what do you miss most about the '80's?
965794
fraggle rock!\n\nand mTV actually playing videos.\n\nand neon socks... and the fact that you could wear one of each color and it was perfectly okay.  and the fact that you could wear two pairs of two different colors and it was even MORE okay.
1017213
When you look at the music created between early 1980-1987, there was a genre of musical talent I believe the world will never see again. \nWhere has this talent gone?\n\nThe 90's music was what you listened to when your 5 seconds short of suicide, and the 70's music was simply 1-dimension heavy rock(for the most part)\n\n60's music was fast-beat 3 minute songs designed for AM radio\n\nAnd the 'music' today? Horrific...to say the least.\n\nThe 80's were a great era.
973377
I think it should be the 90's you ask\n\nthe 80's gave us entertainment.\n\noh it had its flaws but not many.\n\nSome of the lowest box office hits were the best.. \n\nHoward the Duck sucked... funny but sucked.\n\nnow how can anyone put down Weekend at Bernie's? part 2 sucked.... but a man who can play himself dead is good.\n\nGrease 2.. now that sucked.\n\nPolice Academy's ruled and cant wait for Final Assignment (in the works). \n\ngee i cant think of many bad ones.. they all were good in some way or another.
76921
I wasn't gonna answer this question, but the more I thought about it, I figured I may as well.  I think the 80s were.  Well.. no... maybe the 60s.  AW HELL I don't like this question.  I say the 60s for breaking down the racial wall.  (Not that they were fun times, at all, but the strength of those fighting was amazing and did wonders for society today).  But in the 80s we realized that we are a united country that can fight for hunger and sickness. Remember when AIDS came out?? Suddenly musicians took a stand to do more with their money than spend it on parachute pants and cases of hairspray. It was a time when the nation came together with Hands Across America and Live Aid, etc etc etc.  Kids in my school started focusing on world news, instead of highschool ball scores. We had presidents shot at, a Beatle was murdered, space shuttles exploded, Russia toke their finger off the button, gays and lesbians were coming out all over the place and fighting for their equallity.  Microwaves became a household product. Didn't viagra hit the market in the late 80s? lol  It was a year of eye opening things. Maybe not a technological boom, as much as a psychological boom.  Shrinks were less shunned upon. Divorces were no longer taboo. Massive hurricanes hit the coast, and I personally saw neighborhoods becoming one family- taking care of each other like none before.  Limits were being put on music and euthanasia issues hit the scene when a girl named Teri Shaivo was in coma, and her parents wanted to keep her alive, while her husband wanted to pull the plug.  Walls fell in Germany. The 80s really influenced the way I saw the world.  It seemed almost like the decade pulled many countries closer together so our people and their people could hug. I'm not sure what happened in the 90s, and I'm not so sure the 2000-2010 decade will be much better.
955439
I'm 35 and still stuck in the 80's. \n\nMy faves:\n\nDuran Duran is tops!\nEurythmics\nUltravox\nBananarama\nPower Station\nDokken\nRatt\nBoomtown Rats\nHuey Lewis and The News\nMen without Hats\nThompson Twins\nHuman League\nB-52's\nDevo\nThe Go-Go's\nThe Smiths\nHall & Oats\nVan Halen\n\nloads more.
1145809
I remember that show It was called small wonder! I used to love to watch all those sitcoms in the 80's! Remember Mr Belvedere, and Facts of Life and Different Strokes? I miss the 80's!
435771
Definately the 70's and 80's... I would love to have been a cool hippie! Heidi
923516
far too many to remember Return of the Jedi, Indiana Jones, Back to the Future, Ghostbusters, The Blues Brothers,to name but a few the 80's was a real highpoint in Films for me,\n\nSeriously stuggling to think of a really bad film from the 80's
316909
why would anyone miss bad pop music from the 90's. well, i'm sure some do, just not me
548283
The music of 1990 was more '80s like. \n\nThe #1 song for that year was Nothing Compares 2 U by Sinead O'Connor. \n\nIf you look at the list of the Top 100 songs, the artists are more closely associated with the 80's rather than the 1990's. Artists like Bon Jovi, Wilson Phillips, Madonna, Bette Midler, Bell Biv Devoe, Billy Idol
742741
It's not really fair to judge this decade's music just yet.  I thought the music of the 80s sucked during the 80s but now I mostly listen to 80s music on the radio.  \n\nIn 10-15 years, we'll probably appreciate this decade's music more than we do now.
204685
He was, but that was in the 80's.
43304
Being able to talk with who I want to talk to without people think that we are sleeping around.I also miss eating good food and taking long hot baths.  I miss my family.  I miss good, hot sex.
872125
good for you\nI miss the fifties\nwhen their were bomb shelters and hula hoops and commies and korea and rock and roll and...\nthe fifties sucked\nlive for today kid, ya never know about tomorrow...
205262
I miss/remember.....\n\n- great music (real metal, not the "hair" stuff, though)\n- Headbanger's Ball (with Rob Halford as VJ)\n- my once-slender body (LOL)\n- being in college\n- watching Kansas win the title in 1988\n- high school\n- my mullet (*only* because I had the ability to grow one)\n- women with big hair and the great outfits they wore\n- first kiss, first girlfriend\n- first concert (Judas Priest, Rosemont[IL] Horizon, May 1986)\n- second concert (meeting Judas Priest - Peoria[IL] Civic Center, September 1986)\n\nI remember but do *not* miss.....\n\n- parachute pants?!?!?\n- Culture Club (especially those who dressed as Boy George)\n- asthma-related hospital stays\n- seeing guys get Mohawks\n- designer jeans (well, they looked *great* on the gals.....)\n- flipped-up collars\n\nI think people bash on the 80's for all the wrong reasons.....
859961
The 80's, everything was sp colorful and fun and new in a way.
72885
me! u cannot compare 80's music to today's music. during my high school days, when i was 16, i listened to phil collins, the jets, flock of seagulls, duran-duran, men at work etc. but i also like some of today's muse like weezer and green day.