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I loved the eighties. So much good music. Sure there was junk, but seemingly less than before or since. A very optimistic time (once we got past '83). The song that captured the spirit: future so bright I gotta wear shades.
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I loved the eighties. So much good music. Sure there was junk, but seemingly less than before or since. A very optimistic time (once we got past '83). The song that captured the spirit: future so bright I gotta wear shades.
It was okay to be happy. But when the 90's hit, everybody was supposed to mope around like Kurt Cobain or Eddie Vedder and complain about everything.
It was okay to be happy. But when the 90's hit, everybody was supposed to mope around like Kurt Cobain or Eddie Vedder and complain about everything.
In the 80s it was fun, vibrant. People partied like it was 1999. Big hair ruled. It was fashionable to be fashionable. Then came the 90s; I remember being at a club in 91 or 92 with some friends, all within a couple years of thirty (both directions) and seeing a bunch of black-clad younger people standing around looking pensive and moody, and not in a Robert Smith/Cure kind of way. Sigh...
A bright, colorful video... and a young Will Smith, "Parents Just Don't Understand". When I heard it in the late 80s I thought they sampled the backbeat from Peter Frampton's "Won't You Be My Friend" (1977, I'm In You). Turns out I was right. So for your consideration and comparison...
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In the 80s it was fun, vibrant. People partied like it was 1999. Big hair ruled. It was fashionable to be fashionable. Then came the 90s; I remember being at a club in 91 or 92 with some friends, all within a couple years of thirty (both directions) and seeing a bunch of black-clad younger people standing around looking pensive and moody, and not in a Robert Smith/Cure kind of way. Sigh...
Then the grunge look became mainstream.
In the Fall of 1993 I bought a nice casual collared shirt, dark blue with subtle designs in it. Kind of nice -- went well with faded blue jeans.
Then, almost exactly one year later, I went shopping around for something similar -- all I could find at one store after the next were flannel shirts.
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