BBC Eighties Season - The Grumpy Guide To The 80s (5/10/10)

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  • Part of the Eighties Season on BBC Two
    First aired on BBC 2 on the October 5th 2010
    The 80s, a decade that style forgot, along with any form of taste or decency. From Thatcher's Britain to the New Romantics and the ubiquitous filofax there's much about this decade to be grumpy about.
    Ronnie Ancona used to get an adverse physical reaction to seeing a mullet. Shappi Khorsandi does a spookily good impression of those horrendous Cabbage Patch Dolls. And then there was the terrible music; Al Murray can't understand how anyone would have allowed Duran Duran to stagger on, bellowing like a wounded buffalo for the whole decade and, according to Mark Radcliffe the Human League just looked stupid.
    With other contributions from Alistair Mcgowan, Mark Steel and Neil Morrissey, The Grumpy Guide to the 1980s takes a look back at one of history's most embarrassing decades and gets really grumpy about it.
    www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00sf8vz
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  • @hamburgerhelperflick
    @hamburgerhelperflick 6 років тому +262

    When they talk about Thatcher and Regan, I want to travel back to 2010 and tell them, "You have no idea what's coming."

    • @RozarSmacco
      @RozarSmacco 5 років тому +14

      Yeah like this, “BE warned! there’s this horrible rich, yt jerk who said a dirty word in a private conversation 10 years before he even ran for office!” REEEEEEEE !!!

    • @queenbeekeeper
      @queenbeekeeper 5 років тому +9

      That is so funny! I really laughed when I read your clever comment!

    • @raydonahue1978
      @raydonahue1978 4 роки тому +11

      Yeah. A globalist traitor fifth column piece of shit for every most European countries

    • @patrickholt2270
      @patrickholt2270 4 роки тому

      2010? The World Cup in South Africa?

    • @Weird.Dreams
      @Weird.Dreams 4 роки тому +6

      That cunt said Thatcher called Mandela a terrorist? Err.. yeah because he was! Stupid lefty shitweasel.

  • @canuck21
    @canuck21 4 роки тому +55

    The eighties were so much better than now.

    • @seansands424
      @seansands424 2 роки тому

      Not for everybody, it was mostly ballucks

    • @canuck21
      @canuck21 2 роки тому +1

      @@seansands424 For most.

  • @thedarklord6130
    @thedarklord6130 4 роки тому +59

    I freaking loved the 80s.
    It was a fun decade to grow up in

    • @nichhodge8503
      @nichhodge8503 5 місяців тому +2

      I was born in 81 and growing up in the 80’s was great, I preferred the 90’s the 2000’s were ok and since the 2010’s it’s been like falling off a high cliff. It keeps getting worse as time passes and I know at some point it’s all going to come to a screeching halt and I’ll be dead. But in the 80’s there was good music, kids cartoons were great and movies were great too with so many classic films that you can watch today and say that film made me feel good and I can watch it again and again where as films today are mainly disappointing and if there is one film that you enjoyed it doesn’t have the ability to make you rewatch it more than another 1 or 2 times like the Indiana Jones & Back To The Future trilogies or The Goonies, Ghostbusters plus many more movies. I could go on but you grew up in the 80’s so you know what I’m talking about and really the only bad things to come out in the 80’s was the fashion and the hair especially the hair! Also AIDS was a big bad thing in the 80’s but it never effected me or most kids growing up in the 80’s.

  • @Retro-Fez
    @Retro-Fez 4 роки тому +42

    I miss the 80,s so much was an amazing time to be alive 👍

  • @THEDEVILEYES1
    @THEDEVILEYES1 3 роки тому +91

    Love the 80s, don’t give a toss what others say about it - (apart from the bad hairstyles) it’s much better than what the world looks like now.

    • @MrAussieJules
      @MrAussieJules 2 роки тому +9

      Totally agree... much more optimistic and free.

    • @liahurst8575
      @liahurst8575 2 роки тому +6

      A bit late in my reply, but I totally agree with you!

    • @Jamb1967
      @Jamb1967 Рік тому +3

      Well said

    • @PSUK
      @PSUK Рік тому +2

      Yep. 100%

    • @tim19655
      @tim19655 Рік тому +2

      same here

  • @revengeoftheultaterrestria292
    @revengeoftheultaterrestria292 9 років тому +83

    I was a middle class kid in the 80's and it was a great time to be alive. Good schools, Cartoons, T.V, Phone boxes, The Smiths, M Jackson, Prince, U2, people were happier in a lot of ways then. Kids played out all day, played footy and games and were not afraid of strangers like they are today.

    • @annother3350
      @annother3350 4 роки тому +4

      We used to play in a playground but had to watch out for when the gluesniffers came. I don't know what they were going to do to us but they looked like zombies! My friend got followed in a car and a man tried to snatch him but he climbed over another car bonnet and ran...so we had a healthy fear of strangers

    • @Mishima505
      @Mishima505 3 роки тому +6

      At the weekends we used to play football or cricket in the street then make sure we were home to watch Jim’ll Fix It and Rolf’s Cartoon Club. Happy days...

    • @DiamondProofSector
      @DiamondProofSector 3 роки тому +15

      That's exactly the same thing people in the 80s said about the 50s LOL. Everything looks rose-tinted in the rearview mirror.

    • @MH-et5sn
      @MH-et5sn 3 роки тому +1

      @@DiamondProofSector The 80s and 50s had much more in common than the 90s and 2000s / 2010s did.

    • @leedswiggy
      @leedswiggy 3 роки тому +1

      Not the smiths ffs.

  • @peterwilliams8922
    @peterwilliams8922 Рік тому +19

    In 2022, it sounds bloody marvelous by todays standards. Yes, I was a musical snob at the time, but I never thought things could get as bad as they have now. Some exeptions granted.

  • @reasonablyserious
    @reasonablyserious 4 роки тому +149

    I feel like we are in no position to complain about the 80s.

    • @mauricehammond2062
      @mauricehammond2062 3 роки тому +6

      Rees mog for gallows or iron maiden or breaking wheel any will do

    • @dez7250
      @dez7250 3 роки тому +11

      Laughing at they think it's better now😁🤦

    • @samuelparker9882
      @samuelparker9882 3 роки тому +3

      I'm wit ya!!!!

    • @DreamBelief
      @DreamBelief 3 роки тому +8

      Why not? There were rubbish and abhorrent things every era. We are no worse now, just different. We seem to quickly forget the bad

    • @mewesquirrel6720
      @mewesquirrel6720 2 роки тому

      Missing children 😐😐

  • @Mishima505
    @Mishima505 3 роки тому +11

    RIP Geoffrey Palmer. The ultimate grumpy.

  • @legallyresistingtyranny5901
    @legallyresistingtyranny5901 5 років тому +24

    I miss the 80's. It was a great time to be young.

    • @nigelcreighton2411
      @nigelcreighton2411 4 місяці тому

      Think possibly whichever time you were a teenager is the best time ever, however, every decade can’t be the best ever. I reckon another explanation is in order…..could it possibly have something to do with being a particular age at a particular time that resonates with you for the rest of your life???????

  • @NathanChisholm041
    @NathanChisholm041 4 роки тому +39

    Being a young teen in the 80s was awesome!

    • @blackmore4
      @blackmore4 4 роки тому +1

      No it wasn't ;)

    • @NathanChisholm041
      @NathanChisholm041 3 місяці тому

      @@MyPodNetMc5 At least in the 80s we knew how to spell by using a capital letter at the start of a sentence unlike today's morons! Nice try...

  • @moomp
    @moomp 5 років тому +97

    I liked the 80's, maybe because I was a kid, but it seemed joyous back then. Now everything is so dark and vulgar.

  • @healthyamerican
    @healthyamerican 8 років тому +278

    gladly trade this decade for the 80`s

    • @youandwhosearmy6339
      @youandwhosearmy6339 8 років тому +7

      +healthyamerican No, you wouldn't believe me. I was there

    • @MiamiPush2theLimit
      @MiamiPush2theLimit 8 років тому +2

      I liked the 80s music and fashion.

    • @tenofivelips
      @tenofivelips 7 років тому +10

      We had more freedom in the 80's in America.

    • @STARDRIVE
      @STARDRIVE 7 років тому +3

      It was a great decade in itself, but unfortunate also the hangover from the 60's and 70's: That grey inhabitable concrete backdrop was the self-inflicted result of more devastation than Hitler could ever dream of.

    • @IShitOnThes
      @IShitOnThes 6 років тому +1

      80s r gaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaayyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy!!!!

  • @ruthparks3380
    @ruthparks3380 Рік тому +3

    And here we are in 2022 and the humble mullet is back with a vengeance

    • @alyzu4755
      @alyzu4755 6 місяців тому

      Why?
      WHYYYYYYYY?!?!?!?!? 🤣

  • @1giggles77
    @1giggles77 Рік тому +4

    I am American and had a rough childhood and that childhood was in the 80s. To me this is pure f*cking gold. I am absolutely howling!

  • @dubhslaine2
    @dubhslaine2 8 років тому +145

    dancing to Duran Duran with a mullet sounds like heaven to me

    • @gordonfitterer4660
      @gordonfitterer4660 7 років тому +10

      Duran Duran is such an Awesome Band every song by them is a Great Song
      and a Top of the Charts Smash Hit in this Ordinary World , Hmm i think i'll go
      Listen to them Now

    • @johnmckee7640
      @johnmckee7640 5 років тому +1

      Blue moon on Monday..

    • @fingerprint5511
      @fingerprint5511 5 років тому +5

      It was. Duran Duran were awesome. Whoever that fat fart is complaining about tgem was probably jealous of Simon. Lol

    • @fingerprint5511
      @fingerprint5511 5 років тому +5

      @@gordonfitterer4660 Rio is a great album still today.

    • @raydonahue1978
      @raydonahue1978 4 роки тому +3

      @@johnmckee7640 NEW Moon on Monday

  • @ayb100
    @ayb100 6 років тому +29

    I lived in UK between 82 and 91 and It was a lot fo fun. Yes some things were dreadful but was more genuine than today.

  • @michaeldennistooley4271
    @michaeldennistooley4271 4 роки тому +24

    Cheers to the 80s and cheers to those who understand British humor ☮️

  • @theresapierce3934
    @theresapierce3934 4 роки тому +74

    The 80s is so much better than now, 2019.

  • @margitouma6172
    @margitouma6172 5 років тому +13

    I was a teen in the 80s and LOVED IT!!

    • @kevcatnip7589
      @kevcatnip7589 5 років тому +1

      ALOT of bitter hasbeens

    • @blackmore4
      @blackmore4 4 роки тому

      @@kevcatnip7589 I see you have Bowie in your user icon. Check what he said about his own 80s work. He was right. Insufferable decade.

    • @nigelcreighton2411
      @nigelcreighton2411 4 місяці тому

      @@kevcatnip7589it’s kinda sad, I was teen in the eighties and we have a world today that is better in every possible way I can think of, we can watch TV anywhere anytime and get this you can choose what you want to watch!!!!!!! Better than a VHS and more portable plus you can make phone calls, take photos and play Pac-Man

  • @alanstevenson-graham6268
    @alanstevenson-graham6268 3 роки тому +4

    I remember yuppies carrying the filofax openly and placing it in full view on the bar in a pub (I worked in Fleet Street, City of London, yuppies everywhere) then they did the same with mobile phones, just showing off 🤣😂

    • @davidcoleman3661
      @davidcoleman3661 3 місяці тому +1

      The mobile phones were so big then that nobody had any option but to flaunt them. They just couldn’t go into your coat or trouser pockets.

  • @annemariecandyflip6531
    @annemariecandyflip6531 9 місяців тому +5

    The best decade ever! 🤩

  • @edwardbennett3572
    @edwardbennett3572 8 місяців тому +2

    I still use my home made filo fax. Still going strong in 2023

  • @funkyalfonso
    @funkyalfonso 4 роки тому +12

    Geoffrey Palmer is the best thing about this show and grumpy old men. Bravo.

    • @jeraldbaxter3532
      @jeraldbaxter3532 6 місяців тому +2

      Geoffrey Palmer is my role model as I get in touch with my not so inner curmudgeon.😉

  • @kellysouter4381
    @kellysouter4381 Рік тому +23

    What are they complaining about? Id have it all back in a heartbeat. It's so much better than what we face today.

    • @davideck
      @davideck 4 місяці тому +2

      We can never go back. Live in the moment. There is nothing wrong with analyzing the past so that we can learn. This commentary is hilarious.

    • @davidbridgman9884
      @davidbridgman9884 4 місяці тому

      Totally agree. Fuck these guys were haters.
      I loved the 80’s!! Best decade ever

    • @nigelcreighton2411
      @nigelcreighton2411 4 місяці тому

      It’s tough to market and advertise products that no longer exist. So you make the old unattractive and lame, the new you push with the fervour of an evangelical preacher. Probs a lil subtler than that in reality but that’s the gist of the deal that I see.

    • @nigelcreighton2411
      @nigelcreighton2411 4 місяці тому

      Yeah 18% interest rates where awesome and AIDS was a blast, I tell ya the lack of any choice in entertainment (five television stations and a local cinema if lucky) slow driving lousy handling penalty boxes of cars and the constant spectre of nuclear Armageddon make for the icing on the cake. Soz but we have it soooooooooo much better now than then, actually I wager if you were to be sent back you’d be missing all the stuff we take for granted that didn’t exist 40 years ago.

    • @LMB222
      @LMB222 4 місяці тому

      Absolutely not. I'd miss the pit, the internet, the clothes.

  • @Astro_War
    @Astro_War 5 років тому +16

    I remember the 80s and it was the best. Cool cars, fashion trends, interesting technology. Today everything seems so bland.

  • @jewelsvictoria8418
    @jewelsvictoria8418 4 роки тому +23

    The 80's were the best

  • @taraa9087
    @taraa9087 4 роки тому +6

    80s The Best times. Nicer people no cell phones and crazy technology. People wrote letters and communicated face to face. They made time for each other and everybody just enjoyed life. And children played outside. What is so Special about today's World?

  • @prepperjonpnw6482
    @prepperjonpnw6482 3 роки тому +35

    To me the 80’s were a simpler time. No cell phones was heaven. No laptops or computers in general. I was in high school 80-84 then from 84-90 I was 18 to 24 years old. So I say the 80’s was the best time of my life.

    • @mattiemclean9882
      @mattiemclean9882 2 роки тому +5

      EVERYBODY thinks the decade of their youth was the best decade

    • @AndysEastCoastAdventures
      @AndysEastCoastAdventures 2 роки тому +3

      @@mattiemclean9882 Not so much now, always see youths complaining about their own music and preferring older stuff. For my it was late 70's early 80's but love stuff back to the early 60's just as much. Seemed to go downhill mid 90's.

    • @IStevenSeagal
      @IStevenSeagal Рік тому

      @@AndysEastCoastAdventures You said late 70's-early 80's was your favorite period yet you say mid 90's was the beginning of downhill. That doesn't make sense, don't you mean mid 80's?

    • @alfsmith4936
      @alfsmith4936 7 місяців тому

      ​@@AndysEastCoastAdventuresThere were plenty of kids in the U.K, who hated 70s-80s music in the 70s-80s. That's how the Rockabilly/Mod revival and Punk music came about.
      In the 60s it was old blues and trad jazz. In the 90s it was the music of the 1960s and today, it's anything you like on Spotify.

  • @EnidAgnusDei
    @EnidAgnusDei 10 років тому +54

    I loved the 80's and it's fashion and music, that said this is interesting!

    • @afrog2666
      @afrog2666 4 роки тому +2

      Its*
      It`s is short for it is.
      First grade..
      First grade.

    • @a.tanner8524
      @a.tanner8524 2 роки тому

      @@afrog2666 Grammar Nazi.

  • @DreamBelief
    @DreamBelief 9 років тому +48

    Wow guys commenting here. This is a comedy show, not a documentary. They are meant to be cynical, sarcastic and pessimistic about everything, hence the use of "the grumpy guide" in the title. They do it about other subjects too, like Christmas. Don't take it like a documentary.

    • @Ndlanding
      @Ndlanding 5 років тому

      I take your point, but the commentators are mainly unfunny. As for the archive video, I'm here because I was watching some 80s Top of the Pops and I was abhorred! I just followed a suggested link to watch this programme, which is kinda OK. Personally, I left the UK in the mid-80s, so I fortunately missed a lot of it, since there was no internet then.

    • @XXXEspio
      @XXXEspio 5 років тому +1

      people are fucking stupid shitbags these days so no use trying to tell them. let them cry their dick off...

    • @auntihooha
      @auntihooha 5 років тому +1

      You should do you own show if you don't like it.

    • @kwokatmooff
      @kwokatmooff 4 роки тому

      every other person CAN do their own show now which is why so much crap has infested the internet, TV and Netflix.

    • @DreamBelief
      @DreamBelief 3 роки тому

      @@auntihooha is that replying to me? I never said I dislike it. I like it. Or do you mean the people I was talking about?

  • @LH-ro2ot
    @LH-ro2ot 4 роки тому +5

    I lived through the eighties...I never want to go back!!!!!

  • @Tina06019
    @Tina06019 6 років тому +12

    “We have become a grandmother.” Oh my G-d. How revolting.

  • @Nautilus1972
    @Nautilus1972 4 роки тому +25

    Penny Smith:"Do you remember? Everyone had a filofax?"
    No Penny, no they didn't.

  • @jamesrobert4106
    @jamesrobert4106 Рік тому +2

    1981...Golden Brown by the Stranglers. That alone made the 80s worth it!!!

  • @montanamountainmen6104
    @montanamountainmen6104 5 років тому +19

    80's were the best ever , class of 87!

  • @magic3061
    @magic3061 4 роки тому +3

    80s music is 1000x better than today's shit..

  • @buchan1965a
    @buchan1965a 4 роки тому +9

    "...never to elect someone who makes you embarrassed to be British..."
    Oh my.

  • @IhaveMy0pinion
    @IhaveMy0pinion 7 місяців тому +1

    I was a teen/20 in the eighties.... loved it, loved that time so much.

  • @urf4vvbrun3tt3s
    @urf4vvbrun3tt3s Рік тому +20

    I was a child of the 80s and I loved it! The best music, the best/worst fashion and nobody cared about health and safety. Brilliant!

  • @CatsJP
    @CatsJP Рік тому +5

    In my late 60s (age no barrier)loved the 80s clothes hairstyles music creativity of the people, it was great. You could really get dressed up to go out not just wear your best clothes and express yourself. Excess was great 👍

  • @Bertanerny
    @Bertanerny 5 років тому +6

    Ed Byrne's comment about recording a ventriloquist song is priceless

  • @weallsobad7320
    @weallsobad7320 5 років тому +4

    How did we survive the mullet? The mullet is still here today in the form of the "Man bun"! All it is, is a Millennial mullet!

  • @jjdecani
    @jjdecani 5 років тому +8

    I'm with Mark Steel. I thought Spit the Dog was pretty funny, because it was basically sending up the innate silliness of vent acts. A puppet that doesn't speak. It just spits. I love it.

  • @johnking5174
    @johnking5174 5 років тому +60

    The 1980s was far better than 2010s. Yes there were some bad things, but I would chose this decade than now. Anyone else agree?

    • @dsd310580
      @dsd310580 4 роки тому +13

      The 80s was the best decade of my life. The 2010s have been the worst decade of my life.

    • @a.tanner8524
      @a.tanner8524 2 роки тому +3

      @@dsd310580 Agree 100%!

    • @DuncanMcA
      @DuncanMcA Рік тому +2

      The first half of the 2010s were ok.

    • @johnking5174
      @johnking5174 Рік тому +2

      @@DuncanMcA Yes, now in 2022 we look back at the time of the coalition government and think it was a beautiful era compared to the mess created from 2016 onward.

    • @DuncanMcA
      @DuncanMcA Рік тому

      @@johnking5174 it sowed the seeds for a lot of the problems now eg NHS backlog but the era itself wasn’t so bad. There was also very little in the way of terrorism and of course we had the London Olympics

  • @monkeyspankerful
    @monkeyspankerful 4 роки тому +7

    Everyone hated Maggie.... But somebody voted her in.... 3 times.

    • @BioDieselEstate
      @BioDieselEstate 4 роки тому +1

      Yeah. Strange that so few would admit it, though.

    • @minty448
      @minty448 4 роки тому +2

      I didn’t hate her,I thought she was great. I got a wave from her once.

    • @marieince3239
      @marieince3239 3 роки тому

      I did not vote that vile bi5ch in

    • @EmoBearRights
      @EmoBearRights 3 роки тому

      I blame the parents - mine certainly didn't help.

    • @EmoBearRights
      @EmoBearRights 3 роки тому

      I ran away from her canvassing in the neatest town to me in the early 90s.

  • @DigitalMusicXpress
    @DigitalMusicXpress 4 роки тому +4

    Presenting: The grumps of the 80's....
    I'll gladly go back and live it!

  • @5CBGB
    @5CBGB 6 років тому +8

    8:08 Duran Duran = "… like a buffalo with 50 arrows in it" Laughed so hard! 🤣‼️

  • @bethhollins3556
    @bethhollins3556 4 роки тому +14

    I loved "Break Out".

    • @nealmceneaney3771
      @nealmceneaney3771 4 роки тому +6

      Beth Hollins
      So did Byrne.
      But he’s so fundamentally bad at comedy he chose to mock a song that, whether you like it or not, you know what it statement ‘break out’ means. Christ she explains it ‘...find a way say what you want to say’.
      Again, of all the songs in the 80s, Byrne chooses this song and that ‘joke’.
      It’s ironically ‘hilarious’

  • @billwyman4322
    @billwyman4322 9 років тому +43

    Notice, no-ne ever says, "Hey, wasn't Jimmy Savile a load of crap...?" In these BBC retrospectives...

    • @Whewchilee
      @Whewchilee 9 років тому +2

      This was before the story was published.

    • @thewhatorwhy
      @thewhatorwhy 9 років тому +12

      None Ya Damn Business. They do a good job of ignoring and whitewashing it now too. They certainly were silent about it for decades.
      Not surprising considering that Savile's pedophile friends were probably elsewhere in the BBC too. Not to forget the royal family.

    • @Ndlanding
      @Ndlanding 5 років тому +6

      People had been talking about it for many years before it made the headlines.

    • @soniaroberts1920
      @soniaroberts1920 4 роки тому +1

      Who?

    • @johndearden7931
      @johndearden7931 4 роки тому

      ua-cam.com/video/Rjy8oLVOvi4/v-deo.html

  • @maxwest6595
    @maxwest6595 2 роки тому +3

    I love the comedians saying how Freddy Star wasnt very good. At least people know his name, unlike most of these non-entities. Where are Arthur Smith and Will Self?

  • @dfrew2529
    @dfrew2529 6 років тому +51

    Musically the early 80's were quite productive, latterly there wasn't much going on. Culturally the 80's were the beginning of the end of civilised society.

    • @BioDieselEstate
      @BioDieselEstate 4 роки тому +1

      To appreciate the influential, informative, definitive bands/music of the eighties, two words are needed: Alternative & Indie. More or less, beginning with
      The Smiths and ending with
      Stone Roses & Happy Mondays.

    • @magrathean0
      @magrathean0 4 роки тому +5

      D Frew: I agree. There is little point in singling out the eighties as some kind of creative nadir, when the three decades that followed them were so much worse. The eighties were the last decade in which there was any substantial creative content in music and pop culture.

    • @denisegore1884
      @denisegore1884 4 роки тому +3

      @@magrathean0 and fashion. Some 80s fashion wasn't that great but at least there was some. It has all been blah since the 90s.

    • @zetetick395
      @zetetick395 4 роки тому

      Let it come down!

    • @annother3350
      @annother3350 4 роки тому +1

      No, it was the start of the grand awakening. People coming together to dance to acid and house music in 🎝 sweet harmony 🎜 It was a special time. For a few years football thugs stopped fighting and started dancing. Young people would talk to each other on the bus and maybe share a joint or two! If only the government enforced Mdma on the public instead of banning it, the world would be a better place!

  • @Havencheese
    @Havencheese 6 років тому +33

    "People got really smug and really pleased with themselves really quickly about not very much" while I agree with this statement about the 80's (*cough* cocaine *cough*), following the late 90's boom of Reality TV and the internet infiltrating households since 94 amongst other things, this behaviour has gotten even worse.

  • @balthiersgirl2658
    @balthiersgirl2658 4 роки тому +15

    The 80ts was the best decade that ever was one month into 2020 ww3 and a Pandemic looming over us I'd do anything to go back

    • @Negamare1
      @Negamare1 2 роки тому +2

      I'd travel back to the 80's, the90's and early 2000's.

  • @lustforlow-end6022
    @lustforlow-end6022 2 роки тому +2

    “My first musical hero was Shakin’ Stevens… I know, I know!”

  • @nancyomalley6012
    @nancyomalley6012 9 років тому +2

    The filofax-It's a bloody address book! They actually charged 80 quid??? People actually PAID 80 quid for that???
    And I'm a yank!

  • @thisisindie3675
    @thisisindie3675 5 років тому +7

    The 80's produced some great music. Problem is most of it got nowhere near the charts and so was unheard by the masses.

    • @Johnnywhamo
      @Johnnywhamo 3 роки тому +2

      The 80's especially early 80's charts was FILLED with fantastic music and it was an absolute golden age for charted mainstream music. Post Punk, New Wave, Synth Pop, New Romantic, Ska, 2 nd wave Punk, a shitload of indie music and an era that completely re-shaped the industry and you're suggesting "most of it got nowhere near the charts" ?

  • @dubhslaine2
    @dubhslaine2 8 років тому +27

    I love the 80"s-best decade ever-best fashion and music ever!!

  • @user-vy7oh8ix6n
    @user-vy7oh8ix6n 7 місяців тому

    loved the 80s was a 79/84 at high school. Best time of my life learning my trade skills. Great decade to live .Great memories

  • @apm763
    @apm763 Рік тому +1

    Any year from the 80s beats anything this century has had to offer so far. The only good thing about the 21st century is the parts of social media where we can reminisce about past times, when things were more fun and exciting.

  • @EozOrange
    @EozOrange 11 років тому +4

    Finally someone's uploaded this in full! Thank you!

  • @pauldg837
    @pauldg837 3 роки тому +4

    This must have been solely a British experience, as my time living in the eighties spent living in Canada, was one of the best and most enjoyable decades of my life.

  • @trevortrevatrevortreva1520
    @trevortrevatrevortreva1520 8 місяців тому +1

    The best thing about the 80s was you knew which side you were on greed or caring about other people - simpler times

  • @jd7x7
    @jd7x7 10 років тому +27

    However, at least in the 1980s we didn't have documentaries where clips were interspersed with people talking for three seconds and repeating what we had just seen on the screen.

    • @Ndlanding
      @Ndlanding 5 років тому

      Conspiracy! When I click on your 10 likes, instead of going to 11, it goes down to nine! SO I couldn't tell you that I agree, but I'm telling you now.

  • @ano1wilsonpicket
    @ano1wilsonpicket 6 років тому +203

    these people are way more annoying than the 80's were.

    • @mattiemclean9882
      @mattiemclean9882 4 роки тому +8

      Damn right!! I was just thinking that. The 80s were great if you were young (like me and my mates were) and these z-list turds talking about it are SO annoying

    • @loris466
      @loris466 4 роки тому +4

      Yeah, I'm not feeling this show...I mean, I still listen to a lot of that music now.

    • @michaelleacy
      @michaelleacy 4 роки тому +6

      I know - the irony, absolute nobodies slagging off bad TV and music etc - by appearing on complete garbage TV. what did they ever achieve that was memorable? Had to turn it off, couldn't listen anymore

    • @lapernice6978
      @lapernice6978 4 роки тому +7

      The titel is „the GRUMPY GUIDE“

    • @soniaroberts1920
      @soniaroberts1920 4 роки тому +5

      What don't you understand about the word grumpy? Get a sense of humour, before its too late!

  • @tanjohnny2757
    @tanjohnny2757 4 роки тому +6

    80's was a great decade for me, especially the music. The second British invasion.

  • @jamesnewman4351
    @jamesnewman4351 6 років тому +5

    The 80's were a tremendously creative decade esp music wise esp in England. People were more alive and hanging out together,they would actually listen to you when you were speaking. Now it's "hmmm , yeah,I know" when you speak to a youngster cos he or she is fiddling with the fucking cell phone as you speak.. Bring back the 80's!!!

  • @terrythekittieful
    @terrythekittieful 4 роки тому +7

    Actually the 80's were pretty good for music, take out all that poppy crap they mentioned and you still have the two tone movement, bands like the Specials, Madness, the Beat etc., the Smiths turned music on its head, the Pogues arrived, XTC were at the top of their game, U2 were at their peak and never got better, female artists like Sade and Kirsty MacColl,..in America, REM arrived, the Replacements another..in Australia there was a sort of musical renaissance with Men at Work, Midnight Oil, Died Pretty, Mental as Anything and Nick Cave, all seriously good artists...there are heaps of good bands/solo artists from the 80's I haven't mentioned....nothing today comes close musically.

  • @johnking5174
    @johnking5174 5 років тому +4

    1980s TV was much better than 2019. Saturday nights in the Autumn of 1984 for example had much better TV shows on BBC One than 2019. The Late Late Breakfast Show, Bob's Full House, Juliet Bravo, Paul Daniels Magic Show, Dynasty, Wogan, Match of the Day and a late movie. Perfect. What do we have in 2019 - Strictly Come Arseholes, Mrs Brown's Repulsive Boys and Michael McIntyre. 1984 for me.

    • @ajc94
      @ajc94 Рік тому +1

      Yeah but now you can watch almost any TV show or movie ever made thanks to Netflix and the pirate bay. Back in the 80s you'd either have to watch whatever shite was on telly or order VHS tapes out of a catalogue or something

  • @justmadeit2
    @justmadeit2 4 роки тому +9

    Swing out sister were great. The music of the 1980s had it all, originality, energy and humour.

  • @carlydatson6744
    @carlydatson6744 4 роки тому +1

    Really enjoyed this. It's not slating the whole era and saying it's so much worse than today, it's just a giggle at the obvious highlights ( convenient pun not intended! )

  • @evelynwilson1566
    @evelynwilson1566 7 місяців тому +1

    The secrer to the rubik cube was get a knock off which had coloured stickers, peel them off and rearrange. It worked in our house😂

  • @talktal
    @talktal 9 років тому +20

    i guess if you were the every day person, the 80s were horrible. but if you were in a youth culture, the 80s were the best of time

    • @wordviewministries7756
      @wordviewministries7756 9 років тому +10

      I think that is probably true of just about every time :)

    • @mikekaraoke
      @mikekaraoke 9 років тому +7

      talktal I was a small kid back in 80's didn't need to be in a youth culture to know it was a good decade

    • @blackmore4
      @blackmore4 4 роки тому +1

      I was 12 at the turn of the decade and hated virtually all 80s mainstream music, film and fashion. The 90s was a huge relief.

  • @MrBiggordy
    @MrBiggordy 4 роки тому +3

    This seems to bring out the grumpy commenters - the Eighties WERE shit! This is not the grumpy guide to the Eighties, this is the real guide to the Eighties, free from all the nostalgic treacle that DJ's pour onto every Eighties track they play nowadays.

  • @magpiedaft
    @magpiedaft 6 років тому +2

    whoever said sarcasm was the lowest form of wit never watched this ... never stopped laughing :-)

  • @carrolbennett3357
    @carrolbennett3357 5 місяців тому

    Care free 80's was a great era for me loved all the different styles of music. So much fun

  • @Your.Uncle.AngMoh
    @Your.Uncle.AngMoh 4 роки тому +7

    It was never stated that Mr. Humphries was gay. Never!

  • @TheMrB
    @TheMrB 8 років тому +3

    Mark Steel is hysterical. A really smart & funny guy.

    • @revol148
      @revol148 8 років тому

      MrBudzini so just what is it about his whining cockney accent which you find so appealing?

    • @oz_media
      @oz_media 8 років тому

      +revol148 Thought he was from Kent

    • @revol148
      @revol148 8 років тому

      +ozmedia Ben Elton was from Guildford and still had an affected estuary accent - you don't have to be born within the sound of the Bow Bells to have that accent....

    • @oz_media
      @oz_media 8 років тому

      revol148
      I never said anything of the sort, don't know why you assumed so much more was said than was actually said.

    • @revol148
      @revol148 8 років тому

      +ozmedia you mentioned you thought he was from Kent in response to me making an issue about his cockney accent - can you see the connection?

  • @rbeygarcia
    @rbeygarcia 4 роки тому +1

    Neil Morrisey’s own mullet back in the day made a very good argument for them. That’s how handsome he was.

  • @valley_robot
    @valley_robot 4 роки тому +5

    The smiths , the cure, the pixies,the stone roses, James , NEW ORDER, the chameleons etc, the ZX spectrum , CB radio , early channel four, the young ones , BMX , Warlock of firetop mountain, electro and hip hop, and for the record leave Howard Jones out of it , his dancer brought us BEZ and he was a great pop writer and musician , although it had been done with Stacia and Hawkwind in the 70s , the era brought us some fantastic things , but it was an era of make money fast

    • @blackmore4
      @blackmore4 4 роки тому

      Fascinating that your comment has only two upvotes after two weeks when you're saying that the 80s weren't so bad after all. Most of the comments raging against the people in this video for damning their favourite decade are made by people who almost certainly despise the groups and cultural artefacts you mention. After all, the Pixies sound way more 90s than 80s. I agree that there was a lot of great stuff in the decade but virtually none of it was mainstream. These people actually liked Spandau Ballet and Howard Jones. Personally I think that the vast majority of 80s mainstream pop culture (music, film, fashion) was horrendous.

  • @benibbotson2014
    @benibbotson2014 4 роки тому +5

    This is hilarious, pretty bang on.

  • @peterjonas4971
    @peterjonas4971 2 роки тому +1

    REM, echo and the bunnymen, Devo, The Cure, Jesus and Mary Chain, so many great bands

  • @radwulfeboraci7504
    @radwulfeboraci7504 8 років тому +1

    Being from across the pond, I can only say this is absolutely brilliant. I now know what it would be like to intercept an alien interstellar broadcast. Haven't got a clue about 90% of the content but never the less could not stop watching . Comments were witty and funnier than hell.

    • @1lightheaded
      @1lightheaded 8 років тому

      +Radwulf Eboraci Exactly cause you are them,

  • @danielmarquis5258
    @danielmarquis5258 9 років тому +24

    I was a child in the 80's, therefore I like it. These people talking took a major crap on the ENTIRE DECADE. To say that ALL the people dancing in the beginning were nerds proves my point above, WAY TO SLAM A DECADE PEOPLE. Not all New Wave is crap, Duran Duran are talented. Also, they are LIGHT AGES from being a NERDY GROUP, please!

    • @gordonfitterer4660
      @gordonfitterer4660 7 років тому +1

      Right on , , Rock On Daniel Marquis

    • @soniaroberts1920
      @soniaroberts1920 4 роки тому +1

      Get a sense of humour. The word grumpy should tell you what was coming................

    • @blackmore4
      @blackmore4 4 роки тому +1

      Duran Duran "talented"... er, okay ;)

  • @davinacollinsjones9627
    @davinacollinsjones9627 8 років тому +8

    Great decade

  • @syncsummit
    @syncsummit 8 місяців тому

    Personally, "Come back for a Ribena" worked like a charm for me in the 80s...

  • @nolongermatters4671
    @nolongermatters4671 2 роки тому

    This was really funny, I never saw this before even though I am an 80,s child, thank you for the upload

  • @YJMusic72
    @YJMusic72 7 років тому +12

    I was a teenager in the eighties and I used to love shows like Miami Vice, Moonlighting and Married with Children. So much better than the crap they show today..Musicwise, all that dance crap, they play today, couldn't even come close to the stuff real artists like Prince, Bruce Springsteen and Dire Straits (to name but a few) made. And young people actually did stuff. We played sports, tried to play our favorite songs on our first guitar or went for bike rides, instead of just sitting on the couch after school playing onine games, getting fat, like many kids do today. The eighties rocked!

    • @gordonfitterer4660
      @gordonfitterer4660 7 років тому

      +MrFitguru= you are RIght on I Agee with you 100 percent the 80s like
      Beavis n Butthead would Say uuuh the 80s Rule , yah ! yah the 80s Kick ASS !

    • @blackmore4
      @blackmore4 4 роки тому

      I was a teenager in the 80s too and I agree with every single word they said in the video. Horrendous decade.

  • @TheOptimod
    @TheOptimod 10 років тому +29

    There's negatives about every decade. Bullshit docu's like this will always pick the worst aspects and imply that everything was crap, cheesy, or doom and gloom.
    Fact is, the 80s was the best decade for music; so much variety, experimentation and evolution. You just never knew what would hit the charts next! Like they say, "there's nothing new in music any more because it was all done in the 80s."

  • @chrissywales6575
    @chrissywales6575 8 місяців тому +1

    The trouble with the shoulder pads, they were in everything. I had to cut them out because I swam a lot then and already had big shoulders. They looked ridiculous then. 40 years later and I don't swim so much...wonder how they'd look now...

  • @jeraldbaxter3532
    @jeraldbaxter3532 6 місяців тому +1

    One thing that nevef changes, throughout the millenia, is how each generation mocks the one before them.

  • @alanpatey620
    @alanpatey620 4 роки тому +9

    I loved the 80's. I sat in an ivory tower studying Logic and Metaphysics at Uni whilst Thatcher destroyed socialism, the Argies and Scargill. Happy days.

  • @BRISCO66
    @BRISCO66 6 років тому +4

    Very unhappy people that hate their miserable lives in this

  • @sally-annekaloudis5842
    @sally-annekaloudis5842 4 місяці тому +1

    I think the 80's was the best time to be alive, we lived for the moment, everything about it was amazing, wish we had Thatcher back too, she got bigger balls than any of our corrupt politicians today! If I could turn back time I would.

  • @alexday5892
    @alexday5892 7 місяців тому +1

    Geoffrey Palmer is the best person qualified to narrate this. Anyone else you wouldn’t listen to but Geoffrey has you smiling and (if you are as old as me) nodding.

    • @johnking5174
      @johnking5174 7 місяців тому +2

      Sadly Geoffrey is no longer with us, and we can not enjoy having him narrate other shows today.

    • @alexday5892
      @alexday5892 7 місяців тому +2

      @@johnking5174 I had the pleasure of meeting him in the Green Room at Wood Lane many years. A thoroughly polite and humble gentleman. He was totally engaging and didn’t allow any focus on himself but instead asked me about who I was. RIP Geoffrey. They don’t make ‘em like you anymore.

  • @TXTigresa
    @TXTigresa 4 роки тому +3

    so? Personally? I LOVED the 80's and my memories play to a great soundtrack. Loved the energy. Loved the style. Loved the fashion and a vast majority of the synth pop bands. Some tunes I've hated since first time I heard them but I wouldn't trade my 80's for anything.

  • @hayleymsiebert7526
    @hayleymsiebert7526 5 років тому +4

    I'd love to see a grumpy guide to the 90s!

  • @Spudcore
    @Spudcore 4 роки тому +1

    Loving all the compression artifacts in this. Well wickid.
    Bloody hell, Walkmans, eh? Imagine that, walking around with headphones all the time! Mad! Glad nobody does that now.

  • @wildandbarefoot
    @wildandbarefoot 4 роки тому +2

    YOP schemes. But at least students got a grant and no debt. Most could afford their rent,or a mortgage, council house waiting list was 3weeks, and the homeless hardly existed.

  • @stylewars7039
    @stylewars7039 4 роки тому +3

    "DANCING WITH A MULLET TO DURAN DURAN 😂😂😂😂😂😂 FK I LOVED THE 80S