Yeah like this, “BE warned! there’s this horrible rich, yt jerk who said a dirty word in a private conversation 10 years before he even ran for office!” REEEEEEEE !!!
It’s tough to market and advertise products that no longer exist. So you make the old unattractive and lame, the new you push with the fervour of an evangelical preacher. Probs a lil subtler than that in reality but that’s the gist of the deal that I see.
Yeah 18% interest rates where awesome and AIDS was a blast, I tell ya the lack of any choice in entertainment (five television stations and a local cinema if lucky) slow driving lousy handling penalty boxes of cars and the constant spectre of nuclear Armageddon make for the icing on the cake. Soz but we have it soooooooooo much better now than then, actually I wager if you were to be sent back you’d be missing all the stuff we take for granted that didn’t exist 40 years ago.
I was a middle class kid in the 80's and it was a great time to be alive. Good schools, Cartoons, T.V, Phone boxes, The Smiths, M Jackson, Prince, U2, people were happier in a lot of ways then. Kids played out all day, played footy and games and were not afraid of strangers like they are today.
We used to play in a playground but had to watch out for when the gluesniffers came. I don't know what they were going to do to us but they looked like zombies! My friend got followed in a car and a man tried to snatch him but he climbed over another car bonnet and ran...so we had a healthy fear of strangers
At the weekends we used to play football or cricket in the street then make sure we were home to watch Jim’ll Fix It and Rolf’s Cartoon Club. Happy days...
I was born in 81 and growing up in the 80’s was great, I preferred the 90’s the 2000’s were ok and since the 2010’s it’s been like falling off a high cliff. It keeps getting worse as time passes and I know at some point it’s all going to come to a screeching halt and I’ll be dead. But in the 80’s there was good music, kids cartoons were great and movies were great too with so many classic films that you can watch today and say that film made me feel good and I can watch it again and again where as films today are mainly disappointing and if there is one film that you enjoyed it doesn’t have the ability to make you rewatch it more than another 1 or 2 times like the Indiana Jones & Back To The Future trilogies or The Goonies, Ghostbusters plus many more movies. I could go on but you grew up in the 80’s so you know what I’m talking about and really the only bad things to come out in the 80’s was the fashion and the hair especially the hair! Also AIDS was a big bad thing in the 80’s but it never effected me or most kids growing up in the 80’s.
In 2022, it sounds bloody marvelous by todays standards. Yes, I was a musical snob at the time, but I never thought things could get as bad as they have now. Some exeptions granted.
It was a great decade in itself, but unfortunate also the hangover from the 60's and 70's: That grey inhabitable concrete backdrop was the self-inflicted result of more devastation than Hitler could ever dream of.
Wow guys commenting here. This is a comedy show, not a documentary. They are meant to be cynical, sarcastic and pessimistic about everything, hence the use of "the grumpy guide" in the title. They do it about other subjects too, like Christmas. Don't take it like a documentary.
I take your point, but the commentators are mainly unfunny. As for the archive video, I'm here because I was watching some 80s Top of the Pops and I was abhorred! I just followed a suggested link to watch this programme, which is kinda OK. Personally, I left the UK in the mid-80s, so I fortunately missed a lot of it, since there was no internet then.
Think possibly whichever time you were a teenager is the best time ever, however, every decade can’t be the best ever. I reckon another explanation is in order…..could it possibly have something to do with being a particular age at a particular time that resonates with you for the rest of your life???????
Duran Duran is such an Awesome Band every song by them is a Great Song and a Top of the Charts Smash Hit in this Ordinary World , Hmm i think i'll go Listen to them Now
To me the 80’s were a simpler time. No cell phones was heaven. No laptops or computers in general. I was in high school 80-84 then from 84-90 I was 18 to 24 years old. So I say the 80’s was the best time of my life.
@@mattiemclean9882 Not so much now, always see youths complaining about their own music and preferring older stuff. For my it was late 70's early 80's but love stuff back to the early 60's just as much. Seemed to go downhill mid 90's.
@@AndysEastCoastAdventuresThere were plenty of kids in the U.K, who hated 70s-80s music in the 70s-80s. That's how the Rockabilly/Mod revival and Punk music came about. In the 60s it was old blues and trad jazz. In the 90s it was the music of the 1960s and today, it's anything you like on Spotify.
@@DuncanMcA Yes, now in 2022 we look back at the time of the coalition government and think it was a beautiful era compared to the mess created from 2016 onward.
@@johnking5174 it sowed the seeds for a lot of the problems now eg NHS backlog but the era itself wasn’t so bad. There was also very little in the way of terrorism and of course we had the London Olympics
80s The Best times. Nicer people no cell phones and crazy technology. People wrote letters and communicated face to face. They made time for each other and everybody just enjoyed life. And children played outside. What is so Special about today's World?
@@kevcatnip7589it’s kinda sad, I was teen in the eighties and we have a world today that is better in every possible way I can think of, we can watch TV anywhere anytime and get this you can choose what you want to watch!!!!!!! Better than a VHS and more portable plus you can make phone calls, take photos and play Pac-Man
Musically the early 80's were quite productive, latterly there wasn't much going on. Culturally the 80's were the beginning of the end of civilised society.
To appreciate the influential, informative, definitive bands/music of the eighties, two words are needed: Alternative & Indie. More or less, beginning with The Smiths and ending with Stone Roses & Happy Mondays.
D Frew: I agree. There is little point in singling out the eighties as some kind of creative nadir, when the three decades that followed them were so much worse. The eighties were the last decade in which there was any substantial creative content in music and pop culture.
No, it was the start of the grand awakening. People coming together to dance to acid and house music in 🎝 sweet harmony 🎜 It was a special time. For a few years football thugs stopped fighting and started dancing. Young people would talk to each other on the bus and maybe share a joint or two! If only the government enforced Mdma on the public instead of banning it, the world would be a better place!
I remember yuppies carrying the filofax openly and placing it in full view on the bar in a pub (I worked in Fleet Street, City of London, yuppies everywhere) then they did the same with mobile phones, just showing off 🤣😂
None Ya Damn Business. They do a good job of ignoring and whitewashing it now too. They certainly were silent about it for decades. Not surprising considering that Savile's pedophile friends were probably elsewhere in the BBC too. Not to forget the royal family.
"People got really smug and really pleased with themselves really quickly about not very much" while I agree with this statement about the 80's (*cough* cocaine *cough*), following the late 90's boom of Reality TV and the internet infiltrating households since 94 amongst other things, this behaviour has gotten even worse.
Damn right!! I was just thinking that. The 80s were great if you were young (like me and my mates were) and these z-list turds talking about it are SO annoying
I know - the irony, absolute nobodies slagging off bad TV and music etc - by appearing on complete garbage TV. what did they ever achieve that was memorable? Had to turn it off, couldn't listen anymore
I worked out how to do the Rubik cube. I moved all the stickers to the sides. All the reds on one side, all the blue on the other side etc. Because I really couldn't be arsed to faff about with a pointless exercise.
However, at least in the 1980s we didn't have documentaries where clips were interspersed with people talking for three seconds and repeating what we had just seen on the screen.
I love the comedians saying how Freddy Star wasnt very good. At least people know his name, unlike most of these non-entities. Where are Arthur Smith and Will Self?
I'm with Mark Steel. I thought Spit the Dog was pretty funny, because it was basically sending up the innate silliness of vent acts. A puppet that doesn't speak. It just spits. I love it.
In my late 60s (age no barrier)loved the 80s clothes hairstyles music creativity of the people, it was great. You could really get dressed up to go out not just wear your best clothes and express yourself. Excess was great 👍
Actually the 80's were pretty good for music, take out all that poppy crap they mentioned and you still have the two tone movement, bands like the Specials, Madness, the Beat etc., the Smiths turned music on its head, the Pogues arrived, XTC were at the top of their game, U2 were at their peak and never got better, female artists like Sade and Kirsty MacColl,..in America, REM arrived, the Replacements another..in Australia there was a sort of musical renaissance with Men at Work, Midnight Oil, Died Pretty, Mental as Anything and Nick Cave, all seriously good artists...there are heaps of good bands/solo artists from the 80's I haven't mentioned....nothing today comes close musically.
I think the 80's was the best time to be alive, we lived for the moment, everything about it was amazing, wish we had Thatcher back too, she got bigger balls than any of our corrupt politicians today! If I could turn back time I would.
There's negatives about every decade. Bullshit docu's like this will always pick the worst aspects and imply that everything was crap, cheesy, or doom and gloom. Fact is, the 80s was the best decade for music; so much variety, experimentation and evolution. You just never knew what would hit the charts next! Like they say, "there's nothing new in music any more because it was all done in the 80s."
The 80's especially early 80's charts was FILLED with fantastic music and it was an absolute golden age for charted mainstream music. Post Punk, New Wave, Synth Pop, New Romantic, Ska, 2 nd wave Punk, a shitload of indie music and an era that completely re-shaped the industry and you're suggesting "most of it got nowhere near the charts" ?
This must have been solely a British experience, as my time living in the eighties spent living in Canada, was one of the best and most enjoyable decades of my life.
The trouble with the shoulder pads, they were in everything. I had to cut them out because I swam a lot then and already had big shoulders. They looked ridiculous then. 40 years later and I don't swim so much...wonder how they'd look now...
It's called the grumpy guide. So those who are saying they are negitive are obviously thick. It's supposed to be sarcastic hence the name. The lot of you complaining need to get a sense of humour. The grumpy guides are all like this, they are brilliant.
I was born in 81 and growing up in the 80’s was great, I preferred the 90’s the 2000’s were ok and since the 2010’s it’s been like falling off a high cliff. It keeps getting worse as time passes and I know at some point it’s all going to come to a screeching halt and I’ll be dead. But in the 80’s there was good music, kids cartoons were great and movies were great too with so many classic films that you can watch today and say that film made me feel good and I can watch it again and again where as films today are mainly disappointing and if there is one film that you enjoyed it doesn’t have the ability to make you rewatch it more than another 1 or 2 times like the Indiana Jones & Back To The Future trilogies or The Goonies, Ghostbusters plus many more movies. I could go on but really the only bad things to come out in the 80’s was the fashion and the hair especially the hair! Also AIDS was a big bad thing in the 80’s but it never effected me or most kids growing up in the 80’s.
Being from across the pond, I can only say this is absolutely brilliant. I now know what it would be like to intercept an alien interstellar broadcast. Haven't got a clue about 90% of the content but never the less could not stop watching . Comments were witty and funnier than hell.
Beth Hollins So did Byrne. But he’s so fundamentally bad at comedy he chose to mock a song that, whether you like it or not, you know what it statement ‘break out’ means. Christ she explains it ‘...find a way say what you want to say’. Again, of all the songs in the 80s, Byrne chooses this song and that ‘joke’. It’s ironically ‘hilarious’
Oh yes, that nouvelle cuisine shit. I had actually banned it from my memory. I was on holidays with my parents in France and the hotel we stayed in served nothing but nouvelle cuisine. After the second day we would walk out of the hotel after having been served our dinner and go straight to the little restaurant accoss the square that would serve proper food, for all the waiters to see
The 80's were a tremendously creative decade esp music wise esp in England. People were more alive and hanging out together,they would actually listen to you when you were speaking. Now it's "hmmm , yeah,I know" when you speak to a youngster cos he or she is fiddling with the fucking cell phone as you speak.. Bring back the 80's!!!
+ozmedia Ben Elton was from Guildford and still had an affected estuary accent - you don't have to be born within the sound of the Bow Bells to have that accent....
I was a child in the 80's, therefore I like it. These people talking took a major crap on the ENTIRE DECADE. To say that ALL the people dancing in the beginning were nerds proves my point above, WAY TO SLAM A DECADE PEOPLE. Not all New Wave is crap, Duran Duran are talented. Also, they are LIGHT AGES from being a NERDY GROUP, please!
Really enjoyed this. It's not slating the whole era and saying it's so much worse than today, it's just a giggle at the obvious highlights ( convenient pun not intended! )
"The music was so crap" - Sorry Springsteen, Prince, Van Halen, Michael Jackson, Bowie, Kate Bush among other serious artists of the period, you just dont cut the mustard for this balding middle aged impressionist. Don't get me wrong, it wasnt the 60s or 70s but if you prefer listening to short haired polite boring smartley dressed for church boring bastards like Coldplay and their fellow commercial easy listening pals of today then good luck to you.
Ashley Burns It was better than the 60s and 70s. It depends on whether you have a preference for the older blues, psychedelia and avant garde, versus the glam more California sounds that came later. I prefer glam. And at the same time I like Kate Bush, Dire Straits ... yes they came at the end of the 70s but they're 80s too. But I'd much rather listen to them than Captain Beefheart or Led Zeppelin or The Kinks,
Ashley Burns it's actually "cut the muster", not "mustard". that's a really common malapropism. it refers to Age of Sail soldiers and sailors, who had to "muster out" each morning for roll call, count, and inspection. If you were drunk/hungover, not in uniform, or otherwise not up to expected military standards, you didn't "cut muster" and you were punished. i hope you take this gentle correction in the spirit of education and goodwill.
1980s TV was much better than 2019. Saturday nights in the Autumn of 1984 for example had much better TV shows on BBC One than 2019. The Late Late Breakfast Show, Bob's Full House, Juliet Bravo, Paul Daniels Magic Show, Dynasty, Wogan, Match of the Day and a late movie. Perfect. What do we have in 2019 - Strictly Come Arseholes, Mrs Brown's Repulsive Boys and Michael McIntyre. 1984 for me.
Yeah but now you can watch almost any TV show or movie ever made thanks to Netflix and the pirate bay. Back in the 80s you'd either have to watch whatever shite was on telly or order VHS tapes out of a catalogue or something
You American's just don't get it...this is a TRIBUTE to the 80s, this is how British people celebrate things they love, by ridiculing them in an over the top way, they're calling things tragedies, ghastly and horrendous even when they're just quirky little fun trends of the time, that's the humor of it, it's meant to be a tribute, a good hearted jab at how absurd trends and quirks of different eras can be.
The smiths , the cure, the pixies,the stone roses, James , NEW ORDER, the chameleons etc, the ZX spectrum , CB radio , early channel four, the young ones , BMX , Warlock of firetop mountain, electro and hip hop, and for the record leave Howard Jones out of it , his dancer brought us BEZ and he was a great pop writer and musician , although it had been done with Stacia and Hawkwind in the 70s , the era brought us some fantastic things , but it was an era of make money fast
Fascinating that your comment has only two upvotes after two weeks when you're saying that the 80s weren't so bad after all. Most of the comments raging against the people in this video for damning their favourite decade are made by people who almost certainly despise the groups and cultural artefacts you mention. After all, the Pixies sound way more 90s than 80s. I agree that there was a lot of great stuff in the decade but virtually none of it was mainstream. These people actually liked Spandau Ballet and Howard Jones. Personally I think that the vast majority of 80s mainstream pop culture (music, film, fashion) was horrendous.
I loved the 80's. I sat in an ivory tower studying Logic and Metaphysics at Uni whilst Thatcher destroyed socialism, the Argies and Scargill. Happy days.
Bollocks about the music... lots of.15 yr olds,loving the 80s. Depeche mode, madonna, human league... all way better than todays musicians. And Thatcher.. transformed the uk from a poor and 16% inflation nation to a.rich and prosperous one.
I was a teenager in the eighties and I used to love shows like Miami Vice, Moonlighting and Married with Children. So much better than the crap they show today..Musicwise, all that dance crap, they play today, couldn't even come close to the stuff real artists like Prince, Bruce Springsteen and Dire Straits (to name but a few) made. And young people actually did stuff. We played sports, tried to play our favorite songs on our first guitar or went for bike rides, instead of just sitting on the couch after school playing onine games, getting fat, like many kids do today. The eighties rocked!
+Citizen Diaz It certainly didn't suck. These idiots are just trying to sound cool by trashing a golden age of pop culture. We could also see it was brilliant in the USA, with Hip Hop, many great rock bands, synth funk bands, so both sides of the pond were forging a new era in music. I'm almost 50 and eights and zeros run through my blood like blood cells. Sure, there was some crap, but lets agree, you can get that in every decade. Loved ours and your culture....80s? BRILLIANT!!
Love the 80s, don’t give a toss what others say about it - (apart from the bad hairstyles) it’s much better than what the world looks like now.
Totally agree... much more optimistic and free.
A bit late in my reply, but I totally agree with you!
Well said
Yep. 100%
same here
When they talk about Thatcher and Regan, I want to travel back to 2010 and tell them, "You have no idea what's coming."
Yeah like this, “BE warned! there’s this horrible rich, yt jerk who said a dirty word in a private conversation 10 years before he even ran for office!” REEEEEEEE !!!
That is so funny! I really laughed when I read your clever comment!
Yeah. A globalist traitor fifth column piece of shit for every most European countries
2010? The World Cup in South Africa?
That cunt said Thatcher called Mandela a terrorist? Err.. yeah because he was! Stupid lefty shitweasel.
The eighties were so much better than now.
Not for everybody, it was mostly ballucks
@@seansands424 For most.
I feel like we are in no position to complain about the 80s.
Rees mog for gallows or iron maiden or breaking wheel any will do
Laughing at they think it's better now😁🤦
I'm wit ya!!!!
Why not? There were rubbish and abhorrent things every era. We are no worse now, just different. We seem to quickly forget the bad
Missing children 😐😐
What are they complaining about? Id have it all back in a heartbeat. It's so much better than what we face today.
We can never go back. Live in the moment. There is nothing wrong with analyzing the past so that we can learn. This commentary is hilarious.
Totally agree. Fuck these guys were haters.
I loved the 80’s!! Best decade ever
It’s tough to market and advertise products that no longer exist. So you make the old unattractive and lame, the new you push with the fervour of an evangelical preacher. Probs a lil subtler than that in reality but that’s the gist of the deal that I see.
Yeah 18% interest rates where awesome and AIDS was a blast, I tell ya the lack of any choice in entertainment (five television stations and a local cinema if lucky) slow driving lousy handling penalty boxes of cars and the constant spectre of nuclear Armageddon make for the icing on the cake. Soz but we have it soooooooooo much better now than then, actually I wager if you were to be sent back you’d be missing all the stuff we take for granted that didn’t exist 40 years ago.
Absolutely not. I'd miss the pit, the internet, the clothes.
I liked the 80's, maybe because I was a kid, but it seemed joyous back then. Now everything is so dark and vulgar.
exactly!
And no fun!
I was a middle class kid in the 80's and it was a great time to be alive. Good schools, Cartoons, T.V, Phone boxes, The Smiths, M Jackson, Prince, U2, people were happier in a lot of ways then. Kids played out all day, played footy and games and were not afraid of strangers like they are today.
We used to play in a playground but had to watch out for when the gluesniffers came. I don't know what they were going to do to us but they looked like zombies! My friend got followed in a car and a man tried to snatch him but he climbed over another car bonnet and ran...so we had a healthy fear of strangers
At the weekends we used to play football or cricket in the street then make sure we were home to watch Jim’ll Fix It and Rolf’s Cartoon Club. Happy days...
That's exactly the same thing people in the 80s said about the 50s LOL. Everything looks rose-tinted in the rearview mirror.
@@DiamondProofSector The 80s and 50s had much more in common than the 90s and 2000s / 2010s did.
Not the smiths ffs.
I freaking loved the 80s.
It was a fun decade to grow up in
I was born in 81 and growing up in the 80’s was great, I preferred the 90’s the 2000’s were ok and since the 2010’s it’s been like falling off a high cliff. It keeps getting worse as time passes and I know at some point it’s all going to come to a screeching halt and I’ll be dead. But in the 80’s there was good music, kids cartoons were great and movies were great too with so many classic films that you can watch today and say that film made me feel good and I can watch it again and again where as films today are mainly disappointing and if there is one film that you enjoyed it doesn’t have the ability to make you rewatch it more than another 1 or 2 times like the Indiana Jones & Back To The Future trilogies or The Goonies, Ghostbusters plus many more movies. I could go on but you grew up in the 80’s so you know what I’m talking about and really the only bad things to come out in the 80’s was the fashion and the hair especially the hair! Also AIDS was a big bad thing in the 80’s but it never effected me or most kids growing up in the 80’s.
I spent my teenage years during that decade, starting at junior school and ending at adulthood in my first job!
In 2022, it sounds bloody marvelous by todays standards. Yes, I was a musical snob at the time, but I never thought things could get as bad as they have now. Some exeptions granted.
gladly trade this decade for the 80`s
+healthyamerican No, you wouldn't believe me. I was there
I liked the 80s music and fashion.
We had more freedom in the 80's in America.
It was a great decade in itself, but unfortunate also the hangover from the 60's and 70's: That grey inhabitable concrete backdrop was the self-inflicted result of more devastation than Hitler could ever dream of.
80s r gaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaayyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy!!!!
Being a young teen in the 80s was awesome!
No it wasn't ;)
@MyPodNetMc5 At least in the 80s we knew how to spell by using a capital letter at the start of a sentence unlike today's morons! Nice try...
I miss the 80,s so much was an amazing time to be alive 👍
Cheers to the 80s and cheers to those who understand British humor ☮️
I am American and had a rough childhood and that childhood was in the 80s. To me this is pure f*cking gold. I am absolutely howling!
Wow guys commenting here. This is a comedy show, not a documentary. They are meant to be cynical, sarcastic and pessimistic about everything, hence the use of "the grumpy guide" in the title. They do it about other subjects too, like Christmas. Don't take it like a documentary.
I take your point, but the commentators are mainly unfunny. As for the archive video, I'm here because I was watching some 80s Top of the Pops and I was abhorred! I just followed a suggested link to watch this programme, which is kinda OK. Personally, I left the UK in the mid-80s, so I fortunately missed a lot of it, since there was no internet then.
people are fucking stupid shitbags these days so no use trying to tell them. let them cry their dick off...
You should do you own show if you don't like it.
every other person CAN do their own show now which is why so much crap has infested the internet, TV and Netflix.
@@auntihooha is that replying to me? I never said I dislike it. I like it. Or do you mean the people I was talking about?
The 80s is so much better than now, 2019.
The 80`s WERE*
First grade english.
2020: hold my pint.
no its not
And far, far better than 2020.
@@AlexSmith-fs6ro no it wasnt
I miss the 80's. It was a great time to be young.
Think possibly whichever time you were a teenager is the best time ever, however, every decade can’t be the best ever. I reckon another explanation is in order…..could it possibly have something to do with being a particular age at a particular time that resonates with you for the rest of your life???????
The 80's were the best
dancing to Duran Duran with a mullet sounds like heaven to me
Duran Duran is such an Awesome Band every song by them is a Great Song
and a Top of the Charts Smash Hit in this Ordinary World , Hmm i think i'll go
Listen to them Now
Blue moon on Monday..
It was. Duran Duran were awesome. Whoever that fat fart is complaining about tgem was probably jealous of Simon. Lol
@@gordonfitterer4660 Rio is a great album still today.
@@johnmckee7640 NEW Moon on Monday
RIP Geoffrey Palmer. The ultimate grumpy.
I lived in UK between 82 and 91 and It was a lot fo fun. Yes some things were dreadful but was more genuine than today.
To me the 80’s were a simpler time. No cell phones was heaven. No laptops or computers in general. I was in high school 80-84 then from 84-90 I was 18 to 24 years old. So I say the 80’s was the best time of my life.
EVERYBODY thinks the decade of their youth was the best decade
@@mattiemclean9882 Not so much now, always see youths complaining about their own music and preferring older stuff. For my it was late 70's early 80's but love stuff back to the early 60's just as much. Seemed to go downhill mid 90's.
@@AndysEastCoastAdventuresThere were plenty of kids in the U.K, who hated 70s-80s music in the 70s-80s. That's how the Rockabilly/Mod revival and Punk music came about.
In the 60s it was old blues and trad jazz. In the 90s it was the music of the 1960s and today, it's anything you like on Spotify.
And here we are in 2022 and the humble mullet is back with a vengeance
Why?
WHYYYYYYYY?!?!?!?!? 🤣
I remember the 80s and it was the best. Cool cars, fashion trends, interesting technology. Today everything seems so bland.
The 1980s was far better than 2010s. Yes there were some bad things, but I would chose this decade than now. Anyone else agree?
The 80s was the best decade of my life. The 2010s have been the worst decade of my life.
@@dsd310580 Agree 100%!
The first half of the 2010s were ok.
@@DuncanMcA Yes, now in 2022 we look back at the time of the coalition government and think it was a beautiful era compared to the mess created from 2016 onward.
@@johnking5174 it sowed the seeds for a lot of the problems now eg NHS backlog but the era itself wasn’t so bad. There was also very little in the way of terrorism and of course we had the London Olympics
80s The Best times. Nicer people no cell phones and crazy technology. People wrote letters and communicated face to face. They made time for each other and everybody just enjoyed life. And children played outside. What is so Special about today's World?
Finally someone's uploaded this in full! Thank you!
Geoffrey Palmer is the best thing about this show and grumpy old men. Bravo.
Geoffrey Palmer is my role model as I get in touch with my not so inner curmudgeon.😉
I was a teen in the 80s and LOVED IT!!
ALOT of bitter hasbeens
@@kevcatnip7589 I see you have Bowie in your user icon. Check what he said about his own 80s work. He was right. Insufferable decade.
@@kevcatnip7589it’s kinda sad, I was teen in the eighties and we have a world today that is better in every possible way I can think of, we can watch TV anywhere anytime and get this you can choose what you want to watch!!!!!!! Better than a VHS and more portable plus you can make phone calls, take photos and play Pac-Man
Musically the early 80's were quite productive, latterly there wasn't much going on. Culturally the 80's were the beginning of the end of civilised society.
To appreciate the influential, informative, definitive bands/music of the eighties, two words are needed: Alternative & Indie. More or less, beginning with
The Smiths and ending with
Stone Roses & Happy Mondays.
D Frew: I agree. There is little point in singling out the eighties as some kind of creative nadir, when the three decades that followed them were so much worse. The eighties were the last decade in which there was any substantial creative content in music and pop culture.
@@magrathean0 and fashion. Some 80s fashion wasn't that great but at least there was some. It has all been blah since the 90s.
Let it come down!
No, it was the start of the grand awakening. People coming together to dance to acid and house music in 🎝 sweet harmony 🎜 It was a special time. For a few years football thugs stopped fighting and started dancing. Young people would talk to each other on the bus and maybe share a joint or two! If only the government enforced Mdma on the public instead of banning it, the world would be a better place!
I remember yuppies carrying the filofax openly and placing it in full view on the bar in a pub (I worked in Fleet Street, City of London, yuppies everywhere) then they did the same with mobile phones, just showing off 🤣😂
The mobile phones were so big then that nobody had any option but to flaunt them. They just couldn’t go into your coat or trouser pockets.
8:08 Duran Duran = "… like a buffalo with 50 arrows in it" Laughed so hard! 🤣‼️
I was a child of the 80s and I loved it! The best music, the best/worst fashion and nobody cared about health and safety. Brilliant!
I loved the 80's and it's fashion and music, that said this is interesting!
Its*
It`s is short for it is.
First grade..
First grade.
@@afrog2666 Grammar Nazi.
Notice, no-ne ever says, "Hey, wasn't Jimmy Savile a load of crap...?" In these BBC retrospectives...
This was before the story was published.
None Ya Damn Business. They do a good job of ignoring and whitewashing it now too. They certainly were silent about it for decades.
Not surprising considering that Savile's pedophile friends were probably elsewhere in the BBC too. Not to forget the royal family.
People had been talking about it for many years before it made the headlines.
Who?
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"People got really smug and really pleased with themselves really quickly about not very much" while I agree with this statement about the 80's (*cough* cocaine *cough*), following the late 90's boom of Reality TV and the internet infiltrating households since 94 amongst other things, this behaviour has gotten even worse.
these people are way more annoying than the 80's were.
Damn right!! I was just thinking that. The 80s were great if you were young (like me and my mates were) and these z-list turds talking about it are SO annoying
Yeah, I'm not feeling this show...I mean, I still listen to a lot of that music now.
I know - the irony, absolute nobodies slagging off bad TV and music etc - by appearing on complete garbage TV. what did they ever achieve that was memorable? Had to turn it off, couldn't listen anymore
The titel is „the GRUMPY GUIDE“
What don't you understand about the word grumpy? Get a sense of humour, before its too late!
I worked out how to do the Rubik cube. I moved all the stickers to the sides. All the reds on one side, all the blue on the other side etc. Because I really couldn't be arsed to faff about with a pointless exercise.
80's were the best ever , class of 87!
However, at least in the 1980s we didn't have documentaries where clips were interspersed with people talking for three seconds and repeating what we had just seen on the screen.
Conspiracy! When I click on your 10 likes, instead of going to 11, it goes down to nine! SO I couldn't tell you that I agree, but I'm telling you now.
I lived through the eighties...I never want to go back!!!!!
I still use my home made filo fax. Still going strong in 2023
Penny Smith:"Do you remember? Everyone had a filofax?"
No Penny, no they didn't.
Lol I thought exactly the same thing
I love the comedians saying how Freddy Star wasnt very good. At least people know his name, unlike most of these non-entities. Where are Arthur Smith and Will Self?
Presenting: The grumps of the 80's....
I'll gladly go back and live it!
1981...Golden Brown by the Stranglers. That alone made the 80s worth it!!!
"...never to elect someone who makes you embarrassed to be British..."
Oh my.
80s music is 1000x better than today's shit..
I'm with Mark Steel. I thought Spit the Dog was pretty funny, because it was basically sending up the innate silliness of vent acts. A puppet that doesn't speak. It just spits. I love it.
In my late 60s (age no barrier)loved the 80s clothes hairstyles music creativity of the people, it was great. You could really get dressed up to go out not just wear your best clothes and express yourself. Excess was great 👍
How did we survive the mullet? The mullet is still here today in the form of the "Man bun"! All it is, is a Millennial mullet!
One thing that nevef changes, throughout the millenia, is how each generation mocks the one before them.
Actually the 80's were pretty good for music, take out all that poppy crap they mentioned and you still have the two tone movement, bands like the Specials, Madness, the Beat etc., the Smiths turned music on its head, the Pogues arrived, XTC were at the top of their game, U2 were at their peak and never got better, female artists like Sade and Kirsty MacColl,..in America, REM arrived, the Replacements another..in Australia there was a sort of musical renaissance with Men at Work, Midnight Oil, Died Pretty, Mental as Anything and Nick Cave, all seriously good artists...there are heaps of good bands/solo artists from the 80's I haven't mentioned....nothing today comes close musically.
I think the 80's was the best time to be alive, we lived for the moment, everything about it was amazing, wish we had Thatcher back too, she got bigger balls than any of our corrupt politicians today! If I could turn back time I would.
The best decade ever! 🤩
“We have become a grandmother.” Oh my G-d. How revolting.
There's negatives about every decade. Bullshit docu's like this will always pick the worst aspects and imply that everything was crap, cheesy, or doom and gloom.
Fact is, the 80s was the best decade for music; so much variety, experimentation and evolution. You just never knew what would hit the charts next! Like they say, "there's nothing new in music any more because it was all done in the 80s."
indeed
80's sucks
BratzSamuel2005 THE '80s NEVER SUCKED.
It's only a bit of a laugh
The 80's were THE best decade and when in the introduction I heard a dippo say it had the worst music, I was offended.
i guess if you were the every day person, the 80s were horrible. but if you were in a youth culture, the 80s were the best of time
I think that is probably true of just about every time :)
talktal I was a small kid back in 80's didn't need to be in a youth culture to know it was a good decade
I was 12 at the turn of the decade and hated virtually all 80s mainstream music, film and fashion. The 90s was a huge relief.
Such a negative, pessimistic take on the 80s.... I love it!
The 80's produced some great music. Problem is most of it got nowhere near the charts and so was unheard by the masses.
The 80's especially early 80's charts was FILLED with fantastic music and it was an absolute golden age for charted mainstream music. Post Punk, New Wave, Synth Pop, New Romantic, Ska, 2 nd wave Punk, a shitload of indie music and an era that completely re-shaped the industry and you're suggesting "most of it got nowhere near the charts" ?
Love this reminder of past times
Ed Byrne's comment about recording a ventriloquist song is priceless
This must have been solely a British experience, as my time living in the eighties spent living in Canada, was one of the best and most enjoyable decades of my life.
It's a British made programme, so it is.
Everyone hated Maggie.... But somebody voted her in.... 3 times.
Yeah. Strange that so few would admit it, though.
I didn’t hate her,I thought she was great. I got a wave from her once.
I did not vote that vile bi5ch in
I blame the parents - mine certainly didn't help.
I ran away from her canvassing in the neatest town to me in the early 90s.
The trouble with the shoulder pads, they were in everything. I had to cut them out because I swam a lot then and already had big shoulders. They looked ridiculous then. 40 years later and I don't swim so much...wonder how they'd look now...
It's called the grumpy guide. So those who are saying they are negitive are obviously thick. It's supposed to be sarcastic hence the name. The lot of you complaining need to get a sense of humour. The grumpy guides are all like this, they are brilliant.
I think most of them (the outraged 80s lovers) must be American. Difficulty with irony or something.
I was born in 81 and growing up in the 80’s was great, I preferred the 90’s the 2000’s were ok and since the 2010’s it’s been like falling off a high cliff. It keeps getting worse as time passes and I know at some point it’s all going to come to a screeching halt and I’ll be dead. But in the 80’s there was good music, kids cartoons were great and movies were great too with so many classic films that you can watch today and say that film made me feel good and I can watch it again and again where as films today are mainly disappointing and if there is one film that you enjoyed it doesn’t have the ability to make you rewatch it more than another 1 or 2 times like the Indiana Jones & Back To The Future trilogies or The Goonies, Ghostbusters plus many more movies. I could go on but really the only bad things to come out in the 80’s was the fashion and the hair especially the hair! Also AIDS was a big bad thing in the 80’s but it never effected me or most kids growing up in the 80’s.
I love the 80"s-best decade ever-best fashion and music ever!!
Being from across the pond, I can only say this is absolutely brilliant. I now know what it would be like to intercept an alien interstellar broadcast. Haven't got a clue about 90% of the content but never the less could not stop watching . Comments were witty and funnier than hell.
+Radwulf Eboraci Exactly cause you are them,
I loved "Break Out".
Beth Hollins
So did Byrne.
But he’s so fundamentally bad at comedy he chose to mock a song that, whether you like it or not, you know what it statement ‘break out’ means. Christ she explains it ‘...find a way say what you want to say’.
Again, of all the songs in the 80s, Byrne chooses this song and that ‘joke’.
It’s ironically ‘hilarious’
Oh yes, that nouvelle cuisine shit. I had actually banned it from my memory. I was on holidays with my parents in France and the hotel we stayed in served nothing but nouvelle cuisine. After the second day we would walk out of the hotel after having been served our dinner and go straight to the little restaurant accoss the square that would serve proper food, for all the waiters to see
The 80's were a tremendously creative decade esp music wise esp in England. People were more alive and hanging out together,they would actually listen to you when you were speaking. Now it's "hmmm , yeah,I know" when you speak to a youngster cos he or she is fiddling with the fucking cell phone as you speak.. Bring back the 80's!!!
The secrer to the rubik cube was get a knock off which had coloured stickers, peel them off and rearrange. It worked in our house😂
Mark Steel is hysterical. A really smart & funny guy.
MrBudzini so just what is it about his whining cockney accent which you find so appealing?
+revol148 Thought he was from Kent
+ozmedia Ben Elton was from Guildford and still had an affected estuary accent - you don't have to be born within the sound of the Bow Bells to have that accent....
revol148
I never said anything of the sort, don't know why you assumed so much more was said than was actually said.
+ozmedia you mentioned you thought he was from Kent in response to me making an issue about his cockney accent - can you see the connection?
“My first musical hero was Shakin’ Stevens… I know, I know!”
The 80ts was the best decade that ever was one month into 2020 ww3 and a Pandemic looming over us I'd do anything to go back
I'd travel back to the 80's, the90's and early 2000's.
Was Russell Kane really taking the piss out of hairstyles with HIS barnet!?
I was a child in the 80's, therefore I like it. These people talking took a major crap on the ENTIRE DECADE. To say that ALL the people dancing in the beginning were nerds proves my point above, WAY TO SLAM A DECADE PEOPLE. Not all New Wave is crap, Duran Duran are talented. Also, they are LIGHT AGES from being a NERDY GROUP, please!
Right on , , Rock On Daniel Marquis
Get a sense of humour. The word grumpy should tell you what was coming................
Duran Duran "talented"... er, okay ;)
Really enjoyed this. It's not slating the whole era and saying it's so much worse than today, it's just a giggle at the obvious highlights ( convenient pun not intended! )
"The music was so crap" - Sorry Springsteen, Prince, Van Halen, Michael Jackson, Bowie, Kate Bush among other serious artists of the period, you just dont cut the mustard for this balding middle aged impressionist. Don't get me wrong, it wasnt the 60s or 70s but if you prefer listening to short haired polite boring smartley dressed for church boring bastards like Coldplay and their fellow commercial easy listening pals of today then good luck to you.
Ashley Burns It was better than the 60s and 70s.
It depends on whether you have a preference for the older blues, psychedelia and avant garde, versus the glam more California sounds that came later. I prefer glam. And at the same time I like Kate Bush, Dire Straits ... yes they came at the end of the 70s but they're 80s too. But I'd much rather listen to them than Captain Beefheart or Led Zeppelin or The Kinks,
***** That's just it - omission is how they make their argument work.
Ashley Burns it's actually "cut the muster", not "mustard". that's a really common malapropism. it refers to Age of Sail soldiers and sailors, who had to "muster out" each morning for roll call, count, and inspection. If you were drunk/hungover, not in uniform, or otherwise not up to expected military standards, you didn't "cut muster" and you were punished. i hope you take this gentle correction in the spirit of education and goodwill.
roflmows and they say the internet isn´t educational, thank you sir/madam!
Ashley Burns I think the music in the UK was boring. The US, on the other hand, saw the emergence of serious talent.
I was a teen/20 in the eighties.... loved it, loved that time so much.
1980s TV was much better than 2019. Saturday nights in the Autumn of 1984 for example had much better TV shows on BBC One than 2019. The Late Late Breakfast Show, Bob's Full House, Juliet Bravo, Paul Daniels Magic Show, Dynasty, Wogan, Match of the Day and a late movie. Perfect. What do we have in 2019 - Strictly Come Arseholes, Mrs Brown's Repulsive Boys and Michael McIntyre. 1984 for me.
Yeah but now you can watch almost any TV show or movie ever made thanks to Netflix and the pirate bay. Back in the 80s you'd either have to watch whatever shite was on telly or order VHS tapes out of a catalogue or something
someone tell Al murray he is as funny as a fart in a spacesuit. comedian my arse
80's was a great decade for me, especially the music. The second British invasion.
This was really funny, I never saw this before even though I am an 80,s child, thank you for the upload
I'd love to see a grumpy guide to the 90s!
Love to see The Grumpy Guide to Being A Boomer
Nah the 90s were great
Russell Kane has no business commenting on how ridiculous mullets are 😂 Pot, meet kettle.
Swing out sister were great. The music of the 1980s had it all, originality, energy and humour.
What a bunch of sad and bitter people. They really pushed the boat out to find this bunch
You American's just don't get it...this is a TRIBUTE to the 80s, this is how British people celebrate things they love, by ridiculing them in an over the top way, they're calling things tragedies, ghastly and horrendous even when they're just quirky little fun trends of the time, that's the humor of it, it's meant to be a tribute, a good hearted jab at how absurd trends and quirks of different eras can be.
Neil Morrisey’s own mullet back in the day made a very good argument for them. That’s how handsome he was.
The smiths , the cure, the pixies,the stone roses, James , NEW ORDER, the chameleons etc, the ZX spectrum , CB radio , early channel four, the young ones , BMX , Warlock of firetop mountain, electro and hip hop, and for the record leave Howard Jones out of it , his dancer brought us BEZ and he was a great pop writer and musician , although it had been done with Stacia and Hawkwind in the 70s , the era brought us some fantastic things , but it was an era of make money fast
Fascinating that your comment has only two upvotes after two weeks when you're saying that the 80s weren't so bad after all. Most of the comments raging against the people in this video for damning their favourite decade are made by people who almost certainly despise the groups and cultural artefacts you mention. After all, the Pixies sound way more 90s than 80s. I agree that there was a lot of great stuff in the decade but virtually none of it was mainstream. These people actually liked Spandau Ballet and Howard Jones. Personally I think that the vast majority of 80s mainstream pop culture (music, film, fashion) was horrendous.
The filofax-It's a bloody address book! They actually charged 80 quid??? People actually PAID 80 quid for that???
And I'm a yank!
I loved the 80's. I sat in an ivory tower studying Logic and Metaphysics at Uni whilst Thatcher destroyed socialism, the Argies and Scargill. Happy days.
Bollocks about the music... lots of.15 yr olds,loving the 80s. Depeche mode, madonna, human league... all way better than todays musicians. And Thatcher.. transformed the uk from a poor and 16% inflation nation to a.rich and prosperous one.
I was a teenager in the eighties and I used to love shows like Miami Vice, Moonlighting and Married with Children. So much better than the crap they show today..Musicwise, all that dance crap, they play today, couldn't even come close to the stuff real artists like Prince, Bruce Springsteen and Dire Straits (to name but a few) made. And young people actually did stuff. We played sports, tried to play our favorite songs on our first guitar or went for bike rides, instead of just sitting on the couch after school playing onine games, getting fat, like many kids do today. The eighties rocked!
+MrFitguru= you are RIght on I Agee with you 100 percent the 80s like
Beavis n Butthead would Say uuuh the 80s Rule , yah ! yah the 80s Kick ASS !
I was a teenager in the 80s too and I agree with every single word they said in the video. Horrendous decade.
Anyone recognize the tune at 4:23? Or at least knows what's the name of the TV show their showing? It's not Top Of The Pops, is it?
Maybe the 80's sucked in England ,but in the U.S rocked....I would love to go back and re-live it anyday.
+Citizen Diaz It certainly didn't suck. These idiots are just trying to sound cool by trashing a golden age of pop culture. We could also see it was brilliant in the USA, with Hip Hop, many great rock bands, synth funk bands, so both sides of the pond were forging a new era in music. I'm almost 50 and eights and zeros run through my blood like blood cells. Sure, there was some crap, but lets agree, you can get that in every decade.
Loved ours and your culture....80s? BRILLIANT!!
+LFOVCF the politics of the 80s sucked ass.
+TheGuyWithBratzDollz-only You SUX now Piss Off and go play with
your Dollz
@Bring Back 2005 what about Spandau , Duran, Human League and ABC hits? Would you say they suck as well?
No it sucked in the US ..but I must say the 80s soul funk was the biz in the US and so was the UK.
Keep your crap rock shit
The best thing about the 80s was you knew which side you were on greed or caring about other people - simpler times