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.
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@ronniethomas63356 жыл бұрын
I don’t care what anyone says...the 1980’s was the GREATEST decade of all time.
@readingthroughhistor6 жыл бұрын
It was a great one to be a kid. I lived it.
@Dom_Savage6 жыл бұрын
Ronnie Thomas, I agree with you 100% it was the greatest decade ever!!!
@annetteslife6 жыл бұрын
Amen to that. Damn i miss that era
@albertandguitars6 жыл бұрын
Ronnie Thomas I wasn’t even born at that time and watching these videos from the 80s makes me agree with you! 👍
@FallingGalaxy6 жыл бұрын
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.
@michaelalguire4195 жыл бұрын
I remember thinking how great it was to have a VCR.
@ElearningDigest5 жыл бұрын
Michael Alguire I remember my parents buying our first VCR and how fun it was to go to the video rental store .
@nevermind-he8ni5 жыл бұрын
And that they cost $1100! That was half the price of a new Toyota. It was a status symbol before cable tv.
@stephenwinchester66685 жыл бұрын
We were that family that bought a Betamax 😑
@e-cuauhtemoc5 жыл бұрын
Wooooow! You must've been so rich!
@josephperkins40805 жыл бұрын
Me too
@moderneightiesartist2 жыл бұрын
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 .
@liquidbraino2 жыл бұрын
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.
@user-or6yn8pm3c2 жыл бұрын
America was definitely better
@mikemclaren87042 жыл бұрын
👍👍very,very true!!!
@pandaprada64372 жыл бұрын
And listening to great hits: kzbin.info/www/bejne/f5eZo6qBrd1lm6M
@amuroray91152 жыл бұрын
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
@jeffcote3183 жыл бұрын
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 !!
@shawnbaker45542 жыл бұрын
You forgot arcades, and roller rinks!
@user-or6yn8pm3c2 жыл бұрын
At least there were families. Most women now are single moms. Most women are also nutcase feminists who think all men are out to get them.
@mikemclaren87042 жыл бұрын
I remember that also,and it will NEVER be replaced!!
@amuroray91152 жыл бұрын
@@user-or6yn8pm3c spend less time on the internet. That’s where you find the most “feminists”
@user-or6yn8pm3c2 жыл бұрын
@@amuroray9115 Spend a year in a big coastal city and tell me how it went.
@thetrustybutterknifean80sa195 жыл бұрын
Later dudes and dudettes; I'm going BACK to 1985! Who's with me?
@thetrustybutterknifean80sa195 жыл бұрын
@@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!
@thetrustybutterknifean80sa195 жыл бұрын
@@mishkinmoller2066 Bitchen! I'll check the junk-drawer
@masonnix95665 жыл бұрын
Time machine.
@thestreet95375 жыл бұрын
Yo got the jiggawatts to get there?
@larenese94175 жыл бұрын
I am.....
@sivaro1 Жыл бұрын
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
@lumabi25 Жыл бұрын
Also born in '71. I'd go back there in a heartbeat and stay there.
@sonhuynh8222 Жыл бұрын
@@lumabi25 same here 71’
@wildwest54368 ай бұрын
Same born in 71 and the 80s were everything!
@edubwalter31798 ай бұрын
Amen to that! Born in 71 also!
@Suelabrie7 ай бұрын
Born in ‘67. Graduated HS in ‘85. What a time!
@Johnnywhamo2 жыл бұрын
I was 16 in 1980 so I was able to see the best of the 80's at the prefect age. I miss the 80's so much the nostalgia hurts.
@svtkilr2 жыл бұрын
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
@thisisagreataccount75362 жыл бұрын
What was teenage life like before the internet?
@svtkilr2 жыл бұрын
@@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!!!!!!
@svtkilr2 жыл бұрын
@@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!!!!!!
@thisisagreataccount75362 жыл бұрын
@@svtkilr I love 80s hairstyles, fashion, films, culture. Its so cool
@Paul-gk8wk2 жыл бұрын
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!
@jeremysloop89062 жыл бұрын
Hello Paul, What was your favorite decade? and why?
@debreed852 жыл бұрын
@@jeremysloop8906 would love to hear the answer too! Greetings
@Baneslayer2 жыл бұрын
You are amazing!
@Paul-gk8wk2 жыл бұрын
@@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.
@jeremysloop89062 жыл бұрын
@@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.
@porkchop13435 жыл бұрын
Being a kid in the 80s was the best time to be a kid.. I still have scars from this decade man
@readingthroughhistor5 жыл бұрын
It was the greatest.
@porkchop13435 жыл бұрын
Michael Carter very cool. man
@D33Lux5 жыл бұрын
Same here and we brushed it off and went on with life.
@johnellizz5 жыл бұрын
I have a Devil Scar I got in 1980.
@wsmokr5 жыл бұрын
@@D33Lux Now kids will cry for days if offended and get emotionally scarred.
@TV-xv1le5 жыл бұрын
I would totally go back to the 80's if I could and never leave.
@resistORserve444 жыл бұрын
I CAN GET YOU THERE
@felixlechner30144 жыл бұрын
@@resistORserve44 How?
@resistORserve444 жыл бұрын
@@felixlechner3014 --- their are several methods of time travel but only the open mind cam access its not meant for the massess
@zooknutt4 жыл бұрын
Yes he's right we are traveling back in time but only a few people at a time...no mass travel
@felixlechner30144 жыл бұрын
@@zooknutt oh, so there exists a time travel machine?
@robinmattingly37452 жыл бұрын
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 😭
@nelms78 Жыл бұрын
Go to my channel for your 80s fix
@nelms78 Жыл бұрын
kzbin.info/door/qt_uKZe0F4OcEj4vhjRLmw
@randyscrafts85757 ай бұрын
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.
@davidwright44957 ай бұрын
I'm 58 and I miss that era too. Just remember "You never know what you had until it's gone forever."
@imarriedabrkfsttaco37377 ай бұрын
Monsters of Rock 1988 VanHalen,Scorpions,Metallica,Dokken,Kingdom Come... $25. That's 2 beers and a shtty tip at a show these days.
@AMM0beatz2 жыл бұрын
The 80s felt like a whole entire lifetime, I have so much good memory of it.
@planb23063 жыл бұрын
I lived my teenage year's in the 80's and boy did we have fun back then, i couldn't wait to wake up every morning because every day was an adventure.
@Kingsombra213 жыл бұрын
Wow must’ve been so nice
@martynicole33373 жыл бұрын
Well consider yourself lucky, there’s a large portion of today’s teen population that is miserable :(
@planb23063 жыл бұрын
@@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.
@martynicole33373 жыл бұрын
@@planb2306 yes exactly
@wickednights37933 жыл бұрын
God, Im jealous ;_; sometimes I just dont wanna wake up for a long time anymore cause its the same depressing shit every day nowadays
@carlosayala59555 жыл бұрын
Makes me feel nostalgic and depressed at the same time
@newfiekiyaygaming21394 жыл бұрын
Exactly how I feel!
@charlieroberts57124 жыл бұрын
I feel exactly the same
@depaola634 жыл бұрын
Carlos Ayala good point 🌈 I’m 57 in 2020.
@themadrapper1014 жыл бұрын
That's what the internet is for to make you depressed
@annetteslife4 жыл бұрын
@@themadrapper101 and to reminisce at the same time
@84Terminator2 жыл бұрын
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.
@mgueye2mgueye261 Жыл бұрын
2010s is good but idk about 2020s
@Biker659 ай бұрын
2010 things got weird. It was like the party was over. No more fun tons of crime
@DamienNeverwinter3 ай бұрын
It went wrong about 2000. Even the early 2000's had TONS of economic problems
@michaelgrey78548 ай бұрын
I was born in 1979. The 80's was a great decade to be a kid. Everything was just so chill.
@kbcoop32495 жыл бұрын
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
@ruspotter20372 жыл бұрын
I’d rather talk to boys. Pass.
@cooperhilinsky59395 жыл бұрын
Hall & Oates sitting on a Fiero @ 2:09 is the most 80’s thing I’ve ever seen.
@Michael9-23-153 жыл бұрын
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.
@chickenmuffin2 жыл бұрын
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.
@samanthabelle60132 жыл бұрын
Well at least you've experienced it you're very lucky unlike me 🙂
@chickenmuffin2 жыл бұрын
@@samanthabelle6013 True but now I’ll die sooner.
@samanthabelle60132 жыл бұрын
@@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 🤗
@stardustsimulation Жыл бұрын
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.
@pacmanindy2 жыл бұрын
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.
@dr.drogas82462 жыл бұрын
Yugo the car from my country A little sad that It doesn't exist anymore
@lessismore85332 жыл бұрын
Culture club and Wham!
@lessismore85332 жыл бұрын
Don’t forget top of the pops!
@hubriswonk9 ай бұрын
there is a guy in my neighborhood who drives his Yugo around occasionally!
@SusanChristmas5 ай бұрын
loved the wine coolers
@XXthekingofyouXX5 жыл бұрын
Even 80s hip hop was more upbeat. It really seemed like a different planet.
@GilbertSyndrome4 жыл бұрын
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...
@XXthekingofyouXX4 жыл бұрын
@@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.
@GilbertSyndrome4 жыл бұрын
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.
@XXthekingofyouXX4 жыл бұрын
@@GilbertSyndrome - Indeed. That's what fond memories are all about!
@charmelizabeth85843 жыл бұрын
Hip Hop was WAY BETTER back then!! They told life stories or it was fun to listen to. It's unrecognizable now.
@dmcginty24115 жыл бұрын
Grew up in the 80's. Skating rinks, bowling alleys and arcades were Always what you did in Jr high early 80's
@nightfangs29105 жыл бұрын
Drive in and amusement parks
@henryschumacher40475 жыл бұрын
Great time growing up in the 80's. Music, sports, movies, people you talk to in person instead on the internet, made it so much better more enjoyable.
@whothefuckyoulookinat9574 жыл бұрын
You guys are so lucky. I wish I grew up in the 80's instead of the stupid 2000's
@silvergirl78104 жыл бұрын
Hung out at the mall too- people actually interacted
@princessmarlena13594 жыл бұрын
My brother and I were too little to have that kind of fun in the 1980s.
@MN-ty2rc Жыл бұрын
I am shocked that The Goonies was not mentioned as one of the most popular movies of the 80s. It is a classic!
@sanchezjr132 жыл бұрын
I was 6 years old in 1980 and a teenager at the end of the decade. Greatest time of my life.
@sundayolelewe1965 Жыл бұрын
I Wish I grew up in the 1980s.
@crazyralph63867 ай бұрын
@@sundayolelewe1965it truly was magical
@GodConsciousness4 жыл бұрын
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!
@chadwickwhite61072 жыл бұрын
I would TRADE the REST of my ENTIRE FUTURE for 1 day in the 1980's.
@voiceofreason26912 жыл бұрын
@GodConsciousness The food, the shows and the toys are stiII good today. l don’t know what you’re taIking about
@voiceofreason26912 жыл бұрын
@John Nichols What do you mean by ‘’gone’’? You stiII can Iive a happy Iife no matter what, no matter what decade it is!
@voiceofreason26912 жыл бұрын
@Katherine McDonnell For your information, l happen to have a good Iife. l was just trying to caII peopIe out on their negative thoughts/comments and heIp them out. Weather they´re joking or not, not having *one singIe* positive thing to say about the present is incredibIy unheaIthy! Even comparing oId food to modern food. lt´s siIIy and a waste of energy. lt depends on peopIe´s tastes. And another thing; When somebody is more unIucky and Iess fortunate than you, the best thing to do is showing some support and compassion, being openminded and doing everything you can to make this right. Like they say, lf you don’t have anything positive to say, don´t say anything at aII. lf there was a miserabIe handicapped person in front of you, wouId this give you a smirk on your face and even cause you to say ‘’l´m gIad *i´m* not handicapped’’ right in their face? Because that´s not cooI. at aII. This can be seen as a IeveI of *harassment* and BULLYlNG. *Too many* peopIe (especiaIIy on the internet) state that they *regret* being born in the 2000s. Are you gonna make fun of them too? FIat-out teIIing others they weren´t born in times that were, quote unquote, ‘’better’’ than the present can easiIy drive them to suicide even further. lt´s common sense! No offense! This is a Iong post, l apoIogize, but this is extremeIy important. Thank you for you patience!
@lesblase36672 жыл бұрын
@@voiceofreason2691 party pooper. Get lost
@chrisser20885 жыл бұрын
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.
@christianfreedom-seeker9344 жыл бұрын
Same here man! I was in a military family so it was even better!
@KeithCamplin4 жыл бұрын
Chrisser Me too. I will be 50 this year. Crazy how fast time goes.
@j750993 жыл бұрын
Yep. Born 1970. Lived the 80s. Everything seemed possible. Miss those times everyday.
@mikemclaren87042 жыл бұрын
I betcha you remember the Brady Bunch👍
@queenofqueens0072 жыл бұрын
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*
@keithschultz41872 жыл бұрын
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.
@williewinston14989 ай бұрын
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
@jchow59662 жыл бұрын
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.
@blueduck94097 ай бұрын
Id go back to the 1980s and just stay there. Not visit, but stay.
@ursuladixon83545 жыл бұрын
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.
@turanturk28355 жыл бұрын
Ursula Dixon at least you lived at 70’s and 80’s ..
@jwb52z94 жыл бұрын
Hating change isn't helpful. Not liking the specific changes that happen is even less so.
@notebookluvr4 жыл бұрын
Amen! I seriously sometimes wish I was Amish! Technology is moving ridiculous fast.
@jigglezendaya60404 жыл бұрын
Ursula Dixon ok boomer
@GilbertSyndrome4 жыл бұрын
Ursula Dixon Progress is literally what enabled you to watch this video. People live their lives looking back through rose-tinted lenses.
@twofiveb5 жыл бұрын
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.
@richardavery48114 жыл бұрын
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.)
@theodorerelic27184 жыл бұрын
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....
@yeksun4 жыл бұрын
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.
@ikreer97774 жыл бұрын
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.
@hawkeyeten24502 жыл бұрын
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).
@ll78682 жыл бұрын
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.
@justtalldave Жыл бұрын
13 years old in 1980 and 22 and graduated college in 1989. Best time to grow up.
@user-vm8pz6bq3g Жыл бұрын
Born in Dec 1989. Time fuckin flies 😵💫
@bxpress65074 жыл бұрын
the 80s was SO special! you had to really live in the time to fully understand😎
@lookinforthe70s3 жыл бұрын
Yes, can't really appreciate it unless you lived it.
@denisethetford91782 жыл бұрын
True. You can't explain it.
@VintageWrestlingFan2 жыл бұрын
Boomers LOL
@patd52802 жыл бұрын
agreed....
@rebeljohnhenry2 жыл бұрын
That’s right!
@edwardbliss89315 жыл бұрын
I wish I could time travel back to the summer of 1987 and just stay there
@josephbyrd5535 жыл бұрын
Me too
@D33Lux5 жыл бұрын
1983 for me and i wouldn't have move from where I lived.
@francieklopotic46235 жыл бұрын
You and me both!
@larenese94175 жыл бұрын
Yes....
@ruthpullis49775 жыл бұрын
Me 1979 1985 wish i could go back going to to the best days of my life .
@javiermori17102 жыл бұрын
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🙂
@midwestcollectibles12992 жыл бұрын
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.
@user-ex9zm7bg3x7 ай бұрын
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.
@travisbull21525 жыл бұрын
I miss the 80's and I know that that time is over... This was a fun time to be a kid
@stevehenrichs50915 жыл бұрын
don't ever forget it people made things happen back then and were alot happier with the simple things
@franciscochairez42215 жыл бұрын
lucky bastard, im jelous... i had to be born in 1997 :(
@stevehenrichs50915 жыл бұрын
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.
@briankelly93475 жыл бұрын
@@stevehenrichs5091 more tech
@D33Lux5 жыл бұрын
The best
@SWLinPHX3 жыл бұрын
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!
@tentacledaddy2 жыл бұрын
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
@SWLinPHX2 жыл бұрын
@@tentacledaddy It's funny but many of the Gen-Z's today (like my niece and nephew -- and half the ones here on KZbin) 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.
@samanthabelle60132 жыл бұрын
I know you all are lucky I'm jealous
@michaelsalisbury14772 жыл бұрын
SWLinPHX we all miss the days of our youth.
@Alwayslearnimg2 жыл бұрын
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.
@robmarino3148 ай бұрын
It was very fun being a teenager thoughout the 80's and I still love the music!
@just-sayin678 ай бұрын
So cool that now we can watch all the videos we want on KZbin - sure beats staying up late to watch Friday Night Videos - in my 50's now and I love watching all the 80's band videos!
@vwnclubb75915 ай бұрын
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.
@aboutblank76625 жыл бұрын
80's music is still the best along with the entire decade !
@darkairlord3 жыл бұрын
80's movies are the best but 70's music is better
@dacsus3 жыл бұрын
@@darkairlord 70's and 80' music were the best, together...
@kingsleyteoh3322 жыл бұрын
Don't forget the films too
@laurelmoonwalk30432 жыл бұрын
Micheal jackson!
@THEJIG-IS-UP5 жыл бұрын
I was a teenager in the 80s. Everywhere i looked something new and cool was happening.
@SmashVentura2 жыл бұрын
Yeah I felt the same way,always something cool and exciting happening.
@Lovelife-gz1rs2 жыл бұрын
I was born in 1980 I love that I got to enjoy this beautiful decade throughout my childhood how lucky!☺️
@SmashVentura2 жыл бұрын
I feel the same way. Was so fortunate to have lived that whole era.
@2ru2pacFan10 ай бұрын
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 😉
@nevermind-he8ni5 жыл бұрын
Graduated HS in 1984. I miss those years and still hold their values.
@neanam5 жыл бұрын
Old school
@whothefuckyoulookinat9574 жыл бұрын
You guys had it good so good. I am so jealous
@chicofromph33nix643 жыл бұрын
I was born in 84.. but it was the best year ever imo
@cc31843 жыл бұрын
1989.
@80steen83 жыл бұрын
I graduated in ‘88
@aceleone2154 жыл бұрын
80's MOVIES WERE CLEARLY THE BEST EVER.. THAT'S WHY THEY TRYNA REMAKE THEM ALL NOW DAYS..!!
@DesertRat50733 жыл бұрын
And ruining great movies doing it.
@supaidaman97503 жыл бұрын
Music was also on the top of its game in the 80s.
@darkspring98153 жыл бұрын
@@supaidaman9750 yea especially with Michael Jackson taking the spotlight
@etloo19713 жыл бұрын
1980s music was great.
@ruxer91893 жыл бұрын
Lol the music was shit and the movie was shitter the styles where shit 1980s is shit
@tricia.n.c.2 жыл бұрын
Omg I miss the 80s! Running home from school to turn on MTV to catch Bon Jovi videos to record em on my VHS to rewatch 24/7 lol
@SmashVentura2 жыл бұрын
LOL OMG YES! Always fun to get home from school as fast as possible to catch favorite shows in time to record with the VCR and still to this day I never did figure out how to set the clock on those things.
@tonybp2 жыл бұрын
If a time machine existed, I would gladly go back and live the rest of my days in that decade. I would be so happy.
@SmashVentura2 жыл бұрын
I agree and I sure as heck did my best to create a way to go back with the 80's work i do lol :)
@snopdogg2x Жыл бұрын
You wouldn't be happy as an adult thats for sure
@Robocoppat5 жыл бұрын
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!
@buddcarcook46555 жыл бұрын
patrick mcglone arcades....Wasted many a lunchtime there LoL! With metal on the jukebox!
@Robocoppat5 жыл бұрын
@@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.
@3hotznacot8565 жыл бұрын
patrick mcglone so the AIDS outbreak and crack epidemic was the best decade
@ethanallen28895 жыл бұрын
3 Hotz N a Cot ...Nice try shit-bag
@johnblanton91155 жыл бұрын
New houses built was rare, but built good with a timeless style that resulted in no need to remodel and keep up with the jones.
@joyoust80033 жыл бұрын
Two things you should know about the 80’s: we had the best music and we had the best movies
@theonlyonestanding68323 жыл бұрын
Yup Raiders of the lost Ark, The Road Warrior, Conan , Nightmare on Elm Street, New Wave English rock music to Heavy Metal to RUN DMC and L.L.cool J.
@joyoust80033 жыл бұрын
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
@peterbelanger40943 жыл бұрын
(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.
@jjslayer32493 жыл бұрын
Right
@annattaquiros37123 жыл бұрын
And the best fashion!!
@MH-jt3lx2 жыл бұрын
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.
@SPac316 Жыл бұрын
I was a little kid in the 80s. The cartoons were my jam, like Transformers, He-Man, Thundercats and SilverHawks being some of my favorites. Ninja Turtles were just starting by then too, but I saw them more as a 90s staple. I had a lot of the toys from those shows as well. I played lots of arcade games and Atari as well as computer games. I remember the music and movies as well.
@mikieson5 жыл бұрын
and this is why everyone wants to go back to the 80s..it was the turning point of everything we know today.
@russelltech76915 жыл бұрын
So glad I grew up in the 80s. Life has definitely changed for the worst.
@melissacooper44824 жыл бұрын
IKR? Here it is 2019 and I feel the whole world has gone to pot!
@ronnettnorfleet36264 жыл бұрын
I agree Russell
@Dru_Won4 жыл бұрын
Same thing people who grew up in the 50's & 60's said about the 80's
@Pikz4 жыл бұрын
I'm jealous 😭
@jacksonbateman10734 жыл бұрын
Kevin Kelley it’s a beautiful time to be alive.
@chillin87773 жыл бұрын
As someone from generation Z i find this era interesting 🤔 things have radically changed
@thunderbird19212 жыл бұрын
And apart from technology, NOT for the better.
@Charlybegood552 жыл бұрын
@@thunderbird1921 l'm reaIIy sorry if you don't Iike the Iife you have now
@bobbygould1960 Жыл бұрын
There was no Smartphones & Social Media.
@saraalbirАй бұрын
Are gen z babies allowed phones ? Lmao
@loryalgarin6901 Жыл бұрын
I was born in 1988 and I love see videos and movies about the 80's trends cuz I can see like my parents life's at that years, additionally asked to my mom about that years and she told me they was the best. I usually dedicated to explore this timeline by my own then look of the deference on 80's and now and Is a big nice trip 🥰🤗
@francesca87634 жыл бұрын
I wish i was born in 1970. So, my teenwould have been in the 80s, and my youth would have been in the 90s. it would have been the perfect life.
@Todd.T4 жыл бұрын
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.
@mrthewubbie3 жыл бұрын
It was awesome. Total freedom. No social media, no surveillance, you had to go places and meet people. A great time to be young.
@mattmccain84923 жыл бұрын
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.
@ChrisBrown-dy8ts3 жыл бұрын
Born in 1973, great kids tv, BMX arrived in UK when I was 10, Rave scene happened just when I tuned 18. Great times.
@Nighttrain7013 жыл бұрын
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 😆
@KVuong-rv2hs3 жыл бұрын
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.
@oellappen269 Жыл бұрын
Ich hätte diese Zeit so unglaublich gerne erlebt. Die Welt ist so lieblos und unpersönlich geworden.
@BillyBob-wq9fl9 ай бұрын
I picture Dieter from Sprockets.. “Want to Touch my monkey?”🐒
@juzores12 жыл бұрын
As long as you have born before the invention of internet your childhood was gold.
@abandonedaccount74683 жыл бұрын
I wasn’t alive in the 80s but I wish I was. It seems like such an awesome decade to have lived in
@theonlyonestanding68323 жыл бұрын
No school shootings and no terrorist attacks and no 911 no pandemics or recession. I hope things would get better
@Joy61683 жыл бұрын
I was born in the 80s and grew up in the 90s and early 2000's. I wish the same thing you do, abandoned account.
@dacsus3 жыл бұрын
@@theonlyonestanding6832 no SJW teachers...
@Baneslayer2 жыл бұрын
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.
@pistachiosandpopcorn71462 жыл бұрын
@@Baneslayer No..life was hard then too. It jus was better than it is today.
@reedcomics81965 жыл бұрын
I miss the 80s so much.
@veeistiredasf3 жыл бұрын
my mom was born in 1978 and i always asked her what the 80s were like, this is probably one of the most accurate videos out here
@mattmccain84923 жыл бұрын
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.
@finhyland42706 жыл бұрын
Mr T,Michael Jackson, Hulk Hogan/wrestling,movies,NBA,Mike Tyson,what a great decade..
@readingthroughhistor6 жыл бұрын
It was!
@stevehenrichs50915 жыл бұрын
prince and purple rain
@D33Lux5 жыл бұрын
Wrestle Mania 3 was the best one ever! What great memory's.
@GymClubHouse4 жыл бұрын
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
@sandygrimes71964 жыл бұрын
Graduate of 86’ and yes the 80s were the best! Please take me back..❤️
@tonysoprano71933 жыл бұрын
Class of 86 baby!
@ryohn54683 жыл бұрын
Class of 87' Graduate.
@garrettvcayer2 жыл бұрын
Class of 2019, and jealous of you guys. I hate that technology has taken over everything and it’s all anyone cares about
@tonyp93132 жыл бұрын
@@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.
@journeytothemosthigh50212 жыл бұрын
Class of 88! Looking for a time machine😩
@clarissawestbrook22032 жыл бұрын
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.
@paulyb24053 жыл бұрын
Definitely the most random and colourful decade I have been alive for. Glad I experienced growing up with those movies and able to play as a kid without technology being such a big thing really. I guess the fast moving 80s laid the groundwork for what was to come in the end but it was a hell of a time to be alive.
@2682shark4 жыл бұрын
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!!!!!
@Baneslayer2 жыл бұрын
December 81 here. I feel you so much! We are brothers ✊🏻
@SmashVentura2 жыл бұрын
Yes,yes,yes,yes,heck,yes! That is the 80's check list right there man :)
@Booga04Minecraft5 жыл бұрын
I wish I grew up in the 80's. My parents did and they alwaays tell me about this stuff and I'm jealous. 😅
@stephaniejade70564 жыл бұрын
Check your sources, this guy's take is very biased!
@kilgoretrout61364 жыл бұрын
I was 15 in 1980. The 80s was the best decade yet.
@crb40594 жыл бұрын
I grew up in the 80's its been steadily downhill since. believe me.
@whothefuckyoulookinat9574 жыл бұрын
Same but sadly I was born in 04. I wish I could experience the 80's :(
@chezit7924 жыл бұрын
sAME
@pistachiosandpopcorn71462 жыл бұрын
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.
@thelestrangelair11 ай бұрын
I remember in the early 80s as a child action figures were around 5 dollars and in 2000 action figures at Wal Mart specifically were only 6 dollars which was awesome. Then like 5 years later or less that doubled! Pretty trippy. The 80s had magic and soul and were actually exciting, and these days it may seem we have more, but we have such trouble connecting with people, you get lost in the shuffle online even if you do write something interesting, it's sad. All the 80s cartoons you named, nothing has been that good in the past 20 years. Sad but true. Bella L
@allenstanford13795 жыл бұрын
Best era of all time. Screw the 2000's !
@jeromecabral74645 жыл бұрын
Life in the 80s were so awesome as a kid. Stuff was much cheaper than compared to now.
@chrispacheco85905 жыл бұрын
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.
@andyappleton33535 жыл бұрын
@@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."
@slapmyfunkybass5 жыл бұрын
Andy Appleton Amen brother.
@SweetFLGuy15 жыл бұрын
@@andyappleton3353 I was born in 71. I look back in time and agree with everything you said 100% The 80's was the best decade ever.
@jackieortegadesigns3263 жыл бұрын
I'm proud that I grew up and experienced the 80s as a child.
@theguyver49342 жыл бұрын
How old are you ?
@UpsonPrattJr.2 жыл бұрын
I was an 80's kid. Born in late 1980. Even if you weren't actually a spoiled brat you felt like one. We had everything! The best toys, the greatest video game console, the best cartoons and shows to watch and we grew up with some of the most iconic movies ever. Everyone talks about being a teenager in the 80's, which I'm sure was fantastic, but being a kid in the 80's was incomparable.
@Pduarte792 жыл бұрын
And been a teen during the 90's, even better. Better consoles, games, golden era of anime for us, in the west.
@Biker659 ай бұрын
You're a 90's 2000's kid
@UpsonPrattJr.9 ай бұрын
@@Biker65 If you consider being a kid up until you're 29, I suppose you're right.
@RM-xr8lq2 жыл бұрын
i'm glad my parents got to live through the 80s with a good income, they had a comfortable and relaxed life in a time with lots of exciting innovations
@ilovepedalharpstheybeautif66924 жыл бұрын
I wish there was a time machine so I could go back in time to the 1980s
@stardustsimulation Жыл бұрын
Well there actually is one and it was invented in the 80s and looks super cool. Look for a crazy old man named Doc Brown.
@keymythic6362 Жыл бұрын
@@stardustsimulation sign me up 😂
@Jerseyboondocks3 жыл бұрын
The 1980's was the last of the golden years before things started on a landslide to hell
@shellyweiers1213 жыл бұрын
You are so right aileen
@seanvasquez5233 жыл бұрын
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.
@theinceptor36723 жыл бұрын
@@seanvasquez523 ikr. What abt the cold war, world wars which happened bfr the 80's
@seanvasquez5233 жыл бұрын
@@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.
@BlatentlyFakeName3 жыл бұрын
The 80s (and 90s I think) were the last decade of the old world I think, before it went digital. There was more freedom.
@fooleduthistime83792 жыл бұрын
I was around 7 in 1985 and a teenager in the 90's I tell my kids the two best decades I got to live in. the 80's best t.v line up saturday morning cartoons and MTV music videos.the 90's best R&B and hip hop music 🇺🇸
@hepcat6208 ай бұрын
The 80s were awesome. Cable TV, music on MTV, great hair and fashion, great economy, good jobs.
@haashircontractor20763 жыл бұрын
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
@BetaDreTV2 жыл бұрын
they didnt "take a joke", they didnt know they could do anything about it like tell people to fuck off and stop being racist.
@carryfreak50592 жыл бұрын
@@BetaDreTV We didn’t treat each other like that. We could take jokes, focusing on race was not a thing like it is today. Relax.
@chrisreynolds24102 жыл бұрын
No we could take and give a joke and roll with the punches.
@tonyp93132 жыл бұрын
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.
@VintageWrestlingFan2 жыл бұрын
@Kevin Stone exactly, everyone here with rose-tinted glasses lol
@KentKaliber5 жыл бұрын
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 !
@stevehenrichs50915 жыл бұрын
yes,yes you are so right! people today are just plain lazy too much junk food
@mattcunningham92355 жыл бұрын
Lol you obviously dont know jack shit about the 80s bud. Technology was everywhere and people were hooked on it. It was just slower. Nice try tho
@ebailey94435 жыл бұрын
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.
@sunshine-xd5ip5 жыл бұрын
Remember your parents saying "don't touch the tv screens. Don't get too close" now we have touch screens.
@EarthAngel5045 жыл бұрын
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.
@josearellano2039 ай бұрын
Each decade has its own unique and special things. I wasn't born until 1992. I do enjoy history, though, so I love videos like this. The space shuttle also flew for the first time in 1981. HIV/AIDS was first discovered in 1981 as well. The Apple Macintosh was introduced in 1984. Ronald Reagan was the president of the United States for almost all of the decade, though he ended the middle class in the country. The remote control also became a thing in the 1980s. Cassettes were a thing to listen to music then, with no Internet to listen to any song you wanted.
@crb40597 ай бұрын
Reagan saved the country
@Theultrazombiekiller Жыл бұрын
I was born in 92 as the youngest sibling, my oldest brother was born in 82. Man, that time period was fantastic. Grew up in typical upper-middle class suburban America. I remember getting an N64 for Christmas one year, rewinding VHS tapes before returning them to Blockbuster, my dad getting a "self-proppelled" lawn mower. One of my favorites was getting a brand new PS2 in 2000 when I was 8, man that thing rocked.
@jetrx8rew5 жыл бұрын
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 !
@iixstarshinexiixoxo17785 жыл бұрын
Men were men and women were women?? Please elaborate.
@titoaltimari73565 жыл бұрын
+IixStarShinexii Xoxo No Femi nazis and no Gay pride on our faces!, like he stated!
@iixstarshinexiixoxo17785 жыл бұрын
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.
@jetrx8rew5 жыл бұрын
@@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.
@iixstarshinexiixoxo17785 жыл бұрын
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.
@adamprovo59645 жыл бұрын
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.
@kylelowry15213 жыл бұрын
Yeah
@veyamarie15063 жыл бұрын
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
@Kingsombra213 жыл бұрын
What would you guys do all day?
@cdub99253 жыл бұрын
@@Kingsombra21 crack
@isoSw1fty3 жыл бұрын
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.
@theonlyonestanding80793 жыл бұрын
I lived the 80s through out my teenage years and it was the best entertainment of the 20th century...🥋🏈⚾️🥊🕹🎮 🏕 👺🤖👽🍺🍻🥃📺
@timglover53582 жыл бұрын
I was a teenager in the 80’s and loved it, we could actually hide from someone because we didn’t have cell phones.... it sounds boring now “but we had a blast 💥 drinking beer and racing cars just for fun
@LuckyTheCat7775 жыл бұрын
was born in 75 so i grew up in the 80's ! cartoons was the best then and MTV back then they actually played music
@temaletee89715 жыл бұрын
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...
@bicyclist24 жыл бұрын
It was as great as the Gen-Xer's say it was. I know I was there.
@julieb39964 жыл бұрын
there was a LOT more racism and bullying then
@Kit_Bear3 жыл бұрын
@@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.
@theonlyonestanding68323 жыл бұрын
@@julieb3996 yah but it was the best decade to be young and alive with no school shootings
@SWLinPHX3 жыл бұрын
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.
@JoshuaTraffanstedtАй бұрын
My uncle was a painter who was born in 1960 (my grandpa and his dad was also a painter that picked up the trade painting ships while he was in the Navy. He passed it on to his sons, several grandkids, and even a couple nephews over the years), started painting in the 70s as a teenager, and was a pretty good painter by the time the 80s rolled around (even my grandpa said hed never see anyone take to something like my uncle did painting). He used to tell me that he did better financially in the 80s than he ever did. He said he made 8 bucks an hour and lived like a king. I make $27 an hour and struggle at times. Crazy how much times change.
@Brwneydgrl698 ай бұрын
I was 11 to 20 from 1980-1989. I loved the 80s and my teen years!! I also loved the 70s for my childhood.
@lilliandonaldsonstaff70754 жыл бұрын
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.
@Devo132 жыл бұрын
Lucan. The Phoenix. Misfits of Science. Bad News Bears TV show. The Master. Family. Man from Atlantis. Otherworld. James at 15.
@bosshogg6592 жыл бұрын
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.
@Devo132 жыл бұрын
@@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".
@TheHyphen2 жыл бұрын
To put that in perspective I feel this way as someone born in the late 80s Except that to me, my American culture "lexicon" reaches to about the 50s
@sjbelias2 жыл бұрын
So true!!..was born ‘69 ..teen in ‘80s..right in the thick of it…what a glorious decade!!!….
@sedition42675 жыл бұрын
And they completely ignore Metal music that dominated the 80s.
@ElearningDigest5 жыл бұрын
Sedition I remember popular stuff like Metallica, Ozzy Osbourne, Quiet Riot, Scorpions, Motley Crue and much more.
@fearthechin5 жыл бұрын
Iron Maiden
@johnnykage39035 жыл бұрын
I was a trashy white kid the listenEd to metal. Then a few years later I was the same trashy white kid but was listening to rap
@ratface12084 жыл бұрын
Rap has to be the worse genre ever created 90s were alright tho
@ll78684 жыл бұрын
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.
@Rojaniel3 ай бұрын
Born in '91, but, my stuff up until I was 10 was handmedown. NES, a VCR, Didn't get a PC until '95. I listeneds to 80s songs growing up. It spawned in me a deep curiosity and fascination for the decade. One that remains to this day.
@scottl.1568Ай бұрын
@2:37 -- My dad had an '83 El Dorado... White with dark blue interior. I miss you every day, dad (1942-2009)😢
@williamheatonjr17513 жыл бұрын
I'm glad I was a kid before technology took over
@tanyakasim39883 жыл бұрын
So am I.
@dive30503 жыл бұрын
i hate that i was born in the 2000s
@itstyypical39083 жыл бұрын
I would do anything to live the 80’s. Technology truly did take over our lives
@bbth6673 жыл бұрын
U are so luckyyy!
@MadamePianissima3 жыл бұрын
Ok boomer EDIT: I fucking LOVE just how easy it is to trigger a boomer lmfao
@mikesharon21773 жыл бұрын
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👍🏻
@justinhonse7 ай бұрын
Thank you for putting this together. It was excellent.
@abdulsmith92989 ай бұрын
This was really dope! You brought back some good memories. Great job , you hit the nail on the head with this one
@RealityContradiction5 жыл бұрын
Sorry but the 1980s was the most epic decade.
@stevehenrichs50915 жыл бұрын
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
@jramirez98345 жыл бұрын
How old are you? You look like you were too young to experience the 80s.
@moesyzslak29395 жыл бұрын
@@jramirez9834 I think they are about 12 in age
@michaelalguire4195 жыл бұрын
The 80s was the most upbeat decade. I didn't care for the 90s.
@michaelalguire4195 жыл бұрын
steve henrichs Yes, I believe 80s women killed the ozone. Some women would use a whole can of hairspray.