Remembering the year 1979

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I graduated from college, thought Disco sucked and got obsessed with New Wave Rock. New Wave was still rock then it had not changed into synthpop yet although Gary Numan started that trend in '79. The Buggle's predicted the near future with the song "Video Killed the Radio Star".

If a person was walking and talking to an object he or she was holding in front of them they would be sent to what was called "the loony bin".

Bi-Polar was called Manic Depression and Disassociative Identity Disorder was called Multiple Personality Disorder. Porn was called Porno

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My brother was big into arena rock and the local "Disco Destroyer" radio station, but my mom actually bought a record on how to do various disco dances

The pejorative for what we now call Arena Rock was called "Corporate Rock".

I was a freshman in high school.

My first cat, Samantha, was born. I also had two dogs.

I was minus 12. If I was alive I probably would have been heavily into new wave but sneaking a bit of Bee Gees in on the side I'd probably be well on my way to becoming the first new romantic

I was only a few years old.

If this were remembering the 70's I would bring up Steve Austin, the six million dollar man but it ended in 1978

Minus 8 here. I'd be into disco, but get into new wave. I'd also be excited for Seattle hosting the MLB All-Star Game that year.

I was only around 5 so there's not a whole lot I remember.

I started going to school and my aunt, my mom's younger sister, was still a student there because she was still a kid. My two uncles, my mom's brothers were teenagers and still living at my grandparent's. They were a very short distance from my parent's house we visited them often. I one of my uncles having his bedroom in the basement - a very typical 70's rec room, and he was really into the band KISS. He even drew portraits of them and had posters and stuff of them up everywhere. I was kind of scared of KISS back then. They were so creepy-looking, especially that guy with the long tongue.

Back then it was still acceptable to medically call people "mentally ret*d", although attitudes about people of different races or religions were going through a big change. But I didn't really understand any of that at my age. Autism? What's that?

I remember listening to record players and even LPs. When my aunts and uncles came to babysit they'd often bring their records over and I liked a lot of the music like the Bee Gees. My mom listened to ABBA a lot and I liked that, too.

I remember owning a disco record of popular Disney songs, reading Super Goof comic books, and watching the Flintstones on TV and really enjoying it. Of course the show was in reruns by then, but they were on this one TV station for maybe almost three decades! I also saw Scooby-Doo and The Jetsons but didn't like them nearly as much, especially Scooby-Doo. I loved Sesame Street more than any of those shows put together. And now the current writers of the show say it's not suitable for kids now.

I guess there is quite a bit I remember, but like I said in a forum about the 80's it was from a kid's point of view. And even though I had some odd quirks and unusual anxiety I was usually happy because I was allowed to be myself instead of forced to fit in with other kids. People thought I was just eccentric because I was a "future artist". And of course, I wasn't a teenager yet.

I was 16 years old in 1979 my last year of school I was doing work experience in a car wiring factory which I got a job there the year after.
Music was good back then and I always watched "Countdown" which was a music show here in Australia.

I liked Joe Jackson, The Cars, Elvis Costello, Blondie, Talking Heads, The B-52's, XTC, Graham Parker and The Rumour, The Specials, Gary Numan, Lene Lovitch, Cheap Trick.

Anybody remember the songs
Mi Sex "Computer Games"
The Jags "Back of My Hand"
Tim Curry "I Do The Rock"
The Records "Starry Eyes"
The Tourists did a cover of "I Only Want To Be With You" had Annie Lennox and Dave Stewart the future Eurythmics

My favorite tennis players were not even born yet. That makes me feel old.

I graduated from high school in 1979. I wore a leisure suit to the graduation.

The main song, to me, was "Ain't no stoppin' us now" by McFadden and Whitehead.

I pretended to think "disco sucks"---but I liked some of it.

I was 18, and I hated living with my mother.

There were video games in arcades----but I still played pinball.

I remember watching Saturday Night Fever with my parents every Saturday night. I was 4 at the time. I also remember Sesame Street and Spider Man.

I turned 2 in 1979 and it was also the fall I began in daycare. I didn't like it much, I far preferred to be home and play what I wanted with my own toys. There were older girls in the daycare who would put their arms around me and lift me. I didn't want them to and it hurt my stomach.

I graduated from highschool in 1979 . I wore a mans suit to the graduations , The graduations party had that dreadfull music, much hotel california and the likes, i pretended to think "disco sucks', altogether not yet into black music, missed out on a frank zappa concert, dropped out on tv, listened only radio for music in the evenings