Articles Of The Eighties

Eighties Generation

Every journalist and advertiser in the world seems to have a need to label and categorize the current generation that grew up during the eighties. It's impossible. The increase in the size of the minorities and the widening gaps in taste among the members of the generation have led to a generation that follows more than one drummer. A good example is the death of Kurt Cobain. A lot of people were saddened, but a good many people couldn't care less. Why? Rap and dance music is equally popular, and while Nirvana may have sold a lot of records, they still on touched one portion of the current generation. The only thing I can think of, that a wider portion of the population viewed together, would have been the Saturday Morning Cartoons that were on all three major networks (they've all paired their saturday morning programming back since the start of the nineties). Find me a person who doesn't know "Conjunction Junction" and I'll bet they never owned a television set.

Articles About The Eighties

• NEW! Books Related to the 80s
  A large list of books that were popular in the 80s, books about 80s culture, and top five lists for people's most favorite books during the 80s.
  
  

• Why People Love the Eighties

  • 90s Equivalents of the 80s
    Comparisions of what in the nineties was inspired by the eighties.
    
    
  • A Child Of the Eighties
    A credo that any one in their twenties should cite to the older classifiable generations
    
    
  • Another "Children Of The ‘80s"
    Someone else who feels strongly about being called a child of the eighties
    
    
  • How to Respond to Being Called "Generation X"
    A small list of snappy put downs for when someone referes to you as a member of Generation X.
    
    
  • Why Do You Love the Eighties?
    Essays from individuals on why they love the eighties
    
    
  • Why the 60s and 70s Suck and the 80s Don't
    Comments about why the 80s will be the decade you love over these generations.
    
    
  • Why the 90s Suck and the 80s Don't
    Comments about why the 80s will be the decade you love over this decade.
    
    
  • Why People Hate The Eighties
    A list of what was bad about the eighties, useful for an understanding into why people might not like the best decade.
    
    

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• How to Determine if You Love the Eighties

  • How Stuck Are You In The Eighties?
    A quiz to rank how stuck you are in the eighties.
    
    
  • 50 More Reasons You Are Stuck in The Eighties
    A quiz by someone else on how to determine how stuck you are, in the wonderful eighties.
    
    
  • 88 More Ways to Determine if You're Stuck in the Eighties
    Another quiz to determine if you're stuck in the eighties.
    
    
  • Daily Things That You Can Do To Remind Yourself Of the Eighties
    This is a list of things you can do every day to remember the eighties.
    
    
  • You Might Be A Child Of The 80's If...
    Done in the style of the redneck jokes you see about...
    
    
  • You're an eighties child if ...
    Like the original Child of the 80s
    
    

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• Lists of Random Stuff

  • NEW! Jokes of and from the 80s
    A list of jokes related to the 80s. I don't have many yet, so help me out here...
    
    
  • Clothing Styles of the Eighties
    The styles teenagers were into during the eighties.
    
    
  • Comments From Visitors To This Site On The Eighties
    Just some email and responses to email I've gotten over the years.
    
    
  • Prices of Stuff From the Eighties
    Prices throughout the decade and prices today
    
    
  • Quotes from the Eighties
    Quotes in general from or about the eighties.
    
    
  • Facts About the Savings and Loan Scandal
    Some random facts about the scandal that's costing the US trillions of dollars.
    
    

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• Essays, and Long Pieces

  • New A Material Girl
    An article lamenting the end of the decade.
    
    
  • Clubs in San Francisco for Eighties Retro Parties
    Newspaper article I found on the Web.
    
    
  • Interview I Did
    A small interview I had sent to someone.
    
    
  • Retro Products About The Eighties
    The nineties are already producing nostalgic looks back, this is to review anything that might be new that looks back for us all.
    
    
  • When Did The Eighties Start?
    An essay on one person's views of when the eighties really started
    
    

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• Links to Articles On Other Sites

  • The Cheeziest 80's Songs of All Time
    From the Cheezy 80's Web Page. Great web page.
    
    
  • The Best and Worst Albums of the 80's
    From the Cheezy 80's Web Page. Another great web page.
    
    
  • Links to Eighties Trivia Contests
    Local page with external links.
    
    
  • Whatever Happened to MTV
    This writer laments the videos of the eighties disappearing.