OH GOD THEY BROKE OUT OF THE WARSAW GHETTO ALERT THE PANZERS

People who wear flannel and jeans because they live in arctic zones don't really qualify as grunge kids.

It's not that bad, really. It's only -12°C out at the moment.

I still have mine in the bottom of a cupboard somewhere!

I was this close to buying a new pair the other day. I may just go out this weekend and buy 'em anyway.

I think the main difference between the way I dressed in the '90s and the way I dress now is the color and cut of my jeans. I think I even still have a couple of T-Shirts from then.

You know how some peeps who grew up in the 80s still tight-rolled their jeans, wore denim jackets, and teased their permed hair up real high looooong after the 80s concluded?

I now have a friend who still wears jorts with Converse, an untucked unbuttoned flannel shirt over a tie-dyed t-shirt, and a baseball cap worn backwards. He's nearing 40. It's 2012.

I don't give two whiffs about fashion. Let's just keep 80's music locked in a lead-lined vault where it can't do any harm.

I liked your post because I thought it was funny, but it's upsetting that this is actually a thing that's happening.

Yeah, I have next to zero fashion sense or awareness of trendy attire, but at least I knew enough to retire my flannels before the turn of the millenium.

Now I just wear skin-tight vinyl suits and helmets with blinking lights on them.

Fuck you sideways, buddy







Now repent or I will continue.

NEVER! I reject Satan and all of his 80's overproduced blandishments.

Kevin Smith is a trendsetter.

I think my least favorite thing about the 80's is carpeted bathrooms.

We had a carpeted kitchen. Now there was a bad idea.

Us too! Berber carpet, even. Do you know how hard it is to dig canned dog food bits out of a carpet like that? Because I do.

OZ 4.0 is the alexlitel of food and music.

:)

I do, too! We had a big dog that was a sloppy eater. The carpet in the kitchen seemed very cool and futuristic to me when it was put in but I was just a dumb kid. I don't know what my parents were thinking (bless their hearts). At least we replaced the shag in the living room.

That hurts, man.

It's cool, though - I edited in a smiley.

That's mean enough to border on warranting a temp ban.

If the shoe fits, throw it.

Listen, I'm not going to defend my eating habits -- they are, to say the least, extreme and you guys really have no idea just how extreme, though I'm clearly on the right (cake) side of the dessert aisle.

But if you youngsters cannot cope with the 80's being objectively the worst musical decade, I'm not going to don the Litelsuit just to help you sleep at night.

The Pixies are anecdata, an exception proving the rule.

Serious response: the shitty pop music from every decade is shitty. That the shitty pop music from the eighties coheres more strictly to a type doesn't make it worse, it just makes it more easily identifiable. Meanwhile, it doesn't detract from the decade's good music any more than shitty pop music detracts from good music in any other decade.

Well, if you're going to get all serious, yes, of course there's plenty of great 80's music.

I think the 80's sticks in my mind because my AM radio years were the 60's, 70's and 80's, and 80's pop radio was uniformly more awful than the prior decades. I stick by that assertion.

The 80s really was worse for music than everything before or after. I'm sorry.

I mean, listen to this. This is a stage filled with legendary musicians playing a classic composition, and it sucks.

You're right, there was no good music in the 80s.

By the authority vested in me by nobody in particular, I hereby declare this thread utterly and irredeemably derailed. Get thee to the Random Thoughts and Questions thread.

Ryan, would you increase my Litel Rating if I told you that you had precisely 0% chance of persuading me with metal (or hip hop -- just trying to save time)? Probably.


GET OFF MY LAWN!

That leaves what exactly?

Halloween 1981

Lots of things, but this conversation isn't going to get better for me so I'll just mock the 80's quietly and go away now.

He's just mad that Glenn Miller didn't record a single tune in the 80's.

The 80's brought us gangsta rap.



It also brought us Fairytale of New York



The 80's also brought us the tail end of punk which is how I first learned how not to hate 80's music.

The Smiths, okay?

1981 - Pigbag, "Papa's Got A Brand New Pigbag!"

1985 - Fishbone, "Party At Ground Zero"

1982 - B-Movie, "Nowhere Girl"

1985 - Waterboys, "The Whole Of The Moon"

1988 - Mudhoney, "Touch Me I'm Sick"

1981 - New Order, "Ceremony"

1986 - The Smiths, "There Is A Light That Never Goes Out"

1987 - Sonic Youth, "Schizophrenia"

1984 - Minutemen, "This Ain't No Picnic"

1987 - Dinosaur Jr., "Little Fury Things"

1985 - The Cure, "In Between Days"

1983 - Suicidal Tendencies, "Institutionalized" and "Possessed To Skate"

1982 - "That's When I Escape My Certain Fate", Mission Of Burma

1986 - "Levi Stubb's Tears", Billy Bragg

1986 - "Yin & Yang & The Flowerpot Man", Love & Rockets

1986 - The Fall, "Mr. Pharmacist"

1988 - Butthole Surfers, "I Saw An X-Ray Of A Girl Passing Gas"

1980 - Black Flag, "Six Pack"

1984 - Tones On Tail, "GO!"

1989 - Pop Will Eat Itself, "Wise Up, Sucker!"

1981 - Pete Shelley, "Homosapien"

1984 - Time Zone (aka John Lydon and Afrikka Bambaataa), "World Destruction"

1986 - Dr. And The Medics, "Spirit In The Sky"

Scorpion had some good music in the 80s, as did Def Leppard.

Pfft, nobody here listens to the Waterboys.

It's funny how I when I hear "punk" music now it just sounds like... music.

I've seen them live. It wasn't the most memorable gig I've ever worked at by a long shot :(