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I'm one of those dinosaurs who can't get over the 80s. Yeah, my teen years left a lot to be desired, BUT, the music was awesome and how can you go wrong with 8 years of Reagan? There seemed to be a lot more optimism then, but maybe I'm just a little biased.

Then the 90s came along, with its cynicism and irony and everything just seemed to go all to suck, you know?

The only good thing I can say about the 1990's is that the decade has ended.

I'm one of those dinosaurs who can't get over the 80s. Yeah, my teen years left a lot to be desired, BUT, the music was awesome and how can you go wrong with 8 years of Reagan? There seemed to be a lot more optimism then, but maybe I'm just a little biased. Then the 90s came along, with its cynicism and irony and everything just seemed to go all to suck, you know?

I agree with you, but look at the fine print, especially in the last few paragraphs...the '80's haters are 90's lovers who hated Reagan and loved Clinton, tasteless classless individuals who hated real music in favor of 1 dimensional hip hop and rap crap and corporate garbage like boy bands, Spice Girls, Britney Spears, and all that associated nonsense.

The 90's, unfortunately, was bookended by grunge and rap, 2 trends I couldn't go for.

I, too, have a great deal of nostalgia for the 1980s. The music, movies, and the gestalt of the decade were great. It seemed like a more upbeat, devil-may-care decade. You didn't take things too seriously and you could have fun. PC has killed much of the fun in life. Most pop music today isn't worth as much as toilet paper. Okay, now I need to watch some John Hughes films and listen to my new wave collection.

I'm one of those dinosaurs who can't get over the 80s. Yeah, my teen years left a lot to be desired, BUT, the music was awesome and how can you go wrong with 8 years of Reagan? There seemed to be a lot more optimism then, but maybe I'm just a little biased.

Then the 90s came along, with its cynicism and irony and everything just seemed to go all to suck, you know?

I know what you mean, I was born in 1966 so I'll be 39 this year. I was a teenager and young adult back then. It was a cool time although I had my rough times too. My favorite part of that era besides the music was the computers, we used to spend endless hours on our Commodore 64's, TRS-80's, Apple //e's and ][+'s, and games all the time on our Ataris. I remember when I was a junior, we had the "Mother of all School Strikes" so we basically programs games into the computer and played Atari until our retinas became bleached. B-) Ah yes, we had many a late night role playing game session too.

The 1980's were an optimistic time, with Ronald Reagan, how can we go wrong? I think things started to crack after Reagan left office and completely blew chunks by the time Clinton got into office. Today with the Republicans and Bush in office, I got some optimism back but I feel a bit schizoid because the optimism wasn't as intense as it was then. It was an interesting time indeed.

Same here.
In fact, I posted a thread on Duran Duran's new album not too long ago, and it went on for about 400+ posts on the clothes, music, fashions, etc. It was so fun.

I wish the clothes would come back, though. They were terrific.

EXACTLY!