Reply With Quoteyou obviously missed 1990-1992Originally Posted by Alexlind123
80's = true birth of super exotic cars
80's great alternative music.
90's - affordable moddable turbo sports cars
90's great alternative music
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1st Hair bands suck
these aren't
Robert Palmer, Talking Heads, The Cars, Peter Gabriel
Cars: Ferrari F-40, Ruf CTR Yellow Bird, BMW M5, BMW M3, BMW M6, Lamborghini Countach
to name a few
I like the 80's even if nobody else does
Last edited by Sam-Son; 01-21-2007 at 03:28 AM.
-Mike
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you obviously missed 1990-1992
80's = true birth of super exotic cars
80's great alternative music.
90's - affordable moddable turbo sports cars
90's great alternative music
Last edited by attack eagle; 01-22-2007 at 12:24 AM.
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i've wanted to post to this thread for a while, but i didn't have time to write an adequate response. another vote here for the 90's, for much the same reasons you've said above gayle. at the same time, i have a hard time understanding how the original poster could of said the 90s because of how young he was. the late 90s had everything you speak of. the intertubes were going to save the world, you could get VC money to set up a webcam in your living room and create a website centered around it, significant job security, decent pay for even unskilled workers, and a glut of exceptionally cheap gasoline. all of this novel, useful technology was being created and implemented, but it was OK if you didn't want/need to use it. it was ok for most to not have cellphones, and it wasn't a big deal if you didn't get reception in a certain area. you didn't need to go online to download instruction manuals, print out your boarding pass, et cetera.... but if you wanted to take advantage of the internet and whatnot, you could do things that were inconceivable 4 or 5 years previously. computers weren't 50% inapplicable to home users like they were in the 80s. early 90s cars (to me) set the standard for reliability and simplicity, you can't get any better than the 91-95 honda cars for examples of this. no vacuum line nightmares like the mid/late 80s cars that eventually got taken off the road when sticking pencils and golf tees into "emissions equipment lines" didn't work anymore.
as (gayle) said, the x'ers and milennials were a product of their upbringings, but if all they know is pessimism, the more pessimistic they got, the happier and more content they were--(they) had all the nostalgic life experiences that every other decade had, obtaining driver's licenses, getting laid, &c. the backdrop just happened to a little dark, and as a result, they can find a little nostalgia in that darkness. perhaps i'm incapable of explaining it over the intertubes. the 60s and 70s bois were cooking up every STD known to man and spreading it around to anything with a moist hole. as al bundy said "at least in my day, we didn't have to put a tire on our (paraphrase wang) to get laid." indeed he didn't, but the decade itself wasn't responsible for (us) not getting to have "free love."
as to the music....i'll definitely give you hippies that. i could listen to the rushmore soundtrack for 8 hours a day, and all that is is british invasion+some 70's music. but just understand that much of that was borne of drugs, and that by the 90s it was socially unacceptable (and i think somewhat for the better) to walk around having piss capable of melting a styrafoam cup. i was watching vh1 one day with my sister, and actually heard one of the beachboys actually say that their music was "cerebral", which caused me to laugh my ass off and discount their catalog entirely. i don't care how much critics may sing hosannas about "pet sounds", if that clown actually thinks that, i'm going to go ahead and consider them about as innovative as sonic youth. whilst the hippies may have a certain amount of nostalgia tied up in that decade, i certainly don't, and i can find a hundred stupid emo bands that are as "innovative" as they are. this extended into the 80s with your bolivian marching powder, looking back now, i can definitely see how coke shaped a lot of the children's programming i watched. for example, here's a promotional video for microsoft windows 386 (released for 386s around 1988). this version has a lot of the boring parts cut out, but just watch it--coke obviously had a lot to do with even the idea ever seein the light of day.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QGO2hVA3P58
here's steve balmer of microsoft selling windows 1.0 on the teevee
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W6YgZc5th6g&NR
i'll also say that i think that 1980s womens' hair sucked, yeah, it was big, but it made them look like prostitutes. i like poofed up poofed out 70s stewardess hair the best. maybe if fashion designers weren't all gay men, there would be fewer flat womens' hairstyles, as any straight man likes big @ss hair on women. i'll stop now before i become more irrelevant.
PS: i realise that i may have written some things that may come off as harsh or @ss-h0lish. i really don't mean to be that way, i'm just bitter that i can't have any coke or random sex.
Last edited by ryan roopnarine; 01-22-2007 at 09:50 AM.
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Since i have lived the majority of my life so far in the 90s, i think i would probably have a decent understanding of the decade. Besides, my original post was clearly based mainly on the pop culture of the decade, which anyone can easily look at years after the fact by simply sampling the different aspects of whatever made that particular decade unique.
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Childhood doesn't count. You don't remember the entire decade, probably only the parts after I graduated highschool..
I got my Driver's license in 1990...
Sorry ryan, you have an opinion but I have to disagree.
I remember the 80's as well, hell, I remember Carter. It wasn't as bad as people who DON'T really remember it or never lived thru it make it out to be. No worse than the pot head/heroin/meth revolutions of the 90's, no lamer than dirty flannel from thrift stores, or oversized sports apparel with tags attched, neon clothing, baggy Gumby pants, etc.
Those of us who actually lived thru that era and pretty much any other decade since the late 50's, seem to take a certain view that no matter how bad it is, at least we aren't nuclear ash. IN the 90's kids and adults were free of that worry, but they also lost some sense of what was really important in a wave of consumerism and lost a sense of nation.
But you can definately shoot all the Flock of seagull/cure wannabe music "artist" today. Like those schmucks from AFI. IF they were any lamer or gayer, they'd be queer quadriple amputees.
Last edited by attack eagle; 01-22-2007 at 02:15 PM.
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I don't think you can call the 90's more consumerist than the 80's!!!!!!
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How can you say that childhood doesnt count?? Its just a different perspective on the same thing. You probably werent even aware of or didnt participate in most of the things on my original list.
Its obviously an opinion, and i gave some reasons to support my opinion.
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that's a really good point. ie the 60's might have been a good time to be an adult, but if you were of draft age, maybe not such a good time, etc....
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Sorry
meant not to take my comment too seriously.
There was consumerism in the 80's, yes, but not to the extent that you HAD to upgrade (sometimes frequently) many items in the home to benefit from technology. And there seemed to be less disposable technology goods. I know my mom's 1980's era VCR (push buttons and analog tuning dials) is still soldiering on, unlike most 90's vcrs she had that lasted 3 years tops for example.
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i think i was referring more to conspicuous consumerism like you see typified in the movie Wall Street - a generation of "yuppies" obsessed with upward mobility and accumulating wealth is typically the caricature of 80's excess. I would define that as consumerism, of a different type however. The 80's are the decade that coined the term yuppie.Sorry
There was consumerism in the 80's, yes, but not to the extent that you HAD to upgrade (sometimes frequently) many items in the home to benefit from technology. And there seemed to be less disposable technology goods. I know my mom's 1980's era VCR (push buttons and analog tuning dials) is still soldiering on, unlike most 90's vcrs she had that lasted 3 years tops for example.
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