This '80s revival has GOT TO STOP!

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80's! 80's! 80's! Rock on 1980's! Everybody Wang Chung tonight!

Yeah!! ! Plus, side ponytails: I wuvz them.

But the irony is that I don't really think the 80's were really like that. The 80's was a time when pollution was extremly bad, drugs and gangs made big cities like New York and Los Angeles a war zone, and there was the widespread AIDS panic. There wasn't much about the 80's that was "safe" or "kind".

I think it's more likely that people are reminiscing on the 80's because that was the decade when people had great times. I think the 80's was more of a party era where people loved to dress up in loud colorful outfits and poof their hair out, listen to funky music, and watch cheesy action movies starring Arnold Schwarzenegger.

I think of the 80's as the decade when selfishness and greed became virtues. "It's just business" became a plausible excuse for screwing someone over. I didn't buy it then and I don't buy it now.

i was born in 1990 and i didnt like the 90s much when they were going on. i found them kind of mean-spirited and violence was in the air. even though crime peaked in 1991 and declined for most of the 90s, youth violence was on the rise and it seemed like a very scary and hostile time to me.

plus i kind of think pop culture declined in general in the 90s. hip hop just sucks for the most part, sure it can be fun, but it's hardly good music. kids forgot how to spell and it became unusual not to use profanity. and grunge was always pretty dull.

the 2000s to me always seemed like an extension of the 90s, only worse, because in a way they were even more 90s than the 90s was (the entire 90s had an 80s feel mixed in with the new 90s stuff). and im glad that since 2008ish the 80s has started to come back. i dread the day grunge returns.

i agree that while i love nostalgia, people shouldnt kid themselves with this "these days" lines ... it just makes you sound so old and uncool. negativity, grief, and cruelty are universal to all time periods and today is NOT especially bad.

though I do think one thing about today really is worse than the past, and that is art has really declined.

I don't remember any pollution problems in the 80s... At least with air pollution, it was pretty much all cleaned up by the end of the 70s in Los Angeles (private incinerators were gone, and and cars all had catalytic converters after 1973). Gangs are far more vicious now than then. In the 80s, it was only rival gangs stabbing & shooting, and now it's random killings of non-gangmembers. Aids was new & out of control, but now MRSA is new and out of control, and killing people more gruesomely than AIDS. (a friend of mine has been in the hospital since 9/1, and is getting body parts amputated one-by-one trying to stop the disease).

Los Angeles has never been cleaner or happier since the 1984 Olympics came, and everyone was in high spirits. People were proud, and we had visits to Los Angeles from Queen Elizabeth, Pope John Paul II, and of course President Reagan was in office welcoming those visits. Jobs and the economy were booming again by the mid 80s, and everyone had money and fun. It was a good time.

Charles

The 1984 Olympics were good and I do like a lot of the music from the 80s, so I guess that the 80s weren't all that bad. I would have loved to have been at the Olympics that year. I was 9. It was the best of times, it was the worst of times. The Olympics were taking place and Mick Avory had to quit his career with The Kinks a month before. My mum babysat three of the most mischievous kids that you would have ever met. I remember my mum, sister and I spending the week at their house babysitting, because my dad decided to quit smoking that week and their parents went on a holiday. I also went through a lot of growing pains that summer.

Yeah, the 80s revival is getting on my nerves, as well. Around here, there are kids younger than I am (I'm 21, and technically not a kid anymore) wearing 80's clothes and listening to/playing thrash metal and stuff. It's kind of surreal and more than a little embarrassing, I think.

Me. Well... I don't hate him, but his music is certainly nothing special to my ears. I just can't stand the whole throw-back music scene here on WP in general. I don't particularly care for pretty much any music before the mid to late 90s, no matter what the genre. I don't like The Beatles-style rock and roll; I don't like heavy/doom/sludge/black/thrash/glam/hair metal, either. I love post-grunge, alternative rock, alternative metal, industrial, industrial rock/metal, electronic rock, nu metal, futurepop, aggrotech and the like.

End off-topic mini-rant.