80s thread - The best of the 1980s

PurpleUrkel said:
I didn't really focus on the gayness of this band until recently when it was brought to my attention that Fred Schneider is a flaming homo jew (duh?) and that Ricky Wilson, who I think is a very underrated guitar player, died of AIDS in 1985. Nonetheless, I rock their first album on vinyl first thing in the morning sometimes and even though this new information has come to light I don't see that changing. They should be in the Rock N' Roll Hall Of Fame. Here they are in 1980 at the height of their powers:
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Yep, they're all homosexual except for the blonde chick, Cindy Wilson.
 


While it's easy to view the past through rose colored glasses I really do believe things were better back then. I was born in the 70s and growing up we knew our neighbors up and down the block, I walked to and from elementary school, biked to the local community pool by myself and spent long summer days with my friends playing outside. Lots of unstructured time where we made our own fun.

I remember once in junior high some of my friends joy riding in their parents' car coming by the house and asking me to jump in the car with them. They were just cruising around the neighborhood. I declined and found out later that they ended up getting in trouble because one of the neighbors saw them out and called their parents. Nowadays I think that would never happen because neighbors often don't even know each other anymore.

I've worked remotely since before covid and I remember commenting to my wife how in our neighborhood you don't really see groups of kids outside playing on weekdays during the summer. When I look out the window in the summer I see landscapers come by and adults walking dogs but I don't generally see mobs of kids playing the way I did with my friends at that age. These days the mothers are all off at work being girl-bosses and the kids are signed up for summer camps since there's nobody at home.

One of our local pools shutdown due to lack of membership. At one of the meetings one of the mothers mentioned how back in the day it was a really good deal for stay at homes - they could bring the kids to pool and let them play while the mothers socialized and hung out. Now if you go to the pool here in the summer during the middle of a week day it's being rented out to summer camp companies because otherwise it would largely be empty.

It's not healthy to dwell on the on the past too much but sometimes I do wish my own son could experience the childhood we got to experience in the 80s.
 
Renzy said:


While it's easy to view the past through rose colored glasses I really do believe things were better back then. I was born in the 70s and growing up we knew our neighbors up and down the block, I walked to and from elementary school, biked to the local community pool by myself and spent long summer days with my friends playing outside. Lots of unstructured time where we made our own fun.

I remember once in junior high some of my friends joy riding in their parents' car coming by the house and asking me to jump in the car with them. They were just cruising around the neighborhood. I declined and found out later that they ended up getting in trouble because one of the neighbors saw them out and called their parents. Nowadays I think that would never happen because neighbors often don't even know each other anymore.

I've worked remotely since before covid and I remember commenting to my wife how in our neighborhood you don't really see groups of kids outside playing on weekdays during the summer. When I look out the window in the summer I see landscapers come by and adults walking dogs but I don't generally see mobs of kids playing the way I did with my friends at that age. These days the mothers are all off at work being girl-bosses and the kids are signed up for summer camps since there's nobody at home.

One of our local pools shutdown due to lack of membership. At one of the meetings one of the mothers mentioned how back in the day it was a really good deal for stay at homes - they could bring the kids to pool and let them play while the mothers socialized and hung out. Now if you go to the pool here in the summer during the middle of a week day it's being rented out to summer camp companies because otherwise it would largely be empty.

It's not healthy to dwell on the on the past too much but sometimes I do wish my own son could experience the childhood we got to experience in the 80s.
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80s/90s kids are the last generation to know a world without the internet.
I would compare it to the last generation who grew up with only horses as transportation, and/or the last generation to only have the telegraph to send urgent messages outside your own town.



 
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