What was life like in the late 1900s?

I prefer the late 1980s before Grunge tried to extinguish Rock.

 

Uh wat?

I love the music of the 80’s but it was mostly not rock. Grunge brought back true rock.

 

Many a Friday night were spent "cruising" here, we started doing it at Northoaks Mall by Freshman year at Klein Forest but then we got classy

 

So much time spent outdoors exploring creeks and the woods, riding bikes, playing touch football in the street and basketball in the driveways. The kids in my neighborhood would all convene after school and get into some epic games of freeze tag.

Just the right amount of technology...you had all of the conveniences you would need, and little of the negative effects.

Television was quality almost every night of the week, movies were great, sports were great. Cable television was just an inundation of the best programming that ever existed all at once.

Fast food was much cheaper and tasted way better.

Nintendo games were hard, but fun as hell. Late nights staying up with friends with soda and chips to beat Bionic Commando.

In my opinion, the peak of humanity.

 

I still halfway expect to see that when I'm driving on the West Loop.

 

@Hemingway

 

I had girls on my horse n carriage, we would watch Charlie Chaplin movies.

 

Uh huh?

Everyone knows a lot of rock acts were made second fiddle when Grunge came along in the 91 - 92. I remember seeing (I was there) Bon Jovi coming off of 80s arena tours were relegated in the 90s to playing an outdoor city space or square with a stage and a very small audience. It was almost like a dream. It was comical. Granted, it was certain acts that were most impacted and not all of them. But, the landscape definitely shifted and changed. Even Rush went through an awkward period when Grunge came long. They didn't know what to do with it. Ironically, all those bands eventually made comebacks in their late years but had to band together to do multi-act arena shows or do smaller venues.

 

Ok, I see that 'rock' is subjective. When I think of rock I think of hard-driving raw sound. To me Bon Jovi was more of a pop-rock glam-rock type band, not a real rock band like say Zepplin. Also, to me, Rush was more of a 70's band with synths that had staying power due to their uniqueness and amazing talent. There really isn't anyone else like Rush.

Most of what I listened to in the 80's on the radio was very early electronic music (New Wave), dance/club, pop or hip-hop. Any popular 'rock' outside of non-mainstream metal like Metallica/Anthrax, some AC/DC, etc, was more hair metal like Motley Crue, Skid Row, etc.

 

Man, I haven't seen that logo in forever and it was good

 

In the 80's me and my friends listened to:

1. The Police (obviously)
2. Rush (obviously)
3. U2 (Bono in full mullet mode)
4. RHCP (before anyone else knew who they were)
5. The Cult (Love and Electric)

Plus top 40, since there was no streaming etc. Only the radio.

 

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It was harder to get p*rn

 

Not before the turn of the millennium. Early internet was super easy to find stuff once you got cable, just had to get past AOL dial-up.

 

Few years ago my buddy Charlie was talking about opening and managing a food truck: simple concept, philly-style steak/chicken sammiches (can't get a good one anywhere around here). He had the husband wife cooks lined up from a bar&grill he managed (he eventually wanted to sell it to them and/or open a brick&mortar, expand the menu a bit, and get them in as owner/operators). I was part of the startup-cost, hands-off, side.

All I suggested was that you absolutely have to get the bread right (the #1 problem with your average cheesesteak) ...and you should name it Chucky's Cheesesteaks.

Then covid happened and it all fizzled away

 

Lamenting the much needed death of Hair Metal is certainly an opinion.