We have a wide range of ages here......
************ and I have the 70s in common, and the horror of being a rugrat during those years is well documented.
You don't have to enumerate the horror of your own childhood - you can mention
In my childhood (70s):
BAD because
-airplane wing collars, bell bottoms on pants that were cut to make you look like you had no genitals (happened to me)
-caftans on women, afro perms on white women who really didn't need them (my mother regrets THAT monstrous pic)
- the AMC Gremlin
- tofu, carob, whole wheat cake, organic homemade yoghurt, crock pot cooking
- Appliances that were avocado green, mustard yellow, tobacco brown, or radioactive orange (thanks to VB for that one!)
- girls in my class wearing Holly Hobbie dresses with thick opaque tights (how the hell was I supposed to see up their skirts and see anything interesting?)
GREAT because
Cars were big muscle cars that sounded and looked cool
Harleys were hemi-pistoned AMF monstrosities that looked and sounded cool
Sure we had disco, but we had rock and roll and Alice Cooper
Glam
Punk
My next door neighbours were suburban weed dealers and I got to smell burning marijuana every night through the shared wall of our two houses.
In my adolescence (80s)
BAD because
Metal. Yes, we had Metallica and Anthrax, VoiVod and Megadeth (back when Megadeth and Metallica could still rock) but back then a LOT of people tried to do glam metal or hair metal. Those two genres are like Goth - it's either very very good or total shit, with total shit being the majority of the output. (You remember only Motley Crue and Bon Jovi - cough Kix, Winger, Slaughter)
Jams. WTF were we thinking?
Cable knit sweaters (especially in pink). Thank you Kirk Cameron. In fact, just put Kirk Cameron on the list of most annoying things ever.
Mall rock. OMG who will win in the Tiffany/Debbie Gibson feud, and why should I give a fuck.
GOOD because
We had a TON of stuff that still has cheese appeal. A Flock of Seagulls. Talking Heads. John Hughes movies.
It was a good decade, economically speaking.
Girls had gone back to being feminine looking, after that initial genderbending nonsense in the early 80s
MTV
and LONG DUK DONG, motherfuckers!
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