You must have grown up in the 80s. I've found that people who favor a particular decade tend to be children of that decade. I think it embeds itself into your development or something.
the 1980s were a great time to be a teenager. We never missed all of the technology because we spent time socializing and talked face to face with people .
Movies were better; TV was better; and those "Valley Girls"... every girl was trying to be a "Valley Girl" even though you're not a valley girl or valley guy unless you grew up in the San Fernando valley (which I did; during the 80's). Everybody else saw a MOVIE about kids growing up on the SFV and tried to act like us. It pissed me off when I went to Texas and saw them trying to copy our styles but they were always two years behind.
Wow. I didn’t know ALL teenagers stopped talking face to face. I guess all of these teens I see chatting with their friends at my local mall, don’t exist
@@mishkinmoller2066 Excellent! You can help me sneak my mom's beige Dodge Aries out of the driveway and we'll be on our way as soon as the others arrive!
80's were the best... Saturday morning cartoons, 80's rock, outside playing with friends, hanging out at malls with friends.... I miss all that stuff !!
@@martynicole3337 Yes i know we were and i wish every kid these days could have the same.And i think pressure's of social media today and trying to keep up with everyone else has a lot to do with it.
I was 54 years old in 1980, I used to be a typewriter author back in the early 60's, I retired in 1989, now I am a healthy 95 year old indivual, can't wait to be one of the oldest indivuals on the planet, Thank you!
@@jeremysloop8906 my favourite decade was the 1960's, it was fun and enjoyable, i used to ride my bike back to work every morning, i loved it back then. Wish i could revisit it sadly.
@@Paul-gk8wk Thanks for sharing. I love watching tv shows that was in the 60's. Looking at how people were back in the 40's, 50's and 60's it seamed as if life was so much easier and enjoyable. Stay healthy and enjoy life Paul.
Born in 71, making me 9 years old at the start of the 80's and 19 at the end. I lived every year of it just like you see in the movies and it really was as great as it sounded. I feel lucky every day for getting to experience it, it was the best decade of all time
The 1980's was, and still is the best decade ever..we had.. 1)The Best Music 2) The Best Movies 3) The Best TV shows 4) The best friends 5) The Best Times in highschool 6) Arcades 7) we played OUTSIDE all day 8) Everyone got along 9) people talked to each other ...I could go on forever. Technology has helped, but ruined the world we live in today. I'd give anything to go back!
@@buddcarcook4655 hell yeah! Back when someone the game you were playing was yours until someone beat you. Same goes for the pool tables. I'd stay on the tables for hours. No fighting. No poor sportsmanship. God life was so Great.
BMX was also big! I had a beautiful Pk Ripper I was 15 in 1987 I loved skateboarding too I had numerous boards my 1st a Og 1st caballerro and then a Robskop and hosoi and a nice Jason Kendall nuclear bomb I miss my trips to Go Skate in Santa Cruz I’m a Bay Area California kid great times 20 years later my parents are great friends with the Caballero family they met them at church back in the 90s I have a few boards autographed by Steve and his first Thrasher magazine that he was on autographed and in mint condition! Man what a decade
@@thisisagreataccount7536 it was all about having fun outside with your boys riding bikes, skateboards, burning fireworks and playa shitload of sports little league, pop Warner football? Freestyle wrestling and 3 on 3 hoop it ups. 80s and 90s where the best!!!!!!
@@thisisagreataccount7536 oh and when high school came around it was crazy! Bad ass music! Metallica, and my favorite band of all time PANTERA I went to over 40 shows when Pantera toured best times of my youth! A few 40oz of Mickeys malt liquor and some INDO chronic Joints and it was on!!! Damn what a great fuccn time!!!!!!
Damn...I miss this era so much. I could go to a concert for less than $20, be out playing until the street lights came on, and so much more. My kids will never experience this 😭
Same. Ride bikes everywhere as long as you're home before dark. Society is not a friendly place for kids doing that now. Like that girl recently rode her bike around the campground and was kidnapped. Unheard of to us and rarely ever happened elsewhere in the 70's. Honestly I'd give up the internet and cell phones to go back to those simpler far more safe times.
I WANT MY 1980s BACK!!! The hands-down greatest decade of ALL TIME!!! The toys, the shows, the food...sigh. Thank you, God, Mom, and Dad for such a great childhood!
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Problem with growing up in awesome times like the 70's and 80's.... having to live in today's screwed up world as adults knowing how much better off the world would be if " progress" didn't happen so fast.
1980s, 1990s, even 2000s were great times. I think from 2010 onward, life quality started to drop significantly, and people are becoming shallow minded and superficial.
For sure 2000 to 2010 was the start,2010 kicked in high gear to what we have in 2024 what I’ve noticed is people born 1999 forward don’t know shit and being in a management position to that generation is so hard there’s always problems.
I was born in 1970 so of course I love the 80’s. This video shows why we are so nostalgic of that time. It was hella fun. I’m so glad I grew up in the 70’s and 80’s.
One thing I remember about the 80’s was how many people were still around that were old enough to remember the Great Depression and WWII. They had a way of putting things into perspective when younger people wanted to complain about how hard and scary things were in the eighties.
This was true. My grandparents were alive at the time and from that generation. WW2 stories told by my grand dad (what little he want or could tell) and stories told by my grand mother about how they lived day to day in acute poverty during the depression humbled the young ones. They had seen a lot and could bring things down to earth in a unique way that was unlike the generation who grew up in the 50's and early 60's (our parents for the most part.)
True. My dad was born in 1929 (9 months prior to the Wall Street Crash that precipitated the Great Depression) and my mom was born in 1933 (a year after FDR's election in 1932). Both were born in the hills of KY, and I wouldn't wish their childhood on anyone. I grew up in the 70s, but my little sister grew up in the 80s and has very fond memories of that decade. Arcades, malls (which I'm surprised didn't get a mention here) and more than three major TV channels....
You know. That is A very good point. I often think about growing up in the 80s and how great it was because of the stuff that we had or that was around at the time. And really If I want to be honest the 80s were great because of WHO was around. Grand parents and their friends , Parents and their friends. They seem so much wiser than I am at this point in my life.
Very true. I have one relative still living who is a WWII vet. Unfortunately, I haven't been able to visit for a few years, and I hope I can sometime this year.
That is correct. Virtually everyone over 55 in the mid-1980s would have remembered World War II and probably some of the Depression years as well. Parents AND Grandparents could tell them about how rough that era was (heck, the 80s were LITERALLY the first decade for the United States without a major war since '30s, the 1950s had Korea and the 60s and 70s of course had Vietnam).
I graduated high school in 1983..the 80’s bar and dance scene was a blast. Great times ..no cell phones, no Facebook or all that crap..you wanted to talk to a gal you had to man up and go up and talk to her, offer to buy a drink or dinner..talk on the phone after..awesome times
Timmy Turner it was the coolest, yeah sleepaway camp is a great movie with a fantastic OMG ending, it’s refreshing for someone who wasn’t alive during the 80’s to love the 80’s it’s what I am teaching my youngest son who will be just 5 years old in few weeks he loves 80’s music and movies
(born in 1970)....Personally, I'd say both the 70's & 90's had better music. The 90's had better movies too. TV shows were better in the 90's also. That's when the Simpsons was actually funny. The 80's really wasn't as "totally awesome" as people would like to remember. But out memories tend to re-paint the picture. I was a teen in the 80's, and for a teen in any decade, everything sucked. That's just how many teens see the world. But in the 90's I was in my 20's, finally free from parental restrictions. Music in the 80's was kinda gay, even metal with that whole embarrassing "glam rock" phase. But the the 90's took over with bands like Sepultura & Pantera. 80's rap was still trying to find itself, but then got serious in the 90's. 80's movies were good, I'll admit that, but when Jurassic Park & Independence Day came out int he 90's, we were blown away with the special effects. But like I say, memory re-paints the picture. In the 80's, I was always getting in trouble, getting grounded, and angry that I had to do homework all the time, and suffering from he general teenage angst. But I'm sure that for those of you who were still little kids in grammar school, it was an idealized wonderland. But you have to be honest, the clash between pastel colors and neon colors with bad haircuts everywhere, that was quite nauseating. And people liked Reagan a LOT more after he was out of office. While he was in office, he was a senile joke. The only "good" thing about the 80's was that I could smoke wherever the F I wanted to.
I was a child in the 1970s and a teenager in the 1980s so I got to live through both decades and I love them both for different reasons. Both produced awesome music and just freedom to do anything without all the worries we have today. I wish Gen Z and those after could at least go back in time and observe for a few hours but I’m afraid if they did they wouldn’t want to come back. I just can’t believe how dismal today seems by comparison. It really feels like we’re on a different planet from what I remember. I’m glad I got to be young and vibrant during that time even if it means I’m older now. There’s just a lack of intimacy and closeness and warmth and kindness today ...and man, we had awesome music!
I'm one of the older Gen Z's and my dad rubs in the glory days :,) During my childhood technology was still kinda primitive but seeing how it's advanced so quickly and how depressed all the younger kids are now it makes me sad If I ever have kids I'll raise em like it's back then, they'll know all the best bands, old games, and they'll have fun goddamnit And they'll have freedom most importantly, I never got that as a kid but I stg they will
@@tentacledaddy It's funny but many of the Gen-Z's today (like my niece and nephew -- and half the ones here on UA-cam) do know a lot about the 20th Century (music, pop culture, historical events, etc.). Things don't look so good going forward with the planet environmentally and the world politically. But yes, technology keeps advancing.
I think you’re right. They would not want to come back to this waste land we are in today. So I could go back I certainly would never want to come back here. I could live forever without another electronic device of any sort except maybe an answering machine and the things that were in existence then LOL.
I was a teenager throughout the 80's, it was the best time of my life and I really do miss it. It was pretty simple, no computers, mobile phones etc. Just a coloco vision gaming system, friends and bmx bikes. Awesome movies, cool music and awful tv shows. Mike Tyson in his prime. Men were men, women were women and everyone got along with each other. Looking at the shit show we live in now I would give anything to jump in a DeLorean and travel back there !
Tito Altimari There was still gay pride in the 80’s, idiot. Gay pride started in the 19th century, and women in the 80’s started becoming more independent! Men were also becoming themselves. I’m sorry if your little right-winged world sheltered you from this, but it was already a movement.
@@iixstarshinexiixoxo1778 What I meant was that traditional gender roles were still in place (they have worked throughout human history and have gotten the human race where it was till that point). My parents generation (born in the early 50's) still were very traditional, out of all my family and friends only one family went through divorce, all the rest (probably about 20 families) are still married or were married until they died. Its my generation (45 years old now) that were polluted by the left's, cultural marxist agenda that has caused the shit show that we are living in now. From my generation, again family and friends, of a group of approximately 40 or so people who were married, only 4 of them are still married, the rest are all divorced, the results speak for themselves. Its a biological, objective fact (not lefty, subjective, "I identify as a bullfrog, therefore I am one") that mens and womens brains are different. Men are more logical and rational based in our thinking (up until milllenials at least) because of how we had to evolve throughout human history (solving problems to feed, shelter and protect our partner and offspring). Women however are more emotional based in their thought process (this is one of the main things the womens lib movement was founded on by the way) and are more suited to nurturing and emotionally supporting their husband and children (when they behave in a non dysfunctional manner). Unfortunately because these roles are being reversed (forcibly by the marxist left) we have a very dysfunctional, delusional and degenerating society. Sorry for the long explanation but it seems that sometimes, some folks require somebody to draw them a picture, which they will reject anyway, based on their distorted belief system.
Messville I understand where you come from, especially with all the Tumblr posts about random genders that don’t exist, but my friend’s family, a really left sided family, gets along very well, despite the occasional argument. The eldest son is at college getting a medical degree, the next is becoming a band teacher, and the three youngest are all getting A’s in their classes. In this family, the wife and husband share responsibilities, but the wife gets into more physical housework while the husband cleans around the house and takes care of the children. If you ask me, it all depends on the person. Not gender rules. But feel free to correct me on anything I missed.
XXthekingofyouXX You folks talk about the 80s like it could do no wrong, lol. What people tend to forget is mass unemployment, AIDS, the cold war, inequality, etc etc...
@@GilbertSyndrome - Well, you can find a lot of those same problems and others in different eras. But it tells you a lot when so many people can look back on a specific period with fond memories regardless.
XXthekingofyouXX That's what the notion of rose-tinted lenses is all about. People look back fondly on a preferred era, usually the one of their youth, and it seems that nothing negative ever took place, yet we know this is untrue.
Yes, I was a teen in the 80's and I can honestly say that it was the end of 'normality' in kids. Life was easier; less complicated...because we kept it that way.
i really hate my generation and decade :/ it makes me really sad because i would definitely enjoy life without a bunch of social media, politics, and huge expectations
Cable television and harder music created this decline in society and the brainwashing from media. Basically as soon as medium came into the household it all fell apart. It was just really getting started in your generation. And every generation after that it got worse, much worse. We are where we are now not because of the people but the influences.
The best era ever…great movies, cartoons, educational programming (PBS), music, and clothing fads! I was 4 years old in 1980 and that whole era shaped me in so many ways! A time when recess as truly “recess” in elementary school; tag, kickball, dodgeball, snow and mud fights were very much a thing daily. We would all run home when the street lights came on after our many mini-versions of our own “Goonie”-like adventures! 😁 I loved my childhood. *sigh*
I was a freshman in HS in 1980 so i got the very best of the late 70's and 80s and i like you miss my childhood very much. Im afraid that U TUBE is the only "time machine " were gonna get though enjoy the memories, I know i will.
Yep, I'm whatchu on that queen. I was 2 years old in 1980 and got to witness everything this video talked about. Hide and seek, o-u-t OUT, anybounce, and those legendary street football games💯. Yea, greatest era ever
The 80's were a HAPPY and OPTIMISTIC timeframe. People enjoyed technology but weren't as unhealthily OBSESSED with it as we are today. Moms taught kids to "not stare at screens too long each day, b/c it would rot your brain"..... WOW they were so correct on that !
Mom's didn't have to tell us not to stare at screens all day. We had so many other things we did like hang out in arcades and go skating. We watched TV at night with our families because we didn't always have TVs in our rooms.
The 80's was the Greatest most revolutionary Decade. Everything changed, Now this world is like living in utter HELL compared to the 80's. There was something just so very different about the 80's.. even the smells were different, it was like Happy. Pleasant spell or something was in the air, it's hard to explain but I'm sure those who grew up during then know what i'm talking about.. It's weird, like Nothing very bad really happened, as far as nationally or globally, or if it did, it was nothing you really remembered. hmm. strange. it's almost like it was a different sort of dream world now that i think about it. not making any connection, but you can kind of see why it is middle age men now committing suicide at the highest rate. going from that to this. It's truly mind blowing how the world can change soo very drastically in just a generation or 2. Ok..this is making me depressed. lol.
THAT TIME WAS MADE THE WAY IT WAS BECAUSE PEOPLE MADE AND WANTED IT THAT WAY.THINGS DON'T CHANGE PEOPLE DO.PEOPLE WANT TO SEE WHAT THEY WANT TO SEE.LOOK AROUND AND LOOK AT PEOPLE TODAY THEY WANT TO BE THIS WAY THEY CAN CHANGE IT IF THEY WANT TOO.
I remember the following from the 1980s: parachute pants, mullets, Swatch watches, Benetton clothing, Cabbage Patch dolls, Duran Duran, Jem dolls, HBO, Fall of the Berlin Wall, Solid Gold TV series, acid washed jeans, mopeds, and the Yugo.
@@lilpp4791 Mainly because people can say what they want on the internet. Since that didn't exist in the '80s, the only racist people who showed themselves were a few idiots who were willing to bear social consequences and embarrass themselves.
I was. It was truly awesome. Say what you want, eat what you want, fight who you want, dress how you want, listen to what you want... Really, I just wrote an 80s song in my last sentence! Billy Idol or Boogie Down Productions could sing/rap it. If I was younger than 16, I'd be cranking it up on my JVC ghetto blaster or if I was older than that, it would be bumping on my Cerwin Vega woofers in my Mustang. No guns in fights. Fists and bruises.
Yes it was. Little kid in the 70s, teen in the 80s and young college age in the 90s. By the turn of the century it went down hill fast. And now I'm pushing near 50. You have no idea how much this world has changed and for the worst . I feel sorry for you kids and young people..you missed out on paradise. Tragically for those of us who lived it, we didn't know what we had untill we realized it was gone.
I was born in 1970 yeah it was great growing up they had this thing called Saturday morning cartoons when I was a kid and there was this guy called Evel Knivel. 😆 then when I was a teenager I almost electracuted myself trying to get the playboy channel it was awsume times. Oh man the music 🎶 look up Slade runaway I'm sure you never herd of it before lol 😆
born in 72. you did a good job covering life and culture in the 80s. took me back to my teenage years. thanks for that trip back memory lane. it was a great time to me.
the best decade, everything was big that's when girls were girls and big hair was in and aqua net hairspray was your best friend mostly all girls kept a can of hairspray in their purses
god damnit, the 80s seemed like it was amazing! People knew how to take jokes, social media wasn't a thing, people went outside and had fun, and it just seems amazing overall
Just the arcades and video game systems were a lot better. As far as tv watching goes.... It was garbage. Cable wasn't even invented in 1980 and if it was it was to expensive to get so nobody had cable. Colored tv.s were a huge deal if you had one.... You know how tv's were like?? black and white with the 2 knobs on them... Antenna rabbit ears. About 4 channels you would only pick up. The channels weren't all clear. You would watch stuff snowy which meant the reception wasn't great.
I was 10 in 1980 and my grandparents would talk about the 1940s like it happened the week before but to me was so far before my time I couldn't imagine what it was really like. Now I know, I remember the 1980s very well, from playing AA pee wee hockey in grade 5 in 1980 to playing drums on a cover of Pink Floyd's Time as a group project while a student at Columbia Academy of Recording Arts in December, 1989, hours and hours at video arcades, lots of heavy metal concerts, going to NHL games when tickets were under $15, getting drunk on 3 beers in 1982, smoking my first joint in 1984, losing my virginity in the summer of 1985, Cliff Burton's death in 1986, Annihilator's first album Alice In Hell in 1989...I miss the 1980s.
I was just talking about this with my young crew. We never heard of school shootings. Of course, half the students carried shotguns and rifles in their vehicles, too. Although, we were scared of the Soviet Union and nuclear war.
That's subjective though. You need evidence to prove that. If you're just using your nostalgia as a bases to prove that then that means I can say this for literally any other decade where it was great and everything else was hell because that's just what it is. It's subjective.
@@theinceptor3672, Well those things happened before the 1980s obviously. I think the cold war was still going on in the 1980s but I don't really know much about that however.
If you were born in the late 60s, then being a teen in the 80s, you have the distinct appreciation of understanding the range of 20 and 21st century pop culture: from the Honeymooners, and Lucille Ball, to Eight is Enough, to Carly B, we understand it all.
How true. Born in 72, but knew history of every subject. From The Chiffons to Shirley Temple, JohnnyWeissmuller as Tarzan to Bo Duke. Leave it to Beaver & Andy Griffith. We knew past generations as much as we knew our own. No so much anymore.
@@bosshogg659 Yeah,I don't get the newer generations at all. I've even met some who say "I don't watch films made before 2008 or 2000". Goofy stuff. I'm 53 and was even watching Blondie and Dagwood,Bowery Boys and Abbott and Costello as a kid and loving it. The idiotic snobbery of newer generations is so absurd I can't even talk about without insults. One of my favorite comments from Harlan Eliison was one about college students of today when he said " ..not only are they bone stick dumb and stupid,they're arrogant about it".
So cool that now we can watch all the videos we want on UA-cam - sure beats staying up late to watch Friday Night Videos - in my 50's now and I love watching all the 80's band videos!
It was Golden. If you didn't live it you'll never understand. It was a world without internet and no one had a computer. ✊🏻❤️ There was so much love and happiness between people. So much wonder and excitement all the time.
nintendo, arcade games, calculator watches, swatch watches (!), cute girls in junior high school you wanted to talk to but had too many butterflies!, yummy school lunch of chicken sandwich breaded and warmed up corn with chocolate milk, i can go on
All my great memories come from the 80s:) the music, movies, shows, toys, cartoons, people, heck even commercials were epic!! Long live the 80s the greatest decade of ALL time👍🏻
The 80s were so much fun! I would love to go back to 1984 for awhile!!!!!😆💟 People were nice & did not dwell on politics, religion & celebrities like they do now.
Sedition Metal didn't dominate the 80s, it wasn't anywhere near mainstream, (except maybe "glam metal" like Bon Jovi, Def Leppard and Aerosmith who aren't really metal at all), it got no radio play and only a handful of tv shows like Headbanger's Ball and Pepsi Power Hour featured metal videos once a week. Metal was villainized by religious groups like the PMRC claiming it caused suicides and turned people gay, they wanted it banned but settled for censored with a rating system thanks to great speeches like Dee Snider's made to Congress. (The whole thing's on YT and is an excellent watch) Fans were ostracized by pretty much everyone who thought we were drug addicted anarchists who murdered babies in satanic rituals. I laughed when people called Iron Maiden satanic because their drummer Nicko McBrain is an ordained Catholic minister.
I was born in the 00s and I honestly wish I grew up in the 80s... all the music,Tv shows, friends... it didn't have cellphones, cars actually looked really cool, things were cheaper back then... and the hair and clothes! Right now I would love to go back in time and see what the 80s was like...
@@julieb3996 That's what made the decade so great. You learned how to deal with it yourself and not bitch and moan to every bleeding heart liberal to solve your problems for you. We didn't look for a shoulder to cry on and we became harder because of it. Eat or be eaten.
I’m afraid if you did you wouldn’t want to come back. In a way it makes me more sad today to see how different the world is. If you never knew any better then you can’t miss it.
80s were great childhood and teen years. Mtv,HBO and cable were just getting started. Great movies in theatres were popular. Renting movies in video stores were big. I was getting my drivers license in 87. Hanging out all day outside with friends. Playing Atari and going to roller skating rink. I could go on and on hahaha..what a great time to grow up🙂
Born in 1982... being a kid in the 80s was the most amazing thing imaginable.. Gi Joe, He Man, Transformers, Ninja Turtles, Nintendo, Goonies, Back to the Future, Ghostbusters, Karate Kid, Bmx, VCR, etc.. what an amazing Time!!!!!
Yup the 2000's might have been a different type of era had it not been for 911, but after that chaotic unreal event things definetly took a turn for the worst, because during the 90's alot of good things started taking shape toward the end setting the stage for something new, optimistic, and vibrant for the new millennium.., but things didn't quite workout the way they seemingly felt they would.
@@chrispacheco8590 I gotta comment on your comment bro. I was born in 77 so the 80s was my time. And you're so right. It's like everything went to hell in the 2000s and 911 seems like it was a catalyst for what has been so far, a century of complete and total shit. In the 80s, things were black and white. We knew where we stood and what was good and what was evil. And our western ideas about freedom and capitalism seemed to be winning the whole f'in show. The wall came down...the Iron Curtain fell...democracy seemed to be an unstoppable force where the liberal values championed by western society would reign in a new era. Nations and peoples seemed to be getting closer and it seemed at least like world peace might actually be possible. When you look at popular music in the 90s, sure there were always the shallow, phony acts...but there were also sincere forms of artistic expression. It was almost like a renaissance of new styles with singer-song writers dominating the charts with their own creations. I really believed that the world was getting better. Then the late 90s happened and it started to go wrong, and then 911. The unreal and horrific became not only possible, but factual. And since then, the climate of politics domestic and foreign became cruel and savage. And the artistic renaissance turned into a corporate produced nightmare of artificial, drum-machine manufactured beats and platitudes placating to sycophants who don't even bother to question why the music they absorb is so superficial, heartless, pointless and insulting. It really is like the kids today can't even defend the crap culture they cling to because they don't even really care about it. They're not looking for anything new or to change, they just don't give a fuck. I know this is silly, but I look at today as what Obi-Wan may have called, "the dark times."
I loved the 80’s and had the time of my life. I couldn’t afford to dress like the most popular kids but my Levi’s jeans and Chuck Taylor’s were great for my personality and style. I was in the CAP that made me decide the military would suck so I needed to study and get smart fast. You could buy cool cars for cheap and movies and food were super cheap. Going to the mall was an adventure and you always met kids your age (girls). Fun fun fun. The Cold War was going on and we knew the Soviets we’re poor and hungry the Chinese just recovered from famines.i was lucky to be an American and free.
@@garrettvcayer ok then get rid of your internet & cell phone. Get a land line phone with no features. Go to the bank and pay your bills with the teller, or you can write cheques & mail it. Get rid of your gps if you have a car & buy maps. Get a crt tv...Get rid of your hd or 4k tv. Get rid of your pvr and get a vcr for your crt tv...Get rid rid of your digital camera & buy camera with film inside.
The 1980's was one of the better times. No smartphones, no social media and people socialised more back then than they do nowadays. I no longer use a smartphone and I meet up with friends in my free time. I think it would be great if we speak to each other face to face rather than just by sms text or e-mail :). I miss the 1980's.
Exactly my point :). To be honest I think that smartphones are unnecessary and should just be binned. I prefer face to face meet ups and e-mail. Its much better in my opinion.
It’s not like smartphones somehow are replacing friends and family. I still meet my friends, go to parties and socialise even if I constantly have an iPhone in my right pocket. I suppose that you’re just a grumpy old fart that hates everything modern. Get with the times, gramps.
Wish I could go back to 1987, was such an amazing year for me. Crazy how times have changed, todays kids/teens wouldn't know what to do with themselves.
That was the year I decided to be successful. And I was. But many times I fantasized about going back to that room I rented for $130/month. When life was simple.
I grew up in Germany and was a teenager in the early 80s, so yeah my daily life was very much how it was presented. The lifestyle, fashion, entertainment, toys and culture in the 80s does not apply in the USA only. It was widespread globally.
One of the best things about the 80's was that people got really excited for things like a big blockbuster movie, a new episode of a TV show or a new music video coming out. That's because between exciting events there were short periods of mind numbing boredom. Today if we're bored we can find whatever interests us on the internet.
For who??? This is just such a biased and ignorant statement. These experiences and pop culture were really only relevant to such a small fraction of the rest of the word
I was born in 1971. Grew up in the 80's. While overall it was a great time to grow up, if you were an adult, there were some things that weren't so great. Until Gorbachev/Reagan meeting, there was a constant concern of nuclear war. In hindsight, it was treated as more worrisome than warranted. Mutual assured destruction prevented it. In all honesty, I'm more worried about a nuclear Iran. There were great moments of economic boom as well as bust, but we were more united as a country than we probably ever will be again.That said, I was a rocker and loved how much good hard rock and heavy metal there was. We thought these times were going to last forever. Went to the Empire Rock Club in N.E. Philly nearly every Sunday night. Got to see named bands as well as unsigned heroes. Saw Heavens Edge there more times than I can count. The girls would wear spandex tube dresses, or mini skirts with cowboy boots with hair teased to the moon.Would pretty much give anything to be able to return to those times with the knowledge I currently possess. Alas, the times move on. My advice to the young of today is document as much of your youth as you can. The day will come when you view these days with fond memories and you will want concrete evidence of those memories.
yes the girls with tons of aqua net hairspray and big hair and spandex pants and granny boots were in style for girls so was glow in the dark attire.,but us kids knew how to keep it real back then.the youth today could need a lesson on how to be respectable and keep things clean.
Reading this brought immense sadness as I wish I was around for such a great decade. I envy that time period for its music, entertainment, and overall lifestyle's lived. If time travel is ever invented, I wish to go back to the 80's and never return.
That's nostalgia working against you there. "Keeping things clean" is a problem because adults in the 80s thought the same thing about the 50s and before, which were even worse than the 80s in terms of society and worldviews.
Batsinthebelltower and people always say the 90s was the “Greatest decade” also, do you hate how some people treat it like it was the dinosaur era? The 90s is just too overrated these days especially 1998 with the 98er bullcrap okay I’ll shut the hell up now.
Born in 1970, graduated high school in 1988. The 80's to me were very memorable. My music dominated what I did. From Motley Crue to Cliff Burton's Metallica. Throw in some Maiden and Priest and we were rockin.
Same hear man. Turning 50 this year was beat. I still feel like a young guy. I wish the Military would fess up about time travel so we could go relive those awesome times.
@@Kingsombra21 well, in high school I would walk over to my friends apt and get high, ride around town then maybe walk around the mall. Sometimes we would drive out to some friends house and if they weren't there go to somebody else's house. During school we would find out where the party is going to be the next weekend. There was always a party. Go to that party, get drunk then when it was time to go home you would try to act sober in front your parents. And apparently we had it soo much better than when when my parents were young. Dad graduated in 1943. We did have fun. I don't do weed anymore though.
For all the 80's kids you need to check out Cobra Kai here on youtube. The original cast of the Karate Kid saga made a new show from Johnny's perspective, the show is incredible. They truly recaptured the 80's.
I was a little kid in the 80s. The cartoons were my jam, like Transformers, He-Man, Thundercats and SilverHawks being some of my favorites. Ninja Turtles were just starting by then too, but I saw them more as a 90s staple. I had a lot of the toys from those shows as well. I played lots of arcade games and Atari as well as computer games. I remember the music and movies as well.
When is the last time u saw kids all over the place playing hide n seek, going on bmx adventures or playing tackle football where a bloody nose and bruises were the norm. That was childhood in 80's. Kids today dont do much of that and are softer
@@wolfgangandrewx2416 most millenials are from the late boomers, but yes the idiot tide pod kids are gen x's kids. It's sooooo embarassing. Like how did my generation allow this to happen? The crap started in the mid 90's with the stupid late boomer parents and their nanny helicoptor BS. How gen x parents allowed it to continue is beyond me.
canis latrans i didnt allow it! My son is 15 and must Play Outside or work on a car, before he can come in to do homework or play video games at dusk. He is way ahead of other kids his age and healthier. He would have to hang with Todays 19 or 20yr olds to fit in. Even then it would be him most likely to be showing them how to change a tire or correcting them as to what album the Four Horseman was on.
john smith Really? Many of these clowns today can’t figure out what gender they are because they’re to stupid to look between their legs apparently. The music sucks....most of them have no idea what a hard days work is....they have a very hard time relating to people on a personal level not to mention can’t take constructive criticism without having a temper tantrum and just generally overall lost! Open your damn eyes!
The surviving archival footage does not give that decade the justice it deserves in how it felt back then to be alive . You had to have lived it to know what it really was like. I miss that decade soo much. We truly had it great and thought it could go on forever. Really had no idea what we had until it was gone. Truly was the best of times.
Jwb52z oh shut up!! No one care about your safe space LBGT loving self in the 80’s!! It was a perfect time! Love your 2000’s you guys rule this decade! So be happy! Leave us the heck alone in our time!!
I hear ya DJ Ronnie. Greatest decade of my life. All you other youngsta haters go a head and hate. Better then the fucked up era ya'll grew up in. You even have a stupid name for your generation The millennials bunch of fuckin pamper pussies. Shit music and all ya'll do is stare at your stupid iPhone. No life having punk ass'es.
I was aged 5-14 between 1980 and 1989. My parents couldn’t have timed it better. My dad booked before I was born, and my mom died from a drug overdose in 1978, and I grew up with my Grandma.... but they couldn’t have timed me any better.
I was born in 1988 and I love see videos and movies about the 80's trends cuz I can see like my parents life's at that years, additionally asked to my mom about that years and she told me they was the best. I usually dedicated to explore this timeline by my own then look of the deference on 80's and now and Is a big nice trip 🥰🤗
By far better music in the 80’s, all the long hair,. People actually hung out back then ! No cell phones, x boxes etc.. Would love to go back in time for a week or 2 👍
A simple solution for socializing in my opinion would be giving Social Security benefits to young children. It just triggers me that many people are so dumb, we could just give young children the same solutions that we give for elders. Heck, I wonder how better childhood would be if you could buy anything you want with YOUR money. Staying at a hotel with just your friends and no parents sounds more fun than having to stay home browsing the internet.
@Calista Llewellyn, The year is not even over yet so what are you even talking about? And 2022 is coming also so do you not want that year to happen either? It hasn't even happened yet so how would you know it's going to be good or bad? Let's just wait and see on that stuff and see how the rest of 2021 will turn out to be.
I'm collecting all those things you mentioned on CDs and DVDs to capture my youth.... I still got ways to go until it's complete my collection of movies and music then I can move on getting older. I wish I have a computer to burn DVDs and CDs.
Yup. I'm simply waiting for our military to come clean about time travel so I can sign up and get out of this fucked up time. A one way ticket to 1987 please. Thank you. Peace out.
@@azeddine8652 I'm sure there are many governments of many countries trying to come up with the technology . I was jokingly saying what I said. I'm not so sure it hasn't been invented all ready. If you look up Corey Goode and watch some of his videos he claims it is all ready in use by our military. He says the Military all ready has a secret space program,and its been in existence since the late 60s early 70s. He says the program slogan is 20 and back. Meaning highly intelligent humans with esp and remote viewing capabilities are brought in the military and sent into space on missions to the Moon,Mars and other planets in our Galaxy and others. You're signed up for 20 years then the Military de-ages you and sends you back in time to before you enlisted. Supposedly your memory is wiped and you have no knowledge of doing this. Well he has regained memories and contacted others with similar memories and realized they knew one another from these journeys into space. Corey says he's been to space for 20 years and back 3 times. Look up his videos on UA-cam and check them out. Let me know what you think. I've been researching this and UFO'S and Alien life forms for about the last 5 years and I'm astonished of what I'm learning. Also look up Col. Phil Corso. He wrote a book called The Day after Rosewell. He spills the beans on a lot of Military secrets. This shit is going to blow your mind. I really believe Tesla was the one who got the time travel started.
I grew up in the 90s but damn man you guys had Michael Jackson Thriller Album, Queen, amazing one hit wonders, Back to the Future movies, SEGA, 1986 world Cup... You guys had it all but we weren't too far behind with how amazing it was in the 90s 😉
The best decade in every category: music, movies, television, cars and technology! I would give everything up to go back, take this damn iPhone and give me back my privacy and ability to remember phone numbers, take this glowing rectangle on the wall and give me back a 19" TV with no remote and that fantastic brown cable box with a slider bar to change the channel, take this MF'n soulless SUV with its neutered factory stereo and give me my 84 Cutlass back with the Clarion cassette deck. I will gladly go back to that pizza hut and work with my friends and after we close hit some back roads, smoke a joint and listen to "A momentary lapse of reason".
My dad gave me his 1979 cutlass oldsmobile. I miss it now. I had it from 1989 to 2003. I put a new transmission in it . Damn police took it . I should've kept paying my insurance.
Oh we had a remote for our family tv...me! As the youngest I sat on the floor and had to change the channel, volume, antana, etc. But I would love to do it again. Having the family all together watching the same thing, instead of scattered everywhere staring at their phones. That was what it meant to be social.
I don’t care what anyone says...the 1980’s was the GREATEST decade of all time.
It was a great one to be a kid. I lived it.
Ronnie Thomas, I agree with you 100% it was the greatest decade ever!!!
Amen to that. Damn i miss that era
Ronnie Thomas I wasn’t even born at that time and watching these videos from the 80s makes me agree with you! 👍
You must have grown up in the 80s. I've found that people who favor a particular decade tend to be children of that decade. I think it embeds itself into your development or something.
the 1980s were a great time to be a teenager. We never missed all of the technology because we spent time socializing and talked face to face with people .
Movies were better; TV was better; and those "Valley Girls"... every girl was trying to be a "Valley Girl" even though you're not a valley girl or valley guy unless you grew up in the San Fernando valley (which I did; during the 80's).
Everybody else saw a MOVIE about kids growing up on the SFV and tried to act like us. It pissed me off when I went to Texas and saw them trying to copy our styles but they were always two years behind.
America was definitely better
👍👍very,very true!!!
And listening to great hits: ua-cam.com/video/If6rwKxx2eA/v-deo.html
Wow. I didn’t know ALL teenagers stopped talking face to face. I guess all of these teens I see chatting with their friends at my local mall, don’t exist
Later dudes and dudettes; I'm going BACK to 1985!
Who's with me?
@@mishkinmoller2066 Excellent! You can help me sneak my mom's beige Dodge Aries out of the driveway and we'll be on our way as soon as the others arrive!
@@mishkinmoller2066 Bitchen! I'll check the junk-drawer
Time machine.
Yo got the jiggawatts to get there?
I am.....
80's were the best... Saturday morning cartoons, 80's rock, outside playing with friends, hanging out at malls with friends....
I miss all that stuff !!
You forgot arcades, and roller rinks!
At least there were families. Most women now are single moms. Most women are also nutcase feminists who think all men are out to get them.
I remember that also,and it will NEVER be replaced!!
@@user-or6yn8pm3c spend less time on the internet. That’s where you find the most “feminists”
@@amuroray9115 Spend a year in a big coastal city and tell me how it went.
I would totally go back to the 80's if I could and never leave.
I CAN GET YOU THERE
@@resistORserve44 How?
@@felixlechner3014 --- their are several methods of time travel but only the open mind cam access its not meant for the massess
Yes he's right we are traveling back in time but only a few people at a time...no mass travel
@@zooknutt oh, so there exists a time travel machine?
I lived my teenage year's in the 80's and boy did we have fun back then, i couldn't wait to wake up every morning because every day was an adventure.
Wow must’ve been so nice
Well consider yourself lucky, there’s a large portion of today’s teen population that is miserable :(
@@martynicole3337 Yes i know we were and i wish every kid these days could have the same.And i think pressure's of social media today and trying to keep up with everyone else has a lot to do with it.
@@planb2306 yes exactly
God, Im jealous ;_; sometimes I just dont wanna wake up for a long time anymore cause its the same depressing shit every day nowadays
I was 54 years old in 1980, I used to be a typewriter author back in the early 60's, I retired in 1989, now I am a healthy 95 year old indivual, can't wait to be one of the oldest indivuals on the planet, Thank you!
Hello Paul, What was your favorite decade? and why?
@@jeremysloop8906 would love to hear the answer too! Greetings
You are amazing!
@@jeremysloop8906 my favourite decade was the 1960's, it was fun and enjoyable, i used to ride my bike back to work every morning, i loved it back then. Wish i could revisit it sadly.
@@Paul-gk8wk Thanks for sharing. I love watching tv shows that was in the 60's. Looking at how people were back in the 40's, 50's and 60's it seamed as if life was so much easier and enjoyable. Stay healthy and enjoy life Paul.
Born in 71, making me 9 years old at the start of the 80's and 19 at the end. I lived every year of it just like you see in the movies and it really was as great as it sounded. I feel lucky every day for getting to experience it, it was the best decade of all time
Also born in '71. I'd go back there in a heartbeat and stay there.
@@lumabi25 same here 71’
Same born in 71 and the 80s were everything!
Amen to that! Born in 71 also!
Born in ‘67. Graduated HS in ‘85. What a time!
Being a kid in the 80s was the best time to be a kid.. I still have scars from this decade man
It was the greatest.
Michael Carter very cool. man
Same here and we brushed it off and went on with life.
I have a Devil Scar I got in 1980.
@@D33Lux Now kids will cry for days if offended and get emotionally scarred.
The 1980's was, and still is the best decade ever..we had..
1)The Best Music
2) The Best Movies
3) The Best TV shows
4) The best friends
5) The Best Times in highschool
6) Arcades
7) we played OUTSIDE all day
8) Everyone got along
9) people talked to each other
...I could go on forever. Technology has helped, but ruined the world we live in today. I'd give anything to go back!
patrick mcglone arcades....Wasted many a lunchtime there LoL! With metal on the jukebox!
@@buddcarcook4655 hell yeah! Back when someone the game you were playing was yours until someone beat you. Same goes for the pool tables. I'd stay on the tables for hours. No fighting. No poor sportsmanship. God life was so Great.
patrick mcglone so the AIDS outbreak and crack epidemic was the best decade
3 Hotz N a Cot ...Nice try shit-bag
New houses built was rare, but built good with a timeless style that resulted in no need to remodel and keep up with the jones.
I was 16 in 1980 so I was able to see the best of the 80's at the prefect age. I miss the 80's so much the nostalgia hurts.
BMX was also big! I had a beautiful Pk Ripper I was 15 in 1987 I loved skateboarding too I had numerous boards my 1st a Og 1st caballerro and then a Robskop and hosoi and a nice Jason Kendall nuclear bomb I miss my trips to Go Skate in Santa Cruz I’m a Bay Area California kid great times 20 years later my parents are great friends with the Caballero family they met them at church back in the 90s I have a few boards autographed by Steve and his first Thrasher magazine that he was on autographed and in mint condition! Man what a decade
What was teenage life like before the internet?
@@thisisagreataccount7536 it was all about having fun outside with your boys riding bikes, skateboards, burning fireworks and playa shitload of sports little league, pop Warner football? Freestyle wrestling and 3 on 3 hoop it ups. 80s and 90s where the best!!!!!!
@@thisisagreataccount7536 oh and when high school came around it was crazy! Bad ass music! Metallica, and my favorite band of all time PANTERA I went to over 40 shows when Pantera toured best times of my youth! A few 40oz of Mickeys malt liquor and some INDO chronic Joints and it was on!!! Damn what a great fuccn time!!!!!!
@@svtkilr I love 80s hairstyles, fashion, films, culture. Its so cool
Damn...I miss this era so much. I could go to a concert for less than $20, be out playing until the street lights came on, and so much more. My kids will never experience this 😭
Go to my channel for your 80s fix
ua-cam.com/channels/qt_uKZe0F4OcEj4vhjRLmw.html
Same. Ride bikes everywhere as long as you're home before dark. Society is not a friendly place for kids doing that now. Like that girl recently rode her bike around the campground and was kidnapped. Unheard of to us and rarely ever happened elsewhere in the 70's. Honestly I'd give up the internet and cell phones to go back to those simpler far more safe times.
I'm 58 and I miss that era too. Just remember "You never know what you had until it's gone forever."
Monsters of Rock 1988 VanHalen,Scorpions,Metallica,Dokken,Kingdom Come... $25.
That's 2 beers and a shtty tip at a show these days.
I remember thinking how great it was to have a VCR.
Michael Alguire I remember my parents buying our first VCR and how fun it was to go to the video rental store .
And that they cost $1100! That was half the price of a new Toyota. It was a status symbol before cable tv.
We were that family that bought a Betamax 😑
Wooooow! You must've been so rich!
Me too
I WANT MY 1980s BACK!!! The hands-down greatest decade of ALL TIME!!! The toys, the shows, the food...sigh. Thank you, God, Mom, and Dad for such a great childhood!
I would TRADE the REST of my ENTIRE FUTURE for 1 day in the 1980's.
@GodConsciousness The food, the shows and the toys are stiII good today. l don’t know what you’re taIking about
@John Nichols What do you mean by ‘’gone’’? You stiII can Iive a happy Iife no matter what, no matter what decade it is!
@Katherine McDonnell For your information, l happen to have a good Iife. l was just trying to caII peopIe out on their negative thoughts/comments and heIp them out. Weather they´re joking or not, not having *one singIe* positive thing to say about the present is incredibIy unheaIthy! Even comparing oId food to modern food. lt´s siIIy and a waste of energy. lt depends on peopIe´s tastes.
And another thing; When somebody is more unIucky and Iess fortunate than you, the best thing to do is showing some support and compassion, being openminded and doing everything you can to make this right. Like they say, lf you don’t have anything positive to say, don´t say anything at aII. lf there was a miserabIe handicapped person in front of you, wouId this give you a smirk on your face and even cause you to say ‘’l´m gIad *i´m* not handicapped’’ right in their face? Because that´s not cooI. at aII. This can be seen as a IeveI of *harassment* and BULLYlNG. *Too many* peopIe (especiaIIy on the internet) state that they *regret* being born in the 2000s. Are you gonna make fun of them too? FIat-out teIIing others they weren´t born in times that were, quote unquote, ‘’better’’ than the present can easiIy drive them to suicide even further. lt´s common sense! No offense!
This is a Iong post, l apoIogize, but this is extremeIy important. Thank you for you patience!
@@voiceofreason2691 party pooper. Get lost
Problem with growing up in awesome times like the 70's and 80's.... having to live in today's screwed up world as adults knowing how much better off the world would be if " progress" didn't happen so fast.
Ursula Dixon at least you lived at 70’s and 80’s ..
Hating change isn't helpful. Not liking the specific changes that happen is even less so.
Amen! I seriously sometimes wish I was Amish! Technology is moving ridiculous fast.
Ursula Dixon ok boomer
Ursula Dixon Progress is literally what enabled you to watch this video. People live their lives looking back through rose-tinted lenses.
1980s, 1990s, even 2000s were great times. I think from 2010 onward, life quality started to drop significantly, and people are becoming shallow minded and superficial.
2010s is good but idk about 2020s
2010 things got weird. It was like the party was over. No more fun tons of crime
It went wrong about 2000. Even the early 2000's had TONS of economic problems
For sure 2000 to 2010 was the start,2010 kicked in high gear to what we have in 2024 what I’ve noticed is people born 1999 forward don’t know shit and being in a management position to that generation is so hard there’s always problems.
2000's was trash.. 70's, 80's and 90's were the best..
I was born in 1970 so of course I love the 80’s. This video shows why we are so nostalgic of that time. It was hella fun. I’m so glad I grew up in the 70’s and 80’s.
Same here man! I was in a military family so it was even better!
Chrisser
Me too. I will be 50 this year. Crazy how fast time goes.
Yep. Born 1970. Lived the 80s. Everything seemed possible. Miss those times everyday.
I betcha you remember the Brady Bunch👍
Makes me feel nostalgic and depressed at the same time
Exactly how I feel!
I feel exactly the same
Carlos Ayala good point 🌈 I’m 57 in 2020.
That's what the internet is for to make you depressed
@@themadrapper101 and to reminisce at the same time
One thing I remember about the 80’s was how many people were still around that were old enough to remember the Great Depression and WWII.
They had a way of putting things into perspective when younger people wanted to complain about how hard and scary things were in the eighties.
This was true. My grandparents were alive at the time and from that generation. WW2 stories told by my grand dad (what little he want or could tell) and stories told by my grand mother about how they lived day to day in acute poverty during the depression humbled the young ones. They had seen a lot and could bring things down to earth in a unique way that was unlike the generation who grew up in the 50's and early 60's (our parents for the most part.)
True. My dad was born in 1929 (9 months prior to the Wall Street Crash that precipitated the Great Depression) and my mom was born in 1933 (a year after FDR's election in 1932). Both were born in the hills of KY, and I wouldn't wish their childhood on anyone. I grew up in the 70s, but my little sister grew up in the 80s and has very fond memories of that decade. Arcades, malls (which I'm surprised didn't get a mention here) and more than three major TV channels....
You know. That is A very good point. I often think about growing up in the 80s and how great it was because of the stuff that we had or that was around at the time. And really If I want to be honest the 80s were great because of WHO was around. Grand parents and their friends , Parents and their friends. They seem so much wiser than I am at this point in my life.
Very true. I have one relative still living who is a WWII vet. Unfortunately, I haven't been able to visit for a few years, and I hope I can sometime this year.
That is correct. Virtually everyone over 55 in the mid-1980s would have remembered World War II and probably some of the Depression years as well. Parents AND Grandparents could tell them about how rough that era was (heck, the 80s were LITERALLY the first decade for the United States without a major war since '30s, the 1950s had Korea and the 60s and 70s of course had Vietnam).
The 80s felt like a whole entire lifetime, I have so much good memory of it.
80's MOVIES WERE CLEARLY THE BEST EVER..
THAT'S WHY THEY TRYNA REMAKE THEM ALL NOW DAYS..!!
And ruining great movies doing it.
Music was also on the top of its game in the 80s.
@@supaidaman9750 yea especially with Michael Jackson taking the spotlight
1980s music was great.
Lol the music was shit and the movie was shitter the styles where shit 1980s is shit
I graduated high school in 1983..the 80’s bar and dance scene was a blast. Great times ..no cell phones, no Facebook or all that crap..you wanted to talk to a gal you had to man up and go up and talk to her, offer to buy a drink or dinner..talk on the phone after..awesome times
I’d rather talk to boys. Pass.
and this is why everyone wants to go back to the 80s..it was the turning point of everything we know today.
Two things you should know about the 80’s: we had the best music and we had the best movies
Yup Raiders of the lost Ark, The Road Warrior, Conan , Nightmare on Elm Street, New Wave English rock music to Heavy Metal to RUN DMC and L.L.cool J.
Timmy Turner it was the coolest, yeah sleepaway camp is a great movie with a fantastic OMG ending, it’s refreshing for someone who wasn’t alive during the 80’s to love the 80’s it’s what I am teaching my youngest son who will be just 5 years old in few weeks he loves 80’s music and movies
(born in 1970)....Personally, I'd say both the 70's & 90's had better music. The 90's had better movies too. TV shows were better in the 90's also. That's when the Simpsons was actually funny.
The 80's really wasn't as "totally awesome" as people would like to remember. But out memories tend to re-paint the picture. I was a teen in the 80's, and for a teen in any decade, everything sucked. That's just how many teens see the world. But in the 90's I was in my 20's, finally free from parental restrictions.
Music in the 80's was kinda gay, even metal with that whole embarrassing "glam rock" phase. But the the 90's took over with bands like Sepultura & Pantera. 80's rap was still trying to find itself, but then got serious in the 90's.
80's movies were good, I'll admit that, but when Jurassic Park & Independence Day came out int he 90's, we were blown away with the special effects.
But like I say, memory re-paints the picture. In the 80's, I was always getting in trouble, getting grounded, and angry that I had to do homework all the time, and suffering from he general teenage angst. But I'm sure that for those of you who were still little kids in grammar school, it was an idealized wonderland.
But you have to be honest, the clash between pastel colors and neon colors with bad haircuts everywhere, that was quite nauseating.
And people liked Reagan a LOT more after he was out of office. While he was in office, he was a senile joke.
The only "good" thing about the 80's was that I could smoke wherever the F I wanted to.
Right
And the best fashion!!
I was a child in the 1970s and a teenager in the 1980s so I got to live through both decades and I love them both for different reasons. Both produced awesome music and just freedom to do anything without all the worries we have today. I wish Gen Z and those after could at least go back in time and observe for a few hours but I’m afraid if they did they wouldn’t want to come back. I just can’t believe how dismal today seems by comparison. It really feels like we’re on a different planet from what I remember. I’m glad I got to be young and vibrant during that time even if it means I’m older now. There’s just a lack of intimacy and closeness and warmth and kindness today ...and man, we had awesome music!
I'm one of the older Gen Z's and my dad rubs in the glory days :,)
During my childhood technology was still kinda primitive but seeing how it's advanced so quickly and how depressed all the younger kids are now it makes me sad
If I ever have kids I'll raise em like it's back then, they'll know all the best bands, old games, and they'll have fun goddamnit
And they'll have freedom most importantly, I never got that as a kid but I stg they will
@@tentacledaddy It's funny but many of the Gen-Z's today (like my niece and nephew -- and half the ones here on UA-cam) do know a lot about the 20th Century (music, pop culture, historical events, etc.). Things don't look so good going forward with the planet environmentally and the world politically. But yes, technology keeps advancing.
I know you all are lucky I'm jealous
SWLinPHX we all miss the days of our youth.
I think you’re right. They would not want to come back to this waste land we are in today. So I could go back I certainly would never want to come back here. I could live forever without another electronic device of any sort except maybe an answering machine and the things that were in existence then LOL.
I was a teenager throughout the 80's, it was the best time of my life and I really do miss it. It was pretty simple, no computers, mobile phones etc. Just a coloco vision gaming system, friends and bmx bikes. Awesome movies, cool music and awful tv shows. Mike Tyson in his prime. Men were men, women were women and everyone got along with each other. Looking at the shit show we live in now I would give anything to jump in a DeLorean and travel back there !
Men were men and women were women?? Please elaborate.
+IixStarShinexii Xoxo No Femi nazis and no Gay pride on our faces!, like he stated!
Tito Altimari There was still gay pride in the 80’s, idiot. Gay pride started in the 19th century, and women in the 80’s started becoming more independent! Men were also becoming themselves. I’m sorry if your little right-winged world sheltered you from this, but it was already a movement.
@@iixstarshinexiixoxo1778 What I meant was that traditional gender roles were still in place (they have worked throughout human history and have gotten the human race where it was till that point). My parents generation (born in the early 50's) still were very traditional, out of all my family and friends only one family went through divorce, all the rest (probably about 20 families) are still married or were married until they died. Its my generation (45 years old now) that were polluted by the left's, cultural marxist agenda that has caused the shit show that we are living in now. From my generation, again family and friends, of a group of approximately 40 or so people who were married, only 4 of them are still married, the rest are all divorced, the results speak for themselves. Its a biological, objective fact (not lefty, subjective, "I identify as a bullfrog, therefore I am one") that mens and womens brains are different. Men are more logical and rational based in our thinking (up until milllenials at least) because of how we had to evolve throughout human history (solving problems to feed, shelter and protect our partner and offspring). Women however are more emotional based in their thought process (this is one of the main things the womens lib movement was founded on by the way) and are more suited to nurturing and emotionally supporting their husband and children (when they behave in a non dysfunctional manner). Unfortunately because these roles are being reversed (forcibly by the marxist left) we have a very dysfunctional, delusional and degenerating society. Sorry for the long explanation but it seems that sometimes, some folks require somebody to draw them a picture, which they will reject anyway, based on their distorted belief system.
Messville I understand where you come from, especially with all the Tumblr posts about random genders that don’t exist, but my friend’s family, a really left sided family, gets along very well, despite the occasional argument. The eldest son is at college getting a medical degree, the next is becoming a band teacher, and the three youngest are all getting A’s in their classes. In this family, the wife and husband share responsibilities, but the wife gets into more physical housework while the husband cleans around the house and takes care of the children. If you ask me, it all depends on the person. Not gender rules. But feel free to correct me on anything I missed.
I was born in 1979. The 80's was a great decade to be a kid. Everything was just so chill.
Even 80s hip hop was more upbeat. It really seemed like a different planet.
XXthekingofyouXX You folks talk about the 80s like it could do no wrong, lol. What people tend to forget is mass unemployment, AIDS, the cold war, inequality, etc etc...
@@GilbertSyndrome - Well, you can find a lot of those same problems and others in different eras. But it tells you a lot when so many people can look back on a specific period with fond memories regardless.
XXthekingofyouXX That's what the notion of rose-tinted lenses is all about. People look back fondly on a preferred era, usually the one of their youth, and it seems that nothing negative ever took place, yet we know this is untrue.
@@GilbertSyndrome - Indeed. That's what fond memories are all about!
Hip Hop was WAY BETTER back then!! They told life stories or it was fun to listen to. It's unrecognizable now.
So glad I grew up in the 80s. Life has definitely changed for the worst.
IKR? Here it is 2019 and I feel the whole world has gone to pot!
Same thing people who grew up in the 50's & 60's said about the 80's
I'm jealous 😭
Kevin Kelley it’s a beautiful time to be alive.
Ok boomer
Yes, I was a teen in the 80's and I can honestly say that it was the end of 'normality' in kids. Life was easier; less complicated...because we kept it that way.
Yeah
i really hate my generation and decade :/ it makes me really sad because i would definitely enjoy life without a bunch of social media, politics, and huge expectations
What would you guys do all day?
@@Kingsombra21 crack
Cable television and harder music created this decline in society and the brainwashing from media. Basically as soon as medium came into the household it all fell apart. It was just really getting started in your generation. And every generation after that it got worse, much worse. We are where we are now not because of the people but the influences.
The best era ever…great movies, cartoons, educational programming (PBS), music, and clothing fads! I was 4 years old in 1980 and that whole era shaped me in so many ways! A time when recess as truly “recess” in elementary school; tag, kickball, dodgeball, snow and mud fights were very much a thing daily. We would all run home when the street lights came on after our many mini-versions of our own “Goonie”-like adventures! 😁 I loved my childhood. *sigh*
I was a freshman in HS in 1980 so i got the very best of the late 70's and 80s and i like you miss my childhood very much. Im afraid that U TUBE is the only "time machine " were gonna get though enjoy the memories, I know i will.
Yep, I'm whatchu on that queen. I was 2 years old in 1980 and got to witness everything this video talked about. Hide and seek, o-u-t OUT, anybounce, and those legendary street football games💯. Yea, greatest era ever
80's music is still the best along with the entire decade !
80's movies are the best but 70's music is better
@@darkairlord 70's and 80' music were the best, together...
Don't forget the films too
Micheal jackson!
The 80's were a HAPPY and OPTIMISTIC timeframe. People enjoyed technology but weren't as unhealthily OBSESSED with it as we are today. Moms taught kids to "not stare at screens too long each day, b/c it would rot your brain"..... WOW they were so correct on that !
yes,yes you are so right! people today are just plain lazy too much junk food
Lol you obviously dont know jack shit about the 80s bud. Technology was everywhere and people were hooked on it. It was just slower. Nice try tho
Mom's didn't have to tell us not to stare at screens all day. We had so many other things we did like hang out in arcades and go skating. We watched TV at night with our families because we didn't always have TVs in our rooms.
Remember your parents saying "don't touch the tv screens. Don't get too close" now we have touch screens.
The 80's was the Greatest most revolutionary Decade. Everything changed, Now this world is like living in utter HELL compared to the 80's. There was something just so very different about the 80's.. even the smells were different, it was like Happy. Pleasant spell or something was in the air, it's hard to explain but I'm sure those who grew up during then know what i'm talking about.. It's weird, like Nothing very bad really happened, as far as nationally or globally, or if it did, it was nothing you really remembered. hmm. strange. it's almost like it was a different sort of dream world now that i think about it. not making any connection, but you can kind of see why it is middle age men now committing suicide at the highest rate. going from that to this. It's truly mind blowing how the world can change soo very drastically in just a generation or 2. Ok..this is making me depressed. lol.
Hall & Oates sitting on a Fiero @ 2:09 is the most 80’s thing I’ve ever seen.
I am shocked that The Goonies was not mentioned as one of the most popular movies of the 80s. It is a classic!
Grew up in the 80's. Skating rinks, bowling alleys and arcades were Always what you did in Jr high early 80's
Drive in and amusement parks
Great time growing up in the 80's. Music, sports, movies, people you talk to in person instead on the internet, made it so much better more enjoyable.
You guys are so lucky. I wish I grew up in the 80's instead of the stupid 2000's
Hung out at the mall too- people actually interacted
My brother and I were too little to have that kind of fun in the 1980s.
the 80s was SO special! you had to really live in the time to fully understand😎
Yes, can't really appreciate it unless you lived it.
True. You can't explain it.
Boomers LOL
agreed....
That’s right!
I miss the 80's and I know that that time is over... This was a fun time to be a kid
don't ever forget it people made things happen back then and were alot happier with the simple things
lucky bastard, im jelous... i had to be born in 1997 :(
THAT TIME WAS MADE THE WAY IT WAS BECAUSE PEOPLE MADE AND WANTED IT THAT WAY.THINGS DON'T CHANGE PEOPLE DO.PEOPLE WANT TO SEE WHAT THEY WANT TO SEE.LOOK AROUND AND LOOK AT PEOPLE TODAY THEY WANT TO BE THIS WAY THEY CAN CHANGE IT IF THEY WANT TOO.
@@stevehenrichs5091 more tech
The best
I remember the following from the 1980s: parachute pants, mullets, Swatch watches, Benetton clothing, Cabbage Patch dolls, Duran Duran, Jem dolls, HBO, Fall of the Berlin Wall, Solid Gold TV series, acid washed jeans, mopeds, and the Yugo.
Yugo the car from my country
A little sad that It doesn't exist anymore
Culture club and Wham!
Don’t forget top of the pops!
there is a guy in my neighborhood who drives his Yugo around occasionally!
loved the wine coolers
It was a great time to come of age. Crazy to think that you gotta be nearly fifty years old to have experienced them. The past only gets further away
Not if u were black u racist pos
@@killaseason82 Cry me a river.
killaseason what do you mean? I bet people are more comfortable racist now then the 80s
@@lilpp4791 Mainly because people can say what they want on the internet. Since that didn't exist in the '80s, the only racist people who showed themselves were a few idiots who were willing to bear social consequences and embarrass themselves.
No not at all, Also people in their 30's as well
I wish i was born in 1970. So, my teenwould have been in the 80s, and my youth would have been in the 90s. it would have been the perfect life.
I was. It was truly awesome. Say what you want, eat what you want, fight who you want, dress how you want, listen to what you want... Really, I just wrote an 80s song in my last sentence! Billy Idol or Boogie Down Productions could sing/rap it. If I was younger than 16, I'd be cranking it up on my JVC ghetto blaster or if I was older than that, it would be bumping on my Cerwin Vega woofers in my Mustang. No guns in fights. Fists and bruises.
It was awesome. Total freedom. No social media, no surveillance, you had to go places and meet people. A great time to be young.
Yes it was. Little kid in the 70s, teen in the 80s and young college age in the 90s. By the turn of the century it went down hill fast. And now I'm pushing near 50. You have no idea how much this world has changed and for the worst . I feel sorry for you kids and young people..you missed out on paradise.
Tragically for those of us who lived it, we didn't know what we had untill we realized it was gone.
Born in 1973, great kids tv, BMX arrived in UK when I was 10, Rave scene happened just when I tuned 18. Great times.
I was born in 1970 yeah it was great growing up they had this thing called Saturday morning cartoons when I was a kid and there was this guy called Evel Knivel. 😆 then when I was a teenager I almost electracuted myself trying to get the playboy channel it was awsume times. Oh man the music 🎶 look up Slade runaway I'm sure you never herd of it before lol 😆
I was a teenager in the 80s. Everywhere i looked something new and cool was happening.
Yeah I felt the same way,always something cool and exciting happening.
born in 72. you did a good job covering life and culture in the 80s. took me back to my teenage years. thanks for that trip back memory lane. it was a great time to me.
Sorry but the 1980s was the most epic decade.
the best decade, everything was big that's when girls were girls and big hair was in and aqua net hairspray was your best friend mostly all girls kept a can of hairspray in their purses
How old are you? You look like you were too young to experience the 80s.
@@jramirez9834 I think they are about 12 in age
The 80s was the most upbeat decade. I didn't care for the 90s.
steve henrichs Yes, I believe 80s women killed the ozone. Some women would use a whole can of hairspray.
Graduated HS in 1984. I miss those years and still hold their values.
Old school
You guys had it good so good. I am so jealous
I was born in 84.. but it was the best year ever imo
1989.
I graduated in ‘88
god damnit, the 80s seemed like it was amazing! People knew how to take jokes, social media wasn't a thing, people went outside and had fun, and it just seems amazing overall
they didnt "take a joke", they didnt know they could do anything about it like tell people to fuck off and stop being racist.
@@BetaDreTV We didn’t treat each other like that. We could take jokes, focusing on race was not a thing like it is today. Relax.
No we could take and give a joke and roll with the punches.
Just the arcades and video game systems were a lot better. As far as tv watching goes.... It was garbage. Cable wasn't even invented in 1980 and if it was it was to expensive to get so nobody had cable. Colored tv.s were a huge deal if you had one.... You know how tv's were like?? black and white with the 2 knobs on them... Antenna rabbit ears. About 4 channels you would only pick up. The channels weren't all clear. You would watch stuff snowy which meant the reception wasn't great.
@Kevin Stone exactly, everyone here with rose-tinted glasses lol
I was 10 in 1980 and my grandparents would talk about the 1940s like it happened the week before but to me was so far before my time I couldn't imagine what it was really like. Now I know, I remember the 1980s very well, from playing AA pee wee hockey in grade 5 in 1980 to playing drums on a cover of Pink Floyd's Time as a group project while a student at Columbia Academy of Recording Arts in December, 1989, hours and hours at video arcades, lots of heavy metal concerts, going to NHL games when tickets were under $15, getting drunk on 3 beers in 1982, smoking my first joint in 1984, losing my virginity in the summer of 1985, Cliff Burton's death in 1986, Annihilator's first album Alice In Hell in 1989...I miss the 1980s.
I wish I could time travel back to the summer of 1987 and just stay there
Me too
1983 for me and i wouldn't have move from where I lived.
You and me both!
Yes....
Me 1979 1985 wish i could go back going to to the best days of my life .
I wish I grew up in the 80's. My parents did and they alwaays tell me about this stuff and I'm jealous. 😅
Check your sources, this guy's take is very biased!
I was 15 in 1980. The 80s was the best decade yet.
I grew up in the 80's its been steadily downhill since. believe me.
Same but sadly I was born in 04. I wish I could experience the 80's :(
sAME
In the 80's we didn't have any school shootings or race wars or terrorist attacks. Life was good to be young and old.
I was just talking about this with my young crew. We never heard of school shootings. Of course, half the students carried shotguns and rifles in their vehicles, too.
Although, we were scared of the Soviet Union and nuclear war.
Uh, i'm pretty sure all of that happened. It's just not as emphasized as it is now
Actually that did happen just not as much
Yeah y’all had it just not as much or common as today it wasn’t until Columbine was the the very first common school shooting
we had terrorists in the 80s. And we did have school shootings but it was very rare.
I was 6 years old in 1980 and a teenager at the end of the decade. Greatest time of my life.
I Wish I grew up in the 1980s.
@@sundayolelewe1965it truly was magical
The 1980's was the last of the golden years before things started on a landslide to hell
You are so right aileen
That's subjective though. You need evidence to prove that. If you're just using your nostalgia as a bases to prove that then that means I can say this for literally any other decade where it was great and everything else was hell because that's just what it is. It's subjective.
@@seanvasquez523 ikr. What abt the cold war, world wars which happened bfr the 80's
@@theinceptor3672, Well those things happened before the 1980s obviously. I think the cold war was still going on in the 1980s but I don't really know much about that however.
The 80s (and 90s I think) were the last decade of the old world I think, before it went digital. There was more freedom.
I miss the 80s so much.
If you were born in the late 60s, then being a teen in the 80s, you have the distinct appreciation of understanding the range of 20 and 21st century pop culture: from the Honeymooners, and Lucille Ball, to Eight is Enough, to Carly B, we understand it all.
Lucan. The Phoenix. Misfits of Science. Bad News Bears TV show. The Master. Family. Man from Atlantis. Otherworld. James at 15.
How true. Born in 72, but knew history of every subject. From The Chiffons to Shirley Temple, JohnnyWeissmuller as Tarzan to Bo Duke. Leave it to Beaver & Andy Griffith. We knew past generations as much as we knew our own. No so much anymore.
@@bosshogg659 Yeah,I don't get the newer generations at all. I've even met some who say "I don't watch films made before 2008 or 2000". Goofy stuff. I'm 53 and was even watching Blondie and Dagwood,Bowery Boys and Abbott and Costello as a kid and loving it. The idiotic snobbery of newer generations is so absurd I can't even talk about without insults. One of my favorite comments from Harlan Eliison was one about college students of today when he said " ..not only are they bone stick dumb and stupid,they're arrogant about it".
To put that in perspective I feel this way as someone born in the late 80s Except that to me, my American culture "lexicon" reaches to about the 50s
So true!!..was born ‘69 ..teen in ‘80s..right in the thick of it…what a glorious decade!!!….
It was very fun being a teenager thoughout the 80's and I still love the music!
So cool that now we can watch all the videos we want on UA-cam - sure beats staying up late to watch Friday Night Videos - in my 50's now and I love watching all the 80's band videos!
I wasn’t alive in the 80s but I wish I was. It seems like such an awesome decade to have lived in
No school shootings and no terrorist attacks and no 911 no pandemics or recession. I hope things would get better
I was born in the 80s and grew up in the 90s and early 2000's. I wish the same thing you do, abandoned account.
@@theonlyonestanding6832 no SJW teachers...
It was Golden. If you didn't live it you'll never understand. It was a world without internet and no one had a computer. ✊🏻❤️ There was so much love and happiness between people. So much wonder and excitement all the time.
@@Baneslayer No..life was hard then too. It jus was better than it is today.
Mr T,Michael Jackson, Hulk Hogan/wrestling,movies,NBA,Mike Tyson,what a great decade..
It was!
prince and purple rain
Wrestle Mania 3 was the best one ever! What great memory's.
nintendo, arcade games, calculator watches, swatch watches (!), cute girls in junior high school you wanted to talk to but had too many butterflies!, yummy school lunch of chicken sandwich breaded and warmed up corn with chocolate milk, i can go on
All my great memories come from the 80s:) the music, movies, shows, toys, cartoons, people, heck even commercials were epic!! Long live the 80s the greatest decade of ALL time👍🏻
The 80s were so much fun!
I would love to go back to 1984 for awhile!!!!!😆💟
People were nice & did not dwell on politics, religion & celebrities like they do now.
Id go back to the 1980s and just stay there. Not visit, but stay.
was born in 75 so i grew up in the 80's ! cartoons was the best then and MTV back then they actually played music
And they completely ignore Metal music that dominated the 80s.
Sedition I remember popular stuff like Metallica, Ozzy Osbourne, Quiet Riot, Scorpions, Motley Crue and much more.
Iron Maiden
I was a trashy white kid the listenEd to metal. Then a few years later I was the same trashy white kid but was listening to rap
Rap has to be the worse genre ever created 90s were alright tho
Sedition Metal didn't dominate the 80s, it wasn't anywhere near mainstream, (except maybe "glam metal" like Bon Jovi, Def Leppard and Aerosmith who aren't really metal at all), it got no radio play and only a handful of tv shows like Headbanger's Ball and Pepsi Power Hour featured metal videos once a week. Metal was villainized by religious groups like the PMRC claiming it caused suicides and turned people gay, they wanted it banned but settled for censored with a rating system thanks to great speeches like Dee Snider's made to Congress. (The whole thing's on YT and is an excellent watch) Fans were ostracized by pretty much everyone who thought we were drug addicted anarchists who murdered babies in satanic rituals. I laughed when people called Iron Maiden satanic because their drummer Nicko McBrain is an ordained Catholic minister.
I was born in the 00s and I honestly wish I grew up in the 80s... all the music,Tv shows, friends... it didn't have cellphones, cars actually looked really cool, things were cheaper back then... and the hair and clothes! Right now I would love to go back in time and see what the 80s was like...
It was as great as the Gen-Xer's say it was. I know I was there.
there was a LOT more racism and bullying then
@@julieb3996 That's what made the decade so great. You learned how to deal with it yourself and not bitch and moan to every bleeding heart liberal to solve your problems for you.
We didn't look for a shoulder to cry on and we became harder because of it. Eat or be eaten.
@@julieb3996 yah but it was the best decade to be young and alive with no school shootings
I’m afraid if you did you wouldn’t want to come back. In a way it makes me more sad today to see how different the world is. If you never knew any better then you can’t miss it.
80s were great childhood and teen years. Mtv,HBO and cable were just getting started. Great movies in theatres were popular. Renting movies in video stores were big. I was getting my drivers license in 87. Hanging out all day outside with friends. Playing Atari and going to roller skating rink. I could go on and on hahaha..what a great time to grow up🙂
Born in 1982... being a kid in the 80s was the most amazing thing imaginable.. Gi Joe, He Man, Transformers, Ninja Turtles, Nintendo, Goonies, Back to the Future, Ghostbusters, Karate Kid, Bmx, VCR, etc.. what an amazing Time!!!!!
December 81 here. I feel you so much! We are brothers ✊🏻
Yes,yes,yes,yes,heck,yes! That is the 80's check list right there man :)
"A family could view a movie on vcr just months after it left the theatres." I remember it was more like years.
Yeah, it all depended on how well the movie did at the theaters. The better it did the longer it took to get to VHS.
Remember waiting for it to come on TV, years…
I remember it being around four to six months. At least until it came to blockbuster or movie gallery.
And it was low quality VHS pan and scan. It wasn't until DVD that the quality really started to get good (most people didn't have LaserDisc).
It's ok those movies may've taken seemingly forever to get to home viewing cuz everybody had social lives
Best era of all time.
Screw the 2000's !
Life in the 80s were so awesome as a kid. Stuff was much cheaper than compared to now.
Yup the 2000's might have been a different type of era had it not been for 911, but after that chaotic unreal event things definetly took a turn for the worst, because during the 90's alot of good things started taking shape toward the end setting the stage for something new, optimistic, and vibrant for the new millennium.., but things didn't quite workout the way they seemingly felt they would.
@@chrispacheco8590 I gotta comment on your comment bro. I was born in 77 so the 80s was my time. And you're so right. It's like everything went to hell in the 2000s and 911 seems like it was a catalyst for what has been so far, a century of complete and total shit. In the 80s, things were black and white. We knew where we stood and what was good and what was evil. And our western ideas about freedom and capitalism seemed to be winning the whole f'in show. The wall came down...the Iron Curtain fell...democracy seemed to be an unstoppable force where the liberal values championed by western society would reign in a new era. Nations and peoples seemed to be getting closer and it seemed at least like world peace might actually be possible. When you look at popular music in the 90s, sure there were always the shallow, phony acts...but there were also sincere forms of artistic expression. It was almost like a renaissance of new styles with singer-song writers dominating the charts with their own creations. I really believed that the world was getting better. Then the late 90s happened and it started to go wrong, and then 911. The unreal and horrific became not only possible, but factual. And since then, the climate of politics domestic and foreign became cruel and savage. And the artistic renaissance turned into a corporate produced nightmare of artificial, drum-machine manufactured beats and platitudes placating to sycophants who don't even bother to question why the music they absorb is so superficial, heartless, pointless and insulting. It really is like the kids today can't even defend the crap culture they cling to because they don't even really care about it. They're not looking for anything new or to change, they just don't give a fuck. I know this is silly, but I look at today as what Obi-Wan may have called, "the dark times."
Andy Appleton Amen brother.
@@andyappleton3353 I was born in 71. I look back in time and agree with everything you said 100% The 80's was the best decade ever.
I loved the 80’s and had the time of my life. I couldn’t afford to dress like the most popular kids but my Levi’s jeans and Chuck Taylor’s were great for my personality and style. I was in the CAP that made me decide the military would suck so I needed to study and get smart fast. You could buy cool cars for cheap and movies and food were super cheap. Going to the mall was an adventure and you always met kids your age (girls). Fun fun fun. The Cold War was going on and we knew the Soviets we’re poor and hungry the Chinese just recovered from famines.i was lucky to be an American and free.
You never see NOBODY SAYING BAD THINGS ABOUT THE 80s I SURE WISH I COULD GO BACK TO THE 80s I hate how the times has changed
Fred G Sanford. Are you for real?
The 80s weren’t that great.
@@judyl.761 the 80s was great ! Don’t believe other wise
Fashion and culture wise, also the technology, makes 80s the greatest. Also technology didn't take over peoples lives.
In the 1980s boss fight, there was way too many Garganturaurs
Graduate of 86’ and yes the 80s were the best! Please take me back..❤️
Class of 86 baby!
Class of 87' Graduate.
Class of 2019, and jealous of you guys. I hate that technology has taken over everything and it’s all anyone cares about
@@garrettvcayer ok then get rid of your internet & cell phone. Get a land line phone with no features. Go to the bank and pay your bills with the teller, or you can write cheques & mail it. Get rid of your gps if you have a car & buy maps. Get a crt tv...Get rid of your hd or 4k tv. Get rid of your pvr and get a vcr for your crt tv...Get rid rid of your digital camera & buy camera with film inside.
Class of 88! Looking for a time machine😩
The 1980's was one of the better times. No smartphones, no social media and people socialised more back then than they do nowadays.
I no longer use a smartphone and I meet up with friends in my free time. I think it would be great if we speak to each other face to face rather than just by sms text or e-mail :).
I miss the 1980's.
good for you keep it real that's why god made us social animals cell phones just hide who we really are!
Exactly my point :). To be honest I think that smartphones are unnecessary and should just be binned. I prefer face to face meet ups and e-mail. Its much better in my opinion.
It’s not like smartphones somehow are replacing friends and family. I still meet my friends, go to parties and socialise even if I constantly have an iPhone in my right pocket.
I suppose that you’re just a grumpy old fart that hates everything modern. Get with the times, gramps.
@@Elias-no9fy LOL! That has just made my day.
Gotta love the craic hahahaha.
Wise up!
I guess gramps knows I’m right!
Keep playing with your toys mate, you seem to have the intelligence of a 10 year old.
Wish I could go back to 1987, was such an amazing year for me. Crazy how times have changed, todays kids/teens wouldn't know what to do with themselves.
That was the year I decided to be successful. And I was. But many times I fantasized about going back to that room I rented for $130/month. When life was simple.
I'm proud that I grew up and experienced the 80s as a child.
How old are you ?
I wish there was a time machine so I could go back in time to the 1980s
Well there actually is one and it was invented in the 80s and looks super cool. Look for a crazy old man named Doc Brown.
@@stardustsimulation sign me up 😂
I miss the 1980s, such a simpler and better time.
A time when women weren't covered in tattoos
@@XNY556-Apple lmao what?
@@demolitionman5782 What's "lmao?"
@@demolitionman5782 I miss the 80s. A time when people didn't say "lmao"
I miss the 2000s
I grew up in Germany and was a teenager in the early 80s, so yeah my daily life was very much how it was presented. The lifestyle, fashion, entertainment, toys and culture in the 80s does not apply in the USA only. It was widespread globally.
Ich hätte diese Zeit so unglaublich gerne erlebt. Die Welt ist so lieblos und unpersönlich geworden.
I picture Dieter from Sprockets..
“Want to Touch my monkey?”🐒
One of the best things about the 80's was that people got really excited for things like a big blockbuster movie, a new episode of a TV show or a new music video coming out. That's because between exciting events there were short periods of mind numbing boredom. Today if we're bored we can find whatever interests us on the internet.
rlam77 So True. Silence was and still is golden.
Waiting a week for a new episode of knight Rider was awful. Now I can watch every single episode in a week. TV is shit now.
I was born in 2003 but still can say that the 80s was the best ever decade
For who??? This is just such a biased and ignorant statement. These experiences and pop culture were really only relevant to such a small fraction of the rest of the word
no. you can't.
If you never mentioned you were born in 2003 I could guarantee nobody would’ve said anything
How the fuck can you say the 80's was the best era if you've never lived it.
@@amarnathcr7335 a little something called the internet and the history it shows, someone can have an opinion based on their beliefs of what they see
I'm glad I was a kid before technology took over
So am I.
i hate that i was born in the 2000s
I would do anything to live the 80’s. Technology truly did take over our lives
U are so luckyyy!
Ok boomer
EDIT: I fucking LOVE just how easy it is to trigger a boomer lmfao
13 years old in 1980 and 22 and graduated college in 1989. Best time to grow up.
Born in Dec 1989. Time fuckin flies 😵💫
I was born in 1971. Grew up in the 80's. While overall it was a great time to grow up, if you were an adult, there were some things that weren't so great. Until Gorbachev/Reagan meeting, there was a constant concern of nuclear war. In hindsight, it was treated as more worrisome than warranted. Mutual assured destruction prevented it. In all honesty, I'm more worried about a nuclear Iran. There were great moments of economic boom as well as bust, but we were more united as a country than we probably ever will be again.That said, I was a rocker and loved how much good hard rock and heavy metal there was. We thought these times were going to last forever. Went to the Empire Rock Club in N.E. Philly nearly every Sunday night. Got to see named bands as well as unsigned heroes. Saw Heavens Edge there more times than I can count. The girls would wear spandex tube dresses, or mini skirts with cowboy boots with hair teased to the moon.Would pretty much give anything to be able to return to those times with the knowledge I currently possess. Alas, the times move on. My advice to the young of today is document as much of your youth as you can. The day will come when you view these days with fond memories and you will want concrete evidence of those memories.
yes the girls with tons of aqua net hairspray and big hair and spandex pants and granny boots were in style for girls so was glow in the dark attire.,but us kids knew how to keep it real back then.the youth today could need a lesson on how to be respectable and keep things clean.
Reading this brought immense sadness as I wish I was around for such a great decade. I envy that time period for its music, entertainment, and overall lifestyle's lived. If time travel is ever invented, I wish to go back to the 80's and never return.
JUST SAME OLD MIND CONTROL BULLSHIT . JUST LIKE TODAY NORTH KOREA BULLSHIT. JUST DONT LISTEN TOT HE CRAP
SOS but waaaay worse
That's nostalgia working against you there. "Keeping things clean" is a problem because adults in the 80s thought the same thing about the 50s and before, which were even worse than the 80s in terms of society and worldviews.
80s was Apex of western culture , 90s started the decline
Batsinthebelltower and people always say the 90s was the “Greatest decade” also, do you hate how some people treat it like it was the dinosaur era? The 90s is just too overrated these days especially 1998 with the 98er bullcrap okay I’ll shut the hell up now.
I grew up in the 90s but even then I thought the 90 s wasn’t as good as the 80s,I prefer music from the 80s more than the 90s
@@airaero5473 90s wasnt that bad.
How?
Just think. We're about to be back in the 20s. In 100 years, it will be equivalent to 1920 now.
Born in 1970, graduated high school in 1988. The 80's to me were very memorable. My music dominated what I did. From Motley Crue to Cliff Burton's Metallica. Throw in some Maiden and Priest and we were rockin.
Same hear man. Turning 50 this year was beat. I still feel like a young guy. I wish the Military would fess up about time travel so we could go relive those awesome times.
I hear you brother. MTV was the best
Me too! Born in 1970, graduated in ‘88! Best 2 decades ever!
What did you guys do all day? I was born in 2003
@@Kingsombra21 well, in high school I would walk over to my friends apt and get high, ride around town then maybe walk around the mall. Sometimes we would drive out to some friends house and if they weren't there go to somebody else's house. During school we would find out where the party is going to be the next weekend. There was always a party. Go to that party, get drunk then when it was time to go home you would try to act sober in front your parents. And apparently we had it soo much better than when when my parents were young. Dad graduated in 1943. We did have fun. I don't do weed anymore though.
I was born in 1980 I love that I got to enjoy this beautiful decade throughout my childhood how lucky!☺️
I feel the same way. Was so fortunate to have lived that whole era.
I wish we can go back to the 80's, when times were better.
Yes!
This is sad for me to watch. We can never go back 😔
Eddie Money's "I Wanna Go Back" expresses this pretty well, and it was released in the 80's. - ua-cam.com/video/o0JqC2UDpoE/v-deo.html
Maybe we will have a chance in the 2020s
Did anyone else get excited when he said Gremlins, Karate kid, and Back to the future
Yes. Although the Gremlins use to scare me! But I still thought they were scary cute. I have a lot of childhood memories from the 80's :)
I love all those movies !
lexy Rosson ...Rocky..Rambo...Terminator...Commando..best movies ever!
For all the 80's kids you need to check out Cobra Kai here on youtube. The original cast of the Karate Kid saga made a new show from Johnny's perspective, the show is incredible. They truly recaptured the 80's.
Gremlins and Back to the Future were two of my faves during that era.
I was a little kid in the 80s. The cartoons were my jam, like Transformers, He-Man, Thundercats and SilverHawks being some of my favorites. Ninja Turtles were just starting by then too, but I saw them more as a 90s staple. I had a lot of the toys from those shows as well.
I played lots of arcade games and Atari as well as computer games. I remember the music and movies as well.
Compared to now i really miss the 80's.Movies,music,community,etc.
When is the last time u saw kids all over the place playing hide n seek, going on bmx adventures or playing tackle football where a bloody nose and bruises were the norm. That was childhood in 80's. Kids today dont do much of that and are softer
If you are gen x, then these " kid these days" you speak about... are the kids of Gen Xers no? soooooo... sorta kinda our fault.
That’s why I made sure my kids were involved in sports. I wanted to make sure they knew what struggle and physical achievement felt like.
@@wolfgangandrewx2416 most millenials are from the late boomers, but yes the idiot tide pod kids are gen x's kids. It's sooooo embarassing. Like how did my generation allow this to happen? The crap started in the mid 90's with the stupid late boomer parents and their nanny helicoptor BS. How gen x parents allowed it to continue is beyond me.
canis latrans i didnt allow it!
My son is 15 and must Play Outside or work on a car, before he can come in to do homework or play video games at dusk. He is way ahead of other kids his age and healthier. He would have to hang with Todays 19 or 20yr olds to fit in. Even then it would be him most likely to be showing them how to change a tire or correcting them as to what album the Four Horseman was on.
I go outside a lot and I’m 11
Back when most people still had common sense.
True
I loved and came to age in the 80s and they had no more common sense then to now. not much anyway
@@johnsmith-zx5er, well at least back then people knew if they were a man or a woman.
What's this common sense thing you're talking about?
john smith Really? Many of these clowns today can’t figure out what gender they are because they’re to stupid to look between their legs apparently. The music sucks....most of them have no idea what a hard days work is....they have a very hard time relating to people on a personal level not to mention can’t take constructive criticism without having a temper tantrum and just generally overall lost! Open your damn eyes!
The surviving archival footage does not give that decade the justice it deserves in how it felt back then to be alive . You had to have lived it to know what it really was like. I miss that decade soo much. We truly had it great and thought it could go on forever. Really had no idea what we had until it was gone. Truly was the best of times.
80’s was simple living, I will never forget my teen years growing up in the 80’s
Yes, "simple", but only if you, in general, were a straight, white, rich, religious, cisgender man.
Jwb52z oh shut up!! No one care about your safe space LBGT loving self in the 80’s!! It was a perfect time! Love your 2000’s you guys rule this decade! So be happy! Leave us the heck alone in our time!!
I hear ya DJ Ronnie. Greatest decade of my life. All you other youngsta haters go a head and hate. Better then the fucked up era ya'll grew up in. You even have a stupid name for your generation The millennials bunch of fuckin pamper pussies. Shit music and all ya'll do is stare at your stupid iPhone. No life having punk ass'es.
80s all day baby!
always will be the best of times
Yep. @@stevehenrichs5091
I was aged 5-14 between 1980 and 1989.
My parents couldn’t have timed it better. My dad booked before I was born, and my mom died from a drug overdose in 1978, and I grew up with my Grandma.... but they couldn’t have timed me any better.
I was born in 1988 and I love see videos and movies about the 80's trends cuz I can see like my parents life's at that years, additionally asked to my mom about that years and she told me they was the best. I usually dedicated to explore this timeline by my own then look of the deference on 80's and now and Is a big nice trip 🥰🤗
By far better music in the 80’s, all the long hair,. People actually hung out back then ! No cell phones, x boxes etc.. Would love to go back in time for a week or 2 👍
Yes especially commenting in 2020.
A simple solution for socializing in my opinion would be giving Social Security benefits to young children. It just triggers me that many people are so dumb, we could just give young children the same solutions that we give for elders.
Heck, I wonder how better childhood would be if you could buy anything you want with YOUR money. Staying at a hotel with just your friends and no parents sounds more fun than having to stay home browsing the internet.
@Calista Llewellyn, The year is not even over yet so what are you even talking about? And 2022 is coming also so do you not want that year to happen either? It hasn't even happened yet so how would you know it's going to be good or bad? Let's just wait and see on that stuff and see how the rest of 2021 will turn out to be.
Valley Girl, Urban Cowboy, Pretty In Pink, Breakfast Club, The Lost Boys and not to mention the music and MTV, 80’s best decade Ever
I'm collecting all those things you mentioned on CDs and DVDs to capture my youth.... I still got ways to go until it's complete my collection of movies and music then I can move on getting older. I wish I have a computer to burn DVDs and CDs.
Money For Nothing springs to mind. 😎💵
And MTV actually played music!!!!
I wish I could go back in time to the 80's and never EVER come back.
Yup. I'm simply waiting for our military to come clean about time travel so I can sign up and get out of this fucked up time. A one way ticket to 1987 please. Thank you. Peace out.
@@bobtwichew3103 there are a time travel project??
@@azeddine8652 I'm sure there are many governments of many countries trying to come up with the technology . I was jokingly saying what I said. I'm not so sure it hasn't been invented all ready. If you look up Corey Goode and watch some of his videos he claims it is all ready in use by our military. He says the Military all ready has a secret space program,and its been in existence since the late 60s early 70s. He says the program slogan is 20 and back. Meaning highly intelligent humans with esp and remote viewing capabilities are brought in the military and sent into space on missions to the Moon,Mars and other planets in our Galaxy and others. You're signed up for 20 years then the Military de-ages you and sends you back in time to before you enlisted. Supposedly your memory is wiped and you have no knowledge of doing this. Well he has regained memories and contacted others with similar memories and realized they knew one another from these journeys into space. Corey says he's been to space for 20 years and back 3 times. Look up his videos on UA-cam and check them out. Let me know what you think. I've been researching this and UFO'S and Alien life forms for about the last 5 years and I'm astonished of what I'm learning. Also look up Col. Phil Corso. He wrote a book called The Day after Rosewell. He spills the beans on a lot of Military secrets. This shit is going to blow your mind. I really believe Tesla was the one who got the time travel started.
I'd like to go back to 1983-1984...and stay there forever...and stay Forever Young 😧😧😧
@@bobtwichew3103 1987? bruh then you got 3 years of the 80s, go to 79/80
I grew up in the 90s but damn man you guys had Michael Jackson Thriller Album, Queen, amazing one hit wonders, Back to the Future movies, SEGA, 1986 world Cup... You guys had it all but we weren't too far behind with how amazing it was in the 90s 😉
The best decade in every category: music, movies, television, cars and technology! I would give everything up to go back, take this damn iPhone and give me back my privacy and ability to remember phone numbers, take this glowing rectangle on the wall and give me back a 19" TV with no remote and that fantastic brown cable box with a slider bar to change the channel, take this MF'n soulless SUV with its neutered factory stereo and give me my 84 Cutlass back with the Clarion cassette deck. I will gladly go back to that pizza hut and work with my friends and after we close hit some back roads, smoke a joint and listen to "A momentary lapse of reason".
No doubt man. I was born in 70 so I lived my teen years in the 80s and it was fuckin incredible
My dad gave me his 1979 cutlass oldsmobile. I miss it now. I had it from 1989 to 2003. I put a new transmission in it . Damn police took it . I should've kept paying my insurance.
Yes marijuana was one of my favorite things to do in the 70s
The 80s were good for movies but the 70s brought the best movies.
Oh we had a remote for our family tv...me! As the youngest I sat on the floor and had to change the channel, volume, antana, etc. But I would love to do it again. Having the family all together watching the same thing, instead of scattered everywhere staring at their phones. That was what it meant to be social.