The 80's

[VAiN]

So for a little while now I've gotten into a Sat/Sun routine of hitting my local wing place, ordering a pitcher & large order of wings. This particular wing place plays all 80's music. It's fucking great! I can sit here all day and listen to this stuff. Even the stuff that I don't love I can still appreciate.. It makes me sad for the music of the last decade and then some.. that is all.

[SunisinuS]

Someone has an Iphone!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hiJ9AnNz47Y

[ashstralia]

with ya vain. so many great 80's tunes were the soundtrack to our lives, they were awesome times. in hindsight, even some of the ones i thought were crap at the time are actually really good songs. it was also the decade of the one hit wonder. a personal fave; 'voices carry' by till tuesday. great great song.

[Nitro Express]

I was listening to some Scorpions on YouTube and I was reading the comments. Kids were posting how great 80's music was and how they wish they were teenagers in the 80's. I was thinking I entered high school in 1980 and went through college in that decade. I wouldn't change a thing and yes kids, you did miss out.

[Steve Savicki]

[DONNIEP]

I've noticed the same kinds of posts on Youtube - kids saying they wished they'd grown up in the 80s! I guess they're exposed to so much of the music through video games - Guitar Hero especially. It really was a really great time to be young. I'm 40 and the 80s were just a different time - the TV shows, the clothes and the BIG friggin' hair!! Dear God, I'll always love women with big hair!!!

Looking back, I especially loved the freedom we had as teenagers to do what we wanted to - no hotel in Myrtle Beach is going to rent a room to five 16 year olds now-a-days!!! Especially when they show up with 3 cars loaded slap full of cases of beer!!! But back then, no problem.

And the music, the MUSIC!!! And the videos! Damn those were the days! It was all about Van Halen for me. And I wouldn't trade anything for all the times we hung out at the lake, drinking some beers and playing Van Halen and Eat 'Em and Smile through the system in my Camaro. Good times, good times.

I spent the evening today with my best friend and his wife - he's been my best friend for 28 years and they've been together for 22 years. And of course the conversation came around to the 80s, and "you remember when...". Yes, I do remember when. And the kids today are definitely missing out.

[SunisinuS]

[Blaze]

If I could remember, I bet it is a real missing out to not remember.

[SunisinuS]

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This Day in CVH/DLR History

1974
Van Halen plays Gazzarri's in West Hollywood, CA.

1975
Van Halen plays Gazzarri's in West Hollywood, CA.

1978
Van Halen plays Sheffield City Hall in Sheffield, England. Black Sabbath is the headliner.

1979
Van Halen plays London Gardens in London, Ontario, Canada.

1981
Van Halen plays the Cumberland County Civic Center in Portland, ME. The Fools are the opening act.

1985
Edward Van Halen sits in with David Letterman band and performs "(Oh) Pretty Woman," "Jump," "You Really Got Me" and "Sunshine of Your Love".

[Dave's Bitch]

The two reasons i am in love with the 80's

[Nitro Express]

In the 1980's if you stayed home with mom and dad after you graduated from high school it was shameful. Those guys were the losers. So the whole teen mindset was independence and individualism. Of course you could go to a state school and work your way through college with no scholarships or parental help. Kids worked harder than they do now. I don't remember people being so fat either. So laziness has creeped in and you aren't going to get 80's caliber bands with a bunch of lazy fat fucks. Also, computers and game consoles have killed creativity. Kids play endless hours in a matrix invented by someone else without creating their own stuff. We have gone from giving the kids some tools and then letting tinker with them to compete micromanagement and conformity.

So there is no passionate drive to be your own person and get out on your own and conquer the world. Whether it was to go onto college or do something less mainstream like be in a rock and roll band. Either way you had to have lots of drive and passion which seems to be missing now.

[sadaist]

In the 1980's if you stayed home with mom and dad after you graduated from high school it was shameful. Those guys were the losers.

So true. You graduate from high school & the clock starts ticking fast. Staying at 'home' for 1-2 years after high school was bad, but accepted if you were going to school full time.

In hindsight, I should have stayed at home another year or 2 and saved up some money. Was so nice not having to pay any rent or utilities and always having food in the fridge. But then again, having drunken poker parties every FRI & SAT night and smoking in my apartment was pretty damn cool.

[sadaist]

So for a little while now I've gotten into a Sat/Sun routine of hitting my local wing place, ordering a pitcher & large order of wings. This particular wing place plays all 80's music. It's fucking great! I can sit here all day and listen to this stuff. Even the stuff that I don't love I can still appreciate.. It makes me sad for the music of the last decade and then some.. that is all.

One of the Indian Casinos near me used to only play 80's music. We would go to drink & play blackjack. Even shit like Cindi Lauper was fun to hear. The 80's was all about having fun. Whether you were in to metal, pop, new wave, rap, etc. No matter the style of music, it was all about having a good time & enjoying yourself. Something bad happened and the 90's was all about being pissed off, then the 00's were all about being sad. Music like that is good for a time, but has no real staying power because people don't want to stay pissed or sad forever.

And I always wanted to fuck the brains out of the little brunette from The Bangles.

[Nitro Express]

You had all the violence and protests of the 1960's. You had the Vietnam War and the horrible economy of the 1970's. There was no war in the 1980's and the economy was being boosted by the personal computer revolution. Even with the corruption and massive spending of the Reagan Administration we we had turned our attitude around. We were making things again and it was new technology and it was changing the world and it was guys tinkering in garages doing it. That was an empowering illusion.

I think who killed the 80's were the people who couldn't stand to see Americans being empowered again. The same fucks who outsourced our industry. Then in the 90's you started hearing 80's bashing, the decade of greed and all that shit. I'm sorry but there was more greed in the 90's and the early 00's than in the 80's. People issuing loans that shouldn't have been to people who were building too much house. It was toys toys toys. It was a big orgy and it wasn't even fun. The 80's were fun. Nobody was thinking about healthcare then either. The price gouging hadn't started yet. I look back at what my insurance was then and it was so cheap. When I heard Obamacare was going to allow kids to stay on their parents insurance until their mid 20's I went holy fuck, now the government is selling the laziness. Now we have government mandated free loading on mom and dad and people think this is some kind of solution.

The country went downhill fast as soon as a Bush got the oval office. Then all that global economy and free trade shit started to fly along with the wars again. I think Clinton and Obama are George Bush's adopted sons.

[Nitro Express]

One of the Indian Casinos near me used to only play 80's music. We would go to drink & play blackjack. Even shit like Cindi Lauper was fun to hear. The 80's was all about having fun. Whether you were in to metal, pop, new wave, rap, etc. No matter the style of music, it was all about having a good time & enjoying yourself. Something bad happened and the 90's was all about being pissed off, then the 00's were all about being sad. Music like that is good for a time, but has no real staying power because people don't want to stay pissed or sad forever.

And I always wanted to fuck the brains out of the little brunette from The Bangles.

No shit. She was hot. There was nothing better than seeing big 80's Aquanet hair down at your cock sucking you off.