What do you think of the 80s?
How come the best movies and music came from that period?
Back when gangs looked like this
>>442044
it had lots of aesthetic
Radical!
>>442044
It was kind of like a second version of the 50s, lots of money about and this pretty illusion of some white suburban utopia kind of dominated the cultural landscape
who cares about a crack epidemic when you have stylish teenagers from Chicago?
>>442044
That looks more 90s; Beverly hills 90210 style. This is more 80s.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=siwpn14IE7E
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2v-B_w-W6VM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aqcQUmKJEK8
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dEjXPY9jOx8
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LBIgXhiOpeQ
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qx2gvHjNhQ0
>you will never go back to the 80s
>>442103
I was around during the 80s and lived in areas that were caught up in the crack wars.
Take your snarky post and shove it up your fucking ass.
Because we left the hippie era of the 70s.
Greed, lots of money, optimistic of the future.
The American culture was at its hight.
>>442105
The pic in OP's post in late 80s SOCAL style. The females in your pic would be like one would expect from somewhere in the Midwest.
>>442044
>How come the best ... music came from that period?
because synthesizers
>>442142
I must have blanked that stuff out,Forgetting is also important, I think Nietzsche alludes to that.
>>442127
>Magnum P.I
>Miami Vice
>Kenny Loggins
My nigga.
>>442148
>because synthesizers
BGK-Follow The Trend
Synthesizers, Rhythm-box
Electro pop, we know it sucks
Computerized, Dehumanized
All that vinyl, what a waste!
I can't stand Modern Music!
Record labels make the trends
A lot of profit for little investment
But despite their promotion and big campaigns
We all know: IT'S TOTALLY LAME!
I can't stand Modern Music!
Switch on the radio... Oh No!
Brainless lyrics, disco beat
That's gotta be the Human League
I can't stand Modern Music!
>>442044
>How come the best movies and music came from that period?
Because you have a myopic adolescent nostalgia, and because the 1980s have been marketed to you as a way to make sense of your current slack unemployablement through a lens of hypersexualised successful middle class wankers.
Check my fucking business cards, I need to go return some video tapes (inside Lydia's anus, that shit was so cash) and then murder a street walker by whipping her to death with a coat hanger and causing interuterine punctures.
p.s.: FEED ME A CAT
>best movies
I'd say it's the lack of acceptable CGI. Effects had to be practical, which always looks better.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RYbe-35_BaA
People acted natural, they weren't fucking autists like today.
late 80s-early 90s grills are best grills
trimmed bushes (none of that hairy thigh and ass shit)
high cut bikinis
toned bodies with big tits while not going full auschwitz/balloon bimbo mode
just the right amount of crazy/perm hair
>>442186
>>442188
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dXL0g58PY4c
80s songs best songs
>>442175
Because you have a myopic adolescent nostalgia
As bad as pop culture could get back then it was not as putrid as today's. and that's really saying something considering how shallow the 80s could get.
>>442192
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H8zs_XGQ254
And IIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII WILL ALWAYS LOVE YOUUUUUUU
>>442198
>>442198
I remember the unemployment, the palpable fear, the drinking, the families going under the bullet when the job got lost. The insane nationalism, and the selling off of a hundred years of socialist struggle.
Trust me mate, if I've got myopic nostalgia, then it is early middle aged myopic nostalgia for the early 1970s when union leaders had to fight to keep their faction positions, or 1947-9 when we actually tried it on.
The putrescence of the 1980s was grounded in a distance from actual lived experience, check out the tele ads under Thatcher for an example (youtube has a great set of collections).
>>442188
that gal was such a GOTY
a few months ago while looking for "self-control" on songfacts.com or songmeanings.com can't recall which one i read that she died after losing all hope in trying to have kids
but even though she's not incredibly beautiful she is so goddamn sexy with all those cute expressions that whores nowdays try to mimic in forced and pathetic ways
>link related: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p8-pP4VboBk - 4:28 you love you lose
>>442229
I remember all kinds of shit too.
Entire blocks burning in NYC., the Rust Belt in NJ, cocaine cowboys in Miami, the Mariel boatlift, moving out west, discovering cholos, crips and bloods, the crack wars, duckiing and dodging gunfire and being on the trigger myself, military service, etc, etc, etc to infinity and despite it all. My and mine did just fine all things considered.
Don't know where you were at but even in the worst times and places there opportunities to get up and going.
>>442044
>How come the best movies and music came from that period?
They didn't. it's just that you have a surface-level understanding of both and it doesn't get much shallower than 80s pop culture.
>>442786
open your ass and your mind will follow
>>442170
>liking punk music
>not liking post-punk
>not liking industrial
>not liking synthpop
>>442786
I am a person born in the 90s, not a US citizen and have been exposed to the 80s via media along with other decades.
I still find it to be the best decade by far.
>>442044
>>442044
The 80's were terrible.
>Cocaine and drug culture growing ever more quickly
>Ressurgence of a real, tangible threat of nuclear war
>Shitty fashion
>Neo-liberalism
>Shitty pop-music
80s movies and music were complete garbage, the 70s and 90s were better by far.
>>442198
>le born in le wrong generashiun xdxdxdxdxd
>>442925
>>Cocaine and drug culture growing ever more quickly
>>Ressurgence of a real, tangible threat of nuclear war
>>Shitty fashion
>>Neo-liberalism
>>Shitty pop-music
>any of those things
>bad
there are legitimate arguments against the 80's but those are all fun, except neo-liberalism I suppose.
>>442935
yes, because being pissed scared of the icbms dropping any day now was such a wonderful thing.
Gang-wars and all the crap related to drugs was great too. Who wouldnt want to not deal with that shit
>>442944
We don't have to live through that though, we just have to study it. When people say "the Roman Empire is my favourite period on history" I doubt any of them would actually switch places with a Roman.
Though maybe I'm misunderstanding the premise of this thread.
>>442044
>best movies and music came from that period?
What a crock of shit.
>>442993
maybe thats what OP meant, but I doubt it.
Its not so much: "what a fun and interesting era to study!"
But more like: "I wish I was living in the good old days"
If it was the previous I could partly agree. The 80's is one of the more interesting decades in the XXth century, and so much of what happened then greatly shaped our present troubles
>>442142
There's also floatover from the 70s in those clothes and that hair so it's very obviously early 80s. Probably 1982 give or take.
50s where objectively the best era in America
80s are a meme
Early 80s was a bad hangover from the 70s in music and fashion. Movies sucked too but the early 80s flicks were pretty good.
Ask someone from the Southern Regional class of 1984 anything.
>>442183
Does anyone have that video of the guy in a Florida 7-11 at like 1 in the morning and i's just people chilling and shooting the shit and then he repeated it like a year or so later and the vibe was completely different? More uptight and guarded from the people he was talking to than the 1980s one IIRC.
>>442229
>The insane nationalism, and the selling off of a hundred years of socialist struggle.
Go back to /leftypol/.
>>442175
This.
>How come the best movies and music came from that period?
Only a legitimate drooling idiot would say this.
>>442044
>what do you think of my objective opinion?
i think you should stop being a faggot
The 80s were adorable because of how uncynical they were. In contrast it feels like people today subside on being snarky and feed on being cut throat.
>>443203
I reasonably characterised Australia in the 1980s where the government, unions and employer federations were pretty damn explicit about Commonwealth '82, reviving ANZAC day or the "Celebration of a Nation" combined with trading a hundred years of worker controlled protections inside capitalism for delayed remuneration through superannuation, "social wages" in health and education, but which actually amounted to financialisation of the consumer economy.
YMMV. Do you have different sources on Australia in the 1980s?
>>443457
QFT
Look at The Last Starfighter; you can't make a movie with that kind of tone and mood today. There was definitely a bit of optimism in media back then.
Born in 1974 here and I remember the 80's well. I grew up in Colorado during those years. From my POV, it was a good time despite my family not having much cash. We always had plenty to eat and my dad took me to the movies. The Cold War was still brewing, but people were generally more happy back then. Even with all the problems.
>>442044
>>442186
I miss how women looked back then. They weren't ashamed to embrace their feminine side like today.
>the best music
No it didn't.
However, I did like the New Jack Swing movement. For those of you who don't know, New Jack Swing was a mix between hip hop and contemporary R&B, pretty much made for clubs or slow jams. It heavily influenced both genres, which is why everyone was dancing back in the day. Even rappers who hated NJS used swingbeats sometimes.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PAu2bsV9CiQ
>>443736
this music is pretty based anon, thanks for the share.
>>443736
I literally only know of New Jack Swing because of golden age hip hop artists dissing it every chance they got.
80s themselves were pretty crappy and forgettable, it's just the art, especially the movies and music that were awesome. That is what people who didn't live back then judge it by and end up thinking it was one gigantic Terminator / Miami Vice orgy.
>>443101
The movies can stand against what Hollywood puts out now and a lot of the music holds up very well, if not surpasses current material in some aspects.
I have a fetish for those 80's panties that ride above the hip... anyone got any?
>>443135
Looked at the pic again and i concur.
>>442086
honestly the 80s may just be the time where humans wanted to indulge in the aesthetic experiences of life or at least that was a chief component for many trends at the time
>>443101
Wouldn't say best, but definitely superior to now.
Compare:
Aliens vs Prometheus
Terminator vs Terminator Genisys
80s Ghostbusters vs modern Ghostbusters
Queen vs Justin Bieber
Richard Pryor vs Amy Schumer
>>444493
Go on /gif/ and enter the MILF thread
>>442155
i believe somewhere Nietzsche creates and argument that at its core is "aesthetics are the only things we actually care about" and the example used was there are two worlds bothe equally the same and also perfect in every way with one minor difference, one world looks like a pile of shit and the other looks like absolute paradise. Nietchze would say at that point any reasonable human would be making this choice by merely aesthetic judgement and nothing else, the aesthetic is the deciding and defining factor for a lot of things according to Nietzsche
The 80s had this version of Metallica.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aTCMLiO9O6M
>>442139
There was denial, not optimism.
Post-Watergate America was full retard, and has remained so in many respects.
>>445001
Depends on how you look at things. Back in the 80s it was still possible in some places to get a good job right out of high school or even if you were a drop out.
Try doing that these days.
>>442044
>I'm going to shit out of my mouth for the next few minutes
It was the decade where capitalism and culture managed to cross and blossom perfectly. American soft-power became an instrumental part of every globalized nation. No matter where you lived, you were attuned to America's music, movies, clothes, and way of life.
The merging influence of black musicians, as well as an economy strong enough to sustain counter-cultures and new digital techniques led to a renaissance in music. Blockbuster movies were turned into a formula, and the biggest hits became cultural landmarks due to their once-unprecedented reach. Materialism managed to finally win out over old cultural influences too. What you spent money on and what pop culture you partook in ended up defining you way more than where you came from.
>>442044
This thread is pretty vapor.
>>442170
Is there a more obnoxious and whiny genre than punk?
>>442044
It is like the terrible fist of the eighties, punching you in the face forever.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JEeYDM0Sri8
Man am i glad that i'm 21 this year, and was a Adolescence in the 2010's.
the reason the 90's was so great was because it was the peak of what ever happend in the 80's, a extreme version of everything of the 80's.
then in the 2000's everything went to shit, and everything went commercialized and overused.
of course we had the internet going good round 2005 but it still was in such a weak state that still hadn't had it "charm" as now.
the 2000's really didn't have it's own charm, in sense of music clothing style and everything it was all a bad version of the 90's.
everyone can remember the 80's and the 90's but the 2000's had nothing to remember itself by.
at least this decade does feel like it has it's own character, maby that has to do with all the revival shit that is trending.
>>446488
Naw that's just 'cause it's when YOU came of age. I've pondered this myself, and talked to friends of mine who came of age in the 2000's, and they can point to plenty of things that characterize it; music, fashion trends, all that stuff we associate with the "decade culture".
I didn't see it, and I sure don't see any of it from 2010 to the present, but that's most likely because I'm in my 30s and I don't dwell in that world anymore. You do, so you recognize your own decade's trends very keenly.
post 80s bush pls
>>446579
I highly recommend Kavinsky's Outrun.
>>446647
>80s Bush will never be your president
>>445800
Current Pop.
The 80s was a terrible time filled with shit movies and shit music. Of course there were a few gems but everyone acts nostalgic as fuck about the crap from the 80s. Musical montages was the worst thing to happen to film.
>>446709
he was dude
I miss him. At least he loved America.
>>446965
As opposed to the great tunes and films we have these days.
80s had great culuture. But the political and economical sphere was bad. Perestroika couldn't save the Union (and probably wasn't designed to do so), the financial crisis have hit some people hard, the war in Afghanistan had great influence on modern extremist Islamic movement and later conflicts (such as Chechen war).
Actually I would like to come back in time and travel around the world to see the life back then.
>>445800
Siege- Armageddon
Arms race
Disgrace
Armageddon
Armageddon
Peaceful claims
Yet bombs are aimed
Armageddon
Armageddon
Arms are poised
Worlds destroyed
Armageddon
Armageddon
Nation of pain
Nation slain
Armageddon
Armageddon
>>447000
True. I am able to enjoy music from different parts of the world as opposed to whatever the record label companies release.
>>443162
2010's are objectively even better
>>442044
How many of these sloots would have saved their maidenhead for their husband?
>>447007
We had the same thing back then too. Shit, i must have seen the Fania All Stars at least a dozen times before i was 10 and you name it, we had it. You do know there were things called record stores that got you whatever you wanted?
Then there was the tape trading scene. Man, my friends and i we were writing and sending letters and tapes from all over the world. Behind the Iron curtain, South Africa, Southeast Asia, You name a location, someone had a contact there. It was a hell of a lot more personal than just clicking a mouse and downloading.
>>445800
Emo?
>>443736
>NJS will never come back
>Even though other ded genres like disco and funk did
They didn't. That's when mainstream music and movies became a lot more formulaic and corporate.
>>442060
Ah, the multi-ethnic gangs from every tv show and movie back then.
I have a soft spot into 80's music because I grew up listening to it. Nowadays I listen to 70's prog if anything.
>>442916
more like 16 when you are full of hormones and still have high neuroplasticity
>>447010
only if you are rich and get away from all the bullshit in the rest of society
80's were the worst decade for production though.
Horrible gated reverb drum sounds. Oh and big soft rock keyboard sounds. And stupid amounts of chorus and Bass
>>447682
Like this
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pgifFdi8eio
>>447669
Yeah, just like every other period in history.
>>442103
