802 said:

I was born in the wrong decade, and the wrong country. (Australia sucks to be a Prince fan) I should have been born in the early 70's.

trust me it was cool being a Prince fan in Oz back in the 80's and 90's

but u r right .... now it sucks

eleven said:

802 said:

I was born in the wrong decade, and the wrong country. (Australia sucks to be a Prince fan) I should have been born in the early 70's.

trust me it was cool being a Prince fan in Oz back in the 80's and 90's

but u r right .... now it sucks

Did we get all the cool TV specials like Parade Live, LoveSexy Live, Prince Live In Tokyo and The Beautiful Experience here? Or did we just get Syracuse?

dJJ said:

Genesia said:

I probably should have been born in 1905. I would have been a flapper in the 20s (bathtub gin and all) and in my prime for the golden age of Hollywood in the 30s.

And you would obviously never had to endure any hardship in october 1929, you would been born and die rich

It's all about fantasy...you could've easily been one of those families that weathered the Great Depression just as easily as one of the ones that lost EVERYTHING during the market crash of 1987(?).

PurpleJedi said:

dJJ said:

And you would obviously never had to endure any hardship in october 1929, you would been born and die rich

It's all about fantasy...you could've easily been one of those families that weathered the Great Depression just as easily as one of the ones that lost EVERYTHING during the market crash of 1987(?).

Thank you.

Yes, dJJ - I know about the Depression. I still have close family members who lived through it and World War II. I know it was no picnic, thankyouverymuch.

But every era has its hardships. I could've said, "I should have been born in 1835 because I've always wanted to wear a hoop skirt," and I'm sure you'd've shot back, "But what about the Civil War?"

As PurpleJedi so ably pointed out, it ain't the point of this thread.

PurpleJedi said:

lavender1983 said:

Oh I love the grooves of the 70's era for sure as well but I was thinking of an era where I loved the style the most...and that's the 70's....but i'm sure I would have had a blast being a teen in the free spirited 80's...no doubt about that.

The '80s were ANYTHING but "free spirited"!

It was all about making money (yuppies), or teenage angst, or wild drugs, or bastardizing the "free love" groove of the '60s into "free fucking".

I dunno...am I remembering it all wrong???

Well I meant in term of fashion (though most cringe worthy) and the music...it definately was free spirited in that "anything goes" kinda way.

Everything seemed so much more fun...all the way to awesome T.V shows to the cheesy but oh so good teen movies and the kiddie toons Fragile Rock, Thunder Cat, Carebears, HeathCliff...Love all that shit ...gosh I recently saw Jem and the Holograms again.. Even though I was a child through that decade I remember a few things and always get sweet nostalgia when looking back at that decade.

Plus I would have loved to be there in real time to experience all my fav musical acts from that era.

lavender1983 said:

PurpleJedi said:

The '80s were ANYTHING but "free spirited"!

It was all about making money (yuppies), or teenage angst, or wild drugs, or bastardizing the "free love" groove of the '60s into "free fucking".

I dunno...am I remembering it all wrong???

Well I meant in term of fashion (though most cringe worthy) and the music...it definately was free spirited in that "anything goes" kinda way.

Everything seemed so much more fun...all the way to awesome T.V shows to the cheesy but oh so good teen movies and the kiddie toons Fragile Rock, Thunder Cat, Carebears, HeathCliff...Love all that shit ...gosh I recently saw Jem and the Holograms again.. Even though I was a child through that decade I remember a few things and always get sweet nostalgia when looking back at that decade.

Plus I would have loved to be there in real time to experience all my fav musical acts from that era.

The 80s were fun. Mine were pretty fraught - lots of turmoil in my professional life. But I also had a blast. The 80s were sort of the "golden age" of clubbing. You haven't lived 'til you danced to Erotic City in a club - which I'm guessing doesn't happen much these days.

PurpleJedi said:

lavender1983 said:

Oh I love the grooves of the 70's era for sure as well but I was thinking of an era where I loved the style the most...and that's the 70's....but i'm sure I would have had a blast being a teen in the free spirited 80's...no doubt about that.

The '80s were ANYTHING but "free spirited"!

It was all about making money (yuppies), or teenage angst, or wild drugs, or bastardizing the "free love" groove of the '60s into "free fucking".

I dunno...am I remembering it all wrong???

I think you remember the 80s the same way I do,

Genesia said:

lavender1983 said:

Well I meant in term of fashion (though most cringe worthy) and the music...it definately was free spirited in that "anything goes" kinda way.

Everything seemed so much more fun...all the way to awesome T.V shows to the cheesy but oh so good teen movies and the kiddie toons Fragile Rock, Thunder Cat, Carebears, HeathCliff...Love all that shit ...gosh I recently saw Jem and the Holograms again.. Even though I was a child through that decade I remember a few things and always get sweet nostalgia when looking back at that decade.

Plus I would have loved to be there in real time to experience all my fav musical acts from that era.

The 80s were fun. Mine were pretty fraught - lots of turmoil in my professional life. But I also had a blast. The 80s were sort of the "golden age" of clubbing. You haven't lived 'til you danced to Erotic City in a club - which I'm guessing doesn't happen much these days.

You aint gotta tell me twice. I can only imagine. These days they do have clubs that have certain "era" nights. I've been to an 80's and 90's night one. And people come dressed in the gear from that decade an dance to only tunes from that decade. It's nice but i'm sure it doesn't compare to the real thing.

Like armpit said she probably would have partied so hard she wouldn't have made it to 1990.....I feel the same way

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lavender1983 said:

Genesia said:

The 80s were fun. Mine were pretty fraught - lots of turmoil in my professional life. But I also had a blast. The 80s were sort of the "golden age" of clubbing. You haven't lived 'til you danced to Erotic City in a club - which I'm guessing doesn't happen much these days.

You aint gotta tell me twice. I can only imagine. These days they do have clubs that have certain "era" nights. I've been to an 80's and 90's night one. And people come dressed in the gear from that decade an dance to only tunes from that decade. It's nice but i'm sure it doesn't compare to the real thing.

Like armpit said she probably would partied so hard she wouldn't have made it to 1990.....I feel the same way

Well, the 80s were the decade I started pickling my liver, so...

Genesia said:

lavender1983 said:

You aint gotta tell me twice. I can only imagine. These days they do have clubs that have certain "era" nights. I've been to an 80's and 90's night one. And people come dressed in the gear from that decade an dance to only tunes from that decade. It's nice but i'm sure it doesn't compare to the real thing.

Like armpit said she probably would partied so hard she wouldn't have made it to 1990.....I feel the same way

Well, the 80s were the decade I started pickling my liver, so...

Genesia said:

lavender1983 said:

You aint gotta tell me twice. I can only imagine. These days they do have clubs that have certain "era" nights. I've been to an 80's and 90's night one. And people come dressed in the gear from that decade an dance to only tunes from that decade. It's nice but i'm sure it doesn't compare to the real thing.

Like armpit said she probably would partied so hard she wouldn't have made it to 1990.....I feel the same way

Well, the 80s were the decade I started pickling my liver, so...

I'm 3 decades behind you...Cheers-!

Hell yeah, I should have been born one decade earlier. That way I would have been in my early 20s during the disco era and would have been grown and been able to go out to the discos and live the era. Then, I would have been in my late 20s in the funk era of the early 1980s. Then, by the time the late 1980s came along, I would have bitched about it in my early 30s and would have got right back out there in my late 30s shaking ass to the house music scene of the early 1990s. I would have had a full life full of partying that led up to the age that I am now.

Instead, the way it turned out, is when I graduated high school in 1985, Shitney and others like her immediately came out and damn near killed all the funk. I got to party a little in the late 1980s but funk was scarce and a lot of it was watered down for pop. Then, I had a ball in the early 1990s in the gay house scene but that was short lived and was over by the time I was in my mid 20s. Shit hop took over and I said..."Hell, I'm too young for all this slow shit. Hell, my grandparents had faster music than this. Who are they trying to cater to these days, nursing home patients?".....I was only in my mid 20s when I first said that and have been saying it ever since.

The party ended when I was only in my mid 20s.

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Mid sixties and I'm around 18 not going to Nam.This should have been my generation...

I was born in 1983 but remember some of the 80's really well. I do wish I was older though cause it's my favourite era for music. I was a teen in the 90's for the last half, but it would have been fun for all of it, so I really should have been born in the late 70's, like between 1975 and 1980

[Edited 5/28/11 17:16pm]

802 said:

eleven said:

trust me it was cool being a Prince fan in Oz back in the 80's and 90's

but u r right .... now it sucks

Did we get all the cool TV specials like Parade Live, LoveSexy Live, Prince Live In Tokyo and The Beautiful Experience here? Or did we just get Syracuse?

we got a lot of Prince music here back then... i even remember buying the newspaper because of the free poster

those were cool days

Genesia said:

lavender1983 said:

Well I meant in term of fashion (though most cringe worthy) and the music...it definately was free spirited in that "anything goes" kinda way.

Everything seemed so much more fun...all the way to awesome T.V shows to the cheesy but oh so good teen movies and the kiddie toons Fragile Rock, Thunder Cat, Carebears, HeathCliff...Love all that shit ...gosh I recently saw Jem and the Holograms again.. Even though I was a child through that decade I remember a few things and always get sweet nostalgia when looking back at that decade.

Plus I would have loved to be there in real time to experience all my fav musical acts from that era.

The 80s were fun. Mine were pretty fraught - lots of turmoil in my professional life. But I also had a blast. The 80s were sort of the "golden age" of clubbing. You haven't lived 'til you danced to Erotic City in a club - which I'm guessing doesn't happen much these days.

....MAN I wish I'd been a teen or adult in the 80s.

No!! im glad eye was born when eye was growing up listening 2 abba/gary glitter/ then late 70s early 80s queen & adam & the ants/duranduran/howard jones/nik kershaw/culture club/bobby brown/luther vandross/Wham....Then When Doves Cry hit me the rest is history eye wouldnt of wanted it any other way....Perfect.

I ALWAYS felt that way and often tell people that. I should have been a teenager in the early 70s and 21+ in the late 70s to get into all the DISCO clubs. I love the style, the music, the dancing, etc. I even have a dicso ball in my closet.

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I was born in the middle of 1979. Im an 80s baby, a 90s teen, and a 00's young adult. Now, Im just old.

I was born in 1972. I have the hazy recollection of a '70s that was a hedonist aesthetic spectacle on the one hand, but still a sort of quiet, safe and comfortable Middle American suburban haven on the other. It was an interesting framework in which to begin life.

Then I had a front-row seat for the ideocratic orgy that was the '80s: clashing geopolitics, toppling cultural empires, the last gasps of breath for many local revolutionary movements, worship of money (at least in the States), branding and merchandising on steroids, cable and satellite media suddenly making the entire world and its niche scenes immediately accessible 24/7, the ability to destroy our planet several times over in the span of just a few hours, and a collision and final recapitulation of all the arts, ideas, hopes, fears, expectations, etc. of the first millennium A.D. just as I was reaching adulthood. It was incredible! (Incidentally, I felt the '90s, which should have been this final act, were a complete waste. )

...Anyway, as I look at this all, I think I was born at exactly the correct time. The end of the 20th century was an amazing point of flux, grounded by all the organic endeavors of thousands of years prior, but poised for a new world altogether transformed by a sudden onslaught of technologies. In some ways I think being born 10 or 20 years earlier would possibly have seen me consumed in the conceits of the "old world" and eschewing the progress of the new; 10 or 20 years later would possibly see me dazzled by the bling of our new world and eschewing the groundedness of the old. I think I'm at a good balance in part for having been born when I was.

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I used to think I was born in the right decade until 2008 reared its ugly head, if you know what I mean

still, I can't complain, in many ways, I'm a privileged...

Since I'm a teen now, I pretty much get the ashes of what was great about music, fashion, and social environment. Fashion-wise, I wish I was a teen in the 90s (when I was born) and musically, the 70s or 80s would've fit me better. My peers always laugh at me because I never know what's on the radio. I heard "Black And Yellow" a few days ago and wasn't interested.

I went thru high school in the eighties, I guess the 70's or 90's would have spared me the crap media (tv, music, movies), but other than that it's pretty much all the same.

Genesia said:

PurpleJedi said:

It's all about fantasy...you could've easily been one of those families that weathered the Great Depression just as easily as one of the ones that lost EVERYTHING during the market crash of 1987(?).

Thank you.

Yes, dJJ - I know about the Depression. I still have close family members who lived through it and World War II. I know it was no picnic, thankyouverymuch.

But every era has its hardships. I could've said, "I should have been born in 1835 because I've always wanted to wear a hoop skirt," and I'm sure you'd've shot back, "But what about the Civil War?"

As PurpleJedi so ably pointed out, it ain't the point of this thread.

You don't need to get bitchy, don't interpret my words as if I was being negative.

I just was saying that you are such a diva, that you even would stay diva in the 1929.

Whatever. If you like to bitch, and involve other orgers like PurpleJedi, please do. I'm outta here soon anyway.

I was born in the early 70's but kinda wish I grew up in the 60's. I've always felt there was a Hippie trapped inside of me wanting to get out.

tinaz said:

I was born in 1967, which made me a teenager in the early and mid 80's... It was the PERFECT time for me to have been in and I wouldnt change it for anything!

I agree. IMO, the 80's were a beautiful time to be a teeny-bopper. Some people may feel differently. I didn't get caught up in a lot of the traps that a lot of my peers did. I just remember the incredible music, all the great television shows and movies.

kitbradley said:

tinaz said:

I was born in 1967, which made me a teenager in the early and mid 80's... It was the PERFECT time for me to have been in and I wouldnt change it for anything!

I agree. IMO, the 80's were a beautiful time to be a teeny-bopper. Some people may feel differently. I didn't get caught up in a lot of the traps that a lot of my peers did. I just remember the incredible music, all the great television shows and movies.

Funny but most of those TV shows that I used to love in the 80's seem so effin' cheesy to me now!