Why wasn't I a teenager in the 80s?

[Inca Roads]

VAN HALEN, DIO, MAIDEN, PRIEST, METALLICA,
OZZY, SHENKER, VAI, YNGWIE, SLAYER, LYNCH,
NUNO, RATT, WHITESNAKE, QUEENSRYCHE, ETC......
Crankin' that shit at the Keg party with
the Bonfire Raging, deciding which chicks were
goin' back to your house for the after party....Oh Man!
HOT Chicks in Spandix, BIG Hair, Pumps
and on the Pill......I Fuckin' Loved the 80's!!!
Some of the Best Times of my Life!!!

 

[Meathead]

I remember being a kid in grade 8 and my brother having parties at our house in the summer and cranking up...

Scorpions - Blackout
Def Leppard - High 'n Dry
AC DC - Back In Black
Black Sabbath - Mob Rules
Triumph - Allied Forces
Pink Floyd - The Wall
Kinks - One For The Road (Live Album)
Lynyrd Skynyrd - Gold & Platinum

Good memories for me of that time in music (around '80 -'81) ..that's when I became a rocker thanks to my brother.

 

[thiswaythatway]

meh. i was in full hormonal bloom in the mid 80s and it wasnt that great. Its always greener...... you are probably just nostalgic because you are about to rock an amp that starts with TWENTIETH!

Not sure what decade you're talking about but that doesn't sound like the 80's. Best guitar decade?.......80's by a Country Mile.

 

[JTyson]

The 80s weren't all they are cracked up to be.

Example - internet porn did not yet exist.

You didn't NEED internet porn in the 80's. It was all right in front of you.

True dat

 

[boost]

There is a reason the 80's are refered to as the Decade of Decadence.

No regrets.

 

[maddnotez]

i do miss riding my skateboard, with my mullet flapping in the wind with the lines shaved in the side of my head and playing spin the bottle with my babysitters friends.

 

[RSRD]

I hit college in 1990. I will never get the 80's hair metal and 90's grunge out of my system. It's just a part of me and I am not ashamed to admit it.

agree. Ill never forget when I was standing in line to sell back books in college when someone pulled up with SMELLS LIKE TEEN SPIRIT cranked to the max. I had never heard it before. PPL dont realize how bad 80s metal had become with the hair/mtv bands at that point. it was just horrible. And to hear Teen Spirit was like getting kicked in the nuts. It was a total culture and music shock. Grunge was reallly a great guitar rock movement. It may be the last great guitar movement./

 

[JTyson]

hmmm.........................................
I seem to remember it somewhat different, but we can agree to disagree. I never watched much tv back then, I was WAY to busy with the band. I hated all the glam crap, and the stupid pop 80's stuff. I loved the 80's serious heavy stuff, bands who had vocalist's who could knock you down with talent, and guitar parts that seemed utterly impossible to me at the time, but were amazing at the same time. I can remember seeing yngwie on the marching out tour and knew things would never be the same, and seeing Queensryche on the rage for order tour and thinking the same thing again... And yet again on the mindcrime tour
but I can remember absolutely hating the grunge thing when it came about. We went from "who's the fastest, baddest gun in the west" to "why would I possibly want to be proficiant at playing the guitar? You just dont get it" in a matter of months.
All the sudden we were lost in a desert of flannel shirts and guitarist's who sucked and seemed to be proud of it
I just stuck with the few who carried the flag through the dark period
I guess its all in your perspective

 

[Skrapmetal]

hmmm.........................................
I seem to remember it somewhat different, but we can agree to disagree. I never watched much tv back then, I was WAY to busy with the band. I hated all the glam crap, and the stupid pop 80's stuff. I loved the 80's heavy stuff
but I can remember absolutely hating the grunge thing when it came about. We went from "who's the fastest, baddest gun in the west" to "why would I possibly want to be proficiant at playing the guitar? You just dont get it" in a matter of months.
All the sudden we were lost in a desert of flannel shirts and guitarist's who sucked and seemed to be proud of it
I just stuck with the few who carried the flag through the dark period
I guess its all in your perspective

Grunge certainly had some guitarists that weren't good, but there were some that definitely had chops.

I was a big fan of Alice in Chains before I had heard the word "grunge".

 

[jlbaxe]

I'd love to say "it wasn't that great".....but it was.

I started high school in 84' and graduated in 88'. The L.A. metal scene started picking up steam in 83', some of the best albums came out in 86', and I was out of school before the "after" bands came out (Firehouse, Warrant, etc.)

It was great sitting in my room playing an Aria Pro II "The Cat", learning "Fade to Black".

BOOM!! My story, just change geography to Toronto. I loved my youth (aka "yoot"). Drugs were plentiful, parties were great, and music was all... Having grown up with an older peer group, I was listening and grooving to everything from Gabriel-era Genesis, Floyd, ELO, Zeppelin, Iron Butterfly and Hendrix...all the way to the funk and punk that was happening, AND the metal of the Scorps, Queensryche, Ozzy, Judas Priest, and more.

It was a zany time. Don't regret one New York second of it.

Mojo

Same here Graduated in '88 luv'd the 80s

 

[JTyson]

hmmm.........................................
I seem to remember it somewhat different, but we can agree to disagree. I never watched much tv back then, I was WAY to busy with the band. I hated all the glam crap, and the stupid pop 80's stuff. I loved the 80's heavy stuff
but I can remember absolutely hating the grunge thing when it came about. We went from "who's the fastest, baddest gun in the west" to "why would I possibly want to be proficiant at playing the guitar? You just dont get it" in a matter of months.
All the sudden we were lost in a desert of flannel shirts and guitarist's who sucked and seemed to be proud of it
I just stuck with the few who carried the flag through the dark period
I guess its all in your perspective

Grunge certainly had some guitarists that weren't good, but there were some that definitely had chops.

I was a big fan of Alice in Chains before I had heard the word "grunge".

Agreed, I never really thought of AIC as grunge though. I guess they could be..

 

[bravedude2]

you'd be in your forty's like me

 

[jlbaxe]

Back then there was less censorship. Movies like Blazing Saddles….there will never be movies like that again. Monty Python, Clock work orange etc.

 

[Kapo_Polenton]

What's the rush to grow up ? I'm a 76 baby and I can tell you i think it would be sweet if i could roll the clock back and just be 30 forever and still listen to all the 80's and 90's shit i dug forever. Besides, the chicks dress way hotter now than they did in the 80's. All good.Just bring the 80's swagger into the here and now!

 

[hunter]

60s guitars and amps were still cheap.

But how would you have found em without ebay and craigslist? No nationwide or anything, just local stuff in the newspaper ads.

 

[jsgregg]

Such great memories of the 80's. Here are a few of my highlights...
-was 14 in 1984...went out and bought a Kramer Striker 200ST when I heard the new VH album (1984 of course) so I could learn to be like Eddie...wasn't going to happen with that guitar, I can tell you that.
-I was at the Judas Priest show featured in "Heavy Metal Parking Lot" at the old Capital Center in Largo, MD. Check that out on youtube and you will see what it was to be a headbanger in the 80's
-I bought my first car in 1987....and 1978 Camaro....damn I miss that car.
-Me, and every other headbanger in the entire Washington DC area cut school to go to the Monsters of Rock show at RFK Stadium.
-there was NO INTERNET, and metal got zero play on the radio. If you wanted to hear a new album, you had to go buy it to see if you liked it...and sometimes buying an album based on coverart alone
-there was NO INTERNET, you had to buy magazines like Hit Parader, Circus, and Metal Edge to get your metal news.
-there was NO INTERNET, if you wanted a guitar or amp, you went to your local store. I spent the night sleeping on the sidewalk in front of Venemans Music in Rockville, MD to buy a guitar during their Mayday sale (annual one day sale held in May). I bought a BC Rich Warlock....makes me smile now. Guitar is loooong gone.
-It was the age of the PMRC and congressional hearings about metal. Tipper Gore was the antichrist...and Dee Snider and John Denver were defenders of the faith.
-the metal was the best that was ever made (my opionion of course, but I could be biased )

It was a great time to grow up in America....

 

[JTyson]

Such great memeories of the 80's. Here are a few of my highlights...
-was 14 in 1984...went out and bought a Kramer Striker 200ST when I heard the new VH album (1984 of course) so I could learn to be like Eddie...wasn't going to happen with that guitar, I can tell you that.
-I was at the Judas Priest show featured in "Heavy Metal Parking Lot" at the old Capital Center in Largo, MD. Check that out on youtube and you will see what it was to be a headbanger in the 80's
-I bought my first car in 1987....and 1978 Camaro....damn I miss that car.
-Me, and every other headbanger in the entire Washington DC area cut school to go to the Monsters of Rock show at RFK Stadium.
-there was NO INTERNET, and metal got zero play on the radio. If you wanted to hear a new album, you had to go buy it to see if you liked it.
-there was NO INTERNET, you had to buy magazines like Hit Parader, Circus, and Metal Edge to get your metal news.
-there was NO INTERNET, if you wanted a guitar or amp, you went to your local store. I spent the night sleeping on the sidewalk in front of Venemans Music in Rockville, MD to buy a guitar during their Mayday sale (annual one day sale held in May). I bought a BC Rich Warlock....makes me smile now. Guitar is loooong gone.
-It was the age of the PMRC and congressional hearings about metal. Tipper Gore was the antichrist...and Dee Snider and John Denver were defenders of the faith.
-the metal was the best that was ever made (my opionion of course, but I could be biased )

It was a great time to grow up in America....

 

[skoora]

Back then there was less censorship. Movies like Blazing Saddles….there will never be movies like that again. Monty Python, Clock work orange etc.

You may have discovered them in the 80's but that's all 70's gold right there. The 80's did have a great run of R rated movies though that would all be cut to Pg-13 today. Censorship by capitilism

 

[alan67]

Somebody please tell me

The 80s > the 90s. Other than extreme metal fuck all of note came out in the 90s.

-C

You'd have to ask your parents about that one

Started high school in 81', yes, it was all it is cracked up to be

 

[Audioholic]

Graduates in 95 so missed the 80s a bit. But enjoyed being a kid then. Simpler times I think . Loved some of the grunge bands. Of course it may be because I came from the 90s but some of that stuff is what made me fall in live with music. Late 80s and early 90s electronic music got me into synths as well