Gunsnhalen said:

These same kids also love computers, ipods, video games, twitter, facebook etc.

If they lived in say the 70s or 80s they would not know how to function! without computers that run with fast internet they would go crazy

And also having to play board games with the family instead of a high tech video game a lot of people would find sadly find that boring or even atari...

I agree. If you wanted to see a movie, you had to go to Blockbuster to rent a VHS tape, or to an actual movie theatre, you couldn't "download" anything (on a device that's in your backpack, for instance). If you needed information for school, you had to peddle your bike to the library, you couldn't just "google" something on your phone.

Even the simplest cell phone (or hell, digital wristwatch, lol) has more power and memory than the hottest computers of the time...like the Commodore 64. Kilobytes! When nowadays even terabytes aren't enough!

Gunsnhalen said:

I also hate going on youtube and an artists comment 50% will be like ''i am 12 and i like so and so i can't stand the music of today''

Ok? you want a cookie? you listen to an artist of the past good for you ''pats on back'' now can i get a salad with my order and a medium sized combo?

+1 So true. It's become as big a cliché as posting the same exact comment "Now this is REAL music unlike the crap we have today" on every single "old" song on YouTube.

Nostalgia plays tricks on you. You have fond memories of the time you grew up in, because it was a simpler time - and you were a carefree kid, so instead of reminiscing what a depressing era the Reagan/Thatcher/Gorbachev 80s actually was, you remember the toys, the movies, the computer and video games, the music.

After all this ranting, though - I'm still super glad I grew up in the 80's.

SamSamba said:

Nostalgia plays tricks on you. You have fond memories of the time you grew up in, because it was a simpler time - and you were a carefree kid, so instead of reminiscing what a depressing era the Reagan/Thatcher/Gorbachev 80s actually was, you remember the toys, the movies, the computer and video games, the music.

I am sure this is why I like "the eighties".. certainly not the emergence of yuppies, Reaganomics, etc..

What minority would ever want to live prior to President Obama's inauguration ? Jim Crow Laws up until the 60s, Vietnam, Crack Epidemic, and women finally getting some say in the workplace.Yeah, pre-90s America was friggen great!!!

"I love the sound of Ray Charles and would have love to see him live, I don't care if I had to sit in a "colored section".

Kids have it great growing up now (outside of the impending failure of our education system) in terms of access to technology and music.

It's a silly statement to make, you might like certain aspects of previous decadeS, but nobody is born to the wrong decade. I'm certainly glad I was born when I was, though, like somebody already said I would have liked to have expierenced concerts from certain musicians during their peaks. I would have loved to see Prince during his Lovesexy tour.

I think some kids, teens and young adults sincerely enjoy music, movies, and fashions from previous decades (I know Im one of them). I can see why a youngin today would make a statement like this especially if everyone in their age bracket is into the same things that they dont find interesting. Although some people who statements like this are unware of the struggles in those eras, if all their friends and peers are into the SAME clothes, music, way of thinking,life style, values etc, why is it such a shock they would express a desire to be born in a different era? It also doesnt help that you have society/media telling you the person you should and should not be be.

Ive actually said the statement a couple of times myself.. I dont see anything wrong with someone making a statement like this.Sometimes statements like this are used loosely, sometimes they are intended to be sarcastic or sometimes meant seriously.... people are entitled to their own emotions and opinions

Sometimes when people make statements like this they dont mean it literally. They just long for a particular era to come back or wish to have been apart of a certain time period.

These kids probably feel like that have it easy as far as technology and access to information. They're longing for a bit of grit and toughness to build character. There is always so much envy towards the 60s and 70s generation because they were at the center of so much turmoil and cultural change that saw the birth of great movements in art, music, movies, political thinking, and literature. The 80s and early 90s got the residue of that cultural orgasm. And the 2000s got left with the shriveled condom.

The greatest cultural movement of the last decade is the internet itself with the introduction of Google, Facebook, blogs, and Youtube. I could imagine that none of it feels tangible to this new generation. On the bad side, it made the world smaller, less mysterious. On the good side, it made the world smaller, less mysterious.

I think the Occupy movement showed that people desparately wanted to get offline and interact with real people in real space. I have a feeling we are about to see another major cultural shift equal to or bigger than the 1960s. And we will probably end up envying and admiring this young generation.

Sorry, I got completely off topic.

Gunsnhalen said:

SoulAlive said:

I'm glad that I grew up in the 70s I love that decade.It was an incredible time! 70s music is the best.

1967-1977 is my favorite years in pop culture, music, movies etc.

I love it to death but i was born in 1990 and i belong in this era! as much as i love that decade i don't think i want to go live there.

Growing up in the 60s and 70s was terrific...but there were plentyof exciting things going on in subsequent decades... Every period has positive and negative aspects... Right now the Bush years look pretty generous in comparison to a lot of stuff going on now that should be left to P&R...

Why is THIS thread in Music: Non-Prince instead of General Discussion?!?

Stay on topic, I was born in 1974. And I'm damn happy I was NOT born before the 1970's because I might not have been psychologically strong enough to live in Jim Crow-era Louisiana OR anyway in the dirty south for that matter.

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I'm a Baby Boomer, I grew up during segregation and witnessed the fall of some of those legal and social barriers. What would you have done if you had were during Jim Crow era? You would have carried on and gone about living and making a life until you and yours could do better. What doesn't kill you should make you stronger....

That being said.....


I was luckily enough to be have been born and witness the tail end of the black lounge / nightclub ( mid 60's early 70's -ish) scene. Two social scenes emerged in the black community after the War... one for "adults" (jazz/blues) and the other one for (Motown, Staxs', Soul, R&B, Funk) kids. So with the help of my late father, I was able to hang out and listen to blues and jazz artist, in Chicago. I saw anyone and everyone who didn't die before 1963.

I get that comment often on my YouTube station, " I was born in the wrong decade". I agree with mjscarousal, a lot of kids mean it figuratively... as it relates to the arts, culture fashion, and/or music.

I grew up in the 70's and transformed into a teenager in the early

80's. I'm proud of it and wouldn't change it for a thing. Loved everything

about it from the music, the fashion, cornrows, afros, rock em sock em, the old board games,roller skates, television, garelli moped, toys, chuck taylors, pro keds, the long ass

tube socks with the green, red, or blue stripes lol etc.

I don't see the problem with the comments on Youtube speaking of admiration

for the older music. It's the truth.

phunkdaddy said:

I grew up in the 70's and transformed into a teenager in the early

80's. I'm proud of it and wouldn't change it for a thing. Loved everything

about it from the music, the fashion, cornrows, afros, rock em sock em, the old board games,roller skates, television, garelli moped, toys, chuck taylors, pro keds, the long ass

tube socks with the green, red, or blue stripes lol etc.

I don't see the problem with the comments on Youtube speaking of admiration

for the older music. It's the truth.

And also the porn and the pubes.

theAudience said:

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Fascinating!

One of my favorite anime programs is Steins Gate, wherein a Japanese Scientist finds himself communicating with John Titor, and even traveling back into the past to prevent current and future events from happening. Loved the series, but I had no idea about the actual Urban Legend.....

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vainandy said:

phunkdaddy said:

I grew up in the 70's and transformed into a teenager in the early

80's. I'm proud of it and wouldn't change it for a thing. Loved everything

about it from the music, the fashion, cornrows, afros, rock em sock em, the old board games,roller skates, television, garelli moped, toys, chuck taylors, pro keds, the long ass

tube socks with the green, red, or blue stripes lol etc.

I don't see the problem with the comments on Youtube speaking of admiration

for the older music. It's the truth.

And also the porn and the pubes.

I don't know the porn was too grainy on film back then.

I was alive for a majority of the 80's so I remember music and popular toys though I would be lying if I said I knew everything at the time it was happening, cause I caught up with the rest of it throughout my life with age. I do say I wish I was a little older then so I could understand the context of a lot more things happening then, like being born at least in 76 if not in the very early 80's, but now I just believe I was born at the right time and still saw things not everyone my age can say they did right away, so I'm grateful for that.

phunkdaddy said:

vainandy said:

And also the porn and the pubes.

I don't know the porn was too grainy on film back then.

Oh, with those young eyes you could figured out what "they" were doing. No?

Cinny said:

I agree, I don't think just because you enjoy fashion or music of a certain era that you would necessarily belonged or even experienced it first hand the same way you would have earning whatever the normal wage in 1970s was.

My first job was at McDonald's in the 70s. I made $3.25/hr - and a Filet-o-Fish, small fries and medium drink cost $1.40 with tax. (I know that because we added up orders using an order pad and a pencil. After awhile, you got to know the tallies on common orders.)

Genesia said:

Cinny said:

I agree, I don't think just because you enjoy fashion or music of a certain era that you would necessarily belonged or even experienced it first hand the same way you would have earning whatever the normal wage in 1970s was.

My first job was at McDonald's in the 70s. I made $3.25/hr - and a Filet-o-Fish, small fries and medium drink cost $1.40 with tax. (I know that because we added up orders using an order pad and a pencil. After awhile, you got to know the tallies on common orders.)

Clearly Genesia is dreaming this up, she wasn't born until 1969.

Genesia said:

Cinny said:

I agree, I don't think just because you enjoy fashion or music of a certain era that you would necessarily belonged or even experienced it first hand the same way you would have earning whatever the normal wage in 1970s was.

My first job was at McDonald's in the 70s. I made $3.25/hr - and a Filet-o-Fish, small fries and medium drink cost $1.40 with tax. (I know that because we added up orders using an order pad and a pencil. After awhile, you got to know the tallies on common orders.)

Were you child labour???? You in the 70s??

I remember when the minimum wage was $3.35 an hour... But! Even with that you could at least afford rent, food, and gas for your car if it was full time... What is a "living wage" now...?!