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Subject: I like the 80's, but i'm only 15 years old.
You know, I recently (within the last 5 months) realized that the the 80's culture was over. I had not really known anything about the mainstream culture until then. I didn't even realize that the teenagers from the 80's were in their 30's now. I listen to things like Duran Duran, Queen, Huey Lewis & The News, and watched Back to The Future, Star Wars, Short Circuit, Superman II, and so on. I was very shocked to learn that people my age don't like these things, but wear strange clothes, and listen to bad music, such as Good Charlott, Eminem, etc. I was even more shocked by the fact that most of the people who liked the things I liked weren't teenagers anymore. I am disgusted by most of the things that my generation likes, and even the way they think.
What does that make me?
Subject: Re: I like the 80's, but i'm only 15 years old.
Welcome to the boards Jeremy! When you get a chance, get registered! :) I can sympathize with you, I have a niece who is 16, and ever since she took piano lessons seems to be hooked on classicle and ragtime jazz. She hardly listens to pop radio.
Subject: Re: I like the 80's, but i'm only 15 years old.
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You know, I recently (within the last 5 months) realized that the the 80's culture was over. I had not really known anything about the mainstream culture until then. I didn't even realize that the teenagers from the 80's were in their 30's now. I listen to things like Duran Duran, Queen, Huey Lewis & The News, and watched Back to The Future, Star Wars, Short Circuit, Superman II, and so on. I was very shocked to learn that people my age don't like these things, but wear strange clothes, and listen to bad music, such as Good Charlott, Eminem, etc. I was even more shocked by the fact that most of the people who liked the things I liked weren't teenagers anymore. I am disgusted by most of the things that my generation likes, and even the way they think.
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Ugghh....Don't remind me that 80's teenagers are in their 30's. I was born in 1977. I'm 26 years old and not much younger then a lot of 80's teens....well the Late 80's teens anyway.
I don't think you should worry about what your peers think. Just tell them you are very retro and leave it at that. 10 years ago back in 1993 I was about your age and I was really getting into the 70's. Despite the 70's revival of the 90's not many people my age wanted to get into it. I would tell them I was very retro. Anyway who cares what other people think? Just do your thing and be happy. The 90's are already ancient history and the Early 00's are almost yesterday's news. So nothing stays hip and current forever.
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Subject: Re: I like the 80's, but i'm only 15 years old.
im 31 but act 15 still...it could be sad if you knew that without a quick look at the 80's. I grew my hair long ,like so many of the metal bands and i played guitar in several "happeni'ng" bands in the chicago area. There was only 2 "cache's" of teens then ..your preps and everybody else. the music then was alot more powerful than it is today...it was nothing to go to a concert by one band that could draw over 100,000 people. today your lucky to hit 30,000 with more than one headliner. i have been to over 160 concerts and by far i miss those days. today i hit the small clubs and outside arenas in local towns to see those once huge headliners. in skullbone tn. frampton played to a crowd of 20,000... i know frampton was huge in the 70's but i think he still is awesome...i still have long hair and play guitar, i finally had a song on a local station in chicago...and i still listen to 80's music, my fiance' shes the same...the funny thing is we both act like we did in high school...so does being a teen in the eighties have any affect on us today? i think so we act as young and immature as we did back then, and still we have kick a@S careers.
Subject: Re: I like the 80's, but i'm only 15 years old.
I can also relate to the person who started this post everyone today hates the 80's but tons of songs i've heard have been 80's songs with new Lyrics like Alica Keys "Juciest" which is a rip off of Mtumes "Juicy Fruit" also tons of my sisters rap has little peices from Grandmaster Flash songs and such.
Subject: Re: I like the 80's, but i'm only 15 years old.
Well I can completly sympathise with you Jermey. I too am a teenager and love the 80s. I'm only 18 and have been obsessed like you since I was about 15. That's not to say that I odn't like some new music, I do, but not all that much! I listen to manily indie music, and a little dance/r&b/pop (gotta love Justin Timberlake ;D). I hardly listen to the radio, and when I put music TV on, it's usually VH1 Classic. It's also great to see lots of '80s Days' and nostalgia documentaries on VH1.
The 80s were so much cooler - well the music was, and I guess some of the films and fashion were to. It's amzing to see a lot of 80s clothes being revived at the moment. There is most definitly an 80s revival going on, everyone knows how many 80s covers and samples there have been of late. Although I hate most of the covers (apart from err AAF's 'Smooth Criminal and a coule others!) but it's great to see some 80s culture in the present day :)
(Btw - I seem to be mentioning Justin a lot more than I do The Smiths these days - arghh - what's happeing to me!!! ;D)
Subject: Re: I like the 80's, but i'm only 15 years old.
Welcome, Jeremy! I think it's wonderful that a fifteen-year old can appreciate the culture from the 80s. That gives me hope that the 80s legacy will continue well into the future! :)
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That gives me hope that the 80s legacy will continue well into the future! :)
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People with good taste and individualism will naturally propagate the essence of the 80's! ;D
Subject: Re: I like the 80's, but i'm only 15 years old.
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You know, I recently (within the last 5 months) realized that the the 80's culture was over. I had not really known anything about the mainstream culture until then. I didn't even realize that the teenagers from the 80's were in their 30's now. I listen to things like Duran Duran, Queen, Huey Lewis & The News, and watched Back to The Future, Star Wars, Short Circuit, Superman II, and so on. I was very shocked to learn that people my age don't like these things, but wear strange clothes, and listen to bad music, such as Good Charlott, Eminem, etc. I was even more shocked by the fact that most of the people who liked the things I liked weren't teenagers anymore. I am disgusted by most of the things that my generation likes, and even the way they think.
What does that make me?
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:o :oThere's probably a lot more young eple like you around than you think.I can sympathize.I'm 38,and i like 50s and 60s.I think the Everly brothers reunion isof the best things that happened in the 80s.Cheers! 8) 8)
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What does that make me?
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An extremely intelligent, mature, open-minded and cultured man who is not a follower, but a LEADER !! 8)
Subject: Re: I like the 80's, but i'm only 15 years old.
Hi Jeremy, I think you are in a cultural minority today, same as a lot of people were who loved the New Wave of the 80s. Much of the 80s New Wave was still a sub culture that evolved from what was coined as "Punk" a few years earlier. The New Wave was the commercialized and more acceptable offshoot of the Punk culture. There was a very small minority of Punks in the 70s but the New Wave started to pick up in the 80s, however it was still not mainstream. Someone please help me, think I'm on to something!
Subject: Re: I like the 80's, but i'm only 15 years old.
I can sympathize with Jeremy and Criz as well, although I'm a lil older (I'm 200) 80s music is my fave although I do love lots of stuff from the 60s and 70s as well. When I turn on the radio it's usually an oldies or 80s station. When I watch TV it's usually to see old sitcoms on Nick At Night and TV Land. I don't even bother with MTV anymore and I'm completely jealous of anyone who has VH1 Classic! I think pop culture today sucks. I watched VH1's I Love The 80s series and more exciting things happened in 1984 than all of the 2000s so far.
Subject: Re: I like the 80's, but i'm only 15 years old.
Hey, Jeremy! How nice it was to see this post...since I'm fifteen too and I definitely know what you're feeling, since the current pop culture does not appeal to me at all. (So I dive into underground/older rock and refuse to be dragged ashore.)
I often wish I lived in London during either the '70s or the '80s, but life is like that -- sometimes you don't luck out. :( Instead of trying to fit in with all the Good Charlotte fans, be proud of the fact that you're an individual.
...or better yet, do your friends a favor and try to convert them slooowly and cautiously into '80s fiends...get them to watch "Donnie Darko"...make them a mix-tape... It should work eventually. ;)
Subject: Re: I like the 80's, but i'm only 15 years old.
Hi there, Jeremy (and everyone else!)
I went through this scenario just before the 1980's hit. Remember it vividly. I was visiting a relative with my folks and this relative was a real 60's child. Never quite moved on! Anyway, whilst we were there, she had this LP (remember them?!) playing - not full blast, but enough for my ears to prick up to...
Song after song on this album would pour out and I was just enraptured...the album? "Please Please Me" by the Beatles (their first UK album, which differs from the first US).
And that was that - Beatles overkill thereafter! Some kids at school, at the time Lennon was murdered (not long after), were thinking I'd go into some sort of mourning! (I did, sort of...but that's another story!)
But the seeds were sown for my love of anything in a "popular music" vein. I would find myself visiting countless eras and genres just to satisfy, I suppose, a curiosity - "Was it really that good/bad/whatever?" I've got a collection nowadays going back some 50-60 years!
But, at the end of the cliche, I derived a colossal amount of enjoyment out of it all - which (after all this rambling!) is the point I'm endeavouring to make.
I wouldn't fret yourself about what your peers may think - just concentrate on what makes you happy (as long as it's not illegal!)
Being interested in the past is nothing to be ashamed of...
Just as long as you don't start living in it!
All the best!
Subject: Re: I like the 80's, but i'm only 15 years old.
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Quoting:(Btw - I seem to be mentioning Justin a lot more than I do The Smiths these days - arghh - what's happeing to me!!! ;D)
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Criz, how could you!!!!! Am I going to have to come over there and sort you out?! :P I'll shred all your Justin posters and replace them with more Morrissey posters! (And some pictures of Martin L. Gore/Depeche Mode for good measure.) :) Heaven help you if you like Boyzone.... ;)
Anyway...I'm one of those thirtysomething 80's people and I think it's fantastic that there are some teenagers today who dig the 80's. I admire your taste!! The music is a lot better than what's being put out these days. It's the last decade, I think, where originality made it to the forefront. Nowadays, it just seems like a rehashment of the same bloody things over and over and over again. Waaaaaaayyyy too many soundalikes.
Absolutely Vile
Subject: Re: I like the 80's, but i'm only 15 years old.
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Criz, how could you!!!!! Am I going to have to come over there and sort you out?! :P I'll shred all your Justin posters and replace them with more Morrissey posters! (And some pictures of Martin L. Gore/Depeche Mode for good measure.) :) Heaven help you if you like Boyzone.... ;)
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Lol! I only have one Justin poster, and it's been up on my wall for about 4 years ;D I kinda have the 'school girl crush' on him - he's gorgeous ;D But could Justin make anything remotely close to the brilliance that is the lyrics of The Smiths - I think not. You cannot compare the Smiths to any other ban. Although 'Idlewild' are getting quite close up there in my estimations - they're very, very good!
OMG - Boyzone! They were like my favourite band when I was in yr 6 and 7 (I was 11!) I went to a concert and own their first 2 albums :S !!! I Haven't been able to listen to any of their music for about 5 years - I don't know what I was thinking back in the day!!!
Subject: Re: I like the 80's, but i'm only 15 years old.
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Lol! I only have one Justin poster, and it's been up on my wall for about 4 years ;D I kinda have the 'school girl crush' on him - he's gorgeous ;D But could Justin make anything remotely close to the brilliance that is the lyrics of The Smiths - I think not. You cannot compare the Smiths to any other band. Although 'Idlewild' are getting quite close up there in my estimations - they're very, very good!
OMG - Boyzone! They were like my favourite band when I was in yr 6 and 7 (I was 11!) I went to a concert and own their first 2 albums :S !!! I Haven't been able to listen to any of their music for about 5 years - I don't know what I was thinking back in the day!!!
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:) :D ;D
Omg! I admire t.A.T.u. and Take That just as much! What is wrong with me?! Hahaha!
The Smiths come pretty darn close to Depeche Mode :D ! And they can be compared to Suede and Kent (as well as Idlewild).
We'll have to ship you Martin L. Gore posters for sure and deprogram you from that Justin trance you've been in for bog-knows how many years :) :D ;D
"Get the balance right," Criz ;)
Subject: Re: I like the 80's, but i'm only 15 years old.
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:) :D ;D
Omg! I admire t.A.T.u. and Take That just as much! What is wrong with me?! Hahaha!
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LOL! T.A.T.U ??? Why, oh why J? Maybe with Take That, I can kinda, no wait - I still can't compeltely understand!! Take that did a couple of OK songs, but they weren't my fav 'boy band' of the day.
My Boyzone days are long gone - although I have to admit that hearing some Backstreet Boys songs do create either some emotion or make me wnat to get up and dance. I actually think I own 3 of their albums :/ Now that was hard to admit!!! Ok, this is probably even worse - I have Hansons first album! :-X :-X I recieved it at Christmas in '98 - honestly!! I might have to dig that out and listen to it - only for pure comedy value,of course ;D
Subject: Re: I like the 80's, but i'm only 15 years old.
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Lol! I only have one Justin poster, and it's been up on my wall for about 4 years ;DEnd Quote
Then I think it's run its course. Come on, Tarzan Boy, we've got a room to raid!!!!!!! ;D Martin Gore and Moz posters aplenty...:)
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Well, everyone's entitled to their guilty pleasures, of course. :) And indeed, you can't compare The Smiths to any other band. No one could possibly match the brilliance of Morrissey...except maybe Martin L. Gore. ;D
Quoting:OMG - Boyzone! They were like my favourite band when I was in yr 6 and 7 (I was 11!) I went to a concert and own their first 2 albums :S !!! I Haven't been able to listen to any of their music for about 5 years - I don't know what I was thinking back in the day!!!
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But you still don't like them anymore, right?! RIGHT?!!!! :D
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Subject: Re: I like the 80's, but i'm only 15 years old.
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Then I think it's run its course. Come on, Tarzan Boy, we've got a room to raid!!!!!!! ;D Martin Gore and Moz posters aplenty...:)
But you still don't like them anymore, right?! RIGHT?!!!! :D
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Oh goody - I haven't got any pictures of dear ol' Moz ;D
My Boyzone days are long over, thank god! I don't know what posessed me 'back in the day' because looking back - they really weren't anything special - at all!
Subject: Re: I like the 80's, but i'm only 15 years old.
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Oh goody - I haven't got any pictures of dear ol' Moz ;D
My Boyzone days are long over, thank god! I don't know what posessed me 'back in the day' because looking back - they really weren't anything special - at all!
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I have several - and three posters of Morrissey and one of The Smiths (that typical one from The Queen Is Dead of them in front of the Salford Lad's Club). But they're MINE!! MINE ALL MINE!! ;D I need Depeche Mode posters. Old ones...like from 1984-85 when Martin was in his fetish wear phase. :) Got any? :D
I'm glad your Boyzone days are over. Could you maybe pay a visit to my sister-in-law and tear down her Stephen Gately posters for me? I'd really appreciate it. :) She's a wonderful person, but she's a 29-year-old Boyzone fan. REALLY SAD... :P
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Subject: Re: I like the 80's, but i'm only 15 years old.
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I'm glad your Boyzone days are over. Could you maybe pay a visit to my sister-in-law and tear down her Stephen Gately posters for me? I'd really appreciate it. :) She's a wonderful person, but she's a 29-year-old Boyzone fan. REALLY SAD... :P
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Lol! Stephen was my favourite back then. At least I was over him by the time he came out! :)
My room used to be covered in Boyzone, Five and other random posters including Ben Affleck, Ryan Phillipe (yum ;D) and Justin Timberlake (yum-ier ;D). Now I only have the latter two - and their only small! I don't really mind not having any Moz/Smiths pic - although I would love to own like a Smiths t-shirt or something, but all the ones that are available are so big! I'm only little - 5'4 and size 8 in dress size (I think thats like a size 2 or something in America!)!! Though, I could always go and get my own made by having some good lyrics on it :)
Subject: Re: I like the 80's, but i'm only 15 years old.
LISTEN JEREMY I CAN REALLY REALLY REALLY REALLY RELATE TO YOU, I CAN RELATE TO YOU SO MUCH THATS ITS SCARY I LOVE THE 80'S I WISH THAT I WAS LIVING IN THE 80'S. I AM ONLY 15 YRS OLD AND I AM OBSESSED WITH THE 80'S DURAN DURAN, BILLY IDOL, THOMPSON TWINS, TEARS FOR FEARS AND ALL OF THE 80'S BANDS ARE MY FAVORITE. I ALSO DO NOT BELIEVE THAT THE WAY MUSIC IS GOING RITE NOW THAT IT REALLY SUCKS, ARTISTS LIKE EMINEM, GOOD CHARLOTTE AND SO ON ARE REALLY GAY, I THINK THAT THE 80'S MUSIC ERA SHOULD COME BACK AND HIT US ALL VERY HARD, I THINK THEY SHOULD GET MORE NEW WAVE ARTISTS OUT THERE AND USE MORE SYNTHESIZERS, LISTEN MY FRIEND PLEAZE LEAVE ME A MESSAGE AT trueregulatorog@netscape.net
Subject: Re: I like the 80's, but i'm only 15 years old.
Hi everyone that's involved with this topic (especially Jeremy).
It's a shame that people have to be afraid of admitting they like older things in general, not just the 80s so it takes guts for a young person to come out with such a statement.
I'm 24 and the fear I had before entering the forum (this is my first one) was that everybody here would be far older than I am (no offence at all intended to the older members - these people are the 'pillars of this forum'). I find this to be far from the truth and it's reassuring.
I'm from Britain so this may, or may not, make much sense to people outside. I got a right ribbing (teased) from people at work when I openly admitted to loving 80s music but some of these people were liking 'Uptown Girl' by Westlife (Billy Joel), 'Tainted love' by Marilyn Manson(Soft cell) and Tupac's 'Changes' (sample from Bruce Hornsby's 'The way it is').
In terms of music, the irony is that I don't think I know of a decade that is so similar to the eighties and yet so removed from it. Rap artists especially borrow heavily from the 80s and one so called artist (Coolio) even sampled 'Pachelbel's Canon' (a classical piece in the true sense of the word). The sad fact in all this is that younger people do not look beyond what is put in front of them - Jeremy obviously does.
It may appear that I've gone off on one but I'll leave with this quote that I've hopefully made up myself; "Can you enjoy the scenery fully if you are looking straight ahead?"
Cheers
Bobby.
Subject: Re: I like the 80's, but i'm only 15 years old.
I miss the 80's but I would never want to live back then again. If you were a freak of any kind you would get jumped just for walking down the street. That happened to me twice. If I wasn't afraid of standing up for myself then I probably would have gotten beat down. It wasn't all fun for everybody.....
Subject: Re: I like the 80's, but i'm only 15 years old.
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LOL! T.A.T.U ??? Why, oh why J? Maybe with Take That, I can kinda, no wait - I still can't compeltely understand!! Take that did a couple of OK songs, but they weren't my fav 'boy band' of the day.
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Take That had that song "Back For Good" somewhere around 1995-1996 I think. It was a good song.
Subject: Re: I like the 80's, but i'm only 15 years old.
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Take That had that song "Back For Good" somewhere around 1995-1996 I think. It was a good song.
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Yeah, that was one of the good ones I was refering to. That, 'Never Forget' and 'Relight My Fire' with Lulu were their best. Then you have the awful ones (IMO!) sure as 'Sure' and 'Could It Be Magic'.
Subject: Re: I like the 80's, but i'm only 15 years old.
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What does that make me?
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It makes you a very cool person. People should apprecaite many different things, different movies, genres of music. It's good to be open minded, compared to the majority of teenagers who can't stand a lot of older music. It's good know your stuff. I think perhaps when people start hitting 18,19 they start to appreciate past music more -thats what I've witnessed. I was an early starter as I've kinda always loved the 80s :) 80s night at our local club is always rammed! And generally the people who go there are either slightly underage, or 18,19,20 ish.
Subject: Re: I like the 80's, but i'm only 15 years old.
Hey Jeremy I like you already! :-*
I think you should just keep up and like your own thing not matter what the other teens are into nowadays. Be original, individual, don't follow the crowd. I feel sorry for the kids and teens of this early decade, majority just listen to rubbish and dress awfully, they all look the same, uniforms.. boring ones.
Anyway, i have good news for you. Not all the people that loves the 80s are grannies! I was born in 77 and I'm 26, my sister is only 22... i disgress, the good news is that there is a new movement, totally nostalgic yet futuristic, is called ELECTROCLASH. There are a bunch of great young people that love this style, 16 years old girls and boys, 18... and above (including we the aunties :) ) You just gotta try to find these people, stick with them. They have a great sense of 80s inspired fashion (the girls are sooooo hot! and the girls dig the fashion as well) and very electronic 80s music, but with new elements. This wave came from Germany, but is very strong in USA, you just have to research more about it. Maybe you are a bit too young to get into the clubs (sorry
:( ) but there are also clubs that have 80's nights that are open to any age, i guess. Try the goth crowd too, they know and like the 80s, you may be surprised, many of them are very young.
for more about Electroclash here is a short description:
electroclash is pretty much synth/electronic music with a nostalgic touch (think Kraftwerk, Front242, A Split Second, Depeche Mode, Duran Duran, etc and other synth 80's bands ) and some rock/punk influences (Blondie and more). A few examples are new bands such as Ladytron, FisherSpooner, Zoot Woman, Miss Kitten, Hungry Wives, Chicks on Speed, Adult, Peaches, W.I.T., Soviet, Mono Trona, etc they sound like a mix of New Wave and new Techno. The name electroclash came from Williamsburg, Brooklyn's
Club Luxx, this scene is from Berlin originally
check http://electroclash.com
Don't feel hopeless about being different, there are other people that like the same stuff you do like and are in the same age range. Stick with us too :)
take care!
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You know, I recently (within the last 5 months) realized that the the 80's culture was over. I had not really known anything about the mainstream culture until then. I didn't even realize that the teenagers from the 80's were in their 30's now. I listen to things like Duran Duran, Queen, Huey Lewis & The News, and watched Back to The Future, Star Wars, Short Circuit, Superman II, and so on. I was very shocked to learn that people my age don't like these things, but wear strange clothes, and listen to bad music, such as Good Charlott, Eminem, etc. I was even more shocked by the fact that most of the people who liked the things I liked weren't teenagers anymore. I am disgusted by most of the things that my generation likes, and even the way they think.
What does that make me?
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Subject: Re: I like the 80's, but i'm only 15 years old.
oh no doubt about it... most of the new rap or hiphop bands sample loads of tunes from the 80s. LOADS! they rip off from great 80s stuff such as Public Enemy, grandmaster flash rhythms just like you mentioned, and the breakdancin'.
This is kinda embarassing but there is a video of Justin Timberlake where he is trying to be a wanna be Michael Jacson, even the hat... the dance steps, very very breakdance looking. Oh and wherever he goes now he wears those 80's type of gloves showing the fingers with black & white stripes. Another 'new act' that has a very fashionable rip off from the 80s is No Doubt, Gwen steffani seem to have stolen Madonna's 80s wardrobe... sometimes...
And now kELLY osbourne. Some of her songs from the new album is So SO (my opinion here, in despite that i really dig her!) but she is totally retro 80's looking! vintage stores rocks!
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I can also relate to the person who started this post everyone today hates the 80's but tons of songs i've heard have been 80's songs with new Lyrics like Alica Keys "Juciest" which is a rip off of Mtumes "Juicy Fruit" also tons of my sisters rap has little peices from Grandmaster Flash songs and such.
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Subject: Re: I like the 80's, but i'm only 15 years old.
LOL DITTO!!!!
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on May 4th, 2003, 6:52am, 80sTrivia wrote:That gives me hope that the 80s legacy will continue well into the future
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People with good taste and individualism will naturally propagate the essence of the 80's! ;D
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Subject: Re: I like the 80's, but i'm only 15 years old.
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OMG that's really O L D!
(couldn't resist, sorry!) :P
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hey guys.. sorry for some many posts... no i'm not manic, i just loved this thread ;)
Babysinister, try to make your future now, don't think how could would be if you lived in London in the late 70s and the 80s... you know, I try to make my own little world, yeah i'm stucked in the 80s, people kinda think i'm a freak because of my looks, the music i like, movies, toys, videogames, nearly everything kinda make them confused. Most people my age (26) here in Norway listen to garbage music and they biggest ambition is to dress with brow/gray colors in known fancy schamcy designer clothes. Yeah i'm a lunatic for customizing my own clothes, buy them from second-hand stores etc. MY HAIR? Oh my god, how can i have this hair while everyone else my age is so darn straight and copycats.
But i don't care... i try to make the best out of my situation, actually there are some people like me out there, my age, younger and so on. So try to do what you like here and now... would be great to live in london in the 80s right? but just few years ago i was there in walking nearby the kensington markets and i saw so many punks/goth and new wave people! So i loved your idea about Donnie Darko (PERFECT movie! have in dvd, totally worth it), people eventually will get interested about the 80s... or at least respect our choice. You just need to have guts to stick to what you believe and don't care if you're an outsider :-*
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Hey, Jeremy! How nice it was to see this post...since I'm fifteen too and I definitely know what you're feeling, since the current pop culture does not appeal to me at all. (So I dive into underground/older rock and refuse to be dragged ashore.)
I often wish I lived in London during either the '70s or the '80s, but life is like that -- sometimes you don't luck out. :( Instead of trying to fit in with all the Good Charlotte fans, be proud of the fact that you're an individual.
...or better yet, do your friends a favor and try to convert them slooowly and cautiously into '80s fiends...get them to watch "Donnie Darko"...make them a mix-tape... It should work eventually. ;)
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The Smiths come pretty darn close to Depeche Mode :D ! And they can be compared to Suede and Kent (as well as Idlewild).
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Kent rocked, 2 years ago. They were so innovative, 80s influence here and there. Now there are 70s :(
flower power... the vocal dyed her hair black... the guitar player looks totally 70s. They are in decadence.
Now the great swedish bands are Melody Club (think a revamped Psychedelic Furs) and The Sounds (Blondie/Kim Wilde!), i recommend these :)
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OMG that's really O L D!
(couldn't resist, sorry!) :P
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LOL oops! Guess I didn't check for errors in that post..I accidentally added 180 years to my age! ;D I'm only 20.
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i totaly agree whith everything thats being said just because youre fifteen 18 ect dosent mean that you have to be in to todays cuture (clothes music ect) when i was youre age i ( actully just before i turnd 16) used to wear my clothes in a 80s style jackets whith the sleeves rolled up jumpers tucked in and anything eles thats to do whith the 80s i listen to 80s music ( istill do as a matter of fact) i love 80s stuff and ill allways will altrough ive matured in the way i dress iam still an 80s kid i went trough the 80s new romantics up to when i was 18 then i starded to listen to rock metal music (my first metal albums was manson and placebo) then i starded to listen to 80s bands like kiss (glam ) poison bon jovie bands like that my point is if youre dont like some and you prefer something eles there s nothing wrong whith you iam 20 myrs old rigt wana know what my first concert was culture club and that was in the late 90s and i loved it so stick to youre guns and enjoy youre self and rigerter whith us its awsome
Subject: Re: I like the 80's, but i'm only 15 years old.
Here goes, Mr Crowly. I'm going to tell a secret.
My birthday was this May just gone. I am 24 and never been to a concert before my last birthday. Do you know what my first concert was? Erasure - and it was absolutely brilliant! ;D
Subject: Re: I like the 80's, but i'm only 15 years old.
i never ment for you to tell us youre age boby but any way was the erasure concert in the 9os or 80s and whats youre fave song by them
Subject: Re: I like the 80's, but i'm only 15 years old.
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LOL oops! Guess I didn't check for errors in that post..I accidentally added 180 years to my age! ;D I'm only 20.
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HEHE I know, just wanted to tease you a bit! :-*
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i never ment for you to tell us youre age boby but any way was the erasure concert in the 9os or 80s and whats youre fave song by them
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Honesty was always my down point, Mr Crowly! ;D
The Erasure concert happened last month for my birthday. I have never been to a concert before that.
They got through a lot of stuff. My favourite songs have got to be 'Ship of fools','Stop','Sometimes' and 'Oh L'amour'.
My mega-favourite was 'Reunion' but they didn't get to play it.
Subject: Re: I like the 80's, but i'm only 15 years old.
same her about the honesty thing ;D my fave songs by them
are
actully everything on the greatis hits is awsome apart from take a chance on me but to pick two whould drama and love to hAte you
Subject: Re: I like the 80's, but i'm only 15 years old.
Jeremy; It's Way Cool You Groove On The 80's - It Was A Time Of Great Enthusiasm - Creativity - And Just Glad To Be Alive Decade !! The 80's Started For Me With The Election Of Ronnie Reagan !! That Was The Spark That Ignited The Great Decade Of The 80's - Previous To That America Had Been Very Confused And Drifting In To Darkness I Was Just 25 In 1980 And Living And Traveling Between The High Mountains Of The Colorado Rockies And The Great State Of Alaska !! Really Loved Most Music Of The 80's The Fixx - MIssing Persons - Japan - Ultra Vox - Jean Michele Jarre - Stomu Yamashta - Sting - !! 8)
Subject: Re: I like the 80's, but i'm only 15 years old.
Just turned 28 in June and their ain't nothin' better than the 80's. Everything was cool and simple. I think it's kind of funny that the 80's styles are starting to come back, at least in here in Maine that is.