I lived through them. I liked the way chicks would dress in tube skirts and pantyhose and big hair with glossy lipstick. That part was great. The Kelly Bundy look was all the rage. No complaints from me.
But the music...MTV was a HUGE new medium that actually played videos at the time. You'd sit there, just praying that the next video would be a good song. Unfortunately, there were very few vids at the time and certain videos were consistently in rotation - at least once an hour - "Who Can It Be Now", "I Ran" (holy crap - was this one played and played), "Kids In America", "1999", "Safe T Dance", "867-5309", some Loverboy song, "Lucky Star" (another 'oh no, not again' video), etc. And of course Michael Jackson. When Van Halen "Jump", would come on, you could hear a collective cheer from people all over the neighborhood. Didn't like the new wave stuff - if you want to hear an incredible rock album, check out The Replacements "Let It Be" from 1984 or 85.
People thought the Mullet was here to stay - as if the hair styling industry reached the peak of creativity and had nowhere else it could go. That's why I sigh when I see kids in their 20s getting tats just because they're currently in style - the Permanent Mullet.
Everyone loved watching "21 Jump Street", The Bundy show (can't recall the name), "Miami Vice" (another 'style has reached it's apex and will never get better' belief).
Anyway, tl;dr - The 80s had some good things, some bad - just like every decade - but the 90s were GREAT when it came to music and the beginning of surfing the web. I got flamed in 1994 for trying to sell a guitar on the Internet - "the world wide web is NOT for commercial purposes!".
Is it normal to be obsessed with the 80s?
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I lived through them. I liked the way chicks would dress in tube skirts and pantyhose and big hair with glossy lipstick. That part was great. The Kelly Bundy look was all the rage. No complaints from me.
But the music...MTV was a HUGE new medium that actually played videos at the time. You'd sit there, just praying that the next video would be a good song. Unfortunately, there were very few vids at the time and certain videos were consistently in rotation - at least once an hour - "Who Can It Be Now", "I Ran" (holy crap - was this one played and played), "Kids In America", "1999", "Safe T Dance", "867-5309", some Loverboy song, "Lucky Star" (another 'oh no, not again' video), etc. And of course Michael Jackson. When Van Halen "Jump", would come on, you could hear a collective cheer from people all over the neighborhood. Didn't like the new wave stuff - if you want to hear an incredible rock album, check out The Replacements "Let It Be" from 1984 or 85.
People thought the Mullet was here to stay - as if the hair styling industry reached the peak of creativity and had nowhere else it could go. That's why I sigh when I see kids in their 20s getting tats just because they're currently in style - the Permanent Mullet.
Everyone loved watching "21 Jump Street", The Bundy show (can't recall the name), "Miami Vice" (another 'style has reached it's apex and will never get better' belief).
Anyway, tl;dr - The 80s had some good things, some bad - just like every decade - but the 90s were GREAT when it came to music and the beginning of surfing the web. I got flamed in 1994 for trying to sell a guitar on the Internet - "the world wide web is NOT for commercial purposes!".