What were the 1970s and 1982 like?

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Thanks for saying that, and now don't get me started on the 70's (The beatles, the stones, god bless the rolling stones, CSN, David Bowie, The Who, Peter Frampton teen-pop, oh can't forget the beach boys, Steve Miller Band,

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I don't remember much about the 70's, But I do remember some things from the 80's. Like having to go to an arcade with quarter to play video games and trying to beat everyone high score. The cartoons on Saturday morning and after school. The AIDS epidemic and gay bashing. I can defiantly tell you that the 80's produced(IMO) some of the bast music in the world.

In 1982, the movie Tron came out and to me, that was one of the most mind blowing movies I've ever seen.

@kraftiekortie - my grandparents, I'm sure, had cable tv in at least the late 70s. We didn't in our small city (big enough for local tv stations) - but they did because there was basically no other way to get tv. They lived in a small, rural town far from any metropolitan area in the South.

a history of cable tv http://www.fcc.gov/encyclopedia/evoluti ... television

although they neglect (unless they got to after I reached my boredom saturation) the penetration rates of cable in the 1970s.

1982 was the year of the Knoxville World's Fair. Home of the Sunsphere.

Poor quality and possibly harmful toiletry products. Izal toilet tissue.
No central heating, poor quality shower fittings.
Coal supply problems, electricity power cuts, nylon static inducing clothing, car/lorry fumes as filtering exhaust emissions had yet to be thought of.
Rabies scares, Russian invasion scares etc. etc.

The 70s were fun.

I only remember bits of the 70's because I was a child then. But I remember 1982. Britain was under Thatcher and she went to war with Argentina and killed loads of people. Back at home everyone loved her and voted her back in.

I was getting interested in fashion and pop music in 1982, but it was s**t fashion because all the pop stars dressed in bright colors and shiny material which is enough to give you overload. Music was very shallow then, it was the new video age and MTV had just got going. Duran Duran made lots of exotic videos in places like Sri Lanka, so they became very popular.

I remember everyone was shocked to find out that Boy George was a man when he first went on television singing Do you really want to hurt me. Then they got over it and loved him for a few months until he started on the smack.

ET was a big film and I remember getting taken to see it, and a girl was crying in the audience because ET was going home and Eliot didn't want him to. I was disappointed with the film because I was expecting it to be like Alien and it was nothing like it.

Teenagers wore skin tight jeans just like they do now and had ridiculous hairstyles that were often died a bright color. It was all very tacky and dazzling back then.

Hope that helps.

The 70s were also the "me" generation. Some self-help or self-acutalizing companies were formed such as "est" (which i did several courses of) and probably sicentology around that time as well). Est was not as dangerous as scientology although it did have slightly controversial methods. and their use of jargon (my friends were scared i'd be sucked into a cult). But no big deal. You just kinda got sucked in to the hard-sell of "·you need to take another course if you're really serious about wanting to improve your life", and it was kinda hard to drop out of because they were always on your back to sign up for more. I don't remember what I learned I was only 22 and very immature, but it definitely did open my mind to alternative ways of living life and that they were all fine as long as you did it with integrity. And you got to see where you were a hipocrite, etc.

First half of the seventies; It was supposed to be a time of acceptance, but I was too weird. I was unofficially voted as both the weirdest and as the "girl I wouldn't touch with a 10 foot pole." I was constantly made fun of for being ugly. I couldn't figure out how to act normal but I finally learned to fake stoner easy which got me accepted. Then I met a guy who helped me switch from "stoner" to "dumb blonde." I even worked for a short while as a bunny [coat and hat check] at the Playboy Club in Denver. Sammy Davis Jr. actually wanted to date me and when I met Barbi Benton we hit it off and went out for coffee a couple of times. I had polaroids of me in costume that I sent to people who had been cruel about my appearance.

It was so confusing for me. Ugliest girl in school suddenly is considered a hottie [foxy back then] because of a little paint on the face and no longer wearing x large mens t-shirts. It made me see how skewed most peoples priorities are.

The second half, married with children. And I was incredulous that I had been given the opportunity to have children and give them the love I had never received. They were [are] my number one obsession.

We were very poor [husband drank and gambled paychecks] I could not understand that this was less than ideal for my children because my family of origen literally tortured me every day. [they are still monsters] I read all of the time as a little girl and I read so many stories where the characters were "poor but happy." I got it into my head that the extreme abuse I had encountred as a child was because of my familys' wealth and that poverty was a way out [ I know]
I had also read alot about communes and dreamed of living in one. We did not live in a commune but lived in a cabin with no running water [pump outside] and an outhouse. I baked my own bread, gardened, and cooked the meat my husband shot. I traded vegetables from the garden and huckleberries [from everywhere] for honey and fresh milk. I played with my kids all day and thought that my life was perfect.

1982. That was when I realized that kids needed clothes that were better than just clean and mended , that when a little girl wanted a cabbage patch kid that a homemade doll wouldn't hack it, that kids preferred processed twinkies to homemade cookies, and that playing in the creek, making crafts, and reading were not sufficient as entertainment.That love was NOT all you need.The "non materialist" era had passed years before and I had not even realized it.

My husband and I temporarily split up and my kids and I were introduced to a world we had never experienced before. A world of Chuck E. Cheese, the start of punk clothing and music, and wearing what everyone else did. [ and I still couldn't and still cannot understand why that is so important, but it does make the difference between the playboy bunny everyone is in awe of and the ugliest girl in school who is reminded of her ugliness every day

I'm guessing this is not what you were looking for, but, what the hey, I'm going to post it anyway.

In the 1970s people still smoked in hospital rooms. Most northern white people accepted black people who "didn't act black." [and they did not consider that racist] Young people hitchiked everywhere and you really could [barely] support yourself on minimum wage.
There were still alot of people who bought their first homes with every intent of living there forever. No talk of starter homes.
Very unhealthy health foods were popular. Carrot cake with loads of cream cheese icing, cheeses, stuff like that.
Macrame. Love beads. anti-war rallies. Tater tot casseroles. Shag carpeting. farrah Fawcet posters.

Wow, Vicky, what is your life like today? How have your kids turned out? I'm glad you told your story, sounds like you needed to tell it.

1982 was a great year for music.
Hardcore punk had finally evolved into a distinct genre instead of just being anything played by 'dedicated to the DIY cuture' (you know 'hardcore') punks.
Thrash metal had become a distinct sound and was gaining a following in LA, the Bay Area and NYC.
In the UK bands like Exploited, Charged GBH and Discharge were defining a new sound that was similar in some respects but distinct from American hardcore punk bands.

We'll pretend like new wave never happened.

I liked New Wave! But to each their own.

One thing about 1982 is that the summer is widely considered the best ever for films. Some of the ones I liked that year were:

ET
Tron
Star Trek 2: Wrath of Khan
The Thing
Blade Runner
Poltergeist

There are others that were popular but not to my taste like Conan the Barbarian, Rocky 3, Nightshift, Fast Times at Ridgemont High, Officer and Gentleman, etc. If you want to see some articles on it:

http://www.buzzfeed.com/whitneyjefferso ... ovies-ever
http://blog.sfgate.com/thebigevent/2012 ... -all-time/

Some of the CRAPPY NEW WAVE songs from 1982 I liked.

Mexican Radio - Wall of Voodoo
Down Under - Men At Work
Come On Eileen - Dexy's Midnight Runners
Save It for Later - The English Beat
Avalon - Roxy Music
Africa - Toto
Billy Idol - White Wedding
The Clash - Rock the Casbah
The Fixx - Red Skies
Talk Talk - Talk Talk
Tears for Fears - Mad World
And last but not least...

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AjPau5QYtYs[/youtube]

We can't all be purists. Many people need something more melodic. I love the Clash songs because they were very melodic with a very pretty voice, and they had punk energy, right?
And The English Beat (The Beat ouside of the US) and the ska sound?

Sure there's watered down stuff for commercial success. I understand purists, but I for example for me punk is too heavy to listen to it on a regular basis, even tho i might like the genre.