1980s Best?

deanlandon

Will we ever have a decade like the 80s again?
It just seemed that life was much better then - great music, good hair styles, great movies, good tv shows,
the 1990s and 2000s an anticlimax

Will we ever get the 80s back?

Balmed Out

Im guessing you werent old enough to experience the 80's. They were awful. Mid to late 90's is where its at.

steveone

hah! "great music, good hair styles, great movies, good tv shows,
the 1990s and 2000s an anticlimax"...stock aiken waterman.... pigeon droppings highlights-permed mullets and the limahl skunk thing..-...
benson and the cosby show,,,and oh my god streethawk......... and the front wheel drive car....

ah there were good times to be fair, for the most part they were as bad as now...
Metal music thrived which was a bonus in some quarters
65-75 does it for me..... I weren't born till '73 but it looked great and talk about good music!

steveone

Balmed Out wrote: »

Im guessing you werent old enough to experience the 80's. They were awful. Mid to late 90's is where its at.

yea mid to late '90s... especially the world cup years...excellent... even the weather was good...

SubBusted

Balmed Out wrote: »

Im guessing you werent old enough to experience the 80's.

Music was great but most of the movies were sh-t.

Lawrence1895

Freddy Krueger, German Trash metal, Frankie goes to Hollywood...the 80s were great

fryup

*High unemployment
*Mass Emigration
*The troubles in the North
*Sh!tty roads S!tty cars
*The Miners Strike
*The cold War
*Football Hooliganism
*Aids
*The Mullet hairstyle

ya the 80s were great alright:rolleyes:

agree with the OP on one thing..the music was fab

Lawrence1895

fryup wrote: »

*High unemployment
*Mass Emigration
*The troubles in the North
*Sh!tty roads S!tty cars
*The Miners Strike
*The cold War
*Football Hooliganism
*Aids
*The Mullet hairstyle

ya the 80s were great alright:rolleyes:

agree with the OP on one thing..the music was fab

Those still exist in the present time, I would say...

fryup

^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

point taken, although the roads are much better now..we have a motorway network ..it takes me just over 2 hours to get to Dublin whereas in the past it would have taken over 4

gammygils

OK. We had recession in the 80's. But pubs were thriving & the crack was 90. And we could smoke in them too!!
And music was Music!!!

9959

fryup wrote: »

*High unemployment
*Mass Emigration
*The troubles in the North
*Sh!tty roads S!tty cars
*The Miners Strike
*The cold War
*Football Hooliganism
*Aids
*The Mullet hairstyle

ya the 80s were great alright:rolleyes:

agree with the OP on one thing..the music was fab

Lars1916 wrote: »

Those still exist in the present time, I would say...

Is the Miners strike still going on, fair play to Scargill.

vektarman

9959 wrote: »

Is the Miners strike still going on, fair play to Scargill.

Ahem...only Lars1916 highlighted ones, although I'm sure I've seen a few mulletheads around lately..

kitakyushu

9959 wrote: »

Is the Miners strike still going on, fair play to Scargill.

I think it was still going on in Chile until recently. Those fellas managed to stay down there for ages. Fair play to them.

vektarman

9959 wrote: »

Is the Miners strike still going on, fair play to Scargill.

kitakyushu wrote: »

I think it was still going on in Chile until recently. Those fellas managed to stay down there for ages. Fair play to them.

jupiterjack

loved the 80s man..

grenache

deanlandon wrote: »

Will we ever have a decade like the 80s again?
It just seemed that life was much better then - great music, good hair styles, great movies, good tv shows,
the 1990s and 2000s an anticlimax

:eek: :eek:

Rubberlegs

The only regret I have about the 80s is that I wasn't 10 years older in the early half of the decade:(. I love the music, the style, the big hair, and really wish I had been old enough to go out to clubs etc.

The Princess Bride

How could we forget shoulderpads? Probably needed to support the big hair!!

And slowsets ?

Max Headroom

Werent the Christmas tunes better in the 80's too......:)

gobnaitolunacy

Movies were better, more originality than what's on the big screen now...which are mostly remakes and comic book stuff.

Music was better.

Fashion was crap, seriously crap.

Silvera

73Cat wrote: »

The only regret I have about the 80s is that I wasn't 10 years older in the early half of the decade:(. I love the music, the style, the big hair, and really wish I had been old enough to go out to clubs etc.

I know what you mean. I used to watch my older brother heading out on a Fri or Sat nite all dressed up...I still recall his 'cowboy-style boots' and 'silver Miami Vice suit' periods!

Nowadays I have a 'hankering' for 80's cars! ....particularly a nice Opel Manta coupe!:cool:

earlytobed

I was 14 in 1980 so it should have been my decade in music, but it was rubbish. Much preferred 1970's or 1990's

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_best-selling_singles_of_the_1980s_(UK)

Not much here I would listen to.

FatherTed

Everything was better in the 80's. Even today's recession isn't a patch on the 80's one