The style of the main site and the graphic at the top here screams out 1970s / 1980s to myself at first look.
But browsing most threads on this section - and I get a majority of subjects on stuff from the 1990s - which was a decade in which I was leaving education and working - not really growing up as an impressionable youth.
The 70's and 80's were my formative years - and speaking to most of those I know from outside here who have left and may drift back in soon - this place used to be a haven of 1970s and 1980s Retroness until an influx of people who only knew the rubbishness of the 1990s (see Shell Suits, Eldorado and dodgy Techopop)
So I'm opening this up for a "Reclaim The Retro" campaign with more stuff on the best decades there have ever been for ANYTHING (this fact was proved by scientists in a lab in Leipzig, Germany in 2002).
STARTING HERE - with the definitive list of why the 1970s and 1980s was better than the 1990s and 2000s (the 2000s can't be retro - we're not yet outside the 10 year Retro Consideration Window - and we're still living in that decade ffs)
(bit of a long post this one - never mind - the fact has been established)
Anyway onto that list:
1970's and 1980's only kthxplz:
Garrett Fitzgerald
East Germany
"You are now entering Free Derry"
The Plays of Dennis Potter
The Singing Detective (with Michael Gambon)
Blackadder
Video Games are born
Introduction of Decimal Currency in the UK
Terry & June
Erich Honecker
The Sweeney
Leonid Brezhnev (with THOSE eyebrows)
The Rockford Files
Decent Star Wars Films
The first home computers
The collapse of the Iron Curtain
Dixon of Dock Green
Police Squad (in colour!)
All in the Family
Star Trek
Telegrams still available
The start of Monday Night Football
Czechoslovakia
Nadia Comaneci
The Three Day Week
Watney's Red Barrel
BASIC
ALL music
Dallas
Back To The Future
NEW ORDER
Part two when I feel like it
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But browsing most threads on this section - and I get a majority of subjects on stuff from the 1990s - which was a decade in which I was leaving education and working - not really growing up as an impressionable youth.
The 70's and 80's were my formative years - and speaking to most of those I know from outside here who have left and may drift back in soon - this place used to be a haven of 1970s and 1980s Retroness until an influx of people who only knew the rubbishness of the 1990s (see Shell Suits, Eldorado and dodgy Techopop)
So I'm opening this up for a "Reclaim The Retro" campaign with more stuff on the best decades there have ever been for ANYTHING (this fact was proved by scientists in a lab in Leipzig, Germany in 2002).
STARTING HERE - with the definitive list of why the 1970s and 1980s was better than the 1990s and 2000s (the 2000s can't be retro - we're not yet outside the 10 year Retro Consideration Window - and we're still living in that decade ffs)
(bit of a long post this one - never mind - the fact has been established)
Anyway onto that list:
1970's and 1980's only kthxplz:
Garrett Fitzgerald
East Germany
"You are now entering Free Derry"
The Plays of Dennis Potter
The Singing Detective (with Michael Gambon)
Blackadder
Video Games are born
Introduction of Decimal Currency in the UK
Terry & June
Erich Honecker
The Sweeney
Leonid Brezhnev (with THOSE eyebrows)
The Rockford Files
Decent Star Wars Films
The first home computers
The collapse of the Iron Curtain
Dixon of Dock Green
Police Squad (in colour!)
All in the Family
Star Trek
Telegrams still available
The start of Monday Night Football
Czechoslovakia
Nadia Comaneci
The Three Day Week
Watney's Red Barrel
BASIC
ALL music
Dallas
Back To The Future
NEW ORDER
Part two when I feel like it
edit by mod: double-post, please use the
button next time"I will not be pushed, filed, stamped, indexed, briefed, debriefed, or numbered. My life is my own."
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The style of the main site and the graphic at the top here screams out 1970s / 1980s to myself at first look.
But browsing most threads on this section - and I get a majority of subjects on stuff from the 1990s - which was a decade in which I was leaving education and working - not really growing up as an impressionable youth.
The 70's and 80's were my formative years - and speaking to most of those I know from outside here who have left and may drift back in soon - this place used to be a haven of 1970s and 1980s Retroness until an influx of people who only knew the rubbishness of the 1990s (see Shell Suits, Eldorado and dodgy Techopop)
So I'm opening this up for a "Reclaim The Retro" campaign with more stuff on the best decades there have ever been for ANYTHING (this fact was proved by scientists in a lab in Leipzig, Germany in 2002).
STARTING HERE - with the definitive list of why the 1970s and 1980s was better than the 1990s and 2000s (the 2000s can't be retro - we're not yet outside the 10 year Retro Consideration Window - and we're still living in that decade ffs)
(bit of a long post this one - never mind - the fact has been established)
Anyway onto that list:
1970's and 1980's only kthxplz:
Garrett Fitzgerald
East Germany
"You are now entering Free Derry"
The Plays of Dennis Potter
The Singing Detective (with Michael Gambon)
Blackadder
Video Games are born
Introduction of Decimal Currency in the UK
Terry & June
Erich Honecker
The Sweeney
Leonid Brezhnev (with THOSE eyebrows)
The Rockford Files
Decent Star Wars Films
The first home computers
The collapse of the Iron Curtain
Dixon of Dock Green
Police Squad (in colour!)
All in the Family
Star Trek
Telegrams still available
The start of Monday Night Football
Czechoslovakia
Nadia Comaneci
The Three Day Week
Watney's Red Barrel
BASIC
ALL music
Dallas
Back To The Future
NEW ORDER
Part two when I feel like it
edit by mod: double-post, please use the button next time
But browsing most threads on this section - and I get a majority of subjects on stuff from the 1990s - which was a decade in which I was leaving education and working - not really growing up as an impressionable youth.
The 70's and 80's were my formative years - and speaking to most of those I know from outside here who have left and may drift back in soon - this place used to be a haven of 1970s and 1980s Retroness until an influx of people who only knew the rubbishness of the 1990s (see Shell Suits, Eldorado and dodgy Techopop)
So I'm opening this up for a "Reclaim The Retro" campaign with more stuff on the best decades there have ever been for ANYTHING (this fact was proved by scientists in a lab in Leipzig, Germany in 2002).
STARTING HERE - with the definitive list of why the 1970s and 1980s was better than the 1990s and 2000s (the 2000s can't be retro - we're not yet outside the 10 year Retro Consideration Window - and we're still living in that decade ffs)
(bit of a long post this one - never mind - the fact has been established)
Anyway onto that list:
1970's and 1980's only kthxplz:
Garrett Fitzgerald
East Germany
"You are now entering Free Derry"
The Plays of Dennis Potter
The Singing Detective (with Michael Gambon)
Blackadder
Video Games are born
Introduction of Decimal Currency in the UK
Terry & June
Erich Honecker
The Sweeney
Leonid Brezhnev (with THOSE eyebrows)
The Rockford Files
Decent Star Wars Films
The first home computers
The collapse of the Iron Curtain
Dixon of Dock Green
Police Squad (in colour!)
All in the Family
Star Trek
Telegrams still available
The start of Monday Night Football
Czechoslovakia
Nadia Comaneci
The Three Day Week
Watney's Red Barrel
BASIC
ALL music
Dallas
Back To The Future
NEW ORDER
Part two when I feel like it
edit by mod: double-post, please use the
button next time
Well it seemed the average age was sliding more and more toward the 14 year old area.
Off the top of my head, the 80's were better because there were actually more than 3 record companies on the planet. Thus we had varied music and avenues for music to be heard, rather than being fed a constant stream of Creed/Nickelback/Hinder buttrock clones
Off the top of my head, the 80's were better because there were actually more than 3 record companies on the planet. Thus we had varied music and avenues for music to be heard, rather than being fed a constant stream of Creed/Nickelback/Hinder buttrock clones
Armed_Revolt
Well it seemed the average age was sliding more and more toward the 14 year old area.
Off the top of my head, the 80's were better because there were actually more than 3 record companies on the planet. Thus we had varied music and avenues for music to be heard, rather than being fed a constant stream of Creed/Nickelback/Hinder buttrock clones
Amen sir
Modern music is 61% dull generic guitar bands, 19% RnB acts that don't actually perform proper RnB, 5% rappers who don't have the lyrical dexterity to craft a piece of meaningful output and have to resort to "gutter language" (Chris Rock does a great piece on this subject on his "Never Scared" DVD) 14% acts who haven't the talent to write their own stuff so they just massacre a classic from the past and put a "dance track" over it (latest one is that Eric Prydz joker who's destroyed Pink Floyd's "The Wall") and 1% genuine superb talent (who don't get the recognition they deserve.
and finally - reality stuff like X-Factor, American Idol, You're a Star, etc. = tv for the moronic masses, tripe, rubbish - producing mediocre one album acts and should be off our screens immediately
"I will not be pushed, filed, stamped, indexed, briefed, debriefed, or numbered. My life is my own."
Self-promotion time:
In my article "Don't Call Me A Poser", I listed dozens of reasons why I think the 80s were great. Although I was born in 1982, I find that decade's culture far more entertaining than what I supposed to be liking, considering my age.
In my article "Don't Call Me A Poser", I listed dozens of reasons why I think the 80s were great. Although I was born in 1982, I find that decade's culture far more entertaining than what I supposed to be liking, considering my age.
i agree wholeheartedly with you, although im a little young to have appreciated the 70s first hand, although i am a child of the 80s through and through. i think that the 80s especially was a great decade for many of the reasons already listed. i dont dislike the fact that the average age on here has gotten younger, i think it's nice that a younger group of people is interested in these things, showing that our generation of pop culture was truly the greatest. however, i think that the unfortuante consequences of this have already been pointed out, but it must be realized that many of the people from our generation live life in the so-called "real world" with full time jobs, or possibly families. the people who have the most time to talk about the past are understandably younger, as they have more free time. sorry for the long post, but to sum it all up, i think that you're rigth, and that often too much focus is given to things that are maybe a little too recent to call "retro"
AT&T UNIX
Nintendo
Atari
Gameboy
super mario
zelda
metroid :D
bulletin board systems with the good ole 300bps connection
my birth
the end
Nintendo
Atari
Gameboy
super mario
zelda
metroid :D
bulletin board systems with the good ole 300bps connection
my birth
the end
Well, the '90s aren't receiving the old school pop culture recognition the '80s are currently getting. I'm proud to be a child of the '90s and I'm thankful I have a site like Retro Junk to relive the memories of my child hood. Sure, I'm a fan of the '80s, but I'm a major fan of the '90s.
Yeah, we 90's kids have memories too, ya know :x
I mean sure, maybe stuff like "Family Guy" and "Sponge Bob" don't really belong here, but 1990-1996 were pretty different from now, so be more welcoming to the 90's. They were just as cool as the 80's, anyways.
I mean sure, maybe stuff like "Family Guy" and "Sponge Bob" don't really belong here, but 1990-1996 were pretty different from now, so be more welcoming to the 90's. They were just as cool as the 80's, anyways.
KI_Simpson
204 Posts
18 years ago
90s were much better then 70s or 80s. Look at the second list, half of that got 10 times better in the 90s.
I like the 90's better because that's where my most greatest childhood memories come from. :wink:
KI_Simpson
90s were much better then 70s or 80s. Look at the second list, half of that got 10 times better in the 90s.
But without the originals - the so called "10 times better" ones wouldn't have come about
So that view is invalid
"I will not be pushed, filed, stamped, indexed, briefed, debriefed, or numbered. My life is my own."
thecrow174
I like the 90's better because that's where my most greatest childhood memories come from. :wink:
It's the only old school decade I can remember. Sadly, I was only around in the '80s for about a month. :(
Another thing. Rather you're a '70s lover, an '80s lover, or a '90s lover, most of us have one thing in common. We don't care much for the '00s. 8)
Roadgeek
thecrow174I like the 90's better because that's where my most greatest childhood memories come from. :wink:
It's the only old school decade I can remember. Sadly, I was only around in the '80s for about a month. :(
Another thing. Rather you're a '70s lover, an '80s lover, or a '90s lover, most of us have one thing in common. We don't care much for the '00s. 8)
Haha, what brings us all together. LET'S WRITE A SONG ABOUT THAT! :D
Roadgeek
thecrow174I like the 90's better because that's where my most greatest childhood memories come from. :wink:
It's the only old school decade I can remember. Sadly, I was only around in the '80s for about a month. :(
Another thing. Rather you're a '70s lover, an '80s lover, or a '90s lover, most of us have one thing in common. We don't care much for the '00s. 8)
True. Very true. :P
oh wow lets have a thread to argue that this site shouldn't have the ninties on here ..lame... all three era belong on here they are all retro and all have very fond and fun memories for all..geez you guys
Rainbow_Bright
oh wow lets have a thread to argue that this site shouldn't have the ninties on here ..lame... all three era belong on here they are all retro and all have very fond and fun memories for all..geez you guys
I was going to say that, but what I meant to say is that many people have their favorite decade. I simply prefer the '90s. I respect all the other decades. Even the '00s... on very very rare occasions.
System
79987 Posts
18 years ago
While I'm only 13, i think I would much rather have been a teenager in the 80's. For one thing every videogame wasn't the same run around and shoot things style shooter. Games were fun then. movies now suck pretty bad. With a few exceptions(like "Weird Al" Yankovic) music is the worst it's ever been. Even cartoon's are declining. I like older games, cartoons, music, and movies better than today's crap. The 90's had some pretty damn good things(SatAM, Pinky and The Brain, Animaniacs, ect.) but it wasn't long enough ago to put it on the site. When the 2000's are added, they should put up a sign under the link saying Warning:This Decade Sucks Balls. I wasn't there, but the 80's must have rocked. Anythings better than this.
Jason43
1494 Posts
18 years ago
In the forums early days, most of the talk was centered around the 80's, but as AR mentioned, the average age of the forum members slowly keeps getting lower. Now its at the point that most of the "retro"discussion is about subjects that aren't even over a decade old and are hardly retro at all.
Cabosefan
While I'm only 13, i think I would much rather have been a teenager in the 80's. For one thing every videogame wasn't the same run around and shoot things style shooter. Games were fun then. movies now suck pretty bad. With a few exceptions(like "Weird Al" Yankovic) music is the worst it's ever been. Even cartoon's are declining. I like older games, cartoons, music, and movies better than today's crap. The 90's had some pretty damn good things(SatAM, Pinky and The Brain, Animaniacs, ect.) but it wasn't long enough ago to put it on the site. When the 2000's are added, they should put up a sign under the link saying Warning:This Decade Sucks Balls. I wasn't there, but the 80's must have rocked. Anythings better than this.
I'm your age too, but face it -- the 90's ARE getting old, man (I take it as a compliment when someone calls the 1990's 'retro'). And MMPR and Ninja Turtles were cool stuff from the 90's also.
Jason43
In the forums early days, most of the talk was centered around the 80's, but as AR mentioned, the average age of the forum members slowly keeps getting lower. Now its at the point that most of the "retro"discussion is about subjects that aren't even over a decade old and are hardly retro at all.
Yeah, I don't think ALL 1990's things should be on here. In my opinion, SpongeBob and Family Guy are just NOT retro yet.
the-micro-man
CabosefanWhile I'm only 13, i think I would much rather have been a teenager in the 80's. For one thing every videogame wasn't the same run around and shoot things style shooter. Games were fun then. movies now suck pretty bad. With a few exceptions(like "Weird Al" Yankovic) music is the worst it's ever been. Even cartoon's are declining. I like older games, cartoons, music, and movies better than today's crap. The 90's had some pretty damn good things(SatAM, Pinky and The Brain, Animaniacs, ect.) but it wasn't long enough ago to put it on the site. When the 2000's are added, they should put up a sign under the link saying Warning:This Decade Sucks Balls. I wasn't there, but the 80's must have rocked. Anythings better than this.
I'm your age too, but face it -- the 90's ARE getting old, man. And MMPR and Ninja Turtles were cool stuff from the 90's also.Jason43In the forums early days, most of the talk was centered around the 80's, but as AR mentioned, the average age of the forum members slowly keeps getting lower. Now its at the point that most of the "retro"discussion is about subjects that aren't even over a decade old and are hardly retro at all.
Yeah, I don't think ALL 1990's things should be on here. In my opinion, SpongeBob and Family Guy are just NOT retro yet.
I don't consider the late '90s old school. The late '90s were pretty good, but the late '90s seem like the '00s running on Windows 98. :lol: