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Originally Posted by buck naked
I'll give you that the style sucked in the 80s, and the movies were in general a lot worse than the 70s.
Sure, there were crappy hair bands like Poison and nancy boys like George Michael all over MTV.
But if you were in the punk-alt-indie-metal scene, the music was to die for, and so much better than the 15 years since the 80s ended.
Dead Kennedys, Husker Du, Minutemen, Black Flag, Violent Femmes, Replacements, Meat Puppets, Misfits, Cure, Gang of 4, Bad Brains, Dinosaur Jr., Mission of Burma, Mudhoney, early Sonic Youth and early Pixies, Plus lots of great metal: early Metallica, Megadeth &c. And the best rap ever made: NWA's Straight out of Compton and the early Public Enemy
Early U2, mid-career Ramones, Elvis C, Damned, Talking Heads, Jam & I'm tired of this list.
The only way the music of the 80s sucked is if you sat around watching MTV.
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FUCKIN' AAAAAAAA!!!!!!
The hardcore kick ass punk and thrash and gangsta rap decade! NY City skatin' and kung fuin'!
In the 80's even if you were broke you could still have adventure. If you had $20 you could have a ball in Manhattan. Eat all day and hang out all night.
80's was the 'Indies' decade for sure! Indie comics, indie bands, precursor to the '90's web indie startups.
Worst thing was the crack and drugs. NY was a nightmare.
Don't forget movies too! Terminator, Indiana Jones, Aliens, Predator!
Wrestlemania 1 !!!
You could still settle things man to man in the streets without 50 lawyers showin' up.
Women started turning 'evil'. Drugs like crack and those pharmaceutical nightmare dopes.
Nowadays the cool thing about the naughts ( 00's ) is the same as the mid to late '90s in that if you have skills and are on the web you can make some extra loot easy to offset the evil land barons.
In the 80's the only people who had loot were Republicans and gangsters.
Women's fashions today suck except for the business woman/professional. Today women dress like they're out to fight Dr. Doom or something.