question for the young folk

fryup

hey all you young folk, (teens & 20s)

do the 1980s & 90s look really old & ancient & naff to you??

the music the style??

cause for me growing up as a teen in the 80s the 1950 & 60s looked really ancient to me, but i don't think you'd look to out of place nowadays wearing 80/90s style clothes and the music is fairly similar....

or am i just kidding myself

orangesoda

women were not as attractive then as they are now. i do enjoy a bit of 90s goth metal though

The Backwards Man

Progress stopped in 1985.


Everything since is just a regurgitation of the same oul bollocks

Sir Arthur Daley

The Backwards Man wrote: »

Everything since is just a regurgitation of the same oul bollocks

Balls?

KungPao

fryup wrote: »

hey all you young folk, (teens & 20s)

do the 1980s & 90s look really old & ancient & naff to you??

the music the style??

cause for me growing up as a teen in the 80s the 1950 & 60s looked really ancient to me, but i don't think you'd look to out of place nowadays wearing 80/90s style clothes and the music is fairly similar....

or am i just kidding myself

I haven't many people dress like the Flock of Seagulls or make music like them for that matter!

The 80s was glorious for sure. Great music all the same.

The Backwards Man

WikiHow wrote: »

Balls?

You're learning Wiki, balls indeed.

Nothing has emulated Tom Cruise singing the Righteous Brothers, Emilio Estevez saying 'we are all bizarre, just some of us are better at hiding it'
or Michael J Fox playing Johnny B Goode with one hand.

And nothing ever will.

Czarcasm

orangesoda wrote: »

women were not as attractive then as they are now. i do enjoy a bit of 90s goth metal though

Crazy talk, what about Debbie Harry, Sam Fox? Many, many more women that are just timeless, as opposed to today's almost instantly forgettable celebrities.

The Backwards Man

I actually had a cousin who was a member of Simple Minds but left before they were famous.

Stupid cnut.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CdqoNKCCt7A

catallus

Czarcasm wrote: »

, as opposed to today's almost instantly forgettable celebrities.

They're only instantly forgettable because there's more of them!

We should be grateful for this.

Scotty P

fryup wrote: »

do the 1980s & 90s look really old & ancient & naff to you??

Sweet mother of Terence Trent Darby.

The 80s naff? How very dare you.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_r0n9Dv6XnY

Czarcasm

Czarcasm wrote: »

Crazy talk, what about Debbie Harry, Sam Fox? Many, many more women that are just timeless, as opposed to today's almost instantly forgettable celebrities.

Suzannah Hoff was (is?) beautiful.

Scotty P

The Backwards Man wrote: »

Simple Minds ~ Don't You

How apt you should post that, as apparently it's 30 years today since....

The Backwards Man

Scotty P wrote: »

How apt you should post that, as apparently it's 30 years today since....

Wulfie

fryup wrote: »

hey all you young folk, (teens & 20s)

do the 1980s & 90s look really old & ancient & naff to you??

the music the style??

cause for me growing up as a teen in the 80s the 1950 & 60s looked really ancient to me, but i don't think you'd look to out of place nowadays wearing 80/90s style clothes and the music is fairly similar....

or am i just kidding myself

My 15 year old thinks the 80's must have been great. I think he likes the music.

orangesoda

Czarcasm wrote: »

Crazy talk, what about Debbie Harry, Sam Fox? Many, many more women that are just timeless, as opposed to today's almost instantly forgettable celebrities.

I'm talking more in terms of non-celebrities, nowadays most of the women on the street are at least half attractive whereas if you look at photos of the 80's and 90s the hair cuts and clothing are not as appealing

Smidge

Footloose is 30 years old this year :eek::(

david75

I remember when I was around 16/17 (93/94) 'old fellas' telling me to ignore pearl jam and get into led zeppelin.
Now I'm 38 and I'm the old guy telling young fellas to ignore kings of Leon/whatever sh!te and listen to pearl jam.

I'm old.

Wulfie

david75 wrote: »

I remember when I was around 16/17 (93/94) 'old fellas' telling me to ignore pearl jam and get into led zeppelin.
Now I'm 38 and I'm the old guy telling young fellas to ignore kings of Leon/whatever sh!te and listen to pearl jam.

I'm old.

Pearl jam always sounded like noise to me. Only college people seemed to get them.

Ghost Buster

The Backwards Man wrote: »

Progress stopped in 1985.


Everything since is just a regurgitation of the same oul bollocks

Well thats totally missing the point (Or at least what i take to be the point:P)
You think this, your dads generation thought this, possibly your Grandads generation thought this. And guess what. Your kids generation and their kids generation will think this.
And they will mostly all be wrong. I say mostly because within these generations will be people who are open to change and welcoming of new ideas and not just reaching for the crusty old "Things was always better in my day" cliche.

LorMal

Ghost Buster wrote: »

Well thats totally missing the point (Or at least what i take to be the point:P)
You think this, your dads generation thought this, possibly your Grandads generation thought this. And guess what. Your kids generation and their kids generation will think this.
And they will mostly all be wrong. I say mostly because within these generations will be people who are open to change and welcoming of new ideas and not just reaching for the crusty old "Things was always better in my day" cliche.

Wrong, so wrong. There has been a marked decline in absolutely everything since about 1984. I am living proof of this.

Penny Tration

I love 80s music. 90s, not so much.

Then again, my favourite song is from 1964, so I'm a bit bloody weird for someone as young as i am

iDave

I'm 29 and I envy my parents generation. They grew up when music was brilliant, fresh and relevant. Kanye West, Jay Z etc would of been laughed out of the recording studio in the past.

david75

Wulfie wrote: »

Pearl jam always sounded like noise to me. Only college people seemed to get them.

Nah they've got great songs. More about the message(hope) and getting through it all than anything else. They're still going so they're doing something right

finisklin

We don't get many one hit wonders like the 80s had.....I'm thinking of 99 red balloons, camoflage, Paul Hardcastle 19, pump up the volume etc.

Songs that were terrible yet still play out in my mind as vividy as when I first heard them.

To think that music today is engineered to the nth degree and tossed around focus groups to find a trendy sound.

Sunglasses Ron

I honestly reckon the "less attractive" issue is more a case of hairstyles, fashion etc. It would just defy evolution that modern day women appear so much more attractive than those 25 years ago. For example, I hardly think Marilyn Monroe would be noticed today with her trademark look if she was young and currently famous.

Our kids will probably wonder how duck face selfies and Chinese tatoos were considered a fashionable look :pac:

RDM_83 again

orangesoda wrote: »

I'm talking more in terms of non-celebrities, nowadays most of the women on the street are at least half attractive whereas if you look at photos of the 80's and 90s the hair cuts and clothing are not as appealing

I think it was the hideous clothes and fashion, if I am watching a film from the 60,s or 70,s the woman will probably look pretty good, it hits the 80's and suddenly shortish hair and shoulder pads come in
Rant
I mean shoulder pads on woman what was the logic, why would a woman want to give the impression she had massive shoulders
End Rant

In terms of going out I think there has been a shift only in the last number of years as I was talking to one of the girls in work and she was youngish (28) and she was complaining about how long it takes her younger sister and cousins to get ready for a night out.

Adamantium

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uzykot3i6rU

Currently playing/was playing the Final Fantasy X HD remaster and felt a tinge of nostalgia, but what I really think it was, was sadness. I had to turn it off. Nostalgia is a terrible thing to get hooked on and numbs you to the present.

I'm 22.

philstar

fryup wrote: »

hey all you young folk, (teens & 20s)

do the 1980s & 90s look really old & ancient & naff to you??

the music the style??

cause for me growing up as a teen in the 80s the 1950 & 60s looked really ancient to me, but i don't think you'd look to out of place nowadays wearing 80/90s style clothes and the music is fairly similar....

or am i just kidding myself

the thing is ..everything in the 50s & 60s was filmed in black & white which made it look really dated,

Femme_Fatale

Sunglasses Ron wrote: »

I honestly reckon the "less attractive" issue is more a case of hairstyles, fashion etc. It would just defy evolution that modern day women appear so much more attractive than those 25 years ago. For example, I hardly think Marilyn Monroe would be noticed today with her trademark look if she was young and currently famous.

Our kids will probably wonder how duck face selfies and Chinese tatoos were considered a fashionable look :pac:

Yeh, Kim Wilde was a sex symbol (and obviously a stunning-looking woman) but looking at pictures of her from the time... the absolute state of her hair and make-up: http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lrh4p1lsIp1qaodb7o1_400.jpg

Few years later when the fashion was less garish: http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/a/ae/If_I_Can't_Have_You-_Kim_Wilde.jpg

pajor

bonzodog2

green_screen wrote: »

I love 80s music. 90s, not so much.

Then again, my favourite song is from 1964, so I'm a bit bloody weird for someone as young as i am

Go on, do tell...

poundapunnet

I'm 25 and the 90s doesn't seem like that long ago to me. I can still pretty much work out the logic behind thinking things like curtains as a haircut for guys was super cool. And to be honest I spent a lot of the nineties dressed in 80s clothes so they don't seem totally alien to me either.

Although, with the 20 year anniversary coming up I listened to some Nirvana the other day for the first time in I don't know how long, and I got a shock because for the first time it really did sound dated. Much as I still love it, it's started to sound the way 80s music that I liked sounded to me as a teenager, which makes perfect chronological sense but still makes me feel very old all of a sudden

ivytwine

poundapunnet wrote: »

I'm 25 and the 90s doesn't seem like that long ago to me. I can still pretty much work out the logic behind thinking things like curtains as a haircut for guys was super cool. And to be honest I spent a lot of the nineties dressed in 80s clothes so they don't seem totally alien to me either.

Although, with the 20 year anniversary coming up I listened to some Nirvana the other day for the first time in I don't know how long, and I got a shock because for the first time it really did sound dated. Much as I still love it, it's started to sound the way 80s music that I liked sounded to me as a teenager, which makes perfect chronological sense but still makes me feel very old all of a sudden

I'm with you there... I'm 25 too and I was too young for Nirvana the first time around [I was five when Kurt Cobain died] and I got into them much later in secondary school, a gang of us misfit kids who thought we were existentially depressed worshipped Nirvana, Pixies etc.

It does sound quite dated as a sound now, which is amazing, because once it was so fresh and a backlash against all the 80s synth. I wonder is it the fact that I associate it so powerfully with a time in my life which is now gone and not coming back (and I must stress, this was the 00s, well after it was all over) that it sounds like that...

Also, my earliest memories musically are of my mother playing the Beatles and the Stones, Kate Bush and Elton John. My dad is into jazz and the like. Local radio was always on in the house and it was always a couple of years behind :pac: So a huge amount of 80s and 70s stuff I associate very strongly with my childhood.

'Would I Lie To You' by Charles and Eddie was the only up to date song they played on C103 that I recall (probably cos it was such a throwback). God that song reminds me of being absolutely tiny. Would love to go back...

On the style thing. The clothes in the late 80s and early 90s were absolutely horrible, ill-fitting jeans and trainers and horrible baggy jumpers, dodgy anoraks and massive glasses. It all looks incredibly dated to me now. Even tiny things like seeing some of the extras in Father Ted really highlight how bad the clothes were.

Correct me if I'm wrong, I think it's a bit more acceptable to dress up/have an individual style now. Nowadays a woman can wear a nice fitted jacket and a dress during the day and no-one would say a word. Back then it seemed like casual polyester nightmares were compulsory!

Archeron

Casual polyester nightmares would be a great name for a band.

pragmatic1

iDave wrote: »

I'm 29 and I envy my parents generation. They grew up when music was brilliant, fresh and relevant. Kanye West, Jay Z etc would of been laughed out of the recording studio in the past.

Jay Z lyrics go over a lot of peoples heads. He's no dummy. Kanye is an arrogant git but a really talented producer.

poundapunnet

pragmatic1 wrote: »

Jay Z lyrics go over a lot of peoples heads. He's no dummy. Kanye is an arrogant git but a really talented producer.

I think Kanye's (admittedly very off-putting) personality means a lot of people assume his music is terrible.

Five years later and I still think this is class

There's plenty really good music around these days, it's easier than it ever was to access and no matter how niche your tastes you're always going to find something unless your niche is 'nothing good has been released past 19XX and that's as far as I'm willing to investigate', which is a pretty lazy attitude really. There's a lot of crap on the radio yeah, but that's not what the youngsters who are into their music are listening to.

131spanner

The music from the 80's and 90's was shít hot, I love it!

The style? Eh, it's good and bad

Fox_In_Socks

^

It would be great if Kanye could sing without the aid of a vocodor/autotune.

poundapunnet

Fox_In_Socks wrote: »

^

It would be great if Kanye could sing without the aid of a vocodor/autotune.

It would indeed, but as he's a hip-hop artist it's not really a hanging offence is it?

ivytwine

Archeron wrote: »

Casual polyester nightmares would be a great name for a band.

I like the cut of your jib, you're in. Now can you play any sort of musical instrument?

Uriel.

Strawberry Milkshake wrote: »

Suzannah Hoff was (is?) beautiful.

She's unbelievable looking today, just like she was back in the day!

Duggy747

Movies & music in the 80's were the shìt, everything was dialed up to 11 with dry ice, neons and synth added for good measure.

Heard Aha this morning, the sun was out and it instantly got the day off to a good start :pac:

90's had some pretty good music, heavy metal and grunge was good up until around the mid-90's. It also had What Is Love?

Why do all the women in '80's soaps like Dynasty look like Quarterbacks with the huge shoulder pads in all the clothes?

Why did anyone think that was a good look?

Do like much of the music of the decade though.