What were you doing in 1985? Good or bad times?
I didn't exist then, so I can't give an opinion.
sharePlaying with my toddler-appropriate toys and going to daycare once in a while (or maybe that was in early 1986, I don't remember).
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I was in school, riding my BMX everywhere with my friends, watching Transformers cartoons and collecting the action figures, listening to Madonna and Michael Jackson (on VINYL!), fighting with my siblings, blissfully ignorant about adult concerns like any 10 year old I suppose. I was lucky to have good parents and a safe upbringing in a country town so yeah, life was good.
The only world events I clearly remember at the time were Live Aid (I got to stay up late to watch it) and the bombing of the Rainbow Warrior in New Zealand. Funny to think that my first introduction to terrorism was via the French. How times change.
The lack of mobile phone technology was the biggest difference to today. A lot less hunched shoulders and more eye contact. I miss that.
I was born in 1988, and I can't imagine living in a world with no internet.
shareI would have loved the internet back then. In Australia we had 5 free to air channels actually that was it. There wasn't any pay TV or similar back then I think you could get satellite if you put a dish on your roof but it was rare.
Weekend daytime tv sucked unless you loved sports.
"Chat friends" as you know it involved writing actual letters and then waiting days or weeks for a response!
Overall though if I had to choose I would pick 1985 over 2019.
I was born in 1988, and I can't imagine living in a world with no internet.
Too bad, because the world was a much more interesting place without it. There were more things to do and much more meaningful social interactions. For example, before the internet, people had get togethers where they played parlor or board games like Trivial Pursuit or Monopoly. Now everyone just logs into Facebook. share
LOL. Look at how many family relationships destroyed/ruined by "Monopoly".
shareMy first year of high school. I was 13. Good times
shareIt was my first year of high school also.
shareWe're a special breed when it comes to music. The 70's formed our musical brains and the 80's...well what can I say? The 80's was quite varied depending on what your taste was.
shareMusic was actually performed and written by musicians. Many of those artists weren't very attractive, lots of them were extremely awkward in their videos. That side of things could be simple and amateurish.
But the music itself is brilliant. I can't see the music of the past 10 years still being listened to well even now really.
I thought it was just me getting old but you're right, it was music first, image second.
shareAnother reason why music was so much better in the 1980s is that you still had "older" artists who were very much active and creating music for Top 40 music, people like David Bowie, Elton John, James Brown and Aretha Franklin. It's not like today where only 20 years olds are completely carrying music. I mean, hell, even in the 1990s, Johnny Cash got a huge comeback during the height of grunge, and kids were rediscovering who Shirley Bassey and Perez Prado were. But today, older musicians are still active but aren't getting any airplay whatsoever, so the music sucks.
A third reason why music sucks today is that it's very derivative. The needle seems to have got stuck in 2005. Every song to me sounds like the stuff I grew up with, because everyone is either sampling famous hooks or imitating someone from the past.
Record labels invested in their acts back then as well. It took at least three albums to really break a band. Now you just get these people coming out of nowhere straight to number one and often never hearing about them again.
Music is derivative now most songs have the same chords and even written by the same hit makers. I'll post the soon but they did a study and found that music actually has declined in quality.
Just look at how lyrics used to have more than a couple of verses and/or actually had a story to them. How you had very different sounds even within the same genre.
It doesn't matter who you listen to anymore. It's all the same.
I was miserable in Catholic School. I was also feeling as if 1985 was a big let down compared to 1983 and 1984. The two previous years were so amazing. It seemed as if so many cool trends, inventions, TV shows, movies and monster Top 40 hits were coming out at the same time. I thought, "Man, 1985 is gonna be the year to top them all!" Then it rolled around and it was like, "Meh. What happened?"
sharei feel that way about every year after the 80's. Actually towards the end of the 80's you could feel that positive fun vibe coming to an end.
Yeah, the late 80s to the early 90s were really angry and negative. On the upside, it gave us grunge. On the downside, it was a very bleak, kind of downbeat period to come of age in, compared to the earlier generations. I was so happy when the pendulum swung in the other direction in the mid-90s.
shareWell, I had my first birthday in June.
sharethis happened in 1985
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0omja1ivpx0
18 and having an absolutely awesome time.
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