I was just thinking back to the 80's, especially how I percieved things towards the end of the decade, and especially by like 1990 and 1991.

Having been born in 1975, I remember being exposed to everything early 80's at the age of 5 in 1980, and I knew the 80's non-stop till 1989.  In 1989, all I knew, all my life was the 1980's.  From Atari, Colleco Vision, Jelly Braclets and Rubiks Cube to Nintendo, Sega, Commodore 64s and hypercolor t-shirts.  From Blondie and Pat Benatar to Debbie Gibson and Paula Abdul.  From Menundo and New Edition to New Kids on the Block.  From Duran Duran and Wham! to Depeche Mode and Erasure.  From Silver Spoons to Full House.  I knew the bad TV spinoffs of the early 80's like Joanie Loves Chachi, and I knew the bad spinoffs from the late 80's like Just the Ten of Us.  From Facts of Life to Head of the Class.  From Dallas to L.A. Law.  From Raiders to Last Crusade.  From the original Karate Kid to the dismal KK Part III.  I wasn't like some kid born in 1983 that only saw 1989. Nope, I knew nearly every aspect of the 80's, even a lot of the very early 80's.  And I was becoming overwhelmed with the 80's by the end of the decade.  

I pretty much knew the whole decade, and I gotta admit, by the time I was like 13 and 14 in 1989, I was really 80'sed out.  It was like too much sugar or ice cream.  Now ofcourse I look back and I fondly remember everything, even 1989. But AT THAT TIME, I was getting really sick and tired of the 1980's towards the very end of the decade.  In the very late 80's, most everything about "the 80's" (if you know what I mean) used to make me groan or cringe with embarrasment. This was especially true of me during the years of late 1988 to sometime in 1992. I gotta admit, I was happy the 90's happened.  Just for the sake of finally having some kind of change and at last something different was being done.  For a while there I thought we were always going to be wearing neon, mullets and spandex.

I'll always love the 80's, but I have to be honest, by the end of the decade and the early 90's, I'd be lying if I didn't say that I was happy to see the style and mentality of the 1980's finally go and it was nice to have a new feeling and different atmosphere in the air.

I was just wondering who else had 80's fatigue in the very late 80's and very early 90's?

No,to tell you the truth,I never got sick of the 80's.To have been born in the 70's,I did experience the 80's.And I was only 15 when that decade had ended. :)

Howard

Re: Where you ever getting sick of the 80's back then?

No.

I don't really understand (hard as I try) why you felt the way you did and that's too bad. Nice to see you have fond memories of the decade anyway. :)

I was a child in the 80s (born '79) and I remember a lot of it even when I was little. I never got tired of the 80s! They were great - they were my childhood.

  Jason, I know what you mean and you put it very well when you said: "Cringe with embarassment..."

  There was a time, as I recall, when the 80s just were not cool and I tried to distance myself from them.  For example, there are movies I never would've admitted I enjoyed (let alone watched) and music I never would've admitted I listened-to.

  I really never embraced my favorite decade and it's distinct pop culture until fairly recently.  

  Suppose I'm not the only one who felt this way...

No Way! The 80's were the best time of my life! It was so much fun. I am SO thankful that I was a teen in that wonderful decade. I would never ever want to be a teen in this messed up world of today!! Bring back the 80's, I will never get sick of it!!!!!!

:D 8)My favorite part of thew 80s was when the Everly brothers got back together in 1983,the year I graduated from high school.I liked the 80s better than I liked the 70s;however,I did think there were too many cartoons based on toy products.Definitely cartoons are better today.Cheers! 8) 8)

I can't say that I was ever sick of the 80's though I can appreciate what you felt.  I felt that way about the 90's.

I really didn't feel all that connected with the 90's generation and I hatedbeing labeled a GenX'er! >:(

NEVER

Someone told me i was a memeber of Generation Y....

No, I just never thought about it. I was just going with the flow.

   To me, the 1980's was about being a toddler and learning how to walk, but it seemed like a pretty cool decade according to my '77 born sister. Plus, because I was born in the mid-80's, I was able to be remember 1989 and the very early 90's. MTV in 1990-1993 still played videos from the mid and late eighties alot, and I remember videos like "She Drives Me Crazy" by Fine Young Cannibals and "We Didn't Start The Fire" by Billy Joel still being played. I just feel bad for all the kids who were born in 1988 onward who only ever got to see the MTV that got taken over by TRL in the late 1990's.

    Right now, I'm just plain sick of the 2000's. It feels like the late 90's, but without a great economy and peacetime. It's so weird, because I remember just how different the atmosphere and look was comparing 1989 and 1993, but it's like the "aughties" haven't really started yet. I just hope that 2004 will finally bring us away from still feeling like it's 1999. (It'll be the mid-part of the decade, which is when all the good stuff happens, right?)

'the aughties', i like that (although i may have heard of it before, my memory is just that bad.)  Much better than the 'noughties'.

I'm always on the verge of remembering a (possibly) good name for this decade but it's always a case of presque-vu - maybe someone with a background in maths can give me a hand with this...isn't there a name for integers less than ten?  Like mantissa or something?

   "Aughties" was what they used at the turn of the 20th century before 1910. '03 would be "Aught-Three" and so forth.

Since i was born early 84, i can remember some of the pop culture stuff(mostly in music) from late 87 on, so i guess i didn't get much of a chance to be tired of them. The most important things i remembered probably was the last time i saw my Sister in 88(well, now thats not the last time since i talked to her in 2002 when we both graduated, me high school her graduate school, and we met at mine), the first time i got my heartbroken(halloween 89, my crush was snooping around the backpacks stealing candy!), our first family reunion in 89, and my first best friend that moved away when i was 5. So, since i still like the 80s funk/r&b sound, there was nothin for me to get tired of.

I was born in 1982, and I can actually remember things as far back as 1985. Also, some things that happened in 1989 seem like yesterday.

I was born in 1982 and can remember everything from 1984 onwards.  Yeah, I might have only been a small child, but the following things are my main memories of the 80's and they just feel like yesterday - I never got sick of it as I was too young to think that way and I was loving every minute!!

Watching Gremlins, Ghostbusters, Cocoon, ET, Flight of the Navigator and Santa Claus movies, My Little Pony, Keypers, She-Ra, He-man, Transformers, The Get - a - Long Gang, the Wuzzles, Gem, Poochie, early Michael Jackson and Madonna, Teddy Ruckspin and The Racoons.......

Ah the Get-A-Long Gang.  As i remember, it was P.C. enough for any Christian to admire.   ;D

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Ah the Get-A-Long Gang.  As i remember, it was P.C. enough for any Christian to admire

I've never heard of this, what is it/are they?

My memory is very poor but this is what i remember:

It had a very happy-clappy theme tune.  All the characters were various animals - one of the main characters was a stag or something with big antlers.  The beginning (or was it the end?) had  them all hanging off the back of a train. :-/

All i remember was it was really inoffensive and bland.

I never ever got sick of the 80s even though I was born only in 1978.No way!I must say the 80s were the best time of my life.I have a long memory and still can remember most of what I used to watch/listen to back then.
I got my first ever record in the 80s(Kim Wilde's selftitled debut from 1981 as a present from my father for my 4th birthday).I slightly started to get into the music.Was fascinated by Goth,especially Sisters Of Mercy and The Cure, at the age of 10.Was a real acid-house/Madchester nutter at the end of a decade.Saw my first gig ever(Spandau Ballet over here in my hometown Zagreb,Croatia in September 1989)."The Goonies","Dirty Dancing" and "Gremlins" were just some of my favourite movies back then.Got my first ever computer(Commodore 64).Got my younger brother in 1981...etc.
80s were great!

Definitely not.  The 80's were basically a poignant time of my life.  I went from teen to adult in that time period. (ages 12-21)  I went through quite a lot and the music, television, movies, etc reflected quite a bit of life during that time.  I could especially identify with the John Hughes films, especially the Molly Ringwald ones, as she and I are the same age.  It's a little alarming to hear the music I listened to referred to as "oldies" now.  ;)

I resent being associated with those films  ;)