BBC Eighties Season - The Grumpy Guide To The 80s (5/10/10) 

We can never go back. Live in the moment. There is nothing wrong with analyzing the past so that we can learn. This commentary is hilarious.

Totally agree. Fuck these guys were haters. I loved the 80’s!! Best decade ever

It’s tough to market and advertise products that no longer exist. So you make the old unattractive and lame, the new you push with the fervour of an evangelical preacher. Probs a lil subtler than that in reality but that’s the gist of the deal that I see.

Yeah 18% interest rates where awesome and AIDS was a blast, I tell ya the lack of any choice in entertainment (five television stations and a local cinema if lucky) slow driving lousy handling penalty boxes of cars and the constant spectre of nuclear Armageddon make for the icing on the cake. Soz but we have it soooooooooo much better now than then, actually I wager if you were to be sent back you’d be missing all the stuff we take for granted that didn’t exist 40 years ago.

Absolutely not. I'd miss the pit, the internet, the clothes.

I was born in 81 and growing up in the 80’s was great, I preferred the 90’s the 2000’s were ok and since the 2010’s it’s been like falling off a high cliff. It keeps getting worse as time passes and I know at some point it’s all going to come to a screeching halt and I’ll be dead. But in the 80’s there was good music, kids cartoons were great and movies were great too with so many classic films that you can watch today and say that film made me feel good and I can watch it again and again where as films today are mainly disappointing and if there is one film that you enjoyed it doesn’t have the ability to make you rewatch it more than another 1 or 2 times like the Indiana Jones & Back To The Future trilogies or The Goonies, Ghostbusters plus many more movies. I could go on but you grew up in the 80’s so you know what I’m talking about and really the only bad things to come out in the 80’s was the fashion and the hair especially the hair! Also AIDS was a big bad thing in the 80’s but it never effected me or most kids growing up in the 80’s.

Yeah like this, “BE warned! there’s this horrible rich, yt jerk who said a dirty word in a private conversation 10 years before he even ran for office!” REEEEEEEE !!!

That is so funny! I really laughed when I read your clever comment!

Yeah. A globalist traitor fifth column piece of shit for every most European countries

2010? The World Cup in South Africa?

That cunt said Thatcher called Mandela a terrorist? Err.. yeah because he was! Stupid lefty shitweasel.

Totally agree... much more optimistic and free.

A bit late in my reply, but I totally agree with you!

Well said

Yep. 100%

same here

Not for everybody, it was mostly ballucks

@@seansands424 For most.

We used to play in a playground but had to watch out for when the gluesniffers came. I don't know what they were going to do to us but they looked like zombies! My friend got followed in a car and a man tried to snatch him but he climbed over another car bonnet and ran...so we had a healthy fear of strangers

At the weekends we used to play football or cricket in the street then make sure we were home to watch Jim’ll Fix It and Rolf’s Cartoon Club. Happy days...

That's exactly the same thing people in the 80s said about the 50s LOL. Everything looks rose-tinted in the rearview mirror.

@@DiamondProofSector The 80s and 50s had much more in common than the 90s and 2000s / 2010s did.

Not the smiths ffs.

exactly!

And no fun!

No it wasn't ;)

@MyPodNetMc5 At least in the 80s we knew how to spell by using a capital letter at the start of a sentence unlike today's morons! Nice try...

Think possibly whichever time you were a teenager is the best time ever, however, every decade can’t be the best ever. I reckon another explanation is in order…..could it possibly have something to do with being a particular age at a particular time that resonates with you for the rest of your life???????

Rees mog for gallows or iron maiden or breaking wheel any will do

Laughing at they think it's better now😁🤦

I'm wit ya!!!!

Why not? There were rubbish and abhorrent things every era. We are no worse now, just different. We seem to quickly forget the bad

Missing children 😐😐

Geoffrey Palmer is my role model as I get in touch with my not so inner curmudgeon.😉

I take your point, but the commentators are mainly unfunny. As for the archive video, I'm here because I was watching some 80s Top of the Pops and I was abhorred! I just followed a suggested link to watch this programme, which is kinda OK. Personally, I left the UK in the mid-80s, so I fortunately missed a lot of it, since there was no internet then.

people are fucking stupid shitbags these days so no use trying to tell them. let them cry their dick off...

You should do you own show if you don't like it.

every other person CAN do their own show now which is why so much crap has infested the internet, TV and Netflix.

@@auntihooha is that replying to me? I never said I dislike it. I like it. Or do you mean the people I was talking about?

Why? WHYYYYYYYY?!?!?!?!? 🤣

The mobile phones were so big then that nobody had any option but to flaunt them. They just couldn’t go into your coat or trouser pockets.

+healthyamerican No, you wouldn't believe me. I was there

I liked the 80s music and fashion.

We had more freedom in the 80's in America.

It was a great decade in itself, but unfortunate also the hangover from the 60's and 70's: That grey inhabitable concrete backdrop was the self-inflicted result of more devastation than Hitler could ever dream of.

80s r gaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaayyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy!!!!

EVERYBODY thinks the decade of their youth was the best decade

@@mattiemclean9882 Not so much now, always see youths complaining about their own music and preferring older stuff. For my it was late 70's early 80's but love stuff back to the early 60's just as much. Seemed to go downhill mid 90's.

@@AndysEastCoastAdventures You said late 70's-early 80's was your favorite period yet you say mid 90's was the beginning of downhill. That doesn't make sense, don't you mean mid 80's?

​@@AndysEastCoastAdventuresThere were plenty of kids in the U.K, who hated 70s-80s music in the 70s-80s. That's how the Rockabilly/Mod revival and Punk music came about. In the 60s it was old blues and trad jazz. In the 90s it was the music of the 1960s and today, it's anything you like on Spotify.

ALOT of bitter hasbeens

@@kevcatnip7589 I see you have Bowie in your user icon. Check what he said about his own 80s work. He was right. Insufferable decade.

@@kevcatnip7589it’s kinda sad, I was teen in the eighties and we have a world today that is better in every possible way I can think of, we can watch TV anywhere anytime and get this you can choose what you want to watch!!!!!!! Better than a VHS and more portable plus you can make phone calls, take photos and play Pac-Man

The 80`s WERE* First grade english.

2020: hold my pint.

no its not

And far, far better than 2020.

@@AlexSmith-fs6ro no it wasnt

Duran Duran is such an Awesome Band every song by them is a Great Song and a Top of the Charts Smash Hit in this Ordinary World , Hmm i think i'll go Listen to them Now

Blue moon on Monday..

It was. Duran Duran were awesome. Whoever that fat fart is complaining about tgem was probably jealous of Simon. Lol

@@gordonfitterer4660 Rio is a great album still today.

@@johnmckee7640 NEW Moon on Monday

Lol I thought exactly the same thing

Its* It`s is short for it is. First grade.. First grade.

@@afrog2666 Grammar Nazi.

The 80s was the best decade of my life. The 2010s have been the worst decade of my life.

@@dsd310580 Agree 100%!

The first half of the 2010s were ok.

@@DuncanMcA Yes, now in 2022 we look back at the time of the coalition government and think it was a beautiful era compared to the mess created from 2016 onward.

@@johnking5174 it sowed the seeds for a lot of the problems now eg NHS backlog but the era itself wasn’t so bad. There was also very little in the way of terrorism and of course we had the London Olympics

To appreciate the influential, informative, definitive bands/music of the eighties, two words are needed: Alternative & Indie. More or less, beginning with The Smiths and ending with Stone Roses & Happy Mondays.

D Frew: I agree. There is little point in singling out the eighties as some kind of creative nadir, when the three decades that followed them were so much worse. The eighties were the last decade in which there was any substantial creative content in music and pop culture.

@@magrathean0 and fashion. Some 80s fashion wasn't that great but at least there was some. It has all been blah since the 90s.

Let it come down!

No, it was the start of the grand awakening. People coming together to dance to acid and house music in 🎝 sweet harmony 🎜 It was a special time. For a few years football thugs stopped fighting and started dancing. Young people would talk to each other on the bus and maybe share a joint or two! If only the government enforced Mdma on the public instead of banning it, the world would be a better place!

This was before the story was published.

None Ya Damn Business. They do a good job of ignoring and whitewashing it now too. They certainly were silent about it for decades. Not surprising considering that Savile's pedophile friends were probably elsewhere in the BBC too. Not to forget the royal family.

People had been talking about it for many years before it made the headlines.

Who?

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Beth Hollins So did Byrne. But he’s so fundamentally bad at comedy he chose to mock a song that, whether you like it or not, you know what it statement ‘break out’ means. Christ she explains it ‘...find a way say what you want to say’. Again, of all the songs in the 80s, Byrne chooses this song and that ‘joke’. It’s ironically ‘hilarious’

Yeah. Strange that so few would admit it, though.

I didn’t hate her,I thought she was great. I got a wave from her once.

I did not vote that vile bi5ch in

I blame the parents - mine certainly didn't help.

I ran away from her canvassing in the neatest town to me in the early 90s.

The 80's especially early 80's charts was FILLED with fantastic music and it was an absolute golden age for charted mainstream music. Post Punk, New Wave, Synth Pop, New Romantic, Ska, 2 nd wave Punk, a shitload of indie music and an era that completely re-shaped the industry and you're suggesting "most of it got nowhere near the charts" ?

Damn right!! I was just thinking that. The 80s were great if you were young (like me and my mates were) and these z-list turds talking about it are SO annoying

Yeah, I'm not feeling this show...I mean, I still listen to a lot of that music now.

I know - the irony, absolute nobodies slagging off bad TV and music etc - by appearing on complete garbage TV. what did they ever achieve that was memorable? Had to turn it off, couldn't listen anymore

The titel is „the GRUMPY GUIDE“

What don't you understand about the word grumpy? Get a sense of humour, before its too late!

It's a British made programme, so it is.

I think that is probably true of just about every time :)

talktal I was a small kid back in 80's didn't need to be in a youth culture to know it was a good decade

I was 12 at the turn of the decade and hated virtually all 80s mainstream music, film and fashion. The 90s was a huge relief.

I'd travel back to the 80's, the90's and early 2000's.

Yeah but now you can watch almost any TV show or movie ever made thanks to Netflix and the pirate bay. Back in the 80s you'd either have to watch whatever shite was on telly or order VHS tapes out of a catalogue or something

indeed

80's sucks

BratzSamuel2005 THE '80s NEVER SUCKED.

It's only a bit of a laugh

Right on , , Rock On Daniel Marquis

Get a sense of humour. The word grumpy should tell you what was coming................

Duran Duran "talented"... er, okay ;)

MrBudzini so just what is it about his whining cockney accent which you find so appealing?

+revol148 Thought he was from Kent

+ozmedia Ben Elton was from Guildford and still had an affected estuary accent - you don't have to be born within the sound of the Bow Bells to have that accent....

revol148 I never said anything of the sort, don't know why you assumed so much more was said than was actually said.

+ozmedia you mentioned you thought he was from Kent in response to me making an issue about his cockney accent - can you see the connection?

Conspiracy! When I click on your 10 likes, instead of going to 11, it goes down to nine! SO I couldn't tell you that I agree, but I'm telling you now.

+MrFitguru= you are RIght on I Agee with you 100 percent the 80s like Beavis n Butthead would Say uuuh the 80s Rule , yah ! yah the 80s Kick ASS !

I was a teenager in the 80s too and I agree with every single word they said in the video. Horrendous decade.

Love to see The Grumpy Guide to Being A Boomer

Nah the 90s were great

Ashley Burns It was better than the 60s and 70s. It depends on whether you have a preference for the older blues, psychedelia and avant garde, versus the glam more California sounds that came later. I prefer glam. And at the same time I like Kate Bush, Dire Straits ... yes they came at the end of the 70s but they're 80s too. But I'd much rather listen to them than Captain Beefheart or Led Zeppelin or The Kinks,

***** That's just it - omission is how they make their argument work.

Ashley Burns it's actually "cut the muster", not "mustard". that's a really common malapropism. it refers to Age of Sail soldiers and sailors, who had to "muster out" each morning for roll call, count, and inspection. If you were drunk/hungover, not in uniform, or otherwise not up to expected military standards, you didn't "cut muster" and you were punished. i hope you take this gentle correction in the spirit of education and goodwill.

roflmows and they say the internet isn´t educational, thank you sir/madam!

Ashley Burns I think the music in the UK was boring. The US, on the other hand, saw the emergence of serious talent.

Fascinating that your comment has only two upvotes after two weeks when you're saying that the 80s weren't so bad after all. Most of the comments raging against the people in this video for damning their favourite decade are made by people who almost certainly despise the groups and cultural artefacts you mention. After all, the Pixies sound way more 90s than 80s. I agree that there was a lot of great stuff in the decade but virtually none of it was mainstream. These people actually liked Spandau Ballet and Howard Jones. Personally I think that the vast majority of 80s mainstream pop culture (music, film, fashion) was horrendous.

+Radwulf Eboraci Exactly cause you are them,

+Citizen Diaz It certainly didn't suck. These idiots are just trying to sound cool by trashing a golden age of pop culture. We could also see it was brilliant in the USA, with Hip Hop, many great rock bands, synth funk bands, so both sides of the pond were forging a new era in music. I'm almost 50 and eights and zeros run through my blood like blood cells. Sure, there was some crap, but lets agree, you can get that in every decade. Loved ours and your culture....80s? BRILLIANT!!

+LFOVCF the politics of the 80s sucked ass.

+TheGuyWithBratzDollz-only You SUX now Piss Off and go play with your Dollz

@Bring Back 2005 what about Spandau , Duran, Human League and ABC hits? Would you say they suck as well?

No it sucked in the US ..but I must say the 80s soul funk was the biz in the US and so was the UK. Keep your crap rock shit

You are right. The problem was, the music was mainly total shit.

Not really, problem is people listening exclusively to mainstream services, there was alway shit music, people are just consuming more of it now. And of course being original only gets harder, but there are always some, some that stand out and deliver the goods in a new and refreshing way. You won`t find it in your regular feed, and you won`t hear it on most radio channels, but just dig a bit into music you wouldn`t normally listen to, see what pops up. Found lots of cool music that way and it expanded my library significantly ;)

@@afrog2666 Durig the 60's and 70's, the mainstream services played some good music. This changed when the money men got invilved and crap that was cheap to produce swamped the good stuff. The rise of the sub-teen market helped to power this wave of tripe. Having to serch for the good stuff in a sea of garbage is not a rewarding effort.