Posted on 11/02/2005 10:33:42 AM PST by Chi-townChief
Mama mia thatsa nice meataballa.
I remember the late '70s being about my ABCs... you old fart! =)
Pretty much the only reason to watch that show.
Well I certainly don't watch it for Mr. Demi Moore...
Amen! THAT's the 80s I'm talking about!
FR even ripped it for the fund raisers.
You have got to be kidding.
Since I passed through my late teens, into adulthood under Jimmah Cahtah's helm...My recall was a lot of people wandering around how to get out from under his ineptitude. The general feeling was hopelessness, frustration and anger. No optimism towards the future.
Jeez! People were even excited in 1979 about the Chevrolet Citation! Now that is desperation!!
Fox put out "That 80's show" and it failed miserably... Not that it has anything to do with this article...just sayin
Red Foreman is a union lacky however if you saw the show about Pres. Ford coming to town... Red disrupted the town hall asking why he pardoned Nixon...
ROFL, from even the nostalgia sites I've been on not to mention the occasional off-topic discussions in places like this, the 80s would win - NEVER MIND putting it in terms of "Reagan" or "Carter"!!! ROFL
No way dude. The 70s rule.
Allegedly that was cuz they focused more on the nostalgia aspect rather than actually having stories.
I've only heard that, cuz these are not the kind of shows I like to watch.
There was lots of cocaine use and abuse in the hedonistic 1970s. There was more greed in the 1990s than in the 1980s.
Liberal talking points signifying nothing.
While I was out of touch culturally with the 80s, and therefore my view is slanted, I would say the 70s definitely had better movies and music. Hollywood was highly creative; there was a sophistication yet at the same time an artistic integrity and moral voice.
However . . . in all other respects I absolutely hated the 70s. Besides their being a bleak period in my personal life, I felt the rage and frustration all around me. Everyone was bored and depressed. The 80s seemed like the light at the end of the tunnel, politically and economically. (Personally, things got better, too.)
The 80s, though, (& 90s) seemed far more decadent, with a glamour and very hard edge. The culture grew increasingly sterile; I watched a decline in the movies & music starting around 1982. I truly think that now Hollywood is dying.
No, Rap hardly led the charts. It may have really started then but it was still mostly fringe stuff.
http://www.80sxchange.com/80s_charts/1985.htm
As was "metal" and "hair" and all that other so-called music. Hair and metal bands did not rule, either. Never did, never will. Too bad so many people on the 'net can't see that. http://www.angelfire.com/wa2/heepsplace/revisionism.html
"I'll buy that for a dollar!" ...
The only reason the '80s were "greedy" is cuz the Evil Reagan was not only "head of it all" (despite having to fight a Lib Congress), but very popular.
As for the '70s, yes and no, but they were no worse overall than the late '60s (which is usually what we think of when we say "'60s"). IMO the '70s takes all the heat for and by what the '60s hippies actually did. The '60s hippies were the TRUE "me" generation, the "Mother of all Selfish Generations". ;-)
Part of the problem was they had actors/actresses playing teenagers in the 1980's who were themselves teenagers in the 1980's 15 years ago.
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