Was the 70 s and 80 s better craic

Specialun · 04-09-2015 09:45PM #1

I was born in 85..my father used to always tellme stories about " courting" , the dances and the whiskey drinking

You often see/read about the 70s being all about sex and freedom

Were those decades better craic then these days

The_Valeyard · 04-09-2015 09:51PM

I shall fetch the time machine.

*inserts dvd of reeling in the years*

Sunnyisland · 04-09-2015 09:53PM

Same as it ever was

DarkyHughes · 04-09-2015 09:53PM

The early 90's were a good craic with E all over the place& rave music & decrease in Heroin users & some great nite clubs like The Olympic Ballroom The System, Sides, The Ormond etc... opening up.

ytpe2r5bxkn0c1 · 04-09-2015 09:55PM

The 70s in Ireland were like the 50s in the UK or US. A poor time all round. Give me now or the 90s any day.

NachoBusiness · 04-09-2015 09:55PM

It was like this. Non stop.

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

C.K Dexter Haven · 04-09-2015 09:59PM

realies wrote: »

Same as it ever was

Same-as-it-ever-was:pac:

fryup · 04-09-2015 10:00PM

it was dismal

the troubles, unemployment, emigration, football hooliganism and no condoms

Specialun · 04-09-2015 10:03PM

fryup wrote: »

it was dismal

the troubles, unemployment, emigration, football hooliganism and no condoms

Bareback the way to go

scream · 04-09-2015 10:08PM

80s was the best decade there ever was. Fantastic fashion, fantastic music, the bad boys and girls of offshore pirate radio and my home computer had a whole 16k of internal memory. Of course I actually had an infinite amount of memory if you count the cassettes my programs(read software) were stored on. And there was always the Russian roulette of whether that girl you fancied was actually a girl or just a boy who'd gone a bit too heavy on the mascara.

Those were the days...

nullzero · 04-09-2015 10:09PM

I look back fondly of the music of the 80's but as a child back then Ireland was just such a depressing place, even more so than at the height of the recession in recent years as there was a sense that our lot in life was to be as a nation have-nots as the boom hadn't happened yet. The early 90's were a little like that too, although the national psyche was boosted in 88 and 90 with the euros and world Cup qualification, but it was probably 93-94 when things seems generally more positive.
Wasn't around in the 70's but I would doubt that there was a huge amount of sexual freedom in Catholic Ireland back then.

Summer wind · 04-09-2015 10:09PM

People back then lived the moments that mattered and enjoyed them. That was more important than filming it for Facebook.

nullzero · 04-09-2015 10:12PM

Specialun wrote: »

Bareback the way to go

The final Era of the traditional large Irish family.

jonnny68 · 04-09-2015 10:20PM

i think it was, a lot more carefree and happy, no mobile phones, internet, people actually spoke and met each other as opposed to constant texts and online chats, Dublin was nowhere near as expensive as it is now, we played football on the street and had sleepovers in our freinds gaff, went rambling robbing orchards and climbing trees and were never bored, there was no sense of like "urgency" like there is thesedays, as i said carefree times, im glad i experienced it.

jonnny68 · 04-09-2015 10:22PM

DarkyHughes wrote: »

The early 90's were a good craic with E all over the place& rave music & decrease in Heroin users & some great nite clubs like The Olympic Ballroom The System, Sides, The Ormond etc... opening up.

now your talking

C.K Dexter Haven · 04-09-2015 10:24PM

Hollywood Nights anyone?

Anyone, anyone?

Bueller Bueller?

R P McMurphy · 04-09-2015 10:24PM

DarkyHughes wrote: »

The early 90's were a good craic with E all over the place& rave music & decrease in Heroin users & some great nite clubs like The Olympic Ballroom The System, Sides, The Ormond etc... opening up.

I actually saw dj francois from the ufo post on a thread here a while back

Massimo Cassagrande · 04-09-2015 10:37PM

It all got a bit too fast lately. And a bit too global. It was a lot smaller, but to me, a lot better.

04-09-2015 10:37PM

DarkyHughes wrote: »

The early 90's were a good craic with E all over the place& rave music & decrease in Heroin users & some great nite clubs like The Olympic Ballroom The System, Sides, The Ormond etc... opening up.

Yep.

As my name implies, I enjoyed my teenage years in the late 80s and early 90s, and it was just an outstanding era. Maybe it was cos I liked dance and electronic but there was an air of things changing, of optimism, the music was new and innovative, culture was changing, this country was changing. Loved it.

Cold War Kid · 04-09-2015 10:41PM

realies wrote: »

Same as it ever was

Only if you're letting the days go by.

Bullchomper · 04-09-2015 11:29PM

Specialun wrote: »

I was born in 85..my father used to always tellme stories about " courting" , the dances and the whiskey drinking

You often see/read about the 70s being all about sex and freedom

Were those decades better craic then these days

DarkyHughes wrote: »

The early 90's were a good craic with E all over the place& rave music & decrease in Heroin users & some great nite clubs like The Olympic Ballroom The System, Sides, The Ormond etc... opening up.

The Roxy. In Waterford. Late 90's. THE MOST DEBAUCHED AND DERANGED CLUB TO EVER EXIST! It was brilliant! Or maybe my state was debauched and deranged.... but either way....

@OP
I think every decade has something to offer and it just depends on your motivation to discover what's around you that makes it special. Plus, I think when you're a teenager, everything is new and seems open to endless possibilities..... so the decade you grew up in will have a higher probability of being remembered fondly.

Filmer Paradise · 04-09-2015 11:56PM

I was born at the tail end of the '60s, so I grew up thru the era.

As kids we had much more freedom. Small houses with big families back then as opposed to now.

Health & safety was unheard of & parents weren't as 'concerned' about us as kids.

As teens we smoked, had motorbikes, had no idea what university was & thought anybody gay was a dirty bast'id.

I'm 47 now & my life my priorities & attitudes have somewhat changed. Married, mortgaged kids etc.

I still have the 'craic' though. You just have to adapt to the times you're in really.

In short. Life's what you make it no matter what era/place you find yourself in.

Cold War Kid · 05-09-2015 12:00AM

I'd say the '80s was good for teenagers but crap for adults.

I was a young kid in the '80s with a normal upbringing, so that's pretty much always going to be positive.

But being a teenager for the '80s and an early 20-something for the early '90s would have been class IMO. I envy my friends and relatives who are of that generation - would have been the biz: all the great pop of the early '80s when you were an adolescent, the great indie of the mid to late '80s, then the rave scene when you were a young adult.

Filmer Paradise · 05-09-2015 12:15AM

Cold War Kid wrote: »

I'd say the '80s was good for teenagers but crap for adults.

I was a young kid in the '80s with a normal upbringing, so that's pretty much always going to be positive.

But being a teenager for the '80s and an early 20-something for the early '90s would have been class IMO. I envy my friends and relatives who are of that generation - would have been the biz: all the great pop of the early '80s when you were an adolescent, the great indie of the mid to late '80s, then the rave scene when you were a young adult.

Nah. The music of the '80s largely sucked if you were a young lad back then.

Queen, The Police & if you really wanted to fly the flag U2.

Girlies loved that era. Duran Duran, Wham, Spandau Ballet, et all. They wet their knickers to it!

Most fellahs either turned to Metal (Bon Jovi, Def Leppard, etc), or they went to the past....

Beatles, Stones, The Who, early Bowie. Even Neil Young for Crissake!

Owldshtok · 05-09-2015 12:25AM

Filmer Paradise wrote: »

Nah. The music of the '80s largely sucked if you were a young lad back then.

Queen, The Police & if you really wanted to fly the flag U2.

Girlies loved that era. Duran Duran, Wham, Spandau Ballet, et all. They wet their knickers to it!

Most fellahs either turned to Metal (Bon Jovi, Def Leppard, etc), or they went to the past....

Beatles, Stones, The Who, early Bowie. Even Neil Young for Crissake!

Or we found an alternative like motorhead,the sex pistols,the stranglers,new order, killing joke etc

The 80's as a teenager here were generally depressing with huge unemployment and the troubles,and no cheap flights.
We home brewed beer it was too expensive to buy back then

the place was less regulated and less 'nanny state'

There were good things and bad things

tigerboon · 05-09-2015 12:25AM

Filmer Paradise wrote: »

Most fellahs either turned to Metal (Bon Jovi, Def Leppard, etc), or they went to the past....

There was a lot of good for the time alternative music. Sounds mostly dated now though. 242, sisters, mary chain etc.

Filmer Paradise · 05-09-2015 12:27AM

Owldshtok wrote: »

Or we found an alternative like motorhead,the sex pistols,the stranglers,new order, killing joke etc

The 80's as a teenager here were generally depressing with huge unemployment and the troubles,and no cheap flights.
We home brewed beer it was too expensive to but back then

tigerboon wrote: »

There was a lot of good for the time alternative music. Sounds mostly dated now though. 242, sisters, mary chain etc.

Rural Ireland was an alternative '80s to the one you knew.

Paramite Pie · 05-09-2015 12:34AM

scream wrote: »

my home computer had a whole 16k of internal memory.

Well la-di-da if you had a computer (or even a television!) in the 80s.

I'm from the 90's and I didn't have a computer until 2003.:D

I was feeling nostalgic for the early 2000s before I saw this thread... ha!

Owldshtok · 05-09-2015 12:42AM

Drink driving was mandatory,so was smoking in enclosed public spaces.

Thinking back,the internet would have seemed like distant future sci-fi.

At that rate of progress what the hell will it be like in 30 years? Thats for another thread I suppose

tigerboon · 05-09-2015 12:44AM

Filmer Paradise wrote: »

Rural Ireland was an alternative '80s to the one you knew.

I'm from the country. It's not as rural or as far (time wise) from snivelisation as it was in the 80's

Specialun · 05-09-2015 12:44AM

My father told me a story before how he drove his mini home drunk as drunk can be, parked in the neighbours and strolled in their door

Was the 70 s and 80 s better craic

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