's almost like he was walking alongside me during the 80s(:o)whereas other younger DJs might play the requests but it's like they're just songs to them as opposed to them having personal significance- if that makes any sense.

I love this particular forum, as it takes me waaay back.Sometimes,it's like you genuinely forget something or someone has ever existed,and then someone else points it out and the memories come flooding back.

Retro Rocks:cool:

Majesticzebras

Love, love, love Friday night 80s!!!! Especially the more obscure 80s songs, Taylor Dane/The Greg Kihn Band (not too obscure, I know)

Get really nostalgic for Smash Hits and MT USA with Fab Vinny on a Sunday afternoon......

Makes me sad for how fast those years have gone....would love to meet the 15 year old me now.


Bought Exploring English in Tesco yesterday, but like in the 80s, it hasn't been opened.........good that some things don't change!
Retro Roolz!:o

Rubberlegs

I find the older I'm getting the more nostalgic I feel for the late 70s/80s. It's mad how a certain song can bring you right back to a particular time in your life, who you were friends with, or the boy you fancied at the time:).
Whenever I hear Culture Club's Karma Chameleon, Billy Joel's Uptown Girl, or Cyndi Laupers Girls Just Wanna have Fun, I'm taken back to 5th/6th class. We used to make up dances to the songs at lunchtime. Whenever I hear Abba, I'm reminded of how my friend and I used to pretend to be the girls in Abba. We always fighted over who was the blonde girl:o.
We used to make our own compilation tapes off the radio. You'd be like a pure dog if the DJ spoke over the song! Or if my little sister walked in, and made a noise. To this day if I hear a song on the radio that I had on one of my homemade tapes, I can still remember the song that came next on the tape.
A couple of Christmases ago, my mother got me The Best of Smash Hits Annual. The inside covers of the book are decorated with covers from the Smash Hits mags. Can vividly remember some of the covers, and also some of the interviews included. My friend and I couldn't wait to get Smash Hits, and sit and read them together:D:D. From what I can remember it came out every 2 weeks.
I love retro so much!! My kids think I'm mad when I show them what I was listening to at their ages. I still have the very first Hits Album from '84, and my Wham! Make it Big album. Wouldn't part with them for the world.:D:D. The 80s were the best time music wise, movie wise etc. I've never wished I grew up in a different decade.

The Princess Bride

73Cat wrote: »

To this day if I hear a song on the radio that I had on one of my homemade tapes, I can still remember the song that came next on the tape.

Snap!!!!
I used to record the goals scored during the Irish soccer matches back in the mid 80s,would've been in the Eoin Hand managerial era- can vividly remember some of the dialogue,Jimmy Magee's commentary-pure magic.

I went on a date once (2nd or 3rd date only!!) and the guy produced a mixed tape for me- he'd recorded some of his favourite songs for me......luckily he had good taste,alas only in music:rolleyes:

Incidentally,my dad is in his 70s and he still records classics from his ballroom dancing days and listens to it at his leisure.
I think every generation is the same as the previous one-just imagine the 2070s - we'll have 70 years olds bopping to Rhianna with their walking sticks!

Cee-Jay-Cee

I love the Friday night 80's show, very very rarely do they play something that i havent heard before and when they do its usually recognisable as being x,y or z etc

I have very very good memories from my childhood in the 70's and 80's and love everything to do with that era, the music, cars, TV programmes etc etc probably because life was simpler and care free (for me anyway) and so its nice to wander back to a time when i hadnt a care in the world, when everyone played outside and when we had sunshine during the summers (i know there were dull/wet days too but i honestly dont remember any)

I go to sleep a lot of nights remembering things from way back then, not pining for them or anything like that, theyre just nice memories and never fail to send me off to sleep.

whiskeyman

Whenever I hear some songs from the 80s, I can picture myself playing with friends or toys when those songs would have been on in the background. Mostly all happier and innocent times

Dotrel

Do I wish I was still back there in 80s as a little kid rather than here now in the 10's as an adult. Yes.

Does it make me sad to think about it? No.

I just accept that I'm here now and what's gone is gone and can't be got back. Try to enjoy what you still have now even if it isn't as good.

r3nu4l

I'd be the same as Dotrel but must admit that I would love to be on my summer holidays as a kid again reading my Three Investigators and Hardy Boy books before spending a few hours playing Microprose Soccer on my Commodore 64

I do feel sad on occasion that the innocence of those times are gone for me but it also makes me redouble my efforts to make sure that my daughter has many happy memories of her childhood.

cooperangela88

Yes! The made me nostalgic! I love the music from 70's and 80's. They are the songs that will be with me till my end! I used to relate those with my life. But it won’t make me only sad. There are few happy moments attached with some of them that make me glad as well!

Andrewf20

Its kind of strange to think that we may be very nostalgic about now in 20 years time as well. Bits of the 1990s are coming back for me now in a nostalgic way, just as the 1980s have already done so.

gugleguy

Crocketts theme was used for Nat West Bank
The Mission theme was used for Aer Lingus ad - the one with the Aer Lingus 747 in it.

Neither ad needed or required exhorbitant special effects. Both ads showed nat west/ aer lingus employees as normal human beings.

I cringe at 95% of all modern day TV ads these day which feature Mr Macho Man or Ms Cool Catriona.

briany

As Ronnie Drew said, "Shur, won't today be tomorrow's rare auld times?"

I do think that what the 70s ,80s and 90s had over today is that technology was less ubiquitous. This meant that we valued the entertainment, culture, and media we did have that much more. The less there was, the more we treasured it. The same is certainly true of the 3 decades before that as well though and the 3 before that. The last 100 years have been a time of rapid change where you could see changes in the technological and social landscape from generation to generation which I suppose can only magnify nostalgia. I wonder if the people of Ireland in 510 AD nostalgic about 495 AD and how much of a simpler time it was (low life expectancies notwithstanding)

veryhappy1

all the people of naughties have more technology but less personality

stabeek

Sure, it's sheer escapism like movies, or music, or drugs or alcohol, except for free, and you know the outcome.

In many ways, it should be banned!

Pawwed Rig

r3nu4l wrote: »

before spending a few hours playing Microprose Soccer on my Commodore 64

Possibly still the best football game ever made. Do you remember if you came into the goal at a 45 degree angle you were nearly guaranteed to score.
Also if you turned up the bend on the ball you could score from a corner:D

Do I miss the 80's? No Was a terrible time in Ireland. Was always hungry and cold

Stab*City

I grew up in the 80's in east coast america. The music always takes me back and gives me a lump in my throat. I can only thank my parents and the 1980's for giving me the best childhood a kid could ever ask for.

And god bless the polaroid camera for never letting me forget!

jupiterjack

just listening to friday night 80s and im right back there...i loved the 80s..