• Redredme@lemmy.world
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    2 days ago

    There was no oil crisis, no cold war, no economic crash in the 80s, no housing shortage in the 80s, no rampant crime!

    The 70/80s where glorious!

    /Sssss

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      20 hours ago

      I definitely enjoyed myself, more in the 80s than the 70s (which seemed largely like the record industry still trying to milk money out of the 60s).

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        5 hours ago

        Well if you enjoyed the 80s soooo much then a) you where too young to grasp the problems facing your parents or b) you where too well off.

        Just look at the cinema and listen to the music of my fine period.

        Everything, every theme was: please dont kill us and can i have a room to call my own.

        The politics where insane, mortgage rates of 10-15% where the norm, enormous economic shifts.

        The 90s where fun but the eighties where, in my experience, very, very dark.

        Ever listened to, I dunno, two tribes, war, dancing with tears in my eyes, Russians, etc.? Those first albums of u2? Really grasped what Terminator was about? Wall Street? Or the much lighter but still terribly fucked Trading Places?

        It was all really dark stuff, my brother. Fun, but very dark.