question for the young folk

poundapunnet · 31-03-2014 10:51PM

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 · 31-03-2014 11:07PM

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 · 31-03-2014 11:24PM

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

pragmatic1 · 31-03-2014 11:25PM

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 · 31-03-2014 11:33PM

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 · 31-03-2014 11:36PM

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 · 31-03-2014 11:37PM

^

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

poundapunnet · 31-03-2014 11:43PM

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 · 01-04-2014 10:01AM

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. · 01-04-2014 10:10AM

Strawberry Milkshake wrote: »

Suzannah Hoff was (is?) beautiful.

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

Duggy747 · 01-04-2014 10:21AM

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?

01-04-2014 10:41AM

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.

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