This video provides a brief introduction into what life was like in the 1980s, as well as exploring some of the broad pop culture trends of the decade.
You must have grown up in the 80s. I've found that people who favor a particular decade tend to be children of that decade. I think it embeds itself into your development or something.
the 1980s were a great time to be a teenager. We never missed all of the technology because we spent time socializing and talked face to face with people .
Movies were better; TV was better; and those "Valley Girls"... every girl was trying to be a "Valley Girl" even though you're not a valley girl or valley guy unless you grew up in the San Fernando valley (which I did; during the 80's). Everybody else saw a MOVIE about kids growing up on the SFV and tried to act like us. It pissed me off when I went to Texas and saw them trying to copy our styles but they were always two years behind.
Wow. I didn’t know ALL teenagers stopped talking face to face. I guess all of these teens I see chatting with their friends at my local mall, don’t exist
80's were the best... Saturday morning cartoons, 80's rock, outside playing with friends, hanging out at malls with friends.... I miss all that stuff !!
I was 54 years old in 1980, I used to be a typewriter author back in the early 60's, I retired in 1989, now I am a healthy 95 year old indivual, can't wait to be one of the oldest indivuals on the planet, Thank you!
@@jeremysloop8906 my favourite decade was the 1960's, it was fun and enjoyable, i used to ride my bike back to work every morning, i loved it back then. Wish i could revisit it sadly.
@@Paul-gk8wk Thanks for sharing. I love watching tv shows that was in the 60's. Looking at how people were back in the 40's, 50's and 60's it seamed as if life was so much easier and enjoyable. Stay healthy and enjoy life Paul.
Born in 71, making me 9 years old at the start of the 80's and 19 at the end. I lived every year of it just like you see in the movies and it really was as great as it sounded. I feel lucky every day for getting to experience it, it was the best decade of all time
@@martynicole3337 Yes i know we were and i wish every kid these days could have the same.And i think pressure's of social media today and trying to keep up with everyone else has a lot to do with it.
BMX was also big! I had a beautiful Pk Ripper I was 15 in 1987 I loved skateboarding too I had numerous boards my 1st a Og 1st caballerro and then a Robskop and hosoi and a nice Jason Kendall nuclear bomb I miss my trips to Go Skate in Santa Cruz I’m a Bay Area California kid great times 20 years later my parents are great friends with the Caballero family they met them at church back in the 90s I have a few boards autographed by Steve and his first Thrasher magazine that he was on autographed and in mint condition! Man what a decade
@@thisisagreataccount7536 it was all about having fun outside with your boys riding bikes, skateboards, burning fireworks and playa shitload of sports little league, pop Warner football? Freestyle wrestling and 3 on 3 hoop it ups. 80s and 90s where the best!!!!!!
@@thisisagreataccount7536 oh and when high school came around it was crazy! Bad ass music! Metallica, and my favorite band of all time PANTERA I went to over 40 shows when Pantera toured best times of my youth! A few 40oz of Mickeys malt liquor and some INDO chronic Joints and it was on!!! Damn what a great fuccn time!!!!!!
@@mishkinmoller2066 Excellent! You can help me sneak my mom's beige Dodge Aries out of the driveway and we'll be on our way as soon as the others arrive!
Damn...I miss this era so much. I could go to a concert for less than $20, be out playing until the street lights came on, and so much more. My kids will never experience this 😭
Same. Ride bikes everywhere as long as you're home before dark. Society is not a friendly place for kids doing that now. Like that girl recently rode her bike around the campground and was kidnapped. Unheard of to us and rarely ever happened elsewhere in the 70's. Honestly I'd give up the internet and cell phones to go back to those simpler far more safe times.
1980s, 1990s, even 2000s were great times. I think from 2010 onward, life quality started to drop significantly, and people are becoming shallow minded and superficial.
For sure 2000 to 2010 was the start,2010 kicked in high gear to what we have in 2024 what I’ve noticed is people born 1999 forward don’t know shit and being in a management position to that generation is so hard there’s always problems.
I WANT MY 1980s BACK!!! The hands-down greatest decade of ALL TIME!!! The toys, the shows, the food...sigh. Thank you, God, Mom, and Dad for such a great childhood!
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I graduated high school in 1983..the 80’s bar and dance scene was a blast. Great times ..no cell phones, no Facebook or all that crap..you wanted to talk to a gal you had to man up and go up and talk to her, offer to buy a drink or dinner..talk on the phone after..awesome times
One thing I remember about the 80’s was how many people were still around that were old enough to remember the Great Depression and WWII. They had a way of putting things into perspective when younger people wanted to complain about how hard and scary things were in the eighties.
This was true. My grandparents were alive at the time and from that generation. WW2 stories told by my grand dad (what little he want or could tell) and stories told by my grand mother about how they lived day to day in acute poverty during the depression humbled the young ones. They had seen a lot and could bring things down to earth in a unique way that was unlike the generation who grew up in the 50's and early 60's (our parents for the most part.)
True. My dad was born in 1929 (9 months prior to the Wall Street Crash that precipitated the Great Depression) and my mom was born in 1933 (a year after FDR's election in 1932). Both were born in the hills of KY, and I wouldn't wish their childhood on anyone. I grew up in the 70s, but my little sister grew up in the 80s and has very fond memories of that decade. Arcades, malls (which I'm surprised didn't get a mention here) and more than three major TV channels....
You know. That is A very good point. I often think about growing up in the 80s and how great it was because of the stuff that we had or that was around at the time. And really If I want to be honest the 80s were great because of WHO was around. Grand parents and their friends , Parents and their friends. They seem so much wiser than I am at this point in my life.
Very true. I have one relative still living who is a WWII vet. Unfortunately, I haven't been able to visit for a few years, and I hope I can sometime this year.
That is correct. Virtually everyone over 55 in the mid-1980s would have remembered World War II and probably some of the Depression years as well. Parents AND Grandparents could tell them about how rough that era was (heck, the 80s were LITERALLY the first decade for the United States without a major war since '30s, the 1950s had Korea and the 60s and 70s of course had Vietnam).
The 1980's was, and still is the best decade ever..we had.. 1)The Best Music 2) The Best Movies 3) The Best TV shows 4) The best friends 5) The Best Times in highschool 6) Arcades 7) we played OUTSIDE all day 8) Everyone got along 9) people talked to each other ...I could go on forever. Technology has helped, but ruined the world we live in today. I'd give anything to go back!
@@buddcarcook4655 hell yeah! Back when someone the game you were playing was yours until someone beat you. Same goes for the pool tables. I'd stay on the tables for hours. No fighting. No poor sportsmanship. God life was so Great.
I was born in 1970 so of course I love the 80’s. This video shows why we are so nostalgic of that time. It was hella fun. I’m so glad I grew up in the 70’s and 80’s.
This made me happy and sad at the same time. I'm really thankful for being a teenager in the 80's. Those were very magical and special times and I guess I'll always think about how much I miss it.
I was born in 86 and the glimpse of the 80s ai had I still remember as the best times of life. It’s obvious how much better the world was back then. The 90s was great, but I can tell the 80s were better.
@@chickenmuffin it's okay we all die but at least you had fun while you're still alive, you enjoyed life to the fullest,you die with those happy memories with you 🤗
Magical is definitely the word. I was born in 81' but I can definitely remember how magical it seemed. And I have acute memories from ever since I was in diapers.
Problem with growing up in awesome times like the 70's and 80's.... having to live in today's screwed up world as adults knowing how much better off the world would be if " progress" didn't happen so fast.
I was a child in the 1970s and a teenager in the 1980s so I got to live through both decades and I love them both for different reasons. Both produced awesome music and just freedom to do anything without all the worries we have today. I wish Gen Z and those after could at least go back in time and observe for a few hours but I’m afraid if they did they wouldn’t want to come back. I just can’t believe how dismal today seems by comparison. It really feels like we’re on a different planet from what I remember. I’m glad I got to be young and vibrant during that time even if it means I’m older now. There’s just a lack of intimacy and closeness and warmth and kindness today ...and man, we had awesome music!
I'm one of the older Gen Z's and my dad rubs in the glory days :,) During my childhood technology was still kinda primitive but seeing how it's advanced so quickly and how depressed all the younger kids are now it makes me sad If I ever have kids I'll raise em like it's back then, they'll know all the best bands, old games, and they'll have fun goddamnit And they'll have freedom most importantly, I never got that as a kid but I stg they will
@@tentacledaddy It's funny but many of the Gen-Z's today (like my niece and nephew -- and half the ones here on RU-vid) do know a lot about the 20th Century (music, pop culture, historical events, etc.). Things don't look so good going forward with the planet environmentally and the world politically. But yes, technology keeps advancing.
I think you’re right. They would not want to come back to this waste land we are in today. So I could go back I certainly would never want to come back here. I could live forever without another electronic device of any sort except maybe an answering machine and the things that were in existence then LOL.
Timmy Turner it was the coolest, yeah sleepaway camp is a great movie with a fantastic OMG ending, it’s refreshing for someone who wasn’t alive during the 80’s to love the 80’s it’s what I am teaching my youngest son who will be just 5 years old in few weeks he loves 80’s music and movies
(born in 1970)....Personally, I'd say both the 70's & 90's had better music. The 90's had better movies too. TV shows were better in the 90's also. That's when the Simpsons was actually funny. The 80's really wasn't as "totally awesome" as people would like to remember. But out memories tend to re-paint the picture. I was a teen in the 80's, and for a teen in any decade, everything sucked. That's just how many teens see the world. But in the 90's I was in my 20's, finally free from parental restrictions. Music in the 80's was kinda gay, even metal with that whole embarrassing "glam rock" phase. But the the 90's took over with bands like Sepultura & Pantera. 80's rap was still trying to find itself, but then got serious in the 90's. 80's movies were good, I'll admit that, but when Jurassic Park & Independence Day came out int he 90's, we were blown away with the special effects. But like I say, memory re-paints the picture. In the 80's, I was always getting in trouble, getting grounded, and angry that I had to do homework all the time, and suffering from he general teenage angst. But I'm sure that for those of you who were still little kids in grammar school, it was an idealized wonderland. But you have to be honest, the clash between pastel colors and neon colors with bad haircuts everywhere, that was quite nauseating. And people liked Reagan a LOT more after he was out of office. While he was in office, he was a senile joke. The only "good" thing about the 80's was that I could smoke wherever the F I wanted to.
XXthekingofyouXX You folks talk about the 80s like it could do no wrong, lol. What people tend to forget is mass unemployment, AIDS, the cold war, inequality, etc etc...
@@GilbertSyndrome - Well, you can find a lot of those same problems and others in different eras. But it tells you a lot when so many people can look back on a specific period with fond memories regardless.
XXthekingofyouXX That's what the notion of rose-tinted lenses is all about. People look back fondly on a preferred era, usually the one of their youth, and it seems that nothing negative ever took place, yet we know this is untrue.
I remember the following from the 1980s: parachute pants, mullets, Swatch watches, Benetton clothing, Cabbage Patch dolls, Duran Duran, Jem dolls, HBO, Fall of the Berlin Wall, Solid Gold TV series, acid washed jeans, mopeds, and the Yugo.
The 80s were so much fun! I would love to go back to 1984 for awhile!!!!!😆💟 People were nice & did not dwell on politics, religion & celebrities like they do now.
THAT TIME WAS MADE THE WAY IT WAS BECAUSE PEOPLE MADE AND WANTED IT THAT WAY.THINGS DON'T CHANGE PEOPLE DO.PEOPLE WANT TO SEE WHAT THEY WANT TO SEE.LOOK AROUND AND LOOK AT PEOPLE TODAY THEY WANT TO BE THIS WAY THEY CAN CHANGE IT IF THEY WANT TOO.
The 80's were a HAPPY and OPTIMISTIC timeframe. People enjoyed technology but weren't as unhealthily OBSESSED with it as we are today. Moms taught kids to "not stare at screens too long each day, b/c it would rot your brain"..... WOW they were so correct on that !
Mom's didn't have to tell us not to stare at screens all day. We had so many other things we did like hang out in arcades and go skating. We watched TV at night with our families because we didn't always have TVs in our rooms.
The 80's was the Greatest most revolutionary Decade. Everything changed, Now this world is like living in utter HELL compared to the 80's. There was something just so very different about the 80's.. even the smells were different, it was like Happy. Pleasant spell or something was in the air, it's hard to explain but I'm sure those who grew up during then know what i'm talking about.. It's weird, like Nothing very bad really happened, as far as nationally or globally, or if it did, it was nothing you really remembered. hmm. strange. it's almost like it was a different sort of dream world now that i think about it. not making any connection, but you can kind of see why it is middle age men now committing suicide at the highest rate. going from that to this. It's truly mind blowing how the world can change soo very drastically in just a generation or 2. Ok..this is making me depressed. lol.
The best era ever…great movies, cartoons, educational programming (PBS), music, and clothing fads! I was 4 years old in 1980 and that whole era shaped me in so many ways! A time when recess as truly “recess” in elementary school; tag, kickball, dodgeball, snow and mud fights were very much a thing daily. We would all run home when the street lights came on after our many mini-versions of our own “Goonie”-like adventures! 😁 I loved my childhood. *sigh*
I was a freshman in HS in 1980 so i got the very best of the late 70's and 80s and i like you miss my childhood very much. Im afraid that U TUBE is the only "time machine " were gonna get though enjoy the memories, I know i will.
Yep, I'm whatchu on that queen. I was 2 years old in 1980 and got to witness everything this video talked about. Hide and seek, o-u-t OUT, anybounce, and those legendary street football games💯. Yea, greatest era ever
Yes, I was a teen in the 80's and I can honestly say that it was the end of 'normality' in kids. Life was easier; less complicated...because we kept it that way.
i really hate my generation and decade :/ it makes me really sad because i would definitely enjoy life without a bunch of social media, politics, and huge expectations
Cable television and harder music created this decline in society and the brainwashing from media. Basically as soon as medium came into the household it all fell apart. It was just really getting started in your generation. And every generation after that it got worse, much worse. We are where we are now not because of the people but the influences.
It was Golden. If you didn't live it you'll never understand. It was a world without internet and no one had a computer. ✊🏻❤️ There was so much love and happiness between people. So much wonder and excitement all the time.
born in 72. you did a good job covering life and culture in the 80s. took me back to my teenage years. thanks for that trip back memory lane. it was a great time to me.
I was a teenager throughout the 80's, it was the best time of my life and I really do miss it. It was pretty simple, no computers, mobile phones etc. Just a coloco vision gaming system, friends and bmx bikes. Awesome movies, cool music and awful tv shows. Mike Tyson in his prime. Men were men, women were women and everyone got along with each other. Looking at the shit show we live in now I would give anything to jump in a DeLorean and travel back there !
Tito Altimari There was still gay pride in the 80’s, idiot. Gay pride started in the 19th century, and women in the 80’s started becoming more independent! Men were also becoming themselves. I’m sorry if your little right-winged world sheltered you from this, but it was already a movement.
@@iixstarshinexiixoxo1778 What I meant was that traditional gender roles were still in place (they have worked throughout human history and have gotten the human race where it was till that point). My parents generation (born in the early 50's) still were very traditional, out of all my family and friends only one family went through divorce, all the rest (probably about 20 families) are still married or were married until they died. Its my generation (45 years old now) that were polluted by the left's, cultural marxist agenda that has caused the shit show that we are living in now. From my generation, again family and friends, of a group of approximately 40 or so people who were married, only 4 of them are still married, the rest are all divorced, the results speak for themselves. Its a biological, objective fact (not lefty, subjective, "I identify as a bullfrog, therefore I am one") that mens and womens brains are different. Men are more logical and rational based in our thinking (up until milllenials at least) because of how we had to evolve throughout human history (solving problems to feed, shelter and protect our partner and offspring). Women however are more emotional based in their thought process (this is one of the main things the womens lib movement was founded on by the way) and are more suited to nurturing and emotionally supporting their husband and children (when they behave in a non dysfunctional manner). Unfortunately because these roles are being reversed (forcibly by the marxist left) we have a very dysfunctional, delusional and degenerating society. Sorry for the long explanation but it seems that sometimes, some folks require somebody to draw them a picture, which they will reject anyway, based on their distorted belief system.
Messville I understand where you come from, especially with all the Tumblr posts about random genders that don’t exist, but my friend’s family, a really left sided family, gets along very well, despite the occasional argument. The eldest son is at college getting a medical degree, the next is becoming a band teacher, and the three youngest are all getting A’s in their classes. In this family, the wife and husband share responsibilities, but the wife gets into more physical housework while the husband cleans around the house and takes care of the children. If you ask me, it all depends on the person. Not gender rules. But feel free to correct me on anything I missed.
If you were born in the late 60s, then being a teen in the 80s, you have the distinct appreciation of understanding the range of 20 and 21st century pop culture: from the Honeymooners, and Lucille Ball, to Eight is Enough, to Carly B, we understand it all.
How true. Born in 72, but knew history of every subject. From The Chiffons to Shirley Temple, JohnnyWeissmuller as Tarzan to Bo Duke. Leave it to Beaver & Andy Griffith. We knew past generations as much as we knew our own. No so much anymore.
@@bosshogg659 Yeah,I don't get the newer generations at all. I've even met some who say "I don't watch films made before 2008 or 2000". Goofy stuff. I'm 53 and was even watching Blondie and Dagwood,Bowery Boys and Abbott and Costello as a kid and loving it. The idiotic snobbery of newer generations is so absurd I can't even talk about without insults. One of my favorite comments from Harlan Eliison was one about college students of today when he said " ..not only are they bone stick dumb and stupid,they're arrogant about it".
I was 10 in 1980 and my grandparents would talk about the 1940s like it happened the week before but to me was so far before my time I couldn't imagine what it was really like. Now I know, I remember the 1980s very well, from playing AA pee wee hockey in grade 5 in 1980 to playing drums on a cover of Pink Floyd's Time as a group project while a student at Columbia Academy of Recording Arts in December, 1989, hours and hours at video arcades, lots of heavy metal concerts, going to NHL games when tickets were under $15, getting drunk on 3 beers in 1982, smoking my first joint in 1984, losing my virginity in the summer of 1985, Cliff Burton's death in 1986, Annihilator's first album Alice In Hell in 1989...I miss the 1980s.
god damnit, the 80s seemed like it was amazing! People knew how to take jokes, social media wasn't a thing, people went outside and had fun, and it just seems amazing overall
Just the arcades and video game systems were a lot better. As far as tv watching goes.... It was garbage. Cable wasn't even invented in 1980 and if it was it was to expensive to get so nobody had cable. Colored tv.s were a huge deal if you had one.... You know how tv's were like?? black and white with the 2 knobs on them... Antenna rabbit ears. About 4 channels you would only pick up. The channels weren't all clear. You would watch stuff snowy which meant the reception wasn't great.
@@lilpp4791 Mainly because people can say what they want on the internet. Since that didn't exist in the '80s, the only racist people who showed themselves were a few idiots who were willing to bear social consequences and embarrass themselves.
One of the best things about the 80's was that people got really excited for things like a big blockbuster movie, a new episode of a TV show or a new music video coming out. That's because between exciting events there were short periods of mind numbing boredom. Today if we're bored we can find whatever interests us on the internet.
Sedition Metal didn't dominate the 80s, it wasn't anywhere near mainstream, (except maybe "glam metal" like Bon Jovi, Def Leppard and Aerosmith who aren't really metal at all), it got no radio play and only a handful of tv shows like Headbanger's Ball and Pepsi Power Hour featured metal videos once a week. Metal was villainized by religious groups like the PMRC claiming it caused suicides and turned people gay, they wanted it banned but settled for censored with a rating system thanks to great speeches like Dee Snider's made to Congress. (The whole thing's on YT and is an excellent watch) Fans were ostracized by pretty much everyone who thought we were drug addicted anarchists who murdered babies in satanic rituals. I laughed when people called Iron Maiden satanic because their drummer Nicko McBrain is an ordained Catholic minister.
I was. It was truly awesome. Say what you want, eat what you want, fight who you want, dress how you want, listen to what you want... Really, I just wrote an 80s song in my last sentence! Billy Idol or Boogie Down Productions could sing/rap it. If I was younger than 16, I'd be cranking it up on my JVC ghetto blaster or if I was older than that, it would be bumping on my Cerwin Vega woofers in my Mustang. No guns in fights. Fists and bruises.
Yes it was. Little kid in the 70s, teen in the 80s and young college age in the 90s. By the turn of the century it went down hill fast. And now I'm pushing near 50. You have no idea how much this world has changed and for the worst . I feel sorry for you kids and young people..you missed out on paradise. Tragically for those of us who lived it, we didn't know what we had untill we realized it was gone.
I was born in 1970 yeah it was great growing up they had this thing called Saturday morning cartoons when I was a kid and there was this guy called Evel Knivel. 😆 then when I was a teenager I almost electracuted myself trying to get the playboy channel it was awsume times. Oh man the music 🎶 look up Slade runaway I'm sure you never herd of it before lol 😆
That's subjective though. You need evidence to prove that. If you're just using your nostalgia as a bases to prove that then that means I can say this for literally any other decade where it was great and everything else was hell because that's just what it is. It's subjective.
@@theinceptor3672, Well those things happened before the 1980s obviously. I think the cold war was still going on in the 1980s but I don't really know much about that however.
I loved the 80’s and had the time of my life. I couldn’t afford to dress like the most popular kids but my Levi’s jeans and Chuck Taylor’s were great for my personality and style. I was in the CAP that made me decide the military would suck so I needed to study and get smart fast. You could buy cool cars for cheap and movies and food were super cheap. Going to the mall was an adventure and you always met kids your age (girls). Fun fun fun. The Cold War was going on and we knew the Soviets we’re poor and hungry the Chinese just recovered from famines.i was lucky to be an American and free.
I was born in the 00s and I honestly wish I grew up in the 80s... all the music,Tv shows, friends... it didn't have cellphones, cars actually looked really cool, things were cheaper back then... and the hair and clothes! Right now I would love to go back in time and see what the 80s was like...
@@julieb3996 That's what made the decade so great. You learned how to deal with it yourself and not bitch and moan to every bleeding heart liberal to solve your problems for you. We didn't look for a shoulder to cry on and we became harder because of it. Eat or be eaten.
I’m afraid if you did you wouldn’t want to come back. In a way it makes me more sad today to see how different the world is. If you never knew any better then you can’t miss it.
nintendo, arcade games, calculator watches, swatch watches (!), cute girls in junior high school you wanted to talk to but had too many butterflies!, yummy school lunch of chicken sandwich breaded and warmed up corn with chocolate milk, i can go on
the best decade, everything was big that's when girls were girls and big hair was in and aqua net hairspray was your best friend mostly all girls kept a can of hairspray in their purses
All my great memories come from the 80s:) the music, movies, shows, toys, cartoons, people, heck even commercials were epic!! Long live the 80s the greatest decade of ALL time👍🏻
Yup the 2000's might have been a different type of era had it not been for 911, but after that chaotic unreal event things definetly took a turn for the worst, because during the 90's alot of good things started taking shape toward the end setting the stage for something new, optimistic, and vibrant for the new millennium.., but things didn't quite workout the way they seemingly felt they would.
@@chrispacheco8590 I gotta comment on your comment bro. I was born in 77 so the 80s was my time. And you're so right. It's like everything went to hell in the 2000s and 911 seems like it was a catalyst for what has been so far, a century of complete and total shit. In the 80s, things were black and white. We knew where we stood and what was good and what was evil. And our western ideas about freedom and capitalism seemed to be winning the whole f'in show. The wall came down...the Iron Curtain fell...democracy seemed to be an unstoppable force where the liberal values championed by western society would reign in a new era. Nations and peoples seemed to be getting closer and it seemed at least like world peace might actually be possible. When you look at popular music in the 90s, sure there were always the shallow, phony acts...but there were also sincere forms of artistic expression. It was almost like a renaissance of new styles with singer-song writers dominating the charts with their own creations. I really believed that the world was getting better. Then the late 90s happened and it started to go wrong, and then 911. The unreal and horrific became not only possible, but factual. And since then, the climate of politics domestic and foreign became cruel and savage. And the artistic renaissance turned into a corporate produced nightmare of artificial, drum-machine manufactured beats and platitudes placating to sycophants who don't even bother to question why the music they absorb is so superficial, heartless, pointless and insulting. It really is like the kids today can't even defend the crap culture they cling to because they don't even really care about it. They're not looking for anything new or to change, they just don't give a fuck. I know this is silly, but I look at today as what Obi-Wan may have called, "the dark times."
@@garrettvcayer ok then get rid of your internet & cell phone. Get a land line phone with no features. Go to the bank and pay your bills with the teller, or you can write cheques & mail it. Get rid of your gps if you have a car & buy maps. Get a crt tv...Get rid of your hd or 4k tv. Get rid of your pvr and get a vcr for your crt tv...Get rid rid of your digital camera & buy camera with film inside.
Wish I could go back to 1987, was such an amazing year for me. Crazy how times have changed, todays kids/teens wouldn't know what to do with themselves.
That was the year I decided to be successful. And I was. But many times I fantasized about going back to that room I rented for $130/month. When life was simple.
Born in 1982... being a kid in the 80s was the most amazing thing imaginable.. Gi Joe, He Man, Transformers, Ninja Turtles, Nintendo, Goonies, Back to the Future, Ghostbusters, Karate Kid, Bmx, VCR, etc.. what an amazing Time!!!!!
Batsinthebelltower and people always say the 90s was the “Greatest decade” also, do you hate how some people treat it like it was the dinosaur era? The 90s is just too overrated these days especially 1998 with the 98er bullcrap okay I’ll shut the hell up now.
80s were great childhood and teen years. Mtv,HBO and cable were just getting started. Great movies in theatres were popular. Renting movies in video stores were big. I was getting my drivers license in 87. Hanging out all day outside with friends. Playing Atari and going to roller skating rink. I could go on and on hahaha..what a great time to grow up🙂
I was just talking about this with my young crew. We never heard of school shootings. Of course, half the students carried shotguns and rifles in their vehicles, too. Although, we were scared of the Soviet Union and nuclear war.
For who??? This is just such a biased and ignorant statement. These experiences and pop culture were really only relevant to such a small fraction of the rest of the word
The surviving archival footage does not give that decade the justice it deserves in how it felt back then to be alive . You had to have lived it to know what it really was like. I miss that decade soo much. We truly had it great and thought it could go on forever. Really had no idea what we had until it was gone. Truly was the best of times.
I was born in 1971. Grew up in the 80's. While overall it was a great time to grow up, if you were an adult, there were some things that weren't so great. Until Gorbachev/Reagan meeting, there was a constant concern of nuclear war. In hindsight, it was treated as more worrisome than warranted. Mutual assured destruction prevented it. In all honesty, I'm more worried about a nuclear Iran. There were great moments of economic boom as well as bust, but we were more united as a country than we probably ever will be again.That said, I was a rocker and loved how much good hard rock and heavy metal there was. We thought these times were going to last forever. Went to the Empire Rock Club in N.E. Philly nearly every Sunday night. Got to see named bands as well as unsigned heroes. Saw Heavens Edge there more times than I can count. The girls would wear spandex tube dresses, or mini skirts with cowboy boots with hair teased to the moon.Would pretty much give anything to be able to return to those times with the knowledge I currently possess. Alas, the times move on. My advice to the young of today is document as much of your youth as you can. The day will come when you view these days with fond memories and you will want concrete evidence of those memories.
yes the girls with tons of aqua net hairspray and big hair and spandex pants and granny boots were in style for girls so was glow in the dark attire.,but us kids knew how to keep it real back then.the youth today could need a lesson on how to be respectable and keep things clean.
Reading this brought immense sadness as I wish I was around for such a great decade. I envy that time period for its music, entertainment, and overall lifestyle's lived. If time travel is ever invented, I wish to go back to the 80's and never return.
That's nostalgia working against you there. "Keeping things clean" is a problem because adults in the 80s thought the same thing about the 50s and before, which were even worse than the 80s in terms of society and worldviews.
For all the 80's kids you need to check out Cobra Kai here on youtube. The original cast of the Karate Kid saga made a new show from Johnny's perspective, the show is incredible. They truly recaptured the 80's.
Born in 1970, graduated high school in 1988. The 80's to me were very memorable. My music dominated what I did. From Motley Crue to Cliff Burton's Metallica. Throw in some Maiden and Priest and we were rockin.
Same hear man. Turning 50 this year was beat. I still feel like a young guy. I wish the Military would fess up about time travel so we could go relive those awesome times.
@@Kingsombra21 well, in high school I would walk over to my friends apt and get high, ride around town then maybe walk around the mall. Sometimes we would drive out to some friends house and if they weren't there go to somebody else's house. During school we would find out where the party is going to be the next weekend. There was always a party. Go to that party, get drunk then when it was time to go home you would try to act sober in front your parents. And apparently we had it soo much better than when when my parents were young. Dad graduated in 1943. We did have fun. I don't do weed anymore though.
The 1980's was one of the better times. No smartphones, no social media and people socialised more back then than they do nowadays. I no longer use a smartphone and I meet up with friends in my free time. I think it would be great if we speak to each other face to face rather than just by sms text or e-mail :). I miss the 1980's.
Exactly my point :). To be honest I think that smartphones are unnecessary and should just be binned. I prefer face to face meet ups and e-mail. Its much better in my opinion.
It’s not like smartphones somehow are replacing friends and family. I still meet my friends, go to parties and socialise even if I constantly have an iPhone in my right pocket. I suppose that you’re just a grumpy old fart that hates everything modern. Get with the times, gramps.
Jwb52z oh shut up!! No one care about your safe space LBGT loving self in the 80’s!! It was a perfect time! Love your 2000’s you guys rule this decade! So be happy! Leave us the heck alone in our time!!
I hear ya DJ Ronnie. Greatest decade of my life. All you other youngsta haters go a head and hate. Better then the fucked up era ya'll grew up in. You even have a stupid name for your generation The millennials bunch of fuckin pamper pussies. Shit music and all ya'll do is stare at your stupid iPhone. No life having punk ass'es.
History is one of my favorite subjects and I love studying different eras. The 1980s will always be the greatest decade ever and pinnacle era of pop culture, trends, historical events etc. This was an insightful video.
The best decade in every category: music, movies, television, cars and technology! I would give everything up to go back, take this damn iPhone and give me back my privacy and ability to remember phone numbers, take this glowing rectangle on the wall and give me back a 19" TV with no remote and that fantastic brown cable box with a slider bar to change the channel, take this MF'n soulless SUV with its neutered factory stereo and give me my 84 Cutlass back with the Clarion cassette deck. I will gladly go back to that pizza hut and work with my friends and after we close hit some back roads, smoke a joint and listen to "A momentary lapse of reason".
My dad gave me his 1979 cutlass oldsmobile. I miss it now. I had it from 1989 to 2003. I put a new transmission in it . Damn police took it . I should've kept paying my insurance.
Oh we had a remote for our family tv...me! As the youngest I sat on the floor and had to change the channel, volume, antana, etc. But I would love to do it again. Having the family all together watching the same thing, instead of scattered everywhere staring at their phones. That was what it meant to be social.
When is the last time u saw kids all over the place playing hide n seek, going on bmx adventures or playing tackle football where a bloody nose and bruises were the norm. That was childhood in 80's. Kids today dont do much of that and are softer
@@wolfgangandrewx2416 most millenials are from the late boomers, but yes the idiot tide pod kids are gen x's kids. It's sooooo embarassing. Like how did my generation allow this to happen? The crap started in the mid 90's with the stupid late boomer parents and their nanny helicoptor BS. How gen x parents allowed it to continue is beyond me.
canis latrans i didnt allow it! My son is 15 and must Play Outside or work on a car, before he can come in to do homework or play video games at dusk. He is way ahead of other kids his age and healthier. He would have to hang with Todays 19 or 20yr olds to fit in. Even then it would be him most likely to be showing them how to change a tire or correcting them as to what album the Four Horseman was on.
I grew up in Germany and was a teenager in the early 80s, so yeah my daily life was very much how it was presented. The lifestyle, fashion, entertainment, toys and culture in the 80s does not apply in the USA only. It was widespread globally.
john smith Really? Many of these clowns today can’t figure out what gender they are because they’re to stupid to look between their legs apparently. The music sucks....most of them have no idea what a hard days work is....they have a very hard time relating to people on a personal level not to mention can’t take constructive criticism without having a temper tantrum and just generally overall lost! Open your damn eyes!
Yup. I'm simply waiting for our military to come clean about time travel so I can sign up and get out of this fucked up time. A one way ticket to 1987 please. Thank you. Peace out.
@@azeddine8652 I'm sure there are many governments of many countries trying to come up with the technology . I was jokingly saying what I said. I'm not so sure it hasn't been invented all ready. If you look up Corey Goode and watch some of his videos he claims it is all ready in use by our military. He says the Military all ready has a secret space program,and its been in existence since the late 60s early 70s. He says the program slogan is 20 and back. Meaning highly intelligent humans with esp and remote viewing capabilities are brought in the military and sent into space on missions to the Moon,Mars and other planets in our Galaxy and others. You're signed up for 20 years then the Military de-ages you and sends you back in time to before you enlisted. Supposedly your memory is wiped and you have no knowledge of doing this. Well he has regained memories and contacted others with similar memories and realized they knew one another from these journeys into space. Corey says he's been to space for 20 years and back 3 times. Look up his videos on RU-vid and check them out. Let me know what you think. I've been researching this and UFO'S and Alien life forms for about the last 5 years and I'm astonished of what I'm learning. Also look up Col. Phil Corso. He wrote a book called The Day after Rosewell. He spills the beans on a lot of Military secrets. This shit is going to blow your mind. I really believe Tesla was the one who got the time travel started.
I grew up in the 90s but damn man you guys had Michael Jackson Thriller Album, Queen, amazing one hit wonders, Back to the Future movies, SEGA, 1986 world Cup... You guys had it all but we weren't too far behind with how amazing it was in the 90s 😉
By far better music in the 80’s, all the long hair,. People actually hung out back then ! No cell phones, x boxes etc.. Would love to go back in time for a week or 2 👍
A simple solution for socializing in my opinion would be giving Social Security benefits to young children. It just triggers me that many people are so dumb, we could just give young children the same solutions that we give for elders. Heck, I wonder how better childhood would be if you could buy anything you want with YOUR money. Staying at a hotel with just your friends and no parents sounds more fun than having to stay home browsing the internet.
@Calista Llewellyn, The year is not even over yet so what are you even talking about? And 2022 is coming also so do you not want that year to happen either? It hasn't even happened yet so how would you know it's going to be good or bad? Let's just wait and see on that stuff and see how the rest of 2021 will turn out to be.
I was aged 5-14 between 1980 and 1989. My parents couldn’t have timed it better. My dad booked before I was born, and my mom died from a drug overdose in 1978, and I grew up with my Grandma.... but they couldn’t have timed me any better.
I'm collecting all those things you mentioned on CDs and DVDs to capture my youth.... I still got ways to go until it's complete my collection of movies and music then I can move on getting older. I wish I have a computer to burn DVDs and CDs.
I'm 42 and I just can't get over the 80s...it's like that dog that passes away that you don't get over. BUT the 80s really were weird. For those that say you wish you were alive in the 80s...owner of a lonely heart much better than a owner of a broken heart.
