Shoot me - I love the 80s.

I can STILL wear some things I owned in the 80s and have a little cardigan that I wore then (well, they don't go out of style) slung over my T-shirt because it's Spring and my T-Shirt gets cold at night.
So, I'm watching an old repeat of SNL from the 80s with Martin Short (I MUST say) and Jim Belushi and Harry Scherer and Christopher Guest (Spinal Tap) who's married too... and Julia Louis-Dreyfus and Rich Hall (Sniglets!) and the Kinks are the guests and, well, I'm happy and gigglin' like a teenager.
Ray Davies is cute, damnit!

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I remember being VERY affected by "War Games."
And, of course, every young girl loves the John Hughes movies.

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Bang! Bang!

My baby shot me down!

:nuke:

:P

And I make a distcintion between movies made in the 80s (i.e. Full Metal Jacket) and full-on 80s movies (anything by John Hughes).

And I don't care what anyone says, Def Leppard fuckin' rocks!

that was before the accident. And before the lead singer and guitarist went blonde.

All us young chickas had crushes on him. ;)

:hi:

I love the 80's, I grew up in the 80's. I miss girls in tight sleeveless sweaters. And the music was the best. I have lots of memories that are brought back by certain bands and songs.

Anything from the alt music of early to mid eighties til the end of grunge, and that's it. No further.

I can't deal.

I never thought this would happen to me, but we really had a movement, gen X did, and we didn't even know it. Is there even any alternative music being made today?

I always trip on how all the bands now are so clean cut. It's weird, they all have short hair, which they appear to wash daily, and none of them wear make up or use hairspray or have tight pants.

I have this kind of disphoria knowing that my generation is the very first one (in this country) in which we were way more radical than the one that followed us. I find this bizarre, I thought it was against the laws of nature.

(The Mars Volta)







(Death From Above 1979)



(Coheed and Cambria)




And so on...

So forget it.

I do like the low trouser thing. Mick did it first, of course, but it's always nice to have that pleasant apprehension.

I guess that's what I am saying. I going to blaspheme here and and say that a huge reason the Beatles, Elvis, etc stay so big is because of nostalgia, the concurrent generation doesn't want to let go of the music of the best years of their lives. I never thought that would happen to me, I just thought I liked music, in general.

But I can't get past Eddie Vedder. Maybe it's because I feel like a perv looking at these young guys in *that* way.

edit: thanks for the pix. It's nice to know there are still some dirty long-hairs in the world. Gives one something to live for.

Happy now? :)

I hated the 80's. It was the cocaine induced egos that the people in charge had that did it to me. I didn't like the sexism that the hair bands had either. I have to digress though. Some of the clothes were great (Lip Service jeans with the tight legs, concert tee shirts with great artistry, must pat Pushead on the back right about now, oh freaking sweet) and they made guitars worth playing back then (Charvels and Jacksons and Ibanez, those sleek thin necks, sweek contoured bodies, Floyd Rose LOCKING tremolos, sexy guitar straps and no pickguards to cover poor carpentry work). Aaaaah, maybe I really liked much of the 80's, just not the cocaine induced egos and the repukes being in charge. I like Ray Davies too, come dancing!!!

Naaaaaaawwww... you didn't like the 80s at all! Les Paul's made a comeback, too, from what I can remember and those cute little Gibsons.

I turned 10 in 1980, so I WAS the 80s. I really didn't know too much about "the people in charge." To me, that was Mom and Dad, not Ronnie Raygun. ;) So, therefore, my memories of the 80s, until the Anita Hill/Clarence "Coke can" Thomas hearings were pretty nice.

Studio Lite one time. My back has never been able to handle the weight of a Les Paul, but the Les Paul Studio Lite was really nice. I didn't have all the money at the time. So, I didn't get it. I do love them though for recording and for that sound only a Les Paul has. They are oh so sweet when it comes to tone. Oh yeah.

My husband loves the 80s, too. I wouldn't say this issue has driven a wedge into our partnership, but there's only so much an "older woman" can take.

whyfore? can't sleep?